6 Best New Movies You Can’t Miss on Netflix in April 2025

If you’re looking for the absolute best films to watch on Netflix in April 2025, look no further. This article has you covered.

The streamer has already revealed its full barrage of movies that are scheduled to drop throughout the month, but we’ve picked out the top five most worthy of your time. Because after all, you can’t watch everything.

The following list features new additions alongside old favourites, all united by one theme – they release in April. Keep reading to see which films we recommend checking out.

6 Best New Movies on Netflix in April

Heat (1995)
April 1
Robert de Niro, Al Pacino, and Val Kilmer star in this classic heist thriller. With Kilmer sadly passing away on April 1, there’s no better tribute to the man. We follow the cat-and-mouse chase unfolding between master thief Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) and Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino), the manic police detective who’s always one step behind.

There are car park shootouts, tense showdowns in diners, and most notoriously, one of the best firefights ever committed to screen, shot in downtown LA to a backdrop of screaming pedestrians and raging traffic. And we’re getting more. Director Michael Mann is currently working on a script for Heat 2, which is said to act as both a prequel and sequel to Heat.

Havoc (2025)
25 April
As if Heat wasn’t enough, Havoc is here to give you an extra adrenaline fix. This Gareth Evans-directed actioner released this year, though, so you directly chart how action set-pieces have progressed in the three decades between the films.

Evans is best known for his duo of tactical squad thrillers centring on the Indonesian National Police in The Raid (2011), and The Raid 2 (2014). In Havoc, the director is back on form, bringing Tom Hardy into the fold. Hardy plays Walker, the detective tasked with recusing a politician’s son after a drug deal goes violently wrong.

The Place Beyond the Pines (2012)
1 April
This epic crime drama chronicles a generational feud that starts when motorcycle-riding bank robber (Ryan Gosling) has a run-in with a rookie cop (Bradley Cooper). 15 years later, two troubled teenagers (Emory Cohen and Dane DeHaan) explore the aftermath of their father’s actions, continuing the cycle of violence.

The starry supporting cast includes Eva Mendes, Ben Mendelsohn, Rose Byrne, Mahershala Ali, Bruce Greenwood, and Ray Liotta. All that on a reported shoestring budget of $15 million.

The Age of Innocence (1993)
1 April
Before Daniel Day-Lewis played Bill the Butcher in Gangs of New York, he teamed with director Martin Scorsese for an altogether more gentler affair. Based on Edith Wharton’s 1920 novel, we follow Newland Archer (Day-Lewis), a lawyer caught in a love triangle between Countess Ellen Olenska (Michelle Pfeiffer) and his fiance May Welland (Winona Ryder).

Filled with unspoken longing and lingering gazes, The Age of Innocence stands far apart from the violent likes of Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Goodfellas, but shouldn’t be overlooked in the canons of either Scorsese or Day-Lewis.

Lucy (2014)
1 April
Simply put, director Luc Besson’s Lucy is one of the most underrated sci-fi films of the last decade or so. It stars Scarlett Johansson as Lucy, an unwitting drug mule who accidentally absords a synthetic substance giving her mind-expanding powers.

If you thought Bradley Cooper‘s Limitless was far-fetched, Lucy takes the concept to the next level. Throughout the film, the drug works to unlock more portions of her brain, giving her telekinetic, teleporting, and even matter-creating powers. Morgan Freeman anchors the film as the bewildered professor who watches Lucy’s transformation into a post-human deity with increasing awe.

Oklahoma City Bombing: American Terror (2025)
18 April
Not to be confused with McVeigh, the drama starring Alfie Allen that released March 21, 2025, Oklahoma City Bombing: American Terror is one of several documentaries landing on Netflix this month. Compared to Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing, and Minted: The Rise (and Fall?) of the NFT, this one has a considerably higher body count.

Produced by the team behind Waco: American Apocalypse, Oklahoma City Bombing: American Terror details one of the deadliest domestic terrorist attacks in United States history. On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh bombed a federal building, killing 167 people and injuring 684. With never-before-head audio interviews with McVeigh, as well as survivor testimonies, the doc seeks both to retell the events, as well as understand how it could have been allowed to happen.