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Want to know what's streaming? Check this list of the new movies on Netflix this month. See all the new TV shows and originals streaming on Netflix. Plus, find out what's leaving!

by RT Staff | April 24, 2020 | Comments

TAGGED AS: movies, Netflix, streaming, television, TV

The latest movies, new Netflix series, and other new releases coming to the streaming giant this month include comedy series Space Force from Greg Daniels and star Steve Carell, Ryan Murphy’s Hollywood, and Damien Chazelle’s The Eddy. Plus, Netflix dropped a surprise: Michelle Obama documentary Becoming will debut on May 6.

Plus, Dead To Me returns for season 2, period series Medici: The Magnificent launches Part 2 (season 3), and Workin’ Moms puts in overtime with season 4. Netflix brings out some comedy heavyweights this month with specials Jerry Seinfeld: 23 Hours To Kill, Patton Oswalt: I Love Everything, and Hannah Gadsby: Douglas, and interactive special Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy Vs. the Reverend.

Read on if you’re looking for a worthy binge, starting with a few titles to look out for at the top.

HIGHLIGHTS

Hollywood: Season 1 59%

Description: A new limited series from Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, Hollywood follows a group of aspiring actors and filmmakers in post-World War II Hollywood as they try to make it in Tinseltown — no matter the cost. Each character offers a unique glimpse behind the gilded curtain of Hollywood’s Golden Age, spotlighting the unfair systems and biases across race, gender and sexuality that continue to this day. Provocative and incisive, Hollywood exposes and examines decades-old power dynamics, and what the entertainment landscape might look like if they had been dismantled. Hollywood stars David Corenswet as Jack, Darren Criss as Raymond, Jeremy Pope as Archie, Laura Harrier as Camille, Samara Weaving as Claire, Dylan McDermott as Ernie, Holland Taylor as Ellen Kincaid, Patti LuPone as Avis, Jim Parsons as Henry Willson, Jake Picking as Rock Hudson, Joe Mantello as Dick, and Maude Apatow as Henrietta.

Premiere Date: May 1, 2020

Dead to Me: Season 2 96%

Description: Jen (Christina Applegate), Judy (Linda Cardellini) and the lies that entwine them are back. Picking up in the aftermath of that bloody backyard reveal, the irrepressible pair once again struggle to keep their secrets buried. With a surprising new visitor in town and Detective Perez (Diana Maria Riva) hot on their heels, Jen and Judy take drastic measures to protect their loved ones and each other — no matter the cost. From Emmy Award-winning creator Liz Feldman, Dead to Me returns for an addictively dark second season, where the stakes are higher, the friendship is deeper and the traumas that bond loom larger than ever before.

Premiere Date: May 8, 2020

The Eddy: Season 1 69%

Description: The Eddy is an eight-episode drama that takes place in the vibrant multicultural neighborhoods of modern-day Paris. Once a celebrated jazz pianist in New York, Elliot Udo (André Holland) is now the co-owner of struggling club The Eddy, where he manages the house band fronted by lead singer and on-again-off-again girlfriend Maja (Joanna Kulig). As Elliot learns that his business partner Farid (Tahar Rahim) may be involved in some questionable practices at the club, secrets begin to come to light that have also been concealed from Farid’s wife Amira (Leïla Bekhti), and when Elliot’s troubled teenage daughter Julie (Amandla Stenberg) suddenly arrives in Paris to live with him, his personal and professional worlds quickly start to unravel as he confronts his past, fighting to save the club and protect those closest to him. The series also stars Melissa George (In Treatment), Adil Dehbi (How I Became a Superhero), Benjamin Biolay (La douleur), Tchéky Karyo (The Missing) and rapper Sopico in his debut on-screen performance. From executive producer Damien Chazelle (La La Land).

Premiere Date: May 8, 2020

Avatar: The Last Airbender 100%

Description: Animation about a fun-loving boy with special powers who awakens from a 100-year sleep to find the world at war and himself the only hope for peace.

Premiere Date: May 15, 2020

The Lovebirds (2020) 66%

Description: When a couple in the fast lane to splitsville accidentally careens into a murder, they take off on a wild race to find the killer and clear their names. Stars Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani.

Premiere Date: May 22, 2020

Space Force: Season 1 39%

Description: A decorated pilot with dreams of running the Air Force, four-star general Mark R. Naird (Steve Carell) is thrown for a loop when he finds himself tapped to lead the newly formed sixth branch of the US Armed Forces: Space Force. Skeptical but dedicated, Mark uproots his family and moves to a remote base in Colorado where he and a colorful team of scientists and “Spacemen” are tasked by the White House with getting American boots on the moon (again) in a hurry and achieving total space dominance. From co-creators Carell and Greg Daniels (The Office), Space Force is a new kind of workplace comedy, where the stakes are sky high and the ambitions even higher. John Malkovich, Diana Silvers, Tawny Newsome, Ben Schwartz also star, alongside co-stars Lisa Kudrow, Jimmy O. Yang, Noah Emmerich, Alex Sparrow and Don Lake.

Premiere Date: May 29, 2020

Available 5/1

All Day and a Night (2020) 54%
Almost Happy
Get In
Go! Go! Cory Carson: The Chrissy
The Half Of It
Hollywood: Season 1 () 59%
Into the Night
()
Mrs. Serial Killer
Reckoning: Season 1
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994) 47%
Back to the Future (1985) 93%
Back to the Future Part II (1989) 63%
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) 83%
Cracked Up (2018) - -
Den of Thieves (2018) 41%
For Colored Girls (2010) 31%
Fun With Dick and Jane (2005) 30%
I Am Divine (2012) 96%
Jarhead (2005) 60%
Jarhead 2: Field of Fire (2014) - -
Jarhead 3: The Siege (2016) - -
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008) 64%
Masha and the Bear: Season 4
Material (2012) - -
Monthly Girls’ Nozaki Kun: Season 1
Sinister (2012) 64%
Song of the Sea (2014) 99%
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) 72%
The Heartbreak Kid (2007) 29%
The Patriot (2000) 62%
Thomas & Friends: Marvelous Machinery: A
New Arrival
Thomas & Friends: Marvelous Machinery:
World of Tomorrow
Thomas & Friends: Thomas and the Royal
Engine
Underworld (2003) 31%
Underworld: Evolution (2006) 17%
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009) 30%
Urban Cowboy (1980) 70%
What a Girl Wants (2003) 35%
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) 92%

Available 5/4

Arctic Dogs (2019) 13%

Available 5/5

Jerry Seinfeld: 23 Hours To Kill

Available 5/6

Becoming
Workin' Moms: Season 4 () - -

Available 5/7

Scissor Seven: Season 2

Available 5/8

18 regali
Chico Bon Bon: Monkey with a Tool Belt
Dead to Me: Season 2 () 96%
The Eddy
The Hollow: Season 2
House at the End of the Street (2012) 10%
Restaurants on the Edge: Season 2
Rust Valley Restorers: Season 2
Valeria