5 Best Netflix Movies Of 2026 (So Far)

Netflix releases so many movies every year that it's getting hard to keep track of the sheer volume. Legendary Hollywood figures like Martin Scorsese, Aaron Sorkin, and Alfonso Cuarón, just to name a few, have made acclaimed and award-winning films like "The Irishman," "The Trial of the Chicago 7," and "Roma," just to — again — name a few, but it can sometimes feel hard to parse through the streamer's massive library of offerings and pick something to watch. So what about 2026? Any good Netflix releases this year?

Yes, as it happens! We'll keep this list running until 2026 calls it quits at midnight on December 31, and just as a heads up, these movies aren't ranked; they're arranged alphabetically. (We love all these picks equally!) From a sweet romantic comedy based on a book to an original Jennifer Lopez romance to not one but two shows that continue the storylines of TV shows that came to a close, here are the best Netflix movies of 2026 ... so far.

If you're afraid of subtitles, get over it — because you absolutely must watch "Call My Agent!" and then follow it with "Call My Agent! The Movie," a phenomenal 2026 Netflix original. The series, created by Fanny Herrero and which ran from 2015 to 2020 on France 2 and is distributed internationally by Netflix, centers around a talent agency, Agence Samuel Kerr (or ASK) in the middle of Paris and the agents who keep the lights on; throughout the show's run, celebrities like Sigourney Weaver, Isabelle Adjani, Monica Bellucci, Juliette Binoche, and Jean Dujardin appear as heightened versions of themselves dealing with their respective agents. 

The series came to a close after its fourth season, but in "Call My Agent! The Movie," we reunite with the abrasive but effective Andréa Martel (Camille Cotin), the original ASK partner Mathias Barneville (Thibault de Montalembert), his secret love child and agent Camille Valentini (Fanny Sidney), Matthias' agent and lover turned producer Noémie Leclerc (Laure Calamy), the unflappable elder agent Arlette Azémar (Liliane Rovère), the often hapless agent Gabriel Sarda (Grégory Montel), and the always dramatic Hervé André-Jezak (Nicolas Maury). This time, Andréa, now a director five years after the closure of ASK, needs help casting for her first feature film and turns to Noémie for help. With almost the whole gang back together (receptionist turned actress Sofia Leprince, played by Stéfi Celma, and former ASK head Hicham Janowski, played by Assaad Bouab, don't return for the film) and stars like George Clooney and Eva Longoria playing themselves, "Call My Agent! The Movie" is an absolute delight ... and a return for form for this winning ensemble.

Across the past few years, Adam Sandler has been producing and working films led by his daughters, and the latest entry in this informal "series" is "Don't Say Good Luck," a Netflix original directed and co-written by Julia Hart (who penned the screenplay with Laura Hankin and Jordan Horowitz, the latter of whom also serves as a producer). After starring in a different Sandler family project — 2023's surprisingly delightful "You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah," also a Netflix original — Sandler's daughter Sunny, who also showed up in the legacy sequel "Happy Gilmore 2," is back in "Don't Say Good Luck" as 16-year-old Sophie Birenbaum, a shy and quiet teenager. When Sophie gets the lead role in her high school's production of the Broadway musical "Waitress," she's surprised ... but unfortunately, she then immediately gets news that her beloved mom Elizabeth's (Melanie Lynskey) dormant cancer has returned. To make everything that much more complicated, Sophie's friend Carolyn (Scarlett Estevez), starts acting weird, suggesting that she might be keeping secrets.

"Don't Say Good Luck" might be about a teenage girl and a school play, but it's also a deeply heartfelt, emotional, sweet, and devastating movie about second chances, learning to live with grief, and what it means to grow up. With a supporting cast that also includes Max Greenfield as Sophie's dad and Elizabeth's husband Ted, Bebe Neuwirth and Steve Buscemi as Elizabeth's parents and Sophie's grandparents Linda and Dale, and "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" and "Encanto" star Stephanie Beatriz as the school play's director, "Don't Say Good Luck" is a satisfying, fulfilling watch no matter how old or young you are. Have tissues ready, though.

If you loved the BBC series "Peaky Blinders," which was distributed internationally by Netflix and ran from 2013 to 2022, you'll be happy to hear that not only did "Peaky Blinders" get a Netflix original movie in 2026, but it's actually really good. Because "Peaky Blinders" sets each of its "series," or seasons, in a different decade or time period significant to British history, "Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man" follows up on this fictionalized historical study of sorts by opening in November 1940 during the very real and very bloody event known as the Birmingham Blitz. As Nazis rain down bombs in the film's central setting of Birmingham, Nazis forces also work behind the scenes to spread counterfeit British currency throughout the country to attempt to destabilize the economy and bring inflation to new highs. So where do our favorite "Peaky Blinders" characters fit into the narrative?

Part of the reason that "Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man," directed by Tom Harper and written by Stephen Knight, succeeds is due to the triumphant return of Cillian Murphy, who won an Academy Award for best actor for the titular role in 2023's "Oppenheimer" before returning to the "Peaky Blinders" universe and donning his trademark flat-brim cap as Tommy Shelby. After the tragic death of his brother Arthur (Paul Anderson), Tommy shuts himself off from society and the criminal underworld he used to inhabit, depending only on his friend Johnny Dogs (Packy Lee). With a cast that also includes Tim Roth, Brian Dennehy, Rebecca Ferguson as two characters — Tommy's long-lost deceased love and her twin sister — and Barry Keoghan as Tommy's oldest son Duke Shelby, "Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man" is well worth a watch, especially if you followed the original show from beginning to end.

Adapted from Emily Henry's best-selling romance novel of the same name, the Netflix original film "People We Meet on Vacation" — directed by Brett Haley with a screenplay by Yulin Kuang, Amos Vernon, and Nunzio Randazzo — introduces us to Poppy and Alex, two longtime best friends played by Emily Bader ("My Lady Jane") and Tom Blyth ("The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes"). After meeting during a road trip home from their shared alma mater of Boston College to their shared home state of Ohio, Poppy and Alex form a tight, playful relationship, and thanks to Poppy's job as a travel writer, they start planning annual vacations together every summer. Even as they date other people — Alex has an on-again, off-again relationship with his college flame Sarah ("The White Lotus" Season 3 standout Sarah Catherine Hook), and Poppy's main boyfriend in the narrative is a fellow nomadic lifestyle enjoyer named Trey ("Emily in Paris" star Lucien Laviscount) — there's a clear spark between Poppy and Alex.

Years after a rift between them during a trip to Tuscany that also included Trey and Sarah, Poppy accepts an invite from Alex's brother David (Miles Heizer) to attend David's destination wedding in Barcelona ... which means reuniting with Alex. Blyth and Bader are thoroughly excellent in their respective roles as stick-in-the-mud homebody Alex and the impulsive, spontaneous, Poppy, who refuses to put roots down anywhere due to a fear of rejection — and you'll want to spend every summer thereafter with these two lovebirds when you finish "People We Meet on Vacation."

At first glance, "Office Romance" — helmed by director Ol Parker and penned by star Brett Goldstein and Joe Kelly — seems like a pretty run-of-the-mill rom-com that doesn't really need to be interrogated any further. Dig into this surprisingly sweet and funny movie, though, and you'll be rewarded with a pretty great time. Goldstein, known for "Ted Lasso" and "Shrinking," stars as Daniel Blanchflower, an uptight British attorney who joins the American company Air Cruz after relocating to the United States due to a family emergency ... and he stars opposite romantic comedy legend Jennifer Lopez, making her first true return to the genre since the one-two punch of "Shotgun Wedding" and "Marry Me," both released in 2022. Lopez leads the film alongside Goldstein as Jackie Cruz, the CEO and president of the eponymous airline that was initially launched by her powerful business-minded father Captain Jack Cruz (Edward Jams Olmos), who has no time for a personal life and, to that end, sets a tough rule in place that prevents any Air Cruz employees from dating each other.

This, obviously, goes out the window as Jackie and Daniel work closely on a legal case affecting Air Cruz — in classic rom-com fashion, they have to travel together to the Dominican Republic and end up having a romantic getaway — and ultimately, the two end up together. Sure, "Office Romance" hits familiar beats, but it's charming, funny, and compulsively watchable ... and if nothing else, you absolutely have to see the performance from 2026 Emmy winner Betty Gilpin as Jackie's assistant and best friend Sydney Bloom, who provides some of the snappiest, funniest line reads of the year in her standout scene with Goldstein.