5 best films newly added to Netflix, BBC and more including Stephen Graham’s “outstanding” drama

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Looking for something to watch over the Easter Bank Holiday weekend? You’ve found the perfect spot!

Lots of great new movies have recently been added to streaming services like Netflix, BBC iPlayer, and Channel 4. Among them is a particularly gripping kitchen drama starring Stephen Graham.

Digital Spy has rounded up five of the best to add to your watchlists. Check out our list below.

Best movie new to Netflix this week

I’m so excited about Humint! It’s a brand new South Korean spy thriller by director Ryoo Seung-wan. Apparently, it’s the final piece in his awesome ‘Overseas Location’ trilogy – following up The Berlin File and Escape from Mogadishu, which I both really enjoyed!

The film, featuring Zo In-sung, Park Jeong-min, Park Hae-joon, and Shin Sae-kyeong, is set in Vladivostok, Russia. It follows four individuals whose lives intersect near the North Korean-Russian border. Each character has their own secrets and reasons for being there, and they soon find themselves caught in a complex and risky situation involving betrayals, hidden plans, and growing conflicts.

Humint is a new release and doesn’t have many reviews yet, but the ones it has received are mostly good. The South China Morning Post noted that the story takes a while to start, but then delivers “breathless, non-stop action.”

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Here’s what’s new on Netflix this week: Let Him Go, Trolls, Problemista, The Accidental Getaway Driver, and Hell of a Summer.

Best movie new to Prime Video this week

Enjoying the recent 28 Years Later films, particularly The Bone Temple? Now’s the perfect time to revisit the original 28 Days Later – the movie that started it all.

Cillian Murphy leads this 2002 film about a bike messenger who wakes up from a coma to discover a virus has destroyed society, leaving him to join forces with other survivors.

The film, directed by Danny Boyle, features Naomie Harris, Christopher Eccleston, and Brendan Gleeson. The Movie Sleuth praised it as a standout horror film from the early 2000s.

Here’s what’s new on Prime Video this week: Bridget Jones’s Diary, The Social Network, The Witch, Crime 101, Casino Royale (2006), The Terminator, and American Fiction.

Best movie new to BBC iPlayer this week

The 2016 film La La Land is now considered a classic movie musical. It won six Oscars and stars Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling as a couple pursuing their dreams in Los Angeles – she’s an aspiring actress, and he’s a jazz musician – all while falling in love.

With a 91% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, Sight & Sound described the film as a charming and heartfelt tribute to movies, successfully combining a sense of the past with a modern feel.

Damien Chazelle directed La La Land, which features a fantastic original soundtrack with memorable songs like ‘City of Stars’, ‘The Fools Who Dream’, and ‘Another Day of Sun’.

Here’s what’s new on BBC iPlayer this week: Femme, The Ipcress File (1965), Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Good Vibrations, The Prestige, A Simple Favour, Insomnia (2002), The Mist (2007), and Belfast.

Best movie new to ITVX this week

Released in 1992, Reservoir Dogs was Quentin Tarantino’s first feature film as a director and was hailed by Time Out as a stunning achievement.

Reservoir Dogs is about a team of criminals attempting a diamond robbery. The plan goes wrong when they suspect a member of their group is secretly working with the police, leading to mistrust and violence.

The film features a fantastic cast playing the villains, with actors like Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Steve Buscemi, Lawrence Tierney, and Chris Penn.

Here’s what’s new on ITVX this week: Fast & Furious 9, School of Rock, Twilight, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, and Dirty Dancing.

Best movie new to Channel 4 this week

In the 2021 film Boiling Point, Stephen Graham plays a chef at a popular London restaurant. As the restaurant faces a particularly hectic night, his personal life and career begin to fall apart.

Director Philip Barantini filmed Boiling Point in a single, continuous shot – a technique he later used for the Netflix series Adolescence. The film has received overwhelmingly positive reviews, earning a 99% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and viewers have praised it as “captivating, brilliant, and outstanding” on IMDb.

I was so thrilled when they turned the movie into a BBC series! It was amazing to see Graham and so many of the original cast – like Vinette Robinson, Hannah Walters, and Izuka Hoyle – back for it too. The series was really well-received, and it was great to revisit those characters and the story.

Also new to Channel 4 this week: Little Monsters (2019), Men in Black, Toy Story 2

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2026-04-03 09:26