If you weren't already aware, the year isn't even a third over and Netflix has already released more movies than we could even watch if we sat in front of our TVs for a week straight. Not only are there already a ton of insanely good movies available for streaming — there are also so many more coming, we can barely keep track of them. With bigger stars, bigger budgets, and bigger expectations than ever before, we bring you all of the Netflix originals that 2019 has to offer, as well as all of the dates you need to know to watch them.
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This Icelandic drama tells the story of a bond between a tough single mother and a political asylum seeker from Guinea Bissau, who meet unexpectedly at Iceland's Reykjanes peninsula and decide to fight together for survival.
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This biopic follows the life of wildly popular Cuarteto performer Rodrigo Bueno, whose charisma and good looks led to a meteoric rise to fame in the tropical music scene — but not without personal consequences.
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In Netflix's first original film from Nigeria, Lionheart revolves around a competent but overlooked young woman who must find a way to work alongside her difficult uncle in order to save her father's failing bus company.
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This thriller tells the real-life story of surfer Álvaro Vizcaíno from Madrid who, while walking along the coast of Fuerteventura, slipped down a cliff and found himself in a 48-hour fight for survival, waiting for uncertain rescue.
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Starring Richard Dreyfuss, Andie MacDowell, and Chevy Chase, this comedy tells the story of a former stand-up comedian who, after retiring from the spotlight 50 years ago, decides to reunite with his former manager to perform one last comedy tour.
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This Korean action flick stars stunt master Bruce Khan as a former detective who infiltrates Sura Island (a remote island serving as a prison for death-row criminals) to locate those responsible for murdering his family.
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In this Spanish thriller, a bodyguard and a counterterrorism expert reluctantly take on the job of protecting a rich young heiress, which becomes far more challenging when a violent kidnapping forces them to go on the run.
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Starring Andie MacDowell's daughter Margaret Qualley (otherwise known as Jill Garvey from HBO's The Leftovers) and Anthony Mackie (who you may know as Falcon from the Marvel Universe), this sci-fi action film follows one of the last survivors on Earth as she attempts to make it on the final shuttle leaving for a distant colony.
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This film revolves around the titular Soni, a hotheaded young policewoman, and her superintendent, Kalpana, who decide to take on the growing crisis of violent crimes against women in Delhi — a task that becomes difficult when Soni is transferred out for alleged misconduct.
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In this totally trippy film, a young woman named Alex finds her world changed after her best friend Abraham's father, Daniel, is killed in a mysterious accident, which sends her on a hallucinatory descent into hell.
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Based on Victor Santos's graphic novel series of the same name, this action thriller stars Mads Mikkelsen (who played Bond villain Le Chiffre in Casino Royale) as the world's top assassin who is lured out from retirement when his former employer marks him as a liability, as well as Vanessa Hudgens as femme fatale assassin Camille.
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This Taiwanese dark comedy follows a recently bereaved widow who drags her teenage son into a complicated financial dispute when she learns that her late husband left his inheritance to someone else: his free-spirited gay lover.
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With an insane cast that includes Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalia Dyer, Toni Colette, Rene Russo, and John Malkovich, this horror-thriller tells the story of a series of paintings by an unknown artist, which, after they are discovered, release a supernatural force that exacts revenge on those who value profit over art for art's sake.
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In this Spanish romance, a young couple visits an old farmhouse that belonged to the woman's family, and it is there that they discover their shared genealogical roots and family histories, as well as a terrible secret that could threaten the future of their relationship.
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This sports drama, which stars Moonlight's André Holland and Atlanta's Zazie Beetz, follows a sports agent who pitches a rookie basketball player on a potentially problematic business proposition, and — like director Steven Soderbergh's Unsane — the movie was shot entirely on an iPhone.
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Set in Auckland, NZ, this hilarious rom-com follows cynical besties (who only became friends when they learned that they were dating the same guy) and the agency they run together to help clients break up with their significant others, which usually involves some pretty unorthodox methods.
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In this Mexican comedy, two competing swindlers who often target cruise ships reunite to con a lottery winner while abroad a cruise from Spain to Mexico, and be warned: you're going to want to immediately book a cruise of your own after watching this one.
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Following the success of her National Award-winning Marathi-language film Ventilator, Priyanka Chopra teamed up with director Aruna Raje for another Marathi production, which follows a successful lawyer and sexual assault victim as she tackles difficult cases, as well as intimacy issues with her architect husband.
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Starring Everybody Loves Raymond's Ray Romano and The League's Mark Duplass (who also served as writer and director), this Sundance drama follows two neighbors who form an unlikely bond after Duplass's character is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
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Set and filmed in Paris, this French romance follows a young Parisian who is struggling with her recent near-death experience in a plane crash and caught between her memories and reality, while around her Paris falls prey to rising social tensions, protests, and tragedies.
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This Spanish biographical drama tells the story of Spanish photographer Francisco Boix, who was exiled from France in 1939 and brought to the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp complex, where his photographs later played a pivotal role in the conviction of Nazi war criminals.
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In this raunchy French comedy reminiscent of The Hangover, two friends decide to ditch their humdrum jobs to become bachelor party planners in Budapest, Hungary, much to the chagrin of their wives.
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Based on a manga of the same name by Kyoko Okazaki, this Japanese teen comedy-drama takes place in a 1990s Tokyo suburb, telling the story of a teen girl who befriends the school outcast, a relationship that becomes complicated when he tells her about the dead body he found near the riverside.
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Based on the true story of William Kamkwamba and his book written with Bryan Mealer, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope, this film follows a 13-year-old boy who discovered a way to save his Malawi village from famine. It is the directorial debut for 12 Years a Slave actor Chiwetel Ejiofor, as well as the first starring role for newcomer Maxwell Simba, who plays William.
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Based on Sheila Williams's book Dancing on the Edge of the Roof, this drama stars the legendary Alfre Woodard as Juanita, a woman at the end of her rope who decides to take a Greyhound bus to Paper Moon, MT, in order to begin a new life.
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Inspired by a story in Denis Diderot's Jacques the Fatalist, this French historical drama stars Hereafter's Cécile de France as Madame de la Pommeraye, a wealthy widow who, after she is spurned by her lover, decides to enact a complicated plan for revenge with the help of the titular Lady J.
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This biopic will tell the incredible true story of Amberley Snyder (played by Cougar Town's Spencer Locke), a nationally ranked rodeo barrel racer who defies the odds after barely surviving a car accident that leaves her paralyzed from the waist down.
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With an all-star cast that includes Ben Affleck, Oscar Isaac, Charlie Hunnam, Garrett Hedlund, and Pedro Pascal, this cartel thriller will tell the story of five ex-US Special Forces soldiers and friends who reunite with the intention of robbing millions of dollars from a South American drug lord.
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This French thriller follows a talented motorcycle racer named Tony who must use his skill and speed to work as a courier, making drug deliveries when his mother needs help paying off her debts.
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This revolutionary Belgian drama tells the true story of a 15-year-old transgender student at a prestigious dance academy, whose dreams of becoming a professional ballerina are challenged by her upcoming sex reassignment surgery.
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Inspired by the elite Royal Malaysian Navy force PASKAL, this Malaysian military action film tells the story of a lieutenant commander, Arman, who decides to resign as a field operative to work a stable desk job and care for his sick mother. But when he finds out that a former PASKAL operative is planning to hijack an oil rig, it becomes clear that he cannot leave the field just yet.
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In this Spanish sci-fi thriller, a happily married mother named Vera learns that there is a possibility of saving the life of a boy who lived in her home 25 years earlier, but this good deed provokes a chain reaction, and Vera wakes up in a new reality where her daughter has never been born and her husband does not even know her.
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Based on Mötley Crüe's 2001 autobiography The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band, this long-awaited biopic stars Machine Gun Kelly as Tommy Lee, Douglas Booth (from Pride and Prejudice and Zombies) as Nikki Sixx, Iwan Rheon (Game of Thrones' evil Ramsay Bolton) as Mick Mars, and Daniel Webber (who plays Lewis Wilson on The Punisher) as Vince Neil.
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Set in a Mumbai chawl, this satirical Marathi film marks veteran Bollywood actress Madhuri Dixit's debut as a producer, following the course of a single day as the working-class residents prepare for a flag-hoisting ceremony.
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In this Mexican drama, a former boxer named Miguel "Bayoneta" Galíndez decides to leave his life in Tijuana behind after a terrible match, to move into a cramped flat in Finland. Eventually, a desire for redemption forces him to face his past and find his way back into the ring.
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Directed by John Lee Hancock, who also directed The Blind Side, this crime film tells the true story of two former Texas Rangers and ex-partners (played by Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson) who join forces to try to capture notorious criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. Kathy Bates, Kim Dickens, and John Carroll Lynch also appear.
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In this totally creepy Indonesian flick, a robbery turns into a murder when a pregnant woman's employees discover that she is unexpectedly home during their heist, and though they bury her body in the backyard, she returns to haunt them in increasingly terrifying ways.
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Brie Larson may be better known as Captain Marvel now, but in this comedy (which she directed, coproduced, and stars in), she plays Kit, a unicorn-obsessed art student who is given the chance to adopt a unicorn of her very own, thanks to a flamboyantly-dressed sales clerk played by Samuel L. Jackson — and we promise it's not as weird as it sounds.
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This Chinese mystery thriller revolves around Lok, a tireless police officer attempting to track down a Chinese migrant worker who disappeared from a land reclamation site in Singapore, only to discover that another Bengali worker — a friend of the first worker — has also gone missing.
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Riverdale's Camila Mendes appears in this rom-com about a beautiful private school student who — bored with her usual selection of eligible bachelors — resorts to using an app that allows you to rent out a stand-in boyfriend. Luck would have it that she comes across a sweet guy just trying to save money for college by renting himself out (and who also happens to be Netflix heartthrob Noah Centineo).
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Starring Kiernan Shipka and Stanley Tucci, this horror film tells the story of a deaf teen named Ally who moves with her family to escape terrifying creatures who hunt humans by sound, but in their remote new town, they face a new threat: a cult that wants to exploit Ally's heightened senses.
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In this sweet Spanish dramedy, four friends (including María Pedraza and Jaime Lorente from Netflix's Elite) celebrate their last night together in the Madrid apartment they've shared for years, but the fun night takes an unexpected turn when a secret is revealed that could change their relationships forever.
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This Danish 19th-century drama tells the story of a pastor's son who decides to break free from his devoutly religious family in Western Denmark to pursue a career in engineering, never expecting to fall in love with a progressive, intellectual Jewish woman who will never be accepted by his family.
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In this Indian Hindi-language drama, an ambitious performer struggles to make ends meet by teaching music and singing in clubs, but he becomes plagued with regret when his estranged former student, now a Bollywood singer, returns home to perform at a music concert.
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Starring Jane the Virgin's Gina Rodriguez, Pitch Perfect's Brittany Snow, and She's Gotta Have It's DeWanda Wise, this comedy tells the story of aspiring music journalist Jenny (played by Rodriguez), whose boyfriend of nine years unceremoniously dumps her as soon as she lands her dream job in San Francisco. However, her two BFFs, Blair and Erin (played by Snow and Wise, respectively), are there to help her get over her ex with one last crazy weekend in New York City before she moves across the country.
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In this sequel to the 2016 Malaysian supernatural film (and the second installment in a planned trilogy), a Muslim medical practitioner continues to heal after the death of his wife and son, and becomes a freelance preacher, though he is now plagued by a mysterious woman who questions him about faith and destiny.
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In this Spanish rom-com, four sisters with very different personalities embark on a road trip together after their mother passes away (and after they learn that the man they always called dad is not, in fact, their real father).
When it's available: May 3
Zac Efron takes on serial killer Ted Bundy in this thriller, which is interestingly told from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer (played by Lily Collins), who was in denial about who Bundy really was for years.
When it's available: May 3
This rom-com stars KJ Apa, Jacob Latimore, Maia Mitchell, and Tyler Posey as Griffin, Alec, Phoebe, and Ricky, four members in a close-knit group of recent high school grads trying to make the most of their last Summer together before heading off to college.
When it's available: May 3
In this Argentinian comedy-drama, a once-famous 35-year-old singer named Martina gets dumped and loses her voice. But just when everything seems hopeless, her supposed half-sister, Francisca, arrives out of the blue, asking that Martina accompany her and her cute young boyfriend to Chile to clear up the question of their parentage.
When it's available: May 10
Based on the novel by Laura Norton, this Spanish rom-com follows an architect who returns home to the comfort (and craziness) of her family after her longtime boyfriend cheats on her with a famous TV reporter.
When it's available: May 10
This French erotic thriller follows Zachary, a 17-year-old recently released from jail and rejected by his mother who finds himself living on the streets of Marseille, which is where he falls for a young prostitute named Shéhérazade.
When it's available: May 10
Amy Poehler produced, directed, and stars in this raunchy comedy alongside the dream cast of Maya Rudolph, Rachel Dratch, Ana Gasteyer, Paula Pell, Emily Spivey, and Tina Fey as a group of gal pals celebrating one of the friend's 50th birthday in California's wine country.
When it's available: May 10
Tiya Sircar from The Good Place stars in this comedy as Kate Bradley, a NYC TV news reporter who attempts to hunt down an anonymous good Samaritan, "Good Sam," who keeps leaving $100k in cash on seemingly random people's doorsteps.
When it's available: May 16
This female-centric action flick from the Philippines follows a former BlackRose cartel assassin who — after refusing a mission — fakes her own death to escape the cartel and begin a new life, which works until the cartel discover she is still alive.
When it's available: May 17
In this incredibly cool sci-fi drama, two science geek best friends, C.J. and Sebastian, work together to create a time machine that will allow them to save C.J.'s brother, who was wrongfully killed by a police officer.
When it's available: May 17
This Austrian drama follows a young Nigerian woman named Joy who is caught in a vicious cycle of sex trafficking and who is forced by her exploiter, Madame, to supervise Precious, a new recruit named Precious who is reluctant to accept her fate.
When it's available: May 24
This adorable sci-fi adventure flick takes place at a Summer camp, where four misfit teens must join forces when an alien invasion ruins their Summer fun. Anyone else feeling major Stranger Things vibes?
When it's available: May 24
Allison Williams stars in this intense thriller as a cello prodigy who is forced to abandon music after a family tragedy, only to return to performing years later with the help of a rising new star (and an insanely freaky reunion).
When it's available: May 24
This Hindi drama follows a meek yet gifted young woman who recruits the help of a mysterious conman to help her reclaim her car, which was stolen by a Mumbai gangster.
When it's available: May 30
In this South Korean mystery thriller, a monk is hired to look into a cult group known as Deer Mount while at the same time, a police captain investigates a murder case that he suspects is tied to a member of the Deer Mount cult.
When it's available: May 30
This rom-com, starring stand-up queen Ali Wong and Fresh Off the Boat's Randall Park (as well as a bunch of other amazing actors), follows childhood sweethearts who reconnect as adults in incredibly different socioeconomic situations, 15 years after a dramatic falling out.
When it's available: May 31
Following the success of Dumplin', Jennifer Aniston will also star alongside Adam Sandler in this mystery-comedy film about a New York cop and his wife who become prime suspects after the billionaire who chartered their European yacht is murdered.
When it's available: June 14
Based on the Chicago South Side hip-hop scene, this coming-of-age drama will star Anthony Anderson as a disgraced former artist manager, and 17-year-old newcomer Khalil Everage as the agoraphobic hip-hop prodigy he takes under his wing. Orange is the New Black's Uzo Aduba and artists Dave East and Dreezy are also set to appear.
When it's available: TBA
Said to be Netflix's most expensive movie to date, this Michael Bay-directed film (written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, the creators of the Deadpool franchise) will tell the story of six billionaires who fake their own deaths to form an elite team of underground crime fighters. Star Ryan Reynolds even offered a sneak peak on Instagram while filming in Italy.
When it's available: TBA
Based on Jennifer Niven's YA novel of the same name, this drama romance stars Elle Fanning and Justice Smith as two small-town teenagers brought together by fate when they both climbed their school's bell tower at school at the same time, both with the intention of jumping off the ledge. Alexandra Shipp, Keegan-Michael Key, and Luke Wilson round out the A-list cast.
When it's available: TBA
This biographical comedy film stars Eddie Murphy as Rudy Ray Moore, a raunchy comedian who rose to prominence in the late 1960s and is best known for his character of Dolemite, a character he often played in his stand-up routines, as well as the feature character and urban hero in a 1975 American blaxploitation crime film. Wesley Snipes, Craig Robinson, Tituss Burgess, and Keegan-Michael Key will also appear.
When it's available: TBA
As well as costarring in Murder Mystery alongside Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston will star in a political comedy as the first female (and first gay) president, with comedian Tig Notaro playing her wife. Aniston serves as a producer for the movie, alongside comedy dream team Will Ferrell and Adam McKay.
When it's available: TBA
Based on Charles Brandt's true-crime novel I Heard You Paint Houses, this Martin Scorsese film revolves around the scandalous life of Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran, a mob hitman who was known for his supposed involvement in union leader Jimmy Hoffa's death. Robert De Niro will star as Frank Sheeran alongside Al Pacino, who will play Jimmy Hoffa.
When it's available: TBA
Lady Bird and Call Me By Your Name breakout actor Timothée Chalamet will star in this film adaptation of several of Shakespeare's history plays, playing a young version of King Henry V, who ascended to the throne just as England was about to go to war with France. The cast also includes Joel Edgerton as the fictional Sir John Falstaff, Lily-Rose Depp as Catherine of Valois, and Robert Pattinson as Louis, Duke of Guyenne.
When it's available: TBA
Based on the book of the same name by Joan Didion, this political thriller stars Anne Hathaway as a journalist who decides to step aside from covering the 1984 US presidential election in order to inherit her dying father's job as an arms dealer for a covert government agency. Willem Dafoe will costar as Hathaway's husband, while Ben Affleck will play the government official who becomes romantically involved with Hathaway's character while investigating her.
When it's available: TBA
Directed by Steven Soderbergh, who also directed High Flying Bird, this film will follow a group of journalists who discovered a series of files that link the world's most powerful political figures to secret banking accounts to avoid taxes. Meryl Streep will star alongside Gary Oldman, Antonio Banderas, and David Schwimmer.
When it's available: TBA
Narcos actor Wagner Moura will star in this biopic about Sergio Vieira de Mello, a Brazilian-born UN diplomat, and the efforts made to save his life following the 2003 attack at Baghdad's Canal Hotel in Iraq, when Vieira de Mello was caught buried under the rubble.
When it's available: TBA
Directed by Sex and the City executive producer Cindy Chupack, this comedy is based on the novel Whatever Makes You Happy by William Sutcliffe, telling the story of three suburban moms (played by Patricia Arquette, Angela Bassett, and Felicity Huffman) who show up in the NYC apartments of their adult sons unannounced.
When it's available: TBA
In this thriller, Sam Worthington plays Ray, a father who rushes his daughter to the hospital after she breaks her arm during a road trip, only to wake up in the waiting room (where he was sleeping while his daughter and his wife, Lily Rabe, complete the girl's MRI) to find that no one in the hospital has any recollection of his family ever having checked in.
When it's available: TBA
Beautiful dancer Ava Michelle stars in this rom-com as the tallest girl in her high school who, due to her height, can't manage to find a boyfriend — that is, until she meets the new Swedish exchange student, played by Luke Eisner.
When it's available: TBA
This biographical drama will retell the rescue story of Ethiopian Jewish immigrants from Sudan to Israel in 1981, with Captain America's Chris Evans starring as an Israeli agent who ran a secret Mossad operation to smuggle persecuted Ethiopian Jews by using a deserted holiday retreat as a front.
When it's available: TBA
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Starring Rob Lowe and Kristin Davis, this holiday rom-com tells the story of a woman who — abandoned by her husband the night before they're set to leave on an African safari — decides to travel to Cape Town alone, where she meets a superhot elephant conservationist.
When it's available: TBA
This animated film — which marks the directorial debut for Sergio Pablos, cocreator of Despicable Me — tells the story of a desperate young postman whose unlikely friendship with a reclusive toymaker leads to the invention of Santa Claus. Actors lending their voices include Jason Schwartzman, Rashida Jones, J.K. Simmons, and Joan Cusack.
When it's available: TBA
In the third Christmas Prince movie installment, Rose McIver and Ben Lamb will return as Amber and Prince Richard, only this time they'll be welcoming a new addition to their family, because first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes . . . well, you know.
When it's available: TBA
