A Comprehensive List of the 70 New Movies Coming to Netflix in 2021 – Oprah Mag

Netflix recently unveiled its 2021 list of original movies and fresh acquisitions, featuring a Marilyn Monroe biopic starring Ana de Armas, a Greece-set thriller, and enough rom-coms to sate our near-endless craving for escapist storylines.

According to Deadline, Netflixs slate of movies (mostly produced by the streaming giant) consists of 70 films, including 52 English language live action movie, 10 non-English language films, and eight animated features. And the star power is real, folks.

Expect to see appearances from A-Listers like Meryl Streep, Dwayne Johnson, Zendaya, Sandra Bullock, Melissa McCarthy, Jennifer Lawrence, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Chris Hemsworth. Top filmmakers Sam Levinson, Antoine Fuqua, Joe Wright, Jane Campion, and Shawn Levy will debut new works. Another exciting tidbit? In 2021, Halle Berry and Lin-Manuel Miranda will make their directorial debut on the platform.

There's just one catch: We don't know when, exactly, many of these films will be released. Stay tuned for updates. Below, find all of the original movies coming to Netflix in 2021and we have a strong suspicion this list will grow.

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Dramas

Release date: TBAStarring: The contemporary French movie is directed by Dany Boon. Plot: Seven families in a Parisian apartment building get to know each other wellperhaps too wellduring the coronavirus pandemic.

Release date: TBAStarring: Victoria Justice plays a social butterfly trapped between realms.Plot: Perfect for fans of The Good Place, this metaphysical movie follows a woman who dies during her birthday week and is given a chance to redeem herself on earth before making it to heaven.

Release date: TBAStarring: Kevin Quinn, Bailee Madison, Sherri Shepherd and David Koechner Plot: Featuring original music and reimagined versions of contemporary Christian songs, this musical is set over the course of a pivotal summer for troubled teenage boy (Quinn). When given the choice to attend a juvenile detention center or a Christian summer camp, he chooses the latterand the story unfolds from there.

Release date: TBAStarring: Gracie Marie Bradley and Aleyse Shannon star as the movie's central couple, with supporting appearances from Giancarlo Esposito and Sharon Stone. Beauty is Andrew Dosunmu's fourth feature.Plot: Based on a screenplay by Lena Waithe, Beauty is a queer romance about an up-and-coming pop star and the woman who loves her. Their new relationship is tested by judgmental family members.

Blonde

Release date: TBAStarring: Ana de Armas plays the one-and-only Marilyn Monroe in this biopic. Plot: Based on the novel of the same name by Joyce Carole Oates, Blonde is an intimate look at one of Hollywood's most iconic figures.

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Release date: TBAStarring: Halle Berry made her directorial debut while starring as a, well, bruised MMA fighter. Plot: Berry plays an MMA fighter looking to restart her career and regain custody of her son. When Netflix bought the rights to Bruised after its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, Berry tweeted, "I am speechless."

Release date: TBAStarring: Idris Elba and Stranger Thingss Caleb McLaughlin play an estranged father and son in Northern Philadelphia. The movie co-stars Jharrel Jerome, Lorraine Toussaint, Byron Bowers and Clifford Method Man Smith. Plot: Based on the novel Ghetto Cowboy by Greg Ner, Concrete Cowboy focuses on a 15-year-old boy who discovers the thrill of horseback riding (in cities) when he goes to live with his father.

Release date: TBAStarring: Peruvian director Claudia Llosa directs this adaptation of acclaimed author Samantha Schweblin's novel, steeped in magical realism. Plot: As a woman lays dying in rural Argentina, she's visited by a series of apparitions that explain how she got to that point.

Release date: TBAStarring: Kelvin Harrison Jr., Jennifer Hudson, Jennifer Ehle, Jeffrey Wright, and John David Washington. Plot: Based on the bestselling novel by Walter Dean Myers, Monster is about a 17-year-old honor student (Harrison Jr.) wrongfully charged with murder.

Release date: TBAStarring: Jeremy Irons plays Neville Chamberlain in Christian Schwochow's film, also starring George MacKay. Plot: Set in 1938, this historical movie is centered on negotiations between England and Germany on the eve of WWII.

Release date: January 27Starring: Naomi Watts, Andrew Lincoln, and Jacki Weaver star in the movie based on a true story. Plot: When an accident leaves a young mother unable to walk, she and her family bond over taking care of a baby magpie chick they name Penguin.

Release date: January 7Starring: Kornl Mundrucz directs the drama, which stars Vanessa Kirby, Sarah Snook, Ellen Burstyn, and Shia LaBeouf. Plot: Pieces of a Woman features a conversation-starting, 24-minute home birth scene.

Release date: TBAStarring: Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot, and Ryan Reynolds are the leads of this heist drama. Plot: An FBI profiler (Johnson) teams up with two criminals (Gadot and Reynolds) to catch the world's most wanted criminal. Pretend that you're watching this one on the big screen.

Release date: TBAStarring: Rachel Saanchita Gupta and Shafin Patel make their acting debuts, and Manjari Makijany makes her directorial debut, in this coming-of-age story. Plot: A teenage girl in rural India is introduced to skateboarding and goes on to compete in the national championships.

Release date: January 29Starring: Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes, Lily James, and Johnny Flynn. Plot: Based on a true story and inspired by a novel, The Dig follows a wealthy English widow who discovers ancient burial mounts of tremendous historical significance in her backyard.

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Release date: TBAStarring: Jake Gyllenhaal stars in the remake of the Danish film.Plot: Set over the course of single morning at a 911 dispatch call center, The Guilty follows a phone operator roped into an emergency situation where nothing is as it seems.

Release date: TBAStarring: Filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino helms this movie set in his hometown of Naples. Plot: Story details for this one aren't available. However, Sorrentino said, The Hand of God represents for the first time in my career an intimate and personal film, a novel of formation at once light-hearted and painful.

Release date: TBAStarring: The movie features an all-star cast of Jonathan Majors, Zazie Beetz, Delroy Lindo, Lakeith Stanfield, Regina King, and Idris Elba. Plot: Outlaw Nat Love (Majors) discovers that his enemy, Rufus Buck (Elba), is being released from prison, so he reunites his gang to track Rufus down and seek revenge.

Release date: TBAStarring: Renowned filmmaker Jane Campion directs Benedict Cumberbatch and Jesse Plemons, who play Montana brothers. Plot: On a ranch in Montana in the 1920s, two brothersand complete oppositesclash over one brother's romance with a local widow (Kirsten Dunst).

Release date: TBAStarring: Melissa McCarthy and Chris O'Dowd play a grieving married couple in this dramedy, which also stars Kevin Kline, Timothy Olyphant, Daveed Diggs, Skyler Gisondo, Loretta Devine, Laura Harrier, Rosalind Chao, and Kimberly Quinn. Plot: After suffering a tragedy, Lilly (McCarthy) attempts to heal through gardening, and then becomes consumed with nest of violent starlings in her backyard.

Release date: TBAPlot: Adarsh Gourav stars alongside Rajkummar Rao and Priyanka Chopra-Jonas.Plot: Adapted from a Booker Prize-winning novel, The White Tiger is one man's journey cutting through caste and class in India. Watch as Balram Halwai goes from chauffeuring millionaires to socializing among them.

Release date: TBAStarring: Hamilton's Lin-Manuel Miranda made his directorial debut with this adaptation of Jonathan Larson's (Rent) musical. We'll get to see Andrew Garfield, Vanessa Hudgens, Alexandra Shipp, Robin de Jess, Joshua Henry, Judith Light, and Bradley Whitford sing and dance their way through it.Plot: Set in 1990, tick, tickBOOM! tells the story of an aspiring theater composer waiting tables in New York City and waiting on his big break as he writes what he hopes is the great American musical.

Release date: TBAStarring: Alexandre Moratto, a Brazilian-American filmmaker, helms this raw movie about modern-day slavery. Plot: An 18-year-old Mateus accepts a job in a junkyard in So Paulo and is subsequently lured into a kind of contemporary slavery.

Release date: TBAStarring: Sandra Bullock stars in this adaptation of Sally Wainwrights 2009 drama series Unforgiven, which will be directed by Nora Fingscheidt.Plot: After serving a sentence for a violent crime, Ruth Slater (Sandra Bullock) re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.

Thrillers and Horror Movies

Release date: TBAStarring: Directed by Zack Snyder, this action-packed movie stars Dave Bautista, Tig Notaro, Omari Hardwick, Ana de la Reguera, and more. Plot: Imagine that the zombie apocalypse begins in Las Vegas. If that sentence excites you, then Army of the Dead is for you.

Release date: TBAStarring: Gina Rodriguez and Jennifer Jason Leigh are the leads. Plot: In this dystopian movie, the world as we know it ends in a cataclysm that a) wipes out all electronics and b) destroys people's ability to sleep. Only one woman holds the key to a good night's rest. The question is: Can she save the world before her own mind is frayed?

Release date: TBAStarring: John David Washington (who also stars in Netflix's Malcolm and Marie), Alicia Vikander, Boyd Holbrook and Vicky KriepsPlot: What should be a romantic Greek vacation turns into a nightmare in this star-studded thriller.

Release date: TBAStarring: The German thriller stars Peri Baumeister as a woman trapped on a hijacked flight. Plot: After a plane is taken over, a woman with a mysterious illness realizes she's the only person who can save her sonand other passengers.

Release date: TBAStarring: Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller, and Jurnee Smolett co-star in the thriller.Plot: This futuristic drama is set in a facility run by a "brilliant visionary" who experiments by giving inmates emotion-altering drugs. Sounds sinister to us.

Release date: Summer 2021Starring: Leigh Janiak will direct the trilogy, starring Stranger Things's Sadie Sink, Gillian Jacobs, Olivia Welch, Emily Rudd, Benjamin Flores Jr, and more. Plot: R.L. Stine's creepy Fear Street novels were converted into a trilogy of horror movies for kids, set to be released over one summer, per Deadline.

Release date: TBAStarring: Rosamund Pike, Eiza Gonzalez, Dianne Wiest, and Peter Dinklage.Plot: Gear up for a dark thriller about a morally corrupt legal guardian who drains the savings of her elderly wardsand the woman who tries to con her right back.

Release date: TBAStarring: Logan Marshall Green and Freida Pinto play a husband and wife in this Adam Salky-directed thriller.Plot: After a home invasion, one woman (Pinto) is left traumatized and suspicious of the world around her.

Release date: TBAStarring: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Woody Harrelson, Michiel Huisman, and Tadanobu Asan co-star in the revenge thriller. Plot: After being poisoned, a criminal operative seeks one final act of retribution.

Release date: TBAStarring: Krysten Ritter, Winslow Fegley and Lidya Jewet are the leads of this horror-fantasy, designed with kids in mind. Plot: Fairy tales meet contemporary New York when a boy obsessed with scary stories is imprisoned by an evil young witch in her apartment, and must tell a new scary story every night in order to stay alive.

Release date: TBAStarring: Debby Ryan, Alfie Allen, and Lucy Fry co-star. Plot: What begins as a typical rideshare goes off the rails when a driver's passengers reveal themselves to be supernatural creatures leading him into a dangerous underworld.

Release date: TBAStarring: Cristina Rodlo and Marc Menchaca are the leads of this horror movie, which intertwines contemporary issues with genre fare.Plot: An immigrant to America takes a room in a boarding house, only to find that she can't leave the boarding house. If you want to know the ending, read the book first.

Release date: TBAStarring: The French thriller stars Noomi Rapace and Melanie Laurent.Plot: A young woman wakes up in a medical cryo unit without memory of how she got there. Don't watch if you're claustrophobic.

Release date: January 15Starring: Anthony Mackie plays an android officer in this future-set movie. Damson Idris is a drone pilot following his orders. Plot: Outside the Wire envisions a future in which androids are fighting humanity's wars.

Release date: TBAStarring: Anna Kendrick, Toni Collette, Shamier Anderson, and Daniel Dae Kim play astronauts trapped in space. Plot: The crew of a spaceship headed to Mars discover a stowaway long after liftoff. The quarantine experience will probably make it easier to relate to the astronauts in this sci-fi thriller.

Release date: TBAStarring: A group of Gen-Z talent, including Sydney Park, Theodore Pellerin, Asjha Cooper, Dale Whibley, and Sarah Dugdale.Plot: Stephanie Perkins's gripping YA novel inspired this Nebraska-set thriller, where a group of teenagers are stalked by a mask-wearing killer. And no, this is not a Scream remake.

Release date: TBAStarring: French actress Suliane Brahim stars in Just Philippot's horror movie as a single mother caught in a nightmare scenario. Plot: In The Swarm, a woman learns the grasshoppers she's raising in her backyard thrive off of human blood.

Release date: TBAStarring: Joe Wright directed the movie, which features Amy Adams, Julianne Moore, and Jennifer Jason Leigh as leads.Plot: After many delays, The Woman in the Window is finally coming to our screens. In the story, an agoraphobic New Yorker spies on her neighbors and witnesses a violent crime. Or believes she witnesses one.

Release date: TBAStarring: Amanda Seyfried, James Norton, Natalia Dyer, Rhea Seehorn, Alex Neustaedter and F. Murray Abraham appear.What it's about: Joining the ranks of haunted house movies, Things Heard and Seen is about a Manhattan couple who move to a historic town in the Hudson Valley only to learn that the only thing more complicated than their marriage is the house they moved into.

Comedies

Release date: TBAStarring: The presence of Lil Rel Howery, Eric Andre, and Tiffany Haddish in Bad Trip's cast means you'll definitely laugh during this road trip movie. Plot: From the producers of Jackass and Bad Grandpa, this inventive comedy follows two best friends on a road trip from Florida to New York. The movie features real-life pranks performed on unsuspecting people.

Release date: TBAStarring: More like, who isn't starring in Don't Look Up? Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Rob Morgan, Jonah Hill, Tyler Perry, Timothe Chalamet, Ron Perlman, Cate Blanchett and Meryl Streep appear in this disaster comedy.Plot: Adam MacKay's latest movie follows two astronauts' quest to warn humanity of an incoming comet. Good luck.

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Release date: TBAStarring: The Brazilian comedy is directed by Cris D'Amato and stars Maisa Silva.Plot: After growing up in a hippie commune, one girl attempts to track down her biological father, and ends up finding two possibilities. We're getting major Mamma Mia vibes.

Release date: March 3Starring: Amy Poehler directs this adaptation of Jennifer Mathieu's novel of the same name, which stars Josephine Langford and Patrick Schwarzenegger. Plot: Inspired by her punk rock mother, a 16-year-old starts a feminist revolution in her high school.

Release date: TBAStarring: Jean-Claude Van Damme has the lead role, with a supporting cast that includes Alban Ivanov, Assa Sylla and Samir Decazza.Plot: A former secret service agent returns to France after his estranged son is falsely accused of arms and drug trafficking by the government. Sounds serious, yes, but it's slated to be a comedy.

Release date: TBAStarring: Husband-wife duo Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone team up for this comedy, with McCarthy starring and Falcone directing. Plot: Imagine a world in which supervillains were commonplace. Now imagine if two previously ordinary best friends found a way to get themselves powers to beat them. That's the gist of this comedy.

Release date: March 12Starring: Jennifer Garner and Edgar Ramirez play overextended parents. Plot: Two parents agree to say "yes" to their kids for an entire day. Naturally, hijinks ensue.

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Romances

Bombay Rose

Release date: TBAStarring: Gitanjali Rao wrote, edited, directed, and designed this animated movie about a flower vendor falling in love. Plot: Inspired by Bollywood aesthetics, this animated film based on a true story, is about a young club dancer escaping a child marriage.

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Release date: TBAStarring: Mara Valverde, Alex Gonzlez, and Elsabet Casanovas star.Plot: Fans of the Spanish show Valeria should watch this rom-com, based on novels by the same author. 30-year-old Maca (Mara Valverde) is sent reeling when her ex Leo (Alex Gonzlez) comes back into her life, just after she recovered from heartbreak.

Release date: TBAStarring: Nina Dobrev, Charles Melton, and Jimmy O. Yang are the movie's central love triangle.Plot: This rom-com weaves in catfishing, ghosting, and other perils of online dating. In the movie, a woman travels from L.A. to meet a man from a dating app, only to learn he's not who he says he is.

Malcolm & Marie

Release date: February 5Starring: Zendaya and John David Washington star in Sam Levinson's film, written and filmed entirely during lockdown. Plot: Malcolm & Marie is the lush romance everyone will be talking about this winter. On the same night filmmaker Malcolm (Washington) reaches a professional high, revelations about his relationship with Marie (Zendaya) unfurl.

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Release date: TBAStarring: Jacob Elordi and Joey King finish up their trilogy. Plot: The Kissing Booth and its love triangle concludes. Elle has to choose between Harvard, where her boyfriend Noah goes, and Berkeley, where her BFF Lee is going.

Release date: TBAStarring: Augustine Frizzell directs the pair of interwoven stories, starring Felicity Jones, Shailene Woodley, Callum Turner, and Nabhaan Rizwan.Plot: JoJo Moyes's novel inspired the movie about an ambitious journalist who discovers a trove of secret love letters from 1965.

Release date: TBAStarring: Lana Condor, Noah Centineo, John Corbett, and the rest of the beloved series's cast return for the final installment of the beloved trilogy.Plot: With graduation fast approaching, Lara Jean Covey imagines what the rest of her life will look like...and whether Peter Kavinsky will be in it.

Family-Friendly Movies

Release date: TBAStarring: Isla Fisher, Eric Bana, Guy Pearce, Jacki Knight and more provide the voices for this animated film. Plot: The scaly residents of an Australian zoo plot to break out of the reptile house. Think Madagascar, but in the Australian Outback.

Release date: TBAStarring: Jude Wengs directorial debut stars Kea Peahu and Alex Aiono as siblings. Plot: In this family-friendly flick, two Brooklyn siblings travel to Hawaii to reconnect with their heritage.

Release date: TBAStarring: The four turtles are voiced by Ben Schwartz, Omar Benson Miller, Brandon Mychal Smith, and Josh Brener. Plot: A Nickelodeon movie follows the next chapter for everyone's favorite reptilian crime-fighting troupe.

Release date: TBAStarring: The cast of Nickelodeon's The Loud House gathers for the movie. Plot: The family of The Loud House takes a trip to Scotland, but doesn't appear to be stopping at Outlander's Craigh na Dun.

Release date: TBAStarring: Famed director Guillermo del Toro created this animated DreamWorks film, which features the voices of Diego Luna, Nick Offerman, Tatiana Maslany, Kelsey Grammar, and more. Plot: Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans is set in a town on the border of magical and mystical lines, making it a magnet for otherworldly creatures like trolls, aliens and wizards.

Release date: TBAStarring: Chris Appelhans, known for his work on Coraline and The Princess and the Frog, wrote and directedWish Dragon, a co-production between Sony Pictures Animation and a few Chinese production companies. Plot: A working-class college student and a dragon set forth on an adventure through modern day Shanghai in this animated film, sure to amuse kids and adults alike.

Holiday Movies

Release date: TBAStarring: Jim Broadbent, Maggie Smith, Michiel Huisman, Sally Hawkins and Kristen Wiig are all in the Christmas film. Plot: A young boy heads out in search of his father, who himself is on a quest to discover a mythical elf village.

Release date: TBAStarring: The rom-com stars Brooke Shields and Cary Elwes. Plot: Perfect for fans of Outlander, Brooke Shields stars as an American author who travels to Scotland with the intention of buying a castle, and clashes with the Scottish duke who owns the place.

Release date: TBAStarring: Gillian Anderson and Richard E. Grant lend their voices to the animated movie. Plot: This stop motion holiday movie is about a robin raised by a family of mice who starts to question her identity. Existential crises are not just for humans.

Release date: TBAStarring: Vanessa Hudgens, of course. Plot: We're just going to let the official description speak for itself: "When a priceless relic is stolen, Queen Margaret and Princess Stacy enlist the help of Margarets audacious look-alike cousin Fiona who teams with a dashing, mysterious man from her past to retrieve itrekindling the sparks of a tantalizing Christmas romance and resulting in a very unexpected switch."

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