5 Upcoming Netflix Movies, Ranked by Hype
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For years, Netflix movies had a reputation problem. The streamer pumps out so many films that a lot of them just feel like background noise. That’s not to say that Netflix hasn’t had its fair share of successful releases, but for every hit, there are dozens of forgettable films that people probably played in the background while scrolling through their phones. And once the audience starts treating a streamer’s originals as filler, that image becomes very hard to shake.
So it’s a good thing that Netflix has been playing a very different game lately. The platform is finally betting big on legendary filmmakers and sending some of its biggest titles to theaters before they hit streaming. That is extremely evident in Netflix’s upcoming slate, which is easily its most impressive in years, packed with the kind of names and premises that viewers just can’t ignore. Mark your calendars, because here are five upcoming Netflix movies, ranked by hype.
5 ‘Here Comes the Flood’ (2027)
Here Comes the Flood has everything a great heist movie needs. Denzel Washington, Robert Pattinson, and Daisy Edgar-Jones lead the cast of this unconventional thriller. Oscar-nominated director Fernando Meirelles helms the film, while Simon Kinberg is the scriptwriter. Here Comes the Flood was originally expected in 2026, but Netflix has pushed its release back to 2027. The story follows a bank guard who teams up with a master thief to rob the very bank he’s supposed to protect. Things get complicated when the guard falls for a bank teller, and their romance grows alongside the robbery plan before slowly falling apart. As the heist unfolds, a series of twists reveals that the job itself is part of a much bigger con, and nobody can trust anyone.
The cast alone is enough to get anyone excited, since Denzel already proved he’s a heist movie natural with Inside Man. Not to mention Pattinson, who has practically built his career on playing twitchy, unpredictable characters. The film reportedly unfolds out of order, so the audience has to actively put the puzzle together and pay attention to the smallest of details. Here Comes the Flood also reunites Meirelles with his City of God cinematographer, César Charlone, which means the film should look far grittier than the usual slick heist movie. The wait is long, but Here Comes the Flood has all the ingredients of a smart, twisty crowd-pleaser.
4 ‘Ray Gunn’ (2026)
Ray Gunn has been Brad Bird’s dream project for more than 30 years, and it’s finally happening. The director of The Iron Giant, The Incredibles, and Ratatouille is back with an animated sci-fi noir set in a retro-futuristic world, with Sam Rockwell voicing the titular character. The film is set in the towering city of Metropia, in an alternate future imagined from the point of view of 1939, where flying cars and jetpacks are everyday sights, and humans live alongside aliens. Ray Gunn (Rockwell) is a small-time private eye, and his only partner is an alien named Eye-ra Kadok (Tom Waits). When a club owner (Bobby Cannavale) hires Ray to spy on his wife, a famous pop star named Venus Nova (Scarlett Johansson), the simple job pulls him into a murder case and right into the path of an alien mob boss known as Slugsy (Matt Berry). The film opens in select theaters in 70mm on December 4 before arriving on Netflix on December 18.
Now, Bird doesn’t make many movies, which is exactly why every new one feels like an event. His films have always been aimed at adults just as much as kids, and a detective noir gives him the perfect excuse to go darker and stranger than ever. The first footage of the film shows a gorgeous mix of 1930s style and space-age animation that looks unlike anything else in the genre right now. Netflix has already proven it can turn an animated movie into a global hit with KPop Demon Hunters, and Ray Gunn has a real shot at becoming the next one.
Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes Which Netflix Character Would Be Your Best Friend? Dustin · Emily · Wednesday · Gi-hun
Some friends drag you out of the house. Some sit with you on the worst night of your life. Netflix has written both, plus the one who tells you the truth you have been avoiding all week. Answer eight quick questions about how you actually do friendship, and find out which of them was always going to end up in your corner.
🧢Dustin(Stranger Things)
🗼Emily(Emily in Paris)
🕷️Wednesday(Wednesday)
🟢Gi-hun(Squid Game)
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How do you usually end up making a new friend? The origin story says a lot about the friendship that follows it.
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What is a perfect Saturday with your best friend? Friendship is mostly built out of very ordinary hours.
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You call them at two in the morning. What happens? This is the real test of a friendship, and everybody knows it.
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What do you want from them when you are clearly wrong? The best friendships are the ones that survive being corrected.
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What do your friends actually value about you? The friend you attract says something about the friend you are.
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You have a falling out. How does it go? How a friendship repairs itself matters more than how it breaks.
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What do you actually need a best friend for? Everybody is missing something. The right friend fills that gap.
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Ten years from now, what keeps the two of you close? Eight questions in, this is the one that decides who you get.
The Group Chat Has Spoken Your Best Friend Is…
Four Netflix characters, four completely different ways of showing up for somebody. This is the one who fits how you actually do friendship, and what having them in your life would be like.
Dustin Henderson
You do not do friendship at half volume, and neither does he. What you want is somebody who says yes to the plan before you have finished describing the plan.
- Dustin is the friend the entire show runs on: loyal past the point of sense, enthusiastic about everything, and incapable of leaving anybody behind.
- You have the same instinct. Your friendships are loud, specific and slightly ridiculous, and they last for decades because of it.
- He is also the one person who would take your strangest interest completely seriously, which is far rarer than it sounds.
- You would have a group chat. It would never once be quiet.
Emily Cooper
You are the friend who makes things happen, and so is she. Together you would be mildly exhausting to everyone around you and completely delighted with yourselves.
- Emily treats an ordinary Tuesday as something that could be turned into an occasion, which is either the best or the worst quality in a friend depending on your energy levels.
- You share her refusal to sit still. Neither of you has ever accepted a night in when something was happening somewhere else.
- She is far more loyal than people give her credit for. She defends her friends loudly, publicly, and occasionally before checking the facts.
- She would post the photo without asking. You would forgive her, because it is a very good photo.
Wednesday Addams
You have no patience for pleasant lies, and she has no ability to tell them. What looks like coldness from the outside is the most reliable friendship on this list.
- Wednesday never says a kind thing she does not mean, which makes the rare ones count for an enormous amount.
- You would rather be told the truth than be made comfortable. She is constitutionally incapable of offering you anything else.
- Underneath all of it she is ferociously protective. She simply refuses to make a performance out of caring.
- Do not expect a birthday message. Do expect her to ruin anyone who wrongs you.
Seong Gi-hun
You look after whoever is having the worst day. So does he. It is the least strategic way to move through the world and the best possible quality in a friend.
- Gi-hun is not the strongest player in Squid Game, or the cleverest. He is the one who keeps choosing to protect somebody else, over and over, at genuine cost to himself.
- You have the same instinct. You notice who is struggling and you stay with them, long after anybody would blame you for leaving.
- He is a flawed friend, and that is part of why it lands. He lets people down, then comes back and tries again, which is more than most manage.
- He would give you his last chance and never once mention that he had done it.
3 ‘The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth’ (2026)
David Fincher directing a Quentin Tarantino script with Brad Pitt in the lead sounds almost too good to be true, but The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth is becoming reality very soon. The film follows Pitt’s return to his Oscar-winning role from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, but this time, the story is set in 1977, and Hollywood has changed dramatically. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Elizabeth Debicki, Scott Caan and Carla Gugino round out the film’s impressive ensemble cast, with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross scoring it.
The crime comedy hits IMAX theaters for a two-week run starting November 25 before landing on Netflix on December 23. Now, Tarantino’s playful, chatty style and Fincher’s cold precision couldn’t be more different, and seeing how they collide will be half the fun. The upcoming film also presents a much darker look at Cliff, far from the charming stuntman the audience remembers. With its reported $200 million budget, Cliff Booth is Netflix’s biggest swing of 2026, and has every chance of becoming the movie everyone is talking about this holiday season.
2 ‘Gundam’ (2027)
Netflix is taking on one of the most beloved franchises in anime history with its first-ever live-action Gundam movie. Sydney Sweeney and Noah Centineo are set to star in the highly anticipated adaptation as rival mech pilots fighting on opposite sides of a decades-long war between Earth and its former space colonies. Jim Mickle, the creator of Netflix’s Sweet Tooth, wrote and directed the film, with Jason Isaacs also among the cast in a role that’s still under wraps. Filming wrapped in Australia earlier this year, and the movie is expected to arrive sometime in 2027.
Gundam is one of the riskiest bets on this list because Netflix’s track record with live-action anime is mixed. On the one hand, One Piece has proven to be a massive success, but on the other, everyone remembers Cowboy Bebop being canceled after a single season. Despite the uncertainty, though, the idea of giant robots battling across space on a blockbuster budget is the kind of spectacle streaming rarely delivers. The film’s focus on two rival pilots also hints at a more emotional, character-driven story than a typical robot action movie. If Netflix pulls this off, Gundam could become the sci-fi blockbuster the streamer has been chasing for years.
1 ‘Ink’ (2026)
Ink tells the wild true story of how Rupert Murdoch turned a struggling British newspaper into one of the most powerful tabloids in the world. The film, directed by Oscar winner Danny Boyle, is set in 1969, when Murdoch (Guy Pearce) has just bought the failing Sun. He hires Larry Lamb (Jack O’Connell) as editor and challenges him to overtake the Daily Mirror within a year. To pull it off, Lamb raids his old paper for talent, including reporter and his longtime mistress Jules Davies (Claire Foy), and builds a scrappy newsroom willing to break every rule. The film opened at the Venice Film Festival in September, arrives in select theaters on December 11, and lands on Netflix on January 8, 2027.
Unlike the rest of this list, Ink isn’t just riding on pure hype. The biographical drama already has strong buzz from its festival run, and Netflix is clearly positioning it as a major awards contender. Not to mention, it is also one of the most relevant stories on this list, since it shows the moment tabloid culture took over the news, and how that single move still shapes the way people consume news today. Ink is the upcoming Netflix movie most likely to live up to every bit of its hype.
Ink
- Release Date
- December 11, 2026
- Runtime
- 116 minutes
- Director
- Danny Boyle
- Writers
- James Graham
Cast
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Rupert Murdoch
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Jack O'Connell
Larry Lamb
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Joyce Hopkirk
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Brian McConnell
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