Best new films to stream – quick links
Empty Nets – 24 March (SBS On Demand)
Film (2023). On Iran’s northern coast, Amir struggles to secure steady work in the fishing industry while pursuing a secret romance with Narges, whose upper-class family expects greater stability. Economic precarity and social norms create tension, forcing their relationship into risk and quiet compromise.
A Best Film Nominee (Crystal Globe) at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2023, Empty Nets is an earnest love story wrought by entrenched prejudices and inequality, where the young lovers must overcome their social differences for their love to survive.
Empty Nets is directed by Behrooz Karamizade (Lake Of Happiness, Bahar In Wonderland) and stars Ali Rezaei, Sara Ahmadi and Reza Karimi. Watch the trailer.
Fallen Leaves – 25 March (SBS On Demand)
Film (2023). In contemporary Helsinki, solitary workers Ansa and Holappa meet by chance and begin a tentative romance. With a minimalist, deadpan style, this romantic comedy-drama captures loneliness, resilience, and the subtle possibilities of love, winning the Jury Prize at the 76th Cannes Film Festival and reaffirming Finnish master Aki Kaurismäki’s signature humanistic vision.
Fallen Leaves stars Alma Pöysti, Jussi Vatanen and Janne Hyytiäinen. Watch the trailer.
Pretty Lethal – 25 March (Prime Video)
Film (2026). In this action-packed thriller, five ballerinas on their way to a prestigious dance competition are barely on speaking terms when their bus breaks down in a remote forest.
With no other options, they reluctantly seek shelter at an unsettling roadside inn run by Devora Kasimer (Uma Thurman), a reclusive former ballet prodigy. From the moment they arrive, something feels wrong – and their worst instincts prove right. As the situation turns deadly, the fractured team must set aside rivalries and weaponise years of brutal training, turning grace, discipline and even pointe shoes into tools for survival.
Pretty Lethal stars Iris Apatow, Lana Condor, Millicent Simmonds, Avantika, Maddie Ziegler, Michael Culkin, Lydia Leonard and Uma Thurman. Watch the trailer.
Kissing is the Easy Part – 25 March (Binge)
Film (2025). In this new young adult romance, Sean is a model student gunning for MIT. Meanwhile, the rebellious Flora is ditching the SAT. When he agrees to help her with her studies in exchange for a university recommendation letter, he treats it as just another test. But. the hours they spend together change their relationship, and the feelings that begin to grow may complicate both their futures.
Starring Asher Angel and Paris Berelc. Watch the trailer.
Eddington – 26 March (Binge)
Film (2025). Hereditary director Ari Aster muses on our apocalyptic times in this satirical neo-Western thriller set during the 2020 pandemic, where escalating political tensions pit a sheriff against the town’s mayor in a spiralling contest of ideology and power.
Starring Pedro Pascal, Joaquin Pheonix, Emma Stone, Austin Butler and Luke Grimes. Read ScreenHub’s glowing review.
The Mortuary Assistant – 27 March (Shudder and AMC+)
Film (2026). This delightfully creepy new supernatural horror is based on the best-selling indie video game of the same name.
Newly certified mortician Rebecca Owens (Arrow star Willa Holland) accepts a night shift at a mortuary, embalming bodies alone after hours. As disturbing events escalate, Rebecca uncovers demonic rituals, the dark secrets of her enigmatic mentor (Boardwalk Empire‘s Paul Sparks), and her own buried trauma – racing to survive the night before her body becomes a vessel for possession. Watch the trailer.
