April’s streaming lineup brings a mix of awards-season carryovers, festival standouts and commercial tentpoles to living rooms. Headlining the month is Marty Supreme, which moves from theaters to HBO Max and carries with it the momentum of multiple awards nods and a strong box office showing. Alongside it are international contenders, small-budget gems and studio franchise installments that all arrive across platforms such as Hulu, Netflix, Prime Video and Disney+.
Below is a curated overview of the most talked-about titles, their streaming dates, why they matter and what makes each worth checking out. You’ll find festival winners, Oscar‑recognized films, genre experiments and crowd-pleasing blockbusters — each entry noted with platform and release day so you can plan your watchlist.
Major premieres and awards contenders
Marty Supreme lands on HBO Max on April 24 after a robust theatrical run that pushed it into A24’s top box office tier — reported to have earned roughly $178–179 million worldwide. The film received nine Oscar nominations, including best picture and best actor for Timothée Chalamet, who leads as an obsessive young ping‑pong player willing to upend his life for greatness. Directed by Josh Safdie, the movie blends high energy with emotional stakes and features a supporting ensemble including Gwyneth Paltrow, Odessa A’zion, Tyler Okonma and Fran Drescher. Critics praised Chalamet’s performance and the film’s daring tone.
Festival and foreign‑language titles also arrive this month. Oliver Laxe’s Sirāt comes to Hulu on April 6; the Cannes jury prize winner follows a father searching the Moroccan desert for his missing daughter and earned two Oscar nominations (including best international feature and sound). On April 24, Park Chan‑wook’s darkly comic thriller No Other Choice streams on Hulu after Venice buzz; starring Lee Byung‑hun, it was Korea’s official Oscar submission and picked up several Golden Globe nods.
Notable originals, thrillers and star vehicles
Prime Video opens April with the crime thriller Crime 101 on April 1. Based on Don Winslow’s novella, the movie stars Chris Hemsworth as a charismatic thief opposite Halle Berry and Mark Ruffalo, and it dramatizes a high‑stakes heist derailed by conflicting motives. The film grossed about $71 million worldwide against a reported $90 million budget, making its streaming arrival a chance to find a wider audience. Meanwhile, Christy — a biopic of boxer Christy Martin starring Sydney Sweeney — debuts on HBO Max on April 10 after a disappointing theatrical opening but strong buzz for Sweeney’s turn.
Netflix’s April originals include Apex (April 24), a survival action piece with Charlize Theron and Taron Egerton set against the Australian wilderness, and Thrash (April 10), a coastal disaster thriller about sharks from writer‑director Tommy Wirkola. Apple TV+ highlights Outcome on April 10, Jonah Hill’s starry drama starring Keanu Reeves that explores the fallout of a career‑threatening scandal; Hill co‑wrote and appears in the film.
Horror, inventive POV and festival darlings
Horror fans have several reasons to tune in. Shelby Oaks arrives on Hulu April 17 as Chris Stuckmann’s feature debut, a meta‑horror about a vanished YouTuber that plays with documentary aesthetics. Good Boy (April 25 on Hulu) approaches the haunted‑house story from an unusual vantage, telling the tale through a dog’s point of view. Bryan Fuller’s dark fantasy Dust Bunny (April 17 on HBO Max) mixes magical menace with a hitman subplot played by Mads Mikkelsen. On the festival circuit front, Sound of Falling streams on Mubi April 24; the film, which shared Cannes honors, traces intergenerational stories of adolescent girls across time.
Blockbusters, sequels and eclectic arrivals
April also serves mainstream appetites: Spider‑Man: No Way Home hits Disney+ on April 15, bringing back Tom Holland’s multiverse spectacle that earned roughly $1.9 billion worldwide. Franchise finales and action entries include Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning on Prime Video (April 3), which earned about $598 million, and The Conjuring: Last Rites (April 21 on Prime Video), the franchise’s biggest box office chapter at nearly $500 million. Other streaming debuts: The Running Man (April 17 on Prime Video), Regretting You (April 24 on Prime Video), inspirational period drama Sarah’s Oil (April 15 on Prime Video), the reflective Noah Kahan concert film Noah Kahan: Out of Body (April 13 on Netflix), and lighter fare like Netflix’s comedy Roommates (April 17) and the final‑chapter doc on Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie (April 20 on Paramount+). Also moving platforms, Jordan Peele‑produced football drama Him arrives on Netflix on April 19.
