Eight Must-See Films This March

March is all about movies. The Oscars are a stone’s throw away (though it feels like it's been years), reminding film fans of the spectacular offerings of 2025, while 2026 has already started with at least one film that’s all but sure to be in next year’s Academy Awards conversation.

This month’s must-see films are spread across streaming services and theaters alike, spanning high-concept science fiction, horror, and grounded gangland dramas. There’s something this month for just about anyone, from a stellar family-friendly Pixar yarn to a violent time-travel action comedy, and the month wraps with some interesting streaming-only features that will entertain you from the comfort of your living room (or wherever you indulge in your streaming proclivities). Here are this month’s streaming features you absolutely can’t miss.

The Bride! (March 6)

It’s a good time to be a Franken-fan! Maggie Gyllenhaal’s latest directorial outing gives us another turn at the classic tale, this time an informal reimagining of the classic Bride of Frankenstein. The Bride! is messy, a wild Bonnie and Clyde riff with many moving parts. An electric Jessie Buckley plays an amnesiac young woman who becomes reanimated to be Frankenstein’s bride (Frankenstein played with depth by a committed Christian Bale), but finds herself in the process.

It has a feverish pace, body horror, crazed comedy, and an odd subplot where Mary Shelley possesses The Bride that only sort of works. It’s also a moving love story, a great creature-feature rom-com, and a magical showcase of two of our brightest cinematic stars in Bale and Buckley. It’s a lot, but so is the excellent Bride of Frankenstein (1935), which also has a meta-Mary Shelley frame story, tiny homunculi, and so on. The Bride! may or may not be to your taste, but it’s a bold and fantastic reimagining you have to see.

Hoppers (March 6)

Pixar put itself on the map thanks to a series of all-time animated features, including Toy Story, Up, WALL-E, Finding Nemo, and more. The studio has had a bit of a mixed reputation in the last few years, with stellar films like Turning Red balanced against a series of relative failures like Lightyear. With Hoppers, Pixar is back in full force.

Piper Curda stars as Mabel Tanaka, a young woman trying to save the glade she loves by bringing in the local beaver population. How does she do so, you ask? By mentally inhabiting a cutting-edge technology, a robotic beaver… and discovering that the animal world is much more complicated in the process. Hoppers lands everything that has made Pixar so beloved: it’s funny, full of heart, imaginative, and finds a new lens into things we take for granted. Everything about Hoppers just works.

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (March 10)

Steven Knight’s Peaky Blinders series, centering the Shelby family and their Birmingham gang the Peaky Blinders, is one of the best crimeland dramas in TV history. Part of it is the immense, intentional stylishness, with top-notch technical attributes, a killer wardrobe, and great modern needle drops. Most importantly, it’s stellar thanks to a wonderful cast, including the great Cillian Murphy as traumatized leader Tommy Shelby. After six seasons, Knight greenlit a proper feature film to cement the fate of its characters, and The Immortal Man does precisely that. It’s a fantastic coda to the story of the Shelbys, giving Cillian Murphy a wonderful showcase and sending one of TV’s great characters off with a bang.

Undertone (March 13)

If I told you Undertone was like watching a podcast it wouldn’t sound terrifying. Quite the contrary! The film stars Nina Kiri as Evy, a podcaster who cares for her dying, effectively comatose mother in an isolated house. Evy’s podcast centers on the paranormal, and she and her co-host Justin (Adam DiMarco) receive a series of audio files claiming to be recordings of a married couple experiencing supernatural noises. Playing them turns out to be a mistake.

The thing that makes Undertone work is twofold: one, it takes full advantage of the isolating and myopic focus that podcasting imposes on the hosts, and two, it has a stellar, terrifying sound design. Between those elements and a host of shocking moments, you’ll want to see this in the most terrifying conditions possible: alone, in the dark, with perfect sound.

Project Hail Mary (March 20)

Andy Weir’s novels are a recipe for cinematic success, with The Martian proving profitable and receiving a hefty seven Academy Award nominations. That film and Project Hail Mary both feature likable characters forced to use problem-solving smarts in high-stakes space situations, but the latter proves bigger, bolder, and higher consequences.

Featuring an exceptional Ryan Gosling as a cowardly scientist forced to go on a one-way deep-space mission to save Earth (and meeting an alien buddy, Rocky), it’s a fantastic film. Gosling gives a layered and charming performance; it’s big, imaginative, and beautiful, and Rocky will absolutely prove to be your favorite character of the year. It’s spectacular; see it in IMAX. It will likely come back later in 2026 because I’d be surprised if it doesn’t get a Best Picture nomination.

Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (March 20)

Finally, a franchise titled off a famous phrase completes the line in a timely fashion (lookin’ at you, Now You See Me waiting until the third film for Now You Don’t). Ready or Not was a blast, centering the betrothed Grace (Samara Weaving) who is forced to play a deadly game of hide-and-seek versus a family of wealthy Satanists. Weaving’s already a top-shelf scream queen, so putting her in an even deadlier death game against another set of deadly, wealthy bastards is a winner. That it happens immediately after the events of the first, and this time includes Kathryn Newton as her younger, endangered sister, is even better. The rest of the cast includes Kevin Durand (!), Sarah Michelle Gellar (!!), Elijah Wood (!!!), and DAVID CRONENBERG. In my heart, I’ve seen it eighty times already.

Pretty Lethal (March 25)

Stop me if you’ve heard this one: five ballerinas go to a top-shelf ballet competition when their bus breaks down. They end up at a mansion in the middle of nowhere, targeted by gangsters controlled by former-ballerina Uma Thurman. You’ve seen ballerina assassins trapped in a criminal village in Ballerina, and you’ve seen criminals trapped in a ballerina vampire’s mansion in Abigail. Why not see ballerinas trapped in a criminal mansion in Pretty Lethal?

Seriously, though, it has a solid cast and looks like it has a tongue-in-cheek approach to its ultraviolence. The trailer leans too heavily on a Ballerina feel, but Pretty Lethal seems to lean far more on a whole troupe. Let’s hope the humor and action are… on point.

Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice (March 27)

Ill content with only having a spectacular time loop comedy like Palm Springs, Hulu’s ending our month right with a can’t-miss time-travel action comedy in Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice. Premiering at SXSW, it’s the latest from BenDavid Grabinski (coming off writing the excellent Scott Pilgrim Takes Off), and it stars Vince Vaughn, Vince Vaughn (time travel, y’all), James Marsden, and Eiza Gonzalez, seeking to right a past wrong in a high-octane gangland comedy. You have a pair of Vinces, Dolph Lundgren, Keith David, and Stephen Root playing a cannibal assassin!