Everything good coming to Netflix in April 2024 (2024)

GQ’s list of best Netflix films and TV shows in April is updated regularly.

Spring is upon us, baby! The season of sporadic sunshine mixed with the occasional random sprinkling of snow and evenings that have a bit of colour to them. In an ideal world, we’d be spending more time outside, frolicking in the cherry blossom, etc. But this is the real world, and some of us just want to slob out and watch the telly.

Fortunately, April will be a big month for Netflix, from Scoop – the Gillian Anderson-fronted reenactment of the notorious BBC interview with Prince Andrew, also starring Billie Piper and Rufus Sewell –to the long-awaited, glossy new Ripley series with Andrew Scott. Elsewhere, there’ll be true crime like Nightlife Killer, about a spate of murders in the Berlin party scene in the early 2010s, and The Anti-social Network, which will uncover the darker side of online communities, from 4chan to QAnon. To that end, here are the best Netflix films and TV shows coming in April.

Ripley

Release date: 4 April

After what’s felt like a million months and endless slick, monochrome teasers, Ripley –Starring Andrew Scott as Tom Ripley, Johnny Flynn as Dickie Greenleaf and Dakota Fanning as Marge Sherwood –is finally landing on Netflix in early April. It’s clearly a stylish affair: crisp, black and white shots, perfectly tailored suits and a crazy-sexy-looking Scott as one of fiction’s most insidious scammers, Ripley from Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley. “It was a heavy part to play,” Scott told Vanity Fair last year of the role. “I found it mentally and physically really hard.” Now, we can finally see the fruits of Scott's labour.

Scoop

Release date: 5 April

When Netflix announced that they’d be making a film of that infamous 2019 BBC Newsnight interview in which Prince Andrew defended his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, many of us had the same questions: why? And how can you make an entire movie out of a single interview? Isn’t the real thing enough? But then the cast and trailer landed and, hey… it looks pretty good. Starring Gillian Anderson as Emily Maitlis, Rufus Sewell as Prince Andrew and Billie Piper as Newsnight's Sam McAlister, Scoop will follow the events leading up to the interview, how they secured the scoop and all the tense, behind-the-scenes dramas and clashes involved. Also they’ve essentially recreated the entire BBC studio, giving it an eerie, uncanny, very close to real-life feel.

The Anti-Social Network: Memes to Mayhem

Release date: 5 April

It’s hard to make documentaries about the internet, because, well, “the internet”isn’t a tangible thing that’s easy to speak about or narrativise straightforwardly. In The Anti-Social Network: Memes to Mayhem, however, Netflix will zoom in on one specific corner of the internet: 4chan, and how a niche online community spiralled into a hotbed of far-right politics, edgelord memes and endless trolling. And how, ultimately, a world that used to exist primarily on computer screens wound up having chaotic and frightening real-world consequences that shaped the highly divided, conspiracy-led world we live in today.

Crime Scene Berlin: Nightlife Killer

Release date: 3 April

In 2012, a spate of gruesome murders sent shockwaves through the Berlin party scene. Young men were turning up dead, with the killer – nicknamed ‘The Darkroom Murderer’ at the time due to the victims' links to LGBTQ+ spaces – remaining at large. And then, one of his victims survived. Nightlife Killer will tell the story of what happened, with interviews from the man who narrowly missed an even worse fate, to those on the 2010s party scene and investigators working on the case. From the team behind other Netflix docs like Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich and The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel, Nightlife Killer will be one to earmark if you’re into the streamer's true crime offerings.

Stolen

Release date: 10 April

Last year, Swedish author Ann-Helén Laestadius released a thriller novel, Stolen, to widespread critical acclaim. The book follows a young indigenous woman in Sápmi, Norway, as she struggles to defend her family’s reindeer herd and culture amidst xenophobia, climate change, hunting and hate crimes that go uninvestigated. Now, the best-selling book has been turned into an atmospheric Netflix film of the same name. “It is about time that the world gets to know this story, and what is going on in Sápmi today,” said director Elle Márjá Eira of the adaptation. “I am a reindeer owner myself. I recognize myself in this story.”

What Jennifer Did

Release date: 10 April

On a winter night in 2010, on a quiet residential street in Ontario, Canada, a young woman called Jennifer Pan made a frantic phone call to 911. According to Pan, armed intruders had broken into her family home and shot both her parents dead before fleeing the scene. Police assumed they were dealing with a deadly home invasion. But all was not as it seemed. In this new documentary from filmmaker Jenny Popplewell (American Murder: The Family Next Door), What Jennifer Did attempts to untangle a complicated web of truths and fictions. Splicing together police interrogation footage and new interviews with detectives and friends of the Pan family, this new true crime doc will have you looking at your nice-seeming quiet neighbours twice.

Our Living World

Release date: 17 April

And here we have a deeply awe-inspiring and illuminating four-part docuseries about the many complex natural networks and eco-systems that currently sustain planet Earth (systems that are also – you guessed it – under threat due to human activity). With incredibly beautiful, high-definition footage that spans dense forests, crystal clear oceans and bone-dry deserts and their many creatures, here is a doc that'll go down well with any diehard David Attenborough fan. But wait, this one actually isn't narrated by Sir Attenborough. Instead, Academy Award-winning actress Cate Blanchett – with her soothing, dulcet tones – will be taking the reigns. One to add to the list of best nature documentaries.

Rebel Moon Part 2: The Scaregiver

Release date: 19 April

Towards the end of the month will come the second instalment of Zack Snyder's epic space odyssey Rebel Moon – essentially his answer to Star Wars – which is set in a fictional galaxy ruled by the imperialistic Motherworld, whose military, the Imperium, threatens a farming colony on the moon of Veldt. While the first instalment, which premiered in December 2023, wasn't exactly released to raving reviews, the film still generated plenty of die-hard fans in the process. So if space and explosions and fantasy realms are your thing, then look no further.

Anyone But You

Release date: 23 April

At the tail-end of last year, the Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell-starring rom-com Anyone But You had people clawing their way to cinema, grossing a whopping $216 million worldwide at the box office and sparking rumours of a Shakespeare rom-com renaissance in the process (the film is based on Much Ado About Nothing). If you didn't end up watching it and now just feel generally behind the curve, then fear not, because it's coming to Netflix at the end of the month. Is it worth watching on a Sunday when hungover and unable to handle anything grittier or more cerebral? Absolutely.

City Hunter

Release date: 25 April

If you don't know anything about the Japanese manga series City Hunter, here are some facts: It was written and illustrated by a guy called Tsukasa Hojo way back in 1985. It sold over 50 million copies (!) all over the world. And it's also been the subject of a gazillion adaptations and spin-offs in different countries, including a Hong Kong-based film starring Jackie Chan in the early 90s. Now, it's Netflix's turn to plunge their toes into the City Hunter universe with this live-action adaptation starring Ryohei Suzuki. By the looks of things, it'll be very silly, fun and crammed with tightly choreographed fight scenes.