Netflix promises a wide selection of entertainment alternatives to satisfy every taste when it releases an alluring lineup of new movies and series in May 2024. Everyone can find something they enjoy, whether it’s an exciting action movie, a touching romance, or a hilarious comedy. Dive into compelling documentaries, investigate provocative stories, and engage in groundbreaking original programs that push the frontiers of storytelling. Netflix is able to provide its global users with countless hours of amusement because to its huge variety of material.

1. The Matrix Resurrections (2021)

The Matrix Resurrections, an American science fiction action movie from 2021, is the first in the Matrix series to be directed entirely by Lana Wachowski. She also co-wrote and produced it. It is the fourth movie in the Matrix film series and the follow-up to The Matrix Revolutions (2003). Starring in the movie with Keanu Reeves are Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Carrie-Anne Moss, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jessica Henwick, Jonathan Groff, Neil Patrick Harris, and Jada Pinkett Smith. Sixty years after Revolutions, the movie centers on Neo, a video game developer who leads an apparently normal life but struggles to tell truth from imagination. A gang of rebels confront a new enemy that is imprisoning Trinity and release Neo from a new iteration of the Matrix with the aid of a programmed Morpheus.

2. Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar (2024)

Sanjay Leela Bhansali is the creator and director of the Hindi-language period drama television series Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar. During the Indian independence fight against the British Raj, the show centers on the life of tawaifs in Lahore’s Heera Mandi red-light area. Manisha Koirala, Sonakshi Sinha, Aditi Rao Hydari, Richa Chadha, Sanjeeda Sheikh, Sharmin Segal, and Taha Shah Badussha are among its main cast members. Recurring parts are played by Farida Jalal, Shekhar Suman, Fardeen Khan, and Adhyayan Suman.

The main photographic window was June 2022–June 2023. On May 1, 2024, the series was made available on Netflix.

3. The Great Wall (2016)

Max Brooks, Edward Zwick, and Marshall Herskovitz wrote the story for the 2016 monster movie The Great Wall (Chinese: 長城), which was directed by Zhang Yimou. Screenwriters Carlo Bernard, Doug Miro, and Tony Gilroy wrote the screenplay. A joint American-Chinese production starring Matt Damon, Jing Tian, Pedro Pascal, Willem Dafoe, and Andy Lau, the story revolves around two European mercenary warriors (Peter Pascal and Matt Damon) who arrive in search of gunpowder and are imprisoned by imperial Chinese forces inside the Great Wall of China. Eventually, they band together with the Chinese to fight an alien threat. Zhang’s debut film in the English language is The Great Wall.

4. A Man in Full (2024)

Based on Tom Wolfe’s novel of the same name, A Man in Full is a limited-run drama television series produced in the United States that stars Jeff Daniels and Diane Lane. It was directed by Regina King and Thomas Schlamme and was created by David E. Kelley for Netflix. Six episodes make up the series, which debuted on Netflix on May 2, 2024.

In “A Man In Full,” every man is an asshole. They are all aggressive, self-centered, and infatuated with their balls; none of them could hold a child without making them weep. However, the fact that the six-episode Netflix series aren’t complete garbage is the first indication that something is wrong with it. Their inability to embrace the purest, richest, most full aspects of themselves results in toothless satire that says very little about these ludicrous brothers and even less about contemporary society. They are mostly, partially, or only slightly shittier than others.

5. Baby Reindeer (2024)

Richard Gadd is the creator and star of the British black comedy drama-thriller miniseries Baby Reindeer. Based on Gadd’s true story of being pursued and sexually attacked in his twenties, the series is an adaption of his autobiographical one-man act of the same name. With Gadd, Jessica Gunning, and Nava Mau in the lead roles, it is directed by Weronika Tofilska and Josephine Bornebusch.

On April 11, 2024, all seven of the series’ episodes simultaneously debuted on Netflix. It was highly praised by critics and debuted at the top of Netflix’s Global Weekly Top 10 TV (English).

6. The Fall Guy (2024)

The Fall Guy is an American action comedy film from 2024 that was written and directed by David Leitch. It is partially based on the stunt performer TV series from the 1980s. It centers on a stuntman (Ryan Gosling) who is directing his ex-girlfriend’s (Emily Blunt) first action movie. However, while working on the movie, he gets entangled in a plot involving the lead actor (Aaron Taylor-Johnson). Hannah Waddingham, Teresa Palmer, Stephanie Hsu, and Winston Duke are also in the movie.

On March 12, 2024, The Fall Guy made his SXSW debut. On May 3, the film was distributed in the US. Reviews were largely good, as it broke the record for the most automobile rolls ever with a Guinness World Record.

7. Mortal Kombat (2021)

Based on the video game franchise of the same name developed by Ed Boon and John Tobias, Mortal Kombat is an American martial arts fantasy film released in 2021. Simon McQuoid, making his feature directorial debut, co-produced and directed the film. Screenplay writers Greg Russo and Dave Callaham wrote the script. This movie functions as both a reboot and the third entry in the Mortal Kombat movie franchise. Lewis Tan, Jessica McNamee, Josh Lawson, Mehcad Brooks, Tadanobu Asano, Ludi Lin, Chin Han, Max Huang, Joe Taslim, and Hiroyuki Sanada are among its stars. The movie centers on Cole Young, a former mixed martial arts fighter who has lost his way and doesn’t know why the assassin Sub-Zero is after him.

8. Dark Waters (2019)

Dark Waters is a 2019 American legal thriller film, written and directed by Matthew Michael Carnahan and Mario Correa. The narrative dramatizes Robert Bilott’s lawsuit against DuPont, a chemical manufacturing company, for releasing unapproved chemicals into a town. Along with Anne Hathaway, Tim Robbins, Bill Camp, Victor Garber, Mare Winningham, William Jackson Harper, and Bill Pullman, Mark Ruffalo plays the role of Bilott.

Focus Features released Dark Waters in limited theaters on November 22, 2019, and it became available nationwide on December 6, 2019. Critics gave the movie favorable reviews, and it made over $23 million at the box office.

9. Shadow in the cloud (2021)

Roseanne Liang is the director of the 2020 action horror movie Shadow in the Cloud, which stars Chloë Grace Moretz, Beulah Koale, Taylor John Smith, Callan Mulvey, and Nick Robinson. Liang and Landis wrote the screenplay. It centers on a female flight officer who, after boarding a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress on a top-secret mission in the Pacific during World War II, meets an evil gremlin while in flight.

On September 12, 2020, the movie made its theatrical debut at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival, where it took home the Midnight Madness People’s Choice Award. Redbox Entertainment and Vertical Entertainment released it on January 1, 2021.

10. The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019)

In their feature film debuts as directors, Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz wrote and directed the 2019 American comedy-drama The Peanut Butter Falcon, which starred Zack Gottsagen, Shia LaBeouf, Dakota Johnson, and John Hawkes. The story centers on a young guy with Down syndrome who breaks out of an assisted living institution and makes the acquaintance of a renegade fisherman who is on the run. As the two men quickly become close, a social worker makes an effort to locate them. Georgia and North Carolina served as the filming locations.