Settling in for a night of ‘Netflix and Chill’ has never been as easy as it is today. The only hard part is choosing what to watch! With so many great films, docs, and tv shows to chose from, here are 12 Pride films on Netflix worth watching.
From left: 'Euphoria,' 'Big Mistakes,' and 'Hacks.'
HBO; Netflix
Spring is finally here, and along with flowers blooming and birds chirping, there is also a whole new crop of LGBTQ+ movies and television shows ready and waiting for you to check out.
Not only are there brand new queer movies coming to theaters, but some of your favorite bingeable TV shows are also returning with exciting follow-up seasons. The content is so good, you might miss all of the Spring showers!
Keep scrolling to see what awaits you this month — and where you can watch them too!
All film and series descriptions are courtesy of their respective studios and networks.
'Love on the Spectrum' — April 1 on Netflix
Season 4 of Love on the Spectrum brought viewers a queer love story between Pari Kim and her new partner, Tina Zhu Xi Caruso. In season 5, new and familiar faces star in this heartfelt documentary series that follows singles on the autism spectrum as they search for true love.
This spring, Kitty Song Covey (Anna Cathcart) returns to the Korean Independent School of Seoul (KISS) for her senior year, excited to check off everything on her Senior Sunset list in this sequel to the popular To All the Boys I've Loved Before movies.
A professionally shot version of the Tony-winning Sondheim revival of Merrily We Roll Along starring Jonathan Groff, Daniel Radcliffe, and Lindsay Mendez is coming to Netflix.
Season 5 marks the finale season of the long-running comedy series. In the aftermath of mistaken and unflattering news reports that she passed away, Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) and Ava (Hannah Einbinder) return to Las Vegas more determined than ever to secure Deborah’s legacy as a comedian.
In the fifth and final season, it’s Homelander’s world, completely subject to his erratic, egomaniacal whims. Hughie, Mother’s Milk, and Frenchie are imprisoned in a ‘Freedom Camp.’ Annie struggles to mount a resistance against the overwhelming Supe force. Kimiko is nowhere to be found. But when Butcher reappears, ready and willing to use a virus that will wipe all Supes off the map, he sets in motion a chain of events that will forever change the world and everyone in it. It’s the climax, people. Big stuff’s gonna happen.
The Boys season 5 premieres on Wednesday, April 8, on Prime Video.
'Big Mistakes' — April 9 on Netflix
Dan Levy is back, and this time he’s bringing the family drama (and crime) with the new comedy series Big Mistakes, premiering April 9. In what promises to be a wildly dysfunctional, hilariously chaotic ride, the series follows two deeply incapable siblings who are blackmailed into the world of organized crime.
Big Mistakes premieres Thursday, April 9, on Netflix.
'Euphoria' — April 12 on HBO Max
Euphoria returns for a third season which will jump forward in time by five years and find Rue (Zendaya) in a sticky situation with a drug kingpin, Cassie (Sidney Sweeney) is engaged to Nate (Jacob Elordi) and making content for OnlyFans, and Jules (Hunter Schafer) is in art school and trying to avoid her responsibilities.
Euphoria season 3 premieres on Sunday, April 12, on HBO Max.
'Mother Mary' — April 17 in theaters
Long-buried wounds rise to the surface when iconic pop star Mother Mary (Anne Hathaway) reunites with her estranged best friend and former costume designer Sam Anselm (Michaela Coel) on the eve of her comeback performance. The film also stars Hunter Schafer as Sam's assistant, Hilda.
Mother Mary premieres Friday, April 17, in theaters.
'Almost Us' — April 17 on WatchVIM
Almost Us is a queer romance comedy about messy timing, unexpected sparks, and the hilarious (and sometimes heartbreaking) moments that happen when two people try to act like they don’t care… but clearly do.
Almost Us premieres on Friday, April 17, on free LGBTQ+ streaming service WatchVIM.
'Running Point' — April 23 on Netflix
Isla Gordon (Kate Hudson) is no longer the surprise choice to lead the Los Angeles Waves, she’s the one everyone is watching. With the franchise finally rebounding after last year’s scandal, Isla is determined to prove she’s not just keeping the seat warm for her brother Cam (Justin Theroux).
What she doesn’t know is that Cam is quietly maneuvering behind the scenes to reclaim his post, turning every misstep into ammunition. The show also features Sandy Gordon, Isla's gay half-brother, who is the family-owned basketball team's chief financial officer.
Running Point season 2 premieres on Thursday, April 23, on Netflix.
From L to R: Kathryn Newton, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Samara Weaving.
Searchlight Pictures/Pief Weyman
Feel as though you have a rageful scream perpetually caught in your throat? Wish you had somewhere to put those feelings of frustration and anger over the state of the world? Want some catharsis with a side of bloody revenge, but, you know, legally?
That’s where genre filmmaking becomes such a mental health lifeline, especially horror, and particularly films like Ready or Not 2: Here I Come. Like its predecessor, the film functions as both an adrenaline rush and a darkly hilarious eat-the-rich revenge fantasy, pitting a woman — or in this case two women — against a horde of elitist, sociopathic monsters and letting us watch her cut through them one by one.
Samara Weaving and Kathryn Newton.Searchlight Pictures/Pief Weyman
It's tense, it's fun, it's gruesome, and it's cathartic, and it meets the collective moment with much-needed, fictional class war.
For those unfamiliar with the first film, it follows a young bride, Grace (Samara Weaving), who, on the night of her wedding into a wealthy, elite family, is forced to play a game of hide and seek. What at first feels like an eccentric but harmless family tradition reveals itself to be a deadly game of cat and mouse, at the behest of the devil himself, with whom the family made a bargain in exchange for wealth and power.
Grace comes out on top, but as we see in the sequel, her battle for survival has just begun. The second film picks up precisely where the first leaves off with Grace, blood-soaked, smoking as her in-laws' estate burns down behind her.
Samara Weaving.Searchlight Pictures/Pief Weyman
The action picks up with the arrival of her estranged sister Faith (Kathryn Newton), who, along with Grace, finds herself in the crosshairs of a group of wealthy and powerful families tracking her down to reclaim the power granted her by, again, the devil, after she becomes the last remaining member of her family.
It's a killer setup for a horror film, but it resonates metaphorically, too. This is not lost on Sarah Michelle Gellar, who stars as Ursula, one of the elites looking to track down and sacrifice the sisters.
“Genre is best at explaining the things either that we can’t explain or the things that we don’t want to truly understand. It gives us an outlet to explore it and to see it without having to mirror too much reality that [it gets] depressing, because we’re already living in it,” she tells PRIDE.
Nestor Carbonell, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Shawn Hatosy, Elijah Wood, and Nadeem Umar-Khitab.Searchlight Pictures/Pief Weyman
It's this ability to hold up that mirror while still entertaining that makes horror so powerful, and why it has had such a legacy of being the thematic Trojan horses for cultural critique that would potentially turn off audiences if the approach was more didactic. Elijah Wood, who joins the cast as the literal devil's advocate, known only as “lawyer,” agrees. “When it’s at its best, genre can shine a light on ideas that are real and be thought-provoking and allow for exploration of those ideas. It becomes sort of like a mirror to our experience as human beings,” he tells PRIDE.
That being said, both actors are reveling in their villainous roles. “As an actor, they’re the meatiest roles,” Gellar explains. “In this movie alone you get to make people cry, you get to make people laugh, you get to make people scared. It’s a love story between two sisters, it’s an action movie, like, it’s all in there, and you get to do it all in one job.”
Daniel Beirne, David Cronenberg (portrait) Shawn Hatosy, and Sarah Michelle Gellar.Searchlight Pictures/Pief Weyman
While Gellar is best known for her more heroic characters, she brings the same level of humanity to her monstrous ones. “When you play an evil character, you have to give them some humanity or the audience doesn’t connect,” she explains. “Otherwise it’s just, ‘That person’s bad, I hope they die.’ But when you truly give them humanity, the audience goes back and forth, like, ‘Well, I hate them, but also they’re struggling, and is that why they’re making these choices?’”
Wood, who was a fan of the original film, was delighted to sign on to the sequel for his mysterious role. “Having loved that first film and then being asked to participate in a sequel that is honoring that first movie and expands upon the narrative in a way that you really want a great sequel to do was just such a gift to be asked to come to the party,” he says.
Elijah Wood.Searchlight Pictures/Pief Weyman
Newton, who stars as Weaving's little sister, has made a career of starring as endearing, complicated, and hilarious antiheroes in horror. Coming from leading roles in films like Freaky, Abigail, and the criminally underappreciated Lisa Frankenstein, she is just as excited to bring her unique approach to this one. “In a genre movie, you have to be weird. You can’t be just one thing, and no one is. We all know someone’s going to die and there’s going to be a final girl, but how do we keep the audience invested? Weird choices,” she tells PRIDE.
But also, she says that audiences will connect with the complicated but ultimately loving dynamic between Faith and Grace as they try to survive the night. “If [Grace] had just been alone in the sequel, it would have been too easy to give up. Now she has someone she’s got to fight for. Sometimes it’s a beautiful thing to stop thinking about yourself so much. Look around you, help someone else out.”
Kathryn Newton.Searchlight Pictures/Pief Weyman
The film also charms by bringing together multiple generations of beloved women in horror, which, for Newton, was an actual dream come true, particularly when she learned that she and Weaving would be starring opposite Gellar, who she had long admired. “I literally fell on the floor because I was like, this is three generations of scream queens coming together in one universe. As a fan of the genre, I was like, fans are going to love this.”
She’s not wrong. The film is exactly the bloody, funny, and culturally cutting escape that many are naturally craving. It expands the world introduced in the original while maintaining what made the first movie so fun. It’s girl power vs. the power-hungry, where wit, grit, and a whole lot of ass-kicking — in a wedding gown, no less — will have audiences cheering for its heroes and leaving them hungry for revolution.
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come arrives in theaters March 20. Check out the trailer below!
The Sundance Film Festival may have already come and gone, but I’m still ruminating on the queer films I caught at this year’s event.
From queer documentaries and dramas to chilling tales ripped from history and our own internal demons, once again Park City, Utah showed up and showed out on the silver screen.
Rock Springs
Rock Springs
Sundance
Out actress Kelly Marie Tran has quickly become one of those stars whose name in the credits earns a film must-watch status, and her latest, Rock Springs, continues to solidify that. The folk-horror-meets-body-horror film follows Emily (Tran), who moves her family to Rock Springs, Wyoming, following the death of her husband. She is unaware of the town’s dark and bloody history, which writer-director Vera Miao took inspiration from a true story of the The Rock Springs Massacre of 1885. The film is melancholy and bizarre, infuriating and hopeful, and haunting in the best way.
Rock Springs is currently seeking distribution.
Saccharine
Saccharine
Shudder
Writer and director Natalie Erika James made her return to Sundance, having previously wowed—and emotionally devastated—audiences with her film Relic in 2020. Once again, the writer-director delivers a chilling film that knows exactly how to poke and prod at our most sensitive parts. This time, she delves into the dark heart of weight loss, identity, and queer desire through the lens of body and spectral horror in the era of GLP-1s. The commentary is biting and the scares, grotesque. It’s a meaty topic, and thankfully—perhaps even miraculously—it proves not to be more than this filmmaker can chew.
Saccharine has been acquired by Shudder and IFC and will be released in theaters later this year.
Jaripeo
Jaripeo
Sundance
The best documentaries are those that offer audiences a window into a story, a person, or a moment they might otherwise never know or understand. While Jaripeo proves to be more of a glimpse than a deep dive into the hypermasculine, rural rodeo culture of Mexico from which it takes its name, the execution makes it well worth a watch. Co-directors Efraín Mojica and Rebecca Zweig bring us into the secret queer world of these rodeos, where communities gather to revel in the festivities while gay men quietly sneak away for clandestine sexual rendezvous. It’s dreamy, atmospheric, and experimental.
Jaripeo is currently seeking distribution.
The Undertone
The Undertone
A24
While this film may not be queer, I absolutely loved it, so it’s sneaking onto this list. The film follows Evy, a young woman who spends her days caring for her dying mother and her nights recording her podcast. Along with her co-host, she begins listening to a series of mysterious audio files that start blurring the line between reality and fiction, with terrifying results. The standout element of the film is its stellar soundscape, which is chilling in a way I have rarely experienced. This marks Ian Tuason’s directorial debut—and what a way to make a mark.
The Undertone has been acquired by A24 and will debut in theaters on March 13.
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It's official: Pedro Pascal is set to star in Todd Haynes's upcoming movie, De Noche, which was halted in 2025 amid Joaquin Phoenix's abrupt departure. Pascal will reportedly play a "hard-boiled detective opposite Danny Ramirez as his younger lover" — a role originally meant for Phoenix.
De Noche, which has been described as a "subversive love story," centers the "passionate and unexpected love affair between a cop (Pascal) and a boarding school teacher (Ramirez)." The film is set in Los Angeles, on the brink of war, in the 1930s. As the story goes, Pascal's and Ramirez's characters become targets of corrupt politicians and have to escape to Mexico in order to survive.
Filmmaker Todd Haynes's writes in a statement, "This story, with Pedro Pascal and Danny Ramirez in the two leads, arises out of an era — all too relevant to our own — of domestic corruption, racial exploitation and global terror."
The story "emerges as a testament to the inexplicable powers of desire and love to survive and overcome," Haynes adds, "even the most crippling of human barriers." Much Haynes's latest film — May December starring Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore — De Noche also centers an age-gap relationship between its two main characters.
For context, Joaquin Phoenix was originally attached to the project (and is even credited as a "story by" writer in it) but abruptly exited the movie just five days before filming was set to begin in Guadalajara, Mexico, in August 2024.
Phoenix's exit caused De Noche to immediately shut down production. At the time, various reports suggested that the Joker actor got "cold feet" to play the explicit sex scenes included in the film. (Even though, it bears repeating, it's a movie based on a story that Phoenix himself originated.)
If there is one truth that unites queer people across the globe and throughout time, it’s that we are here, there, and everywhere. In some places, that existence is out, proud, and in full view; in others, we exist in more discreet and hidden ways. It’s one of these latter examples that Jaripeo, a new documentary from directors Efraín Mojica and Rebecca Zweig, which screened at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, seeks to reveal.
The film takes place in the Mexican state of Michoacán and takes its namesake from the rural rodeos that serve as annual gatherings and celebrations for people in the region.
These events are displays of hypermasculinity, with men riding bucking bulls through the ring—or where failing to do so, will earn them a litany of homophobic slurs. But they are also opportunities for revelers to come together and party. To bask in a bacchanalia. And among those partygoers are gay men who slip off quietly into the surrounding areas for clandestine rendezvous and sexual exploration.
It’s a world few see, but Jaripeo attempts to reveal in both depiction and mood.
Our view into this world comes through introductions to some of the men who inhabit this liminal space, the standout being Noé, a soft-spoken rancher who eschews deeper relationships in favor of solitude and brief sexual encounters in nearby cornfields.
The approach is experimental, often dreamlike, and reflective. It’s immersive and atmospheric, if at times frustratingly opaque. Visually, the film is lush and seductive, though always tinged with a pervasive sense of melancholy.
Ultimately, the result is a film that is quite beautiful and intriguing, teasing a largely unseen world—but rather than delving deep, it remains on the surface, just out of reach, offering a kaleidoscopic peek into lives rarely shown on screen.