What’s New on Netflix For Easter Weekend 2025

Happy Easter! Welcome to your bumper look back at all the new releases over the past seven days, plus some top picks which take from those new movies and series, plus a selection of Easter choices for you to dive into. As always, we’ll also look at what’s been trending in the Netflix US top 10s over the past week too. 

A quick note on the WWE, too. Sadly, the United States Netflix is not hosting WrestleMania this weekend, despite having access to the 4-episode docu-series leading up to the event: Road to WrestleMania. Sadly, those rights still remain with Peacock, but for everyone else, refer to our time guide for when to watch. 

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What to Watch on Netflix This Weekend

The Room Next Door (2024)

Rating: PG-13
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Writer: Pedro Almodóvar, Sigrid Nunez
Runtime: 107 min / 1h 47m

New on Netflix this weekend is the SVOD debut of the latest Sony Pictures Classics movie, headlined by Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore, along with performances from John Turturro and Alessandro Nivola. It picked up a slew of great reviews upon its initial release over Christmas last year with particular praise landing at the door of the two leads. 

The official synopsis for the movie is as follows:

“Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.”

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Ransom Canyon (Season 1)

Number of episodes: 10
Rating: TV-MA
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance
Cast: Minka Kelly, Josh Duhamel, Lizzy Greene, James Brolin, Eoin Macken, Garrett Wareing, Andrew Liner
Writer: April Blair

Hoping to buck the recent trend of underperforming Netflix Original English series from the US is Ransom Canyon, a new series based on the excellent Jodi Thomas novels of the same name. It fuses a mix of Yellowstone with Netflix romance favorites like Virgin River for a new Texas-based series that tells the story of several ranch owners with interconnected lives. It’s soapy, full of drama, and has just enough to appeal to the Yellowstone crowd, in my opinion. 

Critics have been pretty mixed on the new series, but from what we’re seeing in the early top 10 results, it looks like it’s a hit with audiences so far. We’ll have to await official numbers from Netflix on Tuesday to see what its chances are for a season 2, but early signals look pretty good. 

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Easter Movie and TV Picks

As it’s Easter, we also wanted to touch on some of the Easter gems that you’ll be able to find on Netflix right now. Of course, for fans of easter eggs, we’d highly recommend giving Black Mirror a run this weekend if you haven’t already. Otherwise, here’s some of the other Easter titles now streaming:

• Chickenhare and the Hamster of Darkness (2022)
• Come Sunday (2018)
• Duck Duck Goose (2018)
• Mary (2024)
• Migration (2023)
• Mysteries of the Faith (Limited Series)
• Peter Rabbit (2018)
• Testament: The Story of Moses (Limited Series)
• The Book of Clarence (2024)
• The Forge (2024)
• The Passion of the Christ (2004)
• The Star (2017)
• The Two Popes (2019)

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Full List of What’s New on Netflix This Week

Note: You can find an expanded list of what’s new on Netflix via our hub page, which features trailers, more information about each individual title, and more roundups. 

9 New Movies Added This Week

• Baby Mama (2008) – PG-13 – English
• Behind the Curtain: Stranger Things The First Shadow (2025) Netflix Original – TV-14 – English
• iHostage (2025) Netflix Original – TV-MA – Dutch
• Last Christmas (2019) – PG-13 – English
• My Hero Academia: You’re Next (2024) – PG-13 – Japanese
• Oklahoma City Bombing: American Terror (2025) Netflix Original – TV-MA – English
• Reversi (2024) – TV-14 – Malay
• The Room Next Door (2024) – PG-13 – English
• Tim Dillon: I’m Your Mother (2025) Netflix Original – TV-MA – English

11 New TV Series Added This Week

• Heavenly Ever After (Limited Series – New Episodes Weekly) Netflix Original – TV-MA – Korean
• I Am Not Mendoza (Season 1) – TV-MA – Spanish
• Istanbul Encyclopedia (Season 1) Netflix Original – TV-14 – Turkish
• LEGO Ninjago: Dragons Rising (Season 3) – TV-Y7 – English
• News Anchor (Season 1 – New Episodes Weekly) – TV-14 – Japanese
• Project UFO (Limited Series) Netflix Original – TV-MA – Polish
• Ransom Canyon (Season 1) Netflix Original – TV-MA – English
• The Diamond Heist (Limited Series) Netflix Original – TV-MA – English
• The Glass Dome (Limited Series) Netflix Original – TV-MA – Swedish
• The Sea Beyond (Seasons 1-4) – TV-MA – Italian
• Young Sheldon (Season 7) – TV-PG – English

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Most Popular Movies on Netflix This Week

Kids titles continue to rule in the Netflix movie top 10s without much competition from Netflix itself, which hasn’t released a single English language movie yet this month so far, although that changes with Havoc this Friday. Elsewhere, 19 individual movies picked up points in the top 10s this week.

1. Despicable Me 4 (67 points)
2. The Croods (63 points)
3. Life or Something Like It (58 points)
4. The Life List (52 points)
5. Lucy (30 points)
6. The Dad Quest (28 points)
7. The Hating Game (27 points)
8. One of Them Days (25 points)
9. Oklahoma City Bombing: American Terror (20 points)
10. iHostage (18 points)
11. Sing (16 points)
12. The Passion of the Christ (12 points)
13. Meet the Khumalos (6 points)
14. The Boss Baby (6 points)
15. 99 Homes (6 points)
16. Matilda (2 points)
17. The Secret Life of Pets (2 points)
18. The Dark Knight (1 point)
19. Trolls Band Together (1 point)

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Most Popular Series on Netflix This Week

Black Mirror got off to a slow start with its long-awaited (and very good) return with season 7, with another batch of six episodes. It’s been picking up good points this week, narrowly beating off the equally insightful docu-series Bad Influence. 

1. Black Mirror (66 points)
2. Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing (56 points)
3. The Gardener (44 points)
4. The Glass Dome (32 points)
5. North of North (30 points)
6. Love on the Spectrum (29 points)
7. Young Sheldon (28 points)
8. Ransom Canyon (20 points)
9. WWE Raw (17 points)
10. PULSE (17 points)
11. Pop the Balloon LIVE (14 points)
12. Adolescence (8 points)
13. The Diamond Heist (8 points)
14. The Residence (5 points)
15. Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer (2 points)

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Note: Top 10s sourced from the daily top 10s in the United States courtesy of FlixPatrol. Each title that features is assigned a point value. Number 10 position gets 1 point, number 9 gets 2 points, etc.

That’s it for this week! We’ll be back tomorrow for your look ahead, and we’re also expecting a full list of new releases for May 2025 on Wednesday. Oh, and if you’re looking for something new to watch, we just launched our first version of our Netflix Roulette (something I’ve wanted to make for YEARS). 

Have a great Easter, and let us know what you’re watching in the comments down below.