Best new movies and TV series on Netflix Australia: March 2024
Each month, loads of new films and TV shows are added to Netflix Australia‘s library. Eliza Janssen presents her picks for titles worth watching. For the full list of everything arriving on the platform, scroll down. Also, check out Craig Mathieson’s top 50 movies on Netflix list.
Top Picks: TV
Chicken Nugget (March 15)
Marketed as a “crispy fried comedy, fresh out of the fryer”, this goofy Korean comedy is about a woman who gets turned into a chicken nugget, and must rely on her dad and admirer to change back before she becomes somebody’s high-calorie snack. That’s all we need to hear. We don’t even really care whether the surreal premise can maintain 12 episodes of jokes. It’s about a woman turning into a chicken nugget. In this show, a woman turns into a chicken nugget. The show is called ‘Chicken Nugget’. Because it’s about a woman who becomes a chicken nugget. March 15, only on Netflix.
Physical: 100: Season 2 (March 19)
We’re stoked for another round of this brutal, bicep-rippling Korean competition series, which pits the muscliest people from around the world against one another in an epic quest to find the perfect physique. Similar to Netflix’s Squid Game, it’s a gruelling tournament of surprising challenges—from sweaty team problem solving exercises to simply seeing who can hang from a bar for the longest amount of time. Liam Maguren wrote about the awesome first season, saying that it’s not just “a simple display of hulking fitness elites; it’s a journey littered with the rewards gained from pushing yourself and others beyond your perceived limits. You’ll often hear eliminated contestants say they’ll cherish the “happy memories” this show gave them. And gosh darn it, so will I.”
3 Body Problem (March 21)
You’ll want to play close attention to each episode of this sci-fi epic, the latest show from the creators of Game of Thrones. It’ll traverse time and space, beginning with a Chinese scientist’s reality-shattering experiments and rippling into a present-day setting, where humanity’s fate is at threat. In short: we really dunno what this series is going to be about. Better read the celebrated Liu Cixin book to find out.
Top Picks: Movies + Specials
Spaceman (March 1)
An astronaut’s home life falls apart while he’s traversing through outer space. That plot recently popped up in another Netflix project, the series Constellation—which Clarisse Loughrey selected for a Show of the Week column. But this film, directed by Johan Renck and fresh from its Berlinale premiere, does things a lil differently. For one, the titular Spaceman is none other than Adam “The Sandman” Sandler, foresaking his usual silly-voiced shtick for a more serious turn. And secondly, the astronaut is guided in an existential quest by a talking space spider, voiced by Paul Dano. Expect heavy, portentous questions about humanity, destiny and love.
Damsel (March 8)
Don’t call Millie Bobby Brown a damsel in distress; with Stranger Things and the Enola Holmes movies, she’s emerged as one of Netflix’s leading ladies, battling her way through supernatural and confounding situations with ease. In this action-fantasy feature, she’s sold off to a royal family who intends to use her as a blood sacrifice, ditching her in a cave with a fire-breathing dragon. Of course our girl will prove her mettle and probably fight her way to an epic, climactic revenge…but just on a superficial level, we hope she ends up befriending the dragon and using it as a noble steed. That’d be very cute.
The Wages of Fear (March 29)
You might’ve heard this story before: four down-on-their-luck men get the world’s worst truck driving gig, carrying an explosive cargo of nitroglycerine across a rocky, remote path. Adapted from the George Arnaud novel that was then turned into Clouzot’s Wages of Fear in 1953 and then Friedkin’s Sorcerer in 1977, this slick new remake is bringing the nail-biting action back to France, with a Gallic cast and director Julien Leclerq behind the wheel. It’s sure to be adrenaline-spiking, armrest-gripping stuff.
All titles arriving on Netflix Australia in March
March 1
Anaikulapo: Rise of the Spectre
Blood & Water: Season 4
Chappie
Django Unchained
The Equalizer 2
Furies
Maamla Legal Hai
My Name Is Loh Kiwan
Somebody Feed Phil: Season 7
Spaceman
You Are Not Alone: Fighting the Wolf Pack
Zombieland: Doubletap
March 3
The Netflix Slam
March 4
Hot Wheels Let’s Race
March 5
Hannah Gadsby’s Gender Agenda
March 6
Full Swing: Season 2
The Program: Cons, Cults and Kidnapping
Supersex
March 7
The Gentlemen
Pokémon Horizons: The Series
The Signal
March 8
Blown Away: Season 4
Damsel
March 9
Queen of Tears
March 11
Young Royals: Season 3
March 12
Steve Treviño: Simple Man
Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
March 13
Bandits
Red Ollera: Mabuhay Is a Lie
March 14
24 Hours with Gaspar
Art of Love
Girls5Eva: Season 3
March 15
Chicken Nugget
Irish Wish
Iron Reign
Murder Mubarak
The Outreau Case: A French Nightmare
March 16
Spider-Man: No Way Home
March 18
Young Royals Forever
March 19
Brian Simpson: Live from the Mothership
Forever Queens: Season 2
Physical: 100: Season 2
March 21
3 Body Problem
March 22
Buying Beverly Hills: Season 2
The Casagrandes Movie
Shirley
March 25
Gabby’s Dollhouse: Season 9
Grown Ups
March 26
Dave Atell: Hot Cross Buns
March 27
The Believers
Rest in Peace
No Pressure
Testament: The Story of Moses
Uncharted
March 28
Ronja the Robber’s Daughter: Part 1
March 29
The Beautiful Game
Heart of the Hunter
Is It Cake?: Season 3
The Wages of Fear
See also
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