If you're anything like me, you're feeling very bonded to your streaming services lately. So much so that you might sometimes feel like you've already seen everything on there you want to see. Fortunately, a new month means new titles to chose from. To help save you from the endless scroll through all the titles, we've put together a list of the best new movies on Netflix this month to add to your watchlist. As usual, the streaming service added a whole bunch of new titles at the beginning of April 2020 and we've picked through the list to recommend some of the highlights.

You'll find a good deal of variety in the curated selections below, from new Netflix originals to nostalgic classics, and a pair of festival hits from last year I can wait for y'all to check out. Check out our list of the best new movies on Netflix this month below. And for a bigger selection, peruse our giant best movies on Netflix article.

Taxi Driver

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Image via Columbia Pictures

Available on: April 1

Director: Martin Scorsese

Writer: Paul Schrader

Cast: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, and Albert Brooks

One of the greatest and most influential films ever made, Taxi Driver is a downright masterpiece. The 1976 neo-noir follows a lonely veteran and cab driver named Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) searching for purpose. Disgusted with the increasing filth on the streets of New York City—as he sees it—Travis decides to take matters into his own hands and clean up the streets himself. The film chronicles Travis’ descent into increasingly violent behavior, and how one’s worldview can be so warped that they see themselves as a hero, when instead they’re downright villainous. This is a complicated movie with no easy answers and no black-and-white, as Scorsese examines the morally grey world we live in. Through tremendous shot composition, an unforgettable score by Bernard Hermann, and one of the best performances of all time from De Niro, Taxi Driver remains one of the most intriguing and effective anti-hero movies ever made. – Adam Chitwood

The Lethal Weapon Quadrilogy

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Image via Warner Bros.

Available On: April 1

Director: Richard Donner

Writers: Shane Black, Jeffrey Boam, Channing Gibson

Cast: Danny Glover, Mel Gibson, Rene Russo, Joe Pesci, Chris Rock

Good news, action fans! One of the best action franchises in movie history arrives in totality on Netflix this month! Danny Glover stars as Murtaugh, a veteran detective who gets paired up with a dangerous, unstable partner in Riggs (Mel Gibson). But Riggs isn't just a wild card, he's suicidal and suffering from depression, and the Shane Black-scripted first installment, in particular, is a lot more raw and emotional than your average crime actioner, and all the better for it. But with the great Richard Donner directing all four installments and the unforgettable odd-couple at the franchise's core keeping up their chemistry, Lethal Weapon is a consistently entertaining ride the whole way through. -- Haleigh Foutch

Killer Klowns from Outer Space

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Image via MGM

Available On: April 1

Director: Stephen Chiodo

Writers: Charles Chiodo and Stephen Chiodo

Cast:  Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson, John Vernon, Michael S. Siegel

Killer Klowns from Outer Space is an absolutely rip-roaring cult classic; a neon-spackled bit of insanity wherein an alien species that looks like circus clowns (no, we don't really know why and that is exactly the vibe of this film) attack a town in California with clownish shenanigans -- deadly shenanigans, but shenanigans all the same -- including acid pies, man-eating shadow puppets, and of course, cotton candy guns. It's a vibrant circus tent full of campy, macabre wonders and it holds up as a grand bit of genuine camp. Don't believe me? Check down Vinnie Mancuso's extremely correct and timely explanation of why we need a sequel, stat. -- Haleigh Foutch

Minority Report

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Image via DreamWorks

Available On: April 1

Director: Steven Spielberg

Writers: Scott Frank and Jon Cohen

Cast: Tom Cruise, Samantha Morton, Colin Farrell, Max Von Sydow

Minority Report is one of the great Sci-Fi movies and too often overlooked in Steven Spielberg's pantheon of classic films. Based on the story by Philip K. Dick, the film takes place in a future society where crime is eradicated thanks to some fancy technology and a few "Precogs" (read: psychics). Tom Cruise stars as the head of PreCrime, the division that hunts down all the criminals to be, and finds himself caught up in a conspiracy when he winds up on the wrong side of the wanted list for a murder he has no intention of committing. It's Spielberg, so obviously the set-pieces are tremendous, but Minority Report isn't just a killer sci-fi thriller that dabbles in some existential meditations on free will, it's also an impressively prophetic film. Ahead of production, Spielberg put together a team of scientists and futurists to design the future world, and nearly 20 years later, it's striking how much of their concepts and designs came to pass. -- Haleigh Foutch

Just Friends

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Image via New Line Cinema

Available on: April 1

Director: Roger Kumble

Writer: Adam Davis

Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Amy Smart, Anna Faris, and Chris Klein

Now that Ryan Reynolds is a bona fide action hero, let’s not forget the guy is also an incredibly talented comedic actor. Roger Kumble’s underrated romantic comedy Just Friends is a terrific showcase for Reynolds’ skills, as the dichotomy between his impossibly good looks and goofy comedic sensibility is put to good use as he plays a formerly chubby, sensitive-type who is now a trim, successful music producer. Anna Faris also turns in phenomenal work here as a play on a Britney Spears-esque pop star, and she and Reynolds have fantastic chemistry. The story is a pretty standard "home for the holidays" type deal—Reynolds' character gets unexpectedly stranded in his hometown with Faris in tow, and is forced to confront his former BFF who is also the girl he was in love with in high school. But the whole thing is really just elevated to another comedic level courtesy of its A+ performances. Sneakily great? Chris Klein as a stereotypical "nice guy." – Adam Chitwood

The Social Network

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Image via Columbia Pictures

Available On: April 1

Director: David Fincher

Writer: Aaron Sorkin

Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Max Minghella, Justin Timberlake, Rooney Mara, Rashida Jones

The Social Network stood out as an unusually spectacular piece of filmmaking from the moment it hit theaters. It is David Fincher, after all, with script from Aaron Sorkin and a score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, for goodness sake. But a decade and one very historical election later, the 2010 drama is more relevant than ever. Inspired by the sordid, litigious origins of Facebook, The Social Network heads back to the Harvard breeding ground of intellectuals, elite, and back-stabbing, where the social network that would reshape the world was born. And it turns out those founders were a bunch of messy bitches who lived for drama, and filtered through Fincher's lens and Sorkin's biting dialogue, it's the fuel for one of the most technically accomplished and, unfortunately, culturally insightful films of our era. -- Haleigh Foutch

Tigertail

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Image via Netflix

Available On: April 10

Writer/Director: Alan Yang

Cast:  Christine Ko, Fiona Fu, Tzi Ma, Joan Chen, James Saito, Hong-Chi Lee

Master of None creator Alan Yang already has one hell of a TV resume behind him, having produced a number of our best comedies, from Parks and Rec to The Good Place, in addition to his celebrated streaming series. With the Netflix original film Tigertail, Yang makes his feature filmmaking debut in an intimate and personal drama loosely inspired by his own family history. The multigenerational immigration story follows Pin-Jui (played by Tzi Ma in the present and Hong-Chi Lee in the past), a man meditating on the lost love of his youth and his decision to relocate from Taiwan to America. “The movie is kind of my dream of my father’s dream of his past,” Yang told Vulture, and if the dreamy trailer is any indication, that personal narrative looks to be translated through all the striking imagery, meditative drama, and intimacy that made Master of None such a much-lauded hit. -- Haleigh Foutch

Circus of Books

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Image via Netflix

Available On: April 22

Director: Rachel Mason

The Masons are a sweet and unassuming older couple. Married for decades, parents to three kids, they're amiable and easy-going folks from the moment you meet them in Netflix's new documentary, Circus of Books. That title also happens to be the name of their Los Angeles business; a hardcore gay porn shop. Directed by Rachel Mason (their daughter), the film explores how Circus of Books came to be an essential safe zone for the gay community over the decades, how the store ran up against first amendment rights along the way, and the journey towards acceptance, in themselves and their family, as business boomed, children came of age, the years went on. Captured with all the love, admiration, frustration and fury of a family, Circus of Books is a fascinating look into LGBTQ+ history and a tender piece of filmmaking from Mason that's an essential watch for any documentary fan. -- Haleigh Foutch

Extraction

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Image via Netflix

Available On: April 23

Director: Sam Hargrave

Writer: Joe Russo

Cast: Chris Hemsworth, David Harbour, Golshifteh Farahani, Derek Luke

With pretty much the whole MCU pushed back in response to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, it's going to be a hot minute before we get to see our favorite heroes back on screen, but for now, Netflix has us covered with a mini-MCU reunion of sorts. Longtime Marvel stuntman Sam Hargrave is making his directorial debut with Extraction, which was written by Joe Russo and stars Chris Hemsworth as a mercenary who gets hired onto his most dangerous gig yet -- extracting the kidnapped son of an international drug lord. Bonus Marvel points: Black Widow's David Harbour also stars.

John Wick proved what kind of magic can happen when the stunt pros get behind the camera and put the focus on the action, and while he's struggled to launch a non-MCU franchise at the box office, Hemsworth has grown into a career as one of Hollywood's most entertaining, watchable and charismatic leading men, so here's hoping extraction gives him his John Wick moment while helping us get through 'til Thor: Love and Thunder. -- Haleigh Foutch