In the absence of broadly appealing new films and TV series (no Oscar hopefuls this month, I’m afraid), Netflix appears to be looking to the podcast market to figure out how to keep its massive subscriber base happy. Its new offerings in March include a host of documentary series and specials that I would totally listen to, were they podcasts. Will I watch? Well, I will not. (I haven’t even seen Ted Lasso yet.) But you might.
Operation: Varsity Blues (March 17) is sure to draw eyeballs, fascinated as we all were by the college admissions scandal that toppled such titans of culture as Felicity Huffman, Aunt Becky from Full House, and the fashion mogul who once designed a paper towel holder I bought at Target. Everyone is still pissed at the way these already-hads manipulated a system already weighted in their favor to get their kids into “good” colleges, and with good cause. The documentary feature comes from some of the same team that produced early pandemic sensation Tiger King.
Murder Among the Mormons (March 3) is the kind of lightly exploitative true-crime story that seems like it already was a podcast you subscribed to last year but forgot to listen to. It delves into a rash of bombings that terrorized Salt Lake City in the mid-1980s.
And an inspiring story of perseverance in the Hoop Dreams mold, Last Chance U: Basketball (March 10) is a spinoff from Netflix’s long-running series Last Chance U. It shifts the focus from football to collegiate basketball players who have struggled in their lives and studies and must play at the junior college level if they hope to get back into Division play.
If you prefer some more fiction in your TV viewing diet, I’m personally excited to see how well the Pacific Rim film series translates to anime in Pacific Rim: The Black, launching March 4 (giant robots in anime? It just might work!). The Irregulars (March 26) has great Buffy/Sabrina potential: a series about young paranormal crime fighters based on Sherlock Holmes’ famed “Baker Street Irregulars.”And then there’s Moxie (March 3), a dramedy film about a girl who launches a ‘zine to expose the sexism at her high school, which sounds pretty culturally relevant and is also the directorial debut of one Amy Poehler.
Here’s everything else coming to and leaving Netflix in March 2021.
What’s coming to Netflix in March 2021
Coming Soon (no date announced)
March 1
- Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell — Netflix Documentary
- Batman Begins (2005)
- Blanche Gardin: Bonne Nuit Blanche (2021)
- Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011)
- Dances with Wolves (1990)
- DC Super Hero Girls: Season 1
- I Am Legend (2007)
- Invictus (2009)
- Jason X (2001)
- Killing Gunther (2017)
- LEGO Marvel Spider-Man: Vexed by Venom (2019)
- Nights in Rodanthe (2008)
- Power Rangers Beast Morphers: S2
- Rain Man (1988)
- Step Up: Revolution (2012)
- Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (2006)
- The Dark Knight (2008)
- The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
- Training Day (2001)
- Two Weeks Notice (2002)
- Year One (2009)
March 2
March 3
March 4
March 5
March 8
March 9
March 10
March 11
March 12
March 14
March 15
March 16
March 17
March 18
March 19
March 20
March 22
- Navillera — Netflix Original (South Korea)
- Philomena (2013)
March 23
March 24
March 25
March 26
- A Week Away — Netflix Film (Trailer)
- Bad Trip — Netflix Film
- Big Time Rush: Seasons 1-4
- Croupier (1998)
- The Irregulars — Netflix Original (Great Britain)
- Magic for Humans by Mago Pop — Netflix Original
- Nailed It!: Double Trouble — Netflix Original
March 29
- Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013)
- Rainbow High: Season 1
March 30
- 7 Yards: The Chris Norton Story (2020)
- Octonauts & the Ring of Fire — Netflix Family (Great Britain)
March 31
- At Eternity’s Gate (2018)
- Haunted: Latin America — Netflix Original
What’s leaving Netflix in March 2021
Leaving March 3
Leaving March 7
- Hunter X Hunter (2011): Seasons 1-3
Leaving March 8
- Apollo 18 (2011)
- The Young Offenders (2016)
Leaving March 9
- November Criminals (2017)
- The Boss’s Daughter (2015)
Leaving March 10
- Last Ferry (2019)
- Summer Night (2019)
Leaving March 13
- Spring Breakers (2012)
- The Outsider (2019)
Leaving March 14
- Aftermath (2017)
- Marvel & ESPN Films Present: 1 of 1: Genesis
- The Assignment (2016)
- The Student (2017)
Leaving March 15
Leaving March 16
- Deep Undercover: Collections 1-3
- Love Dot Com: The Social Experiment (2019)
- Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
Leaving March 17
- All About Nina (2018)
- Come and Find Me (2016)
Leaving March 20
- Conor McGregor: Notorious (2017)
Leaving March 22
- Agatha and the Truth of Murder (2018)
- I Don’t Know How She Does It (2011)
Leaving March 24
- USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage (2016)
Leaving March 25
- Blood Father (2016)
- The Hurricane Heist (2018)
Leaving March 26
Leaving March 27
Leaving March 30
- Extras: Seasons 1-2
- Killing Them Softly (2012)
- London Spy: Season 1
- The House That Made Me: Seasons 1-3
Leaving March 31
- Arthur (2011)
- Chappaquiddick (2017)
- Enter the Dragon (1973)
- God’s Not Dead (2014)
- Hedgehogs (2016)
- Inception (2010)
- Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)
- Kung Fu Hustle (2004)
- Molly’s Game (2017)
- Money Talks (1997)
- School Daze (1988)
- Secret in Their Eyes (2015)
- Sex and the City: The Movie (2008)
- Sex and the City 2 (2010)
- Sinister Circle (2017)
- Skin Wars: Seasons 1-3
- Taxi Driver (1976)
- The Bye Bye Man (2017)
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
- The Prince & Me (2004)
- Weeds: Seasons 1-7
