10 of the best films and shows to stream in March, including Emma Stone dramedy

10 March 2024 , 06:00

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Emma Stone is up for her second Best Actress Oscar for her performance in Poor Things (Image: Searchlight Pictures)

March is shaping up to be a stacked month of TV, with a bunch of brilliant blockbusters heading to streaming services. As we head into spring, TV and film fans are blessed with everything from period conspiracy thrillers and superhero animations to star-studded sixties comedies.

All of this cracking content comes from the likes of Netflix, Disney+, Apple TV+ and Amazon’s Prime Video, all of which are available with some awesome money-saving deals. Disney+ has launched its ‘Epic Movies, Epic Offer’ promotion, letting new and returning users join for just £1.99 a month, while Prime Video is available to try absolutely free thanks to Amazon’s 30-day free trial.

Netflix is also available without paying a penny thanks to Sky’s one-month free trial that also includes Sky TV, Sky Stream and Discovery+, while Apple TV+ is continuing to impress with its stellar content that can be enjoyed with a seven-day free trial. So if you’re wondering what’s on the cards for your next streaming binge this month, we’ve compiled our top TV picks for your viewing pleasure.

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Here, we take a look at the 10 best films and shows streaming in March.

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Shōgun

Hiroyuki Sanada stars in the 17th century-set samurai epic

This sprawling samurai series has been hailed as a “genuine masterpiece” by critics and is said to be the most epic show since Game of Thrones. The Japanese-set action-drama has earned a 100 percent Rotten Tomatoes score, while fans have already said it could be the best show of the year.

Shōgun centres around a military leader in 17th-century Japan who fights for his life at the dawn of an era-defining civil war. It is told from the perspective of English sailor John Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis), who rises from outsider to samurai while being used as a pawn in Lord Yoshii Toranaga’s (Hiroyuki Sanada) struggle to reach the top of the ruling chain – or Shōgun

Shōgun is available to stream now on Disney+, stream it here.

Dead Hot

Vivian Oparah and Bilal Hasna star in the comedy-thriller from Fool Me Once writer Charlotte Coben

Created and written by Fool Me Once writer Charlotte Coben, this comedy-thriller follows twentysomethings Elliot (Bilal Hasna) and Jess (Vivian Oparah), who are best friends united by a bond of grief at losing Peter – Elliot’s boyfriend and Jess’ twin brother. It’s been five years since Peter went missing in mysterious circumstances, and still reeling from the trauma, the best friends spiral into a hedonistic lifestyle, partying to numb their grief while clinging to a small hope that they will one day find out what happened.

When Elliot meets Will (Marcus Hodson), he starts to think he can put the past behind him. But when Elliot learns Will has his own dark secrets, just as Jess is contacted by somebody claiming to be her brother, it sets into motion a determination for the pair to find out if Elliot is romantically cursed, or being targeted.

Dead Hot is available to stream now on Prime Video, stream it here.

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Extraordinary: Season two

Máiréad Tyers fronts Extraordinary as powerless 25-year-old, Jen (Disney+)

This award-winning British comedy centres around an ordinary young woman struggling to find her place in a world where most people develop a random superpower after they turn 18. Its latest instalment will see Jen (Máiréad Tyers) and the gang dealing with new levels of adulting and chaos that none of them are prepared for as the new instalment picks up where season one spectacularly left off.

It follows Jen on her powers journey as she enrols as a client at the power clinic, but soon discovers that the process of finding her power isn’t as easy as she hoped and things in the rest of her life aren’t smooth sailing either. Shapeshifter and former cat Jizzlord (Luke Rollason) will have an unexpected revelation about his past, while Kash (Bilal Hasna) and Carrie (Sofia Oxenham) do their best to be mature and dignified about their break-up – which is not easy when living under the same roof.

Extraordinary season two premieres on March 6 on Disney+, stream it here.

Poor Things

Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo star in the BAFTA-winning and Oscar-nominated Poor Things

Emma Stone picked up the Best Actress BAFTA and an Oscar nomination for her performance in this outlandish comedy-drama from The Favourite director Yorgos Lanthimos. It tells the incredible tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter (Stone), a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe).

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Under Baxter’s protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs off with Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo), a slick and debauched lawyer, on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, Bella grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation.

Poor Things premieres on March 7 on Disney+, stream it here.

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Invincible: Season two, part two

Gillian Jacobs, Steven Yeun, Zachary Quinto and Ross Marquand are among Invincible's stacked voice cast

The second batch of episodes for Amazon Prime’s acclaimed superhero series finally launches this month. Based on the groundbreaking comic book by Robert Kirkman, Cory Walker and Ryan Ottley, Invincible centres around 18-year-old Mark Grayson, who’s just like every other guy his age, except his father is – or was – the most powerful superhero on the planet.

In season two, Mark is still reeling from a betrayal while struggling to rebuild his life as he faces a host of new threats, all while battling his greatest fear – that he might become his father without even knowing it.

Invincible season two part two premieres on Prime Video on March 14, stream it here.

Manhunt

The Crown's Tobias Menzies stars in Apple TV+'s true crime thriller

Based on the New York Times bestseller from James L. Swanson, this conspiracy thriller explores one of the best-known but least understood crimes in history, the astonishing tale of the hunt for John Wilkes Booth in the aftermath of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. The true crime limited series boasts a stellar ensemble cast including Emmy-winning The Crown star Tobias Menzies, Masters of the Air’s Anthony Boyle, Greenleaf’s Lovie Simone and Daisy Jones and The Six’s Will Harrison.

Rounding out the cast is 13 Reasons Why’s Brandon Flynn and The Big Short’s Hamish Linklater as Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States.

Manhunt premieres on Apple TV+ on March 15, stream it here.

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Palm Royale

The 1969-set comedy series boasts a stellar ensemble cast led by Bridesmaids star Kristen Wiig

This star-studded comedy is billed as a “true underdog story” that follows Maxine Simmons (Kristen Wiig) as she endeavours to break into Palm Beach high society. As Maxine attempts to cross that impermeable line between the haves and the have-nots, this series asks the same question that still baffles us today: “How much of yourself are you willing to sacrifice to get what someone else has?”

Set during the powder keg year of 1969, Palm Royale is a testament to every outsider fighting for their chance to truly belong. Also starring are Oscar-winner Laura Dern, Allison Janney, Ricky Martin, Josh Lucas, Leslie Bibb, Amber Chardae Robinson, Mindy Cohn, Julia Duffy and Kaia Gerber, with extra special guest star turns by Bruce Dern and Carol Burnett.

Palm Royale premieres on Apple TV+ on March 20, stream it here.

X-Men ‘97

The new series serves as a sequel to Fox's beloved '90s X-Men cartoon

X-Men ‘97 sees Marvel’s iconic team of mutants including Wolverine, Cyclops, Storm, Beast and Gambit back in action in an all-new and nostalgic sequel. The 10-episode series serves as a continuation of Fox’s hugely popular X-Men: The Animated Series, which ran for five seasons between 1992 and 1997.

It revisits the iconic era of the 1990s as The X-Men – a band of mutants who use their uncanny gifts to protect a world that hates and fears them – are challenged like never before, forced to face a dangerous and unexpected new future without Professor X, who died in the finale of the ‘90s series.

X-Men '97 premieres on March 20 on Disney+, stream it here.

3 Body Problem

This epic sci-fi comes from the showrunners of Game of Thrones

This genre-bending series comes from Game of Thrones creators and showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, who have adapted Liu Cixin’s internationally celebrated book trilogy, The Three-Body Problem. It follows a “mind-boggling journey spanning continents and timelines” that takes place in the past, present and future, from the 1960s Cultural Revolution in China to the present-day streets of Oxford and the United Nations in New York.

Speaking to Netflix, writer Alexander Woo described the story as “a history of humanity from the point of first contact with an alien civilization all the way to the end of the universe.”

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Renegade Nell

Derry Girls star Louisa Harland fronts the British original series as highwaywoman Nell Jackson (Disney+)

This fantastical action-adventure series is the latest project from Happy Valley creator Sally Wainwright. It stars Derry Girls’ Louisa Harland as the titular Nell Jackson, a young woman who is framed for murder and forced to a life of crime in 18th-century England.

Renegade Nell follows the quick-witted and courageous Nell as she goes on the run with her sisters and turns to highway robbery to survive. Aided by her superpowered sidekick, a plucky little sprite called Billy Blind (Nick Mohammed), Nell soon realises that fate has put her on the wrong side of the law for a reason, a reason much bigger than she could have ever imagined: to defeat a magical plot against the Queen of England.

Renegade Nell premieres on March 29 on Disney+, join for £1.99 a month here.

Jake Hackney