GQ's list of best Netflix films and TV shows for March is updated regularly.
You've made it through February. Congrats, we're all very proud of you, we know it was a tough slog. With March comes daffodils, chocolate eggs, daylight past 5pm and, alongside all that, even more great originals and classics from your Netflix account to beam straight into your eyeballs.
For films, you've got new dramas like Millie Bobby Brown's Damsel and Regina King's Shirley as well as box office-busting smashes like Top Gun: Maverick. When it comes to episodic offerings, you've got the likes of the final season of Young Royals and the new sci-fi epic from Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, 3 Body Problem. Here are the best Netflix films and TV shows coming in March.
Spaceman
Release date: 1 March
Adam Sandler as a lonely astronaut traversing the cosmos and Paul Dano as a giant tarantula alien monster offering him sage guidance and life advice? Houston, we have no problems with this. Sandler may have previously been known for his goofy voices and almost-farcical humour, but over the last decade, he's been dipping his toe further into the dramatic pool. After the likes of the extremely tense Uncut Gems and Hustle, Spaceman will have him tap into the solemn astronaut trope, floating alone with his regrets while life goes on below him. Sandler plays Jakub who, while having an existential crisis in zero-g, realises, with the help of an alien from the beginning of time, he needs to make things right with his wife (Carey Mulligan) back on earth.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Release date: 1 March
Big news for the people who require a seemingly endless stream of episodic procedural dramas to keep them company on the cold nights, because multiple seasons of the crime classic CSI: Crime Scene Investigation are landing on Netflix this month [music by The Who starts aggressively playing in the background]. Of course, there are multiple strands of the CSI web, but the one coming to UK screens this month is the original series set in Las Vegas which follows the forensic crime scene investigators tasked with hunting down the City of Sin's murderers.
The Program: Cons, Cults and Kidnapping
Release date: 5 March
Netflix's assembly line of documentary series digging into the shocking and the harrowing isn't slowing down any time soon. March brings with it The Program: Cons, Cults and Kidnapping, which takes aim at The Academy at Ivy Ridge, a campus where ‘troubled teens’ were sent after being forcefully kidnapped at the behest of their parents. With firsthand accounts from former victims of the institution, the series documents the extreme abuse pupils faced as well as psychological and emotional manipulation that forced them to admit to bad behaviour they never committed.
Full Swing (season 2)
Release date: 6 March
With Formula 1: Drive to Survive and Break Point, Netflix has carved out its space in the world of serial sports docs that take us behind the scenes of some of the world's biggest names. Full Swing does that with the figures that make up the professional golf scene, giving us access to the likes of Rory McIlroy, Justin Rose and Luke Donald. Unlike Drive to Survive, Full Swing doesn't hinge on one professional tournament, but rather on the landscape of the sport overall. Season 2 will cover the PGA Tour, the DP World Tour and the Ryder Cup.
The Gentlemen
Release date: 7 March
Guy Ritchie's 2020 film of the same name introduced us to the underbelly of London's cannabis gangs. Four years later, we're going back. Well, sort of. The series of The Gentlemen will tie back into Ritchie's original lore, which starred Hugh Grant, Matthew McConaughey and Charlie Hunnam (amongst others), and give us a whole new crop of wronguns. Theo James leads as Eddie Horniman, the Duke of Halstead, who finds himself tangled up in a world of East London drug criminality. It's a classic Ritchian affair, even down to its casting of Ray Winstone. Elsewhere, there's Kaya Scodelario, Daniel Ings, Giancarlo Esposito and f**kin' Vinne Jones.
Damsel
Release date: 8 March
In this new original, Millie Bobby Brown may be a damsel, but she's not in distress. Well, ok, she's a little in distress, but she's trapped in a remote mountain cave with a bloodthirsty dragon, what can you expect? The latest in the fruitful partnership between Netflix and Brown, the Stranger Things star will play Elodie, a girl who agrees to marry a handsome prince only to find out she's been set up as bait for a trap to satiate an ancient debt. She's then locked up with a firebreathing monster with only her wits to get her out.
Young Royals (season 3)
Release date: Part 1 - 11 March, final episode - 18 March
The popular Swedish cult teen hit Young Royals will wrap up in March with its third and final season. The show, which revolves around the love story between Edvin, a Swedish prince and Omar, a boy he goes to a fancy boarding school with, became a word-of-mouth sensation outside of its Nordic roots when it first launched in 2021. While its first two seasons of the show hinged on a tumultuous will-they-won't-they between Edvin and Omar, we head into season 3 with a public declaration of love between the formerly secret pair. As the show comes to a close, the main question will be: Are they endgame?
The Matrix Resurrections
Release date: 9 March
Almost 20 years after the original Matrix trilogy came to a close, Lana Wachowski came back solo to resurrect Neo, Trinity and Morpheus for a new life. The film is set 60 years after the last movie, Revolutions, and Neo now lives a seemingly ordinary life as Thomas Anderson, a video game developer. When he finds himself back at the beginning with Morpheus, he ends up back in the Matrix, although this time it's much stronger and more dangerous than before. Resurrections is likely the last time we'll be offered the red pill, and it's a fitting end to the quadrilogy.
Irish Wish
Release date: 15 March 2024
God bless Lindsay Lohan and her earnest desire to put as many silly little romcoms into the universe as possible. As part of her overall deal with the streamer that already saw her release the Christmas schmaltz-fest Falling for Christmas, she's next coming out with Irish Wish which, by the looks of the trailer, doesn't seem to have a single Irish person in it. She stars as Maddie who, after watching the love of her life get engaged to her best friend, heads to Ireland for the wedding only to end up making a wish that she was the one getting married that magically comes true. Of course, there's a love triangle there to throw a spanner in the works. It looks kind of bad in that really, really great way.
3 Body Problem
Release date: 21 March
3 Body Problem is one of those big swing, high-concept sci-fi shows that's so hard to succinctly describe that all you can say in response is ‘Sounds insane, I’m in'. This big series has big names behind it, with Game of Thrones alums David Benioff and D. B. Weiss hanging up their Westeros swords for a blast into the future. The story spans multiple decades, kicking off in 60s communist China and taking us up to the present day, as a group of scientists are forced to come together to solve a problem that could see the laws of nature unravel around them. Like we said, ‘Sounds insane, we’re in'. The series is likely to be Netflix's biggest show of the year, at least in terms of scale.
Top Gun: Maverick
Release date: 22 March
We're sure if it was up to Tom Cruise, Top Gun: Maverick would never be on Netflix and it would instead be in cinemas forever and ever and ever (and still probably continuing to make a bazillion bucks while there). Still, it is zooming onto the service this March. If you somehow missed the sequel to the 1986 classic while it was smashing the box office, now is your chance, although we are slightly judging you. If you just fancy seeing it for the 16th time and punching the air as Cruise starts pulling G’s in his fighter jet, then we don't judge you for that. If anything, we celebrate you.
Shirley
Release date: 22 March
Like its penchant for true crime docs and hyper-saturated reality shows, Netflix loves itself a swelling biopic about an unseen hero from history. This month's offering is Shirley, starring Regina King as the political trailblazer Shirley Chisholm who ran for president of the United States in 1972 against a backdrop of institutional racism and sexism. Regina King's second Oscar nomination? Looks almost guaranteed.
