It was estimated earlier today that Netflix has gained over 16 million new subscribers just since the coronavirus lockdown began. So we certainly recognize the importance of these lists of new streaming content every month!
Netflix's May 2020 list and schedule of new movies, TV series, and Netflix Originals just came out today! Check out the highlights and the complete list below.
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New Netflix movies and TV shows: The highlights
As usual, Netflix's new content features a mix of classic movies, some recent releases that are streaming for the first time, new TV series episodes, and Originals.
For beloved classic titles, Netflix in May 2020 will add the first two Back to the Future movies and Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (the 1971 Gene Wilder film).
If Jim Carrey movies are your thing, you're in luck: Fun with Dick & Jane and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective join Netflix in May.
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For the kids, there's Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa. Comedy specials are also on the way from Jerry Seinfeld and Patton Oswalt, to name just a few.
One of David Fincher's best films, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, streams beginning on May 1 too. The highly anticipated queer young adult film, The Half of It, also debuts on the platform next month.
New episodes of Grey's Anatomy, Riverdale, and The Flash are among the TV series highlights, as is the new Netflix Steve Carell sitcom Space Force.
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Netflix May 2020: Full list of new titles
Here's the full list of everything coming to Netflix in May 2020:
May 1
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
All Day and a Night
Almost Happy
Back to the Future
Back to the Future Part II
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Cracked Up, The Darrell Hammond Story
Den of Thieves
For Colored Girls
Fun with Dick & Jane
Get In
Go! Go! Cory Carson: The Chrissy
The Half Of It
Hollywood
I Am Divine
Into the Night
Jarhead
Jarhead 2: Field of Fire
Jarhead 3: The Siege
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Masha and the Bear: Season 4
Material
Medici: The Magnificent: Part 2
Monthly Girls' Nozaki Kun: Season 1
Mrs. Serial Killer
Reckoning: Season 1
Sinister
Song of the Sea
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Heartbreak Kid
The Patriot
Thomas & Friends: Marvelous Machinery: A New Arrival
Thomas & Friends: Marvelous Machinery: World of Tomorrow
Thomas & Friends: Thomas and the Royal Engine
Underworld
Underworld: Evolution
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
Urban Cowboy
What a Girl Wants
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
May 4
Arctic Dogs
May 5
Jerry Seinfeld: 23 Hours To Kill
May 6
Workin' Moms: Season 4
May 7
Scissor Seven: Season 2
May 8
18 regali
Chico Bon Bon: Monkey with a Tool Belt
Dead to Me: Season 2
The Eddy
The Hollow: Season 2
House at the End of the Street
Restaurants on the Edge: Season 2
Rust Valley Restorers: Season 2
Valeria
May 9
Charmed: Season 2
Grey's Anatomy: Season 16
May 11
Bordertown: Season 3
Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics
Trial By Media
May 12
True: Terrific Tales
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy Vs. the Reverend
May 13
The Wrong Missy
May 14
Riverdale: Season 4
May 15
Chichipatos
District 9
I Love You, Stupid
Inhuman Resources
Magic for Humans: Season 3
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: Season 5
White Lines
May 16
La reina de Indias y el conquistador
Public Enemies
United 93
May 17
Soul Surfer
May 18
The Big Flower Fight
May 19
Patton Oswalt: I Love Everything
Sweet Magnolias
Trumbo
May 20
Ben Platt Live From Radio City Music Hall
The Flash: Season 6
Rebelión de los Godinez
May 22
Control Z
History 101
Just Go With It
The Lovebirds
Selling Sunset: Season 2
Trailer Park Boys: The Animated Series: Season 2
May 23
Dynasty: Season 3
May 25
Ne Zha
Norm of the North: Family Vacation
Uncut Gems
May 26
Hannah Gadsby: Douglas
May 27
I'm No Longer Here
The Lincoln Lawyer
May 28
Dorohedoro
La corazonada
May 29
Space Force
Somebody Feed Phil: Season 3
May 31
High Strung Free Dance