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In 1984, a young programmer begins to question reality while adapting a fantasy novel into a video game. Black Mirror‘s Bandersnatch is an interactive episode, letting you choose what happens to the characters and offering multiple endings.

Netflix’s upcoming series Kingdom is set in medieval Korea. The prince is sent on a mission to investigate a plague spreading across the country. He soon finds out that the sickness is a tragic curse that turns murdered people into zombies. Premieres 1/25/19.

Struggling to make ends meet, five military veterans decide to rob one of the world’s most violent cartels. Netflix’s heist film intrigues us if only for its star-studded cast: Ben Affleck, Oscar Isaac, Charlie Hunnam, Garrett Hedlund and Pedro Pascal. Premieres March 2019.

Netflix just added a legend to its growing library of anime. Originally released in 1995, Neon Genesis Evangelion is a bizarre, complex and beautiful series about psychic teenagers piloting bio-mechs to combat giant monsters. Premieres Spring 2019.

The Ultraman manga that started in 2011 is a sequel to the classic Ultraman TV show. Now it’s getting a CGI series on Netflix. In the new story, a boy inherits the power of Ultraman from his father, who was the original hero. Premieres 4/1/19.

“My challenge today is to avoid a very public execution.” In this Netflix series, magician Drummond Money-Coutts aka DMC attempts to successfully pull off stunts that have killed other magicians. That train shot looks green-screened though. Premieres 11/30/18.

Even Goliath was once David. Netflix vs. the World is an upcoming documentary about the rise of the streaming giant we now know and love. It features interviews with both founders and rivals, particularly officers from Blockbuster.

Every frame is truly a painting in director Alfonso Cuaron’s black and white love letter to his home – a film about a difficult year in the life of a family in 1970s Mexico City. Arrives in theaters 11/21/18 and on Netflix 12/14/18.

Actor and director Andy Serkis’ star-studded live action and darker adaptation of The Jungle Book finds a home on Netflix. Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle will be released in select theaters on 11/29/18 and will be released globally on Netflix on 12/7/18.

We still don’t know any of its plot points, but our latest look at Joel Coen & Ethan Coen’s film paints an even more colorful portrait of its characters, as six stories weave in and out of life in the wild West. Hits select theaters on 11/8/18, then Netflix on 11/16/18.

Sandra Bullock and John Malkovich stars in this post-apocalyptic thriller. Based on Josh Malerman’s eponymous 2014 novel, Bird Box sees a series of horrible events triggered by strange creatures. If you see them, your worst fears appear before you. Premieres 12/21/18.

Netflix’s excellent series about drug cartels leaves Columbia and heads South of the border in the 1980s. Diego Luna stars as the head of the powerful Guadalajara cartel, while Michael Peña plays a DEA agent assigned to investigate and take them down. Premieres 11/16/18.

One of the most popular shows on BBC One in 2018 is now coming to Netflix, Bodyguard is about a London police agent who gets assigned to the Home Secretary. Her political views conflict with his, but there’s barely time to think when he’s called to action. Premieres 10/24/18.

Hosted by actor and fight enthusiast Frank Grillo, Netflix’s Fightworld is a documentary series that will explore fighting methods and cultures around the world. The featured styles include MMA, Muay Thai, wrestling and Krav Maga. Premieres 10/12/18.

It’s the third season of Daredevil, but it’s round two for our hero and the Kingpin. The mobster somehow gets out of jail, and manages to turn New York’s opinion of The Man Without Fear with the help of a mysterious ally. Premieres 10/19/18 on Netflix.

In 1992, then teenager Sandy Tan and her friends made what may have been the first indie film in Singapore. But their director made off with all the footage. They talk about the effect the film and its disappearance had on their life in this critically-acclaimed documentary.

(Gore) From The Raid franchise director Gareth Evans comes a super creepy period horror film. In Apostle, a man journeys to an island where a religious cult has taken his sister for ransom. Starring Dan Stevens and Michael Sheen. Premieres 10/12/18 on Netflix.

Based on Luke Pearson’s graphic novels, Hilda is a Netflix series about a girl who was raised in a countryside teeming with magical creatures. She’s heartbroken when they move to the city. Little does she know that her new home has its own wonders. Premieres 9/21/18.

Auteurs Joel and Ethan Coen join the Netflix ranks with their Western anthology film, in which six short tales each reveal a story about the American West. Stars James Franco, Brendan Gleeson, Zoe Kazan, Liam Neeson, Tim Blake Nelson, and Tom Waits. Drops 11/16/18.

“Darkness only responds to darkness.” In our first peek at Daredevil‘s third season, it seems like Matt Murdock is losing faith in the justice system. Even more surprising, he appears to be wearing his original costume, and is revealing his identity to someone.

Narcos: Mexico is a dramatized look at the evolution of the drug trade in Mexico, starting from the ’80s. Diego Luna plays drug lord Felix Gallardo, while Michael Peña will play undercover DEA agent Kiki Camarena. Premieres 11/16/18.

Orson Welles never completed his final film, The Other Side of the Wind. Some of its crew eventually edited the footage according to Welles notes, and now Netflix has earned the rights to release the result. The film is about an aging director trying to make a comeback film.

(PG-13: Language) “All of our students… they’re… they’re pooping!” American Vandal‘s amateur investigative journalists have a new case to tackle. Someone calling himself the Turd Burglar is making students poop. Premieres 9/14/18.