Best new movies and TV series on Disney+ New Zealand: April 2025

Each month, new films and TV shows are added to Disney+’s New Zealand library. Here’s Eliza Janssen’s recommendations for the titles most worth watching. Scroll down for the full list of everything arriving on the platform.

Top picks

Dying for Sex: Limited Series (April 4)

I’ve heard rumours that this miniseries starring Michelle Williams absolutely wrings tears out of you, so make sure you’re watching with a hanky nearby. And not just because the show’s also super steamy and sensual, neither. Williams plays a woman whose metastatic cancer diagnosis sets her free, inspiring her to leave her loveless marriage and seek sexual exploration and pleasure before it’s too late.

The heart of the series is the powerful relationship between Williams and her bestie Jenny Slate, who has the tough task of acting as her mate’s wingman and protector when she should really be settling down into palliative care. A frank, sexy, funny and tearjerking story.

Doctor Who: Season 2 (April 12)

After a soft reset of sorts to herald the arrival of Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor, the new Who is off to a great start: Gatwa is infectiously charming, silly and song-filled plots are introducing youngsters to the show while perhaps appearing a tad too cutesy for elder fans, and fresh companions and friends abound. In season two, we’re getting an episode that’s tantalisingly titled ‘The Interstellar Song Contest’, which I will most certainly tune in for.

Meanwhile, new companion Belinda is desperate to get home to her parents, after glitchy TARDIS trickery keeps her from making an easy return: in the 51st century, nobody even remembers Earth existed. In times like these, you really want the cheery doctor around, for a laugh and a sick costume change.

Andor: Season 2 (April 23)

Arguably the high point of the entire Disney/Star Wars experiment, this scintillating sci-fi prequel series from creator Tony Gilroy sees Diego Luna’s Cassian Andor go from an every-man-for-himself chancer, to a valiant martyr for the Resistance. Fans have been waiting for several years now to see what happens next—and the star claims that the sophomore chapter will have them racing to revisit Rogue One, the film in which the hero was introduced, to appreciate it in a whole new dramatic context. “You’ve seen enough of this man now,” Luna recently promised rewatchers, “that you will go, like, ‘Holy shit, that’s what he meant?'”