Best new movies and TV series on Netflix New Zealand: February 2025

Each month, loads of new films and TV shows are added to Netflix‘s library. Eliza Janssen presents her picks for titles worth watching. For the full list of everything arriving on the platform, scroll down.

Top Picks: TV

Apple Cider Vinegar: Limited Series (February 6)

Sick and tired of stories about con artists? This latest, splashy Netflix production might have the cure — no, it’s not turmeric and spinach and apple cider vinegar. American Kaitlyn Dever pulls off a truly impeccable Aussie accent as wellness scammer Belle Gibson, who conned Insta followers into believing that her (entirely fictional!) brain cancer got cured by merely eating well. It’s a greedily-paced and fun expose, bolstered by performances from actual Australians as the followers, peers and cynics who were blown away—and in some cases, seriously sickened—by Gibson’s glamorous web of lies.

Emojis and heavily-filtered Insta posts ping across every frame, and each episode opens with a playful acknowledgement that what we’re seeing is a heavily fictionalised account. Dever’s protagonist is even made to tell the camera that Gibson will receive no profit from the retelling, whispering “f**kers” under her breath at this info.

Zero Day (February 20)

Set amidst the turmoil of the Bush administration as a high-level cyber attack cripples government systems, this prestigious production features the great Robert De Niro as head of the Zero Day commission and retired president George Mullen, with flawless support from Jesse Plemons, Angela Bassett and Lizzy Caplan. It’s weighty stuff, with the kind of cast and subject matter typically reserved for feature films, or at least projects with an HBO label up the front. Presenting a gripping account of a fictional crisis, we can expect the limited series to skew close to true events—especially as it arrives in the weak of a tense and portentous inauguration.

Running Point: Season 1 (February 27)

Girl do sport thing? That’s unpossible! After a decade or so of stretching her skills to star in quirkier indie fare, Kate Hudson is back to her rom-com roots, playing a redeemed party girl in this frothy and fun new series. She plays the only daughter in an extremely macho, competitive family, who has been overlooked and devalued for too long. When the family basketball team—the fictional but cutely named Los Angeles Waves—suddenly lacks a leader, she’ll have to set aside her grudges and bubbly manner to take charge of the franchise. It’s sort of a gender-flipped Ted Lasso, then, with Hudson’s vibrant good-time-girl comedic chops breathing new life into the stinky masculinity of the court and boardroom.

Top Picks: Movies + Specials

Royal Rumble (February 2)

It should be bigger news that Netflix is collaborating with the WWE, broadcasting many of the iconic organisation’s matches and melees live for the first time. Above is a video of last year’s Royal Rumble, which is freely available on YouTube—will wrestling fanatics make the jump to subscribe, if they haven’t already? Royal Rumble is an important step in the big build-up to WrestleMania, which might once and for all prove the effectiveness of moving these monster events onto a popular streaming service. I can’t imagine uninitiated Netflix viewers turning this on in a moment of curiosity or boredom, but if the names John Cena and Cody Rhodes mean anything to you, it’s certainly worth an afternoon’s watch.

The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep (February 11)

We all know that Liam Hemsworth is set to take over from Henry Cavill, as The Witcher’s hulking, platinum-coiffed, mutant slayer Geralt. But until that day, fans can chow down on this second anime animated feature, following on from 2021’s Nightmare of the Wolf. Featuring practically the same voice cast as that movie, it’ll see Geralt protecting a seaside village where war is set to break out between humans and merpeople—a nice new texture for the high-fantasy series to explore, with some splashy battles and returning allies fleshing out the animated side-quest. Darling it’s better down where it’s wetter, take it from me!

All titles arriving on Netflix New Zealand in February

February 2

Royal Rumble 2025

February 4

Bogota: City of the Lost

February 5

Celebrity Bear Hunt
Envious: Season 2
Kinda Pregnant
Prison Cell 211
Sintonia: Season 5

February 6

Apple Cider Vinegar: Limited Series
Cassandra
Golden Kamuy: The Hunt of Prisoners in Hokkaido
Sweet Magnolias: Season 4
The Are Murders

February 7

Wrong Side of the Tracks: Season 4
The Greatest Rivalry: India Vs Pakistan

February 10

Surviving Black Hawk Down

February 11

Felipe Esparza: Raging Fool
The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep

February 12

Death Before the Wedding
Honeymoon Crasher

February 13

Cobra Kai: Season 6: Part 3
Dog Days Out
The Exchange
La Dolce Villa

February 14

Dhoom Dhaam
I Am Married…But!
Love Is Blind: Season 8
Love Forever
Melo Movie
The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
Umjolo: There is No Cure
Valeria: Season 4