Here’s what’s new on Video on Demand, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu and other services.
Top streams of the week
The documentary “Knock Down the House” (2019, not rated) profiles Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and three other progressive women who decided to run for Congress in 2018, taking on the political establishment with grassroots campaigns. It comes to Netflix after winning two audience awards at the Sundance Film Festival.
Luca Guadagnino’s remake “Suspiria” (2018, R) re-imagines the story of an American dancer (Dakota Johnson) in a German dance company run by a coven of witches. Streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
A struggling writer becomes obsessed with the wealthy and enigmatic Ben (Steven Yuen) in the unsettling psychological drama “Burning” (South Korea, 2018, not rated, with subtitles). Streaming on Netflix.
Christian Applegate and Linda Cardellini play strangers who bond over shared loss and grief in the dark comedy “Dead to Me: Season 1.” On Netflix.
“Ms. Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries,” a spinoff of the hit Australian series, jumps decades ahead to the 1960s to follow the stylish niece (Geraldine Hakewill) of the Australian flapper detective. On Acorn TV.
Robert Altman’s British murder-mystery “Gosford Park” (2001, R) won an Oscar for screenwriter Julian Fellowes and inspired “Downton Abbey.” On Netflix.
Oh what a feeling! Get an ’80s flashback with the thriller “Fatal Attraction” (1987, R), musical style-bomb “Flashdance” (1983, R) and teen thriller “WarGames” (1983, PG). Streaming on Hulu.
Pay-Per-View / Video on Demand
Gina Rodriguez plays a woman forced to work for a Mexican drug lord in “Miss Bala” (2019, PG-13). Also new: twisty thriller “Serenity” (2019, R), starring Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway, and survival drama “Arctic” (2019, PG-13), with Mads Mikkelsen.
Available same day as select theaters nationwide is the romantic drama “Tell It to the Bees” (2019, not rated), with Anna Paquin and Holliday Grainger.
Netflix
Zac Ephron stars as serial killer Ted Bundy and Lily Collins as his oblivious girlfriend in “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile” (2019, R).
Also new: American indie drama “American Honey” (2016, R), about a teen runaway who hits the road with a gypsy sales crew, and “The Imitation Game” (2014, PG-13), with Benedict Cumberbatch as British code-breaking genius Alan Turing.
Streaming TV: Tiffany Haddish and Ali Wong star in the adult animated comedy “Tuca & Bertie: Season 1.” Teenage aliens live among us in “Roswell, New Mexico: Season 1.”
Amazon Prime Video
Michael Caine, Jim Broadbent and Tom Courtenay play aging crooks in the crime drama “King of Thieves” (2018, R).
HBO Now
“Once Upon a Deadpool” (2018, PG-13) is a slightly more family-friendly version of ultraviolent superhero comedy “Deadpool 2.”
Also new is the documentary “At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal” (2019, not rated).
New on disc and at Redbox this week
“Miss Bala,” “Serenity,” “Dragged Across Concrete,” “Arctic.”
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