Watch: 65 dinosaurs, all-new Shazam!, John Wick, Space Oddity and official Dungeons & Dragons – these are the best new sci-fi and fantasy movies in March 2023
Sci-fi dinosaurs, Mozart in Hogwarts and the official D&D film These are some of the best new sci-fi ad fantasy movies of March 2023, coming to cinemas (get tickets), video-on-demand (watch) and streaming on Netflix and Amazon Prime.
15 New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Movies in March 2023
Love Destiny: The Movie
1 March 2023
A Thai foreign film with English subtitles on Netflix, Love Destiny: The Movie is the sequel to the two Love Destiny TV drama series from circa 2018. But it’s almost 200 years after those events, yet the characters have been reincarnated into 19th-century Thailand, this time under threat of colonisation by England and France. Can they find each other again?
Watch the Love Destiny trailer
Genres Period, Fantasy, Romance, Comedy
Streaming Netflix | Watch it
Blueback
3 March 2023
Not so much sci-fi as just a calm and beautiful underwater adventure to start us off with. Shot and produced in Australia in 2022, this is the international release of Blueback, a story of a young girl who befriends a grouper, a large and long-lived species of reef fish. But the reef and her friend are under threat, so little Abby has to turn activist to stand up for what she believes in, in Robert Connolly’s Blueback.
Watch the Blueback trailer
Genres Adventure, Family, Drama
In Cinema | Streaming Prime Video | YouTube Premium | AppleTV
The Magic Flute
10 March 2023
Imagine Harry Potter but with instruments. The German-made The Magic Flute is one of the first film adaptations of the famous plays based on Mozart’s opera, Die Zauberflöte. A talented English teen travels to an Austrian school for the gifted. But hidden inside the Hogwarts-like walls is a secret passage that leads to the fantasy world of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.”
Watch The Magic Flute trailer
Genres Fantasy, Musical, Family, Adventure, Narrative
In Cinema
Luther: The Fallen Sun
10 March 2023
Watch Idris Elba hunt down Andy Serkis. Although already on cinemas the week before, Luther: The Fallen Sun drops on Netflix for home streaming on 10 March. Continuing the story of the Luther series, the London detective is disgraced and behind bars when it turns out that he’d failed to capture the cyber serial killer terrorising the populace. Nothing for it but to break out of prison and go catch a maniac in Luther: The Fallen Sun on Netflix.
Watch the Luther: The Fallen Sun trailer
Genres Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Streaming Netflix | Watch it
65
10 March 2023
Finally, something to fill the Jurassic Park void! Produced by Sam Raimi and Deborah Liebling, 65 brings us Kylo Ren himself, Adam Driver, as an unlucky who manages to crash himself 65 million years into Earth’s past. And now, along with a young girl, the only other survivor, needs to well, survive some more… raptors, tyrannosaurs – you know the drill, in the 65 movie.
Watch the 65 trailer
Genres Science Fiction, Fantasy, Action, Dinosaurs, Survival
In Cinema
Future TX
10 March 2023
And something new for the family! Future TX is an indie UK movie by award-winning writer\director Danny Stack with camera work by Tim Clague. After a successful limited UK run at the cinema, it gets an international release in the US on 10 March. When two kids purchase their first mobile phones, they’re instantly contacted by a man who claims to be from the future. And, you know, the world is about to end unless they help him stop it. Bring the family for Future TX.
Watch the Future TX trailer
Genres Science Fiction, Action, Family, Adventure
In Cinema
Barbie: Skipper And The Big Babysitting Adventure
16 March 2023
And one more for the Fam. The 42nd official Barbie film, Barbie: Skipper and the Big Babysitting Adventure, features Barbie’s sister, you guessed it, Skipper. Her malibu babysitting business is slowing down, so Skipper and friends start trying other summer jobs. Will Skipper regain her confidence to start up her business again?
Watch the Barbie: Skipper and the Big Babysitting Adventure trailer
Genres Fantasy, Family, Adventure
Streaming Netflix | Watch it
Shazam! Fury Of The Gods
17 March 2023
Oh boy, Billy Batson and the Shazam “fam” are gonna have to pull out all the stops for this one. Shazam! Fury Of The Gods lands on 17 March in cinemas, and the Daughters of Atlas (literally the god’s kin) are highly peeved that a bunch of teens gained access to their godly powers – so they’re taking them back and destroying Earth. Unless, you know, Shazam can do anything about it in Shazam! Fury Of The Gods.
Watch the Shazam! Fury Of The Gods trailer
Genres Action, Superhero, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Comedy
In Cinema
Inside
17 March 2023
Wanna see Willem Dafoe go properly insane (again)? Inside is a psychological thriller that sees an art thief gets accidentally locked inside a New York penthouse during a robbery. And he’s all alone, with no food or water for who knows how long. It’s not just about getting out. It’ll take everything he has just to stay alive, in Inside.
Watch the Inside trailer
Genres Thriller, Drama, Psychological, Mystery
In Cinema
The Magician’s Elephant
17 March 2023
An orphan looking for his lost sister believes a fortuneteller that he can find her by tracking down a magician who has an elephant. Of course, it’s not as simple as just that, but The Magician’s Elephant promises to be a fun and heartwarming family movie on Netflix.
Watch The Magician’s Elephant trailer
Genres Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Magic
Streaming Netflix | Watch it
John Wick: Chapter 4
24 March 2023
After being pushed back from 2021, we finally get to see John Wick go up against the High Table. Problem is, as always, absolutely everyone is out to get him. And there’s a new and extremely powerful enemy with global resources and the belief that Wick may not rest until either he or the entire world is dead. You know, standard John Wick stuff – let’s go!
Watch the John Wick: Chapter 4 trailer
Genres Action, Neo-Noir, Thriller, Crime
In Cinema
Assassin
31 March 2023
This will be retiring actor Bruce Willis’ final movie, ever. In Assassin, a private military firm, led by Willis’ character, has created an advanced new microchip that allows its agents to inhabit and control other people’s bodies, to carry out covert missions. But things go wrong when one of their agents dies and his wife is asked to carry out the mission in their stead when Assassin comes to cinemas and selected video-on-demand services.
Watch the Assassin trailer
Genres Action, Crime, Thriller
In Cinema | Video on Demand
Acidman
31 March 2023
A young woman tracks down her estranged and reclusive father who spends his days hunting UFOs in the middle of nowhere. She’s come with important news, but it seems the old man is as crazy as ever – worse, actually – thanks to his all-consuming obsession with ETs in Acidman.
Watch the Acidman trailer
Genres Science Fiction, Fantasy, Drama, UFOs
In Cinema | Vudu
Space Oddity
31 March 2023
Would you really go? A young man signs up for a Mars programme and wants to take out life insurance so his family’s taken care of. But he grows closer to the insurance agent and perhaps finds more reasons to stay than to go in Space Oddity.
Watch the Space Oddity trailer
Genres Science Fiction, Romantic Comedy
In Cinema | Prime Video
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
31 March 2023
Not sci-fi but appropriate. After two years of postponements, we’re finally getting to see the official Hasbro (Wizards of the Coast) Forgotten Realms movie, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, A bard (Chris Pine), a barbarian (Michelle Rodriguez), a paladin and sorcerer travel to The Realm to stop the Red Wizard of Thay from enslaving the world – with loads of supporting anthologies, books, games and a new Paramount+ series coming soon.
Watch the Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves trailer
Genres Action, Adventure, Fantasy
In Cinema | Video on Demand
Note: I try my best to get every bit of info I can, and will keep updating this page all the time. If you know of a show or channel that should be on this list, let me know at elvorne@scifixfantasy.com and I’ll make it happen.
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