Australian Streaming Guide: April 2026's Major Arrivals
Australian streaming platforms are set for a significant content refresh this April, with major international productions and local favourites making their debut. From returning anthology series to high-stakes survival thrillers, viewers have plenty to anticipate across services including Netflix, Stan, ABC iview, and SBS on Demand.
Netflix Highlights: Survival and Class Tensions
Apex arrives on 24 April, plunging Charlize Theron's grieving rock climber Sasha into the unforgiving Australian bush. Pursued by a murderous sadist played by Taron Egerton, this survival thriller continues a long tradition of films testing foreigners against Australia's harsh landscape. Theron's formidable screen history suggests her stalker may have picked the wrong target.
The highly anticipated Beef season 2 debuts on 16 April, transitioning to an anthology format while maintaining its exploration of class-based tensions. This installment moves from the original road rage incident to an elite country club setting, featuring Charles Melton and Cailee Spaeny as a young couple entangled with wealthy bluebloods Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan.
Australian horror Sissy arrives on 3 April, delivering a wickedly entertaining critique of influencer culture. Director-writer team Hannah Barlow and Kane Senes present Aisha Dee as a wellness influencer whose attendance at a former best friend's hen weekend descends into blood-drenched mayhem when old tensions resurface.
Stan's April Offerings: Scale and Dysfunctional Manhood
The Miniature Wife premieres on 9 April, featuring Elizabeth Banks as a best-selling author accidentally shrunk to six inches tall by her husband's invention. This daffy spectacle explores marital complications through kooky effects, continuing cinema's long fascination with altered scale and perspective.
Half Man arrives on 25 April as Scottish comedian Richard Gadd follows his hit Baby Reindeer with a co-production between HBO and the BBC. Teaming with Jamie Bell, Gadd explores dysfunctional manhood through the story of two friends whose adolescent closeness gives way to dramatic falling out, with narratives unfolding across flashbacks and flashforwards.
Classic thriller Phone Booth returns on 4 April, featuring Colin Farrell as a scheming publicist trapped by a sniper in a tense, dialogue-heavy cat-and-mouse game. Joel Schumacher's rigorously staged film maintains remarkable rewatchability with its sizzling pace and gradual revelation of the sniper's motives.
SBS on Demand: Silicon Valley Satire and Screwball Comedy
The Audacity premieres on 15 April as Jonathan Glatzer's prickly satire of Silicon Valley culture. Billy Magnussen stars as tech CEO Duncan, navigating a world obsessed with devices, apps, stocks, and profits while blurting out inappropriate thought bubbles in this critique of angry opportunism in the tech industry.
The Coen brothers' Intolerable Cruelty arrives on 1 April, skewering high-end divorce law through the deliciously tart comedy of amoral attorney Miles Massey and gold digger Marylin Hamilton. Their crackling chemistry drives this screwball-ish exploration of legal manipulation and potential romance.
Additional Platform Highlights
Prime Video features Balls Up on 15 April, a raunchy comedy starring Mark Wahlberg and Paul Walter Hauser as marketing executives whose condom sponsorship with the World Cup creates global scandal. Directed by comedy veteran Peter Farrelly, this film promises lewd, rib-tickling entertainment.
HBO Max offers Australian family film Kangaroo on 1 April, featuring Ryan Corr as an egotistical TV personality discovering Important Life Lessons while caring for a joey in a small town. Director Kate Woods' crowd-pleasing production was the highest grossing local film at the Australian box office last year.
Disney+ presents Is This Thing On? on 22 April, with Bradley Cooper directing Will Arnett as aspiring comedian Alex Novak. This modest exploration of artistic pursuit follows Alex's accidental comedy career and its impact on his struggling marriage to Laura Dern's Tess.
Apple TV+ debuts Outcome on 10 April, starring Keanu Reeves as a megastar battling heroin addiction who confronts his inner demons after being blackmailed with an incriminating video. The film explores themes of atonement and past redemption.
Honourable Mentions Across Platforms
Additional April arrivals include The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson, Civil War, and A Gorilla Story: Told by David Attenborough on Netflix. Stan adds The Handmaid's Tale season 6 and Portrait Of A Lady On Fire, while ABC iview features Minority Report and Wild Isles with David Attenborough. SBS on Demand includes John Wick 1-3 and Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, with Prime Video offering The Boys season 5 and HBO Max presenting Euphoria season 3.
Binge welcomes UK whodunit Ludwig on 10 April, starring David Mitchell as a puzzle designer impersonating his missing detective twin, while Disney+ adds classic films including King Kong, Mamma Mia! 1 and 2, and The Princess Bride on 1 April.
