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At the beginning of (and throughout) every month, Netflix Streaming adds new movies and TV shows to its library. Here is a quick list of several that you might be interested in. Some of these were added halfway through or near the end of March, but we’re going to include them in this roundup anyway, since you may have missed them. Some of these may also have previously been on Netflix, only to have been removed and then added back. Feel free to note anything we’ve left out in the comments below.

Mean Girls

Just in time for its tenth anniversary, the Tina Fey–penned high school comedy arrives to be perpetually looped by millennials and educate those who missed the boat the first time around. Mean Girls made stars out of Rachel McAdams and Lizzy Caplan and remains one of the last hurrahs for pre-socialite Lindsay Lohan. A decade later, it has morphed into a cultural touchstone. Mean Girls is as fetch as they come.

Short Poppies: Season 1 (available April 3)

Netflix picked up exclusive rights to this mockumentary comedy from Flight of the Conchords’ Rhys Darby. The show follows a filmmaker as he interviews the eccentric characters of a small, New Zealand town. Rhys plays both the documentarian and the subjects, Summer Heights High style.

The Grandmaster

There are two versions of The Grandmaster out in the world: Wong Kar Wai’s 130-minute cut and Harvey Weinstein’s Americans-can’t-possibly-stand-22-more-minutes-of-this-stylish-martial-arts-biopic, 108-minute cut. Netflix hosts the latter. If tracking down Wong Kar Wai’s meatier portrait of Ip Man proves difficult, know that the condensed Netflix edition remains spectacular. The director combines his sensitivity for human drama with radiant, slow-motion fight scenes. Action with purpose — a rarity on this side of the pond.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

After instilling Hollywood with a blockbuster mind-set upon the monumental success of Jaws, Steven Spielberg directed this decidedly low-key spectacle. One wonders if Darren Aronofsky revisited the film before shooting Noah; Richard Dreyfuss’s Roy finds himself drawn to Devil’s Tower in Wyoming by the silent suggestion of an extraterrestrial presence. Glowing lights and mashed potato sculptures are enough to sell him on abandoning his family. He must join pint-size aliens on their skyscraper-size spaceship.

Rocky

Sylvester Stallone’s Oscar-winning underdog tale arrives to Netflix with four sequels in tow (all but 2006’s Rocky Balboa). Relive the classic fights the training montages (specifically Rocky IV’s :chopping wood in Russia” sequence) and the culturally significant music cues (from Bill Conti’s “Gonna Fly Now” theme to Frank Stallone’s “Take It Back” to “Eye of the Tiger,” inseparable from Rocky III).

Going Ape!

Tony Danza is set to inherit five million dollars from his circus ringleader father if he can fulfill one stipulation: caring for three pet orangutans. A shaggy Danny DeVito, easily mistaken for one of the apes, co-stars. One of those bizarre, early ‘80s gems that probably made sense on paper.

Adventure Time (Season two)

If a fourth grader doodled across the pages of a Dungeons & Dragons quest book while rocking out to a Cat Power album, the result may look something like Pendleton Ward’s Cartoon Network series. Adults shying away because of the “kid show” veneer should know that by season two, it’s clear that Finn (the Human), Jake (the Dog), and the rest of the characters exist in a postapocalyptic world ravaged by atomic war. Not exactly Dora the Explorer.

New Seasons of TV:

Bob’s Burgers (Season 3)

The Bible: The Epic Mini Series (available April 13)

House, M.D.: The Complete Series

The Inbetweeners (Season 3)

Legit (Season 1, Available April 10)

Mad Men (Season 6)

Royal Pains (Seasons 1 – 5)

Turbo FAST (New episodes, Available April 4)

Other movies available:



A League of Their Own

Ali

Jan Svankmajer’s Alice

Amistad

Angel Heart

Ass Backwards

Barton Fink

The Benchwarmers (available April 24)

Braveheart

Chinatown

Click

Coneheads

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Death Wish

Death Wish 2

Death Wish 4: The Crackdown

The Dirties (available April 11)

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Dragonslayer

The Eagle (available April 16)

The English Patient

The Family (available April 16)

Freedomland (available April 29)

Frankenstein’s Army

The Heart of the Game

Heaven Knows Mr. Allison

Insidious Chapter 2

Interior. Leather Bar

Inventing the Abbotts

G.I. Joe: Retaliation (available April 12)

The Graduate

Jumanji

The King of Fighters

The Lady in Number 6

Lars and the Real Girl

The Last Days on Mars (available April 3)

Legend of Hell House

Les Miserables (1935)

Let the Fire Burn

Man Hunt

The Muppets Take Manhattan

Mr. Nobody

My Bloody Valentine

The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear

No Holds Barred

The Odd Couple

Peeples (available April 11)

Point Blank

Rabbit-Proof Fence

The River’s Edge

The Robe

Robinson Crusoe on Mars

Rocky II

Rocky III

Rocky IV

Rocky V

Roger Dodger

The Running Man

Scary Movie 3

Scoop (available April 16)

Sense and Sensibility (1995 Emma Thompson version)

Short Term 12

Spanglish

Stuart Saves the Family

Survival of the Dead

The Terminator

There’s No Business Like Show Business

The Thomas Crown Affair (1999 version)

The Turning Point

Titanic

White Reindeer

The Yards

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