New OTT Releases This Week

This week, we have an incredible lineup of new OTT releases hitting major streaming platforms like JioHotstar, Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, Apple TV+, and ZEE5.

If you’ve been waiting for Cillian Murphy’s highly anticipated return as Tommy Shelby, your wait is finally over with Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man. But the heavy hitters don’t stop there. The lineup is packed with global and regional content, including the return of the French action drama Furies, the psychological mind-bender Imperfect Women, and hard-hitting Indian titles like Chiraiya and Jazz City.

From thrilling crime sagas to captivating true-story dramas, check out Filmeekeeda’s complete guide to the 10 best new movies and shows premiering this week.

Premiering March 18

1. Radioactive Emergency

• Platform: Netflix

• What it’s about: Inspired by the devastating true events of the 1987 Goiânia accident, this Brazilian miniseries dramatizes the catastrophic fallout that occurs when two scavengers unknowingly crack open a discarded radiotherapy device containing Cesium-137. The series highlights the desperate, high-stakes race by doctors and physicists to contain the massive radiological disaster before it wipes out thousands.

2. Furies (Season 2)

• Platform: Netflix

• What it’s about: The Parisian criminal underworld is in chaos as the ruthless paramilitary force known as Damoclès takes over. Our protagonists must forge separate paths to organize a resistance and take down the syndicate’s mysterious leader. Amid the heavy gunfire and betrayals, Lyna forms a tense alliance with Selma while trying to infiltrate the police force from the inside.

3. Imperfect Women

• Platform: Apple TV+

• What it’s about: Based on Araminta Hall’s gripping novel, this psychological thriller stars Kate Mara, Kerry Washington, and Elisabeth Moss. The story follows a decades-long friendship between three women that shatters when one of them is found murdered. As detectives dig deeper, the victim’s “perfect” life is exposed as a web of infidelity and dark secrets, testing the loyalties of the surviving friends who realize the killer might be one of them.

Premiering March 19

4. Jazz City

• Platform: SonyLIV

• What it’s about: Set against the tense backdrop of the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, this Bengali period thriller takes you inside a smoky Park Street jazz club in Calcutta. What looks like a simple entertainment venue is actually a covert hub for spies, revolutionaries, and artists. When political tensions boil over, a neutral hotelier named Jimmy Roy (Arifin Shuvoo) is dragged into a dangerous game of espionage.

5. Landlord

• Platform: ZEE5

• What it’s about: This gritty Kannada period action drama centers on a laborer named Rachayya. Pushed to the brink, he leads a fierce rebellion against Sanna Dhani (Raj B. Shetty), a brutal and oppressive landlord who rules a village in Karnataka using fear, caste violence, and systemic injustice.

Premiering March 20

6. Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man

• Platform: Netflix

• What it’s about: By order of the Peaky Blinders, Tommy Shelby is back. Set in 1940s Birmingham during the height of World War II, this feature film brings a reclusive Tommy (Cillian Murphy) out of self-imposed exile. He must stop his son, Duke (Barry Keoghan), from collaborating with a Nazi agent (Tim Roth) to flood Britain with counterfeit cash. Tommy is forced to confront his darkest demons to save both his family and his country.

7. The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel

• Platform: Netflix

• What it’s about: This intimate documentary chronicles the origin story of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. The film focuses heavily on the band’s founding guitarist and architect, Hillel Slovak, detailing his deep bonds with Flea and Anthony Kiedis dating back to their high school days. Packed with personal journals and unseen archival footage, it’s a beautiful tribute to Slovak’s legacy.

8. Deadloch (Season 2)

• Platform: Amazon Prime Video

• What it’s about: Detectives Dulcie Collins and Eddie Redcliffe are back in action. This season, they travel to the remote, sweltering town of Barra Creek to investigate the mysterious death of Eddie’s former policing partner. Things take a gruesome and complicated turn when they are forced to identify a ‘John Doe’ after a severed body part washes up in the local waterways.

9. Chiraiya

• Platform: JioHotstar

• What it’s about: Starring Divya Dutta, Chiraiya is a hard-hitting Hindi social drama that confronts the deeply entrenched issue of marital abuse. It follows Kamlesh, an ideal daughter-in-law who must make an impossible choice: protect her family’s “reputation” or seek justice for her sister-in-law, who is facing sexual abuse from her husband. It’s a powerful look at patriarchy and consent.

10. Kasaragod Embassy

• Platform: ZEE5

• What it’s about: This intense Malayalam crime thriller follows two cousins, Azi and Chemmu, who are desperate for a better life. Their ambition drags them into the dangerous, high-stakes underworld of passport forgery in northern Kerala. What starts as a simple hustle to make quick money rapidly spirals into a deadly game of survival and shifting loyalties.