We Bury the Dead, Hamnet, Obex, and everything new to stream this weekend

Get sucked inside a video game movie that's better than Tron

Grief looms large in streaming this week. Daisy Ridley searches for her missing husband who may be a zombie in the thoughtful survivor horror film We Bury the Dead. Nomadland and Eternals director Chloé Zhao delves into the personal tragedy that inspired Shakespeare in Hamnet, which received eight Oscar nods.

Looking for something weird? The surreal animated film Boys Go to Jupiter lands on HBO Max. A man has to rescue his dog from a 1987 video game in Obex, a black-and-white indie film that really gets what it’s like to be immersed in a game world.

Here's a rundown of the most notable new releases on streaming and VOD, including the biggest, best, and most popular new movies you can watch at home right now.

New on AMC Plus

Violent Ends

• Genre: Thriller
• Run time: 1h 51m
• Director: John-Michael Powell
• Cast: Billy Magnussen, Jared Bankens, Alexandra Shipp

Lucas Frost (Billy Magnussen) was trying to get away from his Ozark Mountains crime family and settle down with his fiance, Emma (Alexandra Shipp). But when Emma dies in an armed robbery perpetrated by Lucas’ cousin Eli (Jared Bankens), Lucas vows revenge and goes to war against his own family and their drug business.

New on HBO Max

Boys Go to Jupiter

• Genre: Adult animation
• Run time: 1h 30m
• Director: Julian Glander
• Cast: Jack Corbett, Janeane Garofalo, Tavi Gevinson

Julian Glander wrote, directed, and produced the unabashedly weird animated film Boys Go to Jupiter, which follows Billy (Jack Corbett), a brilliant 16-year-old whose delivery job leads him to encounter all sorts of strange people. When Billy discovers an alien creature, he has to decide whether to turn it over for some quick cash.

New on Starz

Hurry Up Tomorrow

• Genre: Psychological thriller
• Run time: 1h 56m
• Director: Trey Edward Shults
• Cast: Abel Tesfaye, Jenna Ortega, Barry Keoghan

A companion piece to Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye’s 2025 album of the same name, the thriller written and directed by Trey Edward Shults (It Comes at Night, Waves) follows a fictional version of Tesfaye as he struggles with insomnia and depression. Things get increasingly surreal when he encounters an obsessive fan played by Wednesday and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice star Jenna Ortega.

The Knife

• Genre: Psychological thriller
• Run time: 1h 22m
• Director: Nnamdi Asomugha
• Cast: Nnamdi Asomugha, Aja Naomi King, Melissa Leo

Emmy-nominee Nnamdi Asomugha co-wrote, directed, and starred in this tense film set over the course of a single night as a Black family confronts a white woman they find in their home. As a determined detective questions everyone, the family has to try to protect themselves against assumptions about who’s at fault.

New to rent

The Dutchman

• Genre: Thriller
• Run time: 1h 28m
• Director: Andre Gaines
• Cast: André Holland, Kate Mara, Zazie Beetz

With his marriage falling apart, Clay (André Holland) is seduced by Lula (Kate Mara), a woman he meets on the subway who seems to know everything about him. As the night spirals out of control, leading to Clay being accused of murder, he loses his grip on reality. The surreal meta thriller is based on Amiri Baraka’s 1964 play of the same name.

Hamnet

• Genre: Historical drama
• Run time: 2h 6m
• Director: Chloé Zhao
• Cast: Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, Jacobi Jupe

A far more somber look at William Shakespeare’s personal life than Shakespeare in Love, Hamnet chronicles the romance between the bard (Paul Mescal) and Agnes Hathaway (Jessie Buckley). It dwells heavily on grief, portraying how the loss of Shakespeare’s son, Hamnet (Jacobi Jupe), inspired him to write the tragedy Hamlet.

The Housemaid

• Genre: Psychological thriller
• Run time: 2h 11m
• Director: Paul Feig
• Cast: Sydney Sweeney, Amanda Seyfried, Brandon Sklenar

Desperate for a job to obey the terms of her parole, Millie (Sydney Sweeney) starts working as a live-in maid for the wealthy Winchester family. Her employer, Nina (Amanda Seyfried), turns out to be unhinged, and Millie becomes entangled in tensions between Nina and her controlling husband, Andrew (Brandon Sklenar).

Obex

• Genre: Science fiction
• Run time: 1h 30m
• Director: Albert Birney
• Cast: Albert Birney, Callie Hernandez, Frank Mosley

Conor Marsh (Albert Birney) lives alone with his dog, Sandy, enjoying horror marathons and computer games – the big new thing in 1987. When Conor tries a new game called Obex, he finds himself immersed in its strange world. He has to go on a quest to rescue Sandy from the clutches of a demon lord. The film’s limited budget just makes it feel stranger.

Twisted

• Genre: Horror thriller
• Run time: 1h 33m
• Director: Darren Lynn Bousman
• Cast: Djimon Hounsou, Lauren LaVera, Mia Healey

A millennial woman (Lauren LaVera) makes money by renting out pricey New York City apartments she doesn’t actually own. But when she tries to scam a brilliant neurosurgeon with a god complex (Djimon Hounsou), she winds up being the test subject for an experiment he believes will save the world.

We Bury the Dead

• Genre: Zombie horror
• Run time: 1h 35m
• Director: Zak Hilditch
• Cast: Daisy Ridley, Brenton Thwaites, Mark Coles Smith

After a U.S. military bomb detonates off the coast of Tasmania and kills all 500,000 people on the island, Ava (Daisy Ridley) volunteers for body recovery so she can find her husband. While she’s told there’s a possibility that the dead might have risen, her grief drives her to defy military guidance to navigate the desolate landscape searching for answers.

From our review:

We Bury the Dead isn’t as boldly stylized as either of Danny Boyle’s forays into zombieland, but it does benefit from location shooting, the steady clarity of Hilditch’s compositions, and Ridley’s haunted yet determined performance. Ridley has become a face of resilience in her Star Wars movies as well as more disparate films like Young Woman and the Sea and The Marsh King’s Daughter. Here, that resolve hardens into something more stubborn, while she lets slip hints of a greater vulnerability.