What's New on Streaming This Week - Oscar Contenders and Thought-Provoking Documentaries Dominate the Lineup

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It's looking like it will be a quieter week in terms of new movies to stream, but if you've already caught up on some of the major awards contenders, you'll now have the opportunity to check out some smaller films. You can check out the list below to find out which movies are hitting streaming this week.

New on VOD:

'Flow'

Available on: Tuesday, January 7

'Flow' Review: A Cat's-Eye View of The End of The World

In this masterful animated film, a cat, a capybara, a lemur, and a Labrador Retriever get in a boat and try to survive a flooded world.

2024 was an incredible year for animated films from The Wild Robot to Inside Out 2 and Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. However, arguably the most acclaimed movie of the bunch is a little movie from Latvia about a little black cat trying to find his way home.

Flow is a dialogue-free animated adventure following a black cat, whose home is ruined by a flood. In order to find safety and a new home, the feline hops aboard a boat populated by other animals including a capybara, a lemur, and a yellow lab.

The movie is directed by Gints Zilbalodis and has already earned itself plenty of awards, winning Best Animated Film at the Golden Globes, the National Board of Review, the New York Film Critics Circle, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and the European Film Awards.

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Flow (2024) follows a solitary animal named Cat who must find refuge and collaborate with other species on a boat after a great flood devastates their home. As they sail through mystical, overflowed landscapes, the group navigates challenges and dangers while adapting to a transformed world.

Release Date August 30, 2024

Director Gints Zilbalodis

Runtime 84 minutes

Writers Gints Zilbalodis , Matiss Kaza

Producers Ron Dyens , Matīss Kaža

'Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat'

Available on: Tuesday, January 7, 2024

Currently, on the shortlist to be potentially nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat documents musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crashing the UN Security Council in early 1961, protesting the murder of the Congo's prime minister, Patrice Lumumba. The feature also documents Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev banging his shoe on his desk to protest against America's color bar, as well as the US government sending jazz icon Louis Armstrong to the Congo as a way to distract the public from Africa's first post-colonial coup. Johan Grimonprez (Shadow World) directs the film.

Soundtrack to a Coup d'État

Release Date January 24, 2024

Director Johan Grimonprez

Cast Louis Armstrong , Patrice Lumumba , Max Roach , René Magritte

Runtime 150 minutes

Character(s) Self (archive footage)

Producers Rémi Grellety

'The End'

Available on: Friday, January 10

Academy Award-nominated documentarian Joshua Oppenheimer (The Look of Silence) makes his narrative debut with the post-apocalyptic musical The End.

Set 20 years after the apocalypse, the film follows the wealthy family who caused the end of the world and has spent their time living underground in a luxurious bunker. The son of the family yearns to see the outside world and potentially finds the chance when a young woman shows up at their bunker's entrance.

The movie stars Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton), George MacKay (1917), Moses Ingram (Obi-Wan Kenobi), Bronagh Gallagher (Pulp Fiction), Tim McInnerny (Game of Thrones), Lennie James (The Walking Dead), and Academy Award nominee Michael Shannon (The Shape of Water).

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The End follows a wealthy family living in seclusion within a salt mine, whose isolated existence is disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious stranger, leading to unforeseen consequences.

Release Date January 23, 2025

Director Joshua Oppenheimer

Runtime 148 minutes

Main Genre Sci-Fi

Character(s) Uncredited

Writers Rasmus Heisterberg

Producers James Marsh , Jean Doumanian , Macdara Kelleher , Michael Weber , Ramin Bahrani , Jeff Deutchman , Kaarle Aho , Signe Byrge Sørensen , Alberto Fanni , John Keville , Charlotte Cook , Efe Çakarel , Celine Haddad , Christian D. Bruun , Elissa Federoff

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'2073'

Available on: Tuesday, January 7

Academy Award-winning documentarian Asif Kapadia (Amy) combines narrative and documentary filmmaking for a disturbing look into the potential future in 2073.

Inspired by Chris Marker's 1962 featurette, La Jetée, the film depicts a depressed version of San Francisco that has become dominated by law enforcement, and has stripped the American people of democracy and their own personal freedoms.

The narrative section of the film stars Academy Award nominee Samantha Morton (Minority Report), Naomi Ackie (Blink Twice), and Hector Hewer (The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself).

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2073 is a 2024 British documentary film inspired by Chris Marker's 1962 featurette La Jetée. It is set in a dystopian future and follows a time traveler who risks everything to alter the course of history and save humanity.

Release Date September 3, 2024

Runtime 85 Minutes

Main Genre Documentary

Character(s) Uncredited

Producers John Sloss , Tom Quinn , Dan O'Meara , Nicole Stott , Ollie Madden , Dana O'Keefe , George Chignell

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'Black Box Diaries'

Available on: Tuesday, January 7

Another documentary on the Academy Award's shortlist for Best Documentary Feature is Black Box Diaries. The movie follows journalist and director Shiori Itō as she investigates her own sexual assault to prosecute her powerful offender. With the odds stacked against her, the case gained traction in Japan as it exposed the inherent flaws in their judicial and societal systems.