March 2023: the new movies in theaters this month, from Scream VI, Creed III and John Wick 4 to a new film from Guy Ritchie and more!
Some of the most anticipated films of the year are going to be released in theaters this month! Among March 2023 ‘s new movies are Creed III, John Wick 4, Scream VI, 65, Operation Fortune, a new Shazam! film, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, and many more! Champions, Inside, The Lost King and more movies are about to be released in the UK, and Close is finally coming to UK cinemas too!
Below you’ll find all of March 2023 ‘s new movies, to help you decide what to watch in theaters this month! All films are in order of release and divided by movies you’ll be able to see in U.S. theaters and in U.K. cinemas, and we’ve also added global release dates where available. Scroll till the end for this month’s film festivals and special events, click here for this month’s VOD releases and here for movies to watch on streaming platforms, and don’t forget to check out our list of most anticipated movies of 2023! Happy watching!
- New Movies in U.S. Theaters
- New Movies in U.K. Cinemas
MARCH 2023 MOVIES: IN U.S. THEATERS & GLOBALLY
A LITTLE WHITE LIE (LIMITED)
Director: Michael Maren
U.S. Release: March 3
U.K. Release: TBA
Official synopsis: Shriver (Michael Shannon), a down-on-his-luck handyman who has never read a book in his life, is mistaken for a famous writer that has been in hiding for over 20 years. With nothing to lose, he accepts an invitation to attend a college literary festival and finds himself surrounded by adoring fans and an English professor (Kate Hudson) who captures his heart. Shriver must do whatever it takes for his shot at love in this fish-out-of-water comedy.
BLUEBACK
Director: Robert Connolly
U.S. Release: March 3
U.K. Release: TBA
Official synopsis: While researching Australia’s deteriorating coral reefs, young marine biologist Abby receives word of her elderly mother Dora’s stroke. As she rushes to her seaside hometown to care for Dora, Abby recalls her childhood years spent living in concert with the ocean, and her mother’s efforts to protect the bay from greedy developers and invasive fishermen alike, often to the detriment of their own relationship.
Among the coral gardens, Abby also befriends a rare fish, an enormous blue groper — affectionately named Blueback — a tether to her environmentalism, and the key to reminding Abby and Dora of their love for each other and the vulnerable waters they call home.
CHILDREN OF THE CORN
Director: Kurt Wimmer
U.S. Release: March 3
U.K. Release: TBA
Official synopsis: Possessed by a spirit in a dying cornfield, twelve-year-old Eden recruits the other children in her small town to rise up and take control. Tired of having to pay the price for their parents’ mistakes, Eden leads the kids on a bloody rampage, killing the adults and anyone who opposes her. With all the adults jailed or dead, it comes down to one high schooler who won’t go along with the plan and becomes the town’s only hope of survival. CHILDREN OF THE CORN is a chilling new re-telling for a whole new generation.
CREED III
Director: Michael B. Jordan
Global Release: March 3
Official synopsis: After dominating the boxing world, Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan) has been thriving in both his career and family life. When a childhood friend and former boxing prodigy, Damian (Jonathan Majors), resurfaces after serving a long sentence in prison, he is eager to prove that he deserves his shot in the ring. The face off between former friends is more than just a fight. To settle the score, Adonis must put his future on the line to battle Damian – a fighter who has nothing to lose.
DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA SWORDSMITH VILLAGE ARC
Director: Haruo Sotozaki
U.S. Release: March 3
U.K. Release: TBA
Official synopsis: All the Upper Rank Demons assemble at the Infinity Castle after Upper Six Demons’ defeat.
THE DONOR PARTY (LIMITED)
Director: Thom Harp
U.S. Release: March 3
U.K. Release: TBA
Official synopsis: From writer-Director Thom Harp, THE DONOR PARTY follows recently single Jaclyn (Malin Åkerman), who desperately wants to become a mom — by any means necessary. After a messy divorce and countless wasted online dating attempts, she realizes she doesn’t need a husband to make her dream come true. Enlisting her best friends, Jaclyn devises a plan to pull off the ultimate sperm heist on unsuspecting donors, all while celebrating an intimate birthday party for her oblivious friend, Geoff (Rob Corddry).
THE FORGER (LIMITED)
Director: Maggie Peren
U.S. Release: March 3
U.K. Release: TBA
Official synopsis: Berlin, 1942. Cioma Schönhaus (Louis Hofmann, Dark) is a young Jewish man who won’t let anyone take away his zest for life, especially not the Nazis. Since the best hiding spots are in plain sight, Cioma audaciously adopts the identity of a marine officer to escape being deported like his family before him. Drawing on his art school background, he joins a network of underground rescuers and becomes infamous for his masterfully forged IDs – created with just a brush, some ink, and a steady hand – that save the lives of hundreds of Jews by allowing them to escape the country. Meanwhile, he throws himself into the city’s nightlife and even finds a fragile hope for love during the darkest moments of the war. His talent and propensity for boldness puts him in more and more danger, however, until his only chance of survival is one last forged document – with his own name on it.
GODS OF MEXICO (LIMITED)
Director: Helmut Dosantos
U.S. Release: March 3 at Firehouse in New York City, with more screenings nationwide in the following weeks.
U.K. Release: TBA
Official synopsis: With visually stunning landscapes and immersive sound, Gods of Mexico is a poetic survey of the vast landscapes and rich diversity of several communities of rural Mexico. Using richly saturated color and hypnotic black-and-white interludes, filmmaker Dosantos takes viewers through salt pans, deserts, highlands, jungle, and underground mines—paying tribute to those who fight to preserve their cultural identity amidst the shadows of modernization.
HUNT HER, KILL HER
Director: Greg Swinson
U.S. Release: March 3
U.K. Release: TBA
Official synopsis: On an otherwise peaceful evening during her first night on the job, a lone night shift janitor finds herself in an unexpected fight for survival when she becomes the target of sinister masked intruders. As their disturbing motives become clearer, she must use her crafty instincts and barbaric violence to make it through the night alive.
LA CIVIL
Director: Teodora Ana Mihai
U.S. Release: March 3
U.K. Release: TBA
Official synopsis: Unfolding with documentary-like precision as it details the human impact of drug cartels in Northern Mexico, La Civil tells the story of Cielo (Arcelia Ramírez, in a galvanizing performance), who learns her daughter Laura has been kidnapped when a baby-faced teenager orders her to pay 150,000 pesos if she wants to see Laura again. With no police support, Cielo embarks on her own investigation, peeling back layers of Mexico’s societal corruption in an increasingly desperate effort to save her child.
OPERATION FORTUNE: RUSE DE GUERRE
Director: Guy Ritchie
U.S. Release: March 3
UK, Ireland & France Release: April 7, on Prime Video
Official synopsis: Super spy Orson Fortune (Jason Statham) must track down and stop the sale of a deadly new weapons technology wielded by billionaire arms broker Greg Simmonds (Hugh Grant). Reluctantly teamed with some of the world’s best operatives (Aubrey Plaza, Cary Elwes, Bugzy Malone), Fortune and his crew recruit Hollywood’s biggest movie star Danny Francesco (Josh Hartnett) to help them on their globe-trotting undercover mission to save the world.
PALM TREES AND POWER LINES
Director: Jamie Dack
U.S. Release: March 3
U.K. Release: TBA
Official synopsis: Seventeen-year-old Lea (Lily McInerny) spends her summer break aimlessly tanning in her backyard with her best friend, tiptoeing around her needy mother, and getting stoned with a group of boys from school. This monotony is interrupted by a chance encounter with Tom (Jonathan Tucker), an older man who promises an alternative to Lea’s unsatisfying adolescent life. But as things progress between them, red flags about Tom’s life begin to surface, and Lea chooses to ignore them. Under Tom’s influence, Lea begins to see her mom as unfit and her friends as a waste of her time. Isolated from those around her, Lea discovers Tom’s true intentions and finds herself in a situation that she never could have imagined.
SANSON AND ME
Director: Rodrigo Reyes
U.S. Release: March 3
U.K. Release: November 18 (limited)
Official synopsis: A documentary a decade in the making, Sansón and Me is set between Californian prisons and coastal Mexico, and continues Reyes’ boundary-pushing approach to documentary making and is a testament to his craftful use of cinemagraphic language to reclaim the humanity of those disregarded by society.
SPLIT AT THE ROOT
Director: Linda Goldstein Knowlton
U.S. Release: March 3
Global Release: March 3 on Netflix
Official synopsis: Split at the Root follows the emotional journey of mothers separated from their children at the U.S. border and the grassroots initiative that, against all odds, reunites those families. When a Guatemalan mother seeking asylum was separated from her kids under the Zero Tolerance Policy, a Facebook post by a mom in Queens coalesced into a movement as thousands of like-minded women across the US refused to stand by quietly. Immigrant Families Together was born – a rapid response group committed to doing what the government couldn’t – or wouldn’t do: reunite parents with their children separated by the Zero Tolerance Policy.
TRANSFUSION
Director: Matt Nable
U.S. Release: March 3
U.K. Release: TBA
Official synopsis: Transfusion is the story of a father (Sam Worthington) and his young son (Edward Friday Carmody) attempting to reconnect after a devastating loss. The son, mired in guilt for a choice he never made, and a father suffering from PTSD and without identity after retiring from the Special Air Service regiment (SAS) of the Australian Army. On his last chance with the law, the father is thrust into the criminal underworld by a former SAS brother (Matt Nable) to keep his only son from being taken from him.
THE YEAR BETWEEN (LIMITED)
Director: Alex Heller
U.S. Release: March 3
U.K. Release: TBA
Official synopsis: Inspired by true events, THE YEAR BETWEEN is the story of Clemence Miller (played by writer-director Alex Heller), a college sophomore who is forced to move back home after having a mental breakdown. Faced with a surprising diagnosis of bipolar disorder and a jarring return to the Illinois suburbs, Clemence has to learn how to live with her well-meaning but frustrated family and find balance in a world that seems hellbent on thwarting her.
65
Directors: Scott Beck & Bryan Woods
Global Release: March 10
Official synopsis: After a catastrophic crash on an unknown planet, pilot Mills (Adam Driver) quickly discovers he’s actually stranded on Earth…65 million years ago. Now, with only one chance at rescue, Mills and the only other survivor, Koa (Ariana Greenblatt), must make their way across an unknown terrain riddled with dangerous prehistoric creatures in an epic fight to survive. From the writers of A Quiet Place and producer Sam Raimi comes 65, a sci-fi thriller starring Adam Driver, Ariana Greenblatt, and Chloe Coleman. Written and directed by Scott Beck & Bryan Woods and produced by Sam Raimi, Deborah Liebling and Zainab Azizi. Also produced by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods.
99 MOONS (LIMITED)
Director: Jan Gassmannin Abrams
U.S. Release: March 10 in New York, March 17 in LA
U.K. Release: TBA
Official synopsis: Bigna, a twenty-eight-year-old scientist, is used to having everything under control, even her erotic desires always follow rules. Thirty- three-year-old Frank searches for meaning in a haze of drugs, feeding on other people’s affection. Their different worlds collide, and they become obsessively entwined in a passionate affair.
CHAMPIONS
Director: Bobby Farrelly
U.S. Release: March 10
U.K. Release: TBA
Official synopsis: Woody Harrelson stars in the hilarious and heartwarming story of a former minor-league basketball coach who, after a series of missteps, is ordered by the court to manage a team of players with intellectual disabilities. He soon realizes that despite his doubts, together, this team can go further than they ever imagined. Champions is coming to theaters March 24, 2023.
CONFESSION (LIMITED)
Director: Dayna Hanson
U.S. Release: March 10
U.K. Release: TBA
Official synopsis: An up-and-coming district attorney takes on the case of a young woman who has accused three men of sexual assault. She puts her career on the line in order to uncover a deeper web of mystery, murder and deception.
I GOT A MONSTER (LIMITED)
Director: Kevin Abrams
U.S. Release: March 10
U.K. Release: TBA
Official synopsis: Based on an explosive true story, I GOT A MONSTER retells in highly dramatic fashion one of the nation’s biggest police corruption scandals. In 2017, Baltimore was rocked by the Federal indictment of Wayne Jenkins, a highly decorated super-cop and leader of the Baltimore Police Department’s elite Gun Trace Task Force along with six other members on racketeering charges. In a city plagued by racial tension and violence, plain-clothes detectives from the Gun Trace Task Force had been celebrated for holding the Thin Blue Line, but in fact were terrorizing Baltimore’s Black community.
PUNCH (LIMITED)
Director: Welby Ings
U.S. Release: March 10
U.K. Release: TBA
Official synopsis: Jim is a promising teenage boxer, training under the watch of his demanding and alcoholic father. When Jim develops a relationship with a male classmate, the two are forced to navigate isolation, homophobia, and the brutality of small-town life. As Jim discovers what it means to be gay, he realizes how little strength has to do with heroism.
THE RITUAL KILLER (LIMITED)
Director: George Gallo
U.S. Release: March 10
U.K. Release: TBA
Official synopsis: The Ritual Killer follows Detective Boyd (Hauser), who, unable to process the death of his daughter, embarks on the hunt for a serial killer who murders according to a brutal tribal ritual: Muti. The only person who can help Boyd is Professor Mackles (Freeman), an anthropologist who hides an unspeakable secret. The line between sanity and madness thins as Boyd goes deeper into the killer’s world.
SATURDAY AFTERNOON
Director: Mostafa Sarwar Farooki
U.S. & Canada Release: March 10
U.K. Release: TBA
Official synopsis: A film directed by Mostafa Sarwar Farooki is a one shot film to be released on 10th of March in USA & Canada. The film unravels the clashes and contradictions of religion, ideology, and civilizations through a terror drama that takes place at Dhaka café which acts as a miniature of the conflicted world we live in.
SCREAM VI
Directors: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett
Global Release: March 10
Official synopsis: Following the latest Ghostface killings, the four survivors leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter. In Scream VI, Melissa Barrera (“Sam Carpenter”), Jasmin Savoy Brown (“Mindy Meeks-Martin”), Mason Gooding (“Chad Meeks-Martin”), Jenna Ortega (“Tara Carpenter”), Hayden Panettiere (“Kirby Reed”) and Courteney Cox (“Gale Weathers”) return to their roles in the franchise alongside Jack Champion, Henry Czerny, Liana Liberato, Dermot Mulroney, Devyn Nekoda, Tony Revolori, Josh Segarra, and Samara Weaving.
THERAPY DOGS (LIMITED)
Director: Ethan Eng
U.S. Release: March 10
U.K. Release: TBA
Official synopsis: Ethan and his best friend Justin are students trying to make sense of their high school existence. In what will be the last chapter of their teenage lives and the beginning of adulthood beyond, they decide to make the ultimate senior video in the search for answers. Exploring teenage suburbia in a no-brakes adventure, questions arise whether there’s more to their lives than simply growing up.
UNICORN WARS (LIMITED)
Director: Alberto Vázquez
U.S. Release: March 10
U.K. Release: TBA
Official synopsis: It’s Bambi meets Apocalypse Now in this provocative and strangely beautiful horror comedy from acclaimed filmmaker and illustrator Alberto Vazquez (Birdboy: The Forgotten Children), who uses its outrageous candy-colored premise to explore religious zealotry, the tortured legacies of military fascism, and the depths of the soul.
UNWELCOME (LIMITED)
Director: Jon Wright
U.S. Release: March 10
U.K. Release: January 27
Official synopsis: Unwelcome, directed by Irish-born Jon Wright (Grabbers, Robot Overlords) and based on an original screenplay by Mark Stay, stars Hannah John-Kamen (Black Mirror, Ant-Man and The Wasp, Ready Player One) and Douglas Booth (Loving Vincent, hit Netflix film The Dirt, Jupiter Ascending, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies). A couple escapes their urban nightmare to the tranquility of rural Ireland only to hear stories of mysterious beings who live in the gnarled, ancient wood at the foot of their new garden. As warned by their new neighbors, in Irish lore the Redcaps will come when called to help souls in dire need of rescue, but it’s crucial to remember that there is always a dear price to pay for their aid.
ALL THE WORLD IS SLEEPING (LIMITED)
Director: Ryan Lacen
U.S. Release: March 17
U.K. Release: TBA
Official synopsis: ALL THE WORLD IS SLEEPING follows Chama (Melissa Barrera), who as a young girl in New Mexico, strived to be different from her mother. Now in her twenties, she’s found herself falling into a similar cycle of generational addiction. This struggle then threatens her balance as a mother to her own daughter. As Chama tries to keep it all together, a harrowing accident will spiral her out of control, causing her daughter to be taken from her custody. With nothing left, she’ll have to confront her past in order to fight for a future — one that can either guide her closer to getting her daughter back or lead her deeper into this dangerous cycle.
THE GHOST WITHIN (LIMITED)
Director: Lawrence Fowler
U.S. Release: March 17
U.K. Release: TBA
Official synopsis: Margot revisits her family home desperate to uncover who killed her sister, Evie, 20 years earlier. As she gets closer to the truth, Margot finds herself facing her deepest fears in the house that’s still haunted by Evie’s ghost.
INSIDE
Director: Vasilis Katsoupis
U.S. Release: March 17
U.K. Release: TBA
Full Review: Inside: Berlin Film Festival Review
Official synopsis: INSIDE tells the story of Nemo, an art thief trapped in a New York penthouse after his heist doesn’t go as planned. Locked inside with nothing but priceless works of art, he must use all his cunning and invention to survive.
MOVING ON
Director: Paul Weitz
U.S. Release: March 17
U.K. Release: TBA
Official synopsis: Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin star as estranged friends who reunite to seek revenge on the petulant widower (Malcom McDowell) of their recently deceased best friend. Along the way, Fonda’s character reunites with her great love (Richard Roundtree) as each woman learns to make peace with the past and each other.
PINBALL: THE MAN WHO SAVED THE GAME
Directors: The Bragg Brothers
U.S. Release: March 17
U.K. Release: TBA
Official synopsis: Based on true events, the film centers on the captivating story of Roger Sharpe, a GQ journalist and real-life pinball wizard who, in 1976, helped overturn New York City’s 35-year ban on pinball.
SHAZAM! FURY OF THE GODS
Director: David F. Sandberg
Global Release: March 17
Official synopsis: From New Line Cinema comes “Shazam! Fury of the Gods,” which continues the story of teenage Billy Batson who, upon reciting the magic word “SHAZAM!,” is transformed into his adult Super Hero alter ego, Shazam.
SUPERCELL
Directors: Herbert James Winterstern
U.S. Release: March 17
U.K. Release: TBA
Official synopsis: Baseball-size hail, violent winds, churning tornadoes make supercells deadly. When William Brody was a boy, his father – a legendary storm-chaser – was killed by one. Now, the family business belongs to Zane Rogers (Alec Baldwin), a reckless tour operator who sees dollars where others see storm clouds. When his destiny arrives in the form of one of the most powerful storms on record, William leaves his mom (Anne Heche) and home behind to team up with his father’s ex-partner, Roy Cameron (Skeet Ulrich), barely surviving a tornado yet determined to chase one of nature’s most terrifying creations: “the bear’s cage.”
A GOOD PERSON
Director: Zach Braff
Global Release: March 24
U.S. Release: March 24 (limited), March 31 (wide)
Official synopsis: Daniel (Morgan Freeman) is brought together with Allison (Florence Pugh), the once thriving young woman with a bright future who was involved in an unimaginable tragedy that took his daughter’s life. As grief-stricken Daniel navigates raising his teenage granddaughter and Allison seeks redemption, they discover that friendship, forgiveness, and hope can flourish in unlikely places.
THE FIVE DEVILS
Director: Léa Mysius
Global Release: March 24
MUBI Release: May 12
Official synopsis: Vicky, a strange and solitary little girl, has one magical gift: she can reproduce any scent she likes, and collects them in a series of carefully labeled jars. She has secretly captured the scent of Jo
