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Top 20 New to Streaming in February

These streaming movies are now available to watch instantly – most at no extra cost, some on a premium pay-per-view basis. But get watching while you can, because some of these streaming films are only around for a few short weeks...

Top 20 New to Streaming

Broken Embraces

Directed by: Pedro Almodovar
Starring: Penelope Cruz, Lluis Homar, Blanca Portillo

Think the camera never lies? Fruity arthouse maestro Almodóvar’s sensual, twisty mystery proves otherwise. Cruz plays a prostitute-turned-actress who falls for her director, we play an audience who fall for her. And then... Well, you watch.

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The Firm

Directed by: Nick Love
Starring: Calum McNab, Paul Anderson, Lewis Banks

Do you want some? Do ya? Er, yes! Boasting authentic swagger and soundtrack, this footy hooligan flick packs brilliant threats (“I’ll open you up like village fete”) and even better ‘80s tracksuits (“You look like a fackin’ post box”).

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Torchwood – Series 1 - 3

Directed by: Various
Starring: John Barrowman, Eve Myles, Kai Owen

Edgier than just an anagram, smarter than just a spin-off, Doctor Who creator Russell T Davis’ sci-fi series sees immortal superhero Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) a) defending Earth from aliens and b) trying to have sex with everyone.

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Planet Earth

Directed by: David Attenborough
Five years and £16 million in the making, the BBC’s nature mega-doc is a truly breathtaking experience. Mountains to oceans, deserts to ice worlds, slo-mo sharks to carnivorous plants... It’s like God made a promo-reel and asked David Attenborough to narrate.

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Hustle – Series 1-3

Directed by: Various
Starring: Robert Glenister, Robert Vaughn, Rob Jarvis

Ocean's Eleven meets 007 on the BBC. Smirking with con-fidence, Hustle’s scam-artists walk around inside freeze-frames, wink at the camera and generally ooze style. Just six episodes in Series One, but each one has a sting up its sleeve.

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The League Of Gentlemen – Series 1

Directed by: various
Starring: Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reese Shearsmith

A transsexual taxi driver. A clean-freak family obsessed toads. A carnival owner who kidnaps wives. A butcher who sells nosebleed-inducing “special stuff”. Last Of The Summer Wine voodoo-ed by The Wicker Man in a whisk of funny, unnerving, bizarro genius.You’ll never leave...

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Absolutely Fabulous – Series 1 (Coming soon)

Directed by: Various
Starring: Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha

Women behaving badly, darling. Fashion publicist Edina (Jennifer Saunders) and magazine editor Patsy (Joanna Lumley) desperately try to stay young and hip – by necking massive quantities of drugs and booze. Pop-culture references age, but great comedy doesn’t.

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Dirt – Series 1-2

Directed by: Various
Starring: Courtney Cox, Ian Hart, Josh Stewart

Sex, sleaze and scandals Goodbye Monica Bing, hello Lucy Spiller. Courtney Cox turns ruthless as editor of a celeb-skewering tabloid magazine in a show that head-dunks into the sleazy world of showbiz scandals like a pig in a trough. Don’t miss cool cameos by Jennifer Aniston and Vincent Gallo.

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Ashes to Ashes – Series 1

Directed by: Various
Starring: Philip Glenister, Keeley Hawes, Dean Andrews

Sequel ‘o clock for clever cop-drama Life On Mars: now Spooks' Keeley Hawes is the policewoman who’s gunned down in 2008 and wakes up in Thatcher’s ‘80s. Deja vu, for sure, but Philip Glenister is still great as shouty, sexist, skull-cracker DCI Gene Hunt.

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What About Brian – Series 1-2

Directed by: Various
Starring: Barry Watson, Matthew Davis, Rick Gomez

What about Brian? (Guess they forgot the question mark.) He’s a 32-year-old single guy who suddenly realises all his friends are engaged or married. Catchy LA sitcom, produced by Lost creator JJ Abrams’ company, in which everyone has nice hair.

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Nights In Rodanthe

Directed by: George C Wolfe
Starring: Diane Lane, Richard Gere, Christopher Meloni

Diane Lane leaves her no-good husband to run a charming B&B, where her only customer turns out to be handsome silver fox Doctor Richard Gere. Another housewives' swoon from author Nicholas ‘The Notebook’ Sparks, basically the Einstein of schmaltzy romance.

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Paranormal Activity

Directed by: Oren Peli
Starring: Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat, Mark Fredrichs
Creeeak... Tap, tap, tap... THUMP! Filmed in a week for just $15,000, the original surveillance-cam horror about a couple haunted in their own home is still guaranteed to utterly destroy your nerves. Wait, what was the noise?

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Casablanca

Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains

Romance, sacrifice, heroism and Nazis... Maybe Hollywood’s most perfect melodrama, with Humphrey Bogart as the cynical bar-owner who’s roused when lost love Ingrid Bergman arrives with her French-resistance husband. Play it, Sam. Play it even if your name’s not Sam.

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Julie & Julia

Directed by: Nora Ephron
Starring: Amy Adams, Meryl Streep, Stanley Tucci

Kicking the pantry doors off the art of cooking in the ‘60s, Julia Childs (Meryl Streep) was America’s loopy answer to Delia Smith. Fifty years later, blogger Amy Adams decides to cook all her recipes as Nora Ephron’s comedy-drama mashes two comedy-dramas into one.

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Gnomeo & Juliet

Directed by: Kelly Asbury
Starring: James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Jason Statham

Obviously, Shakespeare missed a trick by not setting the world's greatest love story in his back garden. Luckily, James McAvoy and Emily Blunt are here voicing star-crossed gnomes in this pint-sized CG romper. Jason Statham as Tybalt? Awesome.

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Sleeping Beauty

Directed by: Julia Leigh
Starring: Emily Browning, Rachael Blake, Ewen Leslie

Sucker Punch starlet Emily Browning gives a courageous performance – oh, and gets very naked indeed – as a Venus-like beauty who agrees to be drugged unconscious and slobbered over by rich old men. Clearly, they don’t pay waitresses enough in Australia. Eerie, anti-erotic arthouse drama.

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Zombieland

Directed by: Ruben Fleischer
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Woody Harrelson

Nut up or shut up... Wussie survivor Jesse Eisenberg and gun-toting zombie hunter Woody Harrelson go roadtripping for Twinkies through post-apocalyptic America in this infectious zom-com. Bloody, funny and – if you didn’t know already – winner of the Best Cameo Ever award.

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Attack The Block

Directed by: Joe Cornish
Starring: John Boyega, Jodie Whittaker, Alex Esmail

Braaap! Braaap! Five teenage muggers (led by breakout star John Boyega) are attacked by killer ETs in London in debut director Joe Cornish’s hugely entertaining budget blockbuster. Spielbergian childhood fantasy meets ‘80s alien schlock-horror meets London street-slang? Allow it.

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Waste Land (Available from 25 February)

Directed by: Lucy Walker
Starring: Vik Muniz

Superstar Brazilian artist Vik Muniz (whose solo show in Rio was second only to Picasso in attendance records) does something special with the world’s largest garbage dump (it’s 45 years old and 50 metres high). The only time we’ll ever recommend a rubbish documentary.

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2012 (Available from 26 February)

Directed by: Roland Emmerich
Starring: John Cusack, Thandie Newton, Woody Harrelson

After blowing up the White House in Independence Day and freezing the planet in The Day After Tomorrow, master-of-disaster Roland Emmerich destroys the entire world. Forget the script (you get the feeling the cast did), just marvel at the utterly mindblowing special-effects.

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Jonathan Crocker