april 2023 movies

Here are the New Movies about to hit your Screens this April 2023.

Apr 06, 2023

Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism (2023)

Crime / Horror

Stars: Georgia Eyers, Dan Ewing, Tim Pocock, Rosie Traynor

Lara is a woman tormented, torn between science and faith. Pushed by her husband to seek treatment from a congregation of zealots, a ruthless exorcist will try to save her soul by putting an innocent woman through hell.

Apr 07, 2023

The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)

Cast: Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black, Keegan-Michael Key, Seth Rogen, Fred Armisen, Kevin Michael Richardson, Sebastian Maniscalco

super mario bros movie
Princess and Mario

From Nintendo and Illumination comes a new animated film based on the world of Super Mario Bros.

On a Wing and a Prayer (2023)

  • Drama

Stars: Dennis Quaid, Heather Graham, Jesse Metcalfe, Selena Anduze

In this extraordinary true story of faith and survival, ON A WING AND A PRAYER follows passenger Doug White’s (Dennis Quaid) harrowing journey to safely land a plane and save his entire family from insurmountable danger, after their pilot dies unexpectedly mid-flight.

Paint (2023)

  • Comedy
  • Drama

Stars: Owen Wilson, Elisabeth Henry, Paul Kosopod, Sonia Darmei Lopes, Stephen Root, Wendi McLendon-Covey

Owen Wilson portrays Carl Nargle, Vermont’s #1 public television painter who is convinced he has it all: a signature perm, custom van, and fans hanging on his every stroke… until a younger, better artist steals everything (and everyone) Carl loves.

The Portable Door (2023)

  • Fantasy @ Sky Cinema

Stars: Patrick Gibson, Christoph Waltz, Sam Neill, Miranda Otto

The movie centers on Paul Carpenter and Sophie Pettingel, lowly, put-upon interns who begin working at the mysterious London firm J.W. Wells & Co., and become increasingly aware that their employers are anything but conventional. Charismatic villains Humphrey Wells, the CEO of the company, and middle manager Dennis Tanner are disrupting the world of magic by bringing modern corporate strategy to ancient magical practices, and Paul and Sophie discover the true agenda of the vast corporation.

How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022)

  • Crime
  • Drama
  • Thriller

Stars: Ariela Barer, Kristine Froseth, Lukas Gage, Forrest Goodluck, Sasha Lane, Jayme Lawson, Marcus Scribner, Jake Weary, Irene Bedard, Olive Jane Lorraine

A crew of young environmental activists execute a daring mission to sabotage an oil pipeline in this taut and timely thriller that is part high-stakes heist, part radical exploration of the climate crisis.

Ride On (2023)

  • Action
  • Comedy
  • Drama

Stars: Jackie Chan, Haocun Liu, Kevin Guo, Jing Wu

Of an Age (2022)

  • Drama
  • Romance

Stars: Thom Green, Elias Anton, Hattie Hook, Matthew Page

OF AN AGE is set in the summer of 1999 as a 17-year-old Serbian born, Australian amateur ballroom dancer experiences an unexpected and intense 24-hour romance with a friend’s older brother.

Simulant (2023)

  • Sci-Fi
  • Thriller

Stars: Robbie Amell, Jordana Brewster, Simu Liu, Sam Worthington, Alicia Sanz

The laws governing androids dictate that owners must deactivate unwanted Simulants (SIMS). But since Faye (Jordana Brewster) already pulled the plug on her late husband, she can’t bring herself to do the same to Evan (Robbie Amell), his android counterpart – even after she realizes her relationship with him is only prolonging her grief. Instead of deactivating Evan, Faye sets him up in an apartment to live illegally on his own. While there he meets Casey (Simu Liu), a brilliant programmer who helps him become more human in order to win Faye back. Unbeknownst to Evan, his new friend is wanted for questioning by a determined Artificial Intelligence Compliance Enforcement (AICE) agent Kessler (Sam Worthington). Evan has to win over Faye’s heart before they are both discovered and he loses everything.

R.M.N. (2022)

  • Drama
  • Marin Grigore, Judith State, Macrina Barladeanu, Orsolya Moldován

Showing Up (2022)

  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Michelle Williams, Hong Chau, André 3000, Todd-o-Phonic Todd, John Magaro

One Day as a Lion (2023)

  • Action
  • Thriller

Actors: J.K. Simmons, Frank Grillo, Virginia Madsen, Taryn Manning, Scott Caan, Marianne Rendón, George Carroll, Virginia Madsen

Jackie Powers (Scott Caan) is a nice guy but a lousy hit man, and when he’s sent to take out a crafty debtor (J.K. Simmons), Jackie only pisses him off. Fleeing the scene, Jackie takes bored waitress Lola as a hostage. When Jackie reveals he needs money to get his son out of jail, Lola cooks up a scheme for them to get cash from her dying mother (Virginia Madsen). Meanwhile, a thug sent to kill him is sleeping with Jackie’s ex. Also starring Frank Grillo, this crime-comedy is a witty homage to Tarantino and the Coen brothers.

La Usurpadora: The Musical (2023)

  • Comedy
  • Crime
  • Musical
  • Isabella Castillo, Alan Estrada, Cecilia Toussaint, Susana Zabaleta

1618 (2021)

  • Drama
  • History
  • Pedro Laginha, Francisco Beatriz, Catarina Lacerda, Mafalda Banquart

Blood Covered Chocolate (2022)

  • Crime
  • Fantasy
  • Horror
  • Christine Nguyen, Helene Udy, Mike Ferguson, Debra Lamb

Balloon Animal (2022)

  • Drama
  • Katherine Waddell, Ilia Volok, Michael David Wilson, Danielle Baez

Boom! Boom!: The World vs. Boris Becker (2023)

  • Documentary
  • Sport
  • John McEnroe, Boris Becker, Björn Borg, Novak Djokovic

Apr 12, 2023

Beautiful Disaster (2023)

  • Drama
  • Romance
  • Virginia Gardner, Dylan Sprouse, Libe Barer, Autumn Reeser

Kryptonim: Polska (2022)

  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Borys Szyc
  • Maciej Musialowski
  • Magdalena Mascianica
  • Antoni Królikowski

The Plains (2022)

  • Documentary
  • Drama
  • Andrew Rakowski, David Easteal, Cheri LeCornu, Inga Rakowski

Apr 14, 2023

Renfield (2023)

  • Comedy
  • Fantasy
  • Horror
  • Nicholas Hoult, Nicolas Cage, Awkwafina, Ben Schwartz

The Pope’s Exorcist (2023)

  • Horror
  • Thriller

Stars: Russell Crowe, Daniel Zovatto, Alex Essoe, Franco Nero

Inspired by the actual files of Father Gabriele Amorth, Chief Exorcist of the Vatican (Academy Award®-winner Russell Crowe), The Pope’s Exorcist follows Amorth as he investigates a young boy’s terrifying possession and ends up uncovering a centuries-old conspiracy the Vatican has desperately tried to keep hidden.

Perfect Addiction (2023)

  • Action
  • Drama
  • Romance

Cast: Manu Bennett, Ryan Bown, Ross Butler, Alex Czerwinski, Kiana Madeira, Matthew Noszka

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FibtBUxV9hY

When a successful MMA trainer discovers that her boyfriend, the reigning champion, has been cheating on her, she sets out to get revenge by training the one man capable of dethroning him: his arch-nemesis. What begins as payback quickly turns into a complicated and steamy love triangle. Based on the wildly popular novel by Claudia Tan.

Suzume (2022)

  • Animation
  • Action
  • Adventure
  • Nanoka Hara
  • Hokuto Matsumura
  • Eri Fukatsu
  • Kôshirô Matsumoto

Nefarious (2023)

  • Horror
  • Thriller

Cast: Sean Patrick Flanery, Jordan Belfi, James Healy Jr., Eric Hanson

On the day of his scheduled execution, a convicted serial killer gets a psychiatric evaluation during which he claims he is a demon, and further claims that before their time is over, the psychiatrist will commit three murders of his own.

Mafia Mamma (2023)

  • Action
  • Comedy
  • Crime

Actors: Toni Collette, Monica Bellucci, Sophia Nomvete, Alessandro Bressanello, Alfonso Perugini, Giulio Corso, Tim Daish, Francesco Mastroianni

MAFIA MAMMA follows an insecure American woman (Toni Collette) who unexpectedly inherits her grandfather’s mafia empire in Italy. Guided by the firm’s trusted consigliere (Monica Bellucci), she hilariously defies everyone’s expectations, including her own, as the new head of the family business.

Sweetwater (2023)

  • Biography
  • Drama
  • Sport
  • Cary Elwes
  • Eric Roberts
  • Richard Dreyfuss
  • Jeremy Piven

From Black (2023)

  • Horror
  • Anna Camp
  • John Ales
  • Jennifer Lafleur
  • Travis Hammer

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (2022)

  • Animation
  • Drama
  • Sci-Fi

Cast: Ryan Bommarito, Shoshana Wilder, Marcelo Arroyo, Scott Humphrey, Arthur Holden, Pierre Földes, Amaury de Crayencour, Mathilde Auneveux, Arnaud Maillard, Bruno Paviot

A giant talking frog and an elusive cat help a listless bank employee, his traumatized wife, and a lonely accountant seek meaning in their lives and possibly save Tokyo from catastrophe in the animated feature Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman. Based on stories by acclaimed Japanese author Haruki Murakami (Drive My Car), this feature debut by composer Pierre Földes won the Jury Special Mention award at the renowned Annecy Animation Film Festival and the Grand Prize at the Anima Festival in Brussels. In Tokyo, not long after the 2011 earthquake, Kyoko suddenly leaves her husband Komura after spending five days glued to the news on TV. Komura takes a week’s leave from work and heads north to deliver a box and its unknown contents to two young women. His colleague Katagiri, a simple debt collector by profession and an awkward loner in life, returns home one evening to find a 7-foot-tall frog asking for his help to save Tokyo from a tsunami. Using an innovative live-action 3D motion capture process, Foldes captures the memories, dreams and visions of these characters as they attempt to rediscover their true selves.

Once Upon a Time in Ukraine (2020)

  • Action
  • Adventure
  • Comedy
  • Roman Lutskyi, Sergey Strelnikov, Kateryna Slyusar, Gen Seto

Bullets. Swords. Revenge. In this bloody Tarantino tribute, the samurai Akayo enters the territory of Ukraine, seeking revenge on the Japanese Harimoto–a buyer of slaves from a Ukrainian master. On his way, Akayo teams up with the serf Taras, who is also guided by personal revenge and wants to organize the release of his beloved .

Apr 21, 2023

Evil Dead Rise (2023)

  • Horror @ Warner Bros. Pictures

Actors: Lily Sullivan, Alyssa Sutherland, Morgan Davies, Gabrielle Echols, Nell Fisher

Moving the action out of the woods and into the city, “Evil Dead Rise” tells a twisted tale of two estranged sisters, played by Sutherland and Sullivan, whose reunion is cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.

Beau Is Afraid (2023)

  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Horror

Actors: Joaquin Pheonix, Amy Ryan, Nathan Lane, Parker Posey, Michael Gandolfini, Patti LuPone, Zoe Lister-Jones, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Hayley Squires

Chevalier (2022)

  • Biography
  • Drama
  • History
  • Samara Weaving
  • Lucy Boynton
  • Sian Clifford
  • Minnie Driver

Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant (2023)

  • Action
  • Crime
  • Thriller

Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Dar Salim, Antony Starr, Alexander Ludwig, Bobby Schofield, Emily Beecham, Jonny Lee Miller

Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant follows US Army Sergeant John Kinley (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Afghan interpreter Ahmed (Dar Salim). After an ambush, Ahmed goes to Herculean lengths to save Kinley’s life. When Kinley learns that Ahmed and his family were not given safe passage to America as promised, he must repay his debt by returning to the war zone to retrieve them before the Taliban hunts them down first.

Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan (2023)

  • Action
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Salman Khan
  • Pooja Hegde
  • Venkatesh Daggubati
  • Jagapathi Babu

Little Richard: I Am Everything (2023)

  • Documentary
  • Music @ Magnolia Pictures
  • John Waters, Mick Jagger, Tom Jones, Paul McCartney

LITTLE RICHARD: I AM EVERYTHING tells the story of the Black queer origins of rock n’ roll, exploding the whitewashed canon of American pop music to reveal the innovator – the originator – Richard Penniman. Through a wealth of archive and performance that brings us into Richard’s complicated inner world, the film unspools the icon’s life story with all its switchbacks and contradictions. In interviews with family, musicians, and cutting-edge Black and queer scholars, the film reveals how Richard created an art form for ultimate self-expression, yet what he gave to the world he was never able to give to himself. Throughout his life, Richard careened like a shiny cracked pinball between God, sex and rock n’ roll. The world tried to put him in a box, but Richard was an omni being who contained multitudes – he was unabashedly everything.

Chokehold (2023)

  • Drama
  • Thriller
  • Kivanç Tatlitug
  • Funda Eryigit
  • Gürgen Öz
  • Hayat Van Eck

Apr 28, 2023

Sisu (2022)

  • Action
  • War
  • Jorma Tommila
  • Aksel Hennie
  • Jack Doolan
  • Mimosa Willamo

The Black Demon (2023)

  • Horror
  • Sci-Fi
  • Thriller
  • Josh Lucas
  • Fernanda Urrejola
  • Héctor Jiménez
  • Raúl Méndez

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. (2023)

  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, Elle Graham, Benny Safdie, Abby Ryder Fortson

Experience the big-screen adaptation of Judy Blume’s classic, groundbreaking novel that candidly explores life’s biggest questions through the eyes of an 11-year-old girl.

Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the World (2023)

  • Biography
  • Drama
  • Sport @ Sony Pictures

Actors: Khris Davis, Jasmine Mathews, John Magaro, Sullivan Jones, Lawrence Gilliard Jr., Sonja Sohn, Forest Whitaker, Erica Tazel, Sam Trammell

Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the World is based on the remarkable true story of one of the greatest comebacks of all time and the transformational power of second chances. Fueled by an impoverished childhood, Foreman channeled his anger into becoming an Olympic Gold medalist and World Heavyweight Champion, followed by a near-death experience that took him from the boxing ring to the pulpit. But when he sees his community struggling spiritually and financially, Foreman returns to the ring and makes history by reclaiming his title, becoming the oldest and most improbable World Heavyweight Boxing Champion ever.

Clock (2023)

  • Horror
  • Thriller
  • Dianna Agron
  • Melora Hardin
  • Jay Ali
  • Saul Rubinek

Polite Society (2023)

  • Action / Comedy @ Focus Features

Cast: Priya Kansara, Ritu Arya, Nimra Bucha, Akshay Khanna, Seraphina Beh, Ella Bruccoleri, Renu Brindle, Rekha John-Cheriyan

A merry mash up of sisterly affection, parental disappointment and bold action, POLITE SOCIETY follows martial artist-in-training Ria Khan who believes she must save her older sister Lena from her impending marriage. After enlisting the help of her friends, Ria attempts to pull off the most ambitious of all wedding heists in the name of independence and sisterhood.

Winter Boy (2022)

  • Drama
  • Paul Kircher
  • Vincent Lacoste
  • Juliette Binoche
  • Erwan Kepoa Falé

The End of Sex (2022)

  • Comedy
  • Romance
  • Emily Hampshire
  • Jonas Chernick
  • Gray Powell
  • Lily Gao

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