100 Films to Look Forward To in 2026

Wow, welcome to 2026 everyone! With the calendar fully turned over from 2025, we’re about to get an entire slate of new movies to dig into. This coming weekend, the first major releases of the year will be hitting. Beyond that? Well, there’s literally everything. Four years ago, I posed this list for 2021 on January 1st (here), with the 2022 list here, as well as 2023’s list here, 2024’s here, followed by last year’s list here, and I’ve often managed to hit on a lot of the major flicks. Of course, I didn’t hit on everything, and even some of the ones I did have graduated to this list. Today, you’ll see my collection of the 100 bits of cinema that I most think are worth considering during the impending twelve months. Fun, right? Yeah, I thought so.

What you’ll see below are just 100 films that I think might be interesting to you, to me, or potentially to all of us. It’s fun! For me, it’s the big movies from the big directors up top, so you have Christopher Nolan‘s The Odyssey and Steven Spielberg‘s Disclosure Day leading the way. Then, it’s David Fincher‘s The Adventures of Cliff Booth and Alejandro G. Iñárritu‘s Digger. Throw in Project Hail Mary and that’s my top five. Of course, while they could be part of the Oscar race, this is just what could be a good time in cinemas, as opposed to what will ultimately lead the Academy Award field a year from now.

Of course, there are also movies that almost certainly we won’t see until 2027. Those titles include The Batman: Part II, The Legend of Zelda, Man of Tomorrow, Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, Star Wars: Starfighter, and much more. They either already have 2027 dates or just seem like they’re leaning that way. Plus, something like They Follow, which was on my list last year as well, is included below but easily could wind up being a year away. So, just keep that in mind.

Here now are 100 movies to look forward to this year:

1. The Odyssey
2. Disclosure Day
3. The Adventures of Cliff Booth
4. Digger
5. Project Hail Mary
6. The Social Reckoning
7. Avengers: Doomsday
8. Resident Evil
9. Dune: Part Three
10. They Follow
11. Jay and Silent Bob: Store Wars
12. Spider-Man: Brand New Day
13. Werwulf
14. Supergirl
15. Poetic License
16. Wild Horse Nine
17. Monsanto
18. Tony
19. October
20. Paper Tiger
21. Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie
22. Flowervale Street
23. How to Make a Killing
24. Wuthering Heights
25. Jack of Spades
26. Outcome
27. I Love Boosters
28. 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
29. Madden
30. The Rip
31. Dead Man’s Wire
32. Pillion
33. The Invite
34. Heart of the Beast
35. The Bride!
36. How to Rob a Bank
37. A Place in Hell
38. Famous
39. Cry to Heaven
40. The Young People
41. Omaha
42. Clayface
43. The Mandalorian and Grogu
44. Tuner
45. Scream 7
46. Fuze
47. Whalefall
48. I Play Rocky
49. Ink
50. Dreams
51. The Drama
52. Mother Mary
53. Power Ballad
54. Artificial
55. Toy Story 5
56. Father, Mother, Sister, Brother
57. Send Help
58. Wizards!
59. The Mummy
60. Coyote vs. Acme
61. Misty Green
62. Remain
63. Behemoth!
64. In the Blink of an Eye
65. The Entertainment System is Down
66. Faces of Death
67. Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
68. The Devil Wears Prada 2
69. Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma
70. Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass
71. The Uprising
72. Ready or Not 2: Here I Come
73. The Death of Robin Hood
74. One Night Only
75. The Dog Stars
76. Michael
77. Maddie’s Secret
78. The Christophers
79. Ray Gunn
80. Pressure
81. Mortal Kombat II
82. Mayday
83. Emmanuelle
84. Alpha
85. Judgment Day
86. The Shitheads
87. Klara and the Sun
88. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew
89. The Way of the Wind
90. Hope
91. Obsession
92. Hoppers
93. At the Sea
94. Sacrifice
95. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
96. Charlie Harper
97. Legally Blonde 3
98. Hamlet
99. Obex
100. Primate

Here’s to a great year (and film year) in 2026!