52 New Films Releasing in February 2026 for You to Watch (With Trailers)

Here are 52 new releases for February 2026, either in theaters or on digital for the first time.

Some of them had festival/limited runs, but are now releasing to a wide audience, so am counting them as new released.

And some of them are brand new limited theater releases, so you will need to check where they are playing!

And for digital releases always use Just Watch.

The Morrigan – Feb 3rd (Digital)

A successful archaeologist but absentee mother travels to Ireland to excavate a centuries old tomb. But within the site lurks a danger hidden from mankind for centuries. Once it is unleashed she must battle to save her rebellious teenage daughter from possession by a vengeful Pagan War Goddess, The Morrigan.

The Morrigan Trailer

Relationship Goals – Feb 4th (Amazon Prime)

The film follows Leah Caldwell (Kelly Rowland), a brilliant television producer on the verge of becoming the first woman to run a top New York morning show. Her career-focused life is upended when her ex-boyfriend, Jarrett Roy (Clifford “Method Man” Smith), returns to compete for the same position. 

Relationship Goals Trailer

Still Hope – Feb 5th – (Limited Theaters)

16-year-old Hope is abducted into sex trafficking by a deceptive new friend, and the film focuses on her years of abuse, eventual freedom, and difficult journey of recovery, healing, and finding forgiveness, inspired by true stories of survivors.

Solo Mio – Feb 6th – (Theaters)

Solo Mio is a romantic comedy about Matt, a man left at the altar in Rome who decides to take his planned Italian honeymoon alone, discovering life, love, and unexpected adventures with the help of locals, turning heartbreak into a new beginning. The film, starring Kevin James, follows Matt as he navigates Italy, finding healing and romance amidst the scenery and people, proving heartbreak isn’t the end of the story.

Solo Mio Trailer

The Strangers: Chapter 3 – Feb 6th (Theaters)

Survivors face new threats from masked strangers. Secrets emerge, jeopardizing lives as the line between reality and peril blurs in their battle for survival.

The Strangers: Chapter 3 Trailer

The Arborist – Feb 6th – (Digital)

A grief-stricken arborist and her son awaken a haunting when they begin felling trees at the estate of a mysterious recluse.

The Arborist Trailer

The Dresden Sun – Feb 6th (Limited Theaters)

The Dresden Sun is a sci-fi action thriller about a mercenary’s heist gone wrong, intertwining corporate espionage, financial fraud, and otherworldly technology as a financial analyst becomes entangled with deadly rivals.

The Dresden Sun Trailer

Teacher’s Pet – Feb 6th (Digital)

The film follows Clara (Michelle Torian), a brilliant but isolated high school senior who is days away from escaping her difficult home life for Yale. When her English teacher dies mysteriously, a charismatic replacement named Mr. Heller (Luke Barnett) takes over and develops a disturbing, obsessive interest in her academic potential.

Teacher’s Pet Trailer

Twisted – Feb 6th (Digital)

A con artist’s real estate scam unravels into a nightmare when she’s captured by a surgeon who has a terrifying plan.

Twisted Trailer

The Roaring Game – Feb 6th (Digital)

After his hockey-player girlfriend has been selected to play in the World Games, a high school janitor creates a misfit curling team using his sweeping skills to win a gold medal and get his girlfriend back.

The Roaring Game Trailer

Calle Málaga – Feb 6th (Limited Theaters)

Maria Angeles, a 79-year-old Spanish woman, lives alone in Tangier, Morocco, and enjoys her daily routine. However, her life is turned upside down when her daughter arrives from Madrid to sell the apartment in which she has always lived. Determined to stay, she does everything she can to get her home and her belongings back and, unexpectedly, rediscovers love and sensuality.

Calle Málaga Trailer

Scarlet – Feb 6th (Limited Theaters)

A sword-wielding princess embarks on a dangerous quest to avenge the death of her father. She soon meets an idealistic young man who shows her the possibility of a future free of bitterness and rage.

Scarlet Trailer

The Huntsman – Feb 6th (Limited Theaters)

An ICU nurse volunteers to help a comatose patient accused of murdering six women, getting entangled in a web of lies and secrets while a detective tries to find the real killer, exploring themes of moral ambiguity and the fragility of truth

The Hunstman Trailer

Whistle – Feb 6th (Limited Theaters)

A misfit group of unwitting high school students stumble upon a cursed object, an ancient Aztec Death Whistle. They discover that blowing the whistle and the terrifying sound it emits will summon their future deaths to hunt them down.

Whistle Trailer

Buffalo Kids – Feb 6th (Limited Theaters)

A Spanish animated adventure about two Irish orphans, Mary and Tom, who travel to New York in 1886 and end up on a wild cross-country orphan train journey to find their uncle, encountering bandits, heroes, and a disabled boy named Nick, learning teamwork and finding a home through their heartwarming quest.

The Infinite Husk – Feb 6th (Limited Theaters)

The film follows Vel, an exiled alien consciousness who is imprisoned in the human body of a young Black woman on Earth, referred to as a “husk”. Sentenced to this, she is tasked with a treacherous mission to spy on another exiled being named Mauro in Los Angeles to uncover the threat of a new, dangerous type of science.

The Infinite Husk Trailer

The President’s Cake – Feb 6th (Limited Theaters)

Set in 1990s Iraq under Saddam Hussein, the film follows nine-year-old Lamia, chosen by lottery to bake a mandatory cake for the dictator’s birthday amidst war and severe scarcity, forcing her and her grandmother on a perilous journey through checkpoints and shortages to find ingredients, revealing the harsh realities of life under a brutal regime through a child’s eyes.

The President’s Cake Trailer

My Father’s Shadow – Feb 6th (Limited Theaters)

Set in 1993 Lagos, Nigeria, two young brothers are on a day trip through the city with their estranged, hardworking father, exploring their strained relationship against the backdrop of political unrest and a disputed election, revealing unspoken family dynamics through a child’s perspective. The story captures a poignant, semi-autobiographical journey of love, absence, and family connection amidst a city on the brink, offering a tender portrait of fatherhood and Nigerian life.

My Father’s Shadow Trailer

Misdirection – Feb 10th (Digital)

A criminal couple, Sara and Jason, are on their final heist to pay off mob debt, but get trapped by their wealthy target, defense attorney David Blume, who turns out to be a dangerous adversary, leading to a deadly game of cat-and-mouse where the hunters become the hunted as they uncover his hidden, monstrous nature.

Misdirection Trailer

GOAT – Feb 13th (Theaters)

A small goat named Will gets a once-in-a-lifetime shot to join the pros and play roarball – a high-intensity, full-contact sport that’s dominated by the fastest, fiercest animals in the world. Ridiculed by his teammates, Will becomes determined to revolutionize the sport and prove that “small can ball!

GOAT Trailer

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die – Feb 13th (Theaters)

Claiming to be from the future, a man takes hostages at a Los Angeles diner to recruit unlikely heroes to help him save the world.

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die Trailer

Crime 101 – Feb 13th (Theaters)

A Los Angeles detective pursues an elusive thief who teams up with an insurance broker for one last heist.

Crime 101 Trailer

Wuthering Heights – Feb 13th (Theaters)

Tragedy strikes when Heathcliff falls in love with Catherine Earnshaw, a woman from a wealthy family in 18th-century England.

Wuthering Heights Trailer

The Mortuary Assistant – Feb 13th (Limited Theaters)

Newly certified mortician Rebecca Owens joins the night shift at a mortuary, embalming bodies alone after hours. As disturbing events escalate, she uncovers demonic rituals, dark secrets from her enigmatic mentor, and her own buried trauma as she tries to survive the night before her body becomes a vessel for possession.

The Mortuary Assistant Trailer

Cold Storage – Feb 13th (Limited Theaters/Digital)

Two employees at a self-storage company have the wildest shift of their lives when a parasitic fungus that was sealed by the government escapes. As the temperature rises underground, the highly contagious and rapidly mutating microorganism starts to multiply as it unleashes its brain-controlling, body-bursting terrors on the facility’s inhabitants – human and otherwise.

Cold Storage Trailer

Eternity – Feb 13th (Apple TV+)

Eternity follows Joan (Elizabeth Olsen) in an afterlife “Junction” where she must choose between her devoted, long-term husband Larry (Miles Teller) and her first love, Luke (Callum Turner), who died young. Within a one-week deadline, Joan must navigate this difficult choice, ultimately exploring themes of love, loss, and the nature of shared life.

Eternity Trailer

Tyler Perry’s Joe’s College Road Trip – Feb 13th (Netflix)

To teach his sheltered grandson about the real world, Madea’s foul-mouthed brother Joe takes the college-bound teen on a raucous cross-country road trip.

Tyler Perry’s Joe’s College Road Trip Trailer

Nirvanna: The Band – the Show – the Movie – Feb 13th (Limited Theaters)

Matt and Jay’s plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, resulting in them accidentally traveling back to the year 2008.

Nirvanna: The Band – the Show – the Movie Trailer

Mimics – Feb 13th (Limited Theaters)

Sam Reinhold is a struggling impressionist who makes a deal with a malevolent, string-attached puppet named Fergus. While the pact brings stardom, it also unleashes a nightmarish, supernatural threat upon him and his loved ones.

Mimics Trailer

By Design – Feb 13th (Limited Theaters)

By Design is a very experimental film about a woman who swaps bodies with a chair.

By Design Trailer

The Haunted Forest – Feb 13th (Digital)

A teenage horror enthusiast lands a summer job at a haunted attraction, only for the lines between fiction and reality to blur when real murders begin to occur.

The Haunted Forest Trailer

The Observance – Feb 13th (Limited Theaters)

While Madison was in a coma, her home, her husband, and her daughter fell under the control of a secretive, Svengali-like religious leader named Jonah.

The Observance Trailer

Honey Bunch – Feb 13th (Shudder)

When Diana wakes from a coma with memory loss, she and her husband seek experimental treatments at a remote facility. As the procedures intensify, their marriage is put to the test and Diana begins to question her husband’s true motives.

Honey Bunch Trailer

Sweetness – Feb 13th (Digital)

Rylee (Kate Hallett), is a 16-year-old high school student and obsessive superfan who finds her life consumed by a parasocial obsession with rock star idol, Payton Adler (Herman Tømmeraas). When a chance encounter leads her to discover that her idol is spiraling into drug addiction, Rylee takes it upon herself to “save” him.

Sweetness Trailer

Hunting Jessica Brok – Feb 13th (Limitd Theaters)

A former special forces soldier battles deadly mercenaries to save her daughter from a ruthless South African warlord.

Hunting Jessica Brok Trailer

Kangaroo Kids – Feb 17th (Digital)

The story follows a 13-year-old orphan girl who strikes up a friendship with a kangaroo. When a scheming con artist hires three clumsy thieves to steal this famous animal, the girl and her friends—a mismatched group of “zoo kids” – must work together to save it. They are in a race against time to stop the thieves and prevent the bank from seizing the zoo from her foster mother.

Kangaroo Kids Trailer

Hellfire – Feb 17th (Digital)

A haunted ex-Green Beret drifter brings justice to a Southern town controlled by a ruthless crime boss (Harvey Keitel) and a corrupt sheriff (Dolph Lundgren)

Hellfire Trailer

Urchin – Feb 17th (Hulu)

Mike is, a rough sleeper in London battling addiction and severe self-destructive tendencies. After a violent, unprovoked assault on a stranger leads to a prison sentence, Mike attempts to turn his life around upon release, navigating temporary housing, rehabilitation, and menial jobs. However, his path to redemption is constantly undermined by his own inability to break free from the addictive, chaotic cycles of his past.

Urchin Trailer

I Can Only Imagine 2 – Feb 20th (Theaters)

After the breakout success of the song “I Can Only Imagine,” MercyMe’s Bart Millard is living the dream with sold-out arenas, a devoted fan base, and a thriving career. However, Millard’s past soon threatens the family he’s built, especially the fragile bond with his son, Sam.

I Can Only Imagine 2 Trailer

Psycho Killer – Feb 20th (Theaters)

A highway patrol officer sets out to find the man responsible for the brutal murder of her husband. Her quest leads her to a sadistic serial killer whose mental depravity and sinister agenda is more twisted than anyone could have ever imagined.

Psycho Killer Trailer

How to Make a Killing – Feb 20th (Theaters)

Disowned at birth by his wealthy family, Becket Redfellow will stop at nothing to reclaim his inheritance, no matter how many relatives stand in his way.

How to Make a Killing Trailer

Kokuho – Feb 20th (Theaters)

Upon the death of his father, the leader of a yakuza gang, 14-year-old Kikuo is entrusted to a famous kabuki actor. Alongside Shunsuke, the latter’s only son, he decides to devote himself to this traditional theatre.

Kokuho Trailer

Pillion – Feb 20th (Theaters)

Colin, a timid man, meets Ray, a confident biker gang leader, who initiates him into a submissive relationship, challenging Colin’s mundane existence and prompting personal growth through their unconventional dynamic.

Pillion Trailer

Diabolic – Feb 20th (Limited Theaters/Digital)

A woman searching for a miracle cure confronts the vengeful spirit of a cursed witch, which wants to claim her as a vessel for her evil power.

Diabolic Trailer

The Dreadful – Feb 20th (Limited Theaters/Digital)

Set during the Wars of the Roses, Anne and her mother-in-law Morwen live a solitary, harsh life on the outskirts of society – but when a man from their past returns, he will set off a sequence of events that become a turning point for Anne.

The Dreadful Trailer

This Is Not a Test – Feb 20th (Limited Theaters)

Sloane and a small group of her classmates take cover in their high school to escape the apocalypse. As danger relentlessly pounds on the doors, she begins to see the world through the eyes of people who actually want to live.

This Is Not a Test Trailer

Redux Redux – Feb 20th (Limited Theaters)

A distraught woman travels through parallel universes to kill her daughter’s murderer over and over again. With each death, she grows more and more addicted to revenge, putting her own humanity in jeopardy.

Redux Redux Trailer

Scream 7 – Feb 27th (Theaters)

When a new Ghostface killer emerges in the quiet town where Sidney Prescott has built a new life, her darkest fears are realized as her daughter becomes the next target. Determined to protect her family, Sidney must face the horrors of her past to put an end to the bloodshed once and for all.

Scream 7 Trailer

Noseeums – Feb 27th (Digital)

Follows college student Ember on a weekend trip to a Florida lake house with her wealthy friends. As she faces, bullying, haunting memories, and a connection to a local, dark history, a supernatural force, symbolized by biting bugs, exacts revenge for past racial injustices.

Noseeums Trailer

Kiss of the Spider Woman – Feb 27th (Hulu)

With the country’s military dictatorship waging a brutal war against its political opponents, prisoners Valentin and Molina find themselves thrown together in a cramped cell. Initially at odds, they begin to bond as Molina narrates the story of his favourite movie. Jointly visualising the adventure, the men escape the indignities of confinement and their shared experience leads them toward hope, grace and connection.

Kiss of the Spider Woman Trailer

Undercard – Feb 27th (Limited Theaters)

A drama focusing on Cheryl “No Mercy” Stewart, a former boxing champion and recovering alcoholic attempting to reconnect with the son she abandoned.

Undercard Trailer

Crazy Old Lady – Feb 27th (Shudder)

A man is asked by his ex girlfriend to care temporarily for her senile mother, Alicia. But Alicia won’t let him leave, turning a simple task into a nightmare he must escape.

Simon Leasher

A lover of cinema for over 35 years, I have watched many films from around the world in many different genres, yet I still normally always come back to trashy slasher horror films when in doubt. More

And yes, The Godfather 2 is better than The Godfather.