March streaming highlights

Luca Fontana

1.3.2026

Translation: Jessica Johnson-Ferguson

New month, new streaming recommendations. From Netflix to Prime Video, Disney+, Sky Show, Apple TV and HBO Max, these are our series and film picks on streaming services this March.

I saw a joke about a chocolate bar, but it wasn’t that funny. So I just snickered. When it comes to this month’s movie and series highlights, however, I laughed, cried and felt my jaw drop.

Netflix

War Machine (movie)

«It was built for war,» goes the trailer, and I’m unsure if they're referring to the metal war machine or Alan Ritchson.

Because after Reacher, Ritchson is undoubtedly becoming this decade’s walking-talking action tank. In War Machine, he plays a candidate in a brutal Army Ranger selection process in which he only has 24 hours left to survive. This last stage is what you could call the Army’s toughest test. But what begins as a military survival thriller veers into sci-fi territory. Something appears that’s obviously not of this world.

That’s about all Netflix is giving away. This is R-rated action packed into a crisp 106-minute running time packed with plenty of violence and dark images. Looks like we’re in for mud, sweat and very big problems.

Starts: 6 March

One Piece: Into the Grand Line (series)

If you’d asked me a few years ago, there’s no way I would’ve put my money on Netflix of all streaming services to save the cursed live-action adaptation of an anime classic and leave pretty much everyone happy on top of it. And yet One Piece 2023 has managed to do just that: it’s attracted newcomers, appeased fans and completely got me. Now the story continues with season 2 titled Into the Grand Line, which promises to be the next big step on the quest to become the pirate king.

Meanwhile, Monkey D. Luffy (Iñaki Godoy) has collected his first bounty and the Straw Hat Pirates are officially born. Nami, Zoro, Usopp, Sanji all follow the map into the Grand Line. In other words, into the waters where dreams become legends. Loguetown. Reverse Mountain. Little Garden. Drum Island. Anyone familiar with the anime or manga knows that the world is about to get bigger, more dangerous and more mystical.

And then there’s Baroque Works, an underground organisation led by Crocodile and already casting its shadow. This means new enemies and new alliances. And then there’s the first fully animated character of the series finally on board: Tony Tony Chopper, also known as Cotton Candy Lover. As it’s been a while since the first season came out, here’s the official recap.

Starts: 10 March

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (movie)

There are releases I look forward to. And then there’s this. I’ve been waiting for this movie for YEARS. Basically ever since it became clear that season 6 wasn’t the end. Ever since Tommy Shelby rode that horse into the unknown. Now he’s finally back. Scrap that. Goddamn, he’s finally back.

In Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man, Steven Knight brings the story of Tommy Shelby to a close. Again, it’s set in Birmingham, but this time it’s 1940. World War II is raging. The country’s in flames. Naturally, the Peaky Blinders are on fire too. Tommy (Cillian Murphy) is forced back from his self-imposed exile to confront his past, his family and his own legacy.

Expect old companions, new faces like Barry Keoghan, whom I’m particularly looking forward. Not to mention a budget that, according to Knight, should make everything even bigger, more uncompromising and more powerful. «By order... of the Peaky Blinders», perhaps.

Starts: 6 March
Netflix release: 20 March

In Young Sherlock, Prime Video retells the original story of literature’s most famous detective as an anarchic coming-of-age version set in Oxford in the 1870s. Young Holmes is played by Hero Fiennes Tiffin and produced by Guy Ritchie, among others. If you’re familiar with Ritchie’s versions of Sherlock, you’ll know that this is not going to be an old-fashioned whodunit with a pipe and a wing chair.

Instead, this Holmes is «disgraced, raw, unfiltered, and unformed», according to official sources. He stumbles into his first murder case with a healthy dose of arrogance, zero patience and an instinct that’s already dangerously accurate. Expect conspiracies and globetrotting. Young Moriarty (Dónal Finn) is more than just a shadow in the future. And Holmes still has to learn that genius alone isn’t enough.

Starts: 4 March

Disney+:

Daredevil: Born Again, season 2 (series)

Charlie Cox is back as Daredevil again. But what’s potentially even bigger news is that Jessica Jones is back! Krysten Ritter is making her comeback in the MCU, and that thought alone brings back all my Netflix Marvel memories. Nice. However, I’m hoping season 2 has a dark, consistent tone again. Season one jumped around between slapstick and relentless brutality too much for my taste.

Remember, after Wilson Fisk declares martial law in New York at the end of season one, the city’s effectively under the control of a man who never speaks up because he doesn’t have to. And in the middle of it all: Matt Murdock. Torn. Angry. And finally ready to strike back.

Starts: 24 March

Scrubs, season 10 (series)

I know, I know. I already had Scrubs on this list last month. In my defence, at the time, nobody knew that the long-awaited sequel wouldn’t be released in these parts until the end of March. If you can’t wait that long, you probably know ways and means to get the English version in ahead of time.

At least all the original German dubbing actors are back. Not that I’d normally choose the German version over the original voices. But for nostalgic reasons, I’d be tempted to make an exception for Scrubs and keep on waiting patiently.

Starts: 25 March

These days, Oktoberfest is associated with huge beer mugs, traditional costumes and thousands of rolling drunk tourists. Oktoberfest 1900 shows another side. There’s greed for power, and men who’ll sell their own grandmother for a few thousand litres of beer.

Curt Prank, an ambitious brewery owner who wants to revolutionise Munich’s popular festival, takes centre stage in the series. His vision? To go all in with a gigantic festival hall, bigger, more modern and more profitable than anything the old-established families have to offer. But anyone wanting to climb the echelons in this world needs more than mere entrepreneurial skills. They’ll need to be ruthless and have nerves of steel. After all, the powerful Hoflinger family in particular isn’t about to give up without a fight.

What follows isn’t a whimsical costume drama, but dark power play. Intrigue, betrayal, toxic alliances – and in the midst of it all, a man who perhaps doesn’t realise that he’s long since sold his soul in his bid for the crown.

Starts: 25 March

Since 2019, Ronald D. Moore’s alternative space travel saga has been telling the story of a world in which the Soviets, and not the USA, landed on the moon first. What began as a thought experiment has long since become one of the most intelligent and compassionate sci-fi series of our time. Each season fast forwards one decade. And each season ends with a finale that feels like a punch in the gut – in the best sense of the expression.

Season 5 is set in 2012. A human colony on Mars is no longer a distant vision, but a reality. And Ed Baldwin, still played by Joel Kinnaman, is now a legend and an old man.

Frankly, I’m expecting something huge. Not in terms of explosions, but of consequences. For All Mankind has a track record of four practically perfect seasons. This series knows how to tell a good story. And if season 5 continues keeps it up, we could be in for one of the most intense sci-fi chapters in recent years.

Starts: 27 March

In DTF St. Louis, Jason Bateman plays the broadly popular TV weatherman Clark Forrest. He’s one of those guys who manages to deliver a charming smile on screen while there’s a storm raging outside. In his private life, however, things aren’t going so well. Both his marriage and daily life are stuck in a rut. That’s until Floyd Smernitch (David Harbour) enters his life. He’s a sign language interpreter, who’s also unhappily married. In the sleepy suburb of Twyla near St. Louis, an unexpectedly honest friendship develops between the two. The honesty spawns a bad idea: to create an affair app to escape the stagnation.

Steven Conrad, the creative mind behind the series, has a knack for stories that are bubbling beneath the calm surface. Brace yourself for dark humour, midlife despair, male self-delusion and even murder.

Starts: 2 March

Rooster (series)

Steve Carell plays a bestselling author whose loud, assertive and untouchable main character Rooster has become a male idol. The author’s real life, however, is a different story. For one, there’s his daughter Katie (Charly Clive), who teaches at the same college as him and is becoming increasingly estranged, because he interferes too much. Tries to help too much. Thinks he understands her problems better than she does too much.

Classic Bill Lawrence material, in other words. The man behind Scrubs and Ted Lasso is practically unmatched when it comes to creating characters caught between their ego, empathy, self-image and reality. And that’s what this series is about. A father who may have to learn that listening is often better than attempting heroic rescue operations.

Starts: 9 March

Luca Fontana

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Luca.Fontana@digitecgalaxus.ch

I write about technology as if it were cinema, and about films as if they were real life. Between bits and blockbusters, I’m after stories that move people, not just generate clicks. And yes – sometimes I listen to film scores louder than I probably should.

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