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Caroline Westbrook Published June 5, 2025 3:45pm Link is copied Comments Summer is here, and with the temperature rising and the days at their longest it's all too tempting to switch off the TV and head outside to enjoy the sunshine. But over on Netflix it's business as usual, with the streaming platform dishing up enough feature-length gems to keep your screen sizzling over the warmer months. This week sees some of the more popular movies of recent weeks hanging in there, along with some tantalising newcomers to enjoy from Spain, Argentina and India. But can Fear Street: Prom Queen carve out a place at the top of the charts for another week? Read on to find out what you've all been watchin...(Picture: Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images) After six whole weeks in the top ten,. it looks as though Tom Hardy's fast-paced action thriller might finally be on the way out. Directed by Gareth Evans, (The Raid) the actor plays Detective Walker, a shady cop forced to navigate a city's criminal underworld after a drug deal goes awry. Plenty of brutal, visceral action follows (Picture: Netflix) The first of this week's new entries is the latest instalment in this popular Indian action, Telugu-language franchise. The story follows a ruthless cop (Nani) who is sent by the Homicide Intervention Team (the titular HIT) to track down a group of killers on a grisly murder spree. Despite scoring mixed reviews when it was released in cinemas earlier this year, it's been a box office hit - with a fourth movie in the works (Picture: Netflix) Next up, it's another new entry from India - this one a Hindi-language action drama which flopped at the box office but is finding new life on Netflix. Salman Khan stars as the title character, an heir to the Rajkot Dynasty of Gujarat - who is motivated by a tragic accident to change the lives of three people, only to find himself targeted by a vengeful politician (Picure: Pen Marudhar Entertainment/Netflix) The Shrek movies have remained hugely popular over the past couple of decades - as have the spin-off movies dedicated to the swashbuckling Puss In Boots. This one - technically the sixth film in the Shrek franchise - sees our feline favourite (voiced by Antonio Banderas) heading off on a quest to restore eight of his nine lives, with a little help from regular sidekick Kitty Softpaws (Salma Hayek) (Picture: NBC Universal) If you haven't yet seen this smash hit charmer - a former chart-topper featuring a host of famous faces - then add it to your watch list immediately. Nonnas, which stars Susan Sarandon, Talia Shire, Brenda Vaccaro, Lorraine Bracco and Vince Vaughn, tells the true story of Joe Scarvarella, the Staten Island restaurateur who honours his late mother by opening an Italian restaurant staffed by grandmothers (Picture: Jeong Park/Netflix) It's not just Netflix newcomers that are racking up millions in the top 10 this week - as this 2023 blockbuster has also been making waves. Jason Momoa reprises his role as the DC Comics hero in this sequel to the 2018 hit, this time joining forces with his half-brother Orm (Patrick Wilson) to stop Black Manta (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) from killing his family and using the cursed Black Trident to cause chaos (Picture: Warner Bros/Everett/REX/ Shutterstock) Here's a film that was not only a hit with critics - becoming one of the best reviewed movies of 2024 - but with audiences too. The Wild Robot tells the story of Roz (Lupita Nyong'o), a service robot who crash-lands on a remote, uninhabited island during a storm, and has to learn to adapt to the unfamiliar surroundings - finding her purpose when she adopts an orphaned baby goose. A sequel to this gorgeous, visually stunning tale is on the way, so grab the chance to see the original while it's there (Picture: Universal Pictures) Another new entry now, and this one's a drama from Argentina, about a businessman who has a heart transplant and undergoes a personality shift, finding out more about the life of his donor and exploring his community. In doing so he meets the dead man's widow and falls for her, while secretly helping her neighbourhood. But she will discover his connection to her late husband? (Picture: Netflix) After spending last week at number one this latest instalment in the Fear Street series has been scared off the top spot Based on the novels by RL Stine, it offers up plenty of 80s-era slasher movie thrills as the senior class of Shadyside High gears up for prom night and the election of its queen, with underdog Lori going head-to-head against the more popular girls. However, the night turns deadly when a masked killer starts picking off the candidates (Picture: Alan Markfield/Netflix) Crashing straight into the charts at number one is this Spanish murder mystery, which has racked up an impressive number of views in its first week of release. Based on the real-life case of engineer Antonio Navarro Cerdan, who was stabbed to death in Patraix, Valencia, in 2017, it follows the investigation into the murder of a young man in the Spanish city - which uncovers some dark secrets as his widow's hidden double life is revealed (Picture: Netflix Inc./Manuel Fernandez Valdes. 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