What’s new on MUBI? Films, series to watch on OTT platform in March

Here’s the list of the latest and upcoming web series and films on MUBI

MUBI has excelled at curating and streaming films that are often away from the mainstream eye. This is also the major reason for its popularity among users. The streaming platform has now ensured that its users are rewarded with a new film every day in the month of March. If it ever gets too difficult to keep track of all the titles that MUBI is offering this month, here is a list to make life easier for you.

Train Again

This Austrian short, directed by Peter Tscherkassky, takes the viewer on a phantom ride through the engine room of the seventh art, a ceremony of the (violent) mechanics of railway vehicles and image transporters.

Release Date: March 2

Liborio

This drama follows a 20th century peasant who is swept away in a hurricane, but returns as a prophet. Whilst he slowly gathers a following, invading US Marines decide to end this community for good.

Release Date: March 3

In the Family

A short romantic drama, In The Family sees a gay man fighting for the custody of a boy he has loved as his own, following the untimely death of his partner.

Release Date: March 4

Accattone

Filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini’s first work, the film follows Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi (Franco Citti), who has to become a pimp for his girlfriend in the slums of Rome. After his return from prison, he finds himself begging for a living, before he meets another woman.

Release Date: March 5

23 Winters

Directed by Rajesh S. Jala, this film features a real protagonist in a short drama about a refugee from Kashmir.

Release Date: March 6

The County

Inga, a widow who faces big losses in a remote farm in Iceland, decides to stand up against the corruption by the establishment. Her new life soon becomes about fighting against it and injustice.

Release Date: March 7

Performing the Goddess: The Chapal Bhaduri Story

Naveen Kishore documents the life of Chapal Bhaduri, who has spent his life playing women in the village theatre. He has been performing as Sitala Mata, the Goddess of disease.

Release Date: March 8

Feast

Tim Leyendekker’s Feast is based on the infamous 2007 HIV case in the Dutch city of Groningen where people were injected with HIV infected blood at sex parties.

Release Date: March 9

Papicha

This drama, which screened at the Un Certain Regard section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, is set in 1990 where a fashion design student resists religious extremism during the Algerian Civil War.

Release Date: March 10

Made in U.S.A

This 1966 French comedy drama from legendary filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, starring Anna Karina and Jean-Pierre Léaud, tells the story of Paula Nelson (Karina), who goes to Atlantic-Cité to meet her lover, only to find him dead.

Release Date: March 11

Ceasefire

Set in the 1960s, the film follows Georges Laffont (Romain Duris), who returns home from a war to find his own family affected by it. He soon decides to change his life and travel to West Africa.

Release Date: March 11

On the Road

Based on the iconic novel by Jack Kerouac, the film follows young writer Sal Paradise (Sam Riley), who does not have a grip on life, and meets Dean Moriarty (Garret Hedlund), a free-spirited Westerner, who turns his life around.

Release Date: March 12

God Bless America

This black comedy sees Joel Murray and Tara Lynne Barr come together and decide to take out reality stars and bigots whom they find repugnant.

Release Date: March 13

The Gospel

St. Matthew Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1964 biblical drama has a man named Jesus from Nazareth claiming to be the Messiah from the prophecies of Israel.

Release Date: March 1

Hissène Habré, a Chadian Tragedy

This short documentary by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun is about him meeting and talking to some of the survivors of Hissein Habré’s regime, after he is put on trial for crimes against humanity.

Release Date: March 15

By the Time It Gets Dark

Telling a tale of student protestors massacred at Bangkok’s Thammasat University by Thai soldiers in 1976, Anocha Suwichakornpong’s second feature is a jarring drama.

Release Date: March 16

Prenom Carmen

Jean-Luc Godard’s 1983 romantic drama is about Carmen X, a female member of a terrorist gang, who asks her uncle Jean if she can borrow his beachside house to make a film.

Release Date: March 17

Falling Star

Falling Star is a fictionalised account of the reign of Amadeo of Savoy of Spain as he tries to modernise a country that just cannot be governed.

Release Date: March 17

Love After Love

This Chinese erotic drama, which premiered at the Venice International Film Festival, tells the tale of a Shanghainese student who arrives in Hong Kong in the 1930s, only to lead a life that goes south.

Release Date: March 18

Humpday

The comedy is set around two college friends who reunite after a decade. Having lived two very different lives, they rekindle their college romance.

Release Date: March 19

Orly

Set in the Orly airport in France, Angela Schanelec tells the tale of a handful of lives, all different in their own way. From love to heartbreak, each of them lives a chapter of life in the airport, unaware of what is happening outside.

Release Date: March 20

The Place Without Limits

A Mexican drama film, directed by Arturo Ripstein and based on the novel of the same name, follows a transvestite who wants to sell his Mexican brothel over his daughter's objections.

Release Date: March 20

Summer of Changsha

A detective who is on the tail of a bizarre case soon falls in love with a surgeon he meets on the job in this Chinese crime film. Initially a murder mystery, the film turns into a romantic tale with drama.

Release Date: March 21

Love Meetings

This classic 1964 documentary by Pier Paolo Pasolini has the filmmaker talking to Italians about their sexual lives, looking at topics such as homosexuality, divorce, virginity and discrimination.

Release Date: March 22

I've Heard the Mermaids Singing

This comedy drama by Patricia Rozema follows two women Polly (Sheila McCarthy) and Gabrielle (Paule Baillargeon), both who work at an art gallery. Polly soon finds out what goes on around the art world. Both the leads deliver a great performance in this Canadian film.

Release Date: March 23

Mouthpiece

Directed by Patricia Rozema and based on the theatrical play by Amy Nostbakken, this Canadian drama follows Cassandra, a woman who is making the arrangements for her mother's funeral, and soon gets in a conflict with herself about her beliefs.

Release Date: March 24

A Screaming Man

Mahamat Saleh Haroun’s drama centers around a man who sends his son to war. Set in 2006, the film looks at a man who almost values his job more than his son.

Release Date: March 25

The City of Lost Children

This science-fiction fantasy tells the story of an old man, who wants to fight death by stealing the dreams of children. His cloned minions steal a young boy in the process, only for his father and friend to come looking for him.

Release Date: March 26

Fay Grim

A thriller drama, the story revolves around Fay Grim (Parker Posey), a woman whose husband flees after committing a murder. When a CIA agent tells Grim that her husband is dead years after, she decides to travel to France, where she learns not everything is as it sounds.

Release Date: March 26

In Bed with Victoria

This romantic comedy follows Victoria, a workaholic sex addict and her journey of rediscovering love, at the verge of a nervous breakdown.

Release Date: March 27

Man With a Movie Camera

Dziga Vertov’s experimental 1929 Soviet silent documentary film captures the life of a city through innovative and complex shots. Without uttering a word, this classic still moves audiences with the story of a city.

Release Date: March 28

The Carabineers

Only the fifth narrative feature film by French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, The Carabineers is set in an imaginary country in war and has soldiers luring farmers into war with fake promises of a better life.

Release Date: March 29

Samouni Road

Using a combination of live-action, scratchboard animation and drone footage recreations, Stefano Savona’s documentary captures the tragedy that struck a Palestinian family of farmers during the Gaza War.

Release Date: March 29

No Fucks Given

Helmed by Julie Lecoustre and Emmanuel Marre, this French/Belgian comedy revolves around a young light assistant who has lost her job and wants to rediscover herself. Palme d'Or winner Adèle Exarchopoulos (Blue is the Warmest Color) takes the lead in the film.

Release Date: March 30

Disappearance

Ali Azgari’s 2017 drama has two lovers who are denied help at hospitals after things go wrong during their first sexual experience. A statement about the health system of Iran, the film also has the clock running down on its characters.

Release Date: March 31

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