What to watch on Netflix: New TV shows and movies, plus what's leaving in May

May is set to be quite a big month for Netflix premieres, from Bridgerton Season 3 to Jerry Seinfeld's Unfrosted movie. But with that comes a few losses on the platform, including the movie musical Mamma Mia! and the 1991 The Addams Family film.

As we count down the moments until May begins, the clock is ticking to watch some films before they're removed the streaming site in Canada. While we also wait for some of the most highly anticipated releases of the month.

Fans of the movie musicals won't be able to sing along to their favourite Abba songs from Mamma Mia! shortly, with the film, starring Meryl Streep and Amanda Seyfried, being removed from Netflix in May.

For action fans, the 2008 movie Rambo, starring Sylvester Stallone, will be leaving Netflix at the beginning of May.

A number of comedies are being removed from Netflix in May, including The Invention of Lying with Jennifer Garner and Ricky Gervais, and Louis C.K., who has been accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women in recent years.

Additionally, How to Be Single with Dakota Johnson, Rebel Wilson, Leslie Mann and Alison Brie will be leaving Netflix in May. So will Adam Sandler's The Cobbler.

While Wednesday became incredibly popular on Netflix, the streaming is removing the 1991 film The Addams Family, starring Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd and Christina Ricci.

The family-friend film Stuart Little is also leaving Netflix next month, in addition to the family comedy Are We Done Yet? starring Ice Cube.

This is also your last chance to watch the 2004 Ashton Kutcher movie, The Butterfly Effect, with Amy Smart, on Netflix.

And the 2015 film Spotlight, starring Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, Michael Keaton, Liev Schreiber, Brian d'Arcy James, John Slattery and Stanley Tucci is also leaving Netflix. 

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What to watch on Netflix: New TV shows and movies

Unfrosted - May 3

Seinfeld icon Jerry Seinfeld is taking us to Michigan in 1963, into the breakfast war between cereal rivals Kellogg's and Post. The creation of one pastry is set to change the breakfast landscape forever, and the companies are racing to release this new item first.

Seinfeld stars in the movie alongside Melissa McCarthy, Jim Gaffigan, Hugh Grant, Amy Schumer, Max Greenfield, Christian Slater, Sarah Cooper, Bill Burr and several other comedies legends.

Mother of the Bride - May 9

Brooke Shields plays Miranda Cosgrove's mother in Mother of the Bride.

Emma (Cosgrove) unexpectedly tells her mother, Lana (Shields) that she's getting married in Thailand in a month. But it turns out that Emma's getting married to the son of Lana's ex.

Bridgerton Season 3 - May 16

The "Polin" love is already alive and well as we wait for the first part of Bridgerton Season 3 to be released on the Netflix, with the season focused around the evolving love story of Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) and Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton). Even though Colin said some nasty things about Penelope at the end of the last season.

The second part of Bridgerton Season 3 will arrive on Netflix in June.

Atlas - May 24

Jennifer Lopez plays data analyst Atlas Shepherd in Atlas, who's not a fan of artificial intelligence (AI), and goes on a mission to save a robot that she shares a "mysterious past" with. The film also star Canadian Simu Liu, and This Is Us star and American Fiction star Sterling K. Brown.

Eric - May 30

Set in the 1980s New York Eric, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, follows a father's search for his missing son. The series also stars Gaby Hoffmann, McKinley Belcher III and Ivan Howe.

TV shows and movies leaving Netflix Canada in May

May 1

• 3 Ninjas: Kick Back

• 50 to 1

• The Addams Family

• The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland

• Against All Odds

• Are We Done Yet?

• Bait

• Battle of the Year

• Blood Quantum

• Boogie

• The Brothers

• The Butterfly Effect

• The Call

• Child 44

• Code Name: The Cleaner

• Einsatzgruppen: The Nazi Death Squads

• Flushed Away

• The Gobbler

• Haywire

• Hell of High Water

• The Host

• How to Be Single

• I, Frankenstein

• The Invention of Lying

• Medici: Masters of Florence

• Munafik 2

• Oblivion

• Octonauts

• Pacific Rim

• Peppermint

• Punisher: War Zone

• Rambo

• Simply Irresistible

• Sniper: Assassin's End

• Spotlight

• Stuart Little

• Sun Cry Moon

• Sur Sapata

• Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins

May 2

May 5

• Brightburn

May 6

May 7

• Mamma Mia!

May 10

May 11

• The Defected

May 15

May 18