Best new movies and shows on Netflix: April 2015

Netflix offers a veritable treasure chest of interesting and offbeat new cinematic offerings in April, one of the best months for streaming additions we've seen in a long time. In addition to the eagerly anticipated, NYC-shot "Marvel's Daredevil," which is available on April 10, these are some highlights:

This cop movie satire, the second Edgar Wright-Simon Pegg-Nick Frost collaboration, isn't as funny as the first, "Shaun of the Dead," or the third, "The World's End." But to use Bruce Springsteen as an analogy, that's like saying "The Rising" isn't as good as "Darkness on the Edge of Town" or "Born to Run." It's still damn good. April 16 (Credit: Universal Pictures)

Jean-Luc Godard's 3-D experimental piece was named best picture of 2014 by the National Society of Film Critics and sparked a considerable back-and-forth between his critical supporters and detractors, much as the French New Wave icon's movies have done since his indispensable "Breathless" in 1960. April 14 (Credit: Wild Bunch)

Biblical movies saw a bit of a revival in 2014. Darren Aronofsky's environmentalist take on the flood story, starring Russell Crowe as a crazed Noah, is the one to see, not Ridley Scott's "Exodus." It considers the scenario with a measure of realism usually missing from this sort of thing. April 18 (Credit: Paramount Pictures)

This is, simply, an instant horror classic. It's at once terrifying and deeply emotional, perfectly paralleling the difficult and complicated experience of motherhood with its story of a demonic being threatening a closed-off family. My review is here. (Credit: Causeway Films)

This black-and-white Iranian vampire movie was one of the indie sensations of 2014, launching filmmaker Ana Lily Amirpour to prominence. It's sure to be unlike anything you've seen before. April 21 (Credit: Say Ahh Productions)

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We love Nicolas Cage, even when he makes utter soulless direct-to-the-dumpster junk. This movie is not that. It's one of his biggest hits, an incredibly silly Americana adventure with dialogue that entirely consists of characters hurriedly exclaiming things like, "Those men have the Declaration of Independence!" April 27 (Credit: Walt Disney Pictures)

This is the most bananas Jason Statham movie, the most utterly deranged, and that's saying something. It's not a good movie, exactly, but it sure is an experience. April 9 (Credit: Lakeshore Entertainment)

It slipped under the radar last year, but this is a sweet and charming movie about the complexities of friendship, starring Gillian Jacobs and Leighton Meester as best buds drawn apart by romance. April 2 (Credit: Haven Entertainment)

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Best new movies and shows on Netflix: April 2015