What's Streaming on MUBI January 2026

Or Something (Drama) - Streaming on December 31, 2025

Dir. Jeff Scotti Schroeder, 2025

Two strangers show up at the same Brooklyn apartment to collect cash they’re both owed. Forced to spend the day together on a journey through New York City, the pair reveal intimate details about their lives. One of them happens to be hiding a harrowing secret. OR SOMETHING was co-written by lead actors Mary Neely (Swiped) and Kareem Rahma (Subway Takes). The film had its World Premiere at the inaugural Downtown Festival in New York.

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Drama, LGBTQ+, Romance) - Streaming on January 1, 2026

Dir. Céline Sciamma, 2019

In late 18th century France, painter Marianne is commissioned by a countess to paint the wedding portrait of her daughter Héloïse. While posing as her hired companion, Marianne is instructed to complete the portrait in secret. However, intimacy and attraction begin to blossom between both women. PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE premiered In Competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019, where it won Best Screenplay and the Queer Palm, and later screened at Toronto International Film Festival. The film stars Noémie Merlant (Tár) and Adèle Haenel (Water Lilies).

Plainclothes (Drama, Romance, Thriller, LGBTQ+) - Streaming on January 16, 2026

Dir. Carmen Emmi, 2025

A promising undercover agent assigned to lure and arrest gay men defies professional orders when he falls in love with a target. PLAINCLOTHES is Carmen Emmi's directorial debut and stars Tom Blyth (The Hunger Games:The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes) and Russell Tovey (American Horror Story). PLAINCLOTHES had its world premiere at Sundance Film Festival in 2025, where it won the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast.

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La Grazia will be available to stream exclusively on MUBI from January 23, 2026.

The film had its World Premiere as the Opening Film at this year’s Venice Film Festival, where Toni Servillo was awarded the Coppa Volpi for Best Actor and is nominated for 2 European Film Awards, including European Actor and European Screenwriter.

From Academy and BAFTA Award–winning filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino, LA GRAZIA is a sweeping exploration of love, duty, and personal freedom. Toni Servillo – winner of the Best Actor Award at the 2025 Venice Film Festival – stars as Italy’s outgoing fictional president, Mariano De Santis, navigating moral and personal crossroads with the help of his confidante and daughter, Dorotea (Anna Ferzetti). With Sorrentino’s signature poetic vision and an evocative soundtrack, this heartfelt masterwork is an intimate meditation on fatherhood, conscience, and the enduring question: who owns our days?

A Fremantle film produced by The Apartment, a Fremantle company, in association with Numero 10 and PiperFilm. Produced by Annamaria Morelli and Paolo Sorrentino, and by Andrea Scrosati for Fremantle, and Massimiliano Orfei, Luisa Borella, and Davide Novelli for PiperFilm.

Touki Bouki (Drama) - Streaming exclusively on MUBI starting January 30, 2026

Dir. Djibril Diop Mambéty, 1973

in 1970s Senegal, the disaffected young lovers Anta and Mory, fed up with Dakar, long to escape to the glamour and comforts they imagine France has to offer. But their plan is confounded by obstacles both practical and mystical. TOUKI BOUKI screened at Cannes in 1973, and stars author Aminata Sow Fall. The film was listed on Sight and Sound’s 2022 Greatest Films of All Time list.