5 Netflix sci-fi, horror and thriller movies and series coming in February

This excellent sci-fi and psychological horror/thriller is an adaptation of George RR Martin’s novella of the same name. Set in deep space, the 10-episode series tells the story of a group of scientists and a psychic, attempting to intercept and make contact with an alien spacecraft. They hope the aliens will help to give Earth a hope to survive. However, mysterious forces are working against them all the way, with gory and fatal incidents.

This surrealist comedy stars Natasha Lyonne playing the role of a woman reliving the same day (her 36th birthday) and dying over and over in different ways. The next morning she’s back and it happens all over again.

Jake Gyllenhaal stars as an art critic who gets into trouble when a series of paintings hit the LA art world. While the paintings are mesmerising, there is a supernatural force behind them that starts killing people. It turns out the red colour in each painting is blood. It stars John Malkovich, Toni Collette, Tom Sturridge, Natalia Dyer Zawe Ashton and more.

The battle between man and the apes returns as a growing nation of the genetically evolved apes threaten a band of human survivors of the deadly virus released 10 years before. They achieve a fragile peace with the leader Caesar but it turns out to be short-lived.

“Life” stars Jake Gyllenhaal as a member of a team of scientists on the International Space Station. They are on a mission of discovery, but it turns into primal fear after they discover a rapidly evolving life form that had caused life on Mars to become extinct. That same life form now threatens the crew and life on Earth.