New this week on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Videoland, Storytel and Spotify (week 29)

It’s the weekend again and we are only too happy to delve into all the beauty that the streaming services have in store for us. From movies and series to e-books and music on Spotify. Here you will discover the best new films, series, music and e-books.

Netflix

TOO HOT TO HANDLE: BRAZIL (S01)

Super sexy young Brazilians meet in a dream resort on the beach. They can win 500,000 real, but then they have to stay away from each other.

→ TOO HOT TO HANDLE: Watch BRAZIL

THE LAST LETTER FROM YOUR LOVER

A journalist finds a treasure trove of love letters from 1965 and sets out to uncover the mystery of a secret affair. Meanwhile, she begins her own love story.

→ watch THE LAST LETTER FROM YOUR LOVER

SKY ROJO (S02)

Fatal events at a brothel put three women haunted by their pasts on the run from their pimp and his henchmen.

→ watch SKY ROJO

Amazon Prime Video

JOLT

Lindy is a beautiful, sardonic-funny woman with a painful secret. Due to a lifelong, rare neurological disorder, she experiences sporadic rage-filled, homicidal impulses that can only be stopped when she shocks herself with a special electrode device. She is unable to find love and connection in a world that fears her bizarre condition. She eventually trusts a man long enough to fall in love, only to be murdered the next day. Heartbreaking and furious, she embarks on a vengeful mission to find his killer, while also being pursued by the police as the prime suspect in the crime.

→ Watching Jolt

THE WAY I SEE IT

Pete Souza was the official White House photographer under Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama. He photographed both presidents in their daily dealings with family and staff and also talks about the differences between Obama and Trump.

→ watch THE WAY I SEE IT

Video country

FC UTRECHT: NO GUTS NO GLORY (S01)

FC Utrecht exists 50 years. We follow the club from the inside and show the highs and lows. With unique images from the dressing room and from the training complex, you get a look behind the scenes in this anniversary season. Players, staff, employees, management and owner Frans van Seumeren give a special insight into the club and its ambitions.

→ FC UTRECHT: watching NO GUTS NO GLORY

LOVE ISLAND UK (S07)

British reality dating show that follows sexy young singles as they stay in a luxury villa on the Spanish island of Mallorca. The singles have to form couples to be allowed to stay in the beautiful villa.

→ Watch LOVE ISLAND UK

Ziggo

THE WHITE LOTUS (S01)

The series follows the vacations of various hotel guests as they relax and recover in paradise. But with each passing day, a dark side comes to light in this seemingly perfect traveler.

→ watch THE WHITE LOTUS

Pathé Home

OUT OF DEATH

When grieving Shannon Mathers scatters her prematurely deceased father’s ashes in the woods, she witnesses a police officer who shoots and kills an unarmed man. She records everything with her phone before being discovered. She then flees into the woods and barely manages to escape the murderous cop. When she encounters retired police officer Jack Harris, she turns to him for help.

→ watch OUT OF DEATH

Spotify

→ GOLD-DIGGERS SOUND – LEON BRIDGES listen

storytel

I AM NOT GOD

In the spring of 2008, Frank Vandenbroucke’s one and only autobiography was published. The book left no one untouched, just as the cycling prodigy had always stunned the public with his striking achievements and his exceptional life course. A year and a half later, VDB died far from home in Senegal…

Ten years after his death, Canvas looks back on Vandenbroucke’s life and career. The moment to republish his autobiography. Because this is where Frank himself has his say. No filter, no third parties, no censorship. Ten years later, his own words still sound very strong: here is an exceptional cyclist and man speaking. “It’s my life and it’s the truth,” he said. “And that truth does not diminish the value of my victories.”

In this reissue, his story is completed with the account of his last years and his passing, recorded from the mouth of his mother and his manager.

→ I AM NOT GOD reading

Kobo

MY OLYMPIC GAMES

Facebook has become an inseparable part of our lives. The company influences what we see, collects data about us. This book reveals what goes on behind the scenes. In ‘A Dirty Truth’, Sheera Frankel and Cecilia Kang get to the bottom of Facebook. For the past four years, the company has been under constant fire for successive controversies and crises. As the tech giant connected the world, it turned out that it was also collecting users’ data, spreading fake news and amplifying polarizing, hate speech. Massive privacy violations and Russian interference in the 2016 US election were just the tip of the iceberg. Each misstep triggered a new cycle of excuses and promises: “We’ll do better.” But the said scandals are not bugs; they are characteristics that are ingrained in the DNA of the company and its algorithms. And as consumers and lawmakers focus their outrage on privacy breaches and misinformation, Facebook is consolidating power, devouring competition, making record profits and strengthening its dominance through aggressive lobbying efforts. In this book, Facebook’s struggle is told from within. It’s an inconvenient truth that the world needs to know.

→ Read MY OLYMPIC GAMES

More new this week!

We have already given you a nice selection of the new range of streaming services, but there is of course much more New This Week. Are you looking for other new movies, series and music on these streaming networks? On our sister site Nieuw Deze Week you will find everything new on Netflix, Film1, Videoland, Ziggo, Kobo Plus, Pathé Thuis and Spotify! Our Belgian readers can visit Nieuw DezeWeek.be for the latest films and series on Netflix.