Peaky Blinders Film Tommy Shelby Returns — Here Is the Most Anticipated Netflix Film of 2026

The Peaky Blinders film arrived on Netflix in March 2026. Here is the complete assessment of whether the film delivered what six seasons built toward.

The Peaky Blinders film — 'The Immortal Man' — arrived on Netflix on March 20, 2026, bringing Cillian Murphy's Tommy Shelby back to the 1940s Birmingham setting for what creator Steven Knight described as 'his most dangerous mission.' AceShowbiz's coverage noted the specific Netflix release and its April 2 entry into the content calendar.

For the specific narrative context: the Peaky Blinders television series ended in 2022 with a Season 6 finale that left multiple narrative threads deliberately open and whose specific conclusion — a Tommy Shelby apparently dying but surviving through a specific plot mechanism — created the particular setup for a film continuation whose existence was announced alongside the final season.

The film's 1940s setting provides the particular historical backdrop of the Second World War's specific Birmingham context — the gangs, the politics, the specific moral complexity of the war's demands on people whose relationship with authority and law was already complicated in peacetime. Knight's specific creative logic for the 1940s involves the intersection of Tommy's personal demons with a historical period whose collective trauma provides the specific amplification of those themes.

Cillian Murphy's Oscar win for 'Oppenheimer' in 2024 raised the specific commercial stakes for a Peaky Blinders film released after rather than before that recognition — the audience coming to the film has been reminded of Murphy's specific capacity for the particular combination of restraint and explosive performance that the Tommy Shelby character has always required.

For the commercial outcome: Netflix's specific content strategy with the Peaky Blinders IP — using it as a subscriber retention and acquisition tool rather than requiring theatrical performance — means its success is measured in engagement metrics rather than box office, and the specific fanbase whose series relationship creates the particular high-engagement audience makes those metrics likely to be strong.