The Breakfast Club Joins Netflix on May 1: A Classic 1980s Coming-of-Age Film

Netflix is adding dozens of movies to its library throughout the month of May, including several notable films.

One of the movies joining the platform will be The Breakfast Club, John Hughes' 1985 teen coming-of-age flick which documents five high school students from different cliques serving Saturday detention and realizing they have more in common than they thought.

When is 'The Breakfast Club' coming to Netflix?

Friday, May 1, according to What's on Netflix's Kasey Moore. The Breakfast Club is one of more than two dozen movies Netflix is adding on the first day off the fifth month of 2026.

Others include Bad News Bears, Hitch, Jennifer's Body, Jumanji, Meet the Parents, National Lampoon's Animal House and Pretty Woman.

'The Breakfast Club': What to know

The Breakfast Club is one of several well-known teen comedy-dramas written and directed by Hughes in the mid-to-late 1980s. The Lansing, Michigan native is also known for Sixteen Candles, Weird Science, Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Pretty in Pink.

The movie, which is set on Saturday, March 24, 1984, focuses on the five teens in detention, their background stories and how they are all linked.

• Emilio Estevez as Andrew Clark, a stereotypical "jock"
• Anthony Michael Hall as Brian Johnson, the "nerd" of the group
• Judd Nelson as John Bender, the quintet's juvenile delinquent
• Molly Ringwald as Claire Standish, popular and well-off
• Ally Sheedy as Allison Reynolds, the shy, quiet loner

Last April, in honor of the movie's 40th anniversary, Estevez, Hall, Nelson, Ringwald and Sheedy reunited at the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo.

“I feel really, very emotional and moved to have us all together,” Ringwald said, via Today. “This is the first time that Emilio has joined us. We don’t have to use the cardboard cutout anymore because he’s here.”

The late Paul Gleason also stars as Richard Vernon, the vice principal of fictional Shermer High School who is running the weekend detention. John Kapelos, Ron Dean and Mercedes Hall also have prominent roles.

'The Breakfast Club' still resonates over four decades later

A hit at the box office ($51.5 million worldwide) in real time, The Breakfast Club remains a beloved part of 1980s pop culture more than 40 years after it was released.

The movie regularly pops up on publication lists of the top movies of the 1980s and all-time and has ratings of 87% on Rotten Tomatoes, 7.8/10 on IMDB and 3.8/5 on Letterboxd.