Welcome to October on Netflix, featuring a lot of splashy originals with massive stars that some executive somewhere is gnashing their teeth to powder over, hoping against hope their multimillion-dollar, big-name gambles will become hits.
Netflix Originals
The big debut of the month—if not the year, or your lifetime—is Steven Soderbergh’s The Laundromat (10/18), which stars Meryl Streep as a widow investigating insurance fraud who gets tangled up in the Panama Papers scandal. Gary Oldman and Antonio Banderas play the lawyers whose firm was at the center of the mess. Ah, the “laundromat” refers to money laundering! That sounds more exciting than these three hot shots meeting cute at the fluff ‘n’ fold.
Everything else is obviously far less fun, but among the other arrivals on the October gravy train are: the Michael B. Jordan superhero series Raising Dion (10/4); Rhythm + Flow, a hip-hop American Idol-ish series judged by Cardi B, T.I, and Chance the Rapper (10/9); “existential comedy” Living With Yourself starring Paul Rudd (10/18); and Dolemite Is My Name, starring Eddie Murphy as comedy and rap pioneer Rudy Ray Moore, aka 1970s Blaxploitation phenom Dolemite.
Plus, get ready for new seasons of Big Mouth, Peaky Blinders, Haunted, Insatiable, Greenhouse Academy and The Kominsky Method (already?). David Chang has a new series, Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner, that sounds a little like Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee meets Parts Unknown, sort of “Celebrities in Cities Getting Meals.” And Gaten Matarazzo, known for Stranger Things and equally beloved FiOS ads, for some reason hosts a “terrifying and hilarious prank show,” which already garnered a bunch of critical press over the summer.
Movies!
The lesser-loved installments of big franchises are coming in strong, including Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, Men in Black II, Scream 2, Superman Returns, Ocean’s Twelve and Ocean’s Thirteen.
In the department of “classic faves that roll in and out of Netflix’s lineup like a pleasant mist,” we’ve got Trainspotting, The Karate Kid, Cabaret and Raging Bull.
Comedy!
We’ve got comedy specials from Jenny Slate, Arsenio Hall and Nikki Glaser.
Ciao, bellas!
Leaving this month: All the President’s Men, Cloverfield, Deliverance, Empire Records, Platoon, Gremlins, Hoosiers, Quiz Show, The Imitation Game and Pineapple Express.
Arriving in October
Here’s the full list of new shows, movies, and comedy specials. Links go to trailers and watch pages for Netflix originals.
October 1
93 days
A.M.I.
Along Came a Spider
Bad Boys
Bad Boys II
Blow
Bring It On, Ghost: Season 1
Charlie’s Angels
Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle
Cheese in the Trap: Season 1
Chicago Typewriter: Season 1
Crash
Exit Wounds
Good Burger
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
Honey 2
House of the Witch
Lagos Real Fake Life
Men in Black II
Moms at War
No Reservations
Ocean’s Thirteen
Ocean’s Twelve
One Direction: This Is Us
Payday
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie
Scream 2
Senna
Signal: Season 1
Sin City
Sinister Circle
Supergirl
Superman Returns
Surf’s Up
The Bucket List
The Flintstones
The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
The Island
The Pursuit of Happyness
The Rugrats Movie
The Time Traveler’s Wife
Tomorrow with You: Season 1
Trainspotting
Troy
Tunnel: Season 1
Unaccompanied Minors
Walking Out
October 2
Living Undocumented — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
October 3
October 4
October 5
October 7
The Water Diviner
October 8
Deon Cole: Cole Hearted — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
The Spooky Tale of Captain Underpants Hack-a-ween — NETFLIX FAMILY
October 9
October 10
Schitt’s Creek: Season 5
Ultramarine Magmell — NETFLIX ANIME
October 11
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie — NETFLIX TELEVISION EVENT
Fractured — NETFLIX FILM
La influencia — NETFLIX FILM
October 12
October 15
Dark Crimes
October 16
Sinister 2
October 17
The Karate Kid
THE UNLISTED — NETFLIX FAMILY
October 18
Eli — NETFLIX FILM
Interior Design Masters — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Mighty Little Bheem: Diwali — NETFLIX FAMILY
Spirit Riding Free: Pony Tales Collection 2 — NETFLIX FAMILY
Tell Me Who I Am — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Unnatural Selection — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
October 19
Men in Black
October 21
Echo in the Canyon
Free Fire
October 22
October 23
Dancing with the Birds — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy
October 24
Revenge of Pontianak
October 25
A Tale of Love and Darkness
Assimilate
Brigada Costa del Sol — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Monzon — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Nailed It! France (C’est du gâteau!) — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Nailed It! Spain (Niquelao!) — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Rattlesnake — NETFLIX FILM
It Takes a Lunatic — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
October 28
Little Miss Sumo — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Shine On with Reese: Season 1
October 29
Arsenio Hall: Smart & Classy — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
October 30
October 31
Last Call
Leaving October 1
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
All the President’s Men
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Bring It On: In It to Win It
Cabaret (1972)
Casper
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Cloverfield
Deliverance
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Empire Records
Evolution
Forks Over Knives
Frances Ha
Free State of Jones
Get Carter
Gremlins
Hoosiers
Impractical Jokers: Season 1
In Bruges
Julie & Julia
Lakeview Terrace
Midsomer Murders: Series 1-19
Obsessed
Pineapple Express
Platoon
Quiz Show
She’s Out of My League
The Dukes of Hazzard
The Nightmare
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Leaving October 5
Despicable Me 3
Leaving October 7
David Blaine: What Is Magic?
Scream 4
Leaving October 9
Little Witch Academia
Little Witch Academia: The Enchanted Parade
Sword Art Online II: Season 1
Leaving 10/15/19
El Internado: Season 1-7
Leaving October 20
Bridget Jones’s Baby
Leaving October 25
The Carrie Diaries: Season 1-2
Leaving October 29
The Fall: Series 1
The Imitation Game