It’s pumpkin season, baby. But also, it’s streaming season—especially if you’re a Netflix subscriber. The streaming giant welcomes a massive slate of original programming in October, from comedy to drama to documentary and everything in between. Selena Gomez serves as executive producer on Living Undocumented, which chronicles the experiences of eight undocumented immigrant families risking their lives to realize their American dream. Big Mouth returns for a third season of exploring human sexuality, Adderall addiction, and dick pics. And horror fans will get their fill with the Netflix & Chills lineup, comprising five original horror movies including an adaptation of Stephen King’s In the Tall Grass.
Check out the full listings below to see what’s new on Netflix in September.
What’s new on Netflix: Editor’s picks
Unbelievable
Based on the harrowing true crimes of a serial rapist, Unbelievable charts the long, hard road to bring the culprit to justice. Across two timelines, Unbelievable tells the story of Marie Adler (Kaitlyn Dever), a woman living in Washington State who, in 2008, was accused of falsely reporting a rape to police. The other timeline is set in Colorado in 2011 and follows detectives Karen Duvall (Merritt Weaver) and Grace Rasmussen (Toni Collette) as they investigate a series of unsolved rapes across the state. The series juxtaposes Marie’s experiences with local police and emotional trauma with the slow-moving investigation before the two stories dovetail. Unbelievable can be difficult to watch at times (the show comes with a trigger warning for sexual violence), but it is essential viewing. —Eddie Strait
Los Tigres del Norte at Folsom Prison
Legendary norteño musicians Los Tigres del Norte make a thoughtful, symbolic statement with this concert film. By purposefully choosing Folsom State Prison, where Johnny Cash recorded his legendary album At Folsom Prison, Los Tigres del Norte assert themselves as troubadours of America’s new working class, one largely consisting of people of color. Concert footage spliced with talking-head material from the inmates—many of whom love the band—makes for a forceful argument that Los Tigres del Norte are, in many ways, the heirs to Cash’s country music mantle and that Latinx stories are American working-class stories. —Brenden Gallagher
American Factory
Years after a GM plant closed in Moraine, Ohio, a Chinese billionaire opened a new plant and hired American and Chinese workers to operate it. With the wide-ranging amount of access, American Factory reveals employees who’ve become closer, the American workers’ efforts to unionize, and just how far the board will go to stop those efforts as two countries’ work values clash. —Michelle Jaworski
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What’s new on Netflix in October 2019
Oct. 1
Carmen Sandiego: Season 2 — NETFLIX FAMILY
Nikki Glaser: Bangin’ — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
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
Oct. 2
Living Undocumented — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Ready to Mingle (Solteras) — NETFLIX FILM
Rotten: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Oct. 3
Seis Manos — NETFLIX ANIME
Oct. 4
Big Mouth: Season 3 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Creeped Out: Season 2 — NETFLIX FAMILY
In the Tall Grass — NETFLIX FILM
Peaky Blinders: Season 5 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Raising Dion — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Super Monsters: Season 3 — NETFLIX FAMILY
Super Monsters: Vida’s First Halloween — NETFLIX FAMILY
Oct. 5
Legend Quest: Masters of Myth — NETFLIX FAMILY
Oct. 7
Match! Tennis Juniors — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
The Water Diviner
Oct. 8
Deon Cole: Cole Hearted — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
The Spooky Tale of Captain Underpants Hack-a-ween — NETFLIX FAMILY
Oct. 9
After
Rhythm + Flow — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Oct. 10
Schitt’s Creek: Season 5
Ultramarine Magmell — NETFLIX ANIME
Oct. 11
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie — NETFLIX TELEVISION EVENT
The Forest of Love — NETFLIX FILM
Fractured — NETFLIX FILM
Haunted: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Insatiable: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
La influencia — NETFLIX FILM
Plan Coeur: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
The Awakenings of Motti Wolenbruch — NETFLIX FILM
YooHoo to the Rescue: Season 2 — NETFLIX FAMILY
Oct. 12
Banlieusards — NETFLIX FILM
Oct. 15
Dark Crimes
Oct. 16
Ghosts of Sugar Land — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Sinister 2
Oct. 17
The Karate Kid
THE UNLISTED — NETFLIX FAMILY
Oct. 18
The Yard (Avlu) — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Baby: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Eli — NETFLIX FILM
Interior Design Masters — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
The House of Flowers: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
The Laundromat — NETFLIX FILM
Living with Yourself — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
MeatEater: Season 8 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Mighty Little Bheem: Diwali — NETFLIX FAMILY
Seventeen — NETFLIX FILM
Spirit Riding Free: Pony Tales Collection 2 — NETFLIX FAMILY
Tell Me Who I Am — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Toon: Seasons 1-2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Unnatural Selection — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Upstarts — NETFLIX FILM
Oct. 19
Men in Black
Oct. 21
Echo in the Canyon
Free Fire
Oct. 22
Jenny Slate: Stage Fright — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Oct. 23
Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Dancing with the Birds — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy
Oct. 24
Daybreak — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Revenge of Pontianak
Oct. 25
A Tale of Love and Darkness
Assimilate
Brigada Costa del Sol — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Brotherhood — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Dolemite Is My Name — NETFLIX FILM
Greenhouse Academy: Season 3 — NETFLIX FAMILY
The Kominsky Method: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Monzon — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Nailed It! France (C’est du gâteau!) — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Nailed It! Spain (Niquelao!) — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Prank Encounters — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Rattlesnake — NETFLIX FILM
It Takes a Lunatic — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Oct. 28
A 3 Minute Hug — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Little Miss Sumo — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Shine On with Reese: Season 1
Oct. 29
Arsenio Hall: Smart & Classy — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Oct. 30
Flavorful Origins: Yunnan Cuisine — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Oct. 31
Kengan Ashura: Part ll — NETFLIX ANIME
Nowhere Man — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Raging Bull
Coming Soon
My Next Guest with David Letterman and Shah Rukh Khan — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
What’s leaving Netflix in October 2019
Oct. 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?
Oct. 5
Despicable Me 3
Oct. 7
David Blaine: What Is Magic?
Scream 4
Oct. 9
Little Witch Academia
Little Witch Academia: The Enchanted Parade
Sword Art Online II: Season 1
Oct. 15
El Internado: Season 1-7
Oct. 20
Bridget Jones’s Baby
Oct. 25
The Carrie Diaries: Season 1-2
Oct. 29
The Fall: Series 1
The Imitation Game
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