New TV Shows And Movies On Netflix In September 2026

The Biggest New Netflix Originals In September 2026

The Gentlemen Season 2 — Sept. 3

What It’s About: Guy Ritchie’s stylish crime series returns with Theo James as Eddie Horniman, the aristocrat who discovered in Season 1 that he was surprisingly good at running a criminal empire, though he ran into a few bumps along the way. A year later, Eddie is no longer a reluctant participant: He wants to expand, with Kaya Scodelario’s formidable Susie Glass at his side. Their ambitions take the operation beyond the cannabis farm beneath the Horniman estate and into continental Europe, while Eddie’s increasingly fraught relationship with crime boss Bobby Glass (Ray Winstone) threatens the whole enterprise. Vinnie Jones, Giancarlo Esposito, Daniel Ings and Joely Richardson return, with Hugh Bonneville, Benedetta Porcaroli and Benjamin Clementine among the newcomers. Netflix has already renewed the series for Season 3.

Why You Should Watch: This is easily one of the best Netflix Original TV shows in years, and certainly at the top of the list when it comes to fun crime dramedies. I first encountered Theo James in the second season of The White Lotus. He’s much more likable here, as a budding drug entrepreneur, than he was in that season of TV. If you’re a fan of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, you’ll recognize Daniel Ings. He plays Eddie’s brother, Freddy, who has one of the most iconic moments involving a chicken suit I’ve ever seen on a TV show. He plays the charming, if mercurial, Lord Lyonel Baratheon in HBO’s Game of Thrones spinoff.

Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story — Sept. 17

What It’s About: Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s Monster anthology turns to perhaps the most infamous woman in American true-crime history for its fourth season. Ella Beatty plays Lizzie Borden, who was tried and acquitted of the brutal 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. The heavily fictionalized series explores Lizzie’s oppressive home life, her relationship with the family maid Maggie (Vicky Krieps) and the birth of the macabre legend that has surrounded her ever since. Charlie Hunnam plays Andrew Borden, Rebecca Hall is Abby Borden and Billie Lourd plays Lizzie’s sister Emma, while Sarah Paulson appears as serial killer Aileen Wuornos as part of the season’s broader examination of women and violence. This is the first Monster installment centered on a woman, following seasons about Jeffrey Dahmer, the Menendez brothers and Ed Gein.

Why You Should Watch: There are primarily two reasons to tune into Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story. Either you’re a fan of Ryan Murphy shows more broadly – Murphy has produced and/or created everything from Glee to American Horror Story to a raft of Netflix shows including the Monster anthology series – or you’re a fan of these true crime dramas and specifically the macabre stuff. Both can be true! I’m not really big into most of Murphy’s shows, though he’s clearly been wildly successful (and The Politician had its moments, though mostly I just wanted Ben Platt to sing more). Murder mysteries and serial-killer thrillers are some of my favorites when it comes to TV, movies and books (Seven is one of my favorite movies of all time) but I’ve avoided the Monster series so far. Sometimes the true stories just get to me a little too much.

Netflix is also adding a surprisingly strong selection of older movies in September, including several complete or near-complete franchises.

Some Classic Franchises Land On Netflix In September

The Alien movies — Sept. 1

What It’s About: Two of the greatest science-fiction movies ever made arrive together. Ridley Scott’s 1979 Alien is essentially a haunted-house movie in space, following the crew of the Nostromo after they unwittingly bring a deadly extraterrestrial aboard their ship. Sigourney Weaver stars as Ellen Ripley alongside Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Ian Holm and Veronica Cartwright. James Cameron’s 1986 sequel Aliens shifts brilliantly from horror to all-out military action, sending Ripley back to the creature’s planet with a squad of Colonial Marines. Michael Biehn, Carrie Henn, Bill Paxton and Lance Henriksen join Weaver in the sequel. Netflix is only adding these first two films, but fortunately they’re also the two essential ones.

Why You Should Watch: I’m not sure who needs convincing, but these are two of the best sci-fi horror movies of all time. They regularly drop on one streaming service or another, but now you can just watch them back-to-back on Netflix. The series as a whole has been quite a mixed bag, and I was severely disappointed in Hulu’s Alien: Earth series, but these originals age like fine wine. The Xenomorph remains the most artfully designed and scariest space alien in the history of cinema. I never get tired of watching these movies.

The Jaws collection — Sept. 1

What It’s About: Netflix is adding all four movies in the original Jaws series. Steven Spielberg’s landmark 1975 original stars Roy Scheider as Amity Island police chief Martin Brody, Richard Dreyfuss as oceanographer Matt Hooper, and Robert Shaw as shark hunter Quint, whose hunt for a great white helped create the modern summer blockbuster. Scheider returns for 1978’s Jaws 2, while 1983’s poorly received (and increasingly goofy) Jaws 3 moves the carnage to a marine park and stars Dennis Quaid as Brody’s son Mike. Finally there’s Jaws: The Revenge, which felt more like revenge taken on fans of the franchise than anything. All four land Sept. 1.

Why You Should Watch: Look, let’s be honest. You should watch the original Jaws because it’s one of the greatest movies ever made. It was a sensation at the box office, set the template for summer blockbusters and an entire sub-genre within horror cinema, and it’s a brilliant film from start to finish. I have a number of movie posters in my TV room, and Jaws is one of them. Then you should stop and walk away slowly, because none of the sequels are any good at all.

That being said, if you enjoy watching hilariously bad movies, skip Jaws 2 and watch the third and fourth films. If you thought the 10% Rotten Tomatoes score for Jaws 3 was bad, behold the 2% for Jaws: The Revenge. Somehow two percent of movie critics actually liked this movie! I wonder when they’ll reboot this franchise. It’s only a matter of time. There are plenty of imitators, of course, including the recent Netflix Original, Thrash, which is worth a watch:

The Resident Evil collection — Sept. 1–2

What It’s About: Netflix is assembling a sizable Resident Evil marathon in September, though it’s actually a mix of live-action and animated installments rather than the complete film franchise. September 1 brings three of Milla Jovovich’s live-action movies as Alice: Resident Evil: Extinction, Resident Evil: Afterlife and Resident Evil: Retribution, continuing her increasingly bonkers war against the Umbrella Corporation and its zombie-producing T-virus.

The very next day, Netflix adds three CG-animated movies that are much more closely tied to the continuity and characters of Capcom’s games: Resident Evil: Damnation, Resident Evil: Vendetta and Resident Evil: Death Island. These feature familiar heroes including Leon S. Kennedy, Chris Redfield, Jill Valentine, Claire Redfield and Rebecca Chambers, with Death Island notably bringing several of the franchise’s biggest protagonists together at Alcatraz.

Why You Should Watch: There is rarely a reason to watch a Resident Evil when you could play a Resident Evil game instead, but September just so happens to be the month that Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil movie hits theaters. Cregger, you may recall, is the writer and director of Weapons, one of my favorite movies of 2025 and honestly one of the best horror movies I’ve ever seen, though I’m a sucker for creative storytelling and a sense of humor. Weapons wasn’t that scary but it sure was fun. I have very high hopes for Cregger’s take on Resident Evil, as I could never really get into any of the Milla Jovovich films, which often seemed like a showcase for director Paul W. S. Anderson’s wife being a badass.

Cregger’s film treatment is an entirely original story rather than an adaptation. It stars Austin Abrams as Bryan, a medical courier, who goes to some dark places:

Other notable films coming to Netflix in September include:

Conan the Barbarian, Scarface, Phantom Thread, Ready or Not, Straight Outta Compton, T2 Trainspotting, About Time, The Blues Brothers, Liar Liar, Sleepless in Seattle and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre all arrive September 1. Now, onto the big list.

Everything Coming To Netflix In September 2026

Sept. 1

“Jared Freid: The Family Plan”

“Untold Raygun: Breaking Badly”

“17 Again”

“About Time”

“Alien”

“Aliens”

“Antz”

“Battleship”

“Big Daddy”

“The Blues Brothers”

“The Boy Next Door”

“Conan the Barbarian”

“Cruel Intentions”

“Dragnet”

“The Flintstones”

“Gothika”

“Greta”

“Heartland: Season 19”

“Jarhead”

“Jaws”

“Jaws 2”

“Jaws 3”

“Jaws: The Revenge”

“Kick-Ass 2”

“Knocked Up”

“Liar Liar”

“Neighbors”

“Phantom Thread”

“Ready or Not”

“Resident Evil: Afterlife”

“Resident Evil: Extinction”

“Resident Evil: Retribution”

“The Rite”

“Scarface”

“Shark Tale”

“Sleepless in Seattle”

“Straight Outta Compton”

“T2 Trainspotting”

“The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”

“Uncle Buck”

“Unfriended”

Sept. 2

“Driven” Seasons 1-3

“Lovesick”

“Resident Evil: Damnation”

“Resident Evil: Death Island”

“Resident Evil: Vendetta”

“Turning Point: Generation 9/11”

Sept. 3

“Fito Páez: The World Within a Song”

“Folktales”

“The Gentlemen”

“Major Crimes”

Smile 2”

Sept. 4

“Earle Meets World”

“Teenage Wasteland”

Sept. 5

“Emeril Tailgates” Season 1

Sept. 8

“Dang”

“Fauda” Season 5

“Stavros Halkias: Uncle Stav”

“Untold Mr. T: I Pity The Fool”

Sept. 9

“Prom Night”

“Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Again?”

Sept. 10

“Call My Agent! The Movie”

“Crew Girl”

“NFL Melbourne Game”

“The Perfect Lie”

“We Don’t Live Here Anymore”

Sept. 11

“Go Team!”

“Physical 100: Italy” Season 1: Batch 1

“Stolen Heartbeats”

“Tribeca 25”

Sept. 13

“Dog Man”

Sept. 14

“Gabby’s Dollhouse” Season 14

“Hot Ones: Extra Heat” Episode 2

“When Hope Calls” Seasons 1-2

Sept. 15

“The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist”

“I Survived a Serial Killer” Season 1

Sept. 16

“The Doll”

Sept. 17

“The Fixers”

“Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story”

“Not a Stranger”

“Plastic Beauty”

“Stranger Things: Tales From ’85: Season 2”

Sept. 18

“Best of the Best”

“Pokémon Horizons: Season 3—Rising Hope Part 4”

Sept. 20

“Stop! That! Train!”

Sept. 22

“Doc: Season 2”

“Minerva Academy”

“Party Down” Seasons 1-3

“Doc” Season 2

Sept. 23

“Habeas Corpus”

“Lifehack”

“Wonka’s The Golden Ticket”

Sept. 24

“A Different World”

“Delusion”

“My Sad Dead”

“Oculus”

Sept. 25

“The Final Problem”

“Steel Ball Run Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: 2nd-3rd Stage”

“Unabomber”

Sept. 29

“Lego One Piece”

“Mononoke The Movie: Chapter Ⅲ – The Curse of the Serpent”

“Murder in a Small Town” Seasons 1-2