Best Movies on Netflix – September 2026

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.

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Director

Steven Spielberg

Starring

Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes

Struggling to find his place in the world while juggling school and family, Brooklyn teenager Miles Morales is unexpectedly bitten by a radioactive spider and develops unfathomable powers just like the one and only Spider-Man. While wrestling with the implications of his new abilities, Miles discovers a super collider created by the madman Wilson "Kingpin" Fisk, causing others from across the Spider-Verse to be inadvertently transported to his dimension.

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• Netflix

Director

Bob Persichetti

Starring

Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld

When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town's chief of police, a young marine biologist, and a grizzled shark hunter embark on a desperate quest to kill the beast before it strikes again.

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• YouTube TV

Director

Steven Spielberg

Starring

Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss

"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous statement by President Lyndon B. Johnson that ultimately led to the signing of the Voting Rights Act.

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• Netflix
• Starz

Director

Ava DuVernay

Starring

David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Tom Wilkinson

Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school — the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year — before she begins high school.

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Director

Bo Burnham

Starring

Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, Emily Robinson

Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, however, is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of short-term memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard cannot remember what happened fifteen minutes ago, where he's going, or why.

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• Hulu
• Peacock
• AMC+
• Sundance Now

Director

Christopher Nolan

Starring

Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano

Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife in a scheme to collect a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. It's going to be a snap and nobody's going to get hurt... until people start dying. Enter Police Chief Marge, a coffee-drinking, parka-wearing - and extremely pregnant - investigator who'll stop at nothing to get her man. And if you think her small-time investigative skills will give the crooks a run for their ransom... you betcha!

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• Prime Video
• Hulu
• MGM+

Director

Joel Coen

Starring

Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi

During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.

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Director

Ridley Scott

Starring

Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright

Yuta Okkotsu is a nervous high school student who is suffering from a serious problem—his childhood friend Rika has turned into a curse and won't leave him alone. Since Rika is no ordinary curse, his plight is noticed by Satoru Gojo, a teacher at Jujutsu High, a school where fledgling exorcists learn how to combat curses. Gojo convinces Yuta to enroll, but can he learn enough in time to confront the curse that haunts him?

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• Prime Video
• Crunchyroll

Director

Sunghoo Park

Starring

Megumi Ogata, Kana Hanazawa, Yuichi Nakamura

Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo's deadly encounter with the monstrous Alien, returns to Earth after drifting through space in hypersleep for 57 years. Although her story is initially met with skepticism, she agrees to accompany a team of Colonial Marines back to LV-426.

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• YouTube TV
• Fubo
• Philo

Director

James Cameron

Starring

Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn

A stage director and an actress struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal extremes.

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Director

Noah Baumbach

Starring

Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, Laura Dern

In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad.

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Director

Dee Rees

Starring

Carey Mulligan, Jason Clarke, Jason Mitchell

In 1970s Mexico City, two domestic workers help a mother of four while her husband is away for an extended period of time.

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Director

Alfonso Cuarón

Starring

Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey

Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.

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Director

Martin Scorsese

Starring

Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci

When Lou Bloom, desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding him in his effort is Nina, a TV-news veteran.

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• Shout! Factory
• Sundance Now

Director

Dan Gilroy

Starring

Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Riz Ahmed

U.S. federal agent Leon S. Kennedy sneaks into the "East Slavic Republic" to verify rumors that Bio-Organic Weapons (BOWs) are being used in the country's civil war, which the U.S. and Russia are making preparations to jointly intervene in. Right after his infiltration, the U.S. government orders him to leave immediately. Determined to uncover the truth, Leon ignores the order and enters the battlefield to end the chain of tragedies caused by the BOWs.

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• Hulu
• Sony Pictures Core

Director

Makoto Kamiya

Starring

Matthew Mercer, Courtenay Taylor, Robin Sachs

Tensions run high when a crazed bomber rigs a Los Angeles bus with a device that will kill everyone on board if the vehicle's speed dips below fifty miles per hour.

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• HBO Max
• YouTube TV
• Fubo
• FXNow
• USA Network

Director

Jan de Bont

Starring

Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock

The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew, with the failed journey turning into a thrilling saga of heroism. Drifting more than 200,000 miles from Earth, the astronauts work furiously with the ground crew to avert tragedy.

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• MGM+

Director

Ron Howard

Starring

Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon

Brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist, a young woman runs off with a lawyer on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, she grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation.

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Director

Yorgos Lanthimos

Starring

Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe

A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the western United States after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.

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Director

Chloé Zhao

Starring

Frances McDormand, David Strathairn, Linda May

Based on the experiences of Agu, a child fighting in the civil war of a West African country. Follows Agu's journey as he's forced to join a group of soldiers. While he fears his commander and many of the men around him, his fledgling childhood has been brutally shattered by the war raging through his country, and he is at first torn between conflicting revulsion and fascination.

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Director

Cary Joji Fukunaga

Starring

Abraham Attah, Idris Elba, Emmanuel Nii Adom Quaye

Following the events of Captain America: Civil War, Peter Parker, with the help of his mentor Tony Stark, tries to balance his life as an ordinary high school student in Queens, New York City, with fighting crime as his superhero alter ego Spider-Man as a new threat, the Vulture, emerges.

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• Disney+
• YouTube TV
• Fubo
• FXNow

Director

Jon Watts

Starring

Tom Holland, Michael Keaton, Robert Downey Jr.

A domineering but charismatic rancher wages a war of intimidation on his brother's new wife and her teen son, until long-hidden secrets come to light.

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Director

Jane Campion

Starring

Benedict Cumberbatch, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Kirsten Dunst

With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

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Director

David Fincher

Starring

Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris

After his long-time girlfriend dumps him, a thirty-year-old record store owner seeks to understand why he is unlucky in love while recounting his "top five breakups of all time".

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Director

Stephen Frears

Starring

John Cusack, Iben Hjejle, Todd Louiso

A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May, 2011.

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• Apple TV
• Sony Pictures Core

Director

Kathryn Bigelow

Starring

Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Joel Edgerton

In 1950s London, a renowned dressmaker's meticulous lifestyle begins drastically changing as his relationship with his young muse intensifies.

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Director

Paul Thomas Anderson

Starring

Daniel Day-Lewis, Vicky Krieps, Lesley Manville

In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: their music. Taking us back to where it all began, Straight Outta Compton tells the true story of how these cultural rebels—armed only with their lyrics, swagger, bravado and raw talent—stood up to the authorities that meant to keep them down and formed the world’s most dangerous group, N.W.A. And as they spoke the truth that no one had before and exposed life in the hood, their voice ignited a social revolution that is still reverberating today.

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• Starz

Director

F. Gary Gray

Starring

O'Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell

After surviving the Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta struggle with the consequences of their victory as unrest spreads across Panem. Forced back into the spotlight, they become symbols of hope and resistance while the Capitol prepares a new and deadly challenge that will change the future of the nation forever.

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Director

Francis Lawrence

Starring

Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth

Best friends and roommates Dreux and Alyssa are about to have One of Them Days. When they discover Alyssa’s boyfriend has blown their rent money, the duo finds themselves going to extremes in a comical race against the clock to avoid eviction and keep their friendship intact.

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Director

Lawrence Lamont

Starring

Keke Palmer, SZA, Joshua David Neal

Frustrated with the direction of the church, Cardinal Bergoglio requests permission to retire in 2012 from Pope Benedict. Instead, facing scandal and self-doubt, the introspective Pope Benedict summons his harshest critic and future successor to Rome to reveal a secret that would shake the foundations of the Catholic Church.

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Director

Fernando Meirelles

Starring

Jonathan Pryce, Anthony Hopkins, Juan Minujín

Columbus has made a habit of running from what scares him. Tallahassee doesn't have fears. If he did, he'd kick their ever-living ass. In a world overrun by zombies, these two are perfectly evolved survivors. But now, they're about to stare down the most terrifying prospect of all: each other.

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• HBO Max

Director

Ruben Fleischer

Starring

Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone

An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and identifies more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.

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• AMC+
• YouTube TV
• Philo
• AMC
• BBC America

Director

Mike Newell

Starring

Johnny Depp, Al Pacino, Michael Madsen

In 1630, a farmer relocates his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of a forest where strange, unsettling things happen. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, each family member's faith, loyalty and love are tested in shocking ways.

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Director

Robert Eggers

Starring

Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie

Ray Kinsella is an Iowa farmer who hears a mysterious voice telling him to turn his cornfield into a baseball diamond. He does, but the voice's directions don't stop -- even after the spirits of deceased ballplayers turn up to play.

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• AMC+
• YouTube TV
• Philo
• BBC America
• TBS

Director

Phil Alden Robinson

Starring

Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan, Gaby Hoffmann

An FBI agent teams with the town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.

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Director

Taylor Sheridan

Starring

Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen, Gil Birmingham

A brilliant toy company roboticist uses artificial intelligence to develop M3GAN, a life-like doll programmed to emotionally bond with her newly orphaned niece. But when the doll's programming works too well, she becomes overprotective of her new friend with terrifying results.

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• YouTube TV

Director

Gerard Johnstone

Starring

Allison Williams, Violet McGraw, Amie Donald

A neurotic worker ant in love with a rebellious princess rises to unlikely stardom when he switches places with a soldier. Signing up to march in a parade, he ends up under the command of a bloodthirsty general. But he's actually been enlisted to fight against a termite army.

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Director

Eric Darnell

Starring

Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Dan Aykroyd

A slacker and a career-driven woman accidentally conceive a child after a one-night stand. As they try to make the relationship work, they must navigate the challenges of parenthood and their differences in lifestyle and maturity.

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• Starz

Director

Judd Apatow

Starring

Seth Rogen, Katherine Heigl, Paul Rudd

Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they have ever imagined.

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Director

David Fincher

Starring

Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer

A young bride's wedding night turns into her worst nightmare when her ridiculously rich in-laws force her to play a gruesome game of hide-and-seek.

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• Hulu
• YouTube TV
• Fubo
• FXNow

Director

Matt Bettinelli-Olpin

Starring

Samara Weaving, Adam Brody, Mark O'Brien

A group of teens break into a blind man's home thinking they'll get away with the perfect crime. They're wrong.

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• Prime Video

Director

Fede Álvarez

Starring

Stephen Lang, Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette

A young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend - a massive animal named Okja.

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Director

Bong Joon Ho

Starring

An Seo-hyun, Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano

Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.

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Director

Oliver Stone

Starring

Tom Cruise, Raymond J. Barry, Caroline Kava

In a dystopian society where the Capitol forces each district to send two young tributes to fight to the death in a televised spectacle, a girl volunteers to take her sister’s place, setting the stage for a struggle of survival and defiance.

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Director

Gary Ross

Starring

Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth

About to embark on a new world tour, global pop sensation Skye Riley begins experiencing increasingly terrifying and inexplicable events. Overwhelmed by the escalating horrors and the pressures of fame, Skye is forced to face her dark past to regain control of her life before it spirals out of control.

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• Prime Video
• Paramount+
• MGM+

Director

Parker Finn

Starring

Naomi Scott, Rosemarie DeWitt, Lukas Gage

As America's stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up in the Midwest, funded by publicity-hungry candy maker Walter Harvey. Competitive sisters Dottie Hinson and Kit Keller spar with each other, scout Ernie Capadino and grumpy has-been coach Jimmy Dugan on their way to fame.

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• Apple TV
• Starz
• YouTube TV

Director

Penny Marshall

Starring

Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Lori Petty

After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own drug-fueled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall.

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Director

Brian De Palma

Starring

Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer

Forced by his son's birthday wish, fast-talking attorney and habitual liar Fletcher Reede must tell the truth for the next 24 hours.

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Director

Tom Shadyac

Starring

Jim Carrey, Maura Tierney, Justin Cooper

Ingrid becomes obsessed with a social network star named Taylor Sloane who seemingly has a perfect life. But when Ingrid decides to drop everything and move west to be Taylor's friend, her behaviour turns unsettling and dangerous.

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Director

Matt Spicer

Starring

Aubrey Plaza, Elizabeth Olsen, O'Shea Jackson Jr.