With class back in session, Netflix is schooling viewers with dozens of new films and TV shows to devour this September. Returning favorites like reality real estate series Selling Sunset and Emily in Paris, which concludes its recently debuted fourth season, join buzzy new shows like Nicole Kidman’s murder mystery The Perfect Couple and Nobody Wants This, a serialized rom-com starring Adam Brody and Kristen Bell that drops on September 26.
On the film side, His Three Daughters, a stirring awards contender led by Carrie Coon, Natasha Lyonne, and Elizabeth Olsen about three estranged sisters brought back together by the impending death of their father, premieres on September 20. It is followed on the 27th by Will & Harper, a documentary feature that explores the evolving dynamic between Will Ferrell and his longtime friend Harper Steele after she comes out as a trans woman. And there are more documentaries where that came from, featuring subjects including headline-making soccer star Hope Solo (Sept. 3) and tech billionaire Bill Gates, whose docuseries What’s Next? The Future with Bill Gates delves into the shifts caused by technological advances and is out Sept. 18.
Here’s more on what’s coming to Netflix in September:
The Perfect Couple
After earning acclaim (and inspiring a ton of TikToks) as cardigan-clutching women in murder mystery shows like Big Little Lies and The Undoing, Nicole Kidman is returning to her new favorite genre. Based on Elin Hilderbrand’s New York Times bestselling novel, The Perfect Couple is a Nantucket-set whodunit starring Kidman as an uber-successful novelist whose family may be involved in a shocking death just before her son’s wedding. She plays the family’s steely matriarch alongside suave husband Liev Schrieber and a sprawling set of house guests featuring the likes of Bad Sisters’ Eve Hewson, The White Lotus’s Meghann Fahy, Ripley’s Dakota Fanning, and Midsommar’s Jack Reynor. It debuts on Sept. 5.
Selling Sunset Season 8
Somehow, the often low-stakes drama of high-end real estate on the Sunset Strip has now spawned eight seasons of reality TV excellence. The hit Netflix series returns on September 6 for 11 episodes’ worth of fresh conflict at the Oppenheim Group—from continued tension between fellow agents Chrishell Stause and Nicole Young to revelations about Chelsea Lazkani’s seven-year marriage, which ended earlier this year, and even the arrival of a new agent.
Emily in Paris: Season Four, Part Two
Just as Bridgerton’s third season debuted in two parts this summer, Emily in Paris has followed suit and will conclude its fourth installment on September 12. The first four episodes ended with something of a cliffhanger: Camille (Camille Razat) is hiding the fact that she is—spoiler alert—not pregnant with Gabriel’s (Lucas Bravo) baby, as they once believed. Meanwhile, Emily (Lily Collins) plans to get away from doubts about her relationship with Gabriel to take a Roman holiday. Expect the Audrey Hepburn references to come early and often.
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
The first season of Monster, an anthology series from creators Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan about the inner workings of real-life killers, earned a slew of Emmy nominations and became one of Netflix’s most-watched titles of all-time. But Evan Peters’s turn as serial murderer Jeffrey Dahmer also sparked criticism among many of the actual victims’ loved ones and inspired some seriously ill-advised Halloween costumes. Expect some inevitable controversy to come bundled with the second season, out September 19, which delves into the blockbuster case of two brothers who were convicted in 1996 of brutally killing their parents in the family home. Nicholas Alexander Chavez of daytime soap series General Hospital and Cooper Koch of horror film They/Them star as the titular siblings, while their parents, José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez, are played by Oscar winner Javier Bardem and Oscar nominee Chloë Sevigny, hot off Feud: Capote vs. the Swans.
The full list of what’s coming to Netflix in September
Coming Soon
An Invisible Victim: The Eliza Samudio Case (NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY)
Bangkok Breaking: Heaven and Hell (NETFLIX FILM)
Divorce (NETFLIX FILM)
The Great Indian Kapil Show: Season 2 (NETFLIX SERIES)
September 1
300
5 Centimeters Per Second
Along Came Polly
BLUE GIANT
Diary of a Mad Black Woman
Dragnet
The Expendables
The Expendables 2
The Expendables 3
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Field of Dreams
Jaws
Jaws 2
Jaws 3
Legends of the Fall
Magic Mike
Midnight Run
Paul Blart: Mall Cop
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
Shark Tale
Sonic the Hedgehog
Stand by Me
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Wipeout: Batch 3
September 2
Call the Midwife: Series 13
Chestnut vs. Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef (NETFLIX LIVE EVENT)
The Hughleys: Seasons 1-4
September 3
Last One Standing: Season 3 (NETFLIX SERIES)
Phil Wang: Wang in There, Baby! (NETFLIX COMEDY SPECIAL)
Untold: Hope Solo vs. U.S. Soccer (NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY)
September 4
Outlast: Season 2 (NETFLIX SERIES)
September 5
Apollo 13: Survival (NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY)
Caught in the Web: The Murders Behind Zona Divas (NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY)
The Perfect Couple (NETFLIX SERIES)
September 6
Disco, Ibiza, Locomía (NETFLIX FILM)
Rebel Ridge (NETFLIX FILM)
Selling Sunset: Season 8 (NETFLIX SERIES)
September 7
Edge of Tomorrow
September 9
Hot Wheels Let’s Race: Season 2 (NETFLIX FAMILY)
September 10
Ahir Shah: Ends (NETFLIX COMEDY SPECIAL)
Jake Whitehall: Fatherhood with My Father (NETFLIX SERIES)
September 11
Boxer (NETFLIX FILM)
The Circle: Season 7 (NETFLIX SERIES)
Technoboys (NETFLIX FILM)
September 12
Ángel Di María: Breaking Down the Wall (NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY)
Billionaire Island (NETFLIX SERIES)
Black Mass
Emily in Paris: Season 4 Part 2 (NETFLIX SERIES)
Into the Fire: The Lost Daughter (NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY)
Midnight at the Pera Palace: Season 2 (NETFLIX SERIES)
September 13
Officer Black Belt (NETFLIX FILM)
Sector 36 (NETFLIX FILM)
Uglies (NETFLIX FILM)
September 15
Ancient Aliens: Season 8
Heels: Seasons 1-2
Intervention: Season 23
September 16
30 for 30: Catholics vs. Convicts
30 for 30: Pony Excess
30 for 30: Rand University
30 for 30: The U
30 for 30: The U Part 2
American Gangster
CoComelon: Season 11 (NETFLIX FAMILY)
Entourage
September 17
Culinary Class Wars (NETFLIX SERIES)
Live from The Other Side with Tyler Henry (NETFLIX LIVE EVENT)
September 18
Envious (NETFLIX SERIES)
Lopez vs. Lopez: Season 2
What’s Next? The Future with Bill Gates (NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY)
September 19
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story (NETFLIX SERIES)
The Queen of Villains (NETFLIX SERIES)
Twilight of the Gods (NETFLIX SERIES)
September 20
His Three Daughters (NETFLIX FILM)
KLASS 95: The Power of Beauty (NETFLIX SERIES)
September 24
Penelope: Season 1
September 26
A True Gentleman (NETFLIX FILM)
Everything Calls for Salvation: Season 2 (NETFLIX SERIES)
Nobody Wants This (NETFLIX SERIES)
September 27
Lisabi: The Uprising (NETFLIX FILM)
Rez Ball (NETFLIX FILM)
We Were Kings (NETFLIX SERIES)
Will & Harper (NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY)
What’s leaving Netflix in September 2024:
As autumn arrives, several titles are falling with the new season. Strangely enough, that means that despite the recent release of Beverly Hills Cop: Axel in July, both the original Beverly Hills Cop and its 1987 sequel are leaving the platform on September 3. Two days later, a pair of beloved CW series—all four seasons of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and all five of Jane The Virgin—will say their goodbyes. And by the end of the month, the Back to the Future trilogy will be a thing of the past, in addition to the less illustrious trilogies, Fifty Shades of Grey and Divergent.
September 3
Beverly Hills Cop
Beverly Hills Cop II
September 5
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: Seasons 1-4
iZombie: Seasons 1-5
Jane The Virgin: Seasons 1-5
September 8
Cuties
September 19
Bodies Bodies Bodies
September 24
A Walk to Remember
September 27
Force of Nature
Great News: Seasons 1-2
Inheritance
September 29
Good Witch: Seasons 1-7
September 30
A Million Ways to Die in the West
Back to the Future
Back to the Future Part II
Back to the Future Part III
Big Fat Liar
The Breakfast Club
Clerks
Conan the Barbarian
The Conjuring
The Conjuring 2
Divergent
The Divergent Series: Allegiant - Part 1
The Divergent Series: Insurgent
Dumb and Dumber
Dune
Fifty Shades Darker
Fifty Shades Freed
Fifty Shades of Grey
Hacksaw Ridge
Home
Hot Tub Time Machine
How to Get Away With Murder: Seasons 1-6
The Lego Movie
Léon: The Professional
Major League II
Mr Bean’s Holiday
Muriel's Wedding
My Girl 2
Natural Born Killers
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Reality Bites
S.W.A.T.
Uncle Buck
Wild Things
The Wiz
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