The 15 Best Things Coming to Netflix in September 2024

Get ready for a stellar lineup of documentaries, original films and new series

Chris Nashawaty,

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Published January 22, 2024

/ Updated August 30, 2024

Don Johnson holding his gun in his holster looking at Aaron Pierre in the Netflix film Rebel Ridge

(Left to right) Don Johnson and Aaron Pierre star in "Rebel Ridge."

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As soon as there’s a fall chill in the air, you can finally bust out your coziest sweaters and sip pumpkin spice-flavored tea while you curl up on the couch with some must-see TV. Netflix has you covered in September with new true-crime docs, reality series, star-studded original movies and returning seasons of your favorite escapist shows (including Emily in Paris). Here are the 15 best things coming to Netflix this month.

Coming Sept. 1

Midnight Run (1988, R)

The odd couple pairing of Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin really shouldn’t work, but in Martin Brest’s planes, trains and automobiles buddy caper, it proves to be comedy magic. De Niro, 81, plays a gruff bounty hunter who can finally get out of the business by bringing in Grodin’s high-maintenance Mafia accountant. “You don’t look much like a criminal,” a kid tells Grodin. “I’m a white-collar criminal,” he explains. De Niro and Grodin start off as bickering enemies and slowly become bickering pals, all while giving the FBI, mobsters and fellow bounty hunters the slip. An underseen ’80s classic.

Coming Sept. 5

Apollo 13: Survival

“Houston, we have a problem.” Everyone knows that famous (but slightly inaccurate) quote from Ron Howard’s terrific 1995 dramatization of NASA’s doomed Apollo 13 mission to the moon. In director Peter Middleton’s riveting documentary, the immediacy and danger of that mission come into terrifying relief. Featuring archival footage from mission control, Apollo 13: Survival offers a fresh, never-before-seen look at the crisis that almost stranded three astronauts in space nine short months after Neil Armstrong’s triumphant “one small step for man.”

Caught in the Web: The Murders Behind Zona Divas

This harrowing documentary investigates a string of Mexico City murders connected to a shadowy online escort site. The women advertised on it were poor refugees from various South American countries held hostage and forced into sex work. Caught in the Web digs into a tragedy that Mexican officials barely lifted a finger to address.

The Perfect Couple

Nicole Kidman, 57, and Liev Schreiber, 56, star in this six-episode murder-mystery series from director Susanne Bier (Bird Box, The Night Manager). Eve Hewson’s Amelia is about to marry into one of the wealthiest families on Nantucket (which is saying something). That is, until an accidental drowning — or was it? — derails the nuptials and turns all the guests into suspects. If this setup sounds a bit like Glass Onion, well, you’re not wrong. But with Kidman and Schreiber at the top of this family tree, we’re RSVP’ing yes.

Coming Sept. 6

Rebel Ridge

The only thing that may be better than a dirty-cop movie is a dirty-cop movie starring a sinister Don Johnson, 74. The Underground Railroad’s Aaron Pierre plays a Black former Marine who travels to a small, largely white town to bail his cousin out of jail and stumbles on to a conspiracy involving the police. Directed by Jeremy Saulnier (2015’s tense and taut Green Room), Rebel Ridge looks like an extremely promising late-night thriller.

Selling Sunset, Season 8

The glamorous and catty real estate agents from the Oppenheim Group’s L.A. office are back to gossip, grouse and talk trash about one another while occasionally taking an interest in selling ridiculously priced homes that we’ll never be able to afford. In other words, this hit reality series is giddy train wreck TV tailor-made for your bingeing sweet tooth. Bring on the backstabbing!

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Coming Sept. 12

Emily in Paris, Season 4, Part 2

The back half of this fourth season should have probably been retitled Emily in Rome. After all, Lily Collins’ fashionable innocent abroad heads to the Italian capital to land a client and winds up riding with hot men on the back of Vespas, dining on drool-worthy cuisine and living la dolce vita. After the Camille pregnancy cliffhanger that closed the first half of the season, who couldn’t use a Roman holiday?

Into the Fire: The Lost Daughter

In this two-part documentary produced by Charlize Theron, a woman named Cathy Terkanian springs into action when she finds out that the daughter she gave up for adoption 35 years earlier went missing. This is a tragic cold-case story, to be sure. But Terkanian’s tenacity and determination during her desperate 10-year quest is downright inspiring. As one of the film’s interview subjects describes her, “she’s a pit bull with lipstick.”

Coming Sept. 18

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What’s Next? The Future With Bill Gates

The former Microsoft mogul has always been interested in more than the latest version of Windows. He’s a billionaire philanthropist who’s been attempting to right what he sees as the planet’s wrongs for years. In this intimate docuseries, Gates examines the changes — good and bad — brought about by technological advances around the world.

Coming Sept. 19

Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, Season 2

The first season of Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s controversial true-crime anthology series luridly chronicled the evil deeds of Jeffrey Dahmer. In its sophomore season, Monsters tackles the sensational murder saga of the Menendez brothers, two sons of a well-to-do L.A. couple who killed their parents, claiming that it was in reaction to their father’s abuse. Javier Bardem, 55, and Chloë Sevigny add some class to the tabloid-ready tale as the slain Jose and Kitty Menendez.

Coming Sept. 20

His Three Daughters

After a string of poor showings at the Oscars, Netflix hasn’t thrown in the towel (yet) on awards-bait movies. In writer-director Azazel Jacobs’ prestige drama, Elizabeth Olsen, Carrie Coon and Natasha Lyonne costar as three estranged sisters who are forced to reunite to look after their dying father — and possibly bury a lifetime’s worth of hatchets — during his final days. Laughter through tears appears to be the MO here.

Coming Sept. 25

(Left to right) Casey White and Vicky White

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Jailbreak: Love on the Run

In 2022, a well-respected female corrections officer named Vicky White helped inmate Casey White (no relation) escape from the Lauderdale County Jail in Florence, Alabama. Why did she do it? Love, of course. This stranger-than-fiction documentary goes beyond the media circus to examine what their plan was (if they even had one) before a statewide manhunt caught up with them several weeks later.

Coming Sept. 26

Nobody Wants This, Season 1

Adam Brody and Kristen Bell star in this serialized, 10-episode rom-com about a set-in-his-ways rabbi who forms an unlikely romantic connection with an irreverent, outspoken woman who’s anything but religious. This loosely autobiographical series comes from writer and actress Erin Foster. Veep’s Timothy Simons and Succession’s Justine Lupe round out the cast.

Coming Sept. 27

Rez Ball

Fresh off his gold medal run at the Paris Olympics, NBA-legend-turned-fledgling-Hollywood-producer LeBron James produces a highly anticipated drama that was no doubt pitched as “Hoosiers on the rez.” An underdog story about a Native American high school basketball team from New Mexico that comes together after the death of its star player and competes for the state championship.

(Left to right) Harper Steele and Will Ferrell

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Will & Harper

In this enlightening and funny documentary feature, comedy legend Will Ferrell, 57, goes on a cross-country road trip with his longtime friend Harper Steele after she comes out as a trans woman. The two share their feelings about how this new chapter in Steele’s life will change their friendship. Spoiler alert: It turns out it won’t. If anything, their bond gets stronger.

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Chris Nashawaty, former film critic for Entertainment Weekly, is the author of Caddyshack: The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story and a contributor to Esquire, Vanity Fair, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.