What’s New on Netflix: October 2019.

You’ll actually want popcorn in your Halloween goodies bag as Netflix loads up October with high-profile originals.

Netflix brings out the big guns for the fall season. Many favorite series get fresh seasons this month: Peaky Blinders, Carmen Sandiego, and Big Mouth are all back. We’ve even got a television movie return for Breaking Bad! Speaking of movies, it seems that Netflix is Oscar hunting once again. Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, and Antonio Banderas star in an original drama by Steven Soderberg, and Eddie Murphy continues his comeback tour with a biopic about blaxploitation legend Rudy Ray Moore – better known as Dolemite. Up and down the list, original series and films roll out in October, making it hard to pick which new releases deserve the spotlight.

Outside of originals, we’ve got an eclectic mix. Lauded classics like Raging Bull and Trainspotting rub elbows with lighter fare such as The Bad Boys, Charlies Angels, and Flintstones franchises. Towards the end of the month, recent theater releases such as Echo in the Canyon and Free Fire make their way to streaming. About the only deficiency I see is a lack of big name horror flicks in time for Halloween. We get Scream 2 and Sinister 2, and the return of the horror anthology Creeped Out. That’s about it. I guess you can only trot out Freddy and Jason so many years in a row.

New and Notable.

- In the Tall Grass (10/4): Two siblings hear cries for help coming from the tall grass, but wind up needing help as a sinister power in the field traps them. Adapted from Stephen King and Joe Hill’s novella.

- El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (10/11): Jesse Pinkham (Aaron Paul) is on the run from the law and his past. A continuation of the Breaking Bad series written and directed by the creator of the show.

- The Laundromat (10/18): A widow (Streep) gets caught in the bombshell Panama Papers when she investigates two lawyers (Oldman, Banderas). From Steven Soderbergh.

- Dolemite is My Name (10/25): Eddie Murphy stars as Rudy Ray Moore, a pioneering rapper/comedian/blaxploitation film star who became a cultural legend playing the kung-fu fighting; inner city champion Dolemite.

Netflix: October 2019.

*Originals in Bold.

October 1.

Carmen Sandiego (Season 2)
Niki Glaser: Bangin’
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

October 2

Living Undocumented
Ready to Mingle (Solteras)
Rotten (Season 2)

October 3

Seis Manos

October 4

Big Mouth (Season 3)
Creeped Out (Season 2)
In the Tall Grass
Peaky Blinders (Season 5)
Raising Dion
Super Monsters (Season 3)
Super Monsters: Vida’s First Halloween

October 5

Legend Quest: Masters of Myth

October 7

Match! Tennis Juniors
The Water Diviner

October 8

Deon Cole: Cole Hearted
The Spooky Tale of Captain Underpants Hack-a-ween

October 9

After
Rhythm + Flow

October 10

Schitt’s Creek (Season 5)
Ultramarine Magmell

October 11

El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
The Forest of Love
Fractured
Haunted (Season 2)
Insatiable (Season 2)
La influencia
Plan Coeur (Season 2)
The Awakenings of Motti Wlenbruch
YooHoo to the Rescue (Season 2)

October 12

Banlieusards

October 15

Dark Crimes

October 16

Ghosts of Sugar Land
Sinister 2

October 17

The Karate Kid
THE UNLISTED

October 18

The Yard (Avlu)
Baby (Season 2)
Eli
Interior Design Masters
The Laundromat
Living with Yourself
MeatEater (Season 8)
Mighty Little Bheem: Diwali
Seventeen
Spirit Riding Free: Pony Tales (Collection 2)
Tell Me Who I Am
Toon (Seasons 1-2)
Unnatural Selection
Upstates

October 19

Men in Black

October 20

Echo in the Canyon
Free Fire

October 22

Jenny Slate: Stage Fright

October 23

Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Dancing with the Birds
Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy

October 24

Daybreak
Revenge of Pontianak

October 25

A Tale of Love and Darkness
Assimilate
Brigada Costa del Sol
Brotherhood
Dolemite Is My Name
Greenhouse Academy (Season 3)
The Kominsky Method (Season 2)
Monzon
Nailed It! France (C’est du gateau!)
Prank Encounters
Rattlesnake
It Takes a Lunatic