This October, Netflix is not holding back: The streamer is releasing a massive amount of new content, including some star-studded new movies like The Woman in Cabin 10 with Keira Knightley, Guy Pearce and Hannah Waddingham, plus the Cillian Murphy drama Steve and Colin Farrell in the gambling thriller Ballad of a Small Player.
On top of those big names, you can expect to see a few new true crime documentaries popping up on the platform. On Oct. 10, My Father, the BTK Killer arrives, and The Perfect Neighbor, a story told almost entirely through police body camera footage, arrives a week later. This month also brings loads of movies from around the globe. After catching the trailer, we’re all in on The Elixir, an Indonesian horror movie about a zombie outbreak triggered after an herbal wellness company creates a drink with unintended results.
These originals, along with great additions like The Hurt Locker and Ip Man to Netflix’s library, will keep us busy all month. Here are some of the biggest and best movies arriving on Netflix in October.
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Best picture Oscar-winner The Hurt Locker is one of dozens of new movies added to Netflix’s content library this month. The film co-stars Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie and Brian Geraghty as soldiers in an elite bomb-defusing squad deployed in Iraq, and it also earned the best director Oscar for Kathryn Bigelow.
Other notable new movies arriving to Netflix on Oct. 1 include Beverly Hills Cop, Coming to America, Training Day and The Lincoln Lawyer.
In Netflix’s new 1990’s-set drama Steve, Cillian Murphy plays the head teacher at a reform school that’s facing closure. As he struggles to keep his school afloat, one of his students, Shy (Jay Lycurgo) is also battling his own demons, giving Steve even more reason to fight. The film co-stars Tracey Ullman, Emily Watson and Simbi Ajikawo.
Ip Man is one of the most iconic martial arts film franchises of the past two decades. Starring Hong Kong martial arts master Donnie Yen (maybe you recognize him as Caine, the blind assassin in John Wick: Chapter 4), Ip Man and its sequels are the biographical films about the life of Wing Chun, the kung fu master who famously taught Bruce Lee. All four Ip Man films arrive on Netflix on Oct. 5.
Dog lovers, get ready, you’re about to have a new best friend: Caramelo. In the new Brazilian film, a chef (Rafael Vitti) adopts a dog he names Caramelo, who becomes his constant companion after he falls ill. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry and you’ll want to go out and adopt a dog after this one. Caramelo hits Netflix on Oct. 8.
My Father, the BTK Killer (Oct. 10)
My Father, the BTK Killer is the true story of Kerri Rawson, a woman who learned that her father, Dennis Rader, was the notorious BTK killer who terrorized Kansas for nearly two decades. After he was arrested in 2005, Rader was eventually convicted and is now serving 10 life sentences in prison, but in the wake of his capture, Rawson has been left to reconcile the man she grew up with and the notorious and brutal killings he’s responsible for.
The Woman in Cabin 10 (Oct. 10)
Based on the bestselling novel by Ruth Ware, The Woman in Cabin 10 stars Keira Knightley as a journalist assigned to write a story about a luxury cruise on a mega yacht. When she witnesses one of the other passengers being thrown overboard in the middle of the night, her story isn’t believed when she reports it, as every other guest on the ship has been accounted for. The mystery thriller co-stars Guy Pearce, Hannah Waddingham, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Kaya Scodelario and arrives on Oct. 10.
Everybody Loves Me When I’m Dead (Oct. 14)
In the new Thai crime thriller Everybody Loves Me When I’m Dead, Ken Theeradeth Wongpuapan plays Toh, a bank employee who discovers the account of a deceased client that contains 30 million baht. Desperate and broke, Toh and a colleague decide to take the money, not realizing that a group of criminals is about to come looking for it.
The Perfect Neighbor (Oct. 17)
Documentarian Geeta Gandbhir combines chilling videos, 911 calls and police body camera footage to tell the story of a 2023 dispute between Florida neighbors that ended in murder. The film premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim and arrives on Netflix on Oct. 17.
Inspired by real-life events, this South Korean film is billed as a “thriller-comedy,” a dark satire about the 1970 hijacking of a Japanese airliner that was thwarted thanks to one team’s secret, sometimes unorthodox, rescue efforts. The Netflix original arrives Oct. 17.
She Walks in Darkness (Oct. 17)
Produced by J.A. Bayona (director of Netflix’s Society of the Snow), this Spanish thriller is inspired by the largest covert operation against the Basque separatist group known as ETA, considered by many governments to be terrorists. Susana Abaitua stars as Amaia, a young civil guard member who spends over a decade working as an undercover agent to infiltrate the group in the fight against terrorism in Spain.
The Indonesian zombie thriller The Elixir blends two of the most popular topics around these days: zombies and wellness culture. When a local family that runs an herbal medicine company decides to test a new wellness drink, the result is the ultimate immunity boost: The drinkers turn into bloodthirsty zombies.
Ballad of a Small Player (Oct. 29)
Colin Farrell stars as Lord Doyle, a gambler in Macau with rising debts and a sordid past. Even as a casino employee, Dao Ming (Fala Chen) extends him a lifeline to help him out, he finds that he can’t run from his past. Tilda Swinton co-stars as the private eye looking for Doyle and Edward Berger (who directed Conclave and All Quiet on the Western Front) directs.
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