September 2025
Streaming: Movies and Series
Movies and series with a ⭐️ have won an award, or were nominated for an award. 🚨indicates a thriller, mystery 🕵🏼♂️, or police procedural. 🎥is a classic worth rewatching, 🔥indicates a movie or series that will be trending. ❤️= romcom/love story.
The Lists: September releases by streaming service.
Visit: What to Watch from The New York Times for more suggestions.
Amazon Prime: See the full list from Amazon.
Apple TV+: New Apple TV from Apple TV Press
Disney+: See the full list from Vulture
Hulu: See the full list from Vulture
Max (HBO): See the full list from Vulture
Netflix: See the full list Tulum and from Vulture.
From Vanity Fair: The 25 Best Movies on Netflix to Watch in September 2025 and The 25 Best Shows on Netflix to Watch in September
Paramount+: New On Paramount+. From Vulture
Peacock: See the full list from Vulture and Peacock.
Movies: New and Noteworthy
Lilo & Stitch (2025), streaming premiere Sept 3rd on Disney+
🚨🔥Highest 2 Lowest (crime/thriller, on Apple TV+ on September 5), When a powerful music mogul is targeted by a ransom plot, he is forced to fight for his family and legacy while jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma.
❤️The Wrong Paris (2025 romcom on Netflix Sept. 12th), A young woman joins a dating show thinking it’s in Paris, France, but it’s actually in Paris, Texas. She plots a way to get eliminated until her unexpected feelings for the bachelor complicate her plans.
🔥Swiped (drama on Hulu September 19th on Hulu/Disney), Whitney Wolfe Herd breaks into the male-dominated tech industry by launching two innovative dating apps, making her the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire. Inspired by the real-life story of the visionary founder of online dating platform Bumble.
❤️All of You (R 2024 ‧ Romance/Sci-fi, Sept. 26th on Apple TV+), When a new test matching soulmates together comes between two best friends, they spend the next twelve years trying to resist the urge to disrupt the paths their lives have taken despite the undeniable feeling they belong together.
Series: New and Returning
From TV Insider: Fall 2025 TV Premiere Dates: Full Schedule for New & Returning Shows
New:
The Runarounds (YA musical/drama series, on Prime Video Sept. 1st), This music drama series from the creators of Outer Banks follows a group of recent high school graduates from Wilmington, North Carolina, who come together the summer after graduation to form a rock band.
🤣The Paper (comedy series, full season on Peacock Sept. 4th), from the creator of The Office. This mockumentary follows the daily lives and struggles of dreamers in love with journalism, and their less-than-competent co-workers, trying to deliver accurate news without the resources or training to do a great job.
🕵🏼♂️NCIS: Tony and Ziva (crime series premieres on Paramount+ on Sept. 4th, episodes released weekly through Nov. 6th), In Europe, Tony DiNozzo, Ziva David, and their daughter Tali are forced to go on the run while trying to work out who is after them.
🚨🔥Task (seven-episode crime series, premieres on Max on Sept. 7th, episodes released weekly through Oct. 19th), An FBI agent heads a Task Force to put an end to a string of violent robberies led by an unsuspecting family man. Crime drama from the creator of Mare of Easttown, Brad Ingelsby.
🚨🔥The Girlfriend (Psychological thriller series on Prime Video Sept. 10th), based on Michelle Frances’s novel of the same name, this new psychological drama series follows Laura (Robin Wright), whose perfect life begins to unravel when she becomes convinced that her son’s girlfriend Cherry (Olivia Cooke) is hiding something.
🚨Tempest, (three-episode premiere on Disney+ on Sept. 10th, a nine-part international espionage thriller, K-drama), When an assassination attempt is made on a presidential candidate, former diplomat Seo Munju will uncover a conspiracy that threatens the stability of the Korean peninsula. Guarded by Sanho, a former soldier, can Munju trust this mysterious mercenary or is there something else going on?
Black Rabbit — Netflix Series on Sept. 18th, A rising-star restaurateur is forced into New York’s criminal underworld when his chaotic brother returns to town with loan sharks on his trail.
🔥FX’s The Lowdown, (two-episode series premiere on Hulu Sept. 24th, episodes released weekly), Citizen journalist Lee Raybon is a self-proclaimed Tulsa “truthstorian” whose obsession with the truth is always getting him into trouble.
🔥House of Guinness — Netflix drama Series on Sept. 25th, Trouble is brewing within the Guinness family in this drama created by Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders) and starring Anthony Boyle and Louis Partridge.
🕵🏼♂️🔥Wayward — Netflix Series on Sept. 25th, Nothing is what it seems in Tall Pines. After an escape attempt from an academy for “troubled teens,” two students join forces with a newly local police officer, unearthing the town’s dark and deeply rooted secrets.
🚨The Savant (thriller series, premieres on Apple TV+ on Sept. 26th, episodes released weekly), An undercover investigator known as The Savant balances life at home with tracking online hate groups to stop domestic extremists before they act. It is based on a true story, adapted from a 2019 Cosmopolitan article titled “Is It Possible to Stop a Mass Shooting Before It Happens?” by Andrea Stanley.
🔥Chad Powers, two-episode series premiere, episodes released weekly (comedy series, Hulu Original on September 30th), Chad Powers tells the story of Russ Holliday, whose bad behavior nukes the QB’s college career, forcing him to assume a disguise as he walks onto a struggling Southern football team as the talented and affable Chad Powers.
Returning scripted series
🕵🏼♂️Unforgotten (crime/drama series; the 6th season premiered on Sunday on PBS’s “Masterpiece”; all six episodes are available to binge at PBS.org.)
⭐️🕵🏼♂️🔥Only Murders in the Building (three-episode season 5 premieres on Hulu, Sept. 9th. Episodes released weekly through Oct. 28th)
Call the Midwife, series 14 on Netflix Sept. 15th.
🕵🏼♂️High Potential (Season 2 premieres on ABC September 16th, stream on Hulu)
⭐️🔥The Morning Show (season 4 premiere on Apple TV September 17th, episodes released weekly)
Tulsa King, (season 3 premiere Sept 21st on Paramount+)
🕵🏼♂️Murder in a Small Town (Season 2 Premiere on Fox Sept 23rd, stream on Hulu)
⭐️🔥Slow Horses (The fifth season premieres on Apple TV Sept. 24 with the first episode, followed by one episode weekly until Oct. 29.
🕵🏼♂️Law & Order: SVU (Season 27 Premiere on NBC Sept. 27th)
Doc (Season 2 Premiere on Fox Sept. 23rd, stream on Hulu)
Reality and Award Shows
The Great British Baking Show, season 13 — Netflix Series on Sept. 5th
🔥The MTV Video Music Awards will air at 8 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 7th, on CBS, with a simulcast on MTV. They will also stream on Paramount+.
Canelo Álvarez vs. Terence Crawford — Netflix Live Event on Sept. 13th
⭐️🔥Primetime Emmy Awards hosted by comedian Nate Bargatze (on Paramount+/CBS on September 14th) Read from Variety: Emmy Predictions: ‘The Studio’ Poised to Tie Comedy Win Record — and Why Drama is a Two-Horse Race for ‘Severance’ and ‘The Pitt’
Dancing With the Stars (premieres on ABC on September 16th, stream on Hulu) From People: Dancing with the Stars Season 34 Cast Revealed: Danielle Fishel, Jordan Chiles, Dylan Efron and More Set to Compete
The Golden Bachelor (2-Hour Season 2 Premiere on ABC September 24th)
Survivor (2-Hour Season 48 Premiere on CBS September 24th, stream on Paramount+)
Documentaries
🔥Unknown Number: The High School Catfish (documentary film on Netflix), A teen girl and her boyfriend face persistent harassment from an unknown caller. Police investigating the months of torment discover a revelation that upends their initial assumptions.
Betrayal, complete season 3 (Hulu Original)
Blood & Myth, true crime documentary premiere (Hulu Original on Sept. 4th), In a native Alaskan town, a respected actor Iñupiaq becomes a fugitive after a series of violent crimes. Upon being captured, he assures that the Iñukuns, mythical beings of his culture, influenced his actions.
Seen & Heard: The History Of Black Television (HBO Original) Available September 9th.
Downton Abbey Celebrates the Grand Finale (primetime special) will air on NBC and Peacock on Wednesday, September 10 at 9 p.m. eastern. The original Downton Abbey television series as well as the first two films are both available to stream on Peacock now. Read: NBC Is Airing a Primetime Special to Celebrate the Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery, documentary premiere (Hulu Original on Sept. 21st)
Into the Void: Life, Death and Heavy Metal, complete docuseries (Hulu Original on Sept. 22nd)
Cocaine Quarterback: Signal-Caller for the Cartel (on Prime Video Sept. 25th) tells the cautionary tale of convicted drug trafficker Owen Hanson, detailing Hanson’s rise from modest beginnings, to unexpectedly walking on to the powerhouse USC football team, to illegal sports bookmaking, and eventually smuggling cocaine.
Death in Apartment 603: What Happened to Ellen Greenberg?, complete docuseries (Hulu Original on Sept. 30th)
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