September is coming to a close with a major load of new titles. Surprisingly, this week is packed with a wide variety of new releases, ranging from indies and re-releases to big-star dramas. There’s pretty much something for everyone this week. And whether you’re committed to staying home and watching something on TV, or planning to drive to your local movie theater, you’ll have plenty of options to choose from. There’s also surprisingly a lot of streaming content this week, including some films coming to VOD for the first time. So this week is definitely one of those weeks when figuring out what to watch might be harder than finding something to watch.
Like always, we’ve listed all the notable and major titles coming out in the next couple of days. So scroll down, see what pops, and add to that ever-growing watchlist even further.
🎥 In Theaters This Week
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🎥 Concessions
(Tues, Sept 22nd — limited release)
There’s nothing sadder for movie lovers than watching a local theater close, but this indie comedy-drama would rather have a little fun with the heartbreak. First-time feature filmmaker Mas Bouzidi spends one final night inside the Royal Alamo Cinema with its jaded employees, eccentric regulars, desperate owner, and movie-obsessed oddballs. Steven Ogg, Josh Hamilton, Ivory Aquino, and Michael Madsen, in one of his final performances, lead the ensemble.
🎥 Take Me Home
(Wed, Sept 23rd — limited release; in NY)
Everyone wants the freedom to shape their own life. Korean American filmmaker Liz Sargent turns that simple idea into something deeply personal, casting her sister Anna Sargent in this semi-biographical drama about disability and independence. When a crisis disrupts Anna’s support system, she’s forced to navigate the bureaucracy surrounding housing and caregiving while fighting to maintain control over her own future.
🎥 Pulp: What Do You Do for an Encore?
(Thurs, Sept 24th — One Night Only; in theaters)
English rocker Jarvis Cocker and the band Pulp look back on four decades of music, breakups, reunions, and the long road to their biggest arena show yet. Director Garth Jennings mixes that history with a colorful concert film that drops audiences right into the crowd. More than a trip down memory lane, it captures the joy of a band getting another chance to turn up the volume.
🎥 Avengers: Endgame: Encore
(Fri, Sept 25th — re-release; nationwide)
You still remember the moments, the lines, and that cheer when Captain America finally said, “Avengers... assemble.” Now Marvel is bringing that finale epic back to theaters for a special Encore presentation, reportedly with four minutes of new footage tied to Avengers: Doomsday. With Doomsday arriving in December, those extra minutes should give Marvel fans plenty to talk about.
🎥 Heart of the Beast
(Fri, Sept 25th — wide release)
There’s no stronger bond than a man and his dog, especially when they’ve survived a war together. Director David Ayer’s survival drama sees Brad Pitt as Special Forces officer James Belmont, stranded in the Alaskan wilderness after a plane crash with his longtime combat partner, Odin. Scarred by war and fitted with a titanium prosthetic leg, Odin has one more mission left to complete: get them both home alive.
🎥 Forgotten Island
(Fri, Sept 25th — wide release)
The idea of lifelong friends gets harder to hold onto as you get older. DreamWorks Animation turns that feeling into a supernatural fantasy inspired by Filipino folklore, with Liza Soberano and H.E.R. voicing childhood friends Raissa and Jo. Transported to the mysterious island of Nakali, they’ll have to rediscover what made their friendship so strong before growing up pulls them apart.
🎥 Primetime
(Fri, Sept 25th — wide release)
Robert Pattinson plays Dateline journalist Chris Hansen in Lance Oppenheim’s fictionalized drama inspired by the rise of To Catch a Predator. As Hansen and his crew turn hidden-camera stings into must-see television, journalism, law enforcement, and entertainment begin sharing the same uncomfortable space, begging the question: when does exposing predators cross the line into exploiting them for entertainment?
🎥 Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother
(Fri, Sept 25th — limited release)
Prayer and violence make uneasy company as Oscar-winner Mahershala Ali plays a devout hitman whose life begins to unravel after his wife’s death, sending him across Houston to protect his children from enemies looking to tie up loose ends. Writer-director Bassam Tariq turns that setup into both a chase and a crisis of faith, as the beliefs that once guided him clash with the violence that has defined his life.
🎥 Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!
(Fri, Sept 25th — limited release)
Sometimes the best way to move forward is to get back on the dance floor. Rinko Kikuchi stars as Haru, a competitive ballroom dancer whose life falls apart after the death of her husband and longtime dance partner. But when a magnetic new instructor (Alberto Guerra) enters her life, Haru begins to wonder whether finding a new partner means leaving the old one behind.
🎥 The Stunt Driver
(Fri, Sept 25th — limited release)
Wild stunt driver Ken Carter doesn’t just want to break a record. He wants to launch himself into the history books. Jay Baruchel portrays this real-life ’70s Canadian daredevil whose obsession with rocketing a car across the St. Lawrence River puts nearly everything in his life at risk. Ben Foster co-stars as Ken’s American counterpart, Evel Knievel, with Goon director Michael Dowse helming this true-story comedy-drama about one spectacularly crazy dream.
🎥 The Incomer
(Fri, Sept 25th — limited release)
Domhnall Gleeson stars as an awkward council official sent to evict two eccentric siblings from a remote Scottish island, only to find himself drawn into their strange world of folklore, wizardry, and make-believe. Grant O’Rourke and Gayle Rankin co-star in Louis Paxton’s off-kilter comedy about finding kindred spirits in the most unexpected places.
🎥 Never After Dark
(Fri, Sept 25th — limited release)
The dead have rules. The living are another problem entirely. In this supernatural horror-thriller, Moeka Hoshi stars as Airi, a wandering medium who helps restless spirits move on with help from her dead sister, Miku. But when a job at an isolated country house reveals an apparition unlike anything she’s encountered before, Airi uncovers a secret that puts her in danger from something far more human.
🎥 Charlie Harper
(Fri, Sept 25th — limited release)
Nick Robinson and Emilia Jones star as Charlie and Harper, young lovers who leave home hoping to build a future together in a new city. But as Harper throws herself into becoming a chef and Charlie struggles to find his own direction, adulthood begins pulling them apart. Directors Mac Eldridge and Tom Dean ask what happens when love and growing up stop moving in the same direction.
🎥 The Deputy
(Fri, Sept 25th — limited release)
Guarding a corpse should be the easy assignment. Duke Nicholson stars as a rookie deputy whose night goes sideways when a dead body disappears and his search begins uncovering decades of small-town corruption. Tiffany Haddish plays the lone deputy willing to help, while William H. Macy is the chief who gave him the job.
🎥 Long Day’s Journey Into Night
(Fri, Sept 25th — limited release)
Jessica Lange returns to the role that earned her a Tony in director Jonathan Kent’s adaptation of Eugene O’Neill’s acclaimed play. As Mary Tyrone, she plays a woman whose morphine addiction has trapped her family in a painful cycle of resentment, blame, and regret. Ed Harris, Ben Foster, and Colin Morgan round out the deeply dysfunctional Tyrone family.
🎥 Hellbilly Hollow
(Fri, Sept 25th — limited release)
A team of paranormal YouTubers heads into the Alabama backwoods before Halloween, hoping a haunted attraction will give them some easy supernatural footage. Instead, they meet Tickles, a disfigured, childlike clown, and his sadistic brother Bull. Kevin Wayne directs and stars alongside Kurt Deimer in a slasher where the haunted attraction may be fake, but the people running it are frighteningly real.
🎥 No Limbs No Limits: The NickV Story
(Fri, Sept 25th — limited theatrical engagement)
Born without arms or legs, Nick Vujicic endured bullying, isolation, depression, and a suicide attempt before finding a sense of purpose that changed his life. Matthew Thayer’s documentary uses unseen family footage and interviews to trace his journey from childhood struggles to becoming an author, entrepreneur, evangelist, and motivational speaker, exploring how faith and resilience helped him turn adversity into something meaningful.
🎥 The Scout
(Fri, Sept 25th — limited release; in NY)
Mimi Davila plays Sofia, a New York location scout spending one long day searching apartments, businesses, and neighborhoods for a TV pilot whose demands keep changing. Along the way, she catches brief glimpses into the lives of complete strangers before the job unexpectedly turns personal. Writer-director Paula González-Nasser draws on her own experience as a location scout for this portrait of creative gig work and urban disconnection.
🎥 Unzipped: 4K Restoration
(Fri, Sept 25th — re-release; in NY)
The ’90s were the age of the supermodel, and designer Isaac Mizrahi was one of fashion’s biggest personalities. Newly restored in 4K, this classic 1995 documentary follows Mizrahi as he prepares his fall 1994 collection, from early sketches and fittings to backstage nerves and the runway. It’s a fascinating time capsule of an era when fashion—and everyone in it—felt bigger and bolder.
🎥 Princess Mononoke: 4K Restoration
(Sat, Sept 26th–Wed, Sept 30th; via Fathom Ent’s Studio Ghibli Fest screenings)
A deadly curse sends Ashitaka west, where his search for a cure pulls him into a war between Iron Town and the ancient forest protected by San, a girl raised by wolves. Hayao Miyazaki fills this ecological epic with animal gods, forest spirits, and Joe Hisaishi’s unforgettable score. Studio Ghibli Fest brings this classic anime back to theaters for five days, newly restored in 4K.
🎦 Streaming This Week
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🎦 Tuner
(Mon, Sept 21th — streaming on Paramount+)
Leo Woodall stars as a gifted piano tuner whose extraordinary hearing leads to one hell of a side hustle. While apprenticing under a veteran tuner played by Dustin Hoffman, he discovers he can crack safes using sound alone. It’s a talent that quickly pulls him into New York’s criminal underworld, where easy money comes with some very dangerous strings attached.
🎦 The Love Hypothesis
(Wed, Sept 23rd — premiering on Prime Video)
The thing about romance is that it rarely goes according to plan. Chemistry between two people isn’t something you can test in a lab, but that doesn’t stop Lili Reinhart’s science-minded Ph.D. candidate Olive Smith from trying. Based on Ali Hazelwood’s bestselling novel, this quirky rom-com finds Olive entering a fake relationship with intimidating professor Adam Carlsen (Tom Bateman), only for those fake feelings to become very real.
🎦 Toy Story 5
(Wed, Sept 23rd — streaming on Disney+)
The toys are back, and this time they’re competing with technology. Woody, Buzz, Jessie, and the gang suddenly find themselves pushed aside when Bonnie becomes obsessed with Lilypad, a Wi-Fi-enabled smart tablet. Andrew Stanton directs Pixar’s latest sequel, with Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, and Greta Lee leading a voice cast that turns the playroom into another battle for relevance.
🎦 LifeHack
(Wed, Sept 23rd — streaming on Netflix)
A group of online friends discovers they’re surprisingly good at stealing from the ultra-rich. But when they target the wrong crypto empire, their digital hustle turns into a very real and dangerous heist. Georgie Farmer, Yasmin Finney, Roman Hayeck-Green, and Steve Oram star in Ronan Corrigan’s screenlife thriller, where every click pulls them deeper into trouble.
🎦 Jackass: Best and Last
(Thurs, Sept 24th — streaming on Paramount+)
Johnny Knoxville and the gang are back for one last big-screen wipeout. Directed by longtime franchise filmmaker Jeff Tremaine, this farewell mixes brand-new stunts with greatest hits from the past, celebrating 25 years of bruises, bad decisions, and battered dignity. It’s one final sendoff for a crew still willing to risk their safety, pride, and dental work just to make us laugh.
🎦 A Magnificent Life
(Thurs, Sept 24th — streaming on Netflix)
Acclaimed French animator Sylvain Chomet (The Triplets of Belleville) turns the life of writer Marcel Pagnol into an animated journey through memory and creativity. Struggling with a creative slump late in life, Pagnol receives an unexpected visit from his younger self, sending him back through the moments that shaped him and forcing him to wonder whether an artist’s best work is ever really behind them.
🎦 UNABOMBER
(Fri, September 25th — premiering on Netflix)
Picture the Unabomber and you probably see the hood, beard, and dark glasses. But what was Ted Kaczynski like before he became that man? Jacob Tremblay stars as the young Kaczynski in this Netflix drama-thriller, which traces his path from troubled Harvard prodigy to notorious domestic terrorist. Director Janus Metz splits the story between Kaczynski’s youth and the FBI investigation decades later, with Russell Crowe and Shailene Woodley co-starring.
🎦 Bloody Tennis
(Fri, Sept 25th — premiering on Shudder)
Tennis demands physical and mental discipline, but how far would you go for a competitive edge? Sandra Guldberg Kampp stars as Sophie, a young player admitted to an elite academy in Southern Europe where everyone is willing to push themselves to the limit, even if that means drinking human blood. Nikias Chryssos writes and directs this horror thriller that turns tennis into a literal blood sport.
🎦 Backrooms
(Fri, Sept 25th — streaming on HBO Max)
YouTube creator Kane Parsons turns his viral creepypasta shorts into a full-blown theatrical horror film, dragging audiences into an endless maze of empty office rooms, dead-end corridors, and reality-bending dread. Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve star as a troubled man and his therapist pulled into a secret dimension where getting lost may be the least terrifying part.
🎦 Pulp: What Do You Do for an Encore?
(Fri, Sept 25th — streaming on MUBI)
English rocker Jarvis Cocker and the band Pulp look back on four decades of music, breakups, reunions, and the long road to their biggest arena show yet. Director Garth Jennings mixes that history with a colorful concert film that drops audiences right into the crowd. More than a trip down memory lane, it captures the joy of a band getting another chance to turn up the volume.
🎦 The Breadwinner
(Fri, Sept 25th — streaming on Netflix)
Comedian Nate Bargatze trades stand-up calm for stay-at-home chaos in this family comedy about a laid-back dad suddenly running the household. When his wife (Mandy Moore) lands a major career opportunity, Nate is left juggling three daughters, school schedules, chores, and the realization that parenting is definitely not a side gig.
🎦 The Furious
(Fri, Sept 25th — streaming on STARZ)
After his daughter is kidnapped by a criminal network, a Chinese father finds little help from the police and decides to take matters into his own hands. Martial artist Xie Miao stars alongside The Raid’s Joe Taslim, playing a journalist searching for his missing wife. Kenji Tanigaki directs this revenge thriller that throws back to the days when stunt work did the heavy lifting... and took most of the punishment.
🎦 Power Ballad
(Fri, Sept 25th — streaming on STARZ)
Sing Street and Once filmmaker John Carney returns to the messy business of making music with this dramedy about creativity, credit, and one hit song with two possible fathers. Paul Rudd plays a washed-up songwriter turned wedding singer whose late-night jam with Nick Jonas’s fading pop star results in an unexpected smash hit, sparking a very bitter fight over who gets the credit when the song is released years later, unbeknownst to Rudd’s character.
✅ On VOD This Week
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✅ Idiots
(Tues, Sept 22nd — on VOD/Digital)
Dave Franco and O’Shea Jackson Jr. play two guys who barely have their own lives together but somehow get hired to drive a wealthy teenager (Mason Thames) to rehab. Naturally, the trip goes completely off the rails, pulling them into drugs, crime, and one bad decision after another. Macon Blair (The Toxic Avenger) writes and directs this chaotic road comedy, also starring Peter Dinklage, Nicholas Braun, and Kiernan Shipka.
✅ Super Troopers 3
(Tues, Sept 22nd — on VOD/Digital)
Broken Lizard is back for another round of questionable police work as everyone’s favorite boneheaded state troopers return for more roadside stupidity. Jay Chandrasekhar directs and stars alongside Paul Soter, Steve Lemme, Erik Stolhanske, and Kevin Heffernan. This time, Farva’s extravagant engagement threatens to tear the gang apart, while a dangerous drug ring gives them an even bigger mess to completely mishandle.
✅ Spa Weekend
(Tues, Sept 22nd — on VOD/Digital)
Leslie Mann, Isla Fisher, Michelle Buteau, and Anna Faris play lifelong friends whose careers, relationships, families, and everyday exhaustion have pushed their bond to the breaking point. Their solution: a weekend at a luxury spa. What follows is a raunchy midlife comedy filled with some seriously overdue fun. The facials and massages may be optional; the meltdown is clearly included.
✅ Ice Cream Man
(Tues, Sept 22nd — on VOD/Digital)
You scream, we all scream for ice cream... and Eli Roth is here to make sure those screams are anything but sweet. Returning to his slasher roots, Roth heads to the peaceful town of Bayleen Bay, where a mysterious ice cream vendor (Ari Millen) serves up treats with horrifying consequences. Soon, local kids are turning violently mad, transforming summer nostalgia into one seriously twisted suburban nightmare.
✅ Legend of the White Dragon
(Tues, Sept 22nd — on VOD/Digital)
The late Jason David Frank, best known for Power Rangers, stars in this action-fantasy adventure as a fugitive warrior fighting to clear his name and return to his family. Mark Dacascos, Jason Faunt, Rachele Brooke Smith, David Ramsey, and the late Michael Madsen co-star in one final dragon-sized battle where redemption may prove to be the hardest fight of all.
✅ The Magic Faraway Tree
(Tues, Sept 22nd — on VOD/Digital)
Claire Foy and Andrew Garfield star as parents who move their family to the English countryside, where their children discover a magical tree leading to strange new worlds above the clouds. Based on Enid Blyton’s beloved books, this whimsical fantasy turns every climb into a new adventure filled with wonders, dangers, and the possibility that imagination might be somewhere you can actually visit.
✅ One Last Shot
(Tues, Sept 22nd — on VOD/Digital)
Action movies set within the halls of power are always better when things start blowing up, and Scott Adkins and Dolph Lundgren are here to make sure that happens. Adkins returns as Navy SEAL Jake Harris, called back into action when a former comrade threatens the U.S. missile-defense network. Like the previous installments in this Scott Adkins-led action films, the whole thing is edited to unfold as one continuous shot. Guns blaze. Things explode. Action fans rejoice.
✅ The Deputy
(Fri, Sept 25th — on VOD/Digital)
Guarding a corpse should be the easy assignment. Duke Nicholson stars as a rookie deputy whose night goes sideways when a dead body disappears and his search begins uncovering decades of small-town corruption. Tiffany Haddish plays the lone deputy willing to help, while William H. Macy is the chief who gave him the job.
✅ C.O.G.
(Fri, Sept 25th — on VOD/Digital)
They say AI could eventually lead to humanity’s downfall. This indie tech horror-thriller takes that fear to its darkest extreme as a small startup prepares to launch a powerful new chatbot, only to discover it has gone completely rogue. Piper Curda, Josh Zuckerman, Natasha Behnam, and Noel Fisher star. File this one under: Maybe we should’ve stuck with Google Search.
📺 On TV This Week
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📺 Line of Fire
(Mon, Sept 21st — on NBC)
For the Hollingsworths, law enforcement is the family business. Peter Krause and Hope Davis lead this NBC crime drama about a family whose careers stretch across the Secret Service, U.S. Marshals, FBI, and Department of Justice. But when a rogue assassin begins targeting government agents, catching the killer means working together as a family... which might be easier if everyone were telling the truth instead of hiding secrets from one another.
📺 Best Medicine: Season 2
(Tues, Sept 22nd — on FOX)
Dr. Martin Best may know how to diagnose his patients, but relationships remain considerably harder to treat. Josh Charles returns for Season 2 as strange medical cases and mounting personal tensions test whether the blunt former Boston surgeon has finally found a home in his small fishing village. Abigail Spencer, Annie Potts, Josh Segarra, and Cree return as the community keeps pulling Martin into one complication after another.
📺 DOC: Season 3
(Tues, Sept 22nd — on FOX)
Dr. Amy Larsen has spent years rebuilding a life she cannot fully remember, and now some of those missing pieces are coming back after her car accident. Molly Parker returns as Amy begins experiencing unsettling flashbacks involving Dr. Grant (Blair Underwood), while sharing leadership of Westside Hospital with Sonya. But questions about Grant’s deception soon pull Amy’s forgotten past directly into the life she’s worked so hard to rebuild.
📺 Nimesh Patel: Buy the Dip
(Tues, Sept 22nd — on Netflix)
Stand up comic Nimesh Patel brings parenting, family, and Washington dysfunction into the same comedy special, which probably says something about his current stress level. With just a microphone, Patel works through the absurdities of raising children, the complications of his Indian family, and the political chaos surrounding Washington, D.C., tackling three very different headaches with his usual willingness to say exactly what he thinks.
📺 Brothers
(Wed, Sept 23rd — on Apple TV)
Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson have spent years calling each other brothers. Now a family secret suggests they may have been more accurate than they realized. Playing heightened versions of themselves, the longtime friends begin questioning their shared past when Woody’s family arrives at Matthew’s Austin ranch. This eight-episode Apple comedy turns their real-life friendship into a very personal family mystery inspired by a viral rumor started by McConaughey’s own mother.
📺 American Horror Story 13
(Thurs, Sept 24th — on FX)
13 turns out to be a very convenient number for digging up the past. The latest AHS installment brings back Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Angela Bassett, Kathy Bates, Emma Roberts, and other familiar faces while drawing on mythology from Murder House, Coven, Hotel, Apocalypse, and other past seasons. With returning characters and interconnected history, this season seems ready to make the anthology confront its own ghosts.
📺 A Different World
(Thurs, Sept 24th — on Netflix)
It’s been nearly 40 years since viewers first stepped onto the campus of Hillman College. Now, the classic sitcom is back with a new generation. Maleah Joi Moon stars as Deborah Wayne, the free-spirited daughter of Dwayne (Kadeem Hardison) and Whitley (Jasmine Guy), who arrives at Hillman determined to build a life and identity beyond her parents’ legacy. The question is whether Hillman is ready for another Wayne.
📺 S.W.A.T. Exiles
(Fri, Sept 25th — on STARZ)
Two years after being forced into retirement, Shemar Moore’s Hondo gets another assignment: turn some of the department’s most talented outcasts into a tactical unit. But training the newly christened “Exiles” gets complicated when a suspected mole and conspiracy reach into the LAPD’s upper ranks and the Mayor’s office. This S.W.A.T. spin-off puts Hondo back in action with a team nobody else wanted.
📺 Chilean Mine Rescue: Race Against Time
(Fri, Sept 25th — on National Geographic; Hulu / Disney+)
33 miners spent 69 days trapped more than half a mile beneath Chile’s Atacama Desert after the San José mine collapsed in 2010. This three-part documentary combines previously unseen cell-phone footage with firsthand accounts from survivors, families, and rescuers. But the story doesn’t end with their dramatic rescue, following the miners into the difficult aftermath of survival and sudden worldwide attention.
📺 4 Blocks Zero
(Fri, Sept 25th — on HBO Max)
Before the Hamady family became a criminal power in Berlin, Malik Hamady was simply trying to build a safer life after fleeing Lebanon. Set in the 1990s, this eight-episode 4 Blocks prequel follows Malik as that dream begins to unravel when his brother-in-law returns from prison, bringing old obligations and family loyalties with him. Survival, it turns out, can become its own kind of inheritance.
📺 The Final Problem
(Fri, Sept 25th — on Netflix)
13 guests, an isolated hotel, a violent storm, and one suspicious death make for a pretty terrible vacation. Set in 1959, this mystery series stars José Coronado as Basil, a retired actor once famous for playing Sherlock Holmes. When a guest’s apparent suicide starts looking like murder, Basil puts those old detective instincts to work while everyone trapped on the island becomes a suspect.
📺 Kill. Bury. Print.
(Sun, Sept 27th — on Peacock)
Mainstream news may have its share of problems, but small-town journalism can still be some of the most important reporting around. Produced by Rachel Maddow, this Peacock true-crime documentary special follows Oklahoma’s family-run McCurtain Gazette-News as its investigation into alleged corruption within the county sheriff’s office puts the paper directly in the crosshairs of local law enforcement. Sometimes the most dangerous thing a reporter can do is keep printing the truth.
