Netflix’s October originals bring a mix of fantasy, politics, mystery, and high-stakes drama. The Witcher season 4 marks a bold new chapter for the Continent, while Nobody Wants This season 2 sharpens its witty take on modern relationships. The Diplomat season 3 blends international tension with personal intrigue, and Ballad of a Small Player dives into the intoxicating world of risk and reinvention. The Woman in Cabin 10 ratchets up suspense on the high seas, before A House of Dynamite closes the month with Kathryn Bigelow’s explosive vision of power and family ambition.
This month’s must-watch releases
‘The Witcher’ S4 (Oct. 30)
Geralt returns with a new face as Liam Hemsworth steps into the role of The Witcher‘s leading man. Season four, filmed back-to-back with the final season, promises a darker tone and a recast Vesemir (Peter Mullan). In the new chapters, the paths of Geralt, Yennefer and Ciri diverge across a war-ravaged world, each facing threats, alliances and inner turmoil as they try to find one another again.
‘Nobody Wants This’ S2 (Oct. 23)
This rom-com ensemble returns with more relational messiness, awkwardness and emotional stakes. Nobody Wants This is known for its smart, biting humor and deeply flawed, relatable characters. In a Tudum cover interview, the cast is lauded as an A-plus ensemble that balances star power (Kristen Bell, Adam Brody) with the kind of grounded chemistry that gives the show heart.
‘Ballad of a Small Player’ (Oct. 29)
Colin Farrell headlines as Lord Doyle, a high-stakes gambler trying to outrun debts, secrets and his own past amid Macau’s neon haze. The film adapts the novel of the same name by Lawrence Osborne and is directed by Edward Berger. Farrell describes Doyle as someone “trying to escape his past,” but notes that the past is embedded in every cell of him, “he is, like most addicts… Narcissistic, and can only see the world through the lens of his own needs and his own desires.”
‘The Woman in Cabin 10’ (Oct. 10)
A tension-fueled psychological thriller, The Woman in Cabin 10 follows a journalist who boards a luxury cruise only to believe she witnessed a woman thrown overboard, and no one else seems to think it happened. It leans into claustrophobia, uncertainty and the terror of not being believed. The film’s mystery is built on isolating settings and unreliable perception, so you never know who to trust.
‘The Diplomat’ S3 (Oct. 16)
Keri Russell’s Kate Wyler faces the fallout of getting exactly what she wanted as season three “flips the chessboard,” showrunner Debora Cahn tells Tudum. With Allison Janney stepping in as President Grace Penn and Bradley Whitford joining the cast, the stakes are both global and deeply personal.
‘A House of Dynamite’ (Oct. 24)
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, A House of Dynamite is a sweeping period drama that explores family ambition, betrayal and political intrigue in an explosive clash of power and loyalty. With her signature tension-driven style, Bigelow shapes the saga into a tale as operatic as it is intimate. Rebecca Ferguson, Anthony Ramos, Idris Elba and Greta Lee all star.
What’s new on Netflix in October?
About My Father (Oct. 1)
Austin Powers in Goldmember (Oct. 1)
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (Oct. 1)
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (Oct. 1)
Beverly Hills Cop (Oct. 1)
Beverly Hills Cop II (Oct. 1)
Beverly Hills Cop III (Oct. 1)
Blue Crush (Oct. 1)
Casper (Oct. 1)
Coach Carter (Oct. 1)
Coming to America (Oct. 1)
Daddy Day Care (Oct. 1)
Death Becomes Her (Oct. 1)
Dirty Dancing (Oct. 1)
The Wrath of Becky (Oct. 1)
Love Is Blind S9 (Oct. 1)
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (Oct. 2)
The Martian (Oct. 2)
Steve (Oct. 3)
Monster: The Ed Gein Story (Oct. 3)
Genie, Make a Wish (Oct. 3)
The New Force (Oct. 3)
Old Dog, New Tricks (Oct. 3)
Rhythm + Flow France: After the Beat (Oct. 3)
Angel Has Fallen (Oct. 4)
Night of the Living Dead (Oct. 4)
Ranma 1/2 S2 (Oct. 4)
Despicable Me 3 (Oct. 5)
Ip Man (Oct. 5)
Ip Man 2 (Oct. 5)
Ip Man 3 (Oct. 5)
Ip Man 4: The Finale (Oct. 5)
Dr. Seuss’ Horton! (Oct. 6)
Nurse Jackie S1-7 (Oct. 7)
True Haunting (Oct. 7)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Oct. 7)
Matt McCusker: A Humble Offering (Oct. 7)
Caramelo (Oct. 8)
Is It Cake? Halloween (Oct. 8)
Néro the Assassin (Oct. 8)
Boots (Oct. 9)
The Maze Runner (Oct. 9)
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (Oct. 9)
Maze Runner: Death Cure (Oct. 9)
The Resurrected (Oct. 9)
Victoria Beckham (Oct. 9)
Kurukshetra: The Great War of Mahabharata (Oct. 10)
My Father, the BTK Killer (Oct. 10)
Old Money (Oct. 10)
Swim to Me (Oct. 10)
The Woman in Cabin 10 (Oct. 10)
Typhoon Family (Oct. 11)
Everybody Loves Me When I’m Dead (Oct. 14)
Splinter Cell: Deathwatch (Oct. 14)
Held Hostage in My House (Oct. 15)
Inside Furioza (Oct. 15)
No One Saw Us Leave (Oct. 15)
Six Kings Slam (Oct. 15)
Taken in Plain Sight (Oct. 15)
The A-Team (Oct. 16)
Confessions of a Shopaholic (Oct. 16)
The Diplomat S3 (Oct. 16)
Romantics Anonymous (Oct. 16)
Starting 5 S2 (Oct. 16)
The Time That Remains (Oct. 16)
27 Nights (Oct. 17)
Good News (Oct. 17)
The Perfect Neighbor (Oct. 17)
She Walks in Darkness (Oct. 17)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Oct. 17)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 (Oct. 17)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (Oct. 17)
Turn of the Tide S2 (Oct. 17)
Turn of the Tide: The Surreal Story of Rabo de Peixe (Oct. 17)
Don’t Say a Word (Oct. 18)
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon S2 (Oct. 21)
Who Killed the Montreal Expos? (Oct. 21)
Mob War: Philadelphia vs. The Mafia (Oct. 22)
The Monster of Florence (Oct. 22)
The Elixir (Oct. 23)
Nobody Wants This S2 (Oct. 23)
A House of Dynamite (Oct. 24)
Parish (Oct. 24)
The Asset (Oct. 27)
Sliding Doors (Oct. 27)
Dark Winds (Oct. 27)
Babo: The Haftbefehl Story (Oct. 28)
Ballad of a Small Player (Oct. 29)
Rulers of Fortune (Oct. 29)
Selling Sunset S9 (Oct. 29)
Amsterdam Empire (Oct. 30)
Juan Gabriel: I Must, I Can, I Will (Oct. 30)
The Witcher S4 (Oct. 30)
Son of a Donkey (Oct. 30)
Rhythm + Flow France S4 (Oct. 31)
What’s leaving the streamer?
A Million Ways to Die in the West (Oct. 1)
A Night at the Roxbury (Oct. 1)
American Graffiti (Oct. 1)
American Pie (Oct. 1)
American Pie 2 (Oct. 1)
Antz (Oct. 1)
Big Daddy (Oct. 1)
Billy Madison (Oct. 1)
Blades of Glory (Oct. 1)
Born on the Fourth of July (Oct. 1)
The Blues Brothers (Oct. 1)
Dazed and Confused (Oct. 1)
The Departed (Oct. 1)
Dune (Oct. 1)
Focus (Oct. 1)
Friday Night Lights (Oct. 1)
Good Burger (Oct. 1)
Grown Ups (Oct. 1)
Grown Ups 2 (Oct. 1)
Krampus (Oct. 1)
Mission: Impossible (Oct. 1)
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (Oct. 1)
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (Oct. 1)
Mission: Impossible II (Oct. 1)
Mission: Impossible III (Oct. 1)
Neighbors (Oct. 1)
Now You See Me (Oct. 1)
Now You See Me 2 (Oct. 1)
Old School (Oct. 1)
Road Trip (Oct. 1)
Rudy (Oct. 1)
Rush Hour (Oct. 1)
Rush Hour 2 (Oct. 1)
Rush Hour 3 (Oct. 1)
Talk to Me (Oct. 1)
Wayne’s World (Oct. 1)
Wayne’s World 2 (Oct. 1)
White Collar (Oct. 1)
Zoolander (Oct. 1)
Circle (Oct. 16)
Anyone But You (Oct. 20)
Empire Records (Oct. 23)
The Family Business S1-4 (Oct. 24)
