A Double Dose of Noah Baumbach Comes to Netflix Next Month, Plus ‘Before Midnight,’ ‘Donnie Darko,’ and More

While October usually signals the arrival of all sorts of spooky, creepy, scary, and otherwise appropriately Halloween-themed films to both theaters and streaming services, this month’s batch of new titles on Netflix offers up a delightfully wide variety of choices that aren’t all tied to the year’s primary celebration of fear. Sure, those titles are there — from more mainstream chillers like “Cult of Chucky” and the new original “The Babysitter,” to more offbeat picks like the cannibal coming-of-age tale “Raw” and the seminal “Donnie Darko” — but this month’s incoming list has more than enough for movie fans who don’t want to shriek at their televisions.

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Oh, and it’s also a month we’re going to deem Official Unofficial Noah Baumbach Month on Netflix, as the filmmaker’s latest film — a Netflix original! — “The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)” will make its debut on the service, along with his recent charmer “While We’re Young.” And that’s not at all, as fans of auteur cinema in general can take in such modern classics as “Before Midnight,” “Boogie Nights,” and “The Hateful Eight,” too.

Looking to laugh? Netflix has you covered there, too, with the addition of titles like “I Love You, Man,” “Tommy Boy,” and “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.” See? Halloween doesn’t have to be scary!

Check out the full list of new titles hitting Netflix next month below.

Available 10/1/17

88 Minutes
A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song
Before Midnight
Blood Diamond
Boogie Nights
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Death Sentence
Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
Eagle vs. Shark
Eyes Wide Shut
Generation Iron 2
Ghost Patrol
I Love You, Man
Ice Guardians
Made of Honor
Miss Congeniality
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
Must Love Dogs
Never Let Me Go
No Reservations
Penelope
Set Up
The Reaping
Tokyo Idols
Tommy Boy
Vanished
Veronica

Available 10/2/17

Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
Sleeping with Other People

Available 10/3/17

13 Demons
Cult of Chucky
The Survivalist

Available 10/4/17

Raw

Available 10/6/17

The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Available 10/7/17

Chris Brown: Welcome To My Life
Middle Man

Available 10/10/17

The Skyjacker’s Tale

Available 10/11/17

Donnie Darko

Available 10/12/17

Fe de etarras — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Available 10/13/17

Kingdom of Us  — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
The Babysitter  — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)  — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Available 10/15/17

Belief: The Possession of Janet Moses
Money
OtherLife
She Makes Comics

Available 10/17/17

Slasher: Guilty Party — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Available 10/19/17

Wedding Unplanned

Available 10/20/17

1922 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
One of Us– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Smurfs: The Lost Village
The Day I Met El Chapo: The Kate del Castillo Story– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Wheelman — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Available 10/23/17

Meet the Robinsons
While We’re Young

Available 10/25/17

The Hateful Eight
The Final Master

Available 10/26/17

Strange Weather

Available 10/27/17

Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

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