September’s lineup offers everything from action flicks to buddy comedy to romcom adaptations to keep you entertained all month long.
While August was a mixed bag, September seems to be switching things up a bit. The lineup this month leans heavily into action, action-comedy, and thrillers, with just enough romance and feelings sprinkled in to remind you that you do, in fact, have a heart. And you still, in fact, enjoy romance once in a while.
There’s something for everyone, but mostly for people who enjoy watching things explode while also crying a little.
Here are some of the movies and TV shows worth watching this September.
Following the death of Hunter from the first film, her sister, Jax (Harriet Slater), bonds with Hunter’s friend, Luce (Harriet Slater), over their shared loss.
To honor Hunter’s memory, they travel to Thailand to tackle the infamous plank walk on Mount Kwan. A sudden rockslide leaves them stranded on a narrow plank 3,000 feet in the air, with no rescue in sight and dark truths surfacing between them.
If the original made you afraid of towers, this one will make you wonder why mountain climbers still do what they do.
Set in 1966 Mississippi, a young black FBI agent (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) is sent to investigate a string of brutal, unsolved killings targeting civil rights leaders. It’s an unsolvable case because the powers that be don’t want it solved to protect their interests.
He finds an unconventional solution by partnering with Gregory Scarpa (Mark Wahlberg), a notorious mafia hitman with his own reasons for getting involved.
The film is inspired by true events.
A seasoned criminologist on the verge of retirement (Devon Sawa) and a forensic psychologist (Maggie Grace) are pulled into a remote Mississippi town to investigate the murder of a young girl and the mysterious disappearance of her twin sister.
As they crawl deeper into the killer’s mind, the case spirals into obsession and a race against time.
Tiffany Haddish plays the tough-talking police captain holding the whole thing together. The movie is available in theaters and on digital the same day.
Adria Arjona plays a mother and former US Army sniper living in a trailer park with her daughter. She finds herself in the middle of a nightmare when genetically engineered super soldiers escape from a secret military facility nearby and start tearing through everything in their path.
When they pick the wrong trailer, she does everything she can to protect her family.
Adam Wingard reunites with his The Guest writer Simon Barrett for this A24 action flick.
Set in 1962 during the Cold War. Hotshot U.S. Navy pilot Lieutenant Troy Kelly (Ryan Reynolds) is shot down over Soviet territory during a top-secret mission and left stranded behind enemy lines.
He’s found by Nikolai Ustinov (Kenneth Branagh), a gruff ex-KGB agent with a surprising soft spot for American culture.
What follows is the most unlikely buddy comedy the Cold War has ever seen. Directed by the team behind Game Night and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. Inspired by Misery and Midnight Run, apparently.
Is it probably going to be another Ryan Reynolds slapstick action comedy flick? Yes. Will I be watching it? Absolutely!
Sixteen years later, the gang’s all back. The beloved friend group reunites in Lake Como, Italy, for the wedding of Marcus and Angela’s daughter.
The marriages have survived the years, but the unresolved tension, buried secrets, and love triangle drama have not.
Tyler Perry writes, directs, and stars, with Jill Scott, Tasha Smith, Michael Jai White, Sharon Leal, Lamman Rucker, and Richard T. Jones all returning. Taraji P. Henson joins as the mother of the groom, strutting in like she owns the whole Lake Como coastline. As she should!
Nearly 30 years after the original, Sally (Sandra Bullock) and Gillian Owens (Nicole Kidman) are back. The dark ancestral curse threatening to unravel their family returns with them. This time, the next generation is pulled into the chaos, with Sally’s daughter Kylie forced to confront the family legacy after a devastating incident involving the person she loves.
Joey King, Maisie Williams, Stockard Channing, and Dianne Wiest round out the cast.
Former soldier Hank Malone (Alan Ritchson) takes what should be a simple job — transport a liver from Brisbane to the Gold Coast in three hours to save a dying child.
It’s simple enough, until the delivery makes him and his reluctant partner Ben (Owen Wilson) the primary targets of a ruthless cartel. Every detour, delay, and bullet brings them closer to failure.
Alan Ritchson being enormous, fast, and mildly funny alongside Owen Wilson being Owen Wilson sounds like exactly the right energy for a weekend movie night.
The zombies are back in this second reboot of the beloved franchise.
Bryan (Austin Abrams) is a medical courier who takes what should be a routine delivery to Raccoon City during a blizzard. An unexpected stop changes everything, and the night collapses into absolute chaos around him.
Directed by Zach Cregger, this is a full reboot, not connected to the previous films, drawing more from the tone and world of the games than any adaptation before it.
Olive Smith (Lili Reinhart) is a third-year PhD candidate at Stanford with just one priority—securing her future in academia. When she realizes her best friend Ahn has feelings for her crush Jeremy, Olive does the most rational thing a scientist could do. She impulsively kisses the most intimidating professor on campus, Dr. Adam Carlsen (Tom Bateman), to prove she’s moved on.
Instead of the disaster she expected, it turns into a fake dating arrangement that works for both of them. Until, of course, it doesn’t.
Adapted from Ali Hazelwood’s BookTok-beloved STEM romance novel. Fake dating, academic tension, and a grumpy-sunshine dynamic that the internet has been waiting for since the book dropped.
Set in the Philippines in the 1990s, two best friends, Jo and Raissa, are celebrating their last night together before Raissa moves away. They stumble through a mysterious portal and land on Nakali, a fantastical island rooted in Filipino mythology.
The price of going home? Every memory of their friendship, erased forever. They have to find a way out before they forget each other for good.
Produced by DreamWorks Animation and features H.E.R., Liza Soberano, Dave Franco, Lea Salonga, Manny Jacinto, and Jo Koy in the voice cast.
A24 true-crime drama following Chris Hansen (Robert Pattinson) in 2006 as he sets out to make TV history with To Catch a Predator.
The film digs into the moral complexity of a show built on catching real predators, and asks uncomfortable questions about what it means to sensationalize crime for primetime entertainment.
Pattinson is doing a lot in 2026, and this one looks like his awards-season moment. Also, Phoebe Bridgers is in it, which I didn’t see coming but am fully on board with.
A year has passed since Eddie Horniman (Theo James) went from reluctant estate heir to full-on crime boss. Now he and Susie Glass (Kaya Scodelario) are expanding the operation, this time into Italy and into the world of the Italian mafia. Meanwhile, Bobby Glass (Ray Winstone) starts making increasingly unstable decisions from his very comfortable prison cell.
Guy Ritchie wrote and directed the entire season again. Netflix loved it so much they renewed it for a third season before this one even aired.
Sixteen-year-old Teagan Tao (Miku Martineau) was a rising star in competitive single sculls rowing until a family scandal capsized her entire future. Forced to relocate with her mom (Jessica Paré) to the East Coast, she starts over at the elite and deeply cliquey Easton Prep, where there’s no girls’ rowing team.
Her only path back to the water is to become coxswain for the school’s notoriously dysfunctional boys’ varsity crew. The team’s arrogant captain wants her gone. The talented underdog she clicks with wants her to stay.
It’s Netflix YA drama at its peak. Cue the unnecessary love triangle, and we’re set.
The Reacher spinoff has finally arrived. Frances Neagley, Reacher’s fiercely competent former unit member, gets her own show set in Chicago, where she runs a private security firm.
When a former comrade turns up dead, and a complex conspiracy begins to unravel, Neagley operates entirely on her own terms, with no backup required.
Drops the same day Reacher S4 wraps, so Prime Video is clearly having a moment.
The animated Stranger Things spinoff is back sooner than anyone expected — just five months after season one dropped in April. If only they’d maintained this same energy with the original show, who knows, maybe it’d ended better.
Set in the winter of 1985 between seasons two and three of the original show, the Hawkins Investigators Club has barely caught their breath from defeating the Horde Queen before something new starts haunting the woods.
Currently Airing From Last Month: Special Ops: Lioness S3, Ted Lasso, and Lanterns.
What Movie or TV Show are you most excited to see?
Chioma is a content marketer and film buff. When she isn't creating stuff for brands, you can find her watching movies and reading. Favorite genres include; Fantasy, Action, YA, Thriller, and Chick-Lit.
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