What to Watch in September: 16 Notable TV Shows & Streaming Movies

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor – August 30, 2022

The month ahead will bring Amazon's long-awaited Lord of the Rings series, Disney's rescheduled Star Wars series Andor, Netflix's controversial Marilyn Monroe biopic, and more. In the gallery on this page, our editors have selected the most interesting TV and movie titles debuting at home in the next month, listed in order by premiere date.

18 of 19 photo by Lilies Films/Berlinale

BONUS: Top older titles coming to the streaming services in September

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▣ Petite Maman (2021) - Hulu, 9/6
One of 2021's best films, Céline Sciamma's follow-up to Portrait of a Lady on Fire focuses on eight-year-old Nelly, who is recovering from the death of her grandmother but discovers a treehouse that provides a magical connection to her mom's own childhood.

also available:

10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) - Paramount+, 9/1

A Chiara (2022) - Hulu, 9/26

About a Boy (2002) - Peacock, 9/1

Airplane! (1980) - HBO and HBO Max, 9/1

American Beauty (1999) - Netflix and Prime Video, 9/1

Beau Travail (2000) - HBO Max, 9/1

The Birds (1963) - Peacock, 9/1

The Blair Witch Project (1999) - Paramount+ and Peacock and Prime Video, 9/1

Born This Way Season 1 - Hulu, 9/1

The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) - Peacock, 9/15

A Clockwork Orange (1971) - Netflix, 9/1

The Cove (2009) - Hulu, 9/7

Crazy Heart (2009) - Peacock, 9/1

The Dark Knight (2008) - Hulu, 9/1

Dinner in America (2022) - Hulu, 9/24

Drag Me to Hell (2009) - Peacock, 9/1

El Norte (1984) - Paramount+, 9/1

Ernest & Celestine (2014) - Hulu, 9/2

The Eyes of Orson Welles (2019) - HBO Max, 9/1

Frankenstein (1931) - Peacock, 9/15

Frenzy (1972) - Peacock, 9/1

Friday Night Lights Seasons 1-5 - Prime Video, 9/1

Glory (1990) - HBO Max, 9/1

Gone Girl (2014) - Peacock, 9/1

Hard Eight (1997) - Paramount+ and Prime Video, 9/1

How to Train Your Dragon (2010) - Prime Video, 9/1

If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) - Netflix, 9/1

The Invisible Man (1933) - Peacock, 9/15

Let the Right One In (2008) - Prime Video, 9/1

A Little Princess (1995) - Netflix, 9/1

Love Story (1970) - Paramount+ and Prime Video, 9/1

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) - Peacock, 9/1

Melancholia (2011) - HBO and HBO Max, 9/1

mother! (2017) - Paramount+ and Prime Video, 9/1

The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) - Prime Video, 9/1

My Beautiful Laundrette (1986) - Paramount+ and Prime Video, 9/1

Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) - Paramount+, 9/1

The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) - Hulu, 9/1

Psycho (1960) - Peacock, 9/1

The Quiet Man (1952) - Paramount+, 9/1

Racing Extinction (2015) - Hulu, 9/7

Ratcatcher (2000) - HBO Max, 9/1

Rear Window (1954) - Peacock, 9/1

Rescue Dawn (2007) - Prime Video, 9/1

Rosetta (1999) - HBO Max, 9/1

Shadow of a Doubt (1943) - Peacock, 9/1

Shanghai Noon (2000) - Paramount+, 9/1

Shaun of the Dead (2004) - Peacock, 9/1

The Silence of the Lambs (1991) - Prime Video, 9/1

Sin Nombre (2009) - Prime Video, 9/1

Skyfall (2012) - Prime Video, 9/1

The Social Network (2010) - Hulu, 9/1

Star Trek (2009) - Paramount+, 9/1

Topsy-Turvy (1999) - HBO Max, 9/1

United 93 (2006) - Peacock, 9/1

Up In The Air (2009) - Paramount+, 9/1

The Usual Suspects (1995) - Prime Video, 9/1

Varda by Agnes (2019) - HBO Max, 9/1

Vertigo (1958) - Peacock, 9/1

Village of the Damned (1960) - HBO Max, 9/1

The War of the Worlds (1953) - Paramount+, 9/1

We're All Going to the World's Fair (2022) - HBO Max, 9/1

Zodiac (1978) - Paramount+, 9/1

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