The Best Things Coming to Netflix in October 2025

Coming October 9

Victoria Beckham

Not to be outdone by her equally famous husband, David Beckham (who received his own four-part Netflix documentary in 2023), the pop star formerly known as Posh Spice walks us through her life and career in music and fashion, in this intimate three-part series that should finally put to rest the notion that she’s an unsmiling glamour-puss. Not only does Beckham frequently crack a grin and show off a sly sense of humor; she also lets us into her glitzy, glittery world and discusses the insecurities that fueled her ambition. 

Coming October 10

Nouvelle Vague

Director Richard Linklater (Before Sunrise, Dazed and Confused) pays tribute to the pivotal French New Wave movement of the late 1950s and ’60s in this black-and-white love letter to cinema centering on the making of critic-turned-filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard’s game-changing import Breathless. Guillaume Marbeck, Zoey Deutch, and Aubry Dullin head up the ensemble of this jazzy, stylish time capsule that should be catnip for any serious movie lover. 

The Woman in Cabin 10

Keira Knightley stars in this mystery-thriller based on Ruth Ware’s bestselling novel about a journalist on a yacht who’s convinced she saw a woman thrown overboard one night, despite the fact that no passengers are reported missing the next morning. No one believes her story. As she begins to dig deeper into the incident, her own life is put in jeopardy.     

Coming October 16 

The Diplomat , Season 3

​The latest season of this white-knuckle political thriller series looks highly promising in a West Wing sort of way (and not just because it features Allison Janney and Bradley Whitford, both 65). Married politicos Keri Russell and Rufus Sewell, 57, scramble to avoid a constitutional crisis when the president dies and his shady VP (Janney) arrives in the Oval Office with some serious — and potentially traitorous — baggage.

Coming October 21

Who Killed the Montreal Expos?

Major League Baseball’s first Canadian franchise, the Montreal Expos, debuted in 1969. By 2005, they’d be nothing more than a fond memory. The Expos weren’t a great team, but they were definitely scrappy, they had great uniforms and they developed a ton of talent before those same players got shipped off to major-market teams (Pedro Martinez, Randy Johnson, Larry Walker). This behind-the-scenes doc traces the team’s history and explores how a perfect storm of missteps (both unavoidable and self-inflicted) would eventually send them to Washington, D.C., to be rechristened as the Nationals. A must for baseball fans.

Coming October 23

Nobody Wants This , Season 2

Actually, a lot of people want this. Netflix’s delightful rom-com series reunites mismatched singles played by Kristen Bell and Adam Brody. How mismatched are they? He’s a handsome, charismatic rabbi, and she’s a decidedly Gentile podcaster who leans into raunch. Will their obvious differences be too much for this budding romance? We don’t claim to possess the prognosticating skills of Nostradamus, but something tells us they won’t.

Coming October 24 

A House of Dynamite

Whenever Kathryn Bigelow, 73, delivers a new film, it’s an event. And the latest geopolitical nail-biter from the Oscar-winning director of The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty is no exception. Idris Elba, 53, stars as the U.S. president, Rebecca Ferguson is his Situation Room commander, and Tracy Letts, 60, is a hard-to-read military general. All of these Beltway power players snap into action to avoid a nuclear apocalypse when a missile is launched at the United States. Who’s responsible, and how should America retaliate? You’ll definitely want to tune in and find out.

Coming October 28

Nightmares of Nature

David Attenborough, 99, meets David Lynch in this twisted natural history docuseries from the horror-movie maestros at Blumhouse Television. Subtitled “Lost in the Jungle,” the new season is set deep in the Central American rainforest where an opossum, a baby iguana and a creepy jumping spider all fight to stay alive, despite being surrounded by terrifying, exotic predators on all sides. Actress Maya Hawke narrates the goosebump-inducing proceedings. 

Coming October 29

Ballad of a Small Player

Colin Farrell, looking like a young Howard Hughes, plays a high-stakes gambler on a cold streak in the latest thriller from Conclave director Edward Berger. Set in the glittering casinos of Macau, this fast-paced character study follows Farrell’s heavy-drinking, high-living thrill junkie as he spirals out of control and loses lots of money he doesn’t have, while being shadowed by a private detective (Tilda Swinton, 64). Yes, please.  

Selling Sunset , Season 9

The glamorous (and catty) real estate agents from The Oppenheim Group’s L.A. office are back to gossip, grouse and talk trash about one another while occasionally taking an interest in selling ridiculously priced homes. This hit reality series is giddy train-wreck TV tailor-made for your binging sweet tooth. Bring on the backstabbing!