The Best Movies to Stream at Home in September

TV might get all the headlines in the fall, but don't sleep on movies! Especially when streaming brings some huge blockbusters home, where you can kick your feet up, take your pants off, and eat ice cream right out of the tub, which is the ideal way to watch a movie.  

Among the highlights coming this September are the latest big Star Wars film, the further adventures of Toy Story's Woody and Buzz Lightyear, and one of the coolest movies of the year. Get scrolling and check out the new movies to stream in September.

Note: The list includes movies coming to major subscription streaming services for the first time; new movies to stream at home that are only available for purchase or rent were not included in this list. 

What if Speed didn't have a bus? That's kind of the premise of this straight-to-streaming thriller starring Gal Gadot as a London lawyer who is given unusual demands by her son's kidnapper: keep running and follow instructions or the kid dies. [Trailer]

Wednesday, Sept. 2 on Prime Video

The collective "awwww" of an entire nation from his appearance in the Disney+ series The Mandalorian was enough for Disney to bank on Grogu, or as he's more affectionately known, Baby Yoda, as a box office draw. The feature film The Mandalorian and Grogu sees the unlikely duo of Grogu and Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) hired by the New Republic for missions around the galaxy. Critics were mixed on the movie, but if you're just there to make heart eyes at the little green guy, it's worth a watch. [Trailer]

Wednesday, Sept. 2 on Disney+

Netflix's Turning Point franchise, which previously produced 2021's five-part docuseries 9/11 and the War on Terror, revisits that fateful date for the tragedy's 25th anniversary. Generation 9/11 looks back on the day that changed America mostly through the eyes of those who were too young at the time to understand it but greatly affected by it, like those who lost parents in the attack or those who enlisted in the armed forces in the years that followed. [Trailer]

Wednesday, Sept. 2 on Netflix

The most terrifying thing about Scary Movie (which should be called Scary Movie 6) is that it was a box office success despite dismal reviews from critics. It's the first film in the franchise since Scary Movie 2 that the Wayans brothers have been involved with, which is why it's more of a sequel to the first two films than the movies that came after them. It's bad, but bad movies were meant to be watched at home. [Trailer]

Thursday, Sept. 3 on Paramount+

This film based on the Nickelodeon series The Thundermans follows the youngest Thunderman sibling Chloe (Maya Le Clark) as she develops a new and unpredictable superpower, dividing the family on whether she should be sent to a special school for years to learn how to harness it or stay with the family to keep everyone together. [Trailer]

Thursday, Sept. 3 on Paramount+ and at 7/6c on Nickelodeon

Kenneth Branagh and Ryan Reynolds star in this unlikely buddies action-comedy set during the Cold War about a downed U.S. fighter pilot (Reynolds) and the ex-KGB America-loving agent (Branagh) who helps him survive. It was directed by Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves duo Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, so expect a mix of action and comedy. [Trailer]

Friday, Sept. 4 on Apple TV

This British thriller stars Theo James as a thief who uses an old undetonated WWII bomb as a distraction to rob a bank, and Aaron Taylor Johnson among those trying to hunt him down amid the chaos. It seems simple, but it's loaded with twists. Maybe predictable twists, but twists nonetheless! [Trailer]

Friday, Sept. 4 on HBO Max

A hit on the festival circuit, Teenage Wasteland is an inspiring documentary about a high school English class in the 1990s whose investigative journalism assignment exposed a devastating toxic waste dump in their town. The film mixes footage from their project with a reunion of the students today. [Trailer]

Friday, Sept. 4 on Netflix

Tyler Perry's third film in his Why Did I Get Married? franchise brings the crew back together in Italy for Angela and Marcus' daughter's wedding, and as usual, the trip gives them too much time to reflect on their own marriage, for better and worse. I mean, if you keep asking yourself why you got married, maybe you should be asking yourself, "Why don't I get a divorce?" [Trailer]

Wednesday, Sept. 9 on Netflix

The popular French comedy series Call My Agent! must have a good agent, because more than five years after its final season, it's coming back as movie. This time, Andréa (Camille Cottin) is directing her first film, and everything that can go wrong does, leading her to get help from her former coworkers at ASK. [Trailer]

Thursday, Sept. 10 on Netflix

Two best friends (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan and Priyanka Kedia) join UCLA's Bollywood-fusion dance team in this comedy film from Hasan Minhaj and Prashanth Venkataramanujam. And yes, there will be ridiculous amounts of elaborate dance routines. [Trailer]

Friday, Sept. 18 on Netflix

The toys are back in town, and this time they're taking on their most fearsome foe yet: a tablet! Stop being such a memelord and go touch grass, Bonnie! [Trailer]

Wednesday, Sept. 23 on Disney+

This month's rom-com with the ol' "we're pretend dating for mutual benefit and nothing more but my oh my you're starting to stir my loins after all" premise belongs to Prime Video's The Love Hypothesis. This time, the fake relationship belongs to a pair of science professors (Lili Reinhart and Tom Bateman) whose ruse turns into real love, but only after a bunch of jargon about hypotheses and the Scientific Method. This is for the "talk nerdy to me" crowd, I guess? [Trailer]

Wednesday, Sept. 23 on Prime Video

In this biographical thriller, Jacob Tremblay dons the hoodie of Ted Kaczynski, the real name of the infamous Unabomber. The movie is told across multiple timelines, from his days as a 16-year-old Harvard student subject to controversial experiments by a professor (Russell Crowe) to his adult life as an isolated, radical extremist who terrorized academics for nearly 20 years through mail bombs and was hunted down by an FBI agent (Shailene Woodley). [Trailer]

Friday, Sept. 25 on Netflix

After a blistering box office that exceeded all expectations, Kane Parson's A24 horror movie, along with Curry Barker's Obsession, rewrote the playbook Hollywood studios use to decide what makes it theaters by revealing that what we really want are cool, original ideas instead of the exhumed corpses of familiar IP. Backrooms is based on a 4chan creepypasta about a seemingly endless hidden set of rooms and pathways, but don't let that deter you: The movie is good. [Trailer]

Friday, Sept. 25 on HBO Max

Everything you need for fall TV:

• The most anticipated shows coming this fall
• All the new shows coming this fall
• The ultimate guide to what to watch in September