If September fills you with back-to-school nostalgia, you’ll probably be pleased by the many throwbacks coming to Netflix next month. Sharpen some new pencils as Vincent Vega plunges a syringe into Mia Wallace in Pulp Fiction! Cover your textbooks while Todd Anderson climbs onto a desk in Dead Poets Society! Make a bagged lunch as a refrigerator lurches after Sarah Goldfarb in Requiem for a Dream! Wow, the ‘90s were dark.
The Highlights
Netflix is going deep into the archives this month, pulling out classics like She’s Gotta Have It (ahead of its reboot), Amores Perros and The Secret Garden, the only movie I watched more as a kid than A Little Princess. (Both, by the way, based on books written by Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett, who seems to have a real fixation on young girls brought up in India being sent to live in cold, stuffy dwellings in England.)
Also on tap are Jaws 1, 2, 3 and Jaws: The Revenge, perhaps designed to kill off any misplaced summer nostalgia?
On the topic of nostalgia, return to a simpler time with The Squid and the Whale, the 2005 Noah Baumbach dramedy set in 1986 Brooklyn and shot mostly on a handheld camera. Bonus features: The always-superb Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney, plus a precociously distraught young Jesse Eisenberg.
For a real shock, check out The Rugrats Movie and realize that it came out almost 20 years ago.
Those departing include The Emperor’s New Groove, by far the best Disney film ever created (don’t @ me), as well as Hope Floats, The Omen and Scream. Jackass the Movie is also taking leave, but at least we get Hotel for Dogs in its place.
Arriving This Month
September 1
Amores Perros
City of God
Dead Poets Society
Deep Blue Sea
Disney’s Hercules
Disney’s Mulan
FINAL FANTASY XIV Dad of Light: Season 1 – NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Fracture
Gangs of New York
Gone Baby Gone
High Risk
Hoodwinked
Hotel for Dogs
Jaws
Jaws 2
Jaws 3
Jaws: The Revenge
LEGO Elves: Secrets of Elvendale: Season 1 – NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Little Evil – NETFLIX ORIGINAL FILM
Maniac: Season 1
Narcos: Season 3 – NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Outside Man: Volume 2
Pulp Fiction
Requiem for a Dream
Resurface – NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Shaq & Cedric the Entertainer Present: All Star Comedy Jam
Shaquille O’Neal Presents: All Star Comedy Jam: Live from Atlanta
Shaquille O’Neal Presents: All Star Comedy Jam: Live from Dallas
Shaquille O’Neal Presents: All Star Comedy Jam: Live from Las Vegas
Shaquille O’Neal Presents: All Star Comedy Jam: Live from Orlando
Shaquille O’Neal Presents: All Star Comedy Jam: Live from South Beach
She’s Gotta Have It
The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography
The Last Shaman
The Lost Brother
The Rugrats Movie
The Secret Garden
The Squid and the Whale
West Coast Customs: Season 5
Who the F**K is that Guy
September 2
Vincent N Roxxy
September 4
Graduation
September 5
Carrie Pilby
Facing Darkness
Like Crazy
Marc Maron: Too Real – NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Newsies: The Broadway Musical
September 6
A Good American
Hard Tide
September 7
The Blacklist: Season 4
September 8
#realityhigh – NETFLIX ORIGINAL FILM
Apaches: Season 1
BoJack Horseman: Season 4 – NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Fabrizio Copano: Solo Pienso En Mi – NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Fire Chasers: Season 1
Greenhouse Academy: Season 1 – NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Joaquín Reyes: Una y no más – NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Spirit: Riding Free: Season 2 – NETFLIX ORIGINAL
The Confession Tapes: Season 1 – NETFLIX ORIGINAL
The Walking Dead: Season 7
September 9
Portlandia: Season 7
September 11
The Forgotten
September 12
Jeff Dunham: Relative Disaster – NETFLIX ORIGINAL
September 13
Offspring: Season 7
Ghost of the Mountains
September 14
Disney’s Pocahontas
September 15
American Vandal: Season 1 – NETFLIX ORIGINAL
First They Killed My Father – NETFLIX ORIGINAL FILM
Foo Fighters: Back and Forth
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
Larceny
Project Mc²: Part 5 – NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Rumble
Strong Island – NETFLIX ORIGINAL
VeggieTales in the City: Season 2 – NETFLIX ORIGINAL
September 18
Call the Midwife: Series 6
The Journey Is the Destination
September 19
Disney’s Beauty and the Beast
Jerry Before Seinfeld – NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Love, Sweat and Tears
September 20
Carol
September 21
Gotham: Season 3
September 22
Fuller House: New Episodes – NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Jack Whitehall: Travels with My Father: Season 1 – NETFLIX ORIGINAL
The Samaritan
September 23
Alien Arrival
September 25
Dark Matter: Season 3
September 26
Bachelorette
Night School
Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan
Terrace House: Aloha State: Part 4 – NETFLIX ORIGINAL
September 27
Absolutely Anything
September 29
Big Mouth: Season 1 – NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Club de Cuervos: Season 3 – NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Gerald’s Game – NETFLIX ORIGINAL FILM
Real Rob: Season 2 – NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Paul Hollywood’s Big Continental Road Trip: Season 1 – NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Our Souls at Nights – NETFLIX ORIGINAL FILM
The Magic School Bus Rides Again: Season 1 – NETFLIX ORIGINAL
September 30
Murder Maps: Season 3
Leaving in September
September 1
Better Off Ted: Season 2
Do Not Disturb
Frailty
Hope Floats
Jackass: The Movie
Julia
LEGO Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu: King of Shadows
LEGO Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu: Way of the Ninja
RV
The Batman: Season 1-5
The Deep End: Season 1
The Omen
Wilfred: Season 1-2
Something’s Gotta Give
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Tears of the Sun
Scream
A Nightmare on Elm Street
September 3
Drumline: A New Beat
September 4
The A-List
September 5
Lilo & Stitch
The Emperor’s New Groove
September 9
Teen Beach 2
September 10
Army Wives: Season 1-7
September 11
Terra Nova: Season 1
September 15
Katt Williams: Kattpacalypse
September 16
Jackass 3.5: The Unrated Movie
One Day
September 19
Persons Unknown: Season 1
September 20
Bombay Velvet
Finding Fanny
Raising Hope: Season 1
September 22
Philomena
September 24
Déjà Vu
September 26
A Gifted Man: Season 1
Sons of Tucson: Season 1
CSI: Miami: Season 1-10
September 30
Last Man Standing: Season 1-5