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2025 is another killer year for Netflix – and not just because quite a few of the following movies are murder-mysteries with a significantly high body count.
Starting from roughly halfway through the year, the first must-see Netflix Original movie is “The Thursday Murder Club”.
Based on author Richard Osman’s bestselling murder-mystery novels, and boasting an all-star casts of beloved Brit3
s including Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley, and Richard E. Grant, this might be the first entry in a long-running franchise.
Not dissimilar to “Knives Out”, then. It just so happens the third film in the series, “Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery”, is the final Netflix Original movie of the year.
Sandwiched between the two eagerly awaited whodunnits are even more great movies you’ll not want to miss. Read on for every Netflix Original still to come in 2025, and their release date.
Best Netflix Original Movies Coming in 2025
August 28, 2025
Film: The Thursday Murder Club
Cast: Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley, Celia Imrie, Naomi Ackie, Daniel Mays, Henry Lloyd‑Hughes, Tom Ellis, Jonathan Pryce, David Tennant, Paul Freeman, Geoff Bell, Richard E. Grant, Ingrid Oliver.
September 12, 2025
Film: The Wrong Paris
Cast: Miranda Cosgrove, Pierson Fodé, Madison Pettis, Madeleine Arthur, Frances Fisher, Yvonne Orji, Torrance Coombs, Christin Park, Emilija Baranac, Hannah Stocking.
September 26, 2025
Film: Ruth & Boaz
Cast: Serayah McNeill, Tyler Lepley, Phylicia Rashad, Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds, Walnette Santiago, Nijah Brenea, James Lee Thomas, Jermaine Dupri, Lecrae Moore, Christopher Broughton, Yung Joc.
October 3, 2025
Film: Steve
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Tracey Ullman, Jay Lycurgo, Simbi Ajikawo, Emily Watson.
October 24, 2025
Film: A House of Dynamite
Cast: Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Gabriel Basso, Jared Harris, Tracy Letts, Anthony Ramos, Moses Ingram, Jonah Hauer-King, Greta Lee, Jason Clarke, Malachi Beasley, Brian Tee, Brittany O’Grady, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Willa Fitzgerald, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Kyle Allen, Kaitlyn Dever.
November 14, 2025
Film: In Your Dreams
Cast: Simu Liu, Craig Robinson.
November 21, 2025
Film: Train Dreams
Cast: Joel Edgerton, Felicity Jones, Nathaniel Arcand, Clifton Collins Jr., John Diehl, Paul Schneider, Kerry Condon, William H. Macy.
November 2025
Film: Frankenstein
Cast: Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Felix Kammerer, Lars Mikkelsen, David Bradley, Charles Dance, Christoph Waltz.
Fall 2025
Film: A Merry Little Ex‑Mas
Cast: Alicia Silverstone, Oliver Hudson, Jameela Jamil, Melissa Joan Hart.
Fall 2025
Film: The Ballad of a Small Player
Cast: Colin Farrell, Fala Chen, Deannie Yip, Alex Jennings, Tilda Swinton.
Fall 2025
Film: The Woman in Cabin 10
Cast: Keira Knightley, Guy Pearce, David Ajala, Art Malik, Gugu Mbatha‑Raw, Kaya Scodelario, David Morrissey, Daniel Ings, Hannah Waddingham, Gitte Witt, Christopher Rygh, Pippa Bennett‑Warner, John Macmillan, Paul Kaye, Amanda Collin, Lisa Loven Kongsli.
December 5, 2025
Film: Jay Kelly
Cast: George Clooney, Adam Sandler, Billy Crudup, Laura Dern, Grace Edwards, Stacy Keach, Riley Keough, Emily Mortimer, Patrick Wilson, Nicôle Lecky, Thaddea Graham, Jim Broadbent, Eve Hewson, Alba Rohrwacher, Lenny Henry, Josh Hamilton, Greta Gerwig.
December 12, 2025
Film: Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Cast: Daniel Craig, Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack, Thomas Haden Church.
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