Every month, Netflix adds movies and TV shows to its library. Here are our picks for some of September’s most promising new titles. (Note: Streaming services occasionally change schedules without giving notice. For more recommendations on what to stream, sign up for our Watching newsletter here.)
‘The Dead Girls’
Starts streaming: Sept. 10
Jorge Ibargüengoitia’s novel “The Dead Girls” examines institutional corruption through the lens of one gruesome real-life case, concerning a 1950s and ’60s Mexican prostitution ring run by sisters who were ultimately accused of murdering dozens of their employees and customers. In the TV adaptation, Paulina Gaitán plays the business’s hotheaded main boss, Serafina Baladro, while Arcelia Ramírez plays her more practical-minded sister Arcángela. The mini-series’s director and co-writer Luis Estrada takes a cue from Ibargüengoitia by telling this story out of order, pulling at different threads of the Baladro saga to see how they tie to deeper class conflicts. The result is a crime drama that is equal parts sordid and satirical, depicting a community steeped in human exploitation and graft.
‘Next Gen Chef’ Season 1
Starts streaming: Sept. 17
On the spectrum of culinary competition shows, Netflix’s new series “Next Gen Chef” sticks to the refined, haute cuisine “Top Chef” model, as opposed to the more gimmicky cooking games like “Chopped” and “Nailed It!” The contest’s 21 chefs are all under 30 and all off to promising starts in their careers. They are invited to the venerable Culinary Institute of America for a series of difficult challenges, overseen by the school’s faculty and judged by accomplished celebrity chefs, including Carlton McCoy and Kelsey Barnard Clark. The talent level is high, the setting is grand, and the tournament is unusually intense, compressed into just 21 days.
‘Black Rabbit’
Starts streaming: Sept. 18
The title of the mini-series “Black Rabbit” refers to an upscale New York restaurant owned and operated by Jake Friedken (Jude Law), who seems suave and successful on the surface, but who is actually scrambling to manage his finances, his family and his plans to expand his empire. Jake’s stress intensifies when his sketchy brother, Vince (Jason Bateman), returns to town, after years spent on the run from bookies. The story begins with a violent crime and then jumps back in time to reveal the many bad choices made by the Friedken brothers and the collateral damage left in their wake. Created by Zach Baylin (an Oscar nominee for his “King Richard” screenplay) and Kate Susman, “Black Rabbit” has echoes of “The Bear,” “Ozark,” and other edgy dramas about entrepreneurs in deep distress.
‘Wayward’
Starts streaming: Sept. 25
The comedian Mae Martin returns to Netflix — the home of Martin’s semi-autobiographical dramedy series “Feel Good” — for something that is very different but no less personal. In this darkly shaded mystery, Martin plays Alex, a cop who takes a new job in a small Canadian town that seems welcoming and progressive to him and his pregnant wife, Laura (Sarah Gadon), who used to live there. Alex has issues, however, with one of the town’s main employers: Tall Pines Academy, a reform school for troubled teens that seems more interested in breaking its students’ spirits than in letting them be their true selves. Toni Collette plays the academy’s charismatic and powerful headmistress, while Sydney Topliffe and Alyvia Alyn Lind play new enrollees who try to help Alex — and Laura, a Tall Pines alum — uncover the institution’s shocking secrets.
‘House of Guinness’ Season 1
Starts streaming: Sept. 25
The prolific writer-producer Steven Knight, best-known for the period crime drama “Peaky Blinders,” tackles the tumultuous story of an Irish brewery empire in this new series. Set (at least initially) in 1860s Dublin, “House of Guinness” begins with the death of Sir Benjamin Guinness, whose booming ale business — coupled with his involvement in various Irish political and religious disputes — made him a prominent and controversial civic figure. When his children try to carry on his legacy, they find themselves fighting against both street gangs and religious conservatives, all standing in the way of their plans to expand their interests to America. As always, Knight combines historical detail with pulp thrills, often set to a rock and rap soundtrack that makes the past feel more like the present.
Also arriving:
Sept. 1
“Boyz N The Hood”
“Edge of Tomorrow”
“Franklin & Bash” Seasons 1-4
“Inglourious Basterds”
“Inside Man”
“La La Land”
“Orphan Black” Seasons 1-5
Sept. 5
“Love Con Revenge”
Sept. 7
“The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity” Season 1
Sept. 8
“Dr. Seuss’s Red Fish, Blue Fish” Season 1
“Her Mother’s Killer” Season 2
Sept. 9
“Jordan Jensen: Take Me With You”
“Kiss or Die” Season 1
Sept. 10
“aka Charlie Sheen”
“Love Is Blind: Brazil” Season 5
“Love Is Blind: France” Season 1
Sept. 11
“Diary of a Ditched Girl”
“Tyler Perry’s Beauty in Black” Season 2
“Wolf King” Season 2
Sept. 12
“Beauty and the Bester”
“Maledictions”
“The Wrong Paris”
“You and Everything Else”
Sept. 15
“Call the Midwife” Season 14
“Nashville” Seasons 1-6
Sept. 16
“Rebel Royals: An Unlikely Love Story”
Sept. 17
“1670” Season 2
“Matchroom: The Greatest Showman”
Sept. 18
“Platonic: Blue Moon Hotel”
“Same Day With Someone”
Sept. 19
“Billionaires’ Bunker”
“Haunted Hotel” Season 1
“She Said Maybe”
Sept. 23
“Cristela Alonzo: Lower Classy”
“Spartacus” Seasons 1-4
Sept. 24
“The Guest”
Sept. 25
“Alice in Borderland” Season 3
Sept. 26
“French Lover”
“Ruth & Boaz”
Sept. 30
“Earthquake: Joke Telling Business”
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