New on Netflix September 2020: best movies, series and TV shows to watch this month in the UK

Throughout the month of September the streaming service, Netflix, is releasing a whole new batch of films and series to keep you fully entertained as the summer creeps to a close.

Here are the top titles set for release this month.

The Duchess

UK Netflix release date: Friday 11 September

Stand up comedian and occasional 8 out of 10 Cats panelist Katherine Ryan has an exciting new sitcom set for release this month. The Duchess follows Ryan, who plays an exaggerated version of herself as a flawed but loving single mum. Katherine decides to have a second child, but there is one issue: she’s not in a relationship. The series follows her as she tries to find a way to make this dream a reality from considering sperm donors to asking her ex.

The Devil All the Time

UK Netflix release date: Wednesday 16 September

The Devil All the Time is an American psychological thriller film based on the novel of the same name by Donald Ray Pollock. It follows Arvin Russell (played by Tom Holland) as he tries to protect his loved ones in a town filled with sinister characters such as a suspicious preacher played by Robert Pattinson, an ominous couple played by Jason Clarke and Riley Keough and a corrupt sheriff played by Sebastian Stan. Also starring Bill Skarsgård - known for his role as Pennywise in Stephen King’s IT - and Mia Wasikowski (Jane Eyre).

Hope Frozen: A Quest to Live Twice (2020)

UK Netflix release date: 15 September

This emotional documentary follows a Thai Buddhist family as they make the unconventional choice to have their terminally ill two-year-old daughter cryogenically frozen in the hope that she will be resurrected and restored back to health in the future. The documentary provides rare insight into not only grief, but the largely undocumentaed, new scientific fringe innovation of Cryonics, a subject that has been criticised by the wider scientific community.

Bookmarks

UK Netflix release date: Tuesday 1 September

This new Netflix kids’ show tells children’s stories with an angle on race, features several big names such as Lupita Nyong'o (Us), Caleb McLaughlin (Stranger Things), and Tiffany Haddish (The Lego Movie 2). Bookmarks tells stories specifically from black points of view, covering themes of identity, respect, justice and action.

I’m Thinking of Ending Things

UK Netflix release date: Friday 4 September

Charlie Kaufman’s new psychological horror film, based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Iain Reid, is quite an unnerving watch. The story captures the doubts and anxieties of a nervous woman meeting her boyfriend’s rather strange parents for the first time. Starring Jessie Buckley, Toni Collette, Jesse Plemons and David Thewlis.

Enola Holmes

UK Netflix release date: Wednesday 23 September

Written by Jack Thorne (His Dark Materials) and directed by Harry Bradbeer (Fleabag), Enola Holmes puts a feministic spin on the classic Sherlock Holmes story, by focusing on the tales of Sherlock and Mycroft’s lesser-known sister Enola, played by Millie Bobby Brown (Stranger Things). The film follows the lively Enola and friends as she tries to find her newly missing mother (Helena Bonham Carter). Starring Henry Cavill and Sam Claflin play Sherlock and Mycroft.

Zodiac

UK Netflix release date: Tuesday 1 September

This crime thriller from director David Fincher is based on a true story and has a star studded line up, including Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr. Zodiac follows a crime reporter, a political cartoonist, and a couple of cops as they work to investigate San Francisco's infamous Zodiac Killer, a serial murderer operating in the late 60s and early 70s, who is thought to have killed over 20 people and who remains unknown.

The full list of releases coming to Netflix in September:

Tuesday 1 September

A Beautiful Mind (2001)

Bookmarks

Borgen, seasons 1-3

Demolition Man (1993)

Indecent Proposal (1993)

The Sum of All Fears (2002)

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)

Zodiac (2007)

Wednesday 2 September

Chef’s Table: BBQ, season 1

Thursday 3 September

Afonso Padilha: Classless

Call the Midwife, season 8

Young Wallander

Friday 4 September

Away

I’m Thinking of Ending Things

Wednesday 9 September

Get Organised With the Home Edit

La Linea: Shadow of Narco

The Social Dilemma

So Much Love to Give

Thursday 10 September

Julie and the Phantoms

Friday 11 September

The Duchess

Family Business, season 2

Tuesday 15 September

Hope Frozen: a Quest to Live Twice

Michael McIntyre: Showman

Misfits, seasons 1-5

Wednesday 16 September

Challenger: The Final Flight

Criminal, season 2

The Devil All the Time

Thursday 17 September

GIMS: On the Record

The Last Word

The School Nurse Files

Friday 18 September

Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous

Ratched

Whipped

Monday 21 September

A Love Song for Latasha

Monday 21 September

The Playbook

Wednesday 23 September

Enola Holmes

Friday 25 September

The School Nurse Files

Sneakerheads

Wednesday 30 September

American Murder: The Family Next Door