Netflix just released their October 2025 schedule — and I simply canceled all my plans for that month, together with my marriage ceremony.
I’m kidding, but when I have been going to get married in October, I’d push it again to look at all of the streamer’s nice content material.
Are you able to blame me? With motion pictures like Steve (a Cillian Murphy drama) and two star-studded thrillers (The Lady in Cabin 10 with Keira Knightley and The Ballad of a Small Participant starring Colin Farrell), there’s little time to do anything.
So lock the doorways, end up the lights, ignore your loving kin and stream these three Netflix motion pictures I can’t wait to look at in October.
‘Steve’ (2025) – Now Streaming
Ever because the large success of Oppenheimer in 2023, Cillian Murphy has stored a comparatively low profile. Other than headlining indie drama Small Issues Like These final yr, the Irish actor hasn’t been as a lot within the public eye as costars Emily Blunt and Robert Downey Jr.
That can change in October with Steve, a brand new Netflix drama primarily based on the novel Shy by Max Porter. Murphy stars because the titular character, an overworked and underpaid trainer at an English college for troubled teenagers. Steve needs to assist his college students lead higher lives, however most of them resist his makes an attempt to achieve out to them. The exception is Shy (Jay Lycurgo), whose curiosity is sparked by Steve’s generosity. Why does somebody like Steve care a lot about folks like Shy? And is he as put-together as he needs everybody to consider?
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Steve appears like your easy inspirational trainer story, however its kinetic visible model is totally different from comparable movies like Harmful Minds. Tracey Ullman and Emily Watson additionally star as Steve’s fellow lecturers, however the primary cause to look at the movie is to see Murphy give yet one more masterclass efficiency.
‘The Lady in Cabin 10’ (2025) – October 10
On a darkish and lonely evening aboard a luxurious cruise ship, journalist Laura Blacklock sees one thing she shouldn’t have — a lady being pushed into the ocean. She naturally notifies the authorities overseas concerning the obvious homicide she simply witnessed, however they inform her no passenger or crew member is lacking. No homicide occurred, so she will need to have been hallucinating.
Laura isn’t so positive, so she embarks on an investigation of her personal. Who was the girl who was apparently killed? And why is it being coated up by everybody she talks to?
That’s the intriguing hook of The Lady in Cabin 10, a brand new Netflix thriller starring Delight & Prejudice actress Keira Knightley. Primarily based on a bestselling novel by Ruth Ware, the film is paying homage to previous hits like The Lady on the Practice, which additionally had a feminine protagonist who thought she witnessed a homicide. The Lady in Cabin 10 guarantees to be simply as compelling as that hit thriller, and with Knightley within the lead, it’s certain to change into one in every of Netflix’s hottest motion pictures of the autumn season.
‘Ballad of a Small Participant’ (2025) – October 29
Colin Farrell makes a speciality of enjoying charismatic sleazebags, they usually don’t get a lot scummier than Lord Doyle. A compulsive gambler, Doyle has little left however his hope to strike it wealthy one final time on the casinos in Macau. However he owes some huge cash to some shady folks, and he’s on the run from a non-public investigator, Cynthia Blithe (Tilda Swinton), who needs one thing from him. Doyle solely has his life and his freedom, however he could not have even that when Cynthia catches up with him.
Netflix has significantly upped its sport within the authentic film division these previous few years. Final yr introduced us the wonderful rom-com Hit Man starring Glen Powell and the thrilling motion flick Insurgent Ridge, however these motion pictures pale compared to what the streamer has in retailer for the remainder of 2025. As a component […]
Directed by Conclave’s Edward Berger, Ballad of a Small Participant is a drama masquerading as a low-stakes thriller. Doyle is consistently operating from one thing — Cynthia, indignant on line casino house owners who need their tabs paid, his personal conscience — and the movie does a superb job at conveying Doyle’s growing desperation. However it’s additionally a captivating portrait of a person who is aware of his luck is operating out and may’t do a lot about it.
