Best new movies and TV series on Neon: September 2025

Neon continues to bring in a convoy of quality shows and films. See our handpicked highlights below followed by the full release schedule.

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* The best movies to watch on Neon
* All new streaming movies & series

Top picks: TV

Pee-Wee As Himself (September 1)

Produced by the Safdie Brothers fantastic label Elara Pictures, this wistful portrait of Paul Reubens tackles sublimely silly creativity with a serious eye. Reubens, of course, is best known for his character Pee-Wee Herman, developed in improv classes, showcased in Tim Burton’s fabulous film and an anarchic kids TV show: he of the skinny grey suit, beloved bike and guttural HAW-HAW laugh. Reubens was a closeted gay man for much of his life, his sexuality colliding with the unforgiving public eye in mid-fame.

Matt Wolf has already made a few sensational docos about outsider artists who deserve greater attention—with this new, more famous subject for his HBO two-parter, the director is ready to make us laugh and cry in one fell swoop.

My Mom Jayne (September 1)

“Nepo baby” is not necessarily an insult. Mariska Hargitay, best known for her fantastic and era-spanning work on Law & Order: SVU as the heroic Olivia Benson, has obviously made a name for herself beyond her dark family origins as the kid of tragic mid-century starlet Jayne Mansfield.

In her directorial doco debut, Hargitay painfully winds back the clock to age three, when her mother died in a gruesome car accident at age 34. Looking warmly backwards at the mum (or “mom”, rather) she barely got to know, the star will uncover tearjerking archival footage—and even some tabloid-baiting family secrets that she’s boldly willing to reveal before the camera.

Task: Miniseries (September 8)

From the creator of prestige limited series Mare of Easttown comes this very Mare-of-Easttown-esque crime-drama. I’ve always thought the likeably rumped Mark Ruffalo would be great in a Columbo remake, and so here he is in cop mode: playing an FBI agent investigating a string of trap house robberies in Philly.

Head still spinning from recent family tragedy, Ruffalo’s Bureau man must lead a young and inexperienced team in tracking down the person who has been ripping off drug dealers—a criminal who is seemingly also dealing with a tumultuous personal life. Creator Brad Inglesby is a dab hand at connecting broader crime stories to incisive character drama, so watching his latest series shouldn’t be a hard…Task.

Towards Zero: Miniseries (September 11)

Considered to be one of Agatha Christie’s most unusual and underrated works of whodunnit fiction, this yarn about guests at an elderly Lady’s seaside home getting picked off one-by-one is well deserving of a telly adaptation. And the great Anjelica Huston is cast as Lady Tressilian, confined to her bed and baiting a killer!

Aside from the expected murder-mystery shenanigans, we’ll also get to enjoy high society of 1930s England: spoiled tennis stars, French con-men, childhood sweethearts reunited, and Matthew Rhys as sleuth Inspector Leach. Three episodes of transporting tension by the chilly British seaside.

Top picks: Movies

The Lord of the Rings marathon (September 1)

You might be familiar with these juggernaut Peter Jackson fantasy films. Idk, they were filmed in a magical land called Middle Earth (right here in Aotearoa, actually), won a couple of Oscars (a record-breaking amount, actually), and seamlessly breathed life into the dense lore of JRR Tolkien’s seminal novels?

Now that all three films are available on Neon and winter is reaching its frostiest, darkest depths, a big Sunday rewatch is certainly on the cards. Plus, recent anime effort The War of the Rohirrim makes its streaming debut, too, offering something new fleshed out with the voices of Brian Cox and Eowyn herself, Miranda Otto.

Everything Coming to Neon this September

September 1

Casual Vacancy: Season 1
A Different Man
Freud’s Last Session
Gold Rush: Season 14
The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
My Mom Jayne
Naked and Afraid: Last One Standing: Season 3
Pee-Wee As Himself: Docuseries
Perfect Days
Santiago of the Seas: Seasons 1-2
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Teen Titans Go!: Season 9
The Uninvited
The Wizard of Oz

September 2

The Beast
Cabrini
Heart Eyes
Michael Johnson: Super Man
Stormy

September 3

Ezra
Robot Dreams
Ruby & Jodi: A Cult of Sin and Influence: Season 1
Sven

September 4

90 Day: Hunt for Love: Season 1
Animals on Drugs: Season 1
Looper

September 5

Angel Has Fallen
London Has Fallen
Olympus Has Fallen

September 6

Magic Mike
The Playboy Murders: Season 3

September 7

The Creator
The Return

September 8

Jellystone!: Season 3
Task: Season 1
The Wolf of Wall Street

September 9

Get Fast
My Favourite Dead Person: Season 3

September 10

Clear Cut

September 11

Rambo: Last Blood
Towards Zero: Season 1

September 12

Deep Water
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

September 13

911: Did the Killer Call? Season 6
Silver Linings Playbook

September 14

In the Lost Lands

September 15

The Batman: Seasons 1-3
Batwheels: Season 2
Mermicorno: Starfall: Season 1
Snack Shack
Welcome to Plathville: Season 6

September 16

Becoming Madonna: Season 1
Los Espookys: Season 2
War on Everyone

September 17

The Inbetweeners Movie
The Inbetweeners 2

September 18

Safe

September 19

Curse of the Necklace
Deepwater Horizon
Luva De Pedreiro: Viral Moves: Season 1
The Murder of Actor Rafael Miguel

September 20

Aquamarine
The Salt Path

September 21

Arrival

September 22

American Monster: Abuse of Power

September 23

Brilliant Minds: Season 2
Locked
One of Them Days
Lolo: The Champion Maker: Season 1

September 24

She’s The Man
Virgins: Season 1

September 25

30 Coins: Season 1
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

September 26

Fire with Fire
Krypto Saves the Day!: Season 1
Now or Never: FC Monfermeil: Season 1
Outback Opal Hunters: Season 14
Paddington in Peru

September 28

Once Were Warriors

September 29

Barney’s World
In Bruges

September 30

Firebrand