Best new movies and TV series on Netflix New Zealand: October 2025

Each month, loads of new films and TV shows are added to Netflix New Zealand‘s library. Eliza Janssen presents her picks for titles worth watching. For the full list of everything arriving on the platform, scroll down.

Top Picks: TV

Monster: The Ed Gein Story (October 3)

Iconic (fictional) killers like Leatherface, Buffalo Bill or Norman Bates have to come from somewhere—some deep interior pit of Oedipal/all-American violence springing from our real world onto the silver screen. One of Hollywood’s most fruitful sources of true crime inspo has always been Ed Gein, a mild-mannered Midwestern guy whose mommy issues were only matched by his chainsaw handling skills.

Charlie Hunnam plays Gein in this series produced by Ryan Murphy, Netflix’s go-to guy for these sort of lurid, pseudo-biographical psychodramas. The supporting cast is fab, including Vicky Krieps, Lesley Manville, Laurie Metcalf as Mrs Gein— plus horror directors Hitchcock and Hooper as fictionalised characters within the show, searching for dark inspiration. We think they’ll probably find exactly the villain they’re looking for.

Nobody Wants This: Season 2 (October 23)

When it comes to dating, you’ve gotta have faith—until faith begins to cause problems between the two of you. Season one of this completely charming rom-com paired up rabbi Noah (Adam Brody) and agnostic podcaster Joanne (Kristen Bell), but as their whirlwind romance blossoms into bigger questions and serious moves, their fundamentally different beliefs could make a happy ending impossible.

All we know is that there’s “family drama” and “career struggles” on the horizon—Joanne might not be the praying type, but we’re on our knees begging whichever deity’s up there to help the couple stick it out!

The Witcher: Season 4 (October 30)

Fans of this gnarly fantasy-action series have had some time to sit with their feelings about Henry Cavill’s departure. Two-and-a-half years, in fact: enough of a hiatus to let ’em warm to the idea of Liam Hemsworth taking over as Geralt of Rivia.

In Netflix’s official teaser of the show’s fourth (and Aussie Liam’s first) season, we got to see his fresh-faced Geralt take down a wraith, and the new season’s cast includes the great Laurence Fishburne as Regis: two more reasons to stay hopeful about the grand show’s last few instalments. Let’s toss a coin to Our Liam and see how it pays off.

Top Picks: Movies + Specials

The Woman in Cabin 10 (October 10)

What if you saw somebody fall overboard, but nobody believed you? Would you believe Keira Knightley, if you guys happened to be on a superyacht together and she claimed to see someone topple into the dark waters below? Wouldn’t that be so great, to have investigative journalist Keira Knightley desperately needing your help with an at-sea mystery and you guys get to hang out on the superyacht and solve a mystery?

Co-starring Guy Pearce, Hannah Waddingham and a slew of other recognisable British stars to boot, this mystery based on Ruth Ware’s bestselling novel will have you feeling very happy to be a landlubber on firm ground.

Ballad of a Small Player (October 29)

We love a rumpled, troubled, booze-soaked Colin Farrell—not playing a genius manipulative supervillain or some kind of baller, but just a “small player”, whiling his days and nights away on the floors of a Macau casino. Based on the novel of the same name by Lawrence Osborne, this psychological crime-thriller see Farrell’s self-destructive expat Lord Doyle caught in the crosshairs of Tilda Swinton’s private investigator.

Confronted by the past that he cannot outrun, Doyle will need to struggle against the shaggy life he’s made for himself in order to escape and find salvation.

All titles arriving on Netflix New Zealand in October

October 1

Central Intelligence
Exorcist: The Beginning
Love is Blind: Season 9
RIV4LRIED
Sonic the Hedgehog

October 2

Dudes
The Game You Never Play Alone
Rockstar: DUKI from the End of the World

October 3

Genie, Make a Wish
Monster: The Ed Gein Story
The New Force
Old Dog, New Tricks
Steve

October 4

Scary Movie

October 5

Ranma 1.2: Season 2

October 6

Dr Seuss’s Horton!

October 7

True Haunting

October 8

Caramelo
Is It Cake? Halloween
Nero the Assassin

October 9

Boots
The Resurrected
Victoria Beckham

October 10

Kurukshetra: The Great War of Mahabharata
My Father, the BTK Killer
Old Money
Swim to Me
The Woman in Cabin 10

October 11

WWE Crown Jewel: 2025

October 12

Typhoon Family

October 14

Everybody Loves Me When I’m Dead
Splinter Cell: Deathwatch

October 15

Gran Turismo: Based on a True Story
Inside Furioza
No One Saw Us Leave
Six Kings Slam

October 16

The Diplomat: Season 3
A Quiet Place: Part II
Romantics Anonymous
Starting 5: Season 2
The Time that Remains

October 17

27 Nights
Good News
The Perfect Neighbour
She Walks in Darkness
The Twits
Turn of the Tide: Season 2

October 21

Who Killed the Montreal Expos?

October 22

Mob War: Philadelphia vs. The Magia
The Monster of Florence

October 23

The Elixir
Nobody Wants This: Season 2

October 24

A House of Dynamite

October 26

The Dream Life of Mr Kim

October 27

The Asset

October 28

Babo: The Haftbefehl Story
Mo Amer: Wild World
Nightmares of Nature: Lost in the Jungle
Physical: Asia

October 29

Ballad of a Small Player
Rulers of Fortune
Selling Sunset: Season 9

October 30

Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers
Amsterdam Empire
Juan Gabriel: I Must, I Can, I Will
Son of a Donkey
The Witcher: Season 4

October 31

Bad Influencer
Breathless: Season 2
Rhythm + Flow France: Season 4

See also
* Best new movies and TV series Stan
* Best new movies and TV series on Amazon Prime
* Best new movies and TV series on Disney+
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