Every month, Netflix adds movies and TV shows to its library. Here are our picks for some of September’s most promising new titles.
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‘Wrestlers’ Season 1
Starts streaming: Sept. 13
Greg Whiteley, the co-creator and director of the popular Netflix docu-series “Last Chance U” and “Cheer,” tells another story of small-time athletes fighting to keep their dreams alive in “Wrestlers.” Set in and around a Louisville, Ky., gym, the series follows the veteran star Al Snow and the die-hard performers of Ohio Valley Wrestling, who are working to boost business after their new bosses have given them just a few months to increase revenue. As with Whiteley’s other shows, “Wrestlers” features up-close and exciting sports footage alongside intimate slice-of-life scenes and confessional interviews, as these people who love the history and traditions of regional professional wrestling share their hopes and dreams.
‘El Conde’
Starts streaming: Sept. 15
The daring Chilean writer-director Pablo Larrain — best-known for his offbeat 2016 biopics “Neruda” and “Jackie” — puts his own peculiar spin on the life of Augusto Pinochet in “El Conde,” a black-and-white gothic horror film that reimagines the dictator as a depressed vampire, enduring an audit of his crumbling estate. Jaime Vadell plays Pinochet, who in this movie has been alive since the time of the French Revolution and has kept hanging around long after everyone has assumed he died. Larrain fits some actual history into this picture, but for the most part he uses satire to critique the lingering vitality-sapping effects of Pinochet’s tyrannical reign.
‘Love at First Sight’
Starts streaming: Sept. 15
Based on the Jennifer E. Smith novel “The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight,” this romantic dramedy stars the vibrant young actress Haley Lu Richardson as Hadley Sullivan, who is reluctantly on her way to London to attend her father’s wedding when she gets seated on the plane next to Oliver (Ben Hardy), a charming math whiz heading home for his mother’s memorial service. When the two are separated after landing, they have an eventful and emotional day of meeting family obligations while also trying to find each other again. Jameela Jamil plays multiple characters and also narrates the film, using Oliver’s nerdy number-crunching as a prompt to keep the audience updated on the ever-shifting odds that these two likable kids will be happy together.
‘The Saint of Second Chances’
Starts streaming: Sept. 19
Bill Veeck was one of Major League Baseball’s maverick innovators, spending much of his life coming up with creative and sometimes controversial ballpark promotions to draw fans and make money. The documentary “The Saint of Second Chances” — co-directed by Jeff Malmberg and the Oscar-winning Morgan Neville — is about Bill’s son Mike, whose initial attempts to follow in his father’s footsteps were derailed by his part in the Chicago White Sox’s notorious 1979 “Disco Demolition Night,” which ended in a riot. Narrated by Jeff Daniels — with re-enactments that have the actor-comedian Charlie Day playing Mike — the film covers the younger Veeck’s big comeback in the ’90s, when he found ways to bring fun back to baseball and to his own life by running the independent minor league team the St. Paul Saints.
‘The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar’
Starts streaming: Sept. 27
Fresh off the critical and commercial success of his film “Asteroid City,” the writer-director Wes Anderson makes his Netflix debut with “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar,” an adaptation of a Roald Dahl story. Clocking in at around 40 minutes — a bit too long to be a short film and not long enough to be a feature — the movie stars Benedict Cumberbatch as a smug gambler who become fascinated with the rumors he has heard about a man who can see without using his eyes. As always, Anderson has enlisted an impressive supporting cast, including Ben Kingsley, Dev Patel, Richard Ayoade and — as Dahl himself — Ralph Fiennes. This project also reportedly relies even more than usual on Anderson’s penchant for overtly theatrical effects, as the characters tell stories within stories while often remaining on a single stage.
Also arriving:
Sept. 7
“Dear Child”
“Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight” Season 3
“Top Boy” Season 3
“Virgin River” Season 5, Part 1
Sept. 8
“Burning Body” Season 1
“Rosa Peral’s Tapes”
“Selling the OC” Season 2
“Spy Ops” Season 1
“A Time Called You” Season 1
Sept. 12
“Michelle Wolf: It’s Great To Be Here”
Sept. 13
“Class Act” Season 1
Sept. 15
“Surviving Summer” Season 2
Sept. 21
“Sex Education” Season 4
Sept. 22
“Song of the Bandits”
“Spy Kids: Armageddon”
Sept. 26
“The Devil’s Plan” Season 1
“Who Killed Jill Dando?”
Sept. 27
“Encounters” Season 1
“Forgotten Love”
“Street Flow 2”
Sept. 28
“Castlevania: Nocturne” Season 1
“The Darkness within La Luz del Mundo”
Sept. 29
“Nowhere”
Source: Television - nytimes.com
