What to stream in October 2023: Netflix, Disney+, Stan, Amazon Prime + more
From award-winning box office blockbusters to the return of a much-loved series, this is your ultimate guide to everything new on streaming services in October 2023.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, ghouls and ghosts, and everyone in between, spooky season has arrived, and the streaming world is here to cast its spell on your screens! As the temperature starts heating up, so to does the content coming to streaming services. It’s time to bid farewell to the winter chill with a lineup of streaming delights that will have you unable to look away, cackling with laughter, and possibly sleeping with the lights on.
Fancy a bone-chilling horror to get you into the Halloween spirit? The Offering and Pearl should do the trick. If you’re eagerly awaiting the return of fan favourite Marvel series like Loki, your wait will soon be over. Or if you’re searching for a docu-series that will make you think, Life on Our Planet has got you covered. This October has a lot in store.
So, whether you’re a streaming veteran, a binging newbie, or just in dire need of some quality screen time, join us as we dive headfirst into all the freshest content every major streaming service has to offer in October 2023. Grab your popcorn, settle into the comfiest spot on your couch, and let the magic begin.
What’s coming to Netflix in October?
October Netflix Highlight – Life on Our Planet
Prepare to embark on a mind-boggling journey through the carnival that is our existence with Life on Our Planet. This astonishing series is the ultimate reality show, and mother nature is the star. Narrated by the delightfully smooth voice of Morgan Freeman, and with Steven Spielberg as executive producer, the spectacle of planet earth has never looked so captivating, and you’ll have a front row seat.
October 1
- Halloween
- Battlefield Earth
October 3
- Beth Stelling: If You Didn’t Want Me Then
October 4
- Keys to the Heart
- Beckham
- Race to the Summit
October 5
- Everything Now
- Lupin: Part 3
October 6
- A Deadly Invitation
- Ballerina
- House of Spies
- Fair Play
October 7
- Pearl
- Champions
October 8
- Strong Girl Nam-soon
October 9
- Stranded with my Mother-in-Law
October 10
- DI4RIES: Season 2 Part 1
- Last One Standing: Season 2
October 11
- Pact of Silence
- Once Upon a Star
- Big Vape: The Rise and Fall of Juul
October 12
- The Fall of the House of Usher
- Good Night World
October 13
- Ijogbon
- The Conference
October 15
- Vengeance
- Camp Courage
October 17
- I Woke Up A Vampire
- Heather McMahan UNT. 2023 Stand-Up Special
- The Devil on Trial
- Rick and Morty: Season 7
October 18
- Dark Water
October 19
- Bodies
- Crashing Eid
- Neon
- Crypto Boy
October 20
- Big Mouth: Season 7
- Creature
- Doona!
- Elite: Season 7
- Surviving Paradise
- Disco Inferno
- Flashback
- Kandasamys: The Baby
- Vjeran Tomic: The Spider-Man of Paris
October 24
- Get Gotti
October 25
- Life on Our Planet
- Absolute Beginners
- Nothing to See Here
- Burning Betrayal
October 26
- Pluto
October 27
- Tore
- Pain Hustlers
- Sister Death
- Yellow Door: ’90s Lo-fi Film Club
October 28
- Castaway Diva
October 31
- Ralph Barbosa: Cowabunga
What’s coming to Disney+ in October?
October Disney+ Highlight – Loki Season 2
Get ready to embark on another mischievous journey across time and space with everyone’s favourite Norse villain-turned-hero in season two of Loki. This time round, Loki is once again causing mayhem and unravelling timelines like it’s going out of style. We thought season one was wild, but the God of Mischief’s follow-up promises chaos of cosmic proportions.
October 3
- Only Murders in the Building (season 3 finale)
October 4
- Star Wars: Ahsoka (season finale)
- Tokyo Revengers
- The D’Amelio Show
- The Worst of Evil
- Welcome to Wrexham
- Solar Opposites
October 5
- The Boogeyman
October 6
- Loki (Season 2 premiere)
- Bobi Wine: The People’s President
- Aaron Carter: The Little Prince of Pop
- Trap Jazz
- Camping Out
- Chips Ahoy
- Fiddling Around
October 7
- Arthdal Chronicles
October 11
- Nothing
- 4EVER
October 13
- Goosebumps (Season premiere)
- The Sound of the Police
October 16
- Once Upon a Studio
October 18
- Living for the Dead
- Primal Survivor: Extreme African Safari
October 20
- Werewolf By Night: In Colour
October 24
- My Home Hero
October 25
- Lions of Sicily
- Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge
- Extraordinary Birder with Christian Cooper
October 27
- LEGO Marvel Avengers: Code Red
- Explorer: Lake Of Fire
What’s coming to Stan in October?
October Stan Highlight – The Revenant
In The Revenant, director Alejandro González Iñárritu crafts a visceral cinematic experience set against the merciless backdrop of 1820s America. Leonardo DiCaprio’s performance as frontiersman Hugh Glass, left for dead after a brutal bear attack, is the heart of this gripping survival epic, and finally won him that Oscar he covets so greatly. This unrelenting odyssey through the wilderness will leave you spellbound from start to finish.
October 1
- New In Town
- Belli Ciao
- Hit and Run
October 2
- Ride with Norman Reedus
- More Than I Deserve
- Navalny
October 3
- Fright Krewe
- The Long Shadow
- Drag Race Germany
- Mistletoe Match
- The Christmas Retreat
- Six Degrees of Santa
- A Christmas in Switzerland
- A Royal Christmas Match
- A Christmas Masquerade
- A Candlelit Christmas
- Ghosts of Christmas Past
- Saving Me
October 4
- Blood
- Drag Race Brazil
- Drag Race Philippines
- Drag Race Philippines: Untucked
- Bad Tales
October 5
- Love Triangle (Season 2 premiere)
- Robyn Hood
- Date Movie
- La Jauría
- The Code of Silence
- Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath
October 6
- Power Book IV: Force
- Aftertaste
- Brum
- RuPaul’s Drag Race UK
October 7
- American Rust
- The Revenant
- Warnie
October 8
- Just My Luck
- The Truth About Boosting Your Immune System
- Mr Christmas
October 9
- The Winter King
- The Circus
- Nancy Drew
October 10
- The Long Shadow
- Once Upon A Time In America
- My Days of Glory
- Margrete: Queen of the North
October 11
- Sullivan’s Crossing
- Our Brain
- A Vineyard Christmas
October 12
- Life and Death in the Warehouse
- Metronom
- The Translators
October 13
- Rings
- The Bravest Wolf Boy
October 14
- Arctic Circle
- Gone Girl
- Ignorance is Bliss
October 15
- A Very English Christmas
- This Boy’s Life
- The Worst Ones
- All The Beauty And The Bloodshed
October 16
- The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (Season finale)
- Billy the Kid (Season 2 premiere)
- The Loneliest Planet
October 17
- The Captive
- Ghosts
October 18
- Ad Astra
- Coupled Up For Christmas – Premiere
October 19
- Wolf Like Me (Season 2 premiere)
- Moonhaven
- The Prophecy of the Armadillo
October 20
- The Love Guru
October 21
- Christmas Angel 624
- Crawl
- In The Name Of The Land
October 22
- The Northman
- The Summit (La Cordillera)
- The Velvet Queen
October 23
- Runner, Runner
October 24
- Decoding Danger
- Little Wings
October 25
- Take A Chance At Christmas
- Doctor Who: The Power of the Doctor Special
- Let Yourself Go!
October 26
- Transformers: The Last Knight
- The Terror
October 27
- Billions (Season 7 finale)
- American Auto
- Daddy’s Home 2
- The Wiggles: Halloween Party!
October 28
- Tad the Lost Explorer and the Secret of King Midas
- Mirrors
- Batman: The Long Halloween Part One
- Batman: The Long Halloween Part Two
October 29
- Sinister
- Guilty Men
- The Last Rider
October 30
- Sinister
- Guilty Men
- The Last Rider
October 31
- Ordinary Lies
- The Heiresses
What’s coming to Amazon Prime Video in October?
October Amazon Prime Video Highlight – The Offering
Looking for the perfect film to get you into the Halloween spirit? Then look no further than The Offering. In Oliver Park’s 2022 film, we find a family dealing with loss… and with the terror of an ancient demon multiplying their grief and endangering their lives. Yep, it’s the quintessential Halloween movie, with plenty of scream-worthy scares.
October 1
- The Offering
October 3
- Make Me Scream – Halloween Special
October 5
- The Fabelmans
October 6
- Twin Flames
- Desperately Seeking Soulmate: Escaping Twin Flames Universe
October 9
- One Shot: Overtime Elite
October 10
- Mr Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe
October 11
- Awareness
October 12
- Mud, Sweat and Tears: Premiership Rugby
- In My Mother’s Skin
October 13
- Everybody Loves Diamonds
October 15
- Pantheon
- Paddington
- Paddington 2
October 20
- Upload
- Bosch: Legacy
October 24
- Of An Age
- Hot Potato: The Story of the Wiggles
October 26
- Fitzek’s The Therapy
October 27
- Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose
October 28
- The Pope’s Exorcist
What’s coming to Binge in October?
October Binge Highlight – Pearl
Mia Goth proved why she’s one of Hollywood’s brightest young stars in this A24 horror prequel. Following the success of X, this slasher takes us into the histrionic past of its unhinged villain. The setting is Texas, 1918. Your minds preconceptions of that place and time might immediately take you to a dull farm, and that’s exactly where we find the titular character of Pearl, who dreams of a more glamorous life on the big screen. Pearl won’t let anything stop her from reaching stardom, which is bad news for anyone that gets in her way.
October 1
- We Can Be Heroes
- Summer Heights High
- Angry Boys
- Ja’mie: Private School Girl
- Jonah From Tonga
- You Can’t Ask That Canada
- Assassin
- Hijacked: Flight 73
- Tully
- Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
October 5
- Our Flag Means Death
- The Fabelmans
October 7
- Pearl
October 9
- Return to Seoul
- Champions
- Five More Minutes
October 16
- Krapopolis
October 27
- American Horror Stories
October 29
- Both Sides of the Blade
What’s coming to Apple TV+ in October?
October Apple TV+ Highlight – Lessons In Chemistry
It’ll be a quiet month on Apple TV+, with only four new pieces of content available for streaming. Nevertheless, the platform hits it big where it counts. Lessons In Chemistry follows an aspiring woman in STEM who’s dreams are quashed by the patriarchal society of the 1950s. Elizabeth Zott, played by Brie Larson, takes a job as a cooking show host and teaches neglected housewives and domineering men more than a few recipes.
October 1
- CURSES
October 13
- Lessons in Chemistry
October 20
- The Pigeon Tunnel
October 27
- The Enfield Poltergeist
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