‘The Wrong Paris,’ ‘aka Charlie Sheen’ and More New Netflix Movies You Shouldn’t Miss This September

One of Quentin Tarantino’s best, Inglourious Basterds is an alternate World War II history that reimagines what would have happened if a group of American soldiers carried out a plot to assassinate a group of Nazis in Paris during the war. The film co-stars Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Melanie Laurent and Diane Kruger, and it won Christoph Waltz an Oscar for his darkly comedic portrayal of Austrian SS officer Hans Landa. 

With everyone obsessing over Happy Gilmore 2 (and the original Happy Gilmore) this summer, let’s not forget that Adam Sandler had a string of massive hits in the 1990s. That list includes another iconic film, 1995’s Billy Madison, which is arriving on Netflix this month. In the film, Sandler stars in the title role as the immature son of a hotel owner who refuses to hand over the family business to Billy when he retires unless Billy goes back to school to redo his entire education — grades 1-12 — and prove his worth. 

The film is juvenile and silly, but that’s the appeal. Plus, it gave us the line, “If peeing in your pants is cool, then consider me Miles Davis,” so what’s not to like? Bradley Whitford and Norm MacDonald co-star, Chris Farley makes an unforgettable appearance as a bus driver and Bridgette Wilson plays Miss Veronica Vaughn. 

aka Charlie Sheen, a new two-part documentary premiering on Sept. 10, chronicles the highs and lows of one of the most controversial actors in Hollywood. From his TV and film career to the antics and addictions that made him tabloid fodder, the film explores every aspect of Charlie Sheen’s life, with input from the actor himself — now seven years sober — along with his ex-wives Denise Richards and Brooke Mueller, friends Jon Cryer, Sean Penn, Heidi Fleiss and more.

The heyday of Judy Blume’s young adult fiction might have been the 1970s and ’80s, but its themes are timeless and still hold up. (Look no further than the great adaptation of Forever, out now on Netflix, for evidence.) The 2023 film Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret, is another excellent screen adaptation of one of Blume’s most beloved books. Abby Ryder Fortson stars as the titular Margaret, a girl who moves from New York City to the New Jersey suburbs just as she’s hitting peak adolescence and has to navigate puberty, new friendships and her own family’s delicate ecosystem all at once. Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates and Benny Safdie co-star. 

Miranda Cosgrove stars in the new romantic comedy The Wrong Paris, arriving Sept. 12, as a woman who signs up for a reality show that takes place in Paris, not realizing that it’s Paris, Texas, not France. Despite her early attempts to be eliminated from the show, she ends up falling for the bachelor (Pierson Fodé) she’s been trying to escape. The film co-stars Madison Pettis, Madeleine Arthur, Frances Fisher and Yvonne Orji.

The new Thai drama film Same Day With Someone is a riff on the time-loop romance, a la Palm Springs or Groundhog Day. The film stars Toey Jarinporn Joonkiat as a woman caught in a time loop as she reevaluates the “perfect” life she once led. Thai TV star Great Warintorn Panhakarn co-stars. 

Lupin star Omar Sy stars in French Lover as Abel Camara, a sexy celebrity who has never known a life out of the spotlight. When he falls for Marion (Sara Giraudeau), a waitress who’s in the middle of a breakup and is the complete opposite of everything he knows, they begin an unlikely romance that throws her into the spotlight. The film arrives to Netflix on Sept. 26.

Serayah McNeill and Tyler Lepley star in the Tyler Perry-produced Ruth & Boaz, a retelling of the Biblical story from the Book of Ruth. A modernized version of the story, in this version, Ruth relocated from Atlanta to Tennessee to care for her late boyfriend’s mother (Phylicia Rashad) and finds love with a local man, Boaz (Lepley). The film co-stars Greg Alan Williams, Nijah Brenea, Walnette Santiago, Jermaine Dupri and Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds. McNeill also performs an original song in the film, penned by Babyface.

Idiocracy, Mike Judge’s film about a dystopian future where corporations have taken over the country and education falls out of favor causing intelligence to plummet, was barely distributed when it first came out in 2006. But it’s gained a massive cult following in the years since. Depressing, prescient and hilarious, the film co-stars Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Terry Crews and Dax Shepard. It arrives on Netflix on Sept. 28.