{"id":790492,"date":"2026-10-03T08:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T08:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/790492\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T08:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T08:28:13","slug":"5-best-films-in-october-on-netflix-prime-video-more-including-gillian-andersons-crime-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/790492\/","title":{"rendered":"5 best films in October on Netflix, Prime Video & more including Gillian Anderson’s crime thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re sticking inside a lot as October draws in, then there are loads of great new movies to settle down with on streaming.<\/p>\n

From a new Netflix<\/a> crime thriller featuring a star-studded cast including Gillian Anderson and Ben Affleck, from a new documentary focusing on one of the biggest Britpop bands, there’s plenty on offer<\/p>\n

Digital Spy has rounded up five of the best to add to your watchlists across the likes of Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+ and HBO Max over the coming weeks.<\/p>\n

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Netflix<\/p>\n

Animals<\/p>\n

Gillian Anderson is among the big stars in this new Netflix crime film directed by and also starring Ben Affleck, the movie centering on a Los Angeles mayoral candidate who lives every parent’s worst nightmare when his and his wife’s son is kidnapped.<\/p>\n

Drawn “into a web of deception”, the couple “scramble to raise the ransom payment” and are “forced to make choices \u2013 and reveal secrets \u2013 that could tear their world apart”. Kerry Washington and Steven Yeun also feature.<\/p>\n

Streaming on Netflix from 9 October.<\/p>\n

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Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger<\/p>\n

Whether you caught the Gallagher brothers’ reunion last summer or missed out, this new documentary is a must-watch for Oasis fans and beyond.<\/p>\n

Written by Peaky Blinders’ Steven Knight, Don’t Look Back in Anger hits Disney+ off the back of a recent cinema run, and charts the band’s unlikely comeback, following their tour with backstage and rehearsal footage, as well as an interview with the siblings.<\/p>\n

Streaming on Disney+<\/a> from 9 October.<\/p>\n

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Prime Video<\/p>\n

Love of Your Life<\/p>\n

This new romantic drama focuses on a young woman called Maya who falls in love, before her marriage tragically falls apart during the pandemic. Severing all her connections, she flees to Portugal, where she meets Felix and regains her capacity for intimacy \u2013 though ghosts from Maya’s past still lurk.<\/p>\n

Director Rachel Morrison’s movie features a star-studded cast, including Margaret Qualley, Aaron Pierre, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Gabriel Basso and Catherine Keener.<\/p>\n

Streaming on Prime Video<\/a> from 14 October.<\/p>\n

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Prime Video<\/p>\n

Masterplan<\/p>\n

If heist thrillers and Stanley Tucci are your thing, then this new Prime Video film will scratch that itch. The story follows a legendary thief who hires two young recruits to help steal the Mona Lisa\u2026 before it is revealed they are siblings, and he is their dad!<\/p>\n

Together, they are thrown into “a chaotic reunion they never asked for” as the new family “must learn to work together \u2013 and try not to kill each other \u2013 if they want any chance at pulling off the heist of the century”.<\/p>\n

Streaming on Prime Video from 16 October.<\/p>\n

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Backrooms<\/p>\n

One of the big movie phenomenon’s of the year, director Kane Parsons’s psychological horror finally hits streaming this month.<\/p>\n

Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve, Backrooms is based on Parsons’s own web series and focuses on a furniture store owner and his therapist who discover a series of eerie liminal spaces by way of his shop’s basement.<\/p>\n

Streaming on HBO Max from 26 October.<\/p>\n

Visit our Streaming Guide<\/a> now to see at a glance where you can view ALL your favourite shows and movies.<\/p>\n

The new edition of Legends, a 100-page celebration of Dolly Parton’s life, is here. Buy Dolly in newsagents or online<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Sam is a freelance reporter and sub-editor who has a particular interest in movies<\/a>, TV<\/a> and music. After completing a journalism Masters at City University, London, Sam joined Digital Spy as a reporter, and has also freelanced for publications such as NME<\/a> and Screen International<\/a>. \u00a0Sam, who also has a degree in Film, can wax lyrical about everything from Lord of the Rings<\/a> to Love Is Blind<\/a>, and is equally in his element crossing every ‘t’ and dotting every ‘i’ as a sub-editor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you’re sticking inside a lot as October draws in, then there are loads of great new movies…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[148341,147950,149865,149236,379,260221,381,96,2788,190731,1156,2839,239948,260220,223205,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-790492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-collection-digital-spy-features","tag-collection-latest-news","tag-collection-netflix","tag-collection-prime-video","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-99318733-c3d8-4536-bda7-20756a4121c4","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-hasproduct-true","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-gb","tag-movies","tag-prime-video-more","tag-shorttitle-5-best-films-in-october-on-netflix","tag-sponsored-false","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}