Out of 83 new Netflix films arriving in October 2025, there are four action-Thriller films which are particularly worth watching.
Of action thriller The injured locker (2008) to the animated superhero action film Ninja Turtles Mutant Teenage: mutant Mayhem (2023), these new Netflix films all have more than 90% on Rotten Tomatoes of criticism.
You don’t want to watch a modern film by Ridley Scott or a martial artistic film? Continue to scroll below to find each new film added to Netflix in October 2025.
The Hurt Locker (2008)
To watch
RT score: 96%
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Execution: 127 minutes
Age note: R
Arrive on: October 1st
Thanks to The injured lockerWho won the “best film” at the 82nd Academy Awards, Kathryn Bigelow broke a huge record by becoming the first woman to win the Oscar for the “best director”.
The Bigelow war drama gives an overview of one of the most dangerous tasks of the fight: disarming bombs. Located during the war in Iraq, Sergeant William James (Jeremy Renner) takes over as the leader of a bombs elimination team in the United States, but adopts a very different approach to the team leadership.
His contempt for the protocol takes the rest of his team by surprise, in particular his subordinates Sanborn (Anthony Mackie) and Eldridge (Brian Geraghty), who fear that James’ actions will kill them. Struggling to reason with their new chief, James’ actions cause a chaotic spiral.
The Martian (2015)
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To watch
RT score: 91%
Director: Ridley Scott
Execution: 142 minutes
Age note: PG-13
Arrive on: October 2
The novel of Andy Weir’s same name is the basis of the science fiction epic by Ridley Scott, which contains a distribution of stars with Jessica Chastain, Jeff Daniels and Chiwetel Ejiofor, alongside Matt Damon in the main role.
During a mission in Mars, a team of astronauts finds himself faced with an unforeseen storm. Forced to abandon their mission and return to earth, the astronaut and botanist Mark Watney (Damon) is affected during the evacuation and is presumed dead by the other members of the team – but he survives.
Coupled on the red planet with dietary supplies in decline, Watney uses its botanical skills to cultivate food and find its own survival until the next Mars mission in four years. When NASA discovers that he is still alive, they develop a plan to bring him home.
IP Man 2 (2010)

To watch
RT score: 97%
Director: Wilson Yip
Execution: 109 minutes
Age note: R
Arrive on: October 5
THE Ip guy The series of films are a loose overview of the temperament and crafts of the man IP Master IP Martial Arts of real life. There are five films in the series, but only four came to Netflix on October 5 – and it was only the second episode which has a critical note of 97% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Located in the 1950s, IP Man 2 Follows IP Man (Donnie Yen) when he moves from Foshun to Hong Kong under British colonial domination to open a school of martial arts and present young people in difficulty to the art of Wing Chun.
He finds himself having trouble opening his school when the local martial art masters insist to defeat them before the opening of the school. After having won their respect, his school attracts the attention of the brutal British boxing champion known as the twister ” (Darren Shahlavi), which stops at nothing to demolish the Chinese martial arts community.
Ninja Turtles mutant teenage: mutant Mayhem (2023)

To watch
RT score: 95%
Director: Jeff Rowe
Execution: 109 minutes
Age note: P.
Arrive on: October 17
Critics and the public liked Ninja Turtles Mutant Teenage: mutant Mayhem When it was published, winning a 90% respectable audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. His cast of vocal actor is also very impressive, recruiting the talents of John Cena, Rose Byrne, Ayo Edebiri and Paul Rudd to give life to the characters.
The famous group of four Turtle brothers lived an isolated life, sheltered from the human world. Teaming the journalist April O’Neil (Edebiri), the Turtles embark on a mission to become superheroes and stop the superfly boss (Ice Cube), a mutant fly with his own army of mutant animals.
Their mission becomes more difficult when they find that the superfly plan is worse than they had planned, which plots to use a special technology to mutate the remaining animals in New York and take control of humanity.
Brand new on Netflix in October 2025
Arrive on October 1st
About my father
Austin Powers in Goldmembe
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Austin Powers: the spy that broke me
Beverly Hills cop
Beverly Hills COP II
Beverly Hills COP III
Blue favorite
The Reading Club murder
Casper
The Christmas contract
Carter coach
Coming to America
Daddy’s daycare
Death becomes her
Dirty dance
Dr Seuss’ The Lorax
Dracula
Eddie Murphy: Raw
Elysium
Fifty darker shades
Fifty released shades
Fifty shades of gray
Friends with social benefits
GOONIES
Hacksaw Ridge
The injured locker
I always know what you did last summer
Law abiding citizen
Lincoln’s lawyer
The mask
Meet Joe Black
Molly’s game
Mr. and Mrs Smith
Express pineapple
Break
Red dragon
Scarpace
Sinister 2
Sister act
Sister Act 2: Back in the habit
Slender man
Foreigners
Taxi driver
Training day
When a foreigner calls
Becky’s anger
Arrive on October 2
Dodgeball: a real story of the oppressed
The Martian
Arrive on October 3
Steve (Netflix Original)
Arrive on October 4
Angel fell
Night of the Living Dead
Arrive on October 5
Despicable me 3
Ip guy
IP Man 2
IP Man 3
IP Man 4: The final
Arrive on October 7
We have always lived in the castle
Arrive on October 8
Caramelo (Netflix Original)
Arrive on October 9
The labyrinth runner
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
Maze Runner: Cure of Death
Arrive on October 10
Swim towards me (Netflix Original)
The woman in the cabin 10 (Netflix Original)
Arrive on October 14
Everyone loves me when I died
Arrive on October 15
Held hostage in my house
Inside Furioza (Netflix Original)
Viewed
Arrive on October 16
The team A
The time that remains (Netflix Original)
Confessions of a facholol
Arrive on October 17
27 nights (Netflix Original)
Good news (Netflix Original)
She walks in the darkness (Netflix Original)
Ninja Turtles mutant teenage
Ninja Turtles 2 teenage ninja
Ninja Turtles Mutant Teenage: mutant Mayhem
The twits (Netflix Original)
Arrive on October 18
Don’t say a word
Arrive on October 23
The elixir (Netflix Original)
Arrive on October 24
A dynamite house (Netflix Original)
Arrive on October 27
Sliding doors
Arrive on October 29
Ballad of a little player (Netflix Original)