Netflix opened October with a catalogue dump heavy on thrillers, horror and older studio hits, then keeps adding films through the month. Schedules slip, and libraries differ by country. These ten are among the titles U.S. listings and trade roundups have placed on the service in October 2026.

Psycho, Oct. 1. Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film is the cleanest start to a Halloween month. Anthony Perkins plays Norman Bates, the motel clerk whose mother is not what she seems. Janet Leigh's shower scene is still the reference point for screen violence edited rather than shown. It is 109 minutes and it does not date the way later slashers do.

The Sixth Sense, Oct. 1. M. Night Shyamalan's 1999 drama put Haley Joel Osment opposite Bruce Willis as a boy who sees the dead and a psychologist who cannot close the case. The ending is famous enough that the film now plays as a character piece. It still works if you already know the turn.

The Prestige, Oct. 1. Christopher Nolan's 2006 rivalry picture sets Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale against........

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