OCTOBER 1

Back to the Future (1985), Lethal Weapon (1987),and Beverly Hills Cop (1984)

Remember back in July, when we told you a bunch of ’80s action franchises made it onto Netflix? Apparently they were only available for the summer. So in case you forgot to catch up on Robert Zemeckis’ science fiction trilogy Back to the Future, Shane Black’s buddy cop comedy Lethal Weapon, or Eddie Murphy’s star-making Beverly Hills Cop, now’s your last chance to do so.

The Exorcist (1973)

Lethal Weapon isn’t the only familiar intellectual property getting a TV adaptation this fall. The horror series based on this classic debuted last Friday. Famous actress Chris MacNeil (Ellen Burstyn) and her 12-year-old daughter Regan (Linda Blair) are living in Washington, D.C. when Regan begins to exhibit signs of demonic possession. The only person who can help is Father Lankester Merrin (Max von Sydow), a priest and archaeologist who has a personal history with the demon possessing the child.

Insomnia (2002)

After Christopher Nolan’s creative breakthrough with Memento, but before he became a blockbuster director with Batman Begins, he remade the Scandinavian psychological thriller Insomnia. Will Dormer (Al Pacino), an LAPD detective, journeys to Nightmute, Alaska to help with the investigation of a murdered 17-year-old girl. His partner (Martin Donovan) is preparing to testify against him in an internal affairs investigation, an eager young officer (Hilary Swank) peppers him with questions, and a local crime writer (Robin Williams) seems suspicious.

The Land Before Time (1988)

Before Steven Spielberg wowed audiences with a live-action dinosaur thriller in Jurassic Park, he served as executive producer for Don Bluth’s animated feature The Land Before Time. It has inspired so many direct-to-video sequels that its hard to remember just how successful and dramatic the original theatrical film was at the time. Set during the end of the Cretaceous period, there’s a severe drought leading herds of dinosaurs to seek out the few remaining habitable places. Littlefoot, a “Longneck,” plays with Cera, a “Three-Horn,” but learns the herds of dinosaurs traditionally stay separated. An “earthshake” sets the tragic events in motion, where a group of young dinosaurs must cooperate in order to survive.

Scary Movie (2000)

Before the movie genre parody joke spun out of control with Meet the Spartans and The Starving Games, it was a charming novelty to send-up horror films. Scary Movie seems quaint now, but it did launch Anna Faris’ career, and since it parodies Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer it also harkens back to a time before torture porn like Hostel or micro-budget found-footage franchises like Paranormal Activity ruled the box office.

V For Vendetta (2006)

You won’t be able to remember, remember the fifth of November with this adaptation of Alan Moore’s legendary graphic novel since it departs Netflix at the end of the month. Evey Hammon (Natalie Portman), a state-run television employee, gets saved from the secret police by the masked vigilante known as V (Hugo Weaving). Through her interactions with the man her government identifies as a domestic terrorist, she shifts from a simple employee falling in line to a growing dissident willing to speak out against fascism.

Heroes Seasons 1-4 (2006-2010)

Hero Nakamura (Masi Oka) can manipulate space-time. D.L. Hawkins (Leonard Roberts) can phase through solid objects. Claire Bennet aka “the cheerleader” (Hayden Panettiere) can heal from nearly any injury. Peter Petrelli (Milo Ventimiglia) can absorb the powers of others with abilities around him. And Sylar (Zachary Quinto), well…he’s the Doctor Doom of this story. You can basically ignore the latter three seasons and just focus on the near-perfect first season of Heroes, which seemed like a comic-style storytelling revelation when it debuted 10 years ago. Watch that now.

The Big Green (1995)

As youth soccer season begins in earnest, go back to the Disney children’s classic that delighted a generation. Any Montgomery (Olivia d’Abo), a British schoolteacher in a small Texas town, gets her class to start playing soccer. At first, they’re totally overmatched by bigger towns with organized sports and domineering coaches. But in typical Disney underdog sports story fashion, eventually the kids start getting better, believe in themselves, and form an inseparable bond that brings them greater success than they ever imagined. It’s goofy and messy filmmaking, but it’s accidentally one of the only fun American films every made about soccer.