Señora September: Our Favorite Cozy Fall Movies & TV Shows

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Something changes for a señora when she hits that first day of “sweater weather” — you light the candle, you make the tea, and you need something on screen that matches the mood: Something cozy, a candle that smells like cinnamon even though it’s just a screen.

That is why we’ve put together the 100 favorite cozy fall movies and TV shows that will get you through the fall until the holidays.

It’s sweater weather!

Bookmark this one — you’ll need it more than once between now and Thanksgiving.

The Witchy Ones (Because Autumn Has a Patron Genre)

1. Practical Magic
2. Practical Magic 2 (in theaters September 11, 2026 — the sequel two decades in the making)
3. Hocus Pocus
4. Hocus Pocus 2
5. The Craft
6. The Witches of Eastwick
7. Bell, Book and Candle
8. Sabrina the Teenage Witch (the ’90s series)
9. Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
10. The Love Witch
11. Kiki’s Delivery Service
12. Howl’s Moving Castle
13. WandaVision (for the autumn-sitcom episodes alone)
14. American Horror Story: Coven
15. Charmed (original run)

Small-Town, Slow-Living Rom-Coms

16. You’ve Got Mail
17. When Harry Met Sally
18. Sweet Home Alabama
19. Autumn in New York
20. Sleepless in Seattle
21. Return to Me
22. While You Were Sleeping
23. Gilmore Girls (the whole series, obviously)
24. Virgin River
25. Sweet Magnolias
26. Fried Green Tomatoes
27. Notting Hill
28. Nights in Rodanthe
29. The Holiday (yes, it’s technically Christmas, but the first act is all autumn)
30. Emily in Paris (the Parisian-fall episodes hit different)

Nostalgia and Coming-of-Age

31. Dead Poets Society
32. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
33. Now and Then
34. Stand By Me
35. You Again
36. Little Women (2019)
37. Freaky Friday
38. The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland (yes, we said it — pure comfort)
39. A Walk to Remember
40. My Girl
41. October Sky
42. Rushmore
43. Freaks and Geeks
44. Derry Girls
45. Sex Education

Cozy Mystery and Gentle Thriller

46. Knives Out
47. Glass Onion
48. Only Murders in the Building
49. Clue (1985)
50. Agatha Christie’s Poirot (the whole catalog)
51. Murder, She Wrote
52. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (fall-in-New-York energy)
53. Big Little Lies
54. A Haunting in Venice
55. The Woman in the Window
56. Rebecca (2020)
57. Crimson Peak
58. Sleepy Hollow (1999)
59. The Others
60. Wednesday

Food, Family, and Gathering-Centered

61. Eat Pray Love
62. Julie & Julia
63. Chef
64. The Hundred-Foot Journey
65. Chocolat
66. Big Night
67. Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy
68. The Great British Bake Off
69. Salt Fat Acid Heat
70. Ratatouille
71. The Bear
72. Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life (the “Fall” episode specifically)
73. Home for the Harvest-style Hallmark specials — pick any, they’re interchangeable in the best way
74. Feast of the Seven Fishes
75. Waffles + Mochi

Animated and Family-Friendly

76. Coraline
77. The Nightmare Before Christmas
78. ParaNorman
79. Corpse Bride
80. Over the Garden Wall
81. Anastasia
82. Spirited Away
83. The Fantastic Mr. Fox
84. Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit
85. Frankenweenie

Slow, Literary, and Atmospheric

86. Little Women (1994)
87. Sense and Sensibility
88. Pride and Prejudice (2005)
89. Anne with an E
90. Call the Midwife
91. Downton Abbey
92. The Crown
93. Wuthering Heights (2011)
94. Bridgerton
95. All Creatures Great and Small

The Wildcards Worth the Slot

96. Practical Magic soundtrack marathon night — technically not a film, but tell us it doesn’t count
97. Gilmore Girls Stars Hollow trivia night (pair with #23)
98. Twin Peaks
99. Midnight in Paris
100. The Age of Adaline