Robert Downey Jr.’s Best Non-Marvel Franchise Just Made Its Way to Netflix

September 1, 2025, 5:16pm

The career of Robert Downey Jr. is always going to be intricately tied to the role of Tony Stark, aka Iron Man, as well as the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Downey helped give birth to the industry-altering franchise back in 2008 and spent a decade making Iron Man the most beloved comic hero around. He’s even coming back to the franchise to play the villainous Doctor Doom in the next two Avengers films. Downey is synonymous with the MCU, but that’s just one of two film franchises he launched in the late 2000s.

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One year after Downey starred in Iron Man, he took on the role of iconic sleuth Sherlock Holmes. He led not one but two Sherlock Holmes movies for director Guy Ritchie, following the 2009 hit with 2011’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows and making more than $1 billion at the box office. Movie fans have a ton of love for Downey’s Sherlock Holmes series, and its two existing entries just got a lot easier to watch, thanks to a wave of new additions on Netflix.

Both Sherlock Holmes movies were added to Netflix’s lineup on Monday, September 1st, giving subscribers a couple of action-mysteries to enjoy. With the star-studded casts (Jude Law and Rachel McAdams co-star) and world-famous IP, it wouldn’t be surprising to see the Sherlock Holmes titles sit on the Netflix Top 10 Movies list for a while.

Will There Be a Sherlock Holmes 3?

Downey and Law have been attached to a third Sherlock Holmes entry, with Dexter Fletcher taking over behind the camera for Guy Ritchie. Unfortunately, there have been little-to-no updates about the threequel in recent years, and things seem less likely now that Downey has returned to the MCU.

Jared Harris, who played Moriarty in Sherlock Holmes, revealed back in July that there has been nothing happening with the potential third entry, leaving fans discouraged about its future.

While the Sherlock Holmes franchise has been stalled for nearly 15 years, Netflix has been building a detective film series of its own, featuring Sherlock’s younger sister. Millie Bobby Brown has starred in two Enola Holmes films for Netflix, with Henry Cavill taking on the role of her older brother, Sherlock. The pair returned for a third entry in the franchise, which was filmed earlier this year and will release exclusively on Netflix at some point in the future (probably 2026).

What’s New on Netflix?

The Sherlock Holmes films were just a couple of titles that were added to Netflix’s streaming lineup at the start of September. Monday morning saw the arrival of dozens of popular movies, including The Amazing Spider-Man, Chicken Run, Billy Madison, Inside Man, and Shrek.

You can check out the full list of Netflx’s September 1st additions below!

8 Mile
A Thousand Tomorrows: Season 1
The Amazing Spider-Man
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Billy Madison
The Boy Next Door
Boyz n the Hood
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Bridesmaids
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Chicken Run
Dennis the Menace
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Edge of Tomorrow
Escape Room
Good Advice
The Four Seasons
Franklin & Bash: Seasons 1-4
Hot Shots!
Hot Shots! Part Deux
Inglourious Basterds
Inside Man
Inside Man: Most Wanted
Knocked Up
LA LA Land
The Land Before Time
Liar Liar
Limitless
Long Shot
Money Talks
Orphan Black: Seasons 1-5
Paddington
Phantom Thread
Puss in Boots
The Rookie (1990)
The Running Man
Shark Tale
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Shrek
Shrek 2
Shrek Forever After
Shrek the Third
Stand by Me
We’re the Millers
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory