While we haven’t even gotten to Thanksgiving, a handful of Netflix’s November movie releases are offering a healthy dose of the holiday spirit.
All month long, Netflix will be dropping festive new originals to get you ready for Christmas, starting with A Merry Little Ex-Mas, out Nov. 12, which stars Alicia Silverstone and Oliver Hudson as exes who spend one last Christmas together for the sake of the kids.
You can also look forward to Champagne Problems, a bubbly holiday romance starring Minka Kelly, and Jingle Bell Heist, a crime-themed rom-com where money — and hearts — will be stolen.
Not ready to dip into the holidays just yet? One of Netflix’s most anticipated movies of the year, Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of Frankenstein, is coming to the streamer on Nov. 7, while the documentary Being Eddie, about the life of legendary comedian and actor Eddie Murphy, is dropping Nov. 12.
These originals, along with great additions to the Netflix library (such as Paddington 2), will keep us busy all month, but there are loads of other titles to get excited for, too. Here are some of the biggest and best movies arriving on Netflix this November.
Hugh Grant, who plays the delightfully evil villain Phoenix Buchanan in Paddington 2, has gone on record saying that the family film “may be the best film I’ve ever been in,” and once you’ve seen the movie, you can’t help but agree. The 2017 film co-stars Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins and Julie Walters as members of the Brown family, who adopt a bear named Paddington (voiced by Ben Whishaw). In the film, Paddington starts working in an antique shop in London and is framed and imprisoned for stealing a book. Paddington has to figure out a way to break out of prison so that the real culprit, Phoenix Buchanan, can be caught. The film arrives to Netflix on Nov. 1.
In Waves and War (Nov. 3)
In Waves and War is a new Netflix documentary about a group of soldiers who undergo a groundbreaking therapy utilizing psychedelics to treat PTSD. After Navy SEAL Marcus Capone successfully treated his own PTSD and depression, he and his wife, Amber, embarked on a mission to provide access to this life-saving treatment to others. In Waves and War is a journey of healing for a group of soldiers who found new hope with this experimental treatment.
In the new Danish film Mango, Josephine Park stars as Lærke, a hotel manager who gets sent to Malaga, Spain to develop an ambitious new hotel in the middle of a mango farm. The farm belongs to a man named Alex (Dar Salim), who refuses to sell it. This complicates Lærke’s business plans, especially when she starts to develop feelings for Alex.
In many ways, it feels like Guillermo del Toro’s career has led up to this moment. The Mexican filmmaker known for dark fantasy and horror wrote, directed and produced Netflix’s adaptation of Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein, which arrives on the platform Nov. 7. The film, which also received a theatrical release in October, stars Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein and Jacob Elordi as his creature and co-stars Mia Goth, Christoph Waltz and Felix Kammerer.
A Merry Little Ex-Mas (Nov. 12)
Alicia Silverstone leads the cast of A Merry Little Ex-Mas, one of Netflix’s new holiday rom-coms premiering this season. Silverstone stars as Kate, a divorced mom who just wants to spend one last cozy Christmas in her house before she sells it. Things get decidedly less cozy when her ex-husband Everett (Oliver Hudson), shows up with his new girlfriend (Jameela Jamil) in tow. To make Everett jealous, Kate decides to bring around a much younger man herself — played by Pierson Fode, because that guy is in everything these days.
Eddie Murphy got his start as a teenage comedian and eventually rose to prominence as one of the biggest comedy stars of his generation. The Netflix documentary Being Eddie, out Nov. 12, takes a look at his career more than 50 years in, with insight from Murphy himself and fellow comics including Arsenio Hall, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Jamie Foxx and Tracy Morgan.
Director Richard Linklater takes on the French New Wave in Nouvelle Vague, a film about the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s crime drama Breathless. Filmed in black and white to imitate the look of Breathless, it’s also entirely in French. Zoey Deutch stars as American actress Jean Seberg, while Guillaume Marbeck plays Godard and Aubry Dullin portrays Jean-Paul Belmondo.
Selena y Los Dinos: A Family’s Legacy (Nov. 17)
Selena y Los Dinos is a documentary celebrating the life and legacy of the Queen of Tejano, Selena Quintanilla. Featuring interviews with Selena’s parents, siblings and husband, along with never-before-seen footage from the family’s personal archive, Selena y Los Dinos tells the story of a family band that created a superstar.
Champagne Problems (Nov. 19)
Friday Night Lights star Minka Kelly stars in the new holiday romance Champagne Problems and, yes, it’s a film about wine. Kelly stars as Sydney, an executive who goes to France to help her company acquire a world-renowned champagne brand. When she falls for a local named Henri (Tom Wozniczka), it turns out that he’s got a stake in the vineyard she needs to acquire, and her champagne problems become quite literal.
One Shot with Ed Sheeran: A Music Experience (Nov. 21)
Netflix’s limited series Adolescence was mesmerizing in part because of the way each episode appeared to be shot in one long, continuous take, and now the director of that series is about to do it again in a very different way. Philip Barantini, who won an Emmy for his work directing that show, has collaborated with Ed Sheeran on a new film, One Shot with Ed Sheeran: A Music Experience, in which Sheeran spends an afternoon walking the streets of New York performing some of his greatest hits in real time.
Joel Edgerton stars as Robert Grainier, a logger helping to expand the railways across America in the early 20th century in the historical drama Train Dreams. Based on a Denis Johnson novella that was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, the film co-stars Felicity Jones as Grainier’s wife Gladys, along with Clifton Collins Jr., Kerry Condon and William H. Macy.
Jingle Bell Heist (Nov. 26)
Olivia Holt really has a thing for the holidays. All holidays, really. The actress most recently starred in the Valentine’s Day-themed slasher flick Heart Eyes, and now she’s co-starring in Jingle Bell Heist, a Christmas rom-com. Holt and Connor Swindells co-star as a pair of down-on-their-luck employees who plan a robbery at a London department store to pull together some cash at Christmas, only to start falling for each other as they plan their heist.
