Best New Movies Streaming in November on Apple TV, Netflix, HBO Max and More
Our guide to six of this month's most anticipated streaming releases
November’s streaming menus are already filling with Christmas movies, but there’s plenty to watch before surrendering to the season. This month offers a new drama from Lee Chang-dong, a look at Sofia Coppola at work through her mother’s camera and a portrait of Anthony Bourdain before anyone knew his name. Here are six new arrivals we’re most excited to see this month.
“Possible Love”
Streaming on Netflix on November 6
Eight years after “Burning,” South Korean director Lee Chang-dong returns with a drama about two couples whose growing involvement in one another’s lives unsettles their marriages. Mi-ok (Jeon Do-yeon) lives with her laid-off husband, Ho-seok (Sul Kyung-gu), when she meets Ye-ji (Cho Yeo-jeong), an affluent documentary filmmaker working on a project about displaced workers. Mi-ok agrees to be filmed, grows close to Ye-ji and develops an attraction to her husband, Sang-woo (Zo In-sung). Questions of class and desire complicate the arrangement in “Possible Love,” which won the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Venice Film Festival.
“Making Marie Antoinette”
Streaming on Mubi on November 6
While Sofia Coppola was directing “Marie Antoinette” at the Palace of Versailles in 2005, her mother, filmmaker Eleanor Coppola, recorded roughly 80 hours of footage on set. Twenty years after the film’s release, that material offers a closer look at the production, from Milena Canonero’s elaborate costumes to Sofia’s work with stars Kirsten Dunst and Jason Schwartzman. It also documents a mother watching her daughter direct a major film at 34. For anyone interested in Sofia’s work, “Making Marie Antoinette” offers the chance to see how one of her most recognizable films came together.
“Avedon”
Streaming on Netflix on November 11
Ron Howard’s new documentary examines Richard Avedon’s career in fashion and portrait photography, drawing on the photographer’s personal archives and interviews with his collaborators. Previously unseen photographs and footage add context to a body of work that helped shape the visual culture of the 20th century.
“Being Heumann”
Streaming on Apple TV on November 13
Sian Heder, the writer-director of “CODA,” turns to a pivotal protest in the disability rights movement. In 1977, Judy Heumann and fellow activists occupied a federal building in San Francisco to demand enforcement of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, which prohibited disability discrimination in federally funded programs. Adapted from Heumann’s memoir, written with Kristen Joiner, “Being Heumann” follows the organizing and confrontation behind that effort. Ruth Madeley stars as Heumann, with Mark Ruffalo as Joseph Califano, the secretary of health, education and welfare whose department was responsible for implementing the protections.
“Gentle Monster”
Streaming on Netflix on November 18
Léa Seydoux stars as Lucy, a concert pianist who moves to the countryside with her family in hopes of helping her husband recover from severe burnout. Their plans are interrupted when police arrive, leaving Lucy to confront the possibility that her husband has concealed a devastating secret. Written and directed by Marie Kreutzer, whose previous films include “Corsage,” the family drama follows Lucy as she tries to establish the truth while protecting her young son.
“Tony”
Streaming on HBO Max on November 20
Dominic Sessa, who made his debut in “The Holdovers,” plays a 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain in this A24 drama from “BlackBerry” director Matt Johnson. Set during the summer of 1975 in Provincetown, Massachusetts, “Tony” follows the aspiring writer as he takes a dishwashing job and becomes immersed in restaurant life. Rather than covering Bourdain’s entire career, the film concentrates on an early experience that helped set its course, decades before “Kitchen Confidential” and his television work made him famous.