November’s biggest releases span Middle-earth, Panem and a futuristic Los Angeles. The Rings of Power returns Nov. 11, Sunrise on the Reaping takes moviegoers back to the Hunger Games on Nov. 20, and Blade Runner 2099 arrives Nov. 25.
IMDb’s November watchlist features 12 films, nine TV series and two miniseries. Eleven of those films are theatrical picks, while Madden debuts on streaming. The schedule below covers every pick, including early-month releases and two returning seasons that IMDb lists as already streaming. Dates and availability can vary by market. IMDb’s November watchlist
Four releases to put on your calendar
- Nov. 11 · The Rings of Power. The fantasy series moves closer to the making of the One Ring.
- Nov. 20 · Yellowjackets. The survival thriller begins its final season.
- Nov. 20 · Sunrise on the Reaping. The new Hunger Games prequel puts a young Haymitch in the arena.
- Nov. 25 · Blade Runner 2099. The eight-episode series makes a Thanksgiving-week option for sci-fi fans.
Already out or streaming
The Greatest
Nov. 4 · Prime Video. Jaalen Best plays a young Cassius Clay in Ben Watkins’ authorized drama about the boxer who became Muhammad Ali.
Watkins, who also created Cross, builds the series around Ali’s formative years. The cast includes Omari Hardwick, Dana Gourrier and Amin Joseph, giving the story room to explore the people around Clay as he starts to make his name in boxing.
Black Doves, Season 2
Nov. 5 · Netflix. Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw return as spy Helen and hitman Sam. An attack on their handler, Reed, pulls them back into the same dangerous orbit.
Helen now has to balance her covert work with life as the prime minister’s wife, while Sam faces an ultimatum of his own. Sarah Lancashire returns as Reed, and Ambika Mod, Babou Ceesay and Neve Campbell join the second season.
Wild Horse Nine
Nov. 6 · Theaters. Martin McDonagh sends two aging CIA operatives, played by John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell, from 1973 Chile to Rapa Nui in a dark comedy about what they’ll leave behind.
The island’s isolation gives the two men time to reckon with their friendship and the work they’ve spent their lives doing. Parker Posey, Steve Buscemi and Tom Waits round out the ensemble in a film that combines espionage with McDonagh’s dry humor.
Godzilla Minus Zero
Nov. 6 · Theaters. Writer-director Takashi Yamazaki returns to the world of Godzilla Minus One. The Shikishima family faces another monster crisis as postwar Japan rebuilds.
Ryûnosuke Kamiki and Minami Hamabe return from Godzilla Minus One. The sequel brings King Ghidorah into Yamazaki’s take on the franchise, so the returning family’s struggle to rebuild plays out against a clash between two of Toho’s best-known monsters.
Dexter: Resurrection, Season 2
Streaming · Paramount+. Michael C. Hall returns as Dexter Morgan, with Uma Thurman back as Charley. Brian Cox and Dan Stevens join the cast as two killers who complicate Dexter’s life in New York.
Jack Alcott and James Remar also return for the ten-episode season. The two new threats, the New York Ripper and the Five Borough Killer, give Dexter fresh adversaries just as Charley is starting a new chapter away from her former employer.
The Gilded Age, Season 4
Streaming · HBO Max. Bertha Russell has the standing she wanted, and now has to deal with what it costs her family. Christine Baranski’s Agnes is looking for a way back to the top of New York society.
The eight-episode season also follows Marian Brook and Peggy Scott, played by Louisa Jacobson and Denée Benton, as they try to build more stable lives. The family drama runs alongside the Russells’ struggle to hold on to their place in society, with Cynthia Nixon and Morgan Spector back in the ensemble.
November 11–19
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Season 3
Nov. 11 · Prime Video. Sauron’s rise brings Middle-earth closer to the war with the Elves and the forging of the One Ring. Charlie Vickers and Morfydd Clark return as Sauron and Galadriel. Amazon’s November guide
The series takes place in Tolkien’s Second Age, long before Frodo inherits the Ring. That setting gives the season a chance to show how an object familiar from the films first became a weapon in Sauron’s war, with Galadriel confronting the consequences of his rise.
How to Rob a Bank
Nov. 13 · Theaters. David Leitch directs a heist movie about a crew whose bank robberies become an online spectacle. Nicholas Hoult, Pete Davidson and Anna Sawai star.
Leitch, who directed Bullet Train and The Fall Guy, brings his action background to a premise built around publicity as much as theft. The crew’s growing audience gives the heists an extra source of pressure, because every stunt meant to draw attention also makes the robbers harder to ignore.
Ebenezer
Nov. 13 · Theaters. Johnny Depp plays Scrooge in Ti West’s take on A Christmas Carol, which brings a horror filmmaker’s eye to Dickens’ ghost story.
The familiar story follows a miser forced to revisit his choices through supernatural encounters. West’s background directing X and Pearl gives audiences a sense of why this adaptation’s ghostly side may be as much of a draw as its Christmas setting.
Victorian Psycho
Nov. 13 · Theaters. Maika Monroe plays Winifred Notty, a governess whose arrival at an isolated manor coincides with a series of disappearances.
The story takes place in 1858, with Winifred entering the household at Ensor House as an employee. The setup puts a potentially dangerous protagonist at the center of a genre that often asks viewers to identify with the governess as she uncovers a household’s secrets.
Madden
Nov. 18 · Prime Video. Nicolas Cage plays John Madden opposite Christian Bale as Raiders owner Al Davis. The film follows Madden from football coaching toward the broadcasting and video game careers that made him a household name.
The contrast between Madden and Davis gives the football portion of the film its central relationship. Madden’s later work in the broadcast booth and his association with the video game series give the biopic a second story about how a coach reached audiences far beyond the stadium.
The Altruists
Nov. 19 · Netflix. Julia Garner and Anthony Boyle play Caroline Ellison and Sam Bankman-Fried in a limited series about the ambitions and decisions behind the collapse of crypto exchange FTX. Netflix Media Center
The drama follows the people running the exchange and the trading firm Alameda Research as their ambitions collide with the consequences of their decisions. Its focus on Ellison and Bankman-Fried makes it a character-driven account of the FTX story, with the financial collapse providing the stakes.
November 20–23
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
Nov. 20 · Theaters. Joseph Zada plays a teenage Haymitch Abernathy in the second Quarter Quell, decades before he mentors Katniss and Peeta. Ralph Fiennes, Glenn Close and Mckenna Grace are also in the cast.
The film adapts Suzanne Collins’ novel of the same name and goes back to the 50th Hunger Games. The Quarter Quell sends twice the usual number of tributes into the arena, putting the spotlight on the experience that shaped the future District 12 mentor.
Yellowjackets, Season 4
Nov. 20 · Paramount+. The final season follows the survivors back toward Wiskayok, New Jersey, where getting home brings its own dangers. Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci and Tawny Cypress return.
The show has followed both the teenage survivors and their adult counterparts, with Sophie Nélisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown and Sophie Thatcher among the younger cast. The last season brings the aftermath of the wilderness closer to the foreground as the survivors face what follows them home.
I Play Rocky
Nov. 20 · Theaters. Anthony Ippolito plays a young Sylvester Stallone fighting to star in Rocky himself. The film dramatizes the gamble behind getting the 1976 boxing classic made.
AnnaSophia Robb, Stephan James and Matt Dillon join Ippolito in the cast. The central contest takes place behind the scenes, where Stallone has to persuade people financing a film to take a chance on him as its lead.
Paper Tiger
Nov. 20 · Theaters. James Gray directs Adam Driver and Miles Teller as brothers whose promising deal puts them in the path of the Russian mob. Scarlett Johansson plays Teller’s wife.
The film uses the brothers’ relationship to give the crime plot its stakes. As the scheme closes in around them, the danger reaches the household, leaving Johansson’s character to deal with choices she had little say in making.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Season 3
Nov. 20 · Disney+. Walker Scobell returns as Percy in an adaptation of The Titan’s Curse. Annabeth’s disappearance sets a new quest in motion as a prophecy puts Olympus at risk. Disney’s premiere announcement
Leah Sava’ Jeffries and Aryan Simhadri return as Annabeth and Grover. Disney+ starts the eight-episode season with two episodes and releases the rest in weekly pairs, giving viewers a new installment of the quest each week. Disney’s release schedule
The Good Daughter
Nov. 23 · Peacock. Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy play estranged sisters drawn back together by a new act of violence decades after their mother’s death. Karin Slaughter adapted her own novel for the series.
The new case forces the sisters to revisit the same childhood event from different vantage points. Slaughter, whose novels also inspired Will Trent, uses that family history to give the small-town investigation consequences beyond solving the immediate crime.
November 25–26
Hexed
Nov. 25 · Theaters. Hailee Steinfeld voices Billie Doe, a teenager whose newly discovered powers lead her to a world of witches. Jodie Foster and Walton Goggins are among the voices in Disney’s animated feature.
The discovery takes Billie from an ordinary teenage life into Hexe, where magic is part of everyday life. Rashida Jones and Tracey Ullman also join the voice cast, and the change of setting gives the film room to build a new world around Billie’s coming-of-age story.
The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth
Nov. 25 · IMAX. Brad Pitt reprises his Once Upon a Time in Hollywood role as Cliff Booth takes on work as a Hollywood fixer. David Fincher directs, and Netflix has set a Dec. 23 streaming release. Netflix Tudum
Quentin Tarantino wrote the screenplay, and the returning Booth moves through a Hollywood populated by actors, agents and people who handle trouble behind the scenes. Elizabeth Debicki, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Carla Gugino join the cast, while Timothy Olyphant returns as James Stacy.
Focker-in-Law
Nov. 25 · Theaters. Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro reunite for a new Meet the Parents comedy. Ariana Grande plays the prospective daughter-in-law whose arrival puts the family’s circle of trust under fresh strain.
Skyler Gisondo plays Henry, Greg and Pam’s son, whose relationship brings the families together. Teri Polo and Owen Wilson also return, as the series puts Ben Stiller’s Greg on the parent side of the meeting that caused him so much trouble in the original film.
Blade Runner 2099
Nov. 25 · Prime Video. Hunter Schafer and Michelle Yeoh star in an eight-episode limited series set 50 years after Blade Runner 2049. Schafer plays a fugitive who assumes a replicant’s identity. Prime Video’s series guide
Yeoh plays Olwen, a replicant whose path crosses Cora’s. Showrunner Silka Luisa uses the new setting to revisit a question that runs through the earlier films, as a woman living under an assumed identity has to navigate a society that draws sharp lines between humans and replicants.
The Hunting Wives, Season 2
Nov. 26 · Netflix. Brittany Snow and Malin Akerman return as Sophie and Margo. The new season revisits the fallout in Maple Brook, Texas, before jumping forward in time.
The eight-episode season takes the story beyond the events of the first season, with Dale Dickey joining the cast. The time jump gives the series a way to revisit the relationship between Sophie and Margo after the immediate fallout has had time to settle.
