Every month, Netflix adds movies and TV shows to its library. Here are our picks for some of November’s most promising new titles. (Note: Streaming services occasionally change schedules without giving notice. For more recommendations on what to stream, sign up for our Watching newsletter here.)
‘Possible Love’
Starts streaming: Nov. 6
The Korean filmmaker Lee Chang-dong (“Burning,” “Poetry”) explores betrayal on a personal level and a societal one in “Possible Love,” a drama about two married couples whose lives become awkwardly intertwined. Cho Yeo-jeong plays Lee Ye-ji, an aspiring documentarian working on a movie about the devastating aftermath of a violent factory strike. She befriends Mi-ok (Jeon Do-yeon), the outgoing wife of Ho-seok (Sul Kyung-gu), a former union leader who is now unemployed and depressed. The wealthy Ye-ji, married to a venture capitalist, Sang-woo (Zo In-sung), tries to entice the struggling couple into participating in her film by offering them a taste of her good life. But the relationship between these four gets complicated when the poorer couple begin to wonder if their new friends are exploiting their pain.
‘Avedon’
Starts streaming: Nov. 11
The photographer Richard Avedon had a remarkable career, shifting between high-fashion spreads, celebrity portraiture, TV commercials, gritty reportage and experimental art. The biographical documentary “Avedon” covers all of that, showing how its subject had a rare combination of commercial instincts, restless curiosity and social conscience. The same could be said of the film’s director, Ron Howard, who has approached his own big-budget Hollywood movies with an eye toward saying something personal and meaningful. Howard engages with Avedon’s life and work as one popular artist looking at another, focusing more on the ideas behind the pictures than on the famous faces in them.
‘The Body’ Season 1
Starts streaming: Nov. 11
The writer-director Quinn Shephard has made two feature films — the psychological drama “Blame” and the social satire “Not Okay” — that depict the pressures put on young women to conform. With her series “The Body,” Shephard carries that theme into a different genre, telling a supernatural horror story set in and around a Catholic high school, circa 2004. Sofia Wylie plays Grace, the newest member of the school’s dance team, who gets invited by her classmates to a Halloween party that takes a grim turn. After that night, some of the girls start to behave strangely, as though possessed by some malevolent spirit, while others take advantage of the phenomenon to indulge their darker impulses. Kristina Bogic plays Anya, the clique’s ringleader, who tries to control the narrative, while Geena Meszaros plays Lisbeth, a misfit who sees the crisis as an opportunity to elbow her way into the popular crowd.
‘Cunk on Cinema’
Starts streaming: Nov. 15
The English comedian Diane Morgan returns to the role of Philomena Cunk, a pompous TV presenter whose documentaries about culture and history get most of their facts hilariously wrong. For “Cunk on Cinema,” the host heads to Hollywood, where she endeavors to learn about how movies get made. Cocreated by Morgan and the “Black Mirror” mastermind Charlie Brooker, the three-part mini-series features some big-name guests, like Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Bay. But for Morgan’s fans the big draw will always be this character she and Brooker have created: a sly spoof of the kind of television personality who doesn’t let ignorance get in the way of making broad, wildly inaccurate pronouncements.
‘The Altruists’
Starts streaming: Nov. 19
Anthony Boyle plays Sam Bankman-Fried and Julia Garner plays Caroline Ellison in “The Altruists,” a dramatization of the rise and fall of the cryptocurrency companies FTX and Alameda Research. Adapted by the showrunners Graham Moore and Jacqueline Hoyt from a series of New York magazine articles by Kevin T. Dugan and Jen Wieczner, the mini-series is only partly about the fine details of crypto trading and financial fraud. As its title suggests, “The Altruists” is more about how, before their businesses crashed, Bankman-Fried and Ellison were proponents of Effective Altruism, the business and life philosophy that calls for making as much money as possible in order to give it away to the needy. The series depicts how this kind of pragmatic idealism can get complicated by human error and messy interpersonal feelings.
Also arriving:
Nov. 1
“Looper” “Mistletoe Murders” Seasons 1-2 “Public Enemies” “Rectify” Seasons 1-4 “The Red Road” Seasons 1-2 “Stand By Me” “Whiplash”
Nov. 3
“Bass X Machina” Season 1 “Mike Tyson: The Return of Mike” “Will Trent” Seasons 1-4
Nov. 4
“A Dog’s Perfect Christmas” “Taken: Natalee Holloway”
Nov. 5
“Black Doves” Season 2 “Deck the Halls” “The Neighborhood” Seasons 1-8 “North of North” Season 2 “One Year to Live, Buy a Man” “Overacting”
Nov. 6
“Carolina Caroline” “Funny Money: The Dane Cook Story” “Under Siege” Season 1 “Unprotected: Murder in Galicia”
Nov. 9
“Doozie’s Doghouse” Season 1 “The Good Lawyer” “Power” Seasons 1-6
Nov. 10
“The Devil’s Plan” Season 3 “Janelle James: How Romantic” “Last One Standing” Season 4
Nov. 11
“Alicia’s Law” Season 1 “The Gospel of Christmas”
Nov. 12
“Allen” “Bros” Season 2 “The Christmas Switch” “The Empress” Season 3 “Miracles of the ER” Season 1 “Never Surrender”
Nov. 13
“Heartland” “Murder in Galicia”
Nov. 17
“Mike Ward: Modest” “Obsession”
Nov. 18
“Gentle Monster” “Guarding Stars “The Law of Beasts” “Valentina and the 12 Signs” “Win the Mall”
Nov. 20
“On Behalf of My Son” “Primetime Preacher$” “Steps”
Nov. 23
“The Great British Baking Show: Holidays” Season 9 “The Trials of Karen Read”
Nov. 24
“Rob Lowe: The Outsider”
Nov. 25
“The Mosquito Bowl”
Nov. 26
“Always on Call” Season 1 “Fool Night” Season 1 “The Hunting Wives” Season 2 “Toos: The Van der Valk Kidnapping”
Nov. 27
“The Child”
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