7 must-watch movies and TV shows in November 2023

Now the clocks have changed, and the cold nights are drawing in it’s the perfect time to update your watch list and cosy up with a good flick and a snuggly blanket. We’ve narrowed down some of the best movies and offerings across digital streaming platforms to make sure your evenings are sorted for the next month.  

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2^nd November – All The Light We Cannot See 

Available on Netflix 

A limited series from Shawn Levy, All The Light We Cannot See is based on Anthony Doerr’s novel of the same name. Starring Aria Mia Loberti, Mark Ruffalo and Hugh Laurie, the drama charts love and loss against the background of World War II. 

3^rd November – Bottoms

Available at cinemas nationwide

The director of Shiva Baby, Emma Seligman, brings her sense of indie spirit to this raucous and perceptive high school comedy. Seligman pairs with star and co-writer Rachel Sennott, star of Shiva Baby and Bodies Bodies Bodies, to put a limber, crunchy twist on the notion of queer empowerment. 

3^rd November – Selling Sunset Season 7 

Available on Netflix 

If you’re not familiar with the explosive arguments, monolithic L.A. properties and wall-to-glass-and-chrome-wall bitching of reality TV series Selling Susnet by now, we’re really not sure where you’ve been. Following season six, friendships and feuds deepen in the latest instalment. 

10th November – The Killer 

Available at cinemas nationwide 

Starring Michael Fassbender as the titular assassin with a penchant for homicide, the David Fincher directed neo-noir thriller follows a killer (we know, shock) caught in a manhunt across the globe when a hit goes wrong. 

10^th November – Dream Scenario  

Available at cinemas nationwide 

Who can resist a dose of Nicolas Cage-themed madness? The eccentric and singular star is back on our screens and in uncharacteristically dowdy form – but rest assured, Dream Scenario is as crazy as one would expect. 

Cage plays a schlubby college professor who unwittingly ends up invading people’s dreams. He then becomes a local celebrity, but his fame comes at a price. It’s exactly the kind of darkly comic and insightful movie we’d expect from indie maestros A24. 

17^th November – The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes 

Available at cinemas nationwide

Can it really be eight years since the original Hunger Games saga rolled to a close? Well, pine no more because Suzanne Collins’ dystopian epic returns to our screens, bringing us the much-anticipated origin story of President Coriolanus Snow. 

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes takes place 60 years before the trials of Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen. Tom Blyth plays the young Snow whose involvement in the planning for the 10th annual Hunger Games is potentially compromised by his love for tribute Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler). 

Witness how the dreaded death match came to be as Snow battles with his sense of autocracy and dignity. Viola Davis, Peter Dinklage and Jason Schwartzman play Hunger Games designers Volumnia Gaul, Casca Highbottom and Lucretius Flickerman, all of whom have an important role to play in the competition’s development.

22^nd November – Napoleon  

Available at cinemas nationwide 

No one stages historical epics quite like Ridley Scott. From The Duellists to Gladiator and beyond, Scott envelops us in all manner of wondrous sights, be it the Napoleonic wars or the might of ancient Rome. 

Scott now returns to the Napoleonic era to explore the man who helped define it. Oscar-winner and Gladiator star Joaquin Phoenix plays the infamous military commander Napoleon Bonaparte who took France by storm and single-handedly re-sculpted modern European history. 

Prepare to be swept from Egypt to Russia along the course of Napoleon’s critical campaigns with Scott unleashing his flair for large-scale battle sequences. Vanessa Kirby plays Napoleon’s wife, and the power behind his throne, Empress Josephine.