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AS THE HALLOWEEN SEASON departs and the temperatures continue to rise, November represents the last bastion of spring before a scorching summer. At this time of the year, the work portion of your work/life balance can seem like more of a slog than ever, as the temptation to ditch your job for the beach reaches its peak. So, what better time is there to kick up your feet and tune into some of the best content streaming services have to offer? Sate your desire for a physical escape with a metaphorical one this November.

This month, Australian streaming platforms are serving up a range of cinematic treats, so you can bid farewell to sunburns and welcome the cool embrace of your couch. Whether you’re in the mood for heart-pounding action, side-splitting comedies, or soul-stirring dramas, Esquire‘s streaming guide has you covered.

Below, you’ll find an eclectic mix of critically acclaimed blockbusters and heart-warming Aussie original series’ that’ll leave you perpetually reaching for the popcorn. So sit back, relax, and dive into the best films and shows to sit back and relax to.


What’s coming to Netflix in November?

November Netflix Highlight – The Killer

The Killer, directed by celebrated filmmaker David Fincher, the brain behind blockbusters like Fight Club, Se7en, The Social Network and Gone Girl, will be premiering on Netflix next month to much fanfare. Starring Michael Fassbender as a philosophising, meticulous assassin, The Killer proves that no matter how pedantic you are in your preparations, everything can still fall apart. After a hit gone wrong, our assassin finds himself on the run and embroiled in an international manhunt. The Killer is one of this year’s most anticipated films and is expected to garner considerable attention come awards season. Netflix has so much new content coming this month that it’s difficult to limit our spotlight to a single offering. The final season of The Crown, the world premiere of Rustin, and the debut of Squid Game: The Challenge are all also arriving this month.

November 1

  • Wingwomen
  • Nuovo Olimpo
  • Locked In
  • Hurricane Season
  • Mysteries of the Faith
  • Till Murder Do Us Part: Soering vs. Haysom

November 2

  • Cigarette Girl
  • All the Light We Cannot See
  • Higuita: The Way of the Scorpion

November 3

  • Ferry: The Series
  • Selling Sunset Season 7
  • Daily Dose of Sunshine
  • Vacaciones de verano
  • NYAD
  • Sly
  • Don’t Breathe 2
  • Nine Days

November 5

  • The Super Mario Bros. Movie

November 8

  • The Claus Family 3
  • Robbie Williams
  • Escaping Twin Flames
  • The Billionaire, the Butler and the Boyfriend
  • Cyberbunker: The Criminal Underworld

November 9

  • Temple of Film: 100 Years of the Egyptian Theatre

November 10

  • At the Moment
  • The Killer
  • Magic Mike’s Last Dance

November 14

  • Criminal Code
  • Suburræterna
  • How to Become a Mob Boss

November 15

  • Feedback

November 16

  • The Crown Season 6, Part 1
  • Best. Christmas. Ever!
  • In Love and Deep Water

November 17

  • Sagrada Familia: Season 2
  • The Railway Men
  • The Queenstown Kings
  • All-Time High
  • Rustin
  • Believer 2
  • The Dads

November 18

  • Sonic the Hedgehog 2

November 20

  • Stamped from the Beginning

November 22

  • Squid Game: The Challenge
  • Crime Diaries: The Celebrity Stylist
  • High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America: Season 2

November 24

  • A Nearly Normal Family
  • My Demon
  • Last Call for Istanbul
  • DOI BOY
  • Wedding Games
  • I Don’t Expect Anyone to Believe Me

November 28

  • Comedy Royale
  • Love Like a K-Drama

November 29

  • American Symphony
  • Bad Surgeon: Love Under the Knife

November 30

  • Obliterated
  • Virgin River: Season 5 Part 2
  • Family Switch
  • Hard Days

What’s coming to Disney+ in November?

November Disney+ Highlight – Faraway Downs

Faraway Downs is acclaimed Australian Director Baz Luhrmann’s attempt to master one of his most divisive films: Australia. Reimagining the film’s original premise in the form of a six-part series, Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman reprise their roles, with Kidman as an aristocratic Englishwoman who inherits a sizeable cattle farm in outback Australia and Jackman as a rough and tumble cattle drover more than happy to help her learn the trade. It’s not often that films get remade into a series, and the Faraway Downs experiment could set an influential precedent. Other Disney+ highlights include A Murder at the End of the World, Black Cake, and JFK: One Day In America

November 1

  • Behind The Attraction, Season 2
  • Now and Then – The Last Beatles Song
  • Black Cake
  • Lions of Sicily
  • The Three Detectives
  • Big City Greens

November 3

  • The Quiz Lady
  • Marvel Studios Legends
  • The Mill

November 4

  • Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Ceremony

November 6

  • JFK: One Day In America

November 8

  • The Santa Clauses, Season 2
  • Young Jedi Adventures
  • Killer Vacation
  • Vigilante
  • Daddies On Request, Season 2
  • Farm Dreams

November 13

  • The Lady Bird Diaries

November 14

  • A Murder at the End of the World

November 15

  • Brawn: The Impossible Formula 1 Story
  • Interpreter of Silence

November 16

  • Drive with Swizz Beatz

November 17

  • Dashing Through The Snow
  • Shohei Ohtani: Beyond the Dream
  • Windows of Wonder – Inside the Disney 100 Myer Christmas Windows

November 23

  • The Naughty Nine

November 26

  • Doctor Who – The Star Beast
  • Faraway Downs

November 29

  • The Artful Dodger
  • Assembled: The Making of Loki Season 2

What’s coming to Stan in November?

November Stan Highlight – Scrublands

Scrublands is poised to become the next Black Snow. The Australian made original series is based on a crime novel by Chris Hammer and stars Luke Arnold and Bella Heathcote. Set in a rural Victorian town one year removed from the massacre of five parishioners by the leader of their congregation, an investigative journalist arrives to write a feature on the tragedy for its anniversary. What he finds has the previously accepted narrative falling apart, as his race to uncover the truth becomes a matter of life and death.

November 1

  • Drive My Car
  • Fury
  • Knives Out
  • Ace and the Christmas Miracle
  • Christmas is Cancelled
  • Happy Christmas
  • Christmas Casanova
  • The Fabric of Christmas

November 2

  • Maria Into Life
  • Staged, Season 2

November 3

  • Dinner for Schmucks
  • Orphan Black: Echoes
  • Super Wish

November 4

  • Merry Magic Christmas
  • Knight and Day
  • Tobacco Barns
  • Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

November 5

  • Deck The Halls
  • Bandit
  • Notre Dame on Fire
  • Sacrifice

November 7

  • The King of Comedy
  • Kompromat

November 8

  • The Edge of Darkness
  • Small Axe

November 9

  • Barbarella
  • Personal Shopper
  • 57th CMA Awards 2023

November 10

  • Carmen
  • Zoolander
  • D.N.Ace

November 11

  • Boyfriend for Christmas
  • Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
  • Greenhouse By Joost
  • Luzzu

November 15

  • Playing With Fire
  • 2023 Aria Awards
  • The Lazarus Project, Season 2

November 16

  • Street Kings
  • Scrublands
  • Back To Life, Season 2

November 17

  • Rat Race
  • Winter Boy

November 18

  • Big Momma’s House
  • Big Momma’s House 2
  • Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son
  • Sort Of, Season 3

November 19

  • Tigerland
  • Wet Season
  • The Case Against Cosby

November 21

  • Unfaithful
  • An Almost Perfect Town

November 22

  • August: Osage Country
  • The Host
  • Still Life

November 23

  • Jones Family Christmas
  • Pride & Glory

November 24

  • Coach Carter
  • The First Lady

November 25

  • Bride Wars
  • While At War

November 26

  • The Grey
  • Forever Enthralled
  • Room 212

November 29

  • TT3D: Closer to the Edge
  • Family Photo
  • By Any Means

What’s coming to Amazon Prime Video in November?

November Amazon Prime Video Highlight – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Across the Spider-Verse was the moment Miles Morales became everyone’s favourite Spiderman. This film sees Morales catapult across the multiverse—an increasingly common trope these days—where he encounters various other Spider-people. Charged with protecting the multiverse’s fragile existence, Morales and his team of Spider-people must set aside their differences and play to their similar strengths. Across the Spider-Verse is commonly considered one of the best animated films of all time, perhaps trumped only by its sequel.

November 2

  • Knuckle Girl

November 3

  • John Wick: Chapter 4
  • Invincible, Season 2
  • Romancero

November 8

  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

November 10

  • 007: Road To A Million

November 12

  • Big George Foreman

November 14

  • Trevor Wallace: Pterodactyl

November 17

  • Creation of the Gods
  • Wild Swords
  • Never Say Never
  • Full River Red
  • Maxine’s Baby: The Tyler Perry Story
  • Exmas
  • Landscape With Invisible Hand
  • Twin Love

November 19

  • Love Again

November 24

  • Of An Age
  • Retribution
  • Elf Me
  • Resident Evil: Death Island

November 27

  • The Marsh King’s Daughter

What’s coming to Binge in November?

November Binge Highlight – John Wick: Chapter 4

Keanu Reeves returns as legendary hitman John Wick, this time with an ever-increasing bounty on his head. Wick takes his battle against The High Table on an international expedition, with stints in New York, Paris, Berlin and Tokyo. The most recent—many would say best—instalment of the John Wick franchise once again shows us that it’s best not to mess with Keanu Reeves.

November 1

  • A Dennis The Menace Christmas
  • National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation 2
  • Kangaroo Jack G’day USA
  • White Christmas
  • Love Rosie
  • As Luck Would Have It

November 2

  • Lights Camera Christmas
  • Inventing The Christmas Prince
  • The Year Without A Santa Claus
  • Dr Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas

November 3

  • John Wick: Chapter 4
  • Assassin Club
  • The Lady In The Van

November 4

  • Unwanted
  • Space Oddity
  • The Star
  • My Girl

November 5

  • The Super Mario Bros. Movie
  • Kompromat

November 9

  • Rap Sh!t

November 10

  • Magic Mike’s Last Dance
  • FBI, Season 5

November 11

  • Punch Drunk Love

November 16

  • Julia, Season 2

November 30

  • Bookie
  • Mafia Mamma

What’s coming to Apple TV+ in November?

November Apple TV+ Highlight – Fingernails

Fingernails, starring Jessie Buckley and Jeremy Allen White, follows a couple who have found true love—as proven by a controversial new technology. The only problem is, one half of the relationship is having doubts. Buckley’s character takes a position at a love testing institute and meets Amir (played by Riz Ahmed) and there’s trouble in paradise from there on. Fingernails is the second feature and first English-language film from visionary director and budding auteur Christos Nikou.

November 3

  • Fingernails

November 8

  • The Buccaneers

November 10

  • For All Mankind, Season 4

November 17

  • Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

November 22

  • Hannah Waddingham: Home For Christmas
  • The Velveteen Rabbit

November 29

  • Slow Horses

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