The Best Things Coming to Netflix in November 2025

It’s a cornucopia of new TV seasons, comedy specials and documentaries, plus feature films you won’t want to miss.

Chris Nashawaty,

Updated October 30, 2025

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Published January 30, 2025

/ Updated October 30, 2025

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Guillermo del Toro's "Frankenstein" is coming to Netflix on Nov. 7.

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Is it really November already? It seems like just yesterday we were putting away our beach chairs and now Halloween candy is half price! November is, of course, the month when we get together with family to give thanks. But there’s a long stretch of chilly nights between now and then and what better way to spend them than curled up on the sofa watching the latest pre-Turkey Day bounty from Netflix? Fortunately, the streamer has plenty of new shows, returning favorites and original movies to keep you warm and toasty indoors. And we’ve got you covered with our preview of the 14 titles we’re most looking forward to this month.

Coming Nov. 4

Leanne Morgan: Unspeakable Things

The veteran comedian, 60, received rave reviews for her recent foray into the world of half-hour sitcoms with Netflix’s Leanne. However, stand-up remains Morgan’s day job and she’s a pro when it comes to serving up the perfect side-splitting punchline thanks to her chewy Tennessee twang, deadpan delivery and stinging sense of humor. Married life, midlife crises, making ends meet — they’re all fair game when it comes to Morgan’s cockeyed observations. If you’re looking to kick the month off with a laugh, this is the ticket.

Squid Game: The Challenge, Season 2

The line between fiction and reality gets even more blurry in the sophomore season of this addictive competition series inspired by Netflix’s dystopian Korean sensation. Granted, the stakes are a little friendlier on The Challenge than they are on the life-or-death show (no one dies, for starters), but there are plenty of nail-biting moments as contestants form alliances and then stab their teammates in the back (metaphorically). Season 1 was a blast. Here’s hoping Season 2 keeps the momentum alive (so to speak).

Coming Nov. 6

Death by Lightning

A wonderfully intense Michael Shannon, 51, breathes new life into one of the most bizarre chapters of American history in this highly anticipated limited series about the 1881 assassination of James Garfield, the 20th president of the United States. With a bushy, Smith Brothers cough drop beard, Shannon portrays the newly sworn-in Garfield as an idealistic but reluctant politician who’s cut down by Charles Guiteau, an obsessive admirer played by Succession’s Matthew Macfadyen, 51. GLOW’s Betty Gilpin, Parks and Recreation’s Nick Offerman, 55, and The West Wing’s Bradley Whitford, 66, round out the ensemble.

Coming Nov. 7

Frankenstein (2025, R)

Guillermo del Toro, 61, has been in love with movie monsters since he was a kid growing up in Guadalajara, Mexico. Since then, we’ve been enchanted by his big-screen bogeymen in such films as Pan’s Labyrinth and The Shape of Water. Now the Oscar winner puts his signature macabre spin on Mary Shelley’s timeless Gothic tale about a mad scientist (Oscar Isaac) and his reanimated creation (Jacob Elordi). Del Toro’s films are always loaded with emotion as well as stunning eye candy, so don’t be surprised if this one sticks around until the Academy Awards.

Coming Nov. 12

A Merry Little Ex-Mas

Look out Lifetime, you've got some serious competition in the made-for-TV holiday rom-com game. Netflix has been busier than an elf at the North Pole with its stacked slate of breezy new Christmas fare, including this yuletide charmer about a recently divorced couple (Alicia Silverstone and Oliver Hudson, both 49) who bring their gorgeous, younger new partners to the annual family festivities. If this sounds like your cup of eggnog, then you can also check this month’s other Netflix holiday titles: Champagne Problems (Nov. 19) and Jingle Bell Heist (Nov. 26). Ho! Ho! Ho!

Selling the OC, Season 4

The glamorous and cutthroat real estate agents from The Oppenheim Group’s Orange County office are back for a fourth go-round of gossiping, grousing and talking trash about one another while occasionally showing a mild interest in selling absurdly expensive beachfront mansions that we’ll never be able to afford. This reality series is deliciously addictive junk food tailor-made for binge watching on a chilly afternoon. Come for the sweeping ocean views; stay for the insult-slinging.

Being Eddie

Eddie Murphy, 64, joined the cast of Saturday Night Live when he was 19. By the end of his first season he was one of the biggest stars on the planet. You all know what followed: 48 Hrs., Trading Places, Beverly Hills Cop, Coming to America, The Nutty Professor ... the list goes on, all leading up to Murphy’s Oscar-nominated comeback in 2006’s Dreamgirls. It’s been quite a career. And now Netflix is giving the legendary comedian the biographical documentary treatment that he’s more than earned. We’ll definitely be tuning in for this one.

Coming Nov. 13

The Beast in Me

Let’s face it, the past few years without new episodes of Homeland and The Americans haven’t been easy for TV junkies. Fortunately, the stars of those hit shows — Claire Danes and Matthew Rhys, 50 — are not only back, they’re teaming up for this twisty cat-and-mouse thriller series about a grieving, shut-in author (Danes) and her sketchy new neighbor (Rhys) who may or may not have murdered his wife. Will this new mystery man be the cure for her writer’s block? And has he found his next victim?

Coming Nov. 14

Nouvelle Vague

Before Sunrise director Richard Linklater, 65, pays tribute to the seminal French New Wave film movement of the late 1950s and ‘60s in this black-and-white love letter to cinema centering on the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s game-changing import, Breathless. Guillaume Marbeck, Zoey Deutch and Aubry Dullin head up the ensemble of this jazzy, stylish time capsule that should be catnip for any serious movie lover.

Coming Nov. 20

A Man on the Inside, Season 2

Ted Danson, 77, a promising up-and-comer you may have heard about, returns for the second season of this comfort-food mystery series about a retired San Francisco professor turned sleuth. This time around, Danson’s character returns to his old campus stomping grounds to sniff around for clues on a new case. As a bonus, Danson’s real-life partner, Mary Steenburgen, 72, costars.

The Great British Baking Show: Holidays, Season 8

You know the drill by now. Everyone’s favorite pastry-themed competition show gets in the holiday spirit as a bunch of amateur bakers from the UK race against the clock to come up with the perfect gingerbread house and most mouthwatering fruit cake. But just because the formula may be a bit familiar in its eighth season doesn’t mean that the show is any less festive and fun. Also, if this sounds like your thing, you may also want to check out Netflix’s latest season of Is It Cake? Holidays, which debuts on Nov. 25. Bon appetit!

Coming Nov. 21

Train Dreams (2025, PG-13)

Aussie actor Joel Edgerton, 51, stars in this poignant frontier drama about a day laborer helping to build America’s railroads at the dawn of the 20th century. Based on a beloved novel by Denis Johnson, Train Dreams is a look at a way of life that was quickly coming to an end as the modern world began to close in. Felicity Jones, Kerry Condon and William H. Macy, 75, costar.

Coming Nov. 27

Stranger Things, Season 5, Vol. 1

Kids, they grow up so fast! Netflix’s blockbuster series about a close-knit group of nerdy misfits who get up close and personal with the supernatural remains a nostalgic time capsule from the ‘80s (think The Goonies meets The X-Files). The first four episodes of the fifth and final season arrive like an early present under the tree, with the next three episodes airing on Christmas Day. As for the climactic grand finale, you’ll have to hold on until New Year’s Eve. You may want to cancel your plans.

Coming Nov. 28

The Stringer: The Man Who Took the Photo

It was one of the most iconic images of the Vietnam War: a young girl, naked, running down the street in agony after a 1972 napalm attack by the U.S. military. That photo, which was credited to Nick Ut of the Associated Press, won all sorts of awards and helped shape American sentiment against the conflict. But did Ut actually take the picture? This investigative documentary challenges that claim and suggests that it was actually shot by Nguyen Thanh Nghe, a local stringer who never received the credit he deserved.

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Chris Nashawaty, former film critic for Entertainment Weekly, is the author of Caddyshack: The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story and a contributor to Esquire, Vanity Fair, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.