‘Frankenstein,’ ‘Being Eddie,’ and 10 other movies to watch on Netflix in November

Hugh Grant, who played the evil villain Phoenix Buchanan in Paddington 2, has passed away registered I say that the family movie “may be the best movie I’ve ever been in,” and once you’ve seen the movie, you can’t help but agree. The 2017 film stars Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, and Julie Walters as members of the Brown family, who adopt a bear named Paddington (voiced by Ben Whishaw). In the film, Paddington begins working in an antique shop in London, and is framed and imprisoned for stealing a book. Paddington must find a way to escape from prison so that the real culprit, Phoenix Buchanan, can be caught. The film arrives on Netflix on November 1.

In Waves and War is a new Netflix documentary about a group of soldiers who undergo innovative psychedelic therapy to treat PTSD. After Marine Marcus Capone successfully treated PTSD and depression, he and his wife, Amber, embarked on a mission to provide access to this life-saving treatment for others. In Waves and War is the healing journey of a group of soldiers who find new hope with this experimental treatment.

In the new Danish film Mango, Josephine Park plays Lærke, a hotel manager who is sent to Malaga, Spain to develop an ambitious new hotel in the middle of a mango plantation. The farm is owned by a man named Alex (Dar Salim) who refuses to sell it. This complicates Lærke’s business plans, especially when she begins to develop feelings for Alex.

In many ways, Guillermo del Toro’s career seems to have arrived at this moment. The Mexican director known for dark fantasy and horror has written, directed and produced Netflix’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, which will hit the platform on November 7. The film, which also received a theatrical release in October, stars Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein, Jacob Elordi as his creature, and co-stars Mia Goth, Christoph Waltz, and Felix Kammerer.

Alicia Silverstone leads the cast of A Merry Little Ex-Mas, one of Netflix’s new holiday romantic comedies debuting this season. Silverstone plays Kate, a divorced mother who just wants to spend one last Christmas in her house before she sells it. Things get decidedly less comfortable when her ex-husband Everett (Oliver Hudson) shows up with his new girlfriend (Jameela Jamil). To make Everett jealous, Kate decides to bring herself a much younger man – played by Pearson Foudy, since that man is in the house. Everything these days.

Starting out as a teenage comedian, Eddie Murphy eventually rose to prominence as one of the biggest comedy stars of his generation. Netflix’s documentary Being Eddie, released on November 12, takes a look back at his career spanning more than 50 years, with insight from Murphy himself and fellow comedians including Arsenio Hall, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Jamie Foxx and Tracy Morgan.

Director Richard Linklater takes on the French New Wave in Nouvelle Vague, a film about the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s crime drama Breathless. It is shot in black and white to mimic the look of Breathless, and is also entirely in French. Zoe Deutch plays American actress Jean Seberg, while Guillaume Marbeck plays Godard and Aubrey Dulin plays Jean-Paul Belmondo.

Selena y Los Dinos is a documentary that celebrates the life and legacy of the Queen of Tejano, Selena Quintanilla. Featuring interviews with Selena’s parents, siblings, and husband, along with never-before-seen footage from the family’s personal archive, Selena y Los Dinos tells the story of a family band that created a superstar.

Friday Night Lights star Minka Kelly stars in the new romantic film Champagne Problems, a movie about wine. Kelly plays Sydney, an executive who goes to France to help her company acquire a world-famous champagne brand. When she falls in love with a local named Henry (Tom Wozniczka), it turns out he has a stake in a vineyard that she needs to acquire, and her Champagne problems become all too real.

Netflix’s limited series Adolescent was dazzling in part because of the way each episode was filmed in one long, continuous shot, and now that series’ director is about to do it again in a very different way. Philip Barantini, who won an Emmy for his work directing the show, has teamed up with Ed Sheeran for a new film called One Shot with Ed Sheeran: A Music Experience, in which Sheeran spends an afternoon roaming the streets of New York performing some of his greatest hits in real time.

Joel Edgerton stars as Robert Grenier, a timber cutter who helps expand railroads across America in the early 1900s in the historical drama Train Dreams. Based on Pulitzer Prize finalist Dennis Johnson’s novella, the film co-stars Felicity Jones as Grenier’s wife Gladys, alongside Clifton Collins Jr., Kerry Condon, and William H. Macy.

Olivia Holt really has a thing for the holidays. everyone Holidays, really. The actress recently starred in the Valentine’s Day-themed film Heart Eyes, and now she’s co-starring in Jingle Bell Heist, a Christmas romantic comedy. Hoult and Connor Swindells co-star as a pair of down-on-his-luck employees who plan a robbery of a London department store to raise some Christmas cash, only to start falling for each other while planning the heist.