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Awards season has arrived at Netflix. The two major new titles hitting the streamer in November have already been tipped as potential Oscar contenders: French filmmaker Jacques Audiard’s bold transgender drug cartel thriller-musical Emilia Pérez and Malcolm Washington’s stirring adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer-winning play, The Piano Lesson. But there are plenty of other, perhaps more frivolously fun movies and shows arriving this month, including a conspiracy thriller limited series starring Colman Domingo, the second part of the final season of cult hit Cobra Kai and a film in which Party of Five’s Lacey Chabert dates a hunky snowman. Wait, what?

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Emilia Pérez

Filling the Baz Luhrmann role in this year’s Oscar race, Jacques Audiard’s potential Best Picture contender is ambitious, audacious and sure to be polarising. Zoe Saldaña is a lawyer strong-armed into helping a trans cartel boss (Karla Sofía Gascón) arrange gender-affirming surgery and go into hiding. Did we mention it’s also a musical?

Premieres Nov 13

Hot Frosty

Halloween is over, so here come the Christmas movies. The title sounds like a made-up sex act your eighth-grade classmate convinced you was real, and the plot is a little porn-adjacent as well: a young widow (Lacey Chabert) brings a snowman to life, transforming him into Schitt’s Creek hunk Dustin Milligan. Will they engage in any onscreen hot frosties? Tune in! 

Premieres Nov 13

Cobra Kai season 6, part 2

The Karate Kid spinoff series gets one crane-kick closer to the end. Netflix is doling out its final season in three five-episode chunks, following former rivals Daniel-san and Johnny Lawrence to a major karate tournament in Spain, where they unexpectedly encounter a mutual enemy. Who will ultimately prove to be the best… a-roooounnnd?

Premieres Nov 15

Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson

Netflix dips its toes into the live sports arena with an event that’s less a boxing exhibition than a freakshow. Who do you got: the 27-year-old YouTuber or the 58-year-old with ulcer issues? Hey, it’s possible someone leaves the ring grievously injured or missing an ear, and you don’t want to miss that, right?

Airs Nov 15

Joy

Republicans made in vitro fertilisation a wedge issue this election cycle, so it’s good timing for a biographical drama about the world’s first ‘test tube baby’. Bill Nighy, James Norton and Thomasin McKenzie play the trio of medical professionals who pioneered the science, while Jack Thorne and Rachel Mason’s emotional script underscores the human element of their rather miraculous breakthrough.

Premieres Nov 22

The Piano Lesson

Malcolm ‘Son of Denzel’ Washington makes his directorial debut with this August Wilson adaptation, which uses a sibling dispute over a century-old heirloom to trace the history of an African-American family circa the Depression. Samuel L Jackson, Danielle Deadwyler and Malcolm’s brother, John David Washington, star. Save your nepo-baby cracks: word out of the festivals is placing the film in early Oscar conversations.

Premieres Nov 22

The Madness

A white supremacist is found dead in the Poconos. Well, that’s a shame. The problem? The person who finds him is media pundit Muncie Daniels, who ends up framed for his murder. Recent Academy Award nominee Colman Domingo stars in this tense, twisty, politically-charged miniseries. 

Premieres Nov 28

Senna 

Ayrton Senna was Brazil’s most famous Formula 1 driver, who won three world championships before dying in a crash in 1994, aged 34. Unfamiliar with him? This fast and furious series covers his life and career, with Ferrari’s Gabriel Leone portraying the charismatic speedster.

Premieres Nov 29

Everything coming to Netflix in November 2024

Arriving November 1

60 Days In season 7 (TV show)

A Paris Christmas Waltz (movie)

Barbie Mysteries: The Great Horse Chase (TV show)

Fall Into Winter (movie)

Free State of Jones (movie)

Goosebumps (movie)

It’s All Over: The Kiss That Changed Spanish Football (Netflix Original documentary)

Just Go With It (movie)

Let Go (Netflix Original movie)

Love in the Wild season 2 (TV show)

Maid in Manhattan (movie)

Mr. Peabody & Sherman (movie)

Oblivion (movie)

Pompeii (movie)

The Scorpion King (movie)

Sixteen Candles (movie)

Superbad (movie)

The Whale (movie)

Whiplash (movie)

 

Arriving on November 5

Dirty Jobs seasons 1-2 (TV show)

Love Village season 2 (Netflix Original TV show)

 

Arriving on November 6

Love Is Blind: Argentina (Netflix Original TV show)

Meet Me Next Christmas (Netflix Original movie)

Pedro Páramo (Netflix Original movie)

 

Arriving on November 7

10 Days of a Curious Man (Netflix Original movie)

Born for the Spotlight (Netflix Original TV show)

Countdown: Paul vs. Tyson (Netflix Original TV show)

Face Off seasons 6-8 (TV show)

Outer Banks season 4 part 2 (Netflix Original TV show)

 

Arriving on November 8

A Holiday Engagement (movie)

Bank Under Siege (Netflix Original TV show)

The Cage (Netflix Original TV show)

The Christmas Trap (movie)

Investigation Alien (Netflix Original documentary)

My Dad’s Christmas Date (movie)

Mr. Plankton (Netflix Original TV show)

Vijay 69 (Netflix Original movie)

Umjolo: The Gone Girl (Netflix Original movie)

 

Arriving on November 9

Arcane season 2 act I (Netflix Original TV show)

The Lost City (movie)

 

Arriving on November 10

Focus (movie)

 

Arriving on November 11

Rob Peace (movie)

 

Arriving on November 12

Adrienne Iapalucci: Dark Queen (Netflix Original comedy)

Rhythm + Flow: Brazil (Netflix Original TV show)

The Fast and the Furious (movie)

2 Fast 2 Furious (movie)

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (movie)

Fast & Furious (movie)

Fast Five (movie)

Fast & Furious 6 (movie)

 

Arriving on November 13

EMILIA PÉREZ (Netflix Original movie)

Hot Frosty (Netflix Original movie)

The Mothers of Penguins (Netflix Original TV show)

Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley (Netflix Original documentary)

Sisters’ Feud (Netflix Original TV show)

SPRINT part 2 (Netflix Original TV show)

 

Arriving on November 14

Beyond Goodbye (Netflix Original TV show)

The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish (TV show)

The Lost Children (Netflix Original documentary)

 

Arriving on November 15

A.P. Bio seasons 1-4 (TV show)

Cobra Kai season 6 part 2 (Netflix Original TV show)

Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson (Netflix Original TV show)

Million Dollar Decorators season 2 (TV show)

 

Arriving on November 16

Arcane season 2 act II (Netflix Original TV show)

 

Arriving on November 18

Wonderoos season 2 (Netflix Original TV show)

 

Arriving on November 19

UNT. Adam Ray / Dr. Comedy Phil Special (Netflix Original comedy)

Zombieverse: New Blood (Netflix Original TV show)

 

Arriving on November 20

Adoration (Netflix Original TV show)

Buy Now: The Shopping Conspiracy (Netflix Original documentary)

GTMAX (Netflix Original movie)

The Merry Gentlemen (Netflix Original movie)

Our Oceans (Netflix Original documentary)

Rhythm + Flow season 2 (Netflix Original TV show)

Shahs of Sunset seasons 3-4 (TV show)

 

Arriving on November 21

Maybe Baby 2 (Netflix Original movie)

Tokyo Override (TV show)

 

Arriving on November 22

900 Days Without Anabel (Netflix Original documentary)

The Empress season 2 (Netflix Original TV show)

Gold Rush seasons 1-2 (TV show)

The Helicopter Heist (Netflix Original TV show)

JOY (Netflix Original movie)

The Piano Lesson (Netflix Original movie)

Pokémon Horizons: The Series part 4 (Netflix Original TV show)

Spellbound (Netflix Original movie)

Tex Mex Motors season 2 (Netflix Original TV show)

TRANSMITZVAH (Netflix Original movie)

When the Phone Rings (Netflix Original TV show)

 

Arriving on November 23

Arcane season 2 act III (Netflix Original TV show)

 

Arriving on November 25

Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey (Netflix Original documentary)

The Creature Cases chapter 4 (Netflix Original TV show)

 

Arriving on November 26

Anthony Jeselnik: Bones and All (Netflix Original comedy)

 

Arriving on November 27

Chef’s Table volume 7 (Netflix Original documentary)

Our Little Secret (Netflix Original movie)

 

Arriving on November 28

Asaf (Netflix Original TV show)

Is it Cake? Holiday (Netflix Original TV show)

The Madness (Netflix Original TV show)

 

Arriving on November 29

Senna (Netflix Original TV show)

The Snow Sister (Netflix Original movie)