‘Frankenstein,’ ‘Being Eddie’ and 10 other must-see movies on Netflix in November

Hugh Grant, who plays the deliciously evil villain Phoenix Buchanan in Paddington 2, has gone on record saying that the family film “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 antiques store in London and is accused and imprisoned for stealing a book. Paddington must find a way to escape from prison so that the real culprit, Phoenix Buchanan, can be arrested. The film arrives on Netflix on November 1.

In Waves and War is a new Netflix documentary about a group of soldiers who undergo a revolutionary therapy using psychedelics to treat PTSD. After Navy SEAL Marcus Capone successfully treated his own post-traumatic stress disorder and depression, he and his wife, Amber, embarked on a mission to provide access to this life-saving treatment to others. In Waves and War is a healing journey for a group of soldiers who found new hope through this experimental treatment.

In the new Danish film Mango, Josephine Park plays Lærke, a hotel manager sent to Malaga, Spain, to develop an ambitious new hotel in the middle of a mango farm. 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, it feels like Guillermo del Toro’s career has led up to this moment. The Mexican filmmaker known for dark fantasy and horror wrote, directed and produced the Netflix adaptation of Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein, which arrives on the platform on November 7. The film, which also received a theatrical release in October, stars Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein and 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 Christmas rom-coms premiering this season. Silverstone plays Kate, a divorced mother who just wants to spend one last cozy Christmas in her house before selling it. Things get decidedly less comfortable when her ex-husband Everett (Oliver Hudson) shows up with his new girlfriend (Jameela Jamil) by his side. To make Everett jealous, Kate decides to bring in a much younger man herself – played by Pierson Fode, because that guy is in everything these days.

Eddie Murphy got his start as a teenage comedian and eventually became one of the biggest comedy stars of his generation. The Netflix documentary Being Eddie, released November 12, takes a look at his career spanning more than 50 years, with insights from Murphy himself and fellow comics 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. Filmed in black and white to mimic the look of Breathless, it is also entirely in French. Zoey Deutch plays American actress Jean Seberg, while Guillaume Marbeck plays Godard and Aubry Dullin plays Jean-Paul Belmondo.

Selena y Los Dinos is a documentary celebrating the life and legacy of the Queen of Tejano, Selena Quintanilla. Featuring interviews with Selena’s parents, siblings, and husband, as well as never-before-seen footage from the family’s personal archives, 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 holiday romance Champagne Problems and, yes, it’s a movie about wine. Kelly plays Sydney, an executive who travels to France to help her company acquire a world-famous champagne brand. When she falls for a local named Henri (Tom Wozniczka), it turns out he has a stake in the vineyard she is to acquire, and her champagne problems become quite literal.

The Netflix limited series Adolescence was fascinating in part because of the way each episode seemed to be shot in one long, continuous take, and now the director of that series is about to do it again in a very different way. Philip Barantini, who won an Emmy for his work directing that show, has collaborated with Ed Sheeran on a new film, One Shot with Ed Sheeran: A Music Experience, in which Sheeran spends an afternoon roaming the streets of New York performing some of his biggest hits in real time.

Joel Edgerton stars as Robert Grainier, a lumberjack helping to develop railroads across America in the early 20th century in the historical drama Train Dreams. Based on a short story by Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis Johnson, the film stars Felicity Jones as Grainier’s wife Gladys, alongside Clifton Collins Jr., Kerry Condon and William H. Macy.

Olivia Holt definitely has a thing for the holidays. All vacation, really. The actress recently starred in the Valentine’s Day-themed slasher film Heart Eyes, and she now stars in Jingle Bell Heist, a Christmas romantic comedy. Holt and Connor Swindells play two down-on-their-luck clerks who plan a robbery at a London department store to gather some Christmas money, only to begin to fall for each other as they plan their heist.