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The Best Movies to Watch This Month: Your November 2026 Edit
Skip the endless evening streaming scroll with this edit of the best movies to watch this month.
The best movies to watch in November 2026 include The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, Saoirse Ronan’s black comedy Bad Apples and Wicker, which sees Olivia Colman fall for a man made entirely of wicker. Yes, really.
Charli xcx is navigating romantic complications in Warsaw, Brad Pitt is back in 1970s Hollywood and Nathan Fielder has somehow found his way into an Elizabeth Holmes documentary. Australian cinema brings us a talking fox with questionable relationship advice, while Netflix has a fascinating new portrait of legendary photographer Richard Avedon.
From major Hollywood releases to the stranger corners of independent cinema, here’s our edit of the best new movies coming to Australian cinemas and streaming services this November, complete with release dates and booking links.
The Best Movies to Watch at the Cinema This November
Wicker
Olivia Colman falling in love with Alexander Skarsgård would ordinarily be sufficient reason to buy a ticket. The fact that he’s made entirely of wicker? Even better. In this wonderfully eccentric romantic fable, Colman plays a lonely, much-ridiculed fisherwoman who decides she’s had quite enough of the local dating pool and commissions a husband from a basketmaker (Peter Dinklage). The resulting creation, played by Skarsgård, turns out to be an unexpectedly extraordinary companion, much to the displeasure of her judgemental seaside village.
With Elizabeth Debicki joining the cast, Wicker promises a fantastically strange exploration of desire, conformity and the considerable appeal of a man who does exactly what he’s told. Our most anticipated wild card of the month.
In cinemas 5 November 2026
You Can See Everything
Thirty-four days before going to prison for fraud, Elizabeth Holmes invited a documentary crew into her home. One of the filmmakers was Nathan Fielder. As reputation-management strategies go, this is certainly a choice.
Co-directed by Fielder, the brilliantly unsettling mind behind The Rehearsal, and Lance Oppenheim, You Can See Everything begins as an intimate portrait of the disgraced Theranos founder’s final weeks of freedom before spiralling into something considerably stranger. What follows is a three-year documentary odyssey interrogating truth, performance, self-deception and the extraordinary confidence of people convinced they can control their own narrative.
At nearly three hours, it’s a considerable undertaking. But an Elizabeth Holmes documentary that makes us question the camera as much as its subject? We have questions. So many questions. And we’re beyond seated.
In cinemas 12 November 2026
Wild Horse Nine
Martin McDonagh, the brilliantly wicked mind behind The Banshees of Inisherin and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, is back. Naturally, we’re clearing the calendar.
Set against the political turmoil of Chile in 1973, Wild Horse Nine follows two CIA agents (Sam Rockwell and John Malkovich) dispatched from Santiago to Easter Island on a mission that takes a rather murky turn. Steve Buscemi and Parker Posey round out a cast practically made for bad behaviour.
Few filmmakers can make human folly quite so funny, or uncomfortable, as McDonagh. With political intrigue, questionable loyalties and his famously caustic dialogue in the mix, this has all the makings of a dark comedy worth rearranging your week for.
In cinemas 5 November 2026
I Love Boosters
Keke Palmer, Demi Moore, designer clothing and a revenge plot with impeccable taste. Finally, a heist film with its priorities in order. From Sorry to Bother You filmmaker Boots Riley comes I Love Boosters, a riotous fashion-world caper following a group of professional shoplifters who liberate expensive clothing and redistribute it at prices the rest of us can actually afford. When a powerful designer (Moore) takes issue with their operation, the women turn their attention to her next collection. Consider it a hostile takeover with a very good wardrobe.
Palmer leads a stellar cast alongside Taylour Paige, Naomi Ackie and LaKeith Stanfield, in a film that takes aim at fashion’s gatekeepers and the absurd economics of looking expensive. Subversive, sharply dressed and armed with plenty to say about who gets to wear what, this is one for anyone who loves a fabulous outfit and watching the establishment get taken down a peg.
In cinemas 12 November 2026
How to Rob a Bank
There was a time when the whole point of robbing a bank was not getting caught. Apparently, nobody told this lot.
Nicholas Hoult and Pete Davidson lead a crew of bank robbers who commit elaborate heists and broadcast the evidence to their growing social media following. Naturally, going viral attracts the wrong sort of attention, particularly from a veteran FBI agent (John C. Reilly) and a gifted hacker (Zoë Kravitz) determined to bring their criminal influencer careers to an abrupt end.
Directed by David Leitch (Bullet Train, The Fall Guy), this OTT premise brings together an excellent ensemble, including Shōgun breakout Anna Sawai, for a high-octane crime caper with a distinctly 2026 problem at its centre: what happens when the pursuit of internet fame becomes more important than getting away with the money? Honestly, we’re sold.
In cinemas 12 November 2026
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
The Capitol has found a way to make the Hunger Games even crueller. Double the tributes. Same appalling appetite for entertainment.
Twenty-four years before Katniss Everdeen volunteers as tribute, a 16-year-old Haymitch Abernathy (Australian newcomer Joseph Zada) is selected for the 50th Hunger Games. This is the Second Quarter Quell, and 48 young people are heading into the arena instead of the usual 24.
We know Haymitch as Katniss’s sharp-tongued, hard-drinking mentor. Now we’re meeting the boy before the damage.
Director Francis Lawrence returns, with Ralph Fiennes as President Snow, Elle Fanning as Effie Trinket and Jesse Plemons as Plutarch Heavensbee. It’s an extraordinary ensemble for a franchise whose most disturbing idea has always been how easily cruelty can be packaged as prime-time entertainment. And therein lies the heartbreak. We already know Haymitch survives. What we don’t know is how much of him makes it home.
In cinemas 19 November 2026
Bad Apples
In Bad Apples, Saoirse Ronan plays a teacher whose worst decision turns out to be rather good for her career.
Maria is a primary school teacher struggling to manage one particularly disruptive pupil. When an encounter spirals out of control, she ends up keeping the boy captive in her home. Back at school, something unexpected happens. Her students start thriving. The parents are pleased. Maria, understandably, is less enthusiastic.
Directed by Jonatan Etzler, the film takes an absurd premise and finds something uncomfortably recognisable beneath it: an education system under pressure, the temptation to prioritise results over principles and the ease with which people overlook inconvenient truths when everything appears to be working.
A black comedy with an excellent question at its centre: how much are we prepared to excuse when we like the outcome?
In cinemas 19 November 2026
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Erupcja
Charli xcx in Warsaw, caught between a boyfriend who might propose and a woman she hasn’t quite forgotten. The volcanoes are a separate complication.
In Pete Ohs’ Erupcja, Bethany (Charli) arrives in Poland for a romantic holiday, only to reconnect with Nel (Lena Góra), a local florist and former flame. Their meetings come with a peculiar coincidence: every time they reunite, a volcano erupts somewhere in the world. Make of that what you will.
Filmed during Brat summer, this 71-minute indie offers a different side of Charli, trading pop spectacle for Warsaw’s bars and backstreets. Beneath the surreal premise is a familiar romantic predicament: Bethany’s boyfriend seems ready to plan their future, while she’s increasingly preoccupied with someone from her past.
In cinemas 19 November 2026
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The Fox
A cheating fiancée, a talking fox voiced by Olivia Colman and a magical hole in the Australian bush. Local cinema has officially lost its mind, and we couldn’t be happier.
From Danger 5 creator Dario Russo comes The Fox, a wonderfully twisted folktale starring Jai Courtney as Nick, a country bloke whose fiancée (Emily Browning) has been having an affair. His solution? Take relationship advice from a mysterious fox offering to transform his partner into the woman of his dreams. What could possibly go wrong?
Sam Neill voices a particularly opinionated magpie, while Damon Herriman and Miranda Otto round out a cast clearly game for the absurd. Handcrafted animatronics add to the film’s eccentric appeal, but beneath the pitch-black humour is a rather pointed examination of our desire to change the people we love. And the festival circuit has taken notice. The Fox has already picked up Best Australian Director at MIFF and the Audience Award for Best Australian Feature at Sydney Film Festival. With that pedigree and a premise this peculiar, we’re sold.
In cinemas nationally 26 November 2026
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The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth
Hollywood has moved on from 1969. Cliff Booth has found a less respectable way to make a living.
It’s 1977, and Brad Pitt’s former stuntman is now dividing his time between bartending, operating a cinema projector and handling problems that famous people would prefer to keep out of the papers. When a talent agent (Elizabeth Debicki) calls on behalf of a television star (Scott Caan), Cliff is drawn into the less reputable corners of the film business, where discretion is valuable and the company is questionable.
The real intrigue is behind the camera. Quentin Tarantino has handed his creation to David Fincher, reuniting Pitt with the director of Fight Club and Se7en. The nostalgic Hollywood fantasy of Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood has become a 1970s crime tale, with a filmmaker unnervingly skilled at examining what people do when nobody’s watching.
Cliff was always a man of flexible principles. Giving him a career built around other people’s indiscretions feels like an inspired choice.
In Australian IMAX cinemas 26 November 2026
Sense & Sensibility
We will never, ever, ever tire of Jane Austen adaptations. Serving a similar aesthetic to the 2005 Pride & Prejudice adaptation, Sense & Sensibility is a tale of two sisters attempting to recover from the loss of their home and impending financial ruin. Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles play our protagonists, the Dashwood sisters, one with an excess of sense, and the other, as you may have guessed, sensibility. Expect to yearn, expect to burn and expect plenty of Austen’s iconic quips.
In cinemas October 16 2026
Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro’s tender, unsettling meditation on love and artificial intelligence comes to the screen via Taika Waititi, with Jenna Ortega as Klara, an Artificial Friend chosen to keep a sick teenager company. Amy Adams, Mia Tharia, Natasha Lyonne and Steve Buscemi round out a seriously stacked cast in a story asking what technology can replicate, and what remains stubbornly human.
Arriving In cinemas 22 October 2026
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Possible Love
Eight years after Burning, acclaimed South Korean director Lee Chang-dong returns with Possible Love, an intimate drama about desire, class and the uncomfortable business of examining your own marriage.
Two couples from vastly different economic circumstances become entangled when a documentary filmmaker begins recording the lives of workers affected by unemployment. What follows is an increasingly complicated exchange of attraction, resentment and emotional loyalties.
Starring Jeon Do-yeon, Sul Kyung-gu, Cho Yeo-jeong and Zo In-sung, the film arrives with serious cinematic credentials, having won the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival. For those who appreciate a beautifully observed relationship drama that leaves plenty to discuss afterwards, clear an evening.
Stream on Netflix from 6 November 2026
Misty Green
Hollywood loves a comeback. It’s considerably less enthusiastic about the women attempting one.
In Chris Rock’s sharp-edged A24 drama, Slow Horses breakout Rosalind Eleazar plays Misty Green, a former Emmy-winning actress whose career has gone sharply off course. With seven days to find somewhere to live, increasingly humiliating auditions and a dream role potentially within reach, Misty is running out of time, money and people willing to take her calls.
Written and directed by Rock, who also stars alongside Adam Driver, Daniel Kaluuya and Anna Kendrick, the film takes aim at Hollywood’s disposable approach to talent, when fame fades and second chances come with conditions. There’s biting humour beneath the personal wreckage, but it’s Eleazar’s magnetic performance that’s attracting serious attention.
A Chris Rock drama about the indignities of Hollywood, led by an actress having her own breakthrough moment? The irony is delicious.
Stream on Netflix from 9 November 2026
Avedon
Richard Avedon once photographed a Dior-clad model alongside circus elephants. He also captured Marilyn Monroe looking nothing like the Marilyn Monroe the world thought it knew. Few photographers understood the possibilities of a single image quite like him.
In Avedon, director Ron Howard explores the remarkable career and complicated private life of the man who helped revolutionise fashion photography. From the pages of Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue to his portraits of civil rights activists and the American West, Avedon’s curiosity extended well beyond beautiful people in beautiful clothes.
Drawing on previously unseen photographs, home movies and interviews with Calvin Klein, Twiggy and Isabella Rossellini, the documentary reveals an exacting perfectionist whose pursuit of the extraordinary could be as demanding as it was inspired.
Fresh from its Cannes premiere, this is a fascinating opportunity to revisit a body of work that still feels startlingly contemporary, and meet the man who made it.
Stream on Netflix from 11 November 2026
FAQs About the Best Movies to Watch This Month
The best movies to watch in November 2026 include Wicker, starring Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgård, The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, Saoirse Ronan’s Bad Apples and Australian fantasy comedy The Fox. Brad Pitt also returns in The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth, directed by David Fincher. For something less conventional, there’s Charli xcx’s Warsaw-set indie Erupcja and Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything. Netflix has plenty to offer, too, including Ron Howard’s photography documentary Avedon.
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping arrives in Australian cinemas on 19 November 2026. Set 24 years before Katniss Everdeen’s first Games, the prequel follows a young Haymitch Abernathy (Joseph Zada) as he’s selected for the 50th Hunger Games, an especially brutal edition featuring twice the usual number of tributes. Ralph Fiennes, Elle Fanning and Jesse Plemons also star, with Francis Lawrence returning to direct. Fans of the original films already know Haymitch survives, although the circumstances of his victory are another matter entirely.
You Can See Everything follows disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes in the final 34 days before she enters prison for fraud. Co-directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, the documentary begins with Holmes allowing a film crew into her home and develops into a three-year examination of deception, public image and the reliability of the documentary process itself. At 174 minutes, it’s an unusually substantial look at one of Silicon Valley’s most notorious figures. It arrives in Australian cinemas on 12 November 2026.
Bad Apples is a British black comedy starring Saoirse Ronan as Maria, a primary school teacher whose struggles with a disruptive pupil lead to an extraordinary lapse in judgement. When she ends up holding the child captive, his absence has an unexpected effect on her classroom: the other students begin performing better. Directed by Jonatan Etzler, the film examines institutional pressure and the uncomfortable compromises people make when the results appear to justify their actions. It opens in Australian cinemas on 19 November 2026.
Erupcja stars Charli xcx as Bethany, an Englishwoman visiting Warsaw with her boyfriend who reconnects with Nel (Lena Góra), a Polish florist and former romantic interest. As Bethany questions her relationship and the future being planned for her, the women’s encounters appear to coincide with volcanic eruptions around the world. Directed by Pete Ohs and filmed during Brat summer, the 71-minute indie offers a very different side of Charli’s creative career. It arrives in Australian cinemas on 19 November 2026.
The Fox is an Australian fantasy comedy directed by Dario Russo, starring Jai Courtney as a man who discovers his fiancée has been unfaithful. When a mysterious talking fox offers him the opportunity to transform his partner into his ideal woman, he makes a decision with increasingly strange consequences. Olivia Colman voices the fox, with Sam Neill playing a magpie and Emily Browning, Damon Herriman and Miranda Otto among the cast. Following award-winning appearances at Australian film festivals, The Fox opens nationally on 26 November 2026.
The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth arrives in Australian IMAX cinemas on 26 November 2026, before streaming on Netflix from 23 December. Brad Pitt reprises his Oscar-winning role from Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, although this time David Fincher is directing from a screenplay by Quentin Tarantino. Set in 1977, the film follows Cliff’s new career as a Hollywood fixer, dealing with the problems of the rich and famous. It’s also the first feature collaboration between Pitt and Fincher since The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
Netflix’s November 2026 film releases include Possible Love on 6 November, Misty Green on 9 November and Avedon on 11 November. Possible Love marks South Korean filmmaker Lee Chang-dong’s return with a drama about marriage and class, while Chris Rock’s Misty Green stars Rosalind Eleazar as an actress attempting to revive her career. Photography enthusiasts should make time for Avedon, Ron Howard’s documentary examining the life and work of legendary photographer Richard Avedon, featuring personal archives and interviews with those who knew him.
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