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15 Binge-worthy Films and TV Shows To Watch in November 2025

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04.11.2025

By Marissa Chin

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15 Binge-worthy Films and TV Shows To Watch in November 2025

We may be entering the last couple of months of 2025, but that doesn’t mean the slew of entertainment is slowing down. In fact, there are tons of new films and TV shows coming your way. As we enter the holiday season, look forward to the highly anticipated final season of Stranger Things, Lee Jung-jae’s return to the small screen in Nice To Not Meet You, and the haughty legal drama All’s Fair, amongst others. Ahead, find our top picks for what to watch this November 2025.

 

Nice To Not Meet You

When and where: 3 November 2025 on Prime Video

Watch if: You have parasocial relationships with your favourite stars 

Starring: Lee Jung-jae, Lim Ji-yeon

They say never meet your idols. Wi Jeong-sin is about to find out why. After being demoted to the entertainment department while reporting on a corruption case, the journalist becomes enamoured with an actor who is the leading star of a popular detective drama. However, when their paths cross, things go awry when she discovers the beloved actor is much more different from his on-screen persona.

Watch here.

 

I Love LA

When and where: 3 November 2025 on HBO Max

Watch if: You love the epic highs and lows of codependent friendships

Starring: Rachel Sennott, Odessa A’zion, Jordan Firstman, True Whitaker, Josh Hutcherson, Leighton Meester

In this comedic and relatable series, a group of close-knit friends reunite in sunny Los Angeles after being apart for years. Can these ambitious 20-somethings lock in and navigate the complexities of friendship, love, and their career while trying to survive in the cutthroat world of Hollywood?

Watch here.

 

All’s Fair

When and where: 4 November 2025 on Disney+

Watch if: You support women’s rights and wrongs

Starring: Naomi Watts, Niecy Nash-Betts, Teyana Taylor, Matthew Noszka, Sarah Paulson, Kim Kardashian, and Glenn Close

A team of female divorce attorneys leave a male-dominated firm to open their own powerhouse practice. Fierce, brilliant and always immaculately dressed, they navigate high-stakes breakups, scandalous secrets, and shifting allegiances. In a world where money talks and love is a battleground, these women don’t just play the game—they change it.

Watch here.

 

The Manipulated

When and where: 5 November 2025 on Disney+

Watch if: You’re looking for an intense cat-and-mouse game

Starring: Ji Chang-wook, Doh Kyung-soo, Lee Kwang-soo

Tae-joong, a hardworking and kind-hearted man, is suddenly arrested for the rape and murder of a woman he never met. While in prison, he discovers that a mysterious figure named Yo-han orchestrated his downfall and is out there framing innocent people for his high-paying clients’ crimes. Fuelled by rage, he sets out on a path of vengeance to make the cunning mastermind pay.

Watch here.

 

Dear X

When and where: 6 November 2025 on HBO Max

Watch if: You want that complex female character 

Starring: Kim You-jung, Kim Young-dae

In this intense romance thriller, a sociopathic A-list actress’s dark side is exposed at the peak of her career. Used to utilising her dazzling appearance and manipulative skills to get what she wants, she will stop at nothing to keep the fame she clawed her way up to. Stuck at a crossroad, Yoon Joon-seo, a man who has protected her all her life, must decide between helping the love of his life or saving her from herself before it’s too late.

Watch here.

 

All Her Fault

When and where: 6 November 2025 on HBO Max

Watch if: Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train are some of your favourite films

Starring: Sarah Snook, Sophia Lillis, Dakota Fanning, Jake Lacy, Michael Peña

When Marissa Irvine goes to pick up her young son Milo from his first playdate with a boy at his new school, the woman who answers the door has never seen or heard of either Marissa or her son—beginning every parent’s worst nightmare. As Marissa and her husband begin a desperate search for their child, they uncover deep family secrets and a web of deception that will change their lives forever.

Watch here.

 

Pluribus

When and where: 7 November 2025 on Apple TV

Watch if: You love Severance 

Starring: Rhea Seehorn, Carlos Manuel Vesga, Karolina Wydra, Miriam Shor

Carol Sturka is, by definition, the most miserable person on Earth. Why? An unexplained virus has transformed the rest of the world’s population into content and optimistic citizens, and Carol is the only person immune to this happiness disease. As the authorities try to find a ‘cure’ for her, the perpetually cynical historical romance novelist must decide if she wants to fit in with this tedious utopia or if she’s better off without the forced happiness.

Watch here.

 

Frankenstein

When and where: 7 November 2025 on Netflix

Watch if: You never tire of this gothic classic 

Starring: Oscar Isaac, Mia Goth, Jacob Elordi, Christopher Waltz 

Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro reimagines Mary Shelley’s classic tale of a brilliant but egotistical scientist and the creature his monstrous ambition brings to life. 

Watch here.

 

Seventeen: Our Chapter

When and where: 7 November 2025 on Disney+

Watch if: You’re a Carat (duh!)

Starring: S.Coups, Jeonghan, Joshua, Jun, Hoshi, WonWoo, WooZi, The 8, MingYu, DK, SeungKwan, Vernon, Dino

Seventeen pulls back the curtains in this documentary as they take fans back through their first 10 years together, candidly discussing their highest highs and lowest lows. Returning to where it all began as they celebrate their 10th anniversary, the 13-member K-pop group will look back on how they got to where they are and what is next on the horizon. 

Watch here.

 

Maxton Hall—The World Between Us

When and where: 7 November 2025 on Prime Video

Watch if: Their back-and-forth love story has you in a chokehold 

Starring: Damian Hardung, Harriet Herbig-Matten 

After their passionate night together in Oxford and her greatest life goal within reach, everything seems to be going perfectly for Ruby. But a sudden tragedy in James’ family leads him to pull away, and Ruby is left feeling heartbroken and confused. She wishes for her old life back, where no one at Maxton Hall knew her and she wasn’t part of the elitist world of her classmates. When James tries to get her back, should she trust him to love again?

Watch here.

 

Playdate

When and where: 12 November 2025 on Prime Video

Watch if: You want a feel-good comedy

Starring: Kevin James, Alan Ritchson

When recently unemployed accountant Brian agrees to a playdate with charismatic stay-at-home dad Jeff and their sons, he expects an easy afternoon of small talk and football tossing. Instead, he’s thrust into a chaotic scramble to stay alive as they are pursued by a ruthless team of mercenaries. 

Watch here.

 

Last Samurai Standing

When and where: 13 November 2025 on Netflix

Watch if: You want to fill that Shogun-shaped hole in your heart

Starring: Jun’ichi Okada, Yumia Fujisaki, Kaya Kiyohara, Masahiro Higashide, Shôta Sometani.

One life, one point. Set in 1878 feudal Japan, Shujiro enters a deadly game against 292 former samurai, where points are earned for each kill, for a chance to win ¥100 billion. Shujiro Saga competes in the gory and brutal competition to save his sick family. Who will be the last samurai standing in this sinister scheme?

Watch here.

 

Malice

When and where: 14 November 2025 on Prime Video

Watch if: You want to see Jack Whitehall as a villain

Starring: Jack Whitehall, David Duchovny, Carice Van Houten

Adam is a charismatic tutor who manages to charm his way into the life of the wealthy Tannner family while they’re on holiday in Greece. When the family’s nanny falls dangerously ill, Adam orchestrates his way into their London home, and his true vengeful intentions begin to emerge. 

Watch here.

 

Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age 3

When and where: 26 November 2025 on Apple TV

Watch if: You love geeking about natural history

Narrated by Golden Globe winner Tom Hiddleston, with an original score by Hans Zimmer, Anže Rozman and Kara Talve from Bleeding Fingers Music, comes a sweeping new instalment of the award-winning natural history series. Told over five parts, the third season invites viewers into a dramatic new era of prehistoric life, millions of years after the extinction of the dinosaurs and the rise of a new cast of giants: the iconic megafauna.

Watch here.

 

Stranger Things 5: Volume 1

When and where: 27 November 2025 on Netflix

Watch if: You’ve been oh-so-patient for the new season

Starring: Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Winona Ryder, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, David Harbour, Maya Hawke, Noah Schnapp, Sadie Sink

Hawkins is scarred by the opening of the Rifts, and our heroes are united by a single goal: find and kill Vecna, no matter what. But he has vanished—his whereabouts and plans unknown. Complicating their mission, the government has placed the town under military quarantine and intensified its hunt for Eleven, forcing her back into hiding. The final battle is looming, and with it, a darkness more powerful and more deadly than anything they’ve faced before. To end this nightmare, they’ll need everyone—the full party—standing together, one last time.

Watch here.

 

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