As we move through the month of October and horror rules the day, it’s time to start looking ahead to November—namely, its many new movies and TV shows debuting on Amazon. The streaming service is adding a handful of big-ticket small-screen titles, as well as a quality crop of feature films, so without any further ado, here’s a quick snapshot of the highlights.
Prime Video’s most exciting November addition is an easy call: Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail’s new psychological thriller Homecoming, starring Julia Roberts in her first turn as a TV series regular, as well as Stephan James, Bobby Cannavale, Sissy Spacek, Shea Wigham, Alex Karpovsky, Dermot Mulroney and Jeremy Allen White, among others. The much-anticipated Prime original series—debuting Nov. 2, directed by Esmail, and adapted from Eli Horowitz and Micah Bloomberg’s acclaimed podcast of the same name—follows Heidi Bergman (Roberts), a caseworker at the Homecoming Transitional Support Center, a facility that helps soldiers like Walter Cruz (James) transition back into civilian life—overseeing Heidi and the facility is Colin Belfast (Cannavale), an ambitious company man whose manic demands indicate questionable motives. Four years later, Heidi has moved in with her mother (Spacek) and started a new life as a small-town waitress, but when a Department of Defense auditor (Whigham) comes to her with questions about why she left the Homecoming facility, Heidi begins to realize the story she has been telling herself is only a small piece of a bigger picture.
Licensed TV titles following Homecoming in November include season one of drama PBS Masterpiece miniseries Little Women (Nov. 20), while other Amazon originals on the way include Beat season one (Nov. 9), Little Big Awesome season 1B (Nov. 9), Patriot season two (Nov. 9), Gymkhana Files season one (Nov. 16), Kung Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny season 1A (Nov. 16), Inside Jokes season one (Nov. 30) and Mirzapur season one (date TBD). And Nov. 20 brings two Prime original specials, Pete the Cat: A Very Groovy Christmas and Creative Galaxy: Arty’s Holiday Masterpiece, if only as a reminder that Christmas, like winter, is coming.
Amazon has some exciting feature film additions on the way in November, as well, none more perversely enticing than 2018’s critically despised, commercially disastrous mob drama Gotti, starring John Travolta as the eponymous Teflon Don. By all accounts, the film, directed by Kevin Connolly (best known as Eric “E” Murphy of Entourage) is one of the best bad movies of the year, earning a “perfect” zero percent score on Rotten Tomatoes (the RT “Critics Consensus” field literally just says “Fuhgeddaboudit”) and becoming one of Film Twitter’s most beloved comedic punching bags by virtue of nonsense like the below:
You can exercise your morbid curiosity when Gotti hits Amazon on Nov. 15. On their way earlier in the month, however, are a number of actual movies, including a big batch of Nov. 1 arrivals: 1988’s Chucky franchise kickstarter Child’s Play, steamy teen seduction drama Cruel Intentions, harrowing psychological-horror film Jacob’s Ladder, Nic Cage-starring arms dealer drama Lord of War, Tony Gilroy’s 2007 fixer thriller Michael Clayton and Oscar-winning Che Guevara road film The Motorcycle Diaries, just to name a few. Following that Nov. 1 influx are Stephen Chbosky’s hit 2017 drama Wonder (Nov. 2), Matthew Vaughn’s gritty comic adaptation Kick-Ass (Nov. 3), Amazon Prime original Coldplay documentary Coldplay: A Head Full of Dreams (Nov. 16), acclaimed Alexander McQueen documentary McQueen (Nov. 17), Javier Bardem-led Pablo Escobar biopic Loving Pablo (Nov. 21) and Alexander Payne’s satirical sci-fi dramedy Downsizing (Nov. 24). So in conclusion … Gotti and some also-rans.
Find Amazon’s complete list of November additions below.
New in November – Available for Streaming on Prime Video
Movies
November 1
21 (2008)
2001 Maniacs (2005)
Alice (2016)
Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)
Candyman: Day of the Dead (1999)
Child’s Play (1988)
Christmas with the Kranks (2004)
Cruel Intentions (1999)
De-Lovely (2004)
Desperate Hours (1990)
Die Another Day (2002)
Duck, You Sucker (A Fistful of Dynamite) (1971)
Excalibur (1981)
Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969)
Hostel (2005)
Hostel: Part II (2007)
Jacob’s Ladder (1990)
Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
Like Water (2011)
Little Man Tate (1991)
Little Odessa (1994)
Lord of War (2005)
Made (2001)
Making Contact (Joey) (1985)
Michael Clayton (2007)
Mr. Bean’s Holiday (2007)
Mulholland Falls (1996)
My Girl (1991)
Terms of Endearment (1983)
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
The Birdcage (1996)
The Living Daylights (1987)
The Magnificent Seven Ride! (1972)
The Mexican (2001)
The Motorcycle Diaries (Diarios de motocicleta) (2004)
The Red Violin (Le violon rouge) (1998)
The World Is Not Enough (1999)
Tyler Perry’s Boo 2! A Madea Halloween (2017)
Weird Science (1985)
November 2
Wonder (2017)
November 3
Kick-Ass (2010)
November 10
The Children Act (2017)
November 15
Gotti (2018)
November 16
Coldplay: A Head Full of Dreams (Prime Exclusive; available on Prime Video shortly following the theatrical release) (2018)
November 17
McQueen (2018)
Siberia (2018)
November 18
Condemned (2015)
November 21
Box of Moon Light (1996)
Loving Pablo (2017)
November 22
Wild Kratts: Creatures of the Deep Sea (2016)
November 24
Downsizing (2017)
November 29
Harry Brown (2009)
November 30
Sleepless (2017)
TV
November TBD
Mirzapur (Prime Original series), Season 1
November 2
Homecoming (Prime Original series), Season 1
November 9
Beat (Prime Original series), Season 1
Little Big Awesome (Prime Original series), Season 1b
Patriot (Prime Original series), Season 2
November 16
Gymkhana Files (Prime Original series), Season 1
Kung Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny (Prime Original series), Season 1a
November 20
Creative Galaxy: Arty’s Holiday Masterpiece (Prime Original series), Special
Pete the Cat: A Very Groovy Christmas (Prime Original series), Special
Little Women, Season 1
November 30
Inside Jokes (Prime Original series), Season 1
Live Sports
November 1
Thursday Night Football: Oakland Raiders vs. San Francisco 49ers
November 8
Thursday Night Football: Carolina Panthers vs. Pittsburgh Steelers
November 15
Thursday Night Football: Green Bay Packers vs. Seattle Seahawks
November 29
Thursday Night Football: New Orleans Saints vs. Dallas Cowboys
New in November – Available for Rent or Purchase on Prime Video
Movies
November 6
Incredibles 2 (2018) – Rent
November 13
The Equalizer 2 (2018) – Purchase
November 27
The Predator (2018) – Purchase
New in November – Available for Streaming on Prime Video Channels
Movies
November 10
Big Hero 6, STARZ
Frozen, STARZ
November 17
Inside Out, STARZ
TV
November 2
Pinkalicious & Peterrific, Season 1, PBS Kids
November 4
Outlander, Season 4, STARZ
November 18
Escape at Dannemora, Limited Event Series, Showtime
November 21
Jamestown, Season 2, PBS Masterpiece
Live Sports
November 3
*UFC 230: Shevchenko vs. Eubanks, PPV
November 7-11
ATP Next Gen Finals – Milan, Italy, Prime Video
*UFC 230 Under the Prime Video | Pay-Per-View