November 2023: all the new movies in theaters this month, from upcoming releases to hidden gems and films to watch right now!
The wait is over: so many festival favorites and anticipated releases will be out in theaters in November 2023! We made a list of all the new movies coming to US theaters and UK cinemas this month, from upcoming releases to hidden gems and great new films to watch right now or in a few weeks’ time!
You’ll find all the films below, in order of release and divided by movies to watch in the U.S. and U.K., and we’ve also included global release dates where available. Enjoy!
- November 2023: New Movies in U.S. Theaters
- November 2023: New Movies in U.K. Cinemas
NOVEMBER 2023 MOVIES: IN U.S. THEATERS
HOW TO RUIN THE HOLIDAYS (LIMITED)
Director: Arlen Konopaki
U.S. Release: November 2 in select US and Canadian cities
U.K. Release: TBA
Official synopsis: Michelle is a struggling comedian who goes home for the holidays. While her sister Andrea claims it’s an emergency, their doomsday prepping dad (Colin Mochrie) and freewheeling brother Mark aren’t so sure. As they prepare for a final Christmas together in their family home, Michelle works to redefine her relationships with her father and siblings. When her dad’s unconventional lifestyle comes to light, she must face a life-changing decision about caring for her brother with disabilities.
ALL DIRT ROADS TASTE OF SALT
Director: Raven Jackson
U.S. Release: November 3
U.K. Release: TBA
Official synopsis: A lyrical, decades-spanning exploration across a woman’s life in Mississippi, the feature debut from award-winning poet, photographer and filmmaker Raven Jackson is a haunting and richly layered portrait, a beautiful ode to the generations of people and places that shape us.
ALLSWELL IN NEW YORK (LIMITED)
Director: Ben Snyder
U.S. Release: November 3
U.K. Release: TBA
Official synopsis: The story of three Puerto Rican sisters in New York who are navigating life’s challenges of single motherhood, career, and family, while finding that the humor, solace, and bonds of sisterhood make it all bearable.
FINGERNAILS (LIMITED)
Director: Christos Nikou
Global Release: November 3 in select theaters and on Apple TV+.
Official synopsis: Anna (Jessie Buckley) and Ryan (Jeremy Allen White) have found true love. It’s been proven by a controversial new technology. There’s just one problem: Anna still isn’t sure. Then she takes a position at a love testing institute, and meets Amir (Riz Ahmed).
FOUR DAUGHTERS (LIMITED)
Director: Kaouther Ben Hania
U.S. Release: November 3 (LA), with nationwide expansion to follow
U.K. Release: TBA
Official synopsis: A riveting exploration of rebellion, memory, and sisterhood, Four Daughters reconstructs the story of Olfa Hamrouni and her four daughters, unpacking a complex family history through intimate interviews and performance to examine how the Tunisian woman’s two eldest daughters were radicalized. Casting professional actresses as the missing eldest daughters Ghofrane and Rahma, along with acclaimed Egyptian-Tunisian actress Hend Sabri as Olfa, director Kaouther Ben Hania restages pivotal moments in the family’s life, interwoven with confessions and reflections from Olfa and younger daughters Eya and Tayssir that capture moments of joy, loss, violence, and heartache.
HELEN’S DEAD
Director: K. Asher Levin
U.S. Release: November 3
U.K. Release: TBA
Official synopsis: Upon discovering her boyfriend, Adam (Emile Hirsch), is sleeping with her cousin Helen (Matilda Lutz), the aimless Addie goes to a dinner party to confront them, only to discover Helen is dead and everyone is a suspect. From “canceled” influencer Leila to her shady, older husband George, to wannabe actor Garrett and even her own lover/ex-con Henry, Addie must find Helen’s killer before it’s too late.
THE HOLDOVERS
Director: Alexander Payne
U.S. Release: November 3 (limited), November 10 (nationwide)
U.K. Release: January 19, 2024.
Official synopsis: From acclaimed director Alexander Payne, THE HOLDOVERS follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a prestigious American school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker (newcomer Dominic Sessa) — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam (Da’Vine Joy Randolph).
THE MARSH KING’S DAUGHTER
Director: Neil Burger
U.S. Release: November 3
U.K. Release: TBA
Official synopsis: In the tense thriller The Marsh King’s Daughter, a woman with a secret past will venture into the wilderness she left behind to confront the most dangerous man she’s ever met: her father. In the film, Helena’s (Daisy Ridley) seemingly ordinary life hides a dark and dangerous truth: her estranged father is the infamous Marsh King (Ben Mendelsohn), the man who kept her and her mother captive in the wilderness for years. When her father escapes from prison, Helena will need to confront her past. Knowing that he will hunt for her and her family, Helena must find the strength to face her demons and outmaneuver the man who taught her everything she knows about surviving in the wild.
OPEN (LIMITED)
Director: Miles Doleac
U.S. Release: November 3
U.K. Release: TBA
Official synopsis: OPEN tells the story of Kristina (Lindsay Anne Williams), a woman in a troubled marriage, who falls for a former TV star and teen heartthrob (Jeremy London), whose previously promising career has collapsed. All the while, Kristina experiences music video-like hallucinations wherein she fronts an 80’s new wave band.
PRISCILLA
Director: Sofia Coppola
U.S. Release: November 3
U.K. Release: December 26 (limited), January 1 (nationwide)
Official synopsis: When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best friend. Through Priscilla’s eyes, Sofia Coppola tells the unseen side of a great American myth in Elvis and Priscilla’s long courtship and turbulent marriage, from a German army base to his dream-world estate at Graceland, in this deeply felt and ravishingly detailed portrait of love, fantasy, and fame.
PROJECT Z (LIMITED)
Director: Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken
U.S. Release: November 3
U.K. Release: TBA
Official synopsis: A group of film students take three out of work actors to an old motel in the mountains to make zombie films. When a mysterious asteroid crashes nearby strange things begin to happen, blurring the line between fiction and reality. The undead have seemingly began attacking the crew and they must fight for their lives – or is it a part of their story?
RUSTIN (LIMITED)
Director: George C. Wolfe
U.S. Release: November 3
Global Release: November 17 on Netflix
Official synopsis: The architect of 1963’s momentous March on Washington, Bayard Rustin was one of the greatest activists and organizers the world has ever known. He challenged authority, never apologized for who he was, what he believed, or who he desired. And he did not back down. He made history, and in turn, he was forgotten. Starring Colman Domingo, Rustin shines a long overdue spotlight on the extraordinary man who, alongside giants like the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., Adam Clayton Powell Jr., and Ella Baker, dared to imagine a different world, and inspired a movement in a march toward freedom.
SQUEALER
Director: Andy Armstrong
U.S. Release: November 3
U.K. Release: TBA
Official synopsis: Tyrese Gibson (The Fast and the Furious franchise) and Theo Rossi (“Sons of Anarchy”) star in this terrifying thriller inspired by real events. When young women start disappearing in a small town, a police officer and a street-smart social worker follow clues to a remote pig farm, where they discover the local butcher has been bringing his work home. Enter the world of a serial killer and experience for yourself the bloodcurdling horror of a film that’s bound to take your breath away.
THE STONES AND BRIAN JONES
Director: Nick Broomfield
U.S. Release: November 7 for a one night event, November 17 nationwide
U.K. Release: out now on the iPlayer!
Official synopsis: Featuring revealing interviews with all the main players and unseen archive released for the first time, The Stones and Brian Jones explores the creative musical genius of Jones, key to the success of the band, and uncovers how the founder of what became the greatest rock’n’roll band in the world was left behind in the shadows of history.
THE DIRTY SOUTH
Director: Matthew Yerby
U.S. Release: November 10
U.K. Release: TBA
Official synopsis: Sue Parker (Willa Holland) finds herself in a desperate battle to save her family’s struggling business, which is on the brink of collapse due to her father’s neglect. When a handsome drifter (Shane West) comes into town she sees him as the only chance to prevent their bar from falling into the hands of a ruthless local tycoon (Dermot Mulroney). What starts as a simple plan to save her family, quickly spirals into larceny, lawlessness and deadly consequences.
DREAM SCENARIO
Director: Kristoffer Borgli
U.S. Release: November 10
U.K. Release: TBA
Official synopsis: Hapless family man Paul Matthews (Nicolas Cage) finds his life turned upside down when millions of strangers suddenly start seeing him in their dreams. But when his nighttime appearances take a nightmarish turn, Paul is forced to navigate his newfound stardom, in this wickedly entertaining comedy from writer-director Kristoffer Borgli (Sick of Myself) and producer Ari Aster.
HOLY FRIT (LIMITED)
Director: Justin S. Monroe
U.S. Release: October 27 (NY), November 10 (LA)
U.K. Release: TBA
Official synopsis: In this visceral, three-year race against time, Tim, a talented, yet unknown, LA artist bluffs his way into winning the commission to create the world’s largest stained-glass window of its kind. The problem is, Tim doesn’t know how to make it…
KANE (LIMITED)
Director: Blair Moore
U.S. Release: November 10
U.K. Release: TBA
Official synopsis: In the dangerous world of crime, Benny serves under Abe, a crime boss with multiple personalities. When a gang war erupts with the notorious Frankie, Benny must confront the deadliest persona within Abe, Kane. With the next 24 hours predicted to be filled with violence, Benny questions his loyalty and contemplates joining Frankie. As the battle intensifies and secrets unravel, Benny faces a choice that could shake the criminal empire to its core. “Split Allegiance” is a gripping dark thriller that explores the blurred lines of loyalty and identity in a treacherous underworld.
IT’S A WONDERFUL KNIFE (LIMITED)
Director: Tyler MacIntyre
U.S. Release: November 10
U.K. Release: TBA
Official synopsis: A year after saving her town from a psychotic killer on Christmas Eve, Winnie Carruthers’ life is less than wonderful — but when she wishes she’d never been born, she finds herself in a nightmare parallel universe and discovers that without her, things could be much, much worse. Now the killer is back, and she must team up with the town misfit to identify the killer and get back to her own reality. It’s A Wonderful Life by way of Scream.
THE KILLER
Director: David Fincher
Global Release: November 10 on Netflix
Official synopsis: After its world premiere at the 2023 Venice Film Festival, David Fincher’s highly anticipated new movie The Killer will be out globally on Netflix from November 10, 2023. The film is based on a French graphic novel, and Michael Fassbender is the titular killer – a man on a dangerous international mission that may or may not be personal.
THE MARVELS
Director: Nia DaCosta
Global Release: November 10
Official synopsis: In Marvel Studios’ “The Marvels,” Carol Danvers aka Captain Marvel has reclaimed her identity from the tyrannical Kree and taken revenge on the Supreme Intelligence. But unintended consequences see Carol shouldering the burden of a destabilized universe. When her duties send her to an anomalous wormhole linked to a Kree revolutionary, her powers become entangled with that of Jersey City super-fan Kamala Khan, aka Ms. Marvel, and Carol’s estranged niece, now S.A.B.E.R. astronaut Captain Monica Rambeau. Together, this unlikely trio must team up and learn to work in concert to save the universe as “The Marvels.”
ORLANDO, MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY (LIMITED)
Director: Paul B. Preciado
U.S. Release: November 10 at Film Forum (LA)
U.K. Release: TBA
Official synopsis: A diverse cast of over two dozen trans and non-binary people exuberantly claim their Orlando-ness, (re)interpreting scenes from the novel and reflecting on their own identities. Far from an academic exercise, ORLANDO, MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY playfully links Woolf’s prescience to the experiences of trans people today.
SHARE? (LIMITED)
Director: Ira Rosensweig
U.S. Release: November 10
U.K. Release: TBA
Official synopsis: A man awakens alone, stripped of all possessions, trapped in a bare room. Aided solely by a primitive computer, he fights to survive in a new existence where entertainment is the only currency and discover who imprisoned him, why, and if there is any possibility of escape.
YOUR LUCKY DAY (LIMITED)
Director: Daniel Brown
U.S. Release: November 10
U.K. Release: TBA
Official synopsis: After a dispute over a winning lottery ticket turns into a deadly hostage situation, the witnesses must decide exactly how far they’ll go—and how much blood they’re willing to spill—for a cut of the $156 million.
FALLEN LEAVES
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
U.S. Release: November 17
U.K. Release: December 1
Official synopsis: FALLEN LEAVES tells the story of two lonely people (Alma Pöysti and Jussi Vatanen) who meet each other by chance in the Helsinki night and try to find the first, only, and ultimate love of their lives.Their path towards this honorable goal is clouded by the man’s alcoholism, lost phone numbers, not knowing each other’s names or addresses, and life’s general tendency to place obstacles in the way of those seeking their happiness.This gentle tragicomedy, previously thought to be lost, is the fourth part of Aki Kaurismäki’s working-class trilogy.
THE HUNGER GAMES: THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES
Director: Francis Lawrence
Global Release: November 17
Official synopsis: Years before he would become the tyrannical President of Panem, 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth) is the last hope for his fading lineage, a once-proud family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol. With the 10th annual Hunger Games fast approaching, the young Snow is alarmed when he is assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler), the girl tribute from impoverished District 12. But, after Lucy Gray commands all of Panem’s attention by defiantly singing during the reaping ceremony, Snow thinks he might be able to turn the odds in their favor. Uniting their instincts for showmanship and newfound political savvy, Snow and Lucy Gray’s race against time to survive will ultimately reveal who is a songbird, and who is a snake.
KARAOKE (LIMITED)
Director: Moshe Rosenthal
U.S. Release: November 17
U.K. Release: TBA
Official synopsis: Meir (Iraq-born Sasson Gabay) and Tova (Morocco-born Rita Shukrun) are an upper middle class couple with two grown daughters, seemingly resigned to their semi-retirement in the banal comforts of an upscale apartment complex in a Tel Aviv suburb. With their careers and marriage in a rut, their lives are upended by the charismatic Itzik (Lior Ashkenazi), a newly arrived talent agent from Miami now occupying the penthouse where he likes to throw wild Karaoke parties, much to the annoyance and envy of the rest of the building.
When Meir and Tova get their own coveted invitation, they are soon drawn into Itzik’s energizing orbit. The couple soon becomes obsessed with the bachelor, competing for his attention while acting out long-dormant ambitions and desires, as they go on their own humorous but deeply human journeys of self-exploration.
MAY DECEMBER
Director: Todd Haynes
Global Release: November 17
Official synopsis: Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance, a married couple buckle under the pressure when a Hollywood actress meets them to do research for a film about their past.
NEXT GOAL WINS
Director: Taika Waititi
U.S. Release: November 17
U.K. Release: December 29
Official synopsis: Directed by Academy Award Winner Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit, Thor: Ragnarok), NEXT GOAL WINS follows the American Samoa soccer team, infamous for their brutal 31-0 FIFA loss in 2001. With the World Cup Qualifiers approaching, the team hires down-on-his-luck, maverick coach Thomas Rongen (Michael Fassbender) hoping he will turn the world’s worst soccer team around in this heartfelt underdog comedy.
SALTBURN
Director: Emerald Fennell
U.S. Release: November 17 (limited), November 22 (nationwide)
U.K. Release: November 17
Official synopsis: Academy Award winning filmmaker Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman) brings us a beautifully wicked tale of privilege and desire. Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi), who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family’s sprawling estate, for a summer never to be forgotten.
THANKSGIVING
Director: Eli Roth
Global Release: November 17
Official synopsis: After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts – the birthplace of the infamous holiday.
TROLLS BAND TOGETHER
Director: Walt Dohrn
U.S. Release: November 17
U.K. Release: October 20
Official synopsis: This holiday season, get ready for an action-packed, all-star, rainbow-colored family reunion like no other as Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake return for the new chapter in DreamWorks Animation’s blockbuster musical franchise: Trolls Band Together.
WHEN TIME GOT LOUDER
Director: Connie Cocchia
U.S. Release: November 17
U.K. Release: TBA
Official synopsis: Departing for college, Abbie leaves her parents and brother who has autism and is non-verbal. As she explores her independence and sexuality, she’s torn between her new life and her love for her brother.
MONSTER (LIMITED)
Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda
U.S. Release: November 17 (NY), December 1 (LA), December 2023 (nationwide)
U.K. Release: TBA
Official synopsis: A mother demands answers from teacher when her son begins acting strangely.
NAPOLEON
Director: Ridley Scott
U.S. Release: November 22
Global Release: later this year, on Apple TV+ – watch Napoleon!
Official synopsis: Directed by Scott from a screenplay by David Scarpa, “Napoleon” stars Joaquin Phoenix as the French emperor and military leader. The film is an original and personal look at Napoleon’s origins and his swift, ruthless climb to emperor, viewed through the prism of his addictive and often volatile relationship with his wife and one true love, Josephine, played by Vanessa Kirby. The film captures Napoleon’s famous battles, relentless ambition and astounding strategic mind as an extraordinary military leader and war visionary. An Apple Studios production in conjunction with Scott Free Productions, “Napoleon” is produced by Scott, Kevin Walsh, Mark Huffam and Phoenix, with Michael Pruss and Aidan Elliott serving as executive producers.
WISH
Directors: Chris Buck and Fawn Veerasunthorn
Global Release: November 22
