3 Netflix Movies I Can’t Wait to Watch in November 2025: ‘Frankenstein’ and More

Right after Halloween, Hollywood tends to get serious — awards season kicks into overdrive and streamers have to convince their subscribers to keep giving them money.

That explains why Netflix’s November slate is packed with big-budget features that could win Oscars next year.

Leading the pack is Guillermo Del Toro’s lush retelling of Frankenstein, with Oscar Isaac as the titular mad doc and Jacob Elordi as the menacing — and strangely alluring — monster.

I’m also super stoked to stream Richard Linklater’s ode to French filmmaking, Nouvelle Vague, and Train Dreams, a lyrical valentine to America’s frontier past.

‘Frankenstein’ (2025) — November 7

It’s not surprising that Pan’s Labyrinth director Guillermo Del Toro adapted Frankenstein to the big screen — it’s just shocking it’s taken this long. But good things come to those who wait, and I’ve been eagerly anticipating how Del Toro adapts Mary Shelley’s classic novel about a man who plays God and pays dearly for it.

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Oscar Isaac stars as Victor Frankenstein, a scientist who never recovered from his mother’s untimely death when he was a child. Determined to find a cure for death, Victor collects body parts from criminals and assembles his Creature (Jacob Elordi), which comes to life thanks to a little luck and a lot of electricity. Victor’s success soon turns into failure as the Creature rebels and escapes, threatening his reputation and the life of his younger brother’s fiancée, Elizabeth (Mia Goth).

Mostly faithful to Shelley’s original text, Del Toro’s Frankenstein possesses the director’s signature Gothic flourishes and sympathy for freakish outsiders. Isaac makes a great scientist who is more guilt-ridden than mad, but it’s Elordi who impresses the most. Almost unrecognizable under pounds of makeup and prosthetics, his Creature is worthy of your sorrow and pity.

‘Nouvelle Vague’ (2025) — November 14

Movies about the making of a movie risk being self-indulgent, but Nouvelle Vague largely avoids that by its sheer audacity — how dare an American film director make a movie about one of France’s most famous movies? Richard Linklater is the filmmaker who dared, and the result is a film high on the giddiness of making a movie and starting a cinematic revolution.

Nouvelle Vague chronicles then-film critic Jean-Luc Godard’s (Guillaume Marbeck) attempt to make his first movie, Breathless, in 1959 France, a time and place that was already reinventing what movies could show and do. Helping him out is American actress Jean Seberg (Zoey Deutch), who is also looking to reinvent herself, and Godard’s Cahiers du Cinema critic pals, who are curious to see if he can pull this wild gambit off. Nouvelle Vague is unabashedly for film nerds — if you don’t know who Jean-Paul Belmondo is, then you probably won’t enjoy it. But I do, and I thoroughly enjoyed Linklater’s black-and-white valentine to the power and insanity of making a movie.

‘Train Dreams’ (2025) — November 21

I’m a huge fan of Terrence Malick, who directed classics like Days of Heaven with Richard Gere and The Thin Red Line with Sean Penn, so it’s only natural that I have the Malick-like drama Train Dreams on my November watchlist. The critically acclaimed film stars Joel Edgerton as Robert Granier, a mostly stoic man who helps build railroads in the Pacific Northwest during the early 19th century. While laying down tracks, he witnesses the murder of a Chinese immigrant, which haunts him even when he meets and marries his true love, Gladys (Felicity Jones).

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Filled with poetic imagery, haunting performances and unobtrusive narration by character actor Will Patton, Train Dreams is a hypnotic meditation about one man’s place in a changing world. It’s one of those films that doesn’t have much of a plot, but it doesn’t need one — the beautiful cinematography and evocative score tell you everything you need to know about Robert. Train Dreams is Netflix’s art-film flex, and it shows that the streamer can venture beyond its safe algorithm and stream original movies that will stay with you longer than the latest trashy true crime doc.

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