It is about to be the first week of November 2026, and the world is hard to look away from. Diwali is just a few days away, so is the much-awaited Ranbir Kapoor film Ramayana. The news cycle is loud, the feeds are louder, and by evening most of us would happily watch something that asks nothing of us but our attention.
That makes this month's streaming slate arrive at the right time. Diwali falls on 8 November, which means long evenings, family on the sofa, and a remote that gets passed around. Netflix has the Hindi gangster drama Akka just ahead of the month, and The Gilded Age returns for a fourth season on 1 November. Prime Video brings The Rings of Power back on 11 November and The Chosen on 15 November, while Apple TV's Stick arrives on 3 November.
Some of these are comfort viewing and some are escape. A few are worth clearing a weekend for, and the rest can wait until the world gives you a quieter week. Check them out.
When: 5 November, 2026
Where: Netflix
Mihir Ahuja plays Ansh Sikka returns home for Diwali after working abroad and buys his middle-class Punjabi parents a swanky new high-rise apartment, only to learn that a new address doesn't automatically change what feels like home.
When: 25 November, 2026
Where: Amazon Prime Video
Starring Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer lead this highly anticipated dystopian cyberpunk sequel set 50 years after Blade Runner 2049.
When: 4 November, 2026
Where: Amazon Prime Video
First-ever authorised scripted series chronicling the legendary life of Muhmmad Ali, the Greatest recounts the life of the legend through the documentary.
When: 25 November, 2026
Where: Amazon Prime Video
Starring Park Min-young, Yook Sung-jae, Go Soo, Nine to Six revolves around Kang Yi-ji, a driven senior manager at Chronic Motors who views love as a chemical impulse, finds her orderly life disrupted by two colleagues: an instinctive intern who protects her and an executive whose respect challenges her.
When: 30 November,2026
Where: Amazon Prime Video
A crime docuseries about Sam Bankman-Fried, who ran a $32 billion crypto empire before being convicted of stealing $8 billion in customer funds.
When: 11 November, 2026
Where: Amazon Prime Videos
The story picks up several years later (following a significant time jump) at the height of the War of the Elves and Sauron.
When: 6 November, 2026
Where: Netflix
A laid-off worker and his wife cross paths with a documentary filmmaker and her spouse leading to complex emotional entanglements that challenge their existing relationships and force them to confront their hidden desires.
When: November 25, 2026
Where: Apple Tv
Directed by McG and based on Jocko Willink's novel, this family film stars Chris Pratt as a decorated Navy SEAL uncle who moves in for the summer to help his bullied middle-school nephew (Jude Hill) build courage and confidence. Linda Cardellini co-stars
When: 6 November, 2026
Where: Apple TV
Awkwafina can act, rap and make a killer joke, but put her in front of a stove and things get dicey. In this docuseries, Nora Lum embarks on a cross-country culinary education to reconnect with her family’s Chinese restaurant legacy, meeting Asian American chefs who’ve found their own way into the business.
When: 13 November, 2026
Where: Apple TV
In the 2026 biographical drama film Being Heumann, Mark Ruffalo plays Joseph A. Califano Jr., the United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare who plays the primary bureaucratic antagonist to disability rights activist Judith Heumann (played by Ruth Madeley) during the historic 28-day federal building sit-in in San Francisco in 1977.
When: 13 November, 2026
Where: Apple TV
A heist takes 12 months to plan, 12 hours to execute-and a thief not caught within 12 days won't be caught at all; across three intertwined timelines, an FBI agent and a career criminal face off in a deadly game of cat and mouse through Europe.