It’s a new month, which means it’s the perfect time to refresh your watchlist. From international hits to local favourites and new originals, November’s lineup has everything you’ll want to binge before the year wraps.
If you already have an active Showmax subscription, add these titles to your list immediately. And if you haven’t subscribed in a while, this might be the month to dust it off and come back. Here are the standout picks worth prioritizing this November, from fresh premieres to sleeper hits you didn’t know you needed.
IT: WELCOME TO DERRY | HORROR SERIES
First on Showmax | Fridays from today
From Stephen King and the filmmakers behind the multi-award-winning IT films, the prequel series IT: Welcome to Derry is set in the 1960s as a group of children set out to investigate a series of disappearances in the town of Derry, Maine.
Black Reel nominee Taylour Paige (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom), Emmy nominee Jovan Adepo (Watchmen), and Chris Chalk (Marcus in Shining Girls and Paul Drake in Perry Mason) co-star alongside the child actors, with Critics’ Choice Super Awards nominee Bill Skarsgård (Nosferatu) reprising his role as Pennywise the Dancing Clown.
Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKa6u7LT0qE
LAST BREATH
Stream from Monday, 3 November
Based on a heart-pounding true story, Last Breath follows a team of seasoned deep-sea divers as they battle the raging elements to rescue their crewmate trapped hundreds of feet below the ocean’s surface with only his emergency air supply and no way to communicate with the surface.
Three-time Oscar nominee Woody Harrelson (True Detective, White House Plumbers), People’s Choice Award winner Simu Liu (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Barbie, Kim’s Convenience), and Finn Cole (Peaky Blinders, F9: The Fast Saga) star as saturation divers – one of the world’s most dangerous professions – working on undersea gas lines in the North Sea.
Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNMyooXZZTM
PIECE BY PIECE
Stream from Sunday, 2 November
The Pharrell Williams story – in Lego!
Piece by Piece is a one-of-a-kind animated biopic about one of music’s most innovative minds: 13-time Grammy Award winner and two-time Oscar nominee Pharrell Williams.
Directed and co-written by Oscar winner Morgan Neville (20 Feet from Stardom), Piece by Piece was nominated for Best Documentary Feature and Best Music Documentary at last year’s Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards, among other prizes. Wall Street Journal calls the film “a party for the eyes and ears”, and The Times (UK) “an exuberant joy”.
Listen out for the likes of Kendrick Lamar, Gwen Stefani, Timbaland, Snoop Dogg, Justin Timberlake, Jay-Z, Daft Punk, Busta Rhymes, Pusha T and, of course, Pharrell himself.
Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bc6trBc1kc
DROP
Stream from Monday, 10 November
Drop follows a widowed mother who is relieved that her first date in years is more handsome and charming than expected. But her cautious optimism quickly gives way to irritation, then terror, as a series of anonymous drops to her phone make everyone in the vicinity a suspect.
Emmy nominee Meghann Fahy (The White Lotus) and Brandon Sklenar (It Ends with Us, 1923) co-star.
Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs_nFwh5eJw
CUCKOO
Stream from Monday, 10 November
Hunter Schafer (Euphoria, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes) stars as 17-year-old Gretchen, who reluctantly leaves her American home to live with her father and his new family at an idyllic resort in the German Alps.
But something doesn’t seem right in this tranquil vacation paradise as her father’s boss takes an inexplicable interest in Gretchen’s mute half-sister Alma, and Gretchen herself begins to be plagued by strange noises and bloody visions…
Critics’ Choice Super Award nominee Dan Stevens and BAFTA nominee Jessica Henwick co-star in the film.
Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuON7HH0UkQ
DIE BRUG S2
Binge from Tuesday, 11 November
In kykNET’s hit reality series Die Brug, players must work together to build a bridge to reach the R1 million treasure.
Season 1 was nominated Best Non-Scripted Entertainment at last year’s International Emmys.
Neil Sandilands (Sweet Tooth, DAM) returns as the narrator this season, which is again set in the shadow of the Outeniqua Mountains.
Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wF4q0551vM
STAND UP & SHOUT: SONGS FROM A PHILLY HIGH SCHOOL
Stream from Thursday, 13 November
Stand Up & Shout: Songs From A Philly High School follows a group of teenagers from a Philadelphia public school who take part in a unique music program to write, compose, produce, and perform their own album.
Directed by eight-time Emmy and three-time Peabody Award winner Amy Schatz, and produced by Oscar-, Emmy- and multiple Grammy Award winner John Legend and the producers of La La Land, this soul-stirring documentary explores the transformative power of music and how arts education can unlock creativity, hope and healing.
Watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/uHg0x5lZQLY
LOVE HAS WON: THE CULT OF MOTHER GOD
Stream from Thursday, 13 November
Boasting a 100% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the HBO documentary series Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God explores how a young mother from Kansas grew an online following and became a cult leader known as Mother God.
From Emmy-nominated director Hannah Olson (Baby God, The Last Cruise) and Emmy-winning producers Benny and Josh Safdie (Telemarketers, Pee-wee as Himself, Uncut Gems), the three-part series chronicles the life and death of Amy Carlson (aka Mother God), a self-proclaimed spiritual saviour.
Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PweoTaa_OA
YOU WERE MY FIRST BOYFRIEND
Stream from Thursday, 13 November
What if you could rewrite your adolescence?
In You Were My First Boyfriend, award-winning filmmaker Cecilia Aldarondo embarks on a fantastical quest to reconcile her tortured teen years.
In this high school reunion movie turned inside out, Aldarondo revisits some of her most formative – and at times cringeworthy – childhood experiences, tracking down old crushes and reenacting visceral memories of youthful humiliation and desire, at times playing the role of her younger self and casting teenagers to play the kids in her life who still haunt her.
Watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/Qew3QupIYOw
OUTLAWS S2
Showmax Original | Mondays from 17 November
Outlaws, named Best Telenovela at the 2024 SAFTAs, tells the story of two families at war with each other: the Zulu, cattle-farming Biyela clan, and the Basotho, cattle-raiding Ts’eoles.
New cast member Noluthando Ngema (Mbali in Ithonga) will replace Nirvana Nokwe as Sihle Biyela. This season, she gives up her entire family and community to build a life with her lover, Leruo Ts’eole (Lehlohonolo Mayeza).
2024 double SAFTA winner Thembinkosi Mthembu (Dingiswayo in Shaka iLembe) returns as her brother, Bandile, while new faces include Thandolwethu Zondi (Bolt in Go!), recently nominated as Best Newcomer of 2025 at the National Film and TV Awards, and Mamodibe Ramodibe (Sihle in Black Tax).
Outlaws is produced by Tshedza Pictures, the powerhouse behind the Showmax record-holders Adulting and Youngins and the International Emmy-nominated The River.
Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMY516Unb8k
ELSBETH S2
Binge from Wednesday, 19 November
Elsbeth returns Carrie Preston to her Emmy-winning role from The Good Wife and The Good Fight as Elsbeth Tascioni, a brilliant but unconventional attorney who uses her sharp intuition to help the NYPD solve high-profile murders.
With a 92% critics’ rating, the show’s debut season was among Rotten Tomatoes’ Best TV Shows Of 2024, earning co-creators Michelle and Robert King a Writers Guild of America nomination.
Wendell Pierce (The Wire) won a Best Actor Award at the Critics’ Choice Awards Celebration of Cinema & Television as Captain Wagner, while David Alan Grier (St. Denis Medical) and Vanessa Williams (Desperate Housewives, Ugly Betty) were nominated for 2025 Black Reel Awards for their guest performances.
Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwRIsL6r6lc
JUROR #2
Stream from Monday, 24 November
From Oscar-winning filmmaker Clint Eastwood, Juror #2 stars Emmy nominee Nicholas Hoult as a family man serving jury duty on a high-profile murder trial who finds himself struggling with a serious moral dilemma … one he could use to sway the verdict and potentially convict – or free – the accused killer.
Juror #2 also sports a stellar cast, including Oscar winner J.K. Simmons, Oscar nominee Toni Collette, Emmy winner Kiefer Sutherland, Critics’ Choice nominee Chris Messina and Teen Choice nominees Zoey Deutch and Leslie Bibb.
Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhkkBFhW-MM
THE MONKEY
Stream from Monday, 27 November
The Monkey is a new horror movie from Longlegs writer-director Osgood Perkins, which Bloody Disgusting says is ”a Stephen King adaptation like no other … death has never been funnier or gorier.”
When twin brothers find a mysterious wind-up monkey, a series of outrageous deaths tears their family apart. Twenty-five years later, the monkey begins a new killing spree, forcing the estranged brothers to confront the cursed toy.
Produced by multi-award-winning horror legend James Wan (The Conjuring, Saw), The Monkey stars Emmy nominee Theo James (The White Lotus, The Gentlemen, Tobias Eaton in Divergent) and Emmy-winning Orphan Black star Tatiana Maslany. Also look out for multi-award-winning child star Christian Convery (Gus in Sweet Tooth), Critics’ Choice winner Elijah Wood (Frodo in The Lord of the Rings trilogy) and Emmy nominee Adam Scott (Mark Scout in Severance).
Watch the redband trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jfTApWPX7I
THE REAL HOUSEWIVES ULTIMATE GIRLS TRIP – AFRICA
Showmax Original | Fridays from 28 November
The first season, featuring South African Housewives, broke records on Showmax post-relaunch for seven-day views and was one of the top ten most-streamed titles of 2024.
Now an all-African cast of Housewives from Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa take the drama all the way to Brazil.
Think the energy of Nairobi, the glam of Lagos, and the bold charm of Mzansi, all coming together for the ultimate cultural crossover.
Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4M4gzEeH4E
BRETT GOLDSTEIN: THE SECOND BEST NIGHT OF YOUR LIFE
First on Showmax | Stream from Friday, 28 November
Emmy-winning British actor, writer, and comedian Brett Goldstein brings his irresistible charm and quick wit to the US for his first HBO stand-up special in Brett Goldstein: The Second Best Night Of Your Life.
Best known for his roles in the hit shows Ted Lasso (on which he was also a writer) and Shrinking (which he co-created), Goldstein sheds his testy Roy Kent façade to share his hilarious insights on love, sex, masculinity, Sesame Street, and everything in between.
Watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/fi-NSYktlEM
BILL MAHER: IS ANYONE ELSE SEEING THIS?
First on Showmax | Stream from Friday, 28 November
Host of the award-winning series Real Time with Bill Maher, acclaimed comedian and satirist Bill Maher serves up another dose of reality in his 13th HBO stand-up special, Is Anyone Else Seeing This?
With his signature sardonic wit and unfiltered approach to discussing controversial issues, the comedian offers up his scathing commentary on the hypocrisies of both conservative and liberal politics, as well as trends in modern parenting, sex and dating, and religion.
Taped at the CIBC Theatre in Chicago, Bill Maher: Is Anyone Else Seeing This? is an unflinching and honest showcase by a comedian unafraid to call out extremes … No matter where they come from.
Watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/IVasALouPlo
FOOTBALL MATCH OF THE MONTH
MANCHESTER CITY V LIVERPOOL
6:30PM on Sunday, 9 November
**Please note schedules are subject to change**
