The best movies added to Netflix in November
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Every month Netflix drops movies from its streaming site and adds new ones. These are the ones added in November.
- Alex Greer, PrettyFamous.com
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Alberto E. Rodriguez / Getty Images
While the number of households that watch live television has fallen, more and more people are watching video through streaming services like Netflix and Hulu. Netflix alone has over 86 million members worldwide who collectively watch more than 125 million hours of TV shows and movies per day.
To keep its content fresh, Netflix recycles some of its movies and TV shows every month, replacing them with new choices. For the average viewer, keeping track of what's coming and going can be a confusing process.
That's why PrettyFamous, an entertainment research site powered by Graphiq, decided to rank all of the movies coming to and leaving Netflix in November. Movies are ordered by their Smart Rating - a score out of 100 that takes into account a movie's IMDb rating, Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer and Audience Score, Metacritic Metascore, Gracenote rating and inflation-adjusted U.S. box office gross.
In total, roughly 50 movies are leaving the streaming site this month and over 40 are being added. While it's sad to see classics like "E.T." go, Netflix has added some more critically-acclaimed films from both the past ("The African Queen") and present ("Boyhood"). For the history buffs out there, Netflix is also adding several U.S. Army documentaries from World War II, including "The Battle of Midway" and "Prelude to War."
We'll start with the films leaving Netflix, then work our way to the best movies being added.
Note: A few movies were left out due to insufficient data.
Compiled by Alex Greer, PrettyFamous.com
- Updated
Hidden Empire Film Group / Freestyle Releasing
Smart Rating: 31.08
Release Year: 2016
Coming to Netflix: 11/2/2016
Description: A Chicago man (Mike Epps) moves his family to Beverly Hills, Calif., on the same day when all crime becomes legal for a 12-hour period.
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Tandem Pictures / The Orchard
Smart Rating: 31.91
Release Year: 2016
Coming to Netflix: 11/30/2016
Description: An amateur ghost hunter (Jon Heder) recruits his best friend (David Krumholtz), his misfit nephew (Paul W. Downs), a beautician (Melonie Diaz), a security guard (Justin Long) and a medium to investigate suspicious activity at a creepy farm.
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Gravitas Ventures
Smart Rating: 32.56
Release Year: 2016
Coming to Netflix: 11/13/2016
Description: A girl (Maddy Curley) overcomes her past to go on to mold a group of misfit gymnasts into a college gymnastics team.
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Quickfire Films / FilmBuff
Smart Rating: 33.53
Release Year: 2016
Coming to Netflix: 11/30/2016
Description: A young man (Josh Bowman) must deliver a mysterious package to save his girlfriend (Leila Mimmack) from a group of kidnappers.
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Arc Productions / HIT Entertainment
Smart Rating: 34.35
Release Year: 2014
Coming to Netflix: 11/1/2016
Description: Thomas and his friends are in holly, jolly Christmas spirits, ready to be Santa's engine helpers.
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Paramount Pictures
Smart Rating: 34.40
Release Year: 1996
Coming to Netflix: 11/1/2016
Description: An elderly Gypsy king's (Michael Constantine) weight-loss curse prompts an obese lawyer (Robert John Burke) to call in a mob boss's (Joe Mantegna) debt.
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Status Media & Entertainment / Cinedigm Entertainment Group
Smart Rating: 35.78
Release Year: 2016
Coming to Netflix: 11/30/2016
Description: In 1880s Kansas, a gunman turned rancher travels to Wichita and Dodge City to find his runaway daughter (Brittany Williams).
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RKO Radio Pictures
Smart Rating: 36.60
Release Year: 1935
Coming to Netflix: 11/30/2016
Description: Annette accidentally meets American composer Jonathan Street, and in an alcohol-fueled evening, the couple marries. When Jonathan's opera career fails, he lashes out at Annette's success until her career allows her to fund Jonathan's opera.
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Hanna-Barbera Productions / Universal Pictures
Smart Rating: 36.93
Release Year: 1990
Coming to Netflix: 11/1/2016
Description: George Jetson learns that Spacely Sprockets is conducting unsound mining operations on a distant asteroid.
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DreamWorks Pictures / Paramount Pictures
Smart Rating: 40.05
Release Year: 2007
Coming to Netflix: 11/1/2016
Description: After his new bride reveals her nasty nature, a man (Ben Stiller) meets the woman (Michelle Monaghan) who may be his real soul mate and tries to woo her.
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PolyGram Filmed Entertainment / Gramercy Pictures
Smart Rating: 41.95
Release Year: 1995
Coming to Netflix: 11/1/2016
Description: The daughter (Kelly Rowan) of a New Orleans aristocrat ties his murder to the legend of an artist (Tony Todd) fitted with a hook.
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Castle Rock Entertainment / Columbia Pictures
Smart Rating: 45.55
Release Year: 1998
Coming to Netflix: 11/18/2016
Description: The bond between best friends (Steven Weber, Craig Bierko) is tested when one wins a fortune with the other's money at Atlantic City.
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Paramount Pictures
Smart Rating: 45.67
Release Year: 1990
Coming to Netflix: 11/1/2016
Description: A doomed boy stalls a witch (Deborah Harry) with three tales: "Lot 249," "Cat From Hell" and "Lover's Vow."
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U.S. Office of Strategic Services
Smart Rating: 50.39
Release Year: 1943
Coming to Netflix: 11/18/2016
Description: A training film for OSS agents who are to be dropped behind enemy lines, covering cover and concealment, ambush techniques, etc.
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Century Films / Independent Film Sales
Smart Rating: 53.56
Release Year: 2015
Coming to Netflix: 11/1/2016
Description: This chilling film tells the gripping story of the making of a modern Swedish serial killer - taking us to the very heart of events that terrified a nation.
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Roar Productions
Smart Rating: 58.61
Release Year: 2014
Coming to Netflix: 11/29/2016
Description: Eccentric retirees' lives are turned upside down when their beloved apartment complex is suddenly sold out from under them.
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De Andra / The Film Sales Company
Smart Rating: 63.67
Release Year: 2014
Coming to Netflix: 11/1/2016
Description: Residents of a trailer park in St. Petersburg, Fla. (all convicted sex offenders) discuss their experiences living in the outside world.
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Patalex Productions / Paramount Pictures
Smart Rating: 66.26
Release Year: 2004
Coming to Netflix: 11/1/2016
Description: A cockney womanizer learns the hard way about the dangers of his actions.
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Victory Man Productions / Blue Ice Docs
Smart Rating: 67.00
Release Year: 2015
Coming to Netflix: 11/15/2016
Description: A Manhattan restaurateur makes the bold decision to boost his struggling eatery's business by putting up the iconic zebra wallpaper made world-famous by the recently shuttered Upper East Side institution, Gino's.
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ETIC Films / 20th Century Fox Film Corporation
Smart Rating: 67.05
Release Year: 1999
Coming to Netflix: 11/1/2016
Description: A Scottish traveler (Robert Carlyle) relays a chilling tale of cannibalism to an Army captain (Guy Pearce) and others at a remote 1847 outpost in the Sierra Nevadas.
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Dickhouse Productions / Paramount Home Entertainment
Smart Rating: 68.06
Release Year: 2011
Coming to Netflix: 11/16/2016
Description: Johnny Knoxville and the rest of his friends (Bam Margera, Ryan Dunn, Steve-O) perform outrageous stunts and pranks.
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Sunn Clasic Pictures / Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 69.43
Release Year: 1983
Coming to Netflix: 11/1/2016
Description: Bitten by a rabid bat, a huge dog traps a Maine woman (Dee Wallace) and her young son (Danny Pintauro) in their Ford Pinto.
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Inferno Distribution / New Line Cinema
Smart Rating: 70.99
Release Year: 2005
Coming to Netflix: 11/4/2016
Description: A music executive (Ryan Reynolds) tries to woo his high-school crush (Amy Smart) while keeping his suspicious ex-girlfriend (Anna Faris) at bay.
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Docler Entertainment / Menemsha Films
Smart Rating: 72.32
Release Year: 2015
Coming to Netflix: 11/2/2016
Description: An old Jewish baker (Jonathan Pryce) sees his struggling business boom when his young apprentice (Jerome Holder) accidentally drops marijuana into the dough.
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Paramount Pictures
Smart Rating: 74.87
Release Year: 1929
Coming to Netflix: 11/18/2016
Description: A condemned criminal (George Bancroft) plots revenge on the young man (Richard Arlen) who stole his gal (Fay Wray) and landed next to him on death row.
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Explosive Film
Smart Rating: 77.11
Release Year: 2015
Coming to Netflix: 11/12/2016
Description: A gay teenager (Logan Miller) faces accusations of abusing his 9-year-old cousin (Ursula Parker) during a family reunion in Nebraska.
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U.S. Army Pictorial Services / War Activities Committee of the Motion Pictures Industry
Smart Rating: 78.95
Release Year: 1945
Coming to Netflix: 11/18/2016
Description: This documentary movie is about the battle of San Pietro, a small village in Italy. Over 1,100 US soldiers were killed while trying to take this location, which blocked the way for the Allied forces from the Germans.
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The United States Navy / Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Smart Rating: 78.95
Release Year: 1942
Coming to Netflix: 11/18/2016
Description: The Japanese attack on Midway in June 1942, filmed as it happened.
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Faith Street Film Partners / Waking Giants Entertainment
Smart Rating: 84.00
Release Year: 2013
Coming to Netflix: 11/1/2016
Description: Brendan (Crawford Wilson) tries to leave his violent gang life behind, but his past continues to threaten his new faith, family and future.
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U.S. Army Signal Corps / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Smart Rating: 84.22
Release Year: 1944
Coming to Netflix: 11/18/2016
Description: Battle footage with commentary on the British-American military campaign in World War II North Africa.
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U.S. Army Signal Corps / War Activities Committee of the Motion Pictures Industry
Smart Rating: 84.70
Release Year: 1943
Coming to Netflix: 11/18/2016
Description: Director John Huston documents U.S. wartime protection of the islands from Japanese attacks. John and Walter Huston narrate.
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Bill Graham Films / TriStar Pictures
Smart Rating: 84.97
Release Year: 1991
Coming to Netflix: 11/1/2016
Description: UCLA film student Jim Morrison (Val Kilmer) finds a girlfriend (Meg Ryan), forms a band and turns tragic 1960s rock star.
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Relativity Media / Focus Features
Smart Rating: 85.66
Release Year: 2008
Coming to Netflix: 11/16/2016
Description: Chaos reigns when a gym employee (Frances McDormand) and her colleague try to benefit from a disc that they think holds state secrets but, really, contains the memoirs of a former CIA analyst.
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Sweet Chariot Productions / Novus
Smart Rating: 86.02
Release Year: 2015
Coming to Netflix: 11/14/2016
Description: The Carter High football team has to overcome tremendous difficulties to reach its goal of a state championship.
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U.S. War Department / Office of War Information, Bureau of Motion Pictures
Smart Rating: 86.43
Release Year: 1942
Coming to Netflix: 11/18/2016
Description: Allied forces battle the rise of fascism in Europe. Part of Frank Capra's "Why We Fight" series of war propaganda films.
- Updated
U.S. Army Special Service Division / War Activities Committee of the Motion Pictures Industry
Smart Rating: 86.58
Release Year: 1943
Coming to Netflix: 11/18/2016
Description: This part of director Frank Capra's "Why We Fight" series shows the Nazis at Moscow, Leningrad and Stalingrad.
- Updated
Rooftop Films / Film Movement
Smart Rating: 87.86
Release Year: 2015
Coming to Netflix: 11/15/2016
Description: A Kentucky farmer (David Maloney) learns that his missing brother (Tim Morton) is fighting for the Union Army.
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Loki Films / Music Box Films
Smart Rating: 88.75
Release Year: 2016
Coming to Netflix: 11/1/2016
Description: Producer Norman Lear creates "All in the Family," "The Jeffersons," "Sanford and Son," "Good Times" and other classic TV shows.
- Updated
StudioCanal / TWC-Dimension
Smart Rating: 90.78
Release Year: 2014
Coming to Netflix: 11/16/2016
Description: A lost Peruvian bear (Ben Whishaw) finds shelter with a kind British family, but a museum taxidermist (Nicole Kidman) has designs on his rare hide.
- Updated
Fairview Entertainment / Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Smart Rating: 94.40
Release Year: 2016
Coming to Netflix: 11/30/2016
Description: Guided by a no-nonsense panther (Ben Kingsley) and a free-spirited bear (Bill Murray), young Mowgli (Neel Sethi) meets an array of jungle animals as he embarks on an epic journey of self-discovery.
- Updated
Romulus Films / United Artists
Smart Rating: 95.35
Release Year: 1951
Coming to Netflix: 11/1/2016
Description: An imperious woman (Katharine Hepburn) makes a gin-soaked boat captain (Humphrey Bogart) fight Germans in the World War I Congo.
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IFC Productions / IFC Films
Smart Rating: 96.34
Release Year: 2014
Coming to Netflix: 11/25/2016
Description: A youngster (Ellar Coltrane) makes the long journey to adulthood over the span of 12 years, as he, his sister (Lorelei Linklater) and his mother (Patricia Arquette) move around Texas.
- Alex Greer, PrettyFamous.com
Alberto E. Rodriguez / Getty Images
While the number of households that watch live television has fallen, more and more people are watching video through streaming services like Netflix and Hulu. Netflix alone has over 86 million members worldwide who collectively watch more than 125 million hours of TV shows and movies per day.
To keep its content fresh, Netflix recycles some of its movies and TV shows every month, replacing them with new choices. For the average viewer, keeping track of what's coming and going can be a confusing process.
That's why PrettyFamous, an entertainment research site powered by Graphiq, decided to rank all of the movies coming to and leaving Netflix in November. Movies are ordered by their Smart Rating - a score out of 100 that takes into account a movie's IMDb rating, Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer and Audience Score, Metacritic Metascore, Gracenote rating and inflation-adjusted U.S. box office gross.
In total, roughly 50 movies are leaving the streaming site this month and over 40 are being added. While it's sad to see classics like "E.T." go, Netflix has added some more critically-acclaimed films from both the past ("The African Queen") and present ("Boyhood"). For the history buffs out there, Netflix is also adding several U.S. Army documentaries from World War II, including "The Battle of Midway" and "Prelude to War."
We'll start with the films leaving Netflix, then work our way to the best movies being added.
Note: A few movies were left out due to insufficient data.
Compiled by Alex Greer, PrettyFamous.com
Hidden Empire Film Group / Freestyle Releasing
Smart Rating: 31.08
Release Year: 2016
Coming to Netflix: 11/2/2016
Description: A Chicago man (Mike Epps) moves his family to Beverly Hills, Calif., on the same day when all crime becomes legal for a 12-hour period.
Tandem Pictures / The Orchard
Smart Rating: 31.91
Release Year: 2016
Coming to Netflix: 11/30/2016
Description: An amateur ghost hunter (Jon Heder) recruits his best friend (David Krumholtz), his misfit nephew (Paul W. Downs), a beautician (Melonie Diaz), a security guard (Justin Long) and a medium to investigate suspicious activity at a creepy farm.
Arc Productions / HIT Entertainment
Smart Rating: 34.35
Release Year: 2014
Coming to Netflix: 11/1/2016
Description: Thomas and his friends are in holly, jolly Christmas spirits, ready to be Santa's engine helpers.
Paramount Pictures
Smart Rating: 34.40
Release Year: 1996
Coming to Netflix: 11/1/2016
Description: An elderly Gypsy king's (Michael Constantine) weight-loss curse prompts an obese lawyer (Robert John Burke) to call in a mob boss's (Joe Mantegna) debt.
Status Media & Entertainment / Cinedigm Entertainment Group
Smart Rating: 35.78
Release Year: 2016
Coming to Netflix: 11/30/2016
Description: In 1880s Kansas, a gunman turned rancher travels to Wichita and Dodge City to find his runaway daughter (Brittany Williams).
RKO Radio Pictures
Smart Rating: 36.60
Release Year: 1935
Coming to Netflix: 11/30/2016
Description: Annette accidentally meets American composer Jonathan Street, and in an alcohol-fueled evening, the couple marries. When Jonathan's opera career fails, he lashes out at Annette's success until her career allows her to fund Jonathan's opera.
Hanna-Barbera Productions / Universal Pictures
Smart Rating: 36.93
Release Year: 1990
Coming to Netflix: 11/1/2016
Description: George Jetson learns that Spacely Sprockets is conducting unsound mining operations on a distant asteroid.
DreamWorks Pictures / Paramount Pictures
Smart Rating: 40.05
Release Year: 2007
Coming to Netflix: 11/1/2016
Description: After his new bride reveals her nasty nature, a man (Ben Stiller) meets the woman (Michelle Monaghan) who may be his real soul mate and tries to woo her.
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment / Gramercy Pictures
Smart Rating: 41.95
Release Year: 1995
Coming to Netflix: 11/1/2016
Description: The daughter (Kelly Rowan) of a New Orleans aristocrat ties his murder to the legend of an artist (Tony Todd) fitted with a hook.
Castle Rock Entertainment / Columbia Pictures
Smart Rating: 45.55
Release Year: 1998
Coming to Netflix: 11/18/2016
Description: The bond between best friends (Steven Weber, Craig Bierko) is tested when one wins a fortune with the other's money at Atlantic City.
U.S. Office of Strategic Services
Smart Rating: 50.39
Release Year: 1943
Coming to Netflix: 11/18/2016
Description: A training film for OSS agents who are to be dropped behind enemy lines, covering cover and concealment, ambush techniques, etc.
Century Films / Independent Film Sales
Smart Rating: 53.56
Release Year: 2015
Coming to Netflix: 11/1/2016
Description: This chilling film tells the gripping story of the making of a modern Swedish serial killer - taking us to the very heart of events that terrified a nation.
De Andra / The Film Sales Company
Smart Rating: 63.67
Release Year: 2014
Coming to Netflix: 11/1/2016
Description: Residents of a trailer park in St. Petersburg, Fla. (all convicted sex offenders) discuss their experiences living in the outside world.
Victory Man Productions / Blue Ice Docs
Smart Rating: 67.00
Release Year: 2015
Coming to Netflix: 11/15/2016
Description: A Manhattan restaurateur makes the bold decision to boost his struggling eatery's business by putting up the iconic zebra wallpaper made world-famous by the recently shuttered Upper East Side institution, Gino's.
ETIC Films / 20th Century Fox Film Corporation
Smart Rating: 67.05
Release Year: 1999
Coming to Netflix: 11/1/2016
Description: A Scottish traveler (Robert Carlyle) relays a chilling tale of cannibalism to an Army captain (Guy Pearce) and others at a remote 1847 outpost in the Sierra Nevadas.
Dickhouse Productions / Paramount Home Entertainment
Smart Rating: 68.06
Release Year: 2011
Coming to Netflix: 11/16/2016
Description: Johnny Knoxville and the rest of his friends (Bam Margera, Ryan Dunn, Steve-O) perform outrageous stunts and pranks.
Inferno Distribution / New Line Cinema
Smart Rating: 70.99
Release Year: 2005
Coming to Netflix: 11/4/2016
Description: A music executive (Ryan Reynolds) tries to woo his high-school crush (Amy Smart) while keeping his suspicious ex-girlfriend (Anna Faris) at bay.
Docler Entertainment / Menemsha Films
Smart Rating: 72.32
Release Year: 2015
Coming to Netflix: 11/2/2016
Description: An old Jewish baker (Jonathan Pryce) sees his struggling business boom when his young apprentice (Jerome Holder) accidentally drops marijuana into the dough.
Paramount Pictures
Smart Rating: 74.87
Release Year: 1929
Coming to Netflix: 11/18/2016
Description: A condemned criminal (George Bancroft) plots revenge on the young man (Richard Arlen) who stole his gal (Fay Wray) and landed next to him on death row.
Explosive Film
Smart Rating: 77.11
Release Year: 2015
Coming to Netflix: 11/12/2016
Description: A gay teenager (Logan Miller) faces accusations of abusing his 9-year-old cousin (Ursula Parker) during a family reunion in Nebraska.
U.S. Army Pictorial Services / War Activities Committee of the Motion Pictures Industry
Smart Rating: 78.95
Release Year: 1945
Coming to Netflix: 11/18/2016
Description: This documentary movie is about the battle of San Pietro, a small village in Italy. Over 1,100 US soldiers were killed while trying to take this location, which blocked the way for the Allied forces from the Germans.
Faith Street Film Partners / Waking Giants Entertainment
Smart Rating: 84.00
Release Year: 2013
Coming to Netflix: 11/1/2016
Description: Brendan (Crawford Wilson) tries to leave his violent gang life behind, but his past continues to threaten his new faith, family and future.
U.S. Army Signal Corps / War Activities Committee of the Motion Pictures Industry
Smart Rating: 84.70
Release Year: 1943
Coming to Netflix: 11/18/2016
Description: Director John Huston documents U.S. wartime protection of the islands from Japanese attacks. John and Walter Huston narrate.
Bill Graham Films / TriStar Pictures
Smart Rating: 84.97
Release Year: 1991
Coming to Netflix: 11/1/2016
Description: UCLA film student Jim Morrison (Val Kilmer) finds a girlfriend (Meg Ryan), forms a band and turns tragic 1960s rock star.
Relativity Media / Focus Features
Smart Rating: 85.66
Release Year: 2008
Coming to Netflix: 11/16/2016
Description: Chaos reigns when a gym employee (Frances McDormand) and her colleague try to benefit from a disc that they think holds state secrets but, really, contains the memoirs of a former CIA analyst.
U.S. War Department / Office of War Information, Bureau of Motion Pictures
Smart Rating: 86.43
Release Year: 1942
Coming to Netflix: 11/18/2016
Description: Allied forces battle the rise of fascism in Europe. Part of Frank Capra's "Why We Fight" series of war propaganda films.
U.S. Army Special Service Division / War Activities Committee of the Motion Pictures Industry
Smart Rating: 86.58
Release Year: 1943
Coming to Netflix: 11/18/2016
Description: This part of director Frank Capra's "Why We Fight" series shows the Nazis at Moscow, Leningrad and Stalingrad.
Loki Films / Music Box Films
Smart Rating: 88.75
Release Year: 2016
Coming to Netflix: 11/1/2016
Description: Producer Norman Lear creates "All in the Family," "The Jeffersons," "Sanford and Son," "Good Times" and other classic TV shows.
StudioCanal / TWC-Dimension
Smart Rating: 90.78
Release Year: 2014
Coming to Netflix: 11/16/2016
Description: A lost Peruvian bear (Ben Whishaw) finds shelter with a kind British family, but a museum taxidermist (Nicole Kidman) has designs on his rare hide.
Fairview Entertainment / Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Smart Rating: 94.40
Release Year: 2016
Coming to Netflix: 11/30/2016
Description: Guided by a no-nonsense panther (Ben Kingsley) and a free-spirited bear (Bill Murray), young Mowgli (Neel Sethi) meets an array of jungle animals as he embarks on an epic journey of self-discovery.
Romulus Films / United Artists
Smart Rating: 95.35
Release Year: 1951
Coming to Netflix: 11/1/2016
Description: An imperious woman (Katharine Hepburn) makes a gin-soaked boat captain (Humphrey Bogart) fight Germans in the World War I Congo.
IFC Productions / IFC Films
Smart Rating: 96.34
Release Year: 2014
Coming to Netflix: 11/25/2016
Description: A youngster (Ellar Coltrane) makes the long journey to adulthood over the span of 12 years, as he, his sister (Lorelei Linklater) and his mother (Patricia Arquette) move around Texas.
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