Amazon Prime Video November 2018 new releases: the best TV shows and movies streaming this month

The streaming service is stepping things up a gear in November 2018 with Homecoming, a psychological thriller led by star Julia Roberts in her first TV role.

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They're further bolstered by intriguing-looking German drama, Beat, the fourth season of time-travelling romance Outlander and a documentary, 20 years in the making, about British pop group Coldplay.

And this is all before the release of multi award-winning comedy The Marvellous Mrs Maisel season two in December and Neil Gaiman epic Good Omens in the new year...

Watch this space.

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Friday 2nd November

Homecoming Julia Roberts leads this unsettling an unconventional psychological thriller series, directed by Mr Robot's Sam Esmail. Read our review here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WJSdpE-sJQ&t=2s

You Were Never Really Here A brutal, enthralling drama which sees a hitman (Joaquin Phoenix) attempt to rescue a prominent politician's daughter from a sex trafficking ring

Saturday 3rd November

Blow Johnny Depp does his Johnny Depp thing as Pablo Escobar in this biopic alongside Penelope Cruz

Swordfish Early 00s crime drama starring Halle Berry and John Travolta

Monday 5th November

Outlander: season 4 Claire and Jamie start a new life in colonial America

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMVizqMN83o

The Girl with all the Gifts A scientist and a teacher combine to save a gifted young girl in a dystopian future

Friday 9th November

Beat A new German drama crime drama set in a Berlin nightclub

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSc5wzMr4KM

Patriot season 2 The ongoing travails of intelligence officer John Tavner

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Friday 16th November

A Head Full of Dreams A documentary, 20 years in the making, about the rise and rise... of Coldplay

The Gymkhana Files A behind-the-scenes look at one of the most successful video franchises of all time

Wednesday 21st November

Loving Pablo Penelope Cruz has another stab at the Pablo Escobar story, this time with Javier Bardem in the lead role

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9ni0CghN4s

Friday 23rd November

The Revenant Leo DiCaprio, the wilderness, a bear – an Oscars no-brainer

Sunday 25th November

Before Sunrise The opening chapter in Richard Linklater's romantic, walky-talky trilogy, starring fresh-faced Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25v7N34d5HE

Thursday 29th November

Vikings season 5, part 2 Jonathan Rhys Meyers joins the vikings for the latter half of the latest season

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Friday 30th November

Inside Jokes Docuseries following up-and-coming stand-up comedians as they audition for a New Faces showcase