The 15 best movies leaving Netflix, HBO, and Prime in November to watch now

We’re approaching the end of 2022 with a quickness, Polygon readers. At the end of every month, there are a litany of movies leaving streaming services, and that’s never more true than the end of the year.

As 2023 approaches, streaming services will be updating their library. You should watch a lot of movies before you leave your current service.

It is impossible to keep up with the many streaming movies (or all of the great ones) that are available. That’s where we come in! We’ve picked out the best of the best across a variety of genres and streaming services, so you can find the one (or ones!) You can find the one that is right for your needs.

Netflix: How to Leave

Casino Royale

Image: Sony Pictures

Genre: Spy
Year: 2006
Run time: 2h 24m
Director: Martin Campbell
Cast: Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen

Each James Bond film is a time capsule from the moment it was made. You can find out more about James Bond movies here. Casino Royale (technically the third adaptation of Ian Fleming’s first James Bond book, but the first serious one), it is also a glimpse back at the beginning of a new era for the iconic character.

Daniel Craig’s James Bond is unlike any of the others that came before him. He’s tired and worn down, cynical and bitter, but Craig’s unique screen presence means the character never loses his signature charm. Perhaps the most important element of Craig as Bond is his physicality — he’s an underrated screen fighter who did more than a few of his own stunts throughout the franchise, and Bond as a fighter has never looked quite so good as in his movies.

Craig is not your only reason for liking Casino Royale — Mads Mikkelsen was basically created in a lab to play a Bond villain, and Jeffrey Wright’s Felix Leiter has electric buddy chemistry with Craig’s Bond. This movie revived an old franchise, and it was one of the many great entries that Craig made under the 007 name. —Pete Volk

Casino RoyaleNetflix Dec. 1

Keep your eyes closed

Warner Bros. Pictures

Genre: Mysterious romance
Year: 1999
Run time: 2h 39m
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Todd Field

Stanley Kubrick’s last film, and one of his most exacting, precise, and claustrophobic. Keep your eyes closed follows a young doctor named Bill Harford (Tom Cruise) who slowly drifts into the chaos of New York’s highest and most secretive society after fears that his wife, played by Nicole Kidman, is falling out of love with him. But as Bill glimpses higher into the clouds surrounding the truly powerful people in the world, he also slips further from his wife, as if knowing the secret movers of the world and knowing the true depths of a single person’s heart are both impossible dreams. That the movie was filmed amid the fraying of Kidman and Cruise’s real-life marriage just adds another layer to Kubrick’s fascinating, dreamlike, and eerily beautiful labyrinth of feelings and mystery. —Austen Goslin

Keep your eyes closed Netflix Dec. 1

Hell or High Water

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Genre: Crime
Year: 2016
Run time: 1h 42m
Director: David Mackenzie
Cast: Chris Pine, Ben Foster and Jeff Bridges

Taylor Sheridan is a well-known name in television Westerns. He has created the highly popular Yellowstone Its spinoff prequel 1883. Before all this, he also wrote the outstanding neowestern crime thriller Hell or High Water.

Nominated for four Oscars (including Best Picture and for Sheridan’s screenplay), the movie follows two bank-robbing brothers and the Texas Rangers sent to hunt them down. The brothers, played with perfectly antagonistic sibling chemistry by Chris Pine and Ben Foster, are perfect foils for each other — Pine’s Toby is calm and collected, while Foster’s Tanner is out of control (a perfect fit for Foster’s natural intensity). Jeff Bridges was nominated to an Oscar for his performance, as well as Gil Birmingham, who has reunited Sheridan with him. YellowstonePreviously, he was one of the cast members. The Banner of Heaven() as Texas Rangers’ aging star. Watch out for future appearances by the Texas Rangers. Prey star Amber Midthunder, too. —PV

Hell or High Water Netflix Dec. 1

Hulu: How to Leave

The Blade Trilogy

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Genre: Supernatural superhero
Year: 1998, 2002, 2004
Run time: 2h, 1h 57m, 1h 53m
Directors: Stephen Norrington, Guillermo del Toro, David S. Goyer
Cast: Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson

Ten years before Robert Downey Jr.’s debut as Tony Stark in 2008’s Iron ManMarvel’s first real hit movie was delivered by Wesley Snipes as Blade. He played the role of a half-vampire and half-human vampire hunter. Forced to wage a war against an underground society of vampires led by Deacon Frost (Stephen Dorff), a megalomaniacal vampire with world-ending ambitions, Blade must at the same time work alongside his mentor Abraham Whistler (Kris Kristofferson) and hematologist Karen Jenson (N’Bushe Wright) to manage his own terrible, suppressed thirst for human blood. You’ll love the bloody action and the thrill of the chase.

If that weren’t enough, March marked the 20th anniversary of Guillermo del Toro’s follow-up, Blade 2It featured Daywalker fighting off a monstrous army of hybrids with split-chinned skins created by a sect of vampiric nobles. Both films are more than worth your time, and with plans afoot for Marvel’s reboot starring Mahershala Ali, what better time than now to pay respects to the OG? —Toussaint Egan

The Blade films are all leaving. Hulu Dec. 31.

Casino

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment

Genre: Crime
Year: 1995
Run time: 2h 58m
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci

Martin Scorsese’s Las Vegas drama is a high mark in his renowned gangster picture oeuvre. Ace Rothstein, played by Robert De Niro, is a star gambling handicapper and has been asked to lead the Tangiers Casino. Things get more complicated when his old hothead Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci), arrives in town. Rothstein is drawn to local hustler Ginger McKenna, Sharon Stone. This is a collection of stories from real people. Casino Scorsese also offers another fascinating look at the dangers and allure of power and how it can affect your life. —PV

CasinoIs it leaving? Hulu Dec. 31.

Looper

Image: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Genre: Sci-fi
Year: 2012
Run time: 1h 59m
Director: Rian Johnson
Cast: Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Emily Blunt

Rian Johnson’s sci-fi action thriller LooperJoe Gordon-Levitt is a hitman who works for a criminal syndicate in 2044. He specializes in the execution of people his employers have sent back from the future. In exchange for his services, Joe is offered the opportunity to retire provided that he close his own “loop” by executing his future self (Bruce Willis). Joe must find his future self before he overpowers Joe and embarks on his mysterious mission. It only gets worse from there. The film is packed with action-packed chase sequences, thrilling gunfights, memorable music by Nathan Johnson and bizarre makeup to make Gordon Levitt appear younger Willis. Looper This is an entertaining and fascinating action film that will entertain you. —TE

LooperIs it leaving? Hulu Dec. 31.

Prime Video:

10 Things That I Hate About Yourself

Image: Touchstone Pictures, Buena Vista Pictures

Genre: Rom-com
Year: 1999
Run time: 1h 37m
Director: Gil Junger
Cast: Heath Ledger Julia Stiles Joseph Gordon-Levitt

There are so many teen movies that have been made of classic literature. 10 Things That I Hate About Yourself It is the most romantic. It is a very loose adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Taming the ShrewBianca is a popular girl played by Lilisa Oleynik. Kat, her strong older sister, has to approve of Bianca’s date. Cameron (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a new boy with a crush on Bianca pays Patrick (Heath Ledger), to win Kat. It is the sort of romantic comedy where much of the tension comes from the leads butting heads and realizing they’re not so different after all — with an extra dose of two vastly different sisters learning to understand each other. Kat and Patrick definitely take center stage here, but Cameron and Bianca’s romance isn’t half-bad either. —Petrana Radulovic

10 Things That I Hate About Yourself Leave Prime Video Dec. 31.

Cosmopolis

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Genre: Drama
Year: 2012
Run time: 1h 49m
Director: David Cronenberg
Cast: Robert Pattinson. Juliette Binoche. Sarah Gadon

David Cronenberg has abandoned the horror of body horror to tell this compelling story about Robert Pattinson, a billionaire who drives his luxurious limousine across Manhattan as his world crumbles. Cronenberg immerses you in this world as only he can, and brings out one of Pattinson’s best-ever performances in this entrancing tale of wealth and isolation. —PV

Cosmopolis Leave Prime Video Dec. 30.

Incredible Mr. Fox

Image: 20th Century Fox

Genre: Comedy adventures
Year: 2009
Run time: 1h 27m
Director: Wes Anderson
Cast: George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray

Based on Roald Dahl’s classic children’s book, Wes Anderson’s 2009 stop-motion animated comedy Incredible Mr. FoxGeorge Clooney plays a sophisticated Fox who resorts to old thief ways to attract the hatred of three evil farmers, who are determined to do anything to bring down his family. Filled with beautiful, intricate animation, whimsical dance numbers, and Anderson’s idiosyncratic humor and style, Incredible Mr. Fox is regularly hailed as one of the best animated films of the early aughts and a must-see for fans of children’s films and highly crafted cinema alike. —TE

Incredible Mr. Fox Leave Prime Video Dec. 31.

Man on Fire

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Genre: Crime
Year: 2004
Run time: 2h 26m
Director: Tony Scott
Cast: Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Christopher Walken

Tony Scott reached his peak when he made the decision to make Man on Fire. Denzel Washington plays John Creasy in this 2004 thriller. He is a suicidal ex-CIA agent who acts as a bodyguard to Lupita Fanning (Dakota Fanning), a nine-year-old Mexican girl. Creasy’s reserved and antagonistic past is not a problem. He forms a strong bond with his client, which is tested in the end when he kidnaps her. Creasy fights an aggressive war of vigilante violence to rescue Lupita. The film features intense gunfights, brutal violence and teeth-gnashing, as well brilliant cinematography and an exquisite score by Harry Gregson Williams and Lisa Gerrard. Man on Fire ranks among the very best of Scott’s oeuvre. —TE

Man on FireIs it leaving? Prime Video Dec. 31.

The Ring

DreamWorks Pictures

Genre: Horror
Year: 2002
Run time: 1h 55m
Director: Gore Verbinski
Cast: Naomi Watts and Martin Henderson. Brian Cox

It was fascinating to see studios spending millions on blockbusters of horror in the early 2000s. The American remake of “The Shining” is one of the most notable. RinguA Japanese film about a haunted tape that causes death seven days later after viewers watch the strange sequence of images. Although the remake does not have the same empathy or scares as the original, The RingThis is a truly unique experience and well worth the effort. It feels totally different to horror films from any other time period. With its blockbuster budget and gorgeous direction from Gore Verbinski, this remake is somewhere between a ghost story and a mystery thriller and relies more on its world’s excellent sense of haunting dread than direct scares. —AG

The RingIs it leaving? Prime Video Dec. 31.

Thief

Warner Home Video

Genre: Crime
Year: 1981
Run time: 2h 3m
Director: Michael Mann
Cast: James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Robert Prosky

Michael Mann’s 1981 neo-noir crime thriller is exceptional. James Caan, the late great James CaanThe GodfatherFrank (who is played by John Goodman) appears on the screen. He’s an ex-convict who hopes to retire from crime and live a normal, happy life. Frank is disappointed to lose the last one, but he agrees to join a gangster for another heist. He knows that he will be cheated once more. Even if you’ve never seen the film before, you can probably put two and two together and guess how well that goes for the gangster. Donald Thorin’s stunning nighttime cinematography and Tangerine Dream’s pulsating soundtrack are the highlights of this film. ThiefThis is an exceptional wonder, anchored by a unique lead performance. End of blurb. —Toussaint Egan

ThiefIs it leaving? Prime Video Dec. 31.

HBO Max: How to Leave

The Counselor

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Genre: Crime thriller
Year: 2013
Run time: 1h 57m
Director: Ridley Scott
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem

Possibly Ridley Scott’s strangest movie, this crime thriller was written by Cormac McCarthy and follows a lawyer (Michael Fassbender) who gets involved in a major drug deal. A superb modern noir, which combines Scott’s sharp direction and the philosophy of McCarthy. The Counselor It isn’t for everyone (Cameron Diaz sex with cars years ago). Titane). But, with an ensemble cast that is exceptional, the director works outside his comfort zone and has a tangible sense of everything being just. Very slightlyIt is off-kilter and one of my favourite Ridley Scott films. —PV

The Counselor Leave HBO Max Dec. 31.