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Every month, Netflix Canada adds a new batch of movies and TV shows to its library. Here are the titles we think are most interesting for November, broken down by release date. Netflix occasionally changes schedules without giving notice. (Unfortunately, streaming information provided in our Watchlist listings applies only to viewers in the United States.)

‘Ali’

Starts streaming: Nov. 1

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Set over a 10-year period, Michael Mann’s biopic about the boxer Muhammad Ali is staged as a mythic journey, following the great boxer and outspoken activist as he undergoes a transformation from man to legend, from his first heavyweight championship fight against Sonny Liston to his famed “Rumble in the Jungle” against George Foreman. With a surprisingly persuasive Will Smith in the lead, Mann sketches Ali’s conversion to Islam, his conviction for refusing to fight in the Vietnam War and his life-changing trip to Zaire, where he uses the “rope-a-dope” strategy to fell George Foreman. With each step, Ali grows in stature.

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‘Beginners’

Starts streaming: Nov. 1

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Writer-director Mike Mills (“20th Century Women”) turned inward for this lovely, semi-autobiographical drama about a father who comes out late in life and the profound impact it has on his son. Christopher Plummer stars as the father, who kept his sexual orientation a secret from his family until his wife died, ending a marriage that had gone stale. Ewan McGregor plays the son, a lonely bachelor who begins to understand how his father’s secret subtly fueled his aversion to commitment. Through the painful moments, however, Plummer communicates the absolute pleasure of being fully himself for the first time.

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‘In a Valley of Violence’

Starts streaming: Nov. 1

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With “The House of the Devil,” “The Innkeepers,” and “The Sacrament,” the writer and director Ti West quickly established himself as a brand name in indie horror, known for a deliberate, slow-burn approach to the genre. West shifts to the Western with “In a Valley of Violence.” But he maintains his classical footing in this bare-bones story, which follows a drifter (Ethan Hawke) and his dog (played by a scene-stealing collie named Jumpy) as they try to make their way through a gauntlet of roughnecks in order to cross the border into Mexico.

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‘Logan’

Starts streaming: Nov. 1

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The superhero genre desperately needed a film like “Logan,” which dispenses of the prepackaged slickness of the “X-Men” and Marvel franchises in favor of a stripped-down character piece that amplifies the emotion and emphasizes the brutality of the violence. Capping his 17-year run as Wolverine, Hugh Jackman gives a mournful performance as a reluctant hero who joins a sickly Professor X (Patrick Stewart) in escorting a lethal 11-year-old mutant from the Mexican border to a refuge in North Dakota. In the hands of director James Mangold (“Walk the Line”), “Logan” is less escapist fun than a grim neo-Western about the burdens of heroism.

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‘The Matrix’

Starts streaming: Nov. 1

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After two sequels, countless imitators, and broad infiltration into popular and political culture, this sci-fi/action thriller from the Wachowskis still feels like vital and forward-thinking entertainment about life in a digital dystopia. Fusing the cinema-of-cool style of Hong Kong action films with a demo reel of cutting-edge special effects, “The Matrix” taps into our uneasiness about a rapidly changing world by positing reality as an artificial construct. With Keanu Reeves as the “Chosen One” hero, the film ventures into a hidden war between rebels like himself and the machines that have enslaved most of humanity.

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‘The Shawshank Redemption’

Starts streaming: Nov. 1

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After tanking at the box office in 1994, “The Shawshank Redemption” quietly and steadily grew into a pop culture phenomenon, gaining enough appreciation from home video and cable broadcasts that it now regularly trades places with “The Godfather” for No. 1 on the IMDB’s Top 250 list. Based on the Stephen King novella “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption,” the film is resonant as a story of friendship and transcendence within the walls of a prison — and the walls of the mind. Tim Robbins stars as a banker who’s falsely convicted of a double murder, and Morgan Freeman plays an inmate who befriends him and counsels him to come to terms with his surroundings.

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‘Waking Life’

Starts streaming: Nov. 1

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With his breakthrough feature, “Slacker,” director Richard Linklater assembled the musings of Austin townies into a charming roundelay of philosophical ideas, conspiracy theories and random bits of silliness. A decade later, with several independent and studio features under his belt, Linklater used the emergence of digital filmmaking as a reason to innovation around a similar conceit. Using a modernized rotoscoping process that places animation atop live-action digital imagery, “Waking Life” has a shimmering, mesmeric quality that makes big ideas more accessible — or, barring that, induces a pleasing narcolepsy.

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‘Wall Street’

Starts streaming: Nov. 1

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Although Oliver Stone’s morality play on greed has probably inspired more stockbrokers than deterred them, “Wall Street” is a fascinating window into unbridled ’80s capitalism and its corrosive effect on the soul. Charlie Sheen plays an ambitious slickster who talks his way into working with Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas), a vaunted corporate raider, but he has to circumvent some regulations in order to keep his seat at the table. It turns out the perks of getting rich quick, like huge cellphones and an electronic sushi-rice compactor, are not enough to quiet his whimpering conscience.

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‘Young Frankenstein’

Starts streaming: Nov. 1

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Perhaps the most fully realized comedy in an early-career run that included “The Producers” and “Blazing Saddles,” this monster-movie parody from Mel Brooks gets the look and feel of Universal Horror films exactly right, then uncorks the silliness from there. Some of the gags directly reference the classics. Others trail off into vaudevillian schtick. But Brooks’s adherence to the “Frankenstein” myth and his scrupulous production give “Young Frankenstein” a structural integrity that elude so many random joke fests. He also gets another great performance out of Gene Wilder, whose signature hysteria doesn’t fall that far from a traditional Dr. Frankenstein’s.

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‘Greenberg’

Starts streaming: Nov. 10

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Noah Baumbach’s filmography is full of hard-edge, acutely painful comedies about the New York literati, like “The Squid and the Whale” and “Margot at the Wedding,” but “Greenberg” is Baumbach at his most caustic, before Greta Gerwig came along to lighten subsequent work like “Mistress America” and “Frances Ha.” Gerwig turns up in “Greenberg,” too, as a Los Angeles dog walker who gets involved with Ben Stiller’s misanthropic out-of-towner, but she and the other characters are caught in his blast radius. For those who can withstand its meanness, “Greenberg” is a tart fish-out-of-water comedy that thrives on the yin-and-yang chemistry between Stiller and Gerwig, and a beautiful, smoggy evocation of the city.

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‘Lady Dynamite’ Season 2

Starts streaming: Nov. 10

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The world didn’t necessarily need another semi-autobiographical tour through a comedian’s life, but Maria Bamford’s “Lady Dynamite” is an absurdist delight, cherry-picking details from her stand-up persona and feeding them into a surreal, candy-colored portrait of a Hollywood fringe-dweller. Creators Pam Brady (“South Park”) and Mitch Hurwitz (“Arrested Development”) toggle between Bamford’s misadventures in Los Angeles and flashbacks to her previous life back east, but the style of the show is wildly discursive. The second season gets into the meta-dilemma of Bamford’s entering the streaming comedy game.

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‘Midnight Run’

Starts streaming: Nov. 16

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Films like “48 Hrs.” and “Lethal Weapon” may have set the standard for ’80s buddy action-comedies, but none were as purely satisfying as “Midnight Run,” which thrives on the profane chemistry between Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin and an ace supporting cast that includes Dennis Farina, Yaphet Kotto, Joe Pantoliano and Philip Baker Hall. De Niro plays a gruff bounty hunter who tracks down the accountant played by Grodin, who’s in trouble for embezzling $15 million from the mob and giving it to charity. One hilariously needling comment at a time, Grodin chips away at De Niro’s steely facade.

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‘Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond — Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton’

Starts streaming: Nov. 17

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At the height of his popularity, Jim Carrey chose to honor Andy Kaufman, his comedic idol, by starring in the acclaimed biopic “Man on the Moon.” But the extent to which he immersed himself in the role was never fully understood outside the studio walls. Universal didn’t release the behind-the-scenes footage for fear it would damage Carrey’s image, but now 100 hours of it have been assembled into “Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond,” with Carrey on hand in a series of new interivews, setting context for his own behavior. Commissioned for the task was Chris Smith, whose “American Movie” is itself one of the great behind-the-scenes filmmaking docs.

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‘Mudbound’

Starts streaming: Nov. 17

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Six years ago, Dee Rees won some acclaim for her intimate lesbian coming-of-age drama, “Pariah,” but with “Mudbound,” she’s scaled up her ambitions considerably, adapting the novel by Hillary Jordan about two families in conflict in post-World War II Mississippi. The complicated relationship between the McAllens, a white family, and the Jacksons, a black family, plays out in the allegorical space of farmland that the McAllens are leasing to the Jacksons. A friendship between veterans from each family breaks the fragile détente. Based on the positive notices from the festival circuit, “Mudbound” appears to be Netflix’s first major bid for an Oscar.

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‘She’s Gotta Have It’ Season 1

Starts streaming: Nov. 23

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More than 30 years after the ultra-low-budget “She’s Gotta Have It” launched his career, Spike Lee revisits the premise for a 10-episode series that he directed entirely himself. All the major characters return, led by DeWanda Wise as Nola Darling, a “polyamorous pansexual” who indulges her considerable appetites by dating three very different men, including a male model, a businessman and Mars Blackmon, the jester Lee played in the original film. Lee’s wife, Tonya Lewis Lee, is his chief collaborator on the show.

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Also of interest: “Bad Boys” and “Bad Boys II” (Nov. 1), “Birdman” (Nov. 1), “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” (Nov. 1), “A Cure for Wellness” (Nov. 1), “High Anxiety” (Nov. 1), “In the Heart of the Sea” (Nov. 1), “Men in Black” (Nov. 1), “Silver Streak” (Nov. 1), “A United Kingdom” (Nov. 1), “Chelsea” Season 2 (Nov. 3), “Green Zone” (Nov. 16), “Longmire” Final Season (Nov. 17), “The Punisher” (Nov. 17), “Field of Dreams” (Nov. 23) and “State of Play” (Nov. 30).

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