What to Watch This Weekend (Nov. 1-2): 8 Best New Movies and Shows to Stream Now (Including a Rare Female Serial Killer Doc)

It’s the first weekend of November, so say goodbye to spooky season (boo) and hello to Thanksgiving and all things fall (yay)!

This weekend, Nov. 1-2, between apple picking and scooping up fallen leaves in your yard, find some time to hit theaters where Oscar-winning director Yorgos Lanthimos‘ latest collaboration with Emma Stone is premiering.

Over on streaming, Netflix is taking a look at a rare female serial killer and how her troubled past led to her death by execution. On a lighter note, the formerly titled Untitled Rachel Sennott Project is finally debuting (with a title, no less) on HBO Max.

And there’s more! Here’s a list of the eight best new movies and shows to watch this weekend and where to stream them.

Bugonia

Lanthimos and Stone aren’t afraid to get, well, weird. The two teamed up for their fourth project together — following 2018’s The Favourite, 2023’s Poor Things and 2024’s Kinds of Kindness — in Bugonia.

The movie stars Stone as Michelle Fuller, a successful businesswoman, and Jesse Plemons (who also costarred in Kinds of Kindness) as Teddy, a deranged conspiracy theorist who believes Michelle is an alien. He kidnaps her, shaves her head (as we all so famously have seen online) and at some point jumps across a table and lunges at her?

Bugonia releases in theaters on Oct. 31.

Aileen: Queen of Serial Killers

You know Ted Bundy and Charles Manson, but have you heard of the Damsel of Death? Netflix is peeling back the curtain on the life of Aileen Wuornos, who was sentenced to death after confessing to the murder of seven men.

Wuornos was a prostitute working along the Florida state highways when she committed her first known murder in 1989. In the years that followed, she confessed to killing six more men, many of whom were her clients, whom she accused of assaulting or attempting to assault her.

Watch Aileen: Queen of Serial Killers on Netflix.

Selling Sunset season 9

The “savage” women of the Oppenheim brothers‘ O Group are back to sell luxury buildings in Los Angeles and surrounding areas — and to hash it out with each other once again.

Season 9 follows realtors Chrishell Stause, Chelsea Lazkani, Emma Hernan, Nicole Young, Alanna Gold, Mary Bonnet, Amanza Smith and Bre Tiesi. Joining them for the first time is Sandra Vergara, who is Sofía Vergara‘s cousin and adoptive sister.

Watch Selling Sunset season 9 on Netflix.

I Love LA

Rachel Sennott‘s HBO project has been in the works for some time — long enough that it’s been known as the Untitled Rachel Sennott Project. Now, though, it has a name — and it’s telling.

Sennott stars as Maia, a young woman just trying to make it in the big city. Joining her are Josh Hutcherson, Jordan Firstman and Odessa A’zion as her boyfriend and two close friends, respectively. When they reunite after years apart, they must navigate the complexities of ambition and shifting relationships.

Watch I Love LA on Sunday, Nov. 2, at 10:30 p.m. ET on HBO and HBO Max.

Don’t Date Brandon

Do you ever know who a man truly is until you talk to his exes? And Brandon Johnson has many — who have lots to say.

Two of Johnson’s ex-wives, who alleged they experienced stalking and harassment at the hands of the Washington native, teamed up to expose him in their 2020 podcast Ex-Wives Undercover. Now, a documentary is looking into their shocking allegations.

Watch Don’t Date Brandon on Paramount+.

Down Cemetery Road

A secret government plot. A nosy private investigator. What could go wrong?

Emma Thompson is Zoe Boehm in Down Cemetery Road, a new series from the creators of Slow Horses. Zoe is a sarcastic and disillusioned PI who, with the help of Ruth Wilson‘s Sarah Tucker, discovers a massive government cover-up and is willing to go to any length to expose it.

Watch Down Cemetery Road on Apple TV.

Ballad of a Small Player

Who doesn’t love a movie in which the main character slowly descends into maddening chaos, losing their grip on reality and falls into their own demise? That’s what you’ll get in Ballad of a Small Player as Colin Farrell‘s Lord Doyle struggles to pay off his debts from a serious gambling addiction.

Starring Tilda Swinton as Cynthia Blithe, a private investigator hot on Doyle’s tail, the movie follows the two on a race against time as Doyle’s window to save himself starts to close.

Watch Ballad of a Small Player on Netflix.

Finding Mr. Christmas season 2

With Halloween out of the way, that basically means it’s Christmas time. Or if you’re a Hallmark fan, it’s always Christmas time! Either way, Finding Mr. Christmas is back for season 2.

The reality competition series, hosted by Jonathan Bennett, sets out to find the next Hallmark leading man. But first, he needs to rise to the challenge and check all the boxes: hunk, talent and holiday cheer!

Watch the premiere of Finding Mr. Christmas season 2 on Hallmark+.