The top 5 'must watch' films on underrated streaming platform in November

Mubi is my all-time favourite streaming platform, it is home to a selection of carefully curated films that are not often appearing on any other platform. The hand-picked feel of its catalogue makes the quality of the movies stand out and you know you are going to be in for a different type of viewing experience than normal. This month, Mubi have created a roundup of the best films coming to the streaming platform throughout November. Here, I have selected the five that I am most excited about watching, including a couple of rewatches and a few I've never seen. These are the top five films coming to Mubi in November.

Paul Thomas Anderson's sun-bleached Licorice Pizza (2021) follows teenage hustler Gary Valentine (Cooper Hoffman) and 25-year-old Alana Kane (Alana Haim) as they drift across 1970s Los Angeles and stumble through love, ambition, and misadventure. A loose and comedic coming-of-age story to begin with, Gary and Alana's relationship eventually reveals a tender study of connection set against the Californian dream. Underneath Anderson's homegrown nostalgia for the city he grew up in, Licorice Pizza evokes the innocence, ambitions and desires that define being young, and the indelible mark they leave upon us. I have seen this film in the past, but remember being distracted while watching it so I'm excited to rewatch it and take it in fully.

A new one for me here, but a director that I would like to spend more time watching. David Lynch: Delusions and Dreams celebrates the singular vision of the late David Lynch: the beloved filmmaker who blended dreams, beauty, and strangeness, always with profound sincerity, as a means of excavating the mysteries that lie beneath everyday life. Joining the collection is The Elephant Man (1980), in which Lynch transforms the biopic into something deeply humane. It tells the story of Joseph Merrick (John Hurt), a severely deformed man in Victorian London, who uses his disfigurement to earn a living as the "Elephant Man". Upon discovering Joseph in a circus side show, Dr. Treves (Anthony Hopkins) takes a personal interest in him and discovers that beneath his shocking appearance hides a refined soul.

Forever capturing the restless uncertainty of youth, Mike Nichol's legendary The Graduate (1967) follows recent college graduate Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) adrift in a world of parental expectations and suburban ennui. As a small rebellion, he begins an affair with the older Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft), only to find it further questioning his beliefs of the world he's trying to escape. This is a new film for me, but I know it is a classic, so I am intrigued to see what I make of it.

A ilm that I've never got round to... In Lynne Ramsay's unsettling We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011), once successful writer Eve (Tilda Swinton) has the limits of her motherhood put to the test after her son Kevin (Ezra Miller) enacts an act of unspeakable violence. With a relationship already fraught even before the crime, Eve struggles to reconcile her own ambivalence and guilt with the enormity of Kevin's actions. A probing study of maternal guilt and adolescent malevolence, Ramsay boldly explores the generational, emotional, and psychological fractures that shaped Kevin's path, but not without fleeting moments of intimacy that hint at a complex and hidden humanity beneath his ominous behaviours.

Shannon Murphy's Babyteeth (2019) follows Milla, a teenage cancer patient whose life is upended when she meets Moses, a slightly older drug dealer. Their improbable bond becomes a lifeline to Milla, giving her reason to keep going at the behest of her overly protective parents. Set in the sun-drenched Australian suburbs, Milla's occasional moments of rebellion against her humdrum trapping empathise with her desperate need to confront mortality, and the fleeting moments of joy that doing it provide. This is an incredibly moving film that I urge everyone to watch, I will definitely be rewatching it in November.