Fun and Family Movies to Watch This November

As the holiday season gets underway this November, celebrate the period with films filled with family, fun, and adventure.

In the mood for a sweet coming-of-age tale? | Girls Like Girls

In Hayley Kiyoko's Girls Like Girls, Coley (Maya da Costa) has just moved to a small town in Oregon when she meets Sonya (Myra Molloy). Over one summer, Coley’s world is turned inside out as she moves from infatuation to romance to love, never knowing what or whom she can really trust. “It’s that experience—of discovering something you didn’t know you didn’t know, and finding yourself in the process—which Girls Like Girls captures so fully that it comes to seem, in spite of its familiarity, like a tiny revelation,” writes The Hollywood Reporter.

Stream Girls Like Girls exclusively on Peacock!

In the mood for a moving family drama? | Belfast

Nominated for seven Academy Awards®, Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast won Best Original Screenplay for its emotional tale of growing up in Northern Ireland at the start of the Troubles. Nine-year-old Buddy (Jude Hill) finds his life turned upside down when his parents (Caitríona Balfe and Jamie Dornan) struggle with whether they should abandon Belfast to keep everyone safe.  Leaving would mean Buddy giving up his friends and his beloved grandparents (Judi Dench and Ciarán Hinds). Branagh told Vanity Fair, “I was really the beneficiary of an enormous act of sacrifice on the part of my parents to leave something that defined them—that city, that extended family.” CNN writes, “It’s appropriate…his most personal film would also turn out to be his crowning achievement.”

Stream Belfast on Peacock!

In the mood for a raucous road movie? | Drive-Away Dolls

Directed by Ethan Coen from a screenplay by Coen and Tricia Cooke, Drive-Away Dolls follows the adventures of two women (Margaret Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathan) traveling from Philadelphia to Tallahassee, Florida. During their trip, the two cross paths with a gang of inept criminals, a shady politician, a series of memorable lesbian bars, and one furious  ex-girlfriend. With a supporting cast that includes Pedro Pascal, Matt Damon, and Beanie Feldstein, the film is “one of those movies that you can imagine yourself watching (and enjoying) again if at the very least to memorize some of its terrifically funny and quotable lines,” writes the Associated Press.

Stream Drive-Away Dolls on Peacock!

In the mood for a fun action comedy? | Polite Society

In Nida Manzoor’s Polite Society, sisters Ria (Priya Kansara) and Lena Khan (Ritu Arya) are ready to take on the world. Ria, a teen with dreams of becoming a stunt woman, and her older sister dreams of romance. When Salim (Akshay Khanna) and his calculating mother (Nimra Bucha) push Lena into a shady marriage, Ria and her friends spring into action to rescue her. A hilarious mashup of genres and styles, from high-flying fighting to stirring family comedy, Polite Society doesn’t pull its punches. The Austin Chronicle writes, “Come for the action and loving send-up of martial arts films, and stay for the sisterly support that shines through.”

Stream Polite Society on Peacock!

In the mood for a hilarious road trip? | Half Brothers

In Luke Greenfield’s Half Brothers, two siblings who have never met—Renato (Luis Gerardo Méndez) and Asher (Connor Del Rio)—are forced by their father’s will to take a road trip together. “It’s a scavenger hunt of sorts,” says writer/producer Eduardo Cisneros in the production notes. “Every time they get to a certain spot, they learn something they didn’t know about their father and his life.” In the end, the two find a new family and a renewed sense of who they are. “Full of an abundance of heart, Half Brothers encourages us to rediscover that which means the most to us in life before it’s too late,” writes Full Circle Cinema.

Stream Half Brothers on Peacock!