We have almost made it to the final month of 2025. Thankfully, a new batch of arrivals of all of your favorite streaming services should keep you busy between the holiday festivities and family events.
Netflix is the king of holiday rom-coms, and so of course we’ll see plenty of new (somewhat similar looking) additions to that list throughout the month. You’ll also get a spread of new documentaries, the third Knives Out movie, and, of course, the Stranger Things finale.
Without further ado, here’s the full list of everything coming to Netflix in December with recommendations from the staff here at IGN.
Everything Coming to Netflix in December
December 1
- All The Empty Rooms
- CoComelon Lane: Season 6
- Love is Blind: Italy
- My Next Guest with David Letterman and Adam Sandler
- Playing Gracie Darling
- Troll 2
- A League of Their Own
- As Good as It Gets
- Bad Teacher
- Big Momma’s House
- Big Momma’s House 2
Victoria
This British historical drama series originally ran from 2016 to 2019 on ITV in the UK and on PBS in the US. Creator Daisy Goodwin's show chronicled the early years of the rule of Queen Victoria (played by Doctor Who's Jenna Coleman), who had been Britain's longest-reigning monarch until her great-great-granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II. The series premiered during the heyday of The Crown, similarly documenting the public and private lives of the British royal family with a degree of creative license. The heart of the show is the romance between Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert (Tom Hughes), while also taking a page from The Crown in depicting the queen's political mentorship by her respective Prime Ministers set against the backdrop of historic events like the Irish famine, the Anglo-Afghan War, and the Great Exhibition. Sadly, Victoria ended on essentially a cliffhanger, with a health crisis for Prince Albert, whose eventual death will devastate Queen Victoria and leave her garbed in black and in mourning for the rest of her life. At least The Crown allowed Queen Elizabeth II's story to play out to a proper conclusion. -Jim Vejvoda
- Brightburn
- Burlesque
- Cheaper by the Dozen
- Cheaper by the Dozen 2
- Christmas Break-In
- Downton Abbey
- Godzilla
Godzilla/Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Monsters director Gareth Edwards was a natural choice to reboot the big boy for Legendary and Warner Bros.’ 2014 spectacle, and while the film works – bringing an epic scope to the concept of a giant monster stomping down on the modern world – Godzilla didn’t quite spawn the franchise that perhaps had been envisioned by fans or the studios at the time. The Monsterverse was birthed, as it’s now called, but it took five years to get a Godzilla sequel – the much more fun King of the Monsters. Of course, there was a Kong: Skull Island thrown in there between the two films (sans Godzilla), and eventually those two chaps met up to bring us to where we are now, in full monster-mash mode every few years. The next one, the curiously named Godzilla x Kong: Supernova, hits in 2027, but you can check out the first two Monsterverse Godzilla movies on Netflix this December. -Scott Collura
- Hollow Man
- Joy for Christmas
- Kung Fu Panda
- Kung Fu Panda 2
- Kung Fu Panda 3
- Little Women
- Pulp Fiction
- Stripes
- The Ugly Truth
- Victoria: Seasons 1-3
- What Lies Beneath
What Lies Beneath
What Lies Beneath - the supernatural thriller starring Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer - hits Netflix this month, and I’ll be loading it up as soon as it’s available. The 2000 film, directed by Robert Zemeckis, sees Ford and Pfeiffer embroiled in simmering domestic turmoil and maybe (or maybe not!) being haunted by a ghost in their New England lakeside home. Fun fact: The movie was actually made in the middle of the production of Zemeckis’s other 2000 film, Cast Away (also on this list!) starring Tom Hanks, in order to give Hanks time to lose weight for his role in that film. What Lies Beneath has Ford and Pfeiffer at their scene-chewing finest, with the Han Solo actor in particular stealing the show. Meanwhile, Pfeiffer’s bathtub scene has since become iconic. What Lies Beneath is worth a watch (or rewatch) for fans of thrillers, horror, or seeing Indiana Jones (possibly) break bad. -Michael Peyton
- The Wolf of Wall Street
- Zero Dark Thirty
The first day of the month always leads to a big mix of new additions and departures on any streaming service. In terms of actual new releases, you’ll get a new iteration of My Next Guest featuring Adam Sandler and a new season of Love Is Blind Italy.
Otherwise, you’ll get access to classics from across eras like Zero Dark Thirty, Greta Gerwig’s Little Women, Pulp Fiction, and what I consider one of the best trilogies of all tim, Kung Fu Panda. Yes, I choose to ignore Kung Fu Panda 4.
December 2
- Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches: Season 2
- Matt Rife: Unwrapped - A Christmas Crowd Work Special
The second season of Mayfair Witches, an ongoing adaptation of the Anne Rice novel, is coming to Netflix after airing on AMC earlier this year. The streamer will also premiere a new comedy special from Matt Rife.
December 3
- My Secret Santa
- The Northman
The Northman
Nothing says happy holidays like Alexander Skarsgård naked, and Robert Eggers’ 2022 viking epic delivers. It's a tale of messy and bloody revenge that mixes Eggers' obsessive attention to historical detail with Norse mythology, and serves up a surreal but satisfying feast as a result. Skarsgård plays Amleth - a prince robbed of his father, family and crown by his uncle - who becomes a berserker, a slave and an overseer as he works his way closer to his uncle to enact his vengeance. Anya Taylor-Joy is otherworldly as his sorceress lover, Willem Dafoe brings his crazy-eyed A game as a Norse jester, and Björk makes a memorable appearance as a seeress, and together they deliver a wild ride that won't let you tear your eyes from the carnage for a second. -Rachel Weber
- Stranded with my Mother-in-Law: Season 3
- With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration
Robert Eggers’ The Northman, which IGN’s review describes as a “dreamlike viking revenge saga,” is coming to Netflix after a stint at Peacock. You’ll also see a new special from Meghan Markle’s reality series focusing on holiday traditions, recipes, and crafts.
December 4
- A Lot Like Christmas
- The Abandons
- The Believers: Season 2
- Forrest Gump
- Fugue State 1986
- I Wish You Had Told Me
- Lali: Time to Step Up
- Mean Girls (2004)
I mean, c’mon? Mean Girls and Forrest Gump, nothing short of classics. Subscribers will also get The Abandons, a new Netflix series from Kurt Sutter, the creator of Sons of Anarchy. The Western drama series stars Lena Headey, Gillian Anderson, and Lucas Till.
December 5
- Jay Kelly
- Love and Wine
- The Making of Jay Kelly
- The New Yorker at 100
- The Night My Dad Saved Christmas 2
- The Price of Confession
- Owning Manhattan: Season 2
Jay Kelly, directed by Noah Baumbach, stars none other than Adam Sandler as an aging movie actor whose existential crisis leads him to take a Europe trip with his manager. The movie will premiere on Netflix alongside a behind-the-scenes documentary.
The streamer will also premiere a documentary digging into the 100 year history of The New Yorker as well as Love and Wine, a good ol’ rom com from Netflix Africa.
December 7
- Babylon
- Cast Away
Cast Away
I think we can all agree that Tom Hanks is one of our greatest living actors. No one plays the affable, everyman hero quite as well as he does. But for my money, Hanks has never been better than he was in this 2000 gem from director Robert Zemeckis. Hanks, of course, plays a FedEx employee whose Christmas gets utterly thrown for a loop when his plane crashes at sea and he washes up on a deserted island. Thus begins a several-year struggle for survival, physically and spiritually.
Everyone remembers the big moments here, whether it’s the arc of Wilson the volleyball or that skin-crawling scene where Hanks’ Chuck has to perform dental surgery with an ice skate. But it’s really Hanks’ one-man tour de force of a performance that makes the whole thing work; it’s no stretch to say that Cast Away lives or dies on the strength of that performance. It’s a shame he didn’t end up winning the Oscar that year, though I suppose he can always wipe his tears away with the two already on his mantle. -Jesse Schedeen
Damien Chazelle’s follow-up to La La Land and First Man released back in 2023 to mixed opinions. Matt Donato’s review of Babylon for IGN aptly sums some of them up: “Babylon is a magnificent disaster that'll be one viewer's favorite movie of the year and another's calamitous nemesis.”
December 8
- Elmo and Mark Rober's Merry Giftmas
Mark Robert and Elmo work together to prepare holiday gifts for their friends in this Netflix Family special.
December 9
- Badly in Love
- Blood Coast: Season 2
- Masaka Kids, A Rhythm Within
- The West Wing: Seasons 1-7
The world is healing and all seven seasons of The West Wing are coming back to Netflix. The streamer is also premiering Badly in Love, a new Japanese dating show, and Masaka Kids, a documentary about a killer dancing group from Uganda that went viral on TikTok.
December 10
- The Accident: Season 2
- Record of Ragnarok: Season 3
- Simon Cowell: The Next Act
Simon Cowell will not rest until he has another boy group under his wing. That is quite literally the premise of his new Netflix series, The Next Act. Netflix will also be the exclusive streaming home for Season 3 of the Record of Ragnarok, which joins the service’s surprisingly solid slate of anime.
December 11
- The Fakenapping
- Had I Not Seen the Sun: Part 2
- Lost in the Spotlight
- Man Vs Baby
- Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft: Season 2
- The Town
The second and final season of Netflix’s animated Tomb Raider series is arriving toward the middle of the month. IGN’s review of the first season acknowledges that there “far better animated video game adaptations than this one,” but it’s still worth trying for any fans of the games.
As much as it might seem to be a new reality series about challenges against infants, Man vs. Baby is in fact yet another holiday-themed movie. You’ll also get the second part of the Korean thriller series Had I Not Seen the Sun.
December 12
- The Amazing Digital Circus: Season 1 (Ep 5-7)
- City of Shadows
- Home for Christmas: Season 3
- Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Rian Johnson’s third Knives Out movie is coming to Netflix a couple weeks after its theatrical release. Carlos Moralos’s review for IGN takes the stance that it “may not be the best Benoit Blanc film, but it satisfies by playing along with genre expectations instead of trying to outsmart them.” This iteration’s cast features Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Josh Brolin, and Josh O’Connor.
December 13
- The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
December 14
- PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie (2024)
December 15
- A Cowboy Christmas Romance
- Christmas at the Chalet
- The Christmas Classic
- Christmas on the Alpaca Farm
- The Creature Cases: Chapter 6
More Christmas! A lot of Christmas, in fact, including a cowboy-centered and an alpaca-centered rom-com. Netflix is also getting a new season of the animated children’s series The Creature Cases.
December 16
- Castle Rock: Seasons 1-2
- Culinary Class Wars: Season 2
If this year’s The Long Walk, The Running Man, and It: Welcome to Derry are anything to go by, there’s seemingly never enough Stephen King adaptations. Another of those adaptations, Castle Rock, ran for two seasons on Hulu and is now making its way to Netflix.
December 17
- The Manny: Season 3
- Murder in Monaco
- What's In The Box?
Murder in Monaco is, you guessed it, a crime documentary, specifically about the mysterious death of the billionaire banker, Edmond Safra. What’s in the Box is a new Netflix game show hosted by Neil Patrick Harris.
December 18
- 10DANCE
- Emily in Paris: Season 5
Emily in Paris: Season 5
Season 4 of Emily in Paris took a pretty significant turn from the previous seasons, with Emily (played by Lily Collins) relocating to Rome for her job – along with most of her coworkers – and leaving fans curious as to how much the show will take place in the adored City of Lights for Season 5. The season (surprising no one) left off with a cliffhanger involving the long-time “boyfriend-but-not” Gabriel (played by Lucas Bravo) and the hot new beau Marcello (played by Eugenio Franceschini), who seems to be a main character in Emily’s new life in Italy. Sadly, some fan-favorite characters wrapped up their storylines in Season 4, including the stellar Camille (played by Camille Razat), leaving it unlikely for them to return for Season 5. Netflix has kept a lot of Season 5 under wraps, with the teaser trailer sharing few new details. We mainly see Emily and Marcello in the “honeymoon” stage of their relationship, her best friend Mindy (played by Ashley Park) coming to visit (eh em, party) with her in Rome, and the new office filled with most of the main characters. As a long-time fan of Emily in Paris, I find the show to be great at bringing in fresh storylines for the talented cast while keeping fans intrigued with the slow burn of literally everything – and I’m just hoping it delivers the same quality and edge as the previous seasons. -Jessie Wade
It’s time for a new season of Emily in Paris, which will be released all at once this time around.
The streamer will also premiere 10DANCE, a new Japanese series about two rival dancers who try to master each other’s unique styles.
December 19
- A Time For Bravery
- Breakdown: 1975
- The Great Flood
- Jake vs. Joshua: Judgment Day
After a significant amount of build-up, the heavyweight Jake Paul vs. Anthony Joshua fight will stream live on Netflix toward the end of the month. Kim Byung Hee’s new sci-fi film The Great Flood will also land on Netflix after premiering at the 30th Busan International Film Festival.
December 22
- The Closer: Seasons 1-7
- Elway
- Sicily Express
Sicily Express is a new Italian series about two friends who sleep in Sicily but work in Milan. Netflix will also host a documentary about NFL legend John Elway from Peyton Manning’s production company, Omaha Productions.
December 23
- Eden
- King of Collectibles: The Goldin Touch: Season 3
Ron Howard’s Eden is a historical drama based on a true story about a group of settlers who land on an isolated island. The film is coming to Netflix after its theatrical release.
December 24
- Downton Abbey: A New Era
- Goodbye June
- Tom Segura: Teacher
The second Downtown Abbey film is coming to Netflix several months after the third and final movie landed in theaters. You’ll also get Goodbye June, a new Netflix film directed by Kate Winslet and starring Helen Mirren.
December 25
- Christmas Gameday: Cowboys vs. Commanders
- Christmas Gameday: Lions vs. Vikings
- Stranger Things 5: Volume 2
Merry Christmas! Netflix is celebrating by hosting two Christmas gameday matches and premiering the next part of the Stranger Things final season.
December 26
- Cover-Up
This new Netflix documentary explores the life of Seymour Hersh, the investigative reporter who uncovered America’s war crimes during the Vietnam and Iraq wars.
December 29
- Members Only: Palm Beach
Now this one’s for the reality fans. Members Only: Palm Beach is a new Netflix series that follows a group of affluent women dealing with ridiculous social hierarchies in Palm Beach County.
December 30
- Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story
- Ricky Gervais: Mortality
This wouldn’t be a Netflix list without some true crime. Evil Influencer digs into the relatively recent case involving social media personalities Ruby Franke and Jodi Hildebrant. The streamer is also getting a new Ricky Gervais special.
December 31
- Sleeping with Other People
- Stranger Things 5: The Finale
Last but certainly not least, the final part of the final season of Stranger Things will be dropping at 8pm ET on New Year’s Eve. We already know it runs for around two hours, so you’ll still have time to watch the ball drop. Be sure to check out some of our Stranger Things coverage below!
- Stranger Things Season 5, Volume 1 Review
- Our Theories on Who Will Die in Stranger Things Season 5
- Stranger Things Seasons 1-4 Recap
- Stranger Things Season 5: Our Biggest Burning Questions After Episodes 1-4
Black Friday Streaming Deals Are Live This Weekend
It just so happens to be Black Friday weekend, which unfortunately has never meant a discount on Netflix itself. If you’re not enticed by this month’s additions or are generally in the market for other streamers, now’s your best chance to scoop up some Black Friday streaming deals. Here’s the highlights we’ve seen so far:
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