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
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
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 - 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
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
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
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 premiere10DANCE, 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!
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