Netflix to Add 112 New Shows & Movies In December 2025 – Here Are the 5 to Watch

By Phillip Swann
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Netflix next month (December 2025) plans to add 112 new TV shows and movies to its streaming lineup. Here are the five to watch, in my humble opinion:

Stranger Things – Season 5 (4 Final Episodes)
Release Date: December 25, three episodes; series finale on December 31.
The second installment of the fifth and final season of the upside down world of those crazy kids debuts on Christmas Day with three new episodes. (The first four episodes of S5 premiered on November 26 with four episodes.) The series finale will then be released on Netflix (and select movie theaters) on December 31. If you’re not familiar with Stranger Things by now, the show, which stars Winona Ryder, David Harbour and Millie Bobby Brown, follows a mysterious young girl (Brown) who opens a pathway between Earth and a hostile (very hostile) alternate dimension called the Upside Down. The series depicts a band of teenagers who assist the clueless adults in restoring order in our world. (Seasons one through four, the first part of season five, are now available on Netflix.)

Jay Kelly
Release Date: December 5
George Clooney stars in this Noah Baumbach-directed comedy/drama about a famous actor who reflects on his life’s choices after a mentor unexpectedly dies. Adam Sandler plays his manager who accompanies him on his soul-searching journey through Europe. Jay Kelly may sound like a bit too much Hollywood navel-gazing but the early reviews say the Clooney-Sandler chemistry sparks magic on screen, resulting in a poignant and often funny depiction of the fragility and futility of all lives.

Babylon (2022)
Release Date: December 7
Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt star in this sensational epic drama on the silent film industry in the 1920s and the difficulties that some actors faced making the transition to sound. Directed with great panache by Damien Chazelle (Whiplash, La La Land), Babylon’s greater thesis is that Hollywood, in any era, can be a cruel mistress, quick to seduce but impossible to love. Through the eyes of Robbie and Pitt, the film explores how industry execs and their minions manufacture and manipulate their stars only to cut them loose when their appeal begins to wane. For Chazelle, still a relatively young director at 40 (then 37), it was a bold statement and perhaps one that has set back his career; he hasn’t made a film since. And that is a terrible shame. Babylon is a dazzling 189 minutes (feels like 89 minutes, it moves so fast) overflowing with memorable images and incredible acting, particularly from Robbie and Pitt who put vanity on the shelf for this one. It’s a beautiful film and one I cannot recommend more highly.

Jake vs. Joshua: Judgment Day
Release Date: December 19, undercard starts at 8 p.m. ET
Netflix will exclusively stream an eight-round live boxing match between YouTube influencer turned pugilist Jake Paul and former two-time heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua on December 19. The Joshua fight will easily be Paul’s toughest since he started boxing in 2020. Joshua, a former Olympic boxer, is 28-4 with 25 knockouts. His last fight was September 21, 2024 when he was knocked out in the fifth round by Daniel Dubois. Joshua is listed at 6’6” and 245 pounds. Paul, who is listed at 6’1” and 185 pounds (although he has been as much as 40 pounds heavier in some fights), is 12-1 with seven knockouts. His sole loss was to Tommy Fury in a split decision.

NFL Christmas Doubleheader
Release Date: December 25
Soon after you have unwrapped the gifts, Netflix will kick off its exclusive NFL doubleheader starting with the Dallas Cowboys-Washington Commanders game at 1 p.m. ET, followed by the Minnesota Vikings-Detroit Lions contest at 4:30 p.m. ET. Thanks to the newly resurgent Cowboys, both games could have playoff consequences.

New Shows & Movies Coming to Netflix In December 2025

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
Brightburn
Burlesque
Cheaper by the Dozen
Cheaper by the Dozen 2
Christmas Break-In
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
The Wolf of Wall Street
Zero Dark Thirty

December 2
Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches: Season 2
Matt Rife: Unwrapped – A Christmas Crowd Work Special

December 3
My Secret Santa
The Northman
Stranded with my Mother-in-Law: Season 3
With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration

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)
Mean Girls (2024)

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

December 7
Babylon
Cast Away

December 8
Elmo and Mark Rober’s Merry Giftmas

December 9
Badly in Love
Blood Coast: Season 2
Masaka Kids, A Rhythm Within
The West Wing: Seasons 1-7

December 10
The Accident: Season 2
Record of Ragnarok: Season 3
Simon Cowell: The Next Act

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

December 12
The Amazing Digital Circus: Season 1: Episodes 5-7
City of Shadows
Home for Christmas: Season 3
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

December 13
The Talented Mr. Ripley

December 14
PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie

December 15
A Cowboy Christmas Romance
Christmas at the Chalet
The Christmas Classic
Christmas on the Alpaca Farm
The Creature Cases: Chapter 6

December 16
Castle Rock: Seasons 1-2
Culinary Class Wars: Season 2

December 17
The Manny: Season 3
Murder in Monaco
What’s In The Box?

December 18
10DANCE
Emily in Paris: Season 5

December 19
A Time for Bravery
Breakdown: 1975
The Great Flood
Jake vs. Joshua: Judgment Day

December 22
The Closer: Seasons 1-7
Elway
Sicily Express

December 23
Eden
King of Collectibles: The Goldin Touch: Season 3

December 24
Downton Abbey: A New Era
Goodbye June
Tom Segura: Teacher

December 25 
Christmas Gameday: Cowboys vs. Commanders
Christmas Gameday: Lions vs. Vikings
Stranger Things 5: Volume 2

December 26
Cover-Up

December 29
Members Only: Palm Beach

December 30
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story
Ricky Gervais: Mortality

December 31
Sleeping with Other People
Stranger Things 5: The Finale

Dates to be announced
Cashero
Pro Bono
Robby Hoffman: Wake Up 

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