Your Ultimate Watchlist: Every Movie Hitting Netflix in December 2025
Netflix closes out the year swinging with a December slate stacked with fresh premieres, awards contenders, and comfort classics — headlined by Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly on December 5.
Netflix is closing out 2025 with the kind of lineup that makes the holidays dangerously bingeable. It is a mix of awards hopefuls, comfort rewatches, and a few curveballs that feel designed to blow up group chats. The headline? Noah Baumbach finally drops his starry Netflix original 'Jay Kelly' on December 5 after turning critics' heads at Venice. Yes, that one — the George Clooney and Adam Sandler team-up. Big swing, big curiosity.
The headliners and the oddities
'Jay Kelly' is the splashy one, but the bench is deep: Rian Johnson's latest mystery entry 'Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery' lands mid-month, the 'Kung Fu Panda' trilogy shows up all at once, and Netflix sneaks in a spicy year-end doc with 'Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story' on December 30. Also: both 'Mean Girls' movies — 2004 and 2024 — hit the same day, which is either chaos or a perfect double-feature, depending on your stress tolerance.
Every movie hitting Netflix in December 2025
- Dec 1 — All the Empty Rooms; 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; What Lies Beneath; The Wolf of Wall Street; Zero Dark Thirty
- Dec 3 — My Secret Santa; The Northman
- Dec 4 — A Lot Like Christmas; The Abandons; Forrest Gump; Fugue State 1986; I Wish You Had Told Me; Lali: Time to Step Up; Mean Girls (2004); Mean Girls (2024)
- Dec 5 — Jay Kelly; Love and Wine; The New Yorker at 100; The Night My Dad Saved Christmas 2
- Dec 7 — Babylon; Cast Away
- Dec 8 — Elmo and Mark Rober's Merry Giftmas
- Dec 9 — Masaka Kids, A Rhythm Within
- Dec 11 — The Fakenapping; Lost in the Spotlight
- Dec 12 — City of Shadows; Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
- Dec 13 — The Talented Mr. Ripley
- Dec 14 — PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie
- Dec 15 — A Cowboy Christmas Romance; Christmas at the Chalet; The Christmas Classic; Christmas on the Alpaca Farm
- Dec 17 — Murder in Monaco
- Dec 18 — 10DANCE
- Dec 19 — A Time for Bravery; The Great Flood
- Dec 22 — Elway
- Dec 23 — Eden
- Dec 24 — Downton Abbey: A New Era; Goodbye June
- Dec 26 — Cover-Up
- Dec 30 — Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story
- Dec 31 — Sleeping with Other People
Quick takeaways
December 1 is loaded: a flood of classics and favorites ('Pulp Fiction', 'The Wolf of Wall Street', 'A League of Their Own') plus the entire 'Kung Fu Panda' run in one shot. Then a very modern December mood-swing: 'The Northman' on Dec 3, and both 'Mean Girls' films on Dec 4, the same day 'Forrest Gump' shows up. Dec 5 is the big swing with 'Jay Kelly' — Clooney and Sandler under Baumbach is a combo I did not have on my bingo card, but after Venice buzz, I am in. Mid-month, 'Wake Up Dead Man' gives you a mystery-night option, 'PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie' handles kid duty, and 'The Talented Mr. Ripley' returns for the glossy-psychological crowd. Year-end curveballs include 'Elmo and Mark Rober's Merry Giftmas' (cute), a sequel with 'The Night My Dad Saved Christmas 2', and that late-December doc 'Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story' — expect chatter about that one as people power through leftovers.
Bottom line: this is one of Netflix's strongest months of the year. Whether you want prestige vibes, shameless comfort watches, or something to argue about in the group chat, December has you covered. What are you queuing up first?