In December 2021, Netflix is welcoming some popular characters back, such as Geralt of Rivia, Emily Cooper, the Fab Five, and the Professor, and will add movies starring Sandra Bullock and Leonardo DiCaprio, as well as (of course) more Christmas content. Streaming platforms became the solution for studios during the coronavirus pandemic as they provided a home for some of their movies that had to skip a theatrical release, and they also became the main source of entertainment for many. Now with cinemas around the world open and working again, streaming services haven’t lost any force, and in Netflix’s case, it has managed to keep its audience's attention by adding new licensed and original content every week.
November saw the arrival of movies like The Harder They Fall, Love Hard, Red Notice, Passing, The Princess Switch 3: Romancing The Star, tick, tick... BOOM!, and Bruised, along with the fifth season of Big Mouth, the second batch of episodes of Tiger King, and the live-action version of Cowboy Bebop. December will also see new licensed content though less than in previous months, with some of the most notable titles being Closer, Final Destination 5, Looper, The Legend of Zorro, and Darkest Hour, among others.
As for original content, Netflix will see the return of some of its most popular TV shows, as are The Witcher, Emily in Paris, Queer Eye, and Money Heist, along with Adam McKay’s latest project and a drama movie starring Sandra Bullock. Here’s everything releasing on Netflix in December 2021.
December 1
44 Cats (Season 4)
Closer
Final Destination 5
Fool’s Gold
Green Snake
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure (Season 4)
Kayko & Kokosh (Multiple Seasons)
Knight Rider 2000
Life
Looper
Lost in Space – season 3
- In the third and final season of Lost in Space, the stakes are higher than ever and the Robinson family's survival instincts will be put to the ultimate test. After a year of being trapped on a mysterious planet, Judy, Penny, Will, and the Robot must lead the 97 young Colonists in a harrowing evacuation, but not before secrets are unearthed that will change their lives forever. Meanwhile, John and Maureen (with Don at their side) must battle overwhelming odds as they try to reunite with their kids. The Robinsons will have to grapple with the emotional challenge of not just being lost, but being separated from the ones they love as they face the greatest alien threat yet.
The Legend of Zorro
The Power of the Dog
- Based on the 1967 novel of the same name by Thomas Savage and directed by Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog follows Phil Burbank (Benedict Cumberbatch), a charismatic rancher who inspires fear and awe in those around him. When his brother George (Jesse Plemons) brings home a new wife and her son, Phil torments them until he finds himself exposed to the possibility of love. Also starring are Kristen Dunst, Thomasin McKenzie, Kodi Smit-McPhee, and Genevieve Lemon.
Think Like a Man
December 2
#abtalks (Season 1)
Escalona (Season 1)
Rain or Shine / Just Between Lovers (Season 1)
Single All The Way
- Desperate to avoid his family’s judgment about his perpetual single status, Peter (Michael Urie) convinces his best friend Nick (Philemon Chambers) to join him for the holidays and pretend that they're now in a relationship– but when Peter’s mother (Kathy Najimy) sets him up on a blind date with her handsome trainer James (Luke Macfarlane), the plan goes awry.
The Alpinist
The Coyotes
The Whole Truth
- When two siblings stumble on a strange hole in the wall of their grandparents' house, horrifying incidents reveal sinister secrets about their family.
December 3
Cobalt Blue
Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous – season 4
- Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous follows a group of six teenagers chosen for a once-in-a-lifetime experience at a new adventure camp on the opposite side of Isla Nublar. But when dinosaurs wreak havoc across the island, the campers are stranded. Unable to reach the outside world, they’ll need to go from strangers to friends to family if they’re going to survive.
Mixtape
Money Heist – season 5B
- The final episodes of the acclaimed Spanish series Money Heist/La Casa de Papel. The gang has been shut in the Bank of Spain for over 100 hours. They have managed to rescue Lisbon, but their darkest moment is upon them after losing one of their own. The Professor has been captured by Sierra and, for the first time, doesn’t have an escape plan. Just when it seems like nothing else could go wrong, an enemy comes on the scene that is much more powerful than any they’ve faced: the army. The end of the greatest heist in history is here, and what began as a robbery will turn into a war.
Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas
- In this 30-minute special from Aardman, the world’s favorite sheep stars in his very own winter tale. Shaun's seasonal excitement turns to dismay when a farmhouse raid to get bigger stockings for the Flock inadvertently leads to Timmy going missing. Can Shaun get Timmy back before he becomes someone else’s present?
The Great British Baking Show: Holidays (Season 4)
December 6
David and the Elves – Netflix Original
Voir (Season 1)
December 7
Centaurworld (Season 2)
Go, Dog. Go! (Season 2)
Nicole Byer: BBW (Big Beautiful Weirdo)
December 8
Carolin Kebekus: The Last Christmas Special
December 9
Asakusa Kid
- Based on Takeshi Kitano’s memoir, the legendary comedian and auteur is known in Japan and around the world, but lesser-known are his mentor and his friends who helped him reach such heights. Studying under Senzaburo Fukami, a largely forgotten comedian who once mastered the stage, and with help from his fellows, he starts to carve out his own path to stardom, only to discover too late the price of his fame and success: the people who helped get him there. Set in mid-1960s Asakusa, a somewhat seedy part of Tokyo, Kitano dropped out of college in search of something better, and took a job at the Asakusa Furansu-za theater known as a hall of fame for strip shows and comedy, where he soon became an apprentice of the legendary comedian Senzaburo Fukami. Fukami was the comedy master behind other famous comedians such as Hachiro Azuma and Kinichi Hagimoto, who disavowed television and only believed in the live stage. Kitano worked hard under Fukami to polish his craft and achieve his dream of becoming a successful comedian. However, as home television became ever more popular, live comedy gradually fell out of favor.
SHAMAN KING
The Family That Sings Together: The Camargos (Season 1)
December 10
Anonymously Yours
Aranyak (Season 1)
Back to the Outback
- Tired of being locked in a reptile house where humans gawk at them like they’re monsters, a ragtag group of Australia’s deadliest creatures plot a daring escape from their zoo to the Outback, a place where they’ll fit in without being judged for their scales and fangs. Leading the group is Maddie (Isla Fisher), a poisonous snake with a heart of gold, who bands together with a self-assured Thorny Devil lizard Zoe (Miranda Tapsell), a lovelorn hairy spider Frank (Guy Pearce), and a sensitive scorpion Nigel (Angus Imrie). But when their nemesis, Pretty Boy (Tim Minchin), a cute but obnoxious koala, unexpectedly joins their escape, Maddie and the gang have no choice but to take him with them.
How to Ruin Christmas (Season 2)
Roaring Twenties: Austin – season 1 (New Episodes Weekly)
- Roaring Twenties is the coming-of-age story of eight twenty-somethings who set out to find success in life and love in Austin, Texas while learning to navigate the 'new normal' of 2020's America. Living together and leaning on each other, they experience the highs and lows that come with being an adult. After all, your twenties are a crazy, weird, and special time in your life, and you only get to live them once.
Saturday Morning All Star Hits! (Season 1)
Still Out of My League
The Shack
The Unforgivable
- Based on the 2009 British miniseries Unforgiven, and directed by Nora Fingscheidt and written by Peter Craig, Hillary Seitz, and Courtenay Miles, The Unforgivable tells the story of Ruth Slater (Sandra Bullock), a woman who is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past. Also starring are Vincent D’Onofrio, Viola Davis, Jon Bernthal, Richard Thomas, and Kinda Emond.
Two
December 11
Fast Color
The Hungry and the Hairy (Season 1)
December 13
Eye in the Sky
December 14
Bonus Family (Season 4)
StarBeam: Beaming in the New Year
Russell Howard: Lubrican
The Future Diary (Season 1)
December 15
Elite Short Stories: Phillipe Caye Felipe
- New miniseries of short stories with the characters of Elite.
Masha and the Bear (Season 5)
The Hand of God
- From Academy Award-winning writer and director Paolo Sorrentino, comes the story of Fabietto Schisa set in the tumultuous Naples of the 1980s. The Hand of God is a story full of unexpected joys, such as the arrival of football legend Diego Maradona, and an equally unexpected tragedy. Fate plays its part, joy and tragedy intertwine, and Fabietto’s future is set in motion. Sorrentino returns to his hometown to tell his most personal story, a tale of fate and family, sports and cinema, love and loss.
December 16
A Naija Christmas
Aggretsuko – season 4
- Frustrated with her thankless office job, the 25-year-old red panda copes with her daily struggles by belting out heavy metal karaoke after work.
A California Christmas: City Lights
- It’s been a year since Callie and Joseph fell in love, and they’re happier than ever running their dairy farm and winery until business and family obligations call him back to the city and threaten to derail their romance.
Darkest Hour
Puff: Wonders of the Reef
The Guardian / Thiên Than Ho Menh
December 17
Decoupled (Season 1)
The Witcher – season 2
- Convinced Yennefer’s life was lost at the Battle of Sodden, Geralt of Rivia brings Princess Cirilla to the safest place he knows: his childhood home of Kaer Morhen. While the Continent’s kings, elves, humans, and demons strive for supremacy outside its walls, he must protect the girl from something far more dangerous: the mysterious power she possesses inside.
December 20
Elite Short Stories: Samuel Omar
- New miniseries of short stories with the characters of Elite.
December 21
Grumpy Christmas
December 22
Emily in Paris – season 2
- Now more entrenched in her life in Paris, Emily’s getting better at navigating the city but still struggling with the idiosyncrasies of French life. After stumbling into a love triangle with her neighbor and her first real French friend, Emily is determined to focus on her work, which is getting more complicated by the day. In French class, she meets a fellow expat who both infuriates and intrigues her.
Grumpy Christmas
December 23
Elite Short Stories: Patrick
- New miniseries of short stories with the characters of Elite.
December 24
1000 Miles from Christmas
- A mil kilómetros de la Navidad is a comedy that tells the story of Raúl (Tamar Novas), a thirty-something who has suffered all the misfortunes of his life during Christmas time. This is the reason why he really hates Christmas Carols, the Three Wise Men, and everything that remotely smells of Christmas spirit. Every year he spends Christmas time on a far-away beach, but this year his boss has different plans for him: Raúl must attend a business trip to audit a “turrones de Valverde” factory, the most typical Christmas sweet in a town that lives for and loves Christmas – and if this was not enough for Raúl, he will have to share accommodation with local teacher Paula, whose dream is beating the world record of the largest real live nativity scene ever created. Will this Madrilian Grinch be able to overcome his worst nightmare?
Don’t Look Up
- Written and directed by Adam McKay, Don’t Look Up follows Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence), an astronomy grad student, and her professor Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio), who make an astounding discovery of a comet orbiting within the solar system. The problem? It’s on a direct collision course with Earth. The other problem? No one really seems to care. Turns out warning mankind about a planet-killer the size of Mount Everest is an inconvenient fact to navigate. With the help of Dr. Oglethorpe (Rob Morgan), Kate and Randall embark on a media tour that takes them from the office of an indifferent President Orlean (Meryl Streep) and her sycophantic son and Chief of Staff, Jason (Jonah Hill), to the airwaves of The Daily Rip, an upbeat morning show hosted by Brie (Cate Blanchett) and Jack (Tyler Perry). With only six months until the comet makes impact, managing the 24-hour news cycle and gaining the attention of the social media-obsessed public before it’s too late proves shockingly comical. What will it take to get the world to just look up?
Minnal Murali
- Set in the 90s, Minnal Murali is an origin story of an ordinary man-turned-superhero Murali, who is struck by a bolt of lightning, which bestows him with special powers.
The Silent Sea (Season 1)
December 25
Stories of a Generation – with Pope Francis (Season 1)
December 29
Anxious People
Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer (Season 1)
December 30
Kitz (Season 1)
December 31
Cobra Kai – season 4
- Season 4 finds the Miyagi-Do and Eagle Fang dojos joining forces to take down Cobra Kai at the All Valley Under 18 Karate Tournament, and whoever loses must hang up their gi. As Samantha and Miguel try to maintain the dojo alliance and Robby goes all in at Cobra Kai, the fate of the Valley has never been more precarious. What tricks does Kreese have up his sleeve? Can Daniel and Johnny bury their decades-long hatchet to defeat Kreese? Or will Cobra Kai become the face of karate in the valley?
Queer Eye – season 6
- The Fab Five are back with a new season with new people, stories, and life changes, now set in Texas.
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