In December 2022, Netflix is bringing a new version of Charles Dickens' Christmas classic, a documentary about a filmmaker, a romantic drama movie based on a novel, Guillermo del Toro’s latest project, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s newest movie, more Parisian adventures from Emily, the sequel to Knives Out, the movie version of a musical, and a new adventure from the world of The Witcher. November saw the addition of the mystery movie Enola Holmes 2, the first part of the final season of Manifest, season 5 of The Crown, the Christmas movies Falling for Christmas, Christmas With You, and The Noel Diary, the fantasy movie Slumberland, and the supernatural TV series Wednesday.
On the licensed content front, December will see the arrival of a variety of content, most notably the buddy cop comedy 21 Jump Street, the coming-of-age drama My Girl, the epic historical war movie Troy, David Leitch’s Bullet Train, the thrillers Emily the Criminal and Prisoners, and the romantic drama After Ever Happy. As for original content, Netflix will close 2022 with a new version of A Christmas Carol, a romantic drama starring Emma Corrin, Guillermo del Toro’s take on Pinocchio, season 3 of Emily in Paris, the sequel to Rian Johnson’s Knives Out, the musical version of Roald Dahl’s Matilda, and a TV series from the universe of The Witcher. Here’s everything releasing on Netflix in December 2022.
December 1
21 Jump Street (2012)
Basketball Wives (Seasons 1-2)
Blippi Wonders (Season 2)
Blippi & Meekah (Season 1)
Chhota Bheem ki Citi Pitti Gul (Season 1)
Coach Carter (2005)
Forged in Fire: Knife or Death
Hachi: A Dog’s Tale (2009)
LEGO Friends: Heartlake
Love Island USA (Season 3)
My Girl (1991)
Peppermint (2018)
Split Gravy on Rice (2015)
Sniper: Rogue Mission (2022)
Solace (2015)
The Happytime Murders (2018)
Troy (2004)
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean (Season 1 – Episodes 25-38) – Netflix Original
Dead End – Netflix Original
Qala – Netflix Original
The Masked Scammer – Netflix Original
Troll – Netflix Original
Deep inside the mountain of Dovre, something gigantic awakens after being trapped for a thousand years. Destroying everything in its path, the creature is fast approaching the capital of Norway. But how do you stop something you thought only existed in Norwegian folklore?
December 2
Big Brother (Season 10 and Season 14)
Firefly Lane (Season 2 – Part 1) – Netflix Original
Kate grapples with the painful aftermath of Johnny's ill-fated trip to Iraq, while Tully faces a lawsuit after walking away from her talk show, and must start her career over from the bottom. This leads her to search for answers about who she is and where she comes from -- including a quest to find the father she never met, against the wishes of her secretive hippie mother, Cloud. In the '80s, we see Kate and Johnny first fall in love, creating more than a little drama in the newsroom where they work, as Tully's career rises and she spars (and flirts!) with cocky sportscaster Danny Diaz. She just might have met her match -- that is, if they can stop arguing for five minutes. While in the '70s, teenage Kate and Tully struggle to keep their friendship together as Cloud goes to jail for dealing drugs and Tully goes to live with her grandmother, far away from Firefly Lane. As the girls face the tumult of high school apart, they know the one thing they really need is each other.
Hot Skull – Netflix Original
Lady Chatterley’s Lover – Netflix Original
Marrying Sir Clifford Chatterley, Connie’s life of wealth and privilege seems set as she takes the title of Lady Chatterley. Yet this idealistic union gradually becomes an incarceration when Clifford returns from the First World War with injuries that have left him unable to walk. When she meets and falls for Oliver Mellors, the gamekeeper on the Chatterley family estate, their secret trysts lead her to a sensual, sexual awakening. But as their affair becomes the subject of local gossip, Connie faces a life-altering decision: follow her heart or return to her husband and endure what Edwardian society expects of her.
Scrooge: A Christmas Carol – Netflix Original
Charles Dickens' ageless legend is reborn in this supernatural, time-travelling, musical adaptation of the definitive Christmas story. With his very soul on the line, Scrooge has but one Christmas Eve left to face his past and build a better future. Featuring re-imagined songs from the legendary and two-time Academy Award® winner Leslie Bricusse OBE, Scrooge: A Christmas Carol is one for a new generation to sing.
“Sr.” – Netflix Original
From documentarian Chris Smith (American Movie) comes a lovingly irreverent portrait of the life, career, and last days of maverick filmmaker Robert Downey Sr., whose rebellious spirit infused decades of counterculture movie-making. “Sr.” widens the lens from Downey's art to the life with which it was deeply intertwined, including an intimate examination of his relationship with son Robert Downey, Jr. Shot over the course of three years, the film truly honors Senior's nonlinear, outlaw-like approach, including capturing his decision to embark on his own concurrent and final film project. Smith’s portrait of a family and an artist is a meditation on life that’s as surreal as it is sentimental, a celebration of making art with no rules that tosses out its own rulebook along the way.
Supermodel Me: Revolution (Season 1)
The Magic Roundabout / Doogal (2005)
Warriors of Future – Netflix Original
Bullet Train (2022)
Dreams Drawn by Dust (Season 1)
The Best of Me (2014)
December 5
Mighty Express: Mighty Trains Race – Netflix Original
December 6
Delivery by Christmas – Netflix Original
Sebastian Maniscalco: Is It Me? – Netflix Original
Storks (2016)
The Boss Baby: Christmas Bonus – Netflix Original
December 7
Burning Patience – Netflix Original
Mario is a young fisherman who dreams of being a poet, and by becoming Pablo Neruda's postman, is involved in a world of metaphors and verses to achieve not only his desire of being a writer, but also to conquer Beatriz, the woman of his dreams.
Emily the Criminal (2022)
I Hate Christmas – Netflix Original
Pilar Fogliati stars in Netflix’s first Italian Christmas series, a comedy about a young woman looking for love.
Smiley – Netflix Original
The Marriage App – Netflix Original
The Most Beautiful Flower – Netflix Original
Too Hot To Handle (Season 4) – Netflix Original – New episodes weekly
December 8
Broken Wings / Sayap-Sayap Patah (2022)
In Broad Daylight: The Narvarte Case – Netflix Original
Lookism – Netflix Original
The Blue Whale (2020)
The Elephant Whisperers (2022) – Netflix Original
The Master Plan (2020)
December 9
CAT (Season 1)– Netflix Original
Dragon Age: Absolution (Season 1) – Netflix Original
Dream Home Makeover (Season 4) – Netflix Original
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – Netflix Original
- Pinocchio is a stop-motion animated musical fantasy movie directed by Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson, based on the 1883 Italian novel The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi. Set in 1930s Italy, it’s the story of Pinocchio (voiced by Gregory Mann), a wooden puppet who comes to life and dreams of being a real boy. However, Pinocchio isn’t exactly a nice boy, and he starts causing mischief and playing mean tricks. Also part of Pinocchio’s voice cast is David Bradley, Ewan McGregor, Christoph Waltz, Tilda Swinton, Ron Perlman, Cate Blanchett, and Finn Wolfhard.
How to Ruin Christmas (The Baby Shower – Season 3) – Netflix Original
Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area (Part 2) – Netflix Original
December 10
Alchemy of Souls (Season 1 – Part 2) – Netflix Original
Prisoners (2013)
December 13
Gudetama: An Eggcellent Adventure – Netflix Original
Last Chance U: Basketball (Season 2) – Netflix Original
Single’s Inferno (Season 2) – Netflix Original
Tom Papa: What a Day! –Netflix Original
December 14
Blood Ties / Las Villamizar (Season 1)
Don’t Pick Up The Phone – Netflix Original
Glitter – Netflix Original
I Believe in Santa – Netflix Original
Kangaroo Valley – Netflix Original
December 15
Critical Thinking – Vertical Releasing
Critical Thinking (2020)
Sonic Prime – Netflix Original
The Big 4 – Netflix Original
The Hills (Seasons 1-2)
Violet Evergarden: Recollections – Netflix Original
Who Killed Santa? A Murderville Murder Mystery – Netflix Original
December 16
A Storm for Christmas (Limited Series) – Netflix Original
A group of people arrive at Oslo airport. Some to welcome their loved ones, some to travel home to their families, and some to fly away and escape Christmas. But in one way or another, their Christmas mission goes awry. They are all stranded at the airport and the clock is ticking - only 24 hours til Christmas - so what do they do?
BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths – Netflix Original
- Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and written by him and Nicolás Giacobone, BARDO tells the story of Silverio Gama (Daniel Giménez Cacho), a renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker living in Los Angeles, who after being named the recipient of a prestigious international award, returns to México – however, he wasn’t counting on this trip pushing him to an existential limit. Silverio struggles with universal but intimate questions about identity, success, mortality, the history of México, and the emotional familial bonds he shares with his wife and children.
Beast of Bangalore: Indian Predator – Netflix Original
Cook at all Costs – Netflix Original
Dance Monsters – Netflix Original
Far From Home – Netflix Original
How to Ruin Christmas (Season 3) – Netflix Original
Paradise PD (Season 4 )– Netflix Original
Private Lesson – Netflix Original
Summer Job – Netflix Original
The Recruit – Netflix Original
A fledgling lawyer at the CIA becomes enmeshed in dangerous international power politics when a former asset threatens to expose the nature of her long-term relationship with the agency unless they exonerate her of a serious crime.
The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari – Netflix Original
December 18
Side Effects (2013)
December 19
Trolley – Netflix Original
Trolls (2016)
December 20
A Not So Merry Christmas – Netflix Original
After taking a very nasty fall on Christmas Eve, grinchy Chuy blacks out and wakes up one year later, with no memory of the year that has passed. He soon realizes that he’s doomed to keep waking up on Christmas Eve after Christmas Eve, having to deal with the aftermath of what his other self has done the other 364 days of the year.
The Seven Deadly Sins: Grudge of Edinburgh (Part 1) – Netflix Original
December 21
Disconnect: The Wedding Planner – Netflix Original
Emily in Paris (Season 3) – Netflix Original
One year after moving from Chicago to Paris for her dream job, Emily finds herself at a crucial crossroads in every aspect of her life. Faced with two very different paths, Emily will have to decide exactly where her loyalties lie — at work and in her romantic life — and what those decisions mean for her future in France, all while continuing to immerse herself in the adventures and surprising twists and turns that life in Paris provides.
I AM A KILLER (Season 4) – Netflix Original
December 22
Alice in Borderland (Season 2) – Netflix Original
Mathieu Dufour at Bell Centre – Netflix Original
December 23
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – Netflix Original
- Directed by Rian Johnson, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is the sequel to Johnson’s 2019 mystery movie Knives Out. Glass Onion sees Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) being invited by tech billionaire Miles Bron (Edward Norton) for a “murder mystery party” getaway on his private Greek island, Glass Onion, along with many other people. However, the party goes wrong and there’s an actual murder, which Blanc now must solve and discover who the killer is. Also starring in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery are Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Kate Hudson, and Dave Bautista.
Piñata Masters! (Season 1) – Netflix Original
December 25
After Ever Happy (2022)
Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical – Netflix Original
- As the title says, Matilda the Musical is the film adaptation of the stage musical of the same name, based on the 1988 novel Matilda, by Roald Dahl. As such, it tells the story of Matilda Wormwood (Alisha Weir), a young girl with a vivid imagination and extraordinary powers who takes a stand to change her story. Also starring are Lashana Lynch as Miss Honey, Emma Thompson as Agatha Trunchbull, Stephen Graham as Mr. Wormwood, and Andrea Riseborough as Mrs. Wormwood.
The Witcher: Blood Origin (Limited Series) – Netflix Original
- The Witcher: Blood Origin is a prequel to Netflix’s The Witcher TV series. Set 1200 years before the event of the main series, in an elven world, Blood Origin is the story of one of seven outcasts who unite against an unstoppable power that took everything from them. Their quest makes way for the creation of a prototype Witcher in the events that led to the Conjunction of the Spheres, which brought together the worlds of monsters, men, and elves.
Time Hustler – Netflix Original
Virguley (Edmilson Filho) is a lazy, tangled, and morally-ill bastard who lives in absolute turmoil in São Paulo and dreams of returning rich to the Northeast. Among his gigs, he takes advantage of his resemblance to Lampião to perform in public squares in São Paulo. One day, after getting into another mess, he ends up getting a slap in the ear and ends up in 1927, in the middle of the cangaço, where he is confused by the local population as the real Lampião. Taking advantage of the farce, Virguley gathers a group beyond unusual, falls in love with Mariá (Chandelly Braz) and becomes powerful in the city. But, as nothing in this goat's life is easy, this story will still have many twists, including the real King of Cangaço wanting to get this story straight.
Vir Das: Landing – Netflix Original
December 26
No Escape (2015)
Treason (Limited Series) – Netflix Original
- This five-part thriller drama TV series follows Adam Lawrence (Charlie Cox), who was trained and groomed by MI6, so his career seems set. However, the past catches up with him through Kara, a Russian spy with whom Adam has a complicated past. This forces Adam to question everything and everyone in his life, leading to a complicated triangle between Adam, Kara, and Adam’s wife Maddy, as they try to expose each other’s secrets, navigate political and diplomatic relationships, and hang onto their personal lives and their loved ones.
December 27
Chelsea Handler: Revolution – Netflix Original
December 28
7 Women and a Murder – Netflix Original
A Night at the Kindergarten – Netflix Original
Stuck With You – Netflix Original
December 29
Brown and Friends – Netflix Original
Rise of Empires: Ottoman (Season 2) – Netflix Original
December 30
Alpha Males – Netflix Original
The end of the Patriarchy is coming. In the middle of the masculinity crisis, four forty-some year old friends are losing their throne, privileges and identity. Years ago, they would have been alpha males in charge of their relationships, their jobs and their lives. But they have to live in the equality era, a society with new rules that hits them, showing how pathetic they are.
Chicago Party Aunt (Part 2) – Netflix Original
Chicago Party Aunt is a half-hour animated comedy that follows Diane Dunbrowski, AKA The Chicago Party Aunt, as she stays true to her mantra ‘If life gives you lemons, turn that shit into Mike’s Hard Lemonade’.
Secrets of Summer (Season 2) – Netflix Original
Secrets of Summer blends action, mystery, romance and winsome musical interludes in this story of a group of teens working to save an old hotel deep in the Argentine Delta. The show weaves together childhood memories, family secrets and unforgettable moments—all set amid a thrilling wakeboard competition.
The Glory – Netflix Original
White Noise – Netflix Original
- Directed by Noah Baumbach and based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Don DeLillo, White Noise is the story of Jack Gladney (Adam Driver), a professor of Hitler, father of four, and husband to Babette (Greta Gerwig), who is torn apart by “The Airborne Toxic Event”, a cataclysmic train accident that casts chemical waste over his town. White Noise had a limited theatrical release in November.
December 31
Best of Stand Up 2022 – Netflix Original
Lady Voyeur – Netflix Original