The Boyfriend Season 2 – 13 January
Get your skates on, Japan’s first-ever same-sex dating show is back with a fresh batch of 10 young men looking for love. In snowy Hokkaido, new friendships and romances unfold as the boys navigate first love, unrequited crushes, and feelings left on ice.
Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials – 15 January
Limited Series. It’s never not a good time for a new Agatha Christie adaptation, right? Streaming from January, Netflix has enlisted Broadchurch creator Chris Chibnall (Doctor Who) to pen this three-part series inspired by the Queen of Crime’s 1929 novel The Seven Dials Mystery.
When a lavish country house party ends in murder, a witty young aristocrat sets out to solve the mystery in this adaptation of Agatha Christie’s novel.
Starring Mia McKenna-Bruce, Edward Bluemel, Martin Freeman, Helena Bonham Carter, Iain Glen, Hughie O’Donnell, Nyasha Hatendi, Alex Macqueen, Nabhaan Rizwan and Corey Mylchreest. Watch the trailer.
Love Through a Prism – 15 January
Series. Premiering exclusively on Netflix, this new Japanese animated series is created by Yoko Kamio (Boys Over Flowers) and follows a young Japanese woman who enrols in a famous art school in early-1900s London, only to be surprised when rivalry with a gifted classmate becomes romance.
Starring Atsumi Tanezaki, Koki Uchiyama and Yuki Kaji. Watch the trailer.
The Rip – 16 January
Film. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck team back up in this brand new crime thriller from writer-director Joe Carnahan (Narc, Smokin’ Aces). When a team of Miami cops discovers millions in cash inside a rundown stash house, trust frays as everything (and everyone) is called into question.
Starring Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Steven Yeun, Teyana Taylor, Kyle Chandler, Scott Adkins, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Sasha Calle, Nestor Carbonell and Lina Esco. Watch the trailer.
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Goodbye June – 13 December
Film (2025). Kate Winslet directs and joins Helen Mirren, Toni Collette, Johnny Flynn and Andrea Riseborough in a tender tale of a family’s farewell to their mother.
Starring Kate Winslet, Toni Collette, Johnny Flynn, Andrea Riseborough, Timothy Spall, Helen Mirren.
Emily in Paris Season 5 – 18 December
Series. Emily trades bonjour for buongiorno as she seeks to reinvent herself in Rome, but when love, career and loyalty collide, la dolce vita gets complicated.
Starring Lily Collins, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Ashley Park, Lucas Bravo, Samuel Arnold, Bruno Gouery, William Abadie, Lucien Laviscount.
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery – 12 December
Film (2025). Detective Benoit Blanc teams up with an earnest young priest to investigate a perfectly impossible crime at a small-town church with a dark history.
Starring Daniel Craig, Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack, Thomas Haden Church.
Stranger Things 5: The Finale – 1 January
Series finale. Netflix has certainly been milking all the publicity it can get from the fifth and final season of Stranger Things. The season’s release was divvied up into three staggered volumes – with the first four episodes coming out on 27 November, then the next three episodes dropping as a Boxing Day treat on 26 December, and the standalone final episode kicking off the new year with a big ending, streaming from 1 January 2026.
