The holiday season always creates a need for new streaming content, and Netflix subscribers looking for a break from cold weather and family stresses will have no shortage of movie options this month.
After enjoying boutique theatrical runs over Thanksgiving, Netflix’s last two major original films of 2025 — Rian Johnson’s latest Benoit Blanc mystery, “Wake Up Dead Man:A Knives Out Mystery,” and Noah Baumbach’s meditation on movie stardom, “Jay Kelly” — are both set to hit the streaming platform this month. The repertory side of the service is equally stacked, with everything from recent critical darlings to nostalgic classics becoming available for your viewing pleasure.
Keep reading for our seven favorite movies coming to Netflix in December 2025.
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“The Wolf of Wall Street” (Streaming now)
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Image Credit: ©Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection Leonardo DiCaprio is once again at the center of the Oscar race, this time for his role in “One Battle After Another,” which many have hailed as some of the best work of his career. And if you’re itching for another DiCaprio fix, you can revisit his landmark fifth collaboration with Martin Scorsese on Netflix this month. “The Wolf of Wall Street” gave DiCaprio, who plays scammer Jordan Belfort, one of his first major opportunities to flex his comedic muscles and eased the actor into his mid-career niche as Hollywood’s finest portrayer of men-children. (Think Rick Dalton in “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.”) DiCaprio and Scorsese might be the best actor-director duo of the century so far, and “The Wolf of Wall Street” remains on of their most critically and commercially successful collaborations.
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“As Good as It Gets” (Streaming now)
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Image Credit: ©Sony Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection James L. Brooks is back in theaters this month with “Ella McCay,” his first directorial effort since 2015….
