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What’s new on Netflix and Hulu in December 2018

Here’s a no-nonsense list of what’s new across the major streaming platforms — Netflix and Hulu — for December 2018.

NETFLIX (Arrivals)

December 1



  • 8 Mile
  • Astro Boy
  • Battle
  • The Big Lebowski
  • Bride of Chucky
  • Christine
  • Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
  • Crossroads: One Two Jaga
  • Friday
  • Friday After Next
  • The Great British Baking Show: Masterclass: Season 5 Masterclasses
  • Hellboy
  • The Last Dragon
  • Man vs Wild with Sunny Leone: Season 1
  • The Man Who Knew Too Little
  • Meet Joe Black
  • Memories of the Alhambra
  • My Bloody Valentine
  • Next Friday
  • Reindeer Games
  • Seven Pounds
  • Shaun of the Dead
  • Terminator Salvation

December 2

  • The Lobster

December 3



  • Blue Planet II: Season 1
  • Hero Mask
  • The Sound of Your Heart: Reboot Season 2

December 4

  • District 9

December 6

  • Happy: Season 1

December 7

  • 5 Star Christmas
  • The American Meme
  • Bad Blood
  • Dogs of Berlin
  • Dumplin’
  • Free Rein: The Twelve Neighs of Christmas
  • The Hook Up Plan (Plan Coeur)
  • Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
  • Nailed It! Holiday
  • Neo Yokio: Pink Christmas
  • Pine Gap
  • The Ranch: Part 6
  • ReMastered: Who Killed Jam Master Jay?
  • Super Monsters and the Wish Star

December 9

  • Sin senos sí hay paraíso: Season 3

December 10

  • Michael Jackson’s This Is It

December 11

  • Vir Das: Losing It

December 12

  • Back Street Girls: Gokudols
  • Out of Many, One

December 13

  • Wanted: Season 3

December 14

  • Chilling Adventures of Sabrina: A Midwinter’s Tale
  • Cuckoo: Season 4
  • Dance & Sing with True: Songs
  • The Fix
  • Fuller House: Season 4
  • The Innocent Man
  • Inside the Real Narcos
  • Inside the World’s Toughest Prisons: Season 3
  • Prince of Peoria: A Christmas Moose Miracle
  • The Protector
  • Roma
  • Sunderland Til I Die
  • Tidelands
  • Travelers: Season 3
  • Voltron: Legendary Defender: Season 8

December 16

  • Baby Mama
  • Kill the Messenger
  • One Day
  • Springsteen on Broadway
  • The Theory of Everything

December 18

  • Baki
  • Ellen DeGeneres: Relatable
  • Terrace House: Opening New Doors: Part 5

December 21

  • 3Below: Tales of Arcadia
  • 7 Days Out
  • Back With the Ex
  • Bad Seeds
  • Bird Box
  • The Casketeers
  • Derry Girls
  • Diablero
  • Greenleaf: Season 3
  • Last Hope: Part 2
  • Perfume
  • Sirius the Jaeger
  • Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski
  • Tales by Light: Season 3
  • Wolf (BÖRÜ)

December 24

  • Hi Score Girl
  • The Magicians: Season 3

December 25

  • Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown — Season 11
  • Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Infinity War

December 26

  • Alexa & Katie: Season 2
  • You

December 28

  • Instant Hotel
  • La noche de 12 años
  • Selection Day
  • When Angels Sleep
  • Yummy Mummies

December 30

  • The Autopsy of Jane Doe

December 31

  • The Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons Learned From a Mythical Man

NETFLIX (Departures)

December 1

  • Cabin Fever
  • Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever
  • The Covenant
  • The Game
  • Groundhog Day
  • Happily N’Ever After
  • Happily N’Ever After 2: Snow White
  • Hellbound: Hellraiser II
  • Hellraiser
  • Sons of Anarchy: Seasons 1-7
  • Spider-Man 3
  • Spy Hard
  • Stephen King’s Children of the Corn
  • Swept Under

December 4

  • Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch
  • Air Bud: Spikes Back
  • Air Bud: World Pup
  • Air Buddies
  • Cars Toon: Mater’s Tall Tales
  • Spooky Buddies
  • Tarzan & Jane
  • The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars
  • The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue
  • The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos
  • The Search for Santa Paws
  • Tinker Bell
  • Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue
  • Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure

December 7

  • Trolls

December 10

  • Battle Royale
  • Battle Royale 2
  • Teeth

December 15

  • Step Up 2: The Streets

December 16

  • Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

December 17

  • Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2

December 19

  • Ip Man: The Final Fight

December 20

  • Disney’s Moana
  • Food, Inc.
  • I Give It a Year

December 22

  • Spotlight

December 25

  • Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

December 31

  • Troy

HULU (Arrivals)

Available December 1:

24: Complete Series (FOX)

24: Redemption: Special (FOX)

Behind Tasty: Complete Season 1 (Buzzfeed)

Buzzfeed Unsolved: Sports Conspiracies: Complete Season 1 (Buzzfeed)

Killing Eve: Complete Season 1 (AMC)

The Wonder Years: Complete Series (ABC)

UniKitty: Complete Season 1A (Cartoon Network)

Worth It: Complete Season 5 (Buzzfeed)

12 Dates of Christmas (2011)

A Christmas Tree Miracle (2013)

A Dog for Christmas (2015)

A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner! (2011)

A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

A Fistful of Dollars (1967)

A Snow Globe Christmas (2013)

All Over the Guy (2001)

Angels & Demons (2009)

Apollo 13 (1995)

Bad Girls from Mars (1991)

Barbie: A Perfect Christmas (2011)

Barbie and Her Sisters in the Great Puppy Adventure (2015)

Barbie in a Christmas Carol (2008)

Best Seller (1987)

Beverly Hills Vamp (1989)

The Black Stallion (1979)

Blue Hill Avenue (2003)

Blue Jasmine (2013)

Blue Velvet (1986)

Bride and Prejudice (2004)

Bright Lights, Big City (1988)

Christmas Cupid (2010)

The Da Vinci Code (2006)

Dr. Dolittle: Million Dollar Mutts (2007)

Escape From Mr. Lemoncello’s Library (2017)

The Exorcist (1973)

Eve’s Christmas (2004)

The Firm (1993)

The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)

Gangs of New York (2002)

Gargoyles: Wings of Darkness (2004)

Glory Road (2006)

The Godson (1998)

Half-Shell Heroes: Blast to the Past (2015)

Halloween VIII: Resurrection (2002)

Happily N’Ever After (2007)

Happily N’Ever After 2 (2009)

Harry Brown (2009)

Hitman’s Run (1999)

King of the Mountain (1981)

Krampus Unleashed (2016)

Lane 1974 (2017)

Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

Living by the Gun (2011)

Lord of the War (2005)

Love at the Christmas Table (2012)

Malena (2000)

Mansfield Park (1999)

The Massively Mixed-Up Middle School Mystery (2015)

The Mistle-Tones (2012)

Mission Park (2013)

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)

The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991)

Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994)

Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist (2008)

Operation Condor (1986)

Operation Condor II: The Armour of the Gods (1991)

The Pallbearer (1996)

Pixi Saves Christmas (2017)

Priest (1994)

Promise Land (1987)

Rags (2012)

Requiem for a Dream (2000)

Ride (2014)

Righteous Kill (2009)

Santa Baby 2: Christmas Maybe (2009)

Serendipity (2001)

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Sideways (2004)

Silent Tongue (1993)

Sleepover (2004)

Snow (2004)

Snow 2: Brain Freeze (2008)

Snowglobe (2007)

Splitting Adam (2015)

Spy Game (2001)

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

Swindle (2013)

Switchback (1997)

Teresa’s Tattoo (1994)

Tombstone (1993)

Touchback (2011)

Trucks (1997)

Ulee’s Gold (1997)

Valkyrie (2008)

Windtalkers (2002)

With a Friend Like Harry (2000)

Wonderland (2003)

Available December 2:

The Powerpuff Girls (Reboot): Complete Season 3A (Cartoon Network)

Second Chance Christmas (2017)

Tangerine (2015)

Available December 3:

Adventure Time: Complete Season 10 (Cartoon Network)

Urban Country (2018)

Available December 4:

Wolfblood: Complete Season 4 (Cinedigm)

Available December 5:

F**K That’s Delicious: Complete Season 3 (Viceland)

Available December 7:

Into The Dark: Pooka!: Episode 3 Premiere (Hulu Original)

Killers (2010)

Why Did I Get Married Too? (2010)

Available December 10:

Graves: Complete Season 2 (Epix)

Available December 11:

Say You Will (2018)

Available December 12:

Deck the Halls (2006)

Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself (2009)

Available December 13:

I Am Not a Serial Killer (2016)

Let’s Be Evil (2016)

NASA: Above and Beyond (2018)

Nico, 1988 (2018)

Shelley (2016)

Available December 15:

Along Came the Devil (2018)

Boys and Girls (2000)

Fortress (2012)

Life of Crime (2013)

Smoke Signals (1998)

Snow Queen: Fire and Ice (2016)

Available December 16:

Amy Winehouse: A Final Goodbye (2011)

Michael Jackson: Life, Death and Legacy (2012)

Available December 17:

Damsel (2018)

Available December 18:

The Gardener (2018)

Winter Ridge (2018)

Available December 19:

The Killing: Complete Seasons 1-4 (AMC)

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills: Complete Season 8 (Bravo)

A Most Wanted Man (2014)

His and Her Christmas (2005)

Available December 20:

Disorder (2016)

Food, Inc. (2008)

Skate Kitchen (2018)

Available December 21:

Marvel’s Runaways: Complete Season 2 Premiere (Hulu Original)

Available December 22:

The Devil’s Doorway (2018)

Available December 23:

The Detour: Complete Season 3 (TBS)

Available December 24:

Mighty Magiswords: Complete Season 2A (Cartoon Network)

Available December 25:

Mr. Pickles: Complete Season 3 (Adult Swim)

An American in Texas (2018)

Iron Man 2 (2010)

Available December 27:

Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card (Dubs): Complete Season 1 (Crunchyroll)

Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)

Available December 28:

Into the Dark: New Year, New You (Hulu Original)

Available December 29:

OK K.O., Let’s Be Heroes!: Complete Season 2A (Cartoon Network)

Eating Animals (2018)

Far From the Tree (2018)

Available December 30:

The Orville: Season 2 Mid-Season Premiere (FOX)

The Lovers (2015)

Available December 31:

The Crooked Somebody (2017)

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Matthew Keys is a nationally-recognized, award-winning journalist who has covered the business of media, technology, radio and television for more than 11 years. He is the publisher of The Desk and contributes to Know Techie, Digital Content Next and StreamTV Insider. He previously worked for Thomson Reuters, the Walt Disney Company, McNaughton Newspapers and Tribune Broadcasting.
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