What's Coming Out This Week In Theaters and On Streaming, VOD & TV (December 15 - December 21, 2025)
All the 🎥 films and 📺 shows hitting theaters and streaming this week!
Christmas season is all about giving and sharing, and it’s also when many people make time to visit their local theaters to catch the latest releases. But with family plans and holiday obligations filling up the calendar, it’s easy to lose track of what’s new this week on both the big screen and at home. To help with that, here’s a rundown of what’s arriving in cinemas this weekend and what’s hitting streaming this week. Take a look!
🎥 In Theaters This Week
🎥 The Voice of Hind Rajab
(Wed, Dec 17th — Oscar Qualifying Run, in NY)
In this harrowing Arabic docudrama, writer-director Kaouther Ben Hania reconstructs the final hours of six-year-old Hind Rajab through the crackling phone calls between a terrified child trapped under fire in Gaza and the Red Crescent volunteers racing to save her. As time slips away amid chaos, violence, and bureaucracy, the film captures a night of unimaginable fear and quiet heroism.
🎥 Avatar: Fire and Ash
(Fri, Dec 19th — wide release)
Pandora’s cold war is on the verge of eruption as Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña), and their children are forced to choose between protecting their family and defending their world. With Varang (Oona Chaplin), a hardened leader of the volcanic Ash People, potentially aligning with Colonel Quaritch (Stephen Lang), survival may ignite a devastating Na’vi civil war that threatens to tear the planet apart in this third explosive installment of James Cameron’s sci-fi fantasy saga.
🎥 The Housemaid
(Fri, Dec 19th — wide release)
What starts as a dream live-in job quickly turns into a domestic nightmare when a woman on the run steps inside a pristine residence where secrets are scrubbed, not solved. Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried weaponize politeness in this sleek psychological thriller, as power games, false smiles, and buried sins turn household routines into acts of quiet warfare. Sometimes the most dangerous mess in any home isn’t on the floor... it’s the people pretending everything’s clean.
🎥 The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants
(Fri, Dec 19th — wide release)
SpongeBob dives into his biggest adventure yet, tailing the legendary Flying Dutchman to prove he’s finally a “big guy.” What starts as a bravery test spirals into a joke-packed plunge through the ocean’s weirdest depths, delivering high-seas chaos, goofy monsters, and classic nautical nonsense at full throttle.
🎥 David
(Fri, Dec 19th — wide release)
This sweeping animated musical reimagines a legendary rise, proving that true strength isn’t forged by crowns or armies, but by courage, faith, and resolve. As a humble shepherd boy steps out of the hills of Bethlehem to face a towering giant, his defiance ignites an uprising that tests loyalty, love, and belief itself.
🎥 Is This Thing On?
(Fri, Dec 19th — limited release)
Sometimes rock bottom comes with a microphone. This tender, quietly funny dramedy follows a newly divorced man (Will Arnett) who stumbles into stand-up comedy and discovers that bombing onstage can hurt just as much as the collapse of his marriage to Laura Dern. With Bradley Cooper directing and co-starring, this midlife comedy understands that not every joke lands, but the truth usually does.
🎥 Zero A.D.
(Fri, Dec 19th * Pushed Back to 2026 *)
When a prophecy threatens a fragile throne, paranoia turns holy ground into a battlefield. With Sam Worthington, Jim Caviezel, and Gael García Bernal caught between faith and fear, this sweeping biblical epic follows power-hungry rulers and fearful kings scrambling to stop a destiny they can’t control, as one child’s birth quietly reshapes history.
🎥 My Neighbor Adolf
(Fri, Dec 17th — limited release)
In 1960s Colombia, a cranky Holocaust survivor becomes convinced his new neighbor is none other than Adolf Hitler. Determined to prove it, he dives headfirst into a one-man investigation that’s equal parts obsession and absurdity. Directed by Leon Prudovsky (Welcome, and our Condolences) and starring the late Udo Kier and David Hayman, this darkly comic drama blurs the line between vengeance and loneliness.
🎦 Streaming This Week
🎦 MEGADOC
(Tues, Dec 16th — streaming on The Criterion Channel)
Francis Ford Coppola put $120 million of his own fortune on the line to realize a decades-long dream, and Mike Figgis’s behind-the-scenes documentary captures the chaos, clashes, and obsession that followed. Featuring Adam Driver, Shia LaBeouf, Aubrey Plaza, and more, it asks the ultimate question: Is Coppola a visionary genius... or a madman with everything to lose?
🎦 Murder in Monaco
(Wed, Dec 17th — premiering on Netflix)
This true-crime whodunnit turns the shocking 1999 death of billionaire Edmond Safra into a maze of suspicion beneath Monaco’s golden facade. As investigators sift through wealth, rumor, and conflicting accounts, the case spirals into global pressure, personal agendas, and the haunting question of who truly stood to gain.
🎦 Counting Crows: Have You Seen Me Lately?
(Thurs, Dec 18th — on HBO MAX)
Fame hits fast, and suddenly being seen becomes the problem. This intimate music documentary follows rocker Adam Duritz and his ‘90s band Counting Crows as breakout success collides with creative pressure, mental health struggles, and the weight of living up to a defining debut.
🎦 Breakdown: 1975
(Fri, Dec 19th — premiering on Netflix)
From Oscar-winning documentarian Morgan Neville, this Netflix original revisits the moment New Hollywood truly ignited, as political fallout and cultural anxiety fueled a wave of bold, confrontational filmmaking. Zeroing in on 1975, the doc captures how risk-taking directors turned national unrest into movies that permanently reshaped cinema.
🎦 One Battle After Another
(Fri, Dec 19th — streaming on HBO MAX)
Filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson teams with Leonardo DiCaprio for the first time in this pitch-black satire loosely inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland. DiCaprio stars as a washed-up radical on the run in modern-day L.A., desperate to protect his teenage daughter amid a militarized crackdown. Shot in lush VistaVision and steeped in PTA’s dark wit, the film skewers a revolution that isn’t televised—it’s bungled and exhausted.
🎦 The Great Flood
(Fri, Dec 19th — premiering on Netflix)
This no-air, no-escape disaster epic seals a trapped mother and son inside a drowning tower, where every rising inch of water pushes them closer to oblivion. Director Kim Byung-woo (Take Point) turns the screws with relentless precision, thrusting Kim Da-mi and Park Hae-soo into a submerged nightmare where hope is a luxury nobody can afford.
🎦 Him
(Fri, Dec 19th — streaming on Peacock)
What would you sacrifice to be the greatest? Marlon Wayans and Tyriq Withers star in Justin Tipping’s twisted sports horror, produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw, where a golden training opportunity at a secluded football compound spirals into a nightmare of obsession, control, and psychological terror.
🎦 Queens of the Dead
(Fri, Dec 19th — streaming on Shudder)
They’re fierce, fabulous, and dying to put on a show as Tina Romero (daughter of zombie godfather George A. Romero) makes her feature debut with this glitter-drenched, campy spin on the zombie genre. When a Brooklyn drag ball becomes ground zero for the undead, drag queens and club kids (Katy O’Brian, Riki Lindhome, Margaret Cho, and Cheyenne Jackson) fight to survive the night in full glam even at the end of the world.
🎦 Relay
(Fri, Dec 19th — streaming on Netflix)
Riz Ahmed stars as a shadowy fixer who brokers secret deals between whistleblowers and the powerful companies they threaten, living by one rule: stay hidden, stay neutral, and stay alive. But when a desperate plea for protection from a new client (Lily James) shatters that balance, the game turns into a deadly race where trust becomes the most dangerous currency of all.
✅ On VOD This Week
✅ The Running Man
(Tues, Dec 16th — on VOD/Digital)
Stephen King’s sci-fi thriller races back to life in a dystopian America where bloodsport is primetime entertainment. Director Edgar Wright and star Glen Powell deliver a lean, pulse-pounding revival of the 1982 novel and cult 1987 film, swapping ‘80s bombast for something sharper, darker, and eerily timely. Co-starring Josh Brolin and Colman Domingo, this reimagining follows a desperate everyman forced into a televised manhunt where survival is the only prize that matters.
✅ Now You See Me: Now You Don’t
(Tues, Dec 16th — on VOD/Digital)
The Four Horsemen return—at least, that’s what they want you to think. Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, and Isla Fisher reunite for another slick, misdirection-packed illusionist caper. With new blood (Dominic Sessa, Ariana Greenblatt, Justice Smith) pulled into a high-stakes heist against a powerful dynasty led by Rosamund Pike, old tricks clash with fresh chaos—proving that seeing isn’t believing, it’s just the opening move.
✅ Sisu: Road to Revenge
(Tues, Dec 16th — on VOD/Digital)
This ferociously wild Finnish action sequel hits the gas as a grief-fueled commando (Jorma Tommila) tears across the WWII tundra on a one-man rampage. With Stephen Lang’s scenery-chewing menace, and Jalmari Helander’s gonzo direction, it’s a blood-soaked reminder that revenge is a road you don’t outrun.
✅ The Thing with Feathers
(Tues, Dec 16th — on VOD/Digital)
This visually lyrical adaptation of Max Porter’s haunting novel stars Benedict Cumberbatch as a newly widowed father fraying under the weight of grief while struggling to care for his two young sons. When a mysterious crow invades his home—part tormentor, part subconscious guide—he’s drawn into a dreamlike reckoning that forces him to confront the loss he’s been desperately trying to overcome.
✅ Thieves Highway
(Tues, Dec 16th — on VOD/Digital)
This hard-edged neo-Western thriller follows Aaron Eckhart’s straight-laced livestock officer as he uncovers a brutal smuggling ring and is thrust into a deadly chase across lawless backcountry. With Devon Sawa’s unhinged commander turning backroads into battlegrounds, the modern frontier becomes a test of grit and sheer endurance.
✅ King Ivory
(Tues, Dec 16th — on VOD/Digital)
Justice gets filthy in this bruising crime thriller where cops, cartels, and criminals all chase the same deadly poison. James Badge Dale stars as a Tulsa narcotics officer fighting fentanyl on the streets while losing his own son to the epidemic at home. Co-starring Ben Foster, Melissa Leo, and the late Graham Greene, it’s a raw plunge into America’s drug war where redemption is as costly as revenge.
✅ It Was Just an Accident
(Tues, Dec 16th — on VOD/Digital)
Winner of the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes. When a humble mechanic in Tehran suspects he’s found his sadistic former jailer, he and fellow ex-prisoners seize the man and clash over whether to seek mercy or revenge. Acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi delivers a searing moral thriller on memory, truth, and the price of violence.
📺 On TV This Week
📺 The Boulet Brothers Holiday of Horrors
(Tues, Dec 16th — on Shudder)
Get ready to deck the halls with dread. This scripted horror anthology unwraps four twisted holiday tales. From the wickedly inventive minds of The Boulet Brothers, David Dastmalchian, Akela Cooper, and Kate Siegel, it proves that the scariest thing about the holidays… is what’s lurking under the tree.
📺 Fallout: Season 2
(Wed, Dec 17th — on Prime Video)
The new season of this videogame-inspired genre mash-up cranks the radiation and moral rot to lethal levels. Walton Goggins’ haunted gunslinger and Ella Purnell’s idealistic survivor push their uneasy alliance deeper into conspiracy and revenge, while trekking deeper into a scorched Las Vegas wasteland.
📺 What’s in the Box?
(Wed, Dec 17th — on Netflix)
Big prizes, bigger mind games, and boxes that refuse to play fair. Neil Patrick Harris hosts this high-stakes game show that turns trivia into a battle of instincts, as contestant pairs race to guess what’s hidden inside while alliances shift and surprises blow up their strategies.
📺 Emily in Paris: Season 5
(Thurs, Dec 18th — on Netflix)
Love, ambition, and couture cross borders as Emily (Lily Collins) heads to Italy for a Roman holiday filled with passion, drama, and designer chaos. The Emmy-nominated hit returns with new escapades, familiar faces, and fresh heartbreaks under the Italian sun.
📺 Born to be Wild
(Fri, Dec 19th — on Apple TV)
This globe-trotting wildlife docuseries follows a remarkable crew of conservationists as they bottle-feed, rehab, and rewild some of the planet’s most vulnerable youngsters—from elephant calves to lynx kittens and penguins with attitude. Narrated by Hugh Bonneville, this heart-tugging nature saga captures the fragile first steps of six endangered animals as they learn how to survive without the humans who saved them.
📺 Kumail Nanjiani: Night Thoughts
(Fri, Dec 19th — on Hulu/Disney+)
Kumail Nanjiani heads back to his old Chicago stomping grounds for his first stand-up special in nearly a decade, diving into anxiety, the chaos of buying drugs pre-legalization, and—naturally—cat medication. Blending sharp storytelling with his signature deadpan, Nanjiani turns everyday neuroses into laugh-out-loud confessionals.
📺 The Elephant
(Fri, Dec 19th — on Adult Swim/HBO MAX)
This anything-goes animated experiment locks four of TV’s most inventive minds in separate creative corners and lets the chaos unfold. With Rebecca Sugar (Steven Universe), Pendleton Ward (Adventure Time), Ian Jones-Quartey (OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes), and Patrick McHale (Over the Garden Wall) each unleashing their own surreal visions, the result mutates into an unpredictable, collaborative fever dream. It’s boundary-pushing, joyfully unhinged animation that feels tailor-made for Adult Swim’s holiday brand of delightful madness.
