What's Coming Out This Week In Theaters and On Streaming, VOD & TV (December 8 - December 14, 2025)
All the 🎥 films and 📺 shows hitting theaters and streaming this week!
With December in full swing, it’s time to plan accordingly, especially as your schedule gets tighter heading into the holidays. So whether you’re heading to the theater or browsing for something new to stream at home, here’s a rundown of what’s arriving in cinemas this weekend and what’s hitting streaming this week.
🎥 In Theaters This Week
🎥 Rolling Stones: At the Max
(Wed, Dec 10th — re-release; in IMAX)
The Stones’ groundbreaking 1990 IMAX concert film At the Max returns to theaters in a newly remastered release, bringing Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, and Ronnie Wood back to towering, larger-than-life scale for an electrifying big-screen encore.
🎥 Ella McCay
(Fri, Dec 12th — wide release)
Sex Education breakout Emma Mackey leads James L. Brooks’s first film in 15 years as a newly elected governor whose idealism crashes into political pressure and chaotic family drama. Joined by Woody Harrelson, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Albert Brooks, this witty dramedy channels the warm, character-driven studio comedies of decades past.
🎥 Dust Bunny
(Fri, Dec 12th — wide release)
Veteran TV showrunner Bryan Fuller (Pushing Daisies, Hannibal) jumps into feature filmmaking with this dark fantasy–hitman mashup about a young girl (Sophie Sloan) who believes a monster devoured her family and turns to her mysterious assassin neighbor (Mads Mikkelsen) for help. With Sigourney Weaver & David Dastmalchian also aboard, expect twisted humor, sharp visuals, and Fuller’s signature macabre flair.
🎥 Not Without Hope
(Fri, Dec 12th — limited release)
Inspired by the 2009 boating tragedy involving NFL players Marquis Cooper and Corey Smith, this gripping survival drama follows four friends stranded at sea after their boat capsizes off the coast of Mexico, with Zachary Levi, Josh Duhamel, and JoBeth Williams anchoring director Joe Carnahan’s tale of endurance and loss.
🎥 Atropia
(Fri, Dec 12th — limited release)
A deadpan wartime satire about America’s fake-war training grounds, this off-kilter comedy follows Alia Shawkat as a struggling actor hired to play a Middle Eastern insurgent who upends the assignment by falling for a U.S. soldier (Callum Turner). With writer-director Hailey Gates’ bold feature debut and Luca Guadagnino producing, it spins modern warfare into a full-blown theater of the absurd.
🎥 Thieves Highway
(Fri, Dec 12th — limited release)
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.
🎥 Silent Night, Deadly Night
(Fri, Dec 12th — limited release)
A blood-soaked reboot of the cult ‘80s holiday slasher, this remake follows Rohan Campbell’s traumatized loner as he turns Christmas cheer into small-town carnage as an axe-welding psychopath in a Santa suit. Leaning into vintage slasher terror while updating the violence for fans of Terrifier, it revives an infamous Santa nightmare for a new generation.
🎥 Turbulence
(Fri, Dec 12th — limited release; also on ✅VOD/Digital)
A romantic hot-air-balloon ride for a young couple (Jeremy Irvine and Hera Hilmar) turns increasingly dangerous when a mysterious stranger (Olga Kurylenko) hijacks their flight. As the psychological showdown intensifies thousands of feet up, love and guilt collide in ways the couple never expected. With Kelsey Grammer co-starring, this tense thriller shows how fast paradise can plummet.
🎥 Lone Samurai
(Fri, Dec 12th — limited release; also on ✅VOD/Digital)
A 13th-century warrior stranded on a seemingly deserted island is captured by cannibals, forcing his code of honor into brutal conflict with his instinct to survive. From Raze filmmaker Josh C. Waller and starring Shogen and Yayan Ruhian, this stark survival tale blends visceral action with haunting existential dread.
🎥 Visions
(Fri, Dec 12th — limited release; also on ✅VOD/Digital)
In this psychological French drama, Diane Kruger stars as Estelle, an airline captain whose seemingly stable life with her husband (Mathieu Kassovitz) unravels after she begins a secret affair with an alluring woman (Marta Nieto). As passion eclipses reason, filmmaker Yann Gozlan charts a tense, intimate portrait of a woman pulled between desire, duty, and emotional freefall.
🎥 Resurrection
(Fri, Dec 12th — limited release; in NY & LA)
In a future where humanity has sacrificed dreams for immortality, a woman (Shu Qi) finds one man (Jackson Yee) who can still experience them—and ventures into his fractured mind. What follows is a hypnotic journey through illusion, memory, and Chinese history in visionary filmmaker Bi Gan’s six-chapter, sensory-driven meditation on what remains human when dreams have vanished.
🎥 Franz
(Fri, Dec 12th — limited release)
World-renowned filmmaker Agnieszka Holland (Europa Europa, In Darkness) crafts an ambitious literary biopic that assembles Franz Kafka’s life like one of his own surreal puzzles, shifting through eras, cities, and the shadows he left behind. Moving from Prague’s tight quarters to Vienna’s post-war unease, the film uncovers the fragile, searching soul beneath the legend, tracing how an anxious clerk grew into a giant of modern thought. Starring Idan Weiss, it’s also Poland’s official submission for this year’s Best International Feature Film.
🎥 Goodbye June
(Fri, Dec 12th — limited release)
This bittersweet heartfelt Christmas drama follows a fractured family facing unfinished business as Helen Mirren’s unfiltered matriarch prepares her own final days in the hospital. Directed by Kate Winslet from a script by her son Joe Anders, the film charts a landmine holiday of confession and catharsis, with Winslet, Toni Collette, Andrea Riseborough, and Johnny Flynn anchoring a tender, painfully human ensemble.
🎥 The King of Color
(Fri, Dec 12th — limited release)
This documentary charts the life of Lawrence Herbert, the visionary behind the Pantone Matching System, whose universal color code transformed art, design, and global commerce. A vivid portrait of the “King of Color,” it shows how one man brought order to the world’s most subjective spectrum.
🎥 Scarlet
(Fri, Dec 12th — limited release; One Week Oscar-Qualifying Run)
Visionary filmmaker Mamoru Hosoda, known for Mirai, returns with a time-bending anime epic that asks whether a warrior can ever truly heal. The story follows a vengeance-driven medieval princess who’s mysteriously thrust into the “Otherworld,” where she meets an idealistic modern man whose compassion challenges everything she’s lived for. To confront her father’s killer, she must first face a far greater battle: breaking the cycle of hatred that has defined her life.
🎥 Sense and Sensibility: 30th Anniversary
(Sun, Dec 14th, Tues Dec 16th & Wed Dec 17th — re-release)
Ang Lee’s newly restored Jane Austen classic returns to theaters for its 30th anniversary, following the Dashwood sisters as they navigate love, loss, and social constraint after losing their home. Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, and Alan Rickman anchor this elegant, Oscar-winning adaptation.
🎦 Streaming This Week
🎦 Predators
(Mon, Dec 8th — premiering on MTV/Paramount+)
A sharp takedown of To Catch a Predator morphs into a tense, self-reflective investigation of our appetite for punishment-as-entertainment. As filmmaker David Osit digs into the show’s legacy and its imitators, he uncovers a culture hooked on watching people at their lowest.
🎦 Roofman
(Tues, Dec 9th — streaming on Paramount+)
A jail-breaking robber on the run ducks into a Toys “R” Us, kicking off a stranger-than-fiction true-crime caper. Directed by Blue Valentine’s Derek Cianfrance, it stars Channing Tatum as a fugitive hiding among action figures, stress-eating peanut M&Ms, and stumbling into unexpected redemption—and maybe love with Kirsten Dunst—before the law closes in.
🎦 Masaka Kids, A Rhythm Within
(Tues, Dec 9th — premiering on Netflix)
In Uganda’s Masaka region, where the long shadow of the HIV/AIDS crisis still hangs heavy, a small orphanage becomes a living pulse of resilience. This uplifting documentary follows Masaka Kids Africana beyond the viral clips, revealing a vibrant community where orphaned children turn loss into laughter and movement into medicine.
🎦 Merv
(Wed, Dec 10th — premiering on Prime Video)
Zooey Deschanel and Charlie Cox star as a newly broken-up couple who try joint custody of their beloved dog, Merv, only to discover he’s as heartbroken as they are. A beach “dog therapy” weekend is meant to lift their four-legged friend’s spirits, but an unplanned reunion stirs up unresolved feelings. In cheering up their pooch, this couple just might end up rescuing themselves.
🎦 Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
(Fri, Dec 12th — premiering on Netflix)
Daniel Craig’s master sleuth Benoit Blanc returns in Rian Johnson’s latest, a church-set whodunit where an impossible murder rattles an upstate New York parish. Featuring a stacked ensemble of suspects (Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close, Kerry Washington, Cailee Spaeny, Mila Kunis, and more), scripture, sin, and small-town secrets swirl in a case that could use a prayer or two.
🎦 F1
(Fri, Dec 12th — streaming on Apple TV)
Brad Pitt hits the gas as Sonny Hayes, a once-promising Formula 1 phenom whose career-ending crash left greatness just out of reach, until former teammate–turned–team owner Ruben Cervantes (Javier Bardem) recruits him for one final shot. But a comeback gets complicated fast when he’s sharing the track with swaggering rookie Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris). Directed by Top Gun: Maverick’s Joseph Kosinski and produced by mega Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer, this turbo-charged drama turns redemption into a high-speed, high-pressure fight for legacy.
🎦 Spinal Tap II: The End Continues
(Fri, Dec 12th — streaming on HBO MAX)
Four decades later, the world’s loudest and dimmest band is somehow back on tour. Rob Reiner returns as Marty Di Bergi, capturing another Spinal Tap implosion with Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, and Harry Shearer in peak clueless form. Expect deadpan mayhem, improvised disasters, and cameo love from Paul McCartney and Elton John as the amps roar, the wigs wobble, and the egos hang on for dear life.
🎦 Tell Me Softly
(Fri, Dec 12th — premiering on Prime Video)
This steamy Spanish romantic drama follows Kami Hamilton (Alícia Falcó), who’s rebuilt her life after the Di Bianco brothers vanished seven years ago — taking her first kiss, her first heartbreak, and her fiercest protector with them. But when brothers Thiago and Taylor (Fernando Lindez, Nathan Radley Ramos) return, the walls she spent years perfecting start to crumble, and old feelings surge back fast.
🎦 Influencers
(Fri, Dec 12th — premiering on Shudder)
If writer-director Kurtis David Harder’s first film made you wary of every too-perfect face online, the sequel is here to push that paranoia even further. Set against the sunlit glamour of Southern France, this second chapter in the Influencer horror franchise follows CW (Cassandra Naud), a young woman who turns identity theft and murder into a glossy, high-stakes act of self-reinvention. Georgina Campbell and Lisa Delamar join the cast of this stylish descent into social-media-fueled terror.
✅ On VOD This Week
✅ Die My Love
(Tues, Dec 9th — on VOD/Digital)
Jennifer Lawrence burns through the screen as Grace, a writer-turned-housewife unraveling in the isolating quiet of rural Montana with a husband she can barely recognize. With Lynne Ramsay directing, Martin Scorsese producing, and Robert Pattinson co-starring, this adaptation of Ariana Harwicz’s novel becomes a chilling descent into love curdled, sanity slipping, and vows on the verge of breaking.
✅ Christy
(Tues, Dec 9th — on VOD/Digital)
Sydney Sweeney packs a fierce punch as Christy Martin, the West Virginia boxing trailblazer who shattered barriers in a man’s world, only to face her most dangerous fight at home. Directed by David Michôd and co-starring Ben Foster as her volatile trainer-husband, this blistering true-life drama shows the hardest hits aren’t always thrown in the ring.
✅ Chainsaw Man — The Movie: Reze Arc
(Tues, Dec 9th — on VOD/Digital)
Denji’s world gets even bloodier when the mysterious Reze enters his orbit, turning his already chaotic Chainsaw Man journey into a lethal collision of love and carnage. As betrayal deepens and devils close in, he’s pulled into a brutal war where trust is a myth and survival roars louder than his chainsaws.
✅ Keeper
(Tues, Dec 9th — on VOD/Digital)
Love turns lethal in Osgood Perkins’s latest nightmare, a slow-burn spiral that traps Tatiana Maslany and Rossif Sutherland in a marriage rotting from the inside out. Fresh off The Monkey and Longlegs, the filmmaker twists an anniversary getaway into a chilling study of affection curdled and sanity slipping, where the real horror isn’t the cabin... it’s the relationship.
✅ The Carpenter’s Son
(Tues, Dec 9th — on VOD/Digital)
Nicolas Cage plunges into holy terror in this eerie retelling of Jesus’s early years, seen through a father unraveling under supernatural pressure. Directed by Lotfy Nathan and also starring Noah Jupe and FKA Twigs, it turns faith fragile as miracles curdle into menace and scripture becomes the source of fear.
✅ Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
(Tues, Dec 9th — on VOD/Digital)
Adapted from Amélie Nothomb’s autobiographical novel, this visually original animated film follows young Amélie, a Belgian child in Japan, whose third birthday becomes the moment her world cracks open, revealing the deeper mysteries and emotional truths that will shape her early life.
✅ A Savage Art: The Life & Cartoons of Pat Oliphant
(Tues, Dec 9th — on VOD/Digital)
From White House takedowns to daredevil stunt flights, award-winning political cartoonist Pat Oliphant lived as boldly as he drew. Through rare footage, candid interviews, and his most savage cartoons, this doc captures how one man’s pen became the fiercest weapon against hypocrisy in modern American politics.
✅ Down River
(Tues, Dec 9th — on VOD/Digital)
In this eerie small-town thriller, a West Virginia sheriff (Jody Thompson) and his loyal deputy (Randy McDowell) answer a routine call that spirals into a chilling crime scene. Each clue dredges up long-buried sins, pulling them into a mystery the town wants forgotten. And as the truth closes in, the sheriff’s sanity may be the final casualty.
✅ Pig Hill
(Tues, Dec 9th — on VOD/Digital)
Rainey Qualley stars in this horror thriller as a woman obsessed with the eerie legend of Pig Hill’s pig people — foul, feral creatures rumored to lurk in the woods. When a tenth woman vanishes, her curiosity turns to dread, and she begins to suspect the folklore might be far more real than anyone admits.
✅ The Mastermind
(Fri, Dec 12th — on VOD/Digital)
In this subdued 1970s crime drama from acclaimed indie filmmaker Kelly Reichardt (First Cow), Josh O’Connor slips into the role of a mild-mannered family man hiding a double life as a small-town art thief. A smoky, retro heist caper that proves even quiet lives can harbor daring secrets.
✅ One More Shot
(Fri, Dec 12th — on VOD/Digital)
On the eve of Y2K, a lovesick wallflower (Emily Browning) uncovers a bottle of time-traveling tequila that sends her looping through New Year’s Eve ‘99. Each shot lets her rewrite regrets, rekindle sparks, or create delightfully chaotic new ones. With Sean Keenan, Aisha Dee, Pallavi Sharda, and Ashley Zukerman, this fizzy time-loop adventure reminds us that sometimes the future starts with one last toast to the past.
✅ Modi
(Fri, Dec 12th — on VOD/Digital)
Johnny Depp directs a feverish, three-day plunge into 1916 Paris, where Riccardo Scamarcio embodies the brilliant and unraveling Amedeo Modigliani. As the painter careens through lovers, debts, and mounting desperation, the film channels the chaos that shaped his art. With Al Pacino producing and co-starring alongside Stephen Graham and Antonia Desplat, it’s a turbulent, intoxicating portrait of creativity on the brink.
⇯ See Above: ✅ Turbulence (Fri, Dec 12; VOD/Digital)
⇯ See Above: ✅ Lone Samurai (Fri, Dec 12; VOD/Digital)
⇯ See Above: ✅ Visions (Fri, Dec 12; VOD/Digital)
📺 On TV This Week
📺 Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Season 2
(Wed, Dec 10th — on Disney+/Hulu)
Season 2 sends Walker Scobell’s young demigod Percy Jackson into deeper mythic danger. When Grover vanishes and Percy discovers a cyclops half-brother, he joins Annabeth on a perilous voyage across the Sea of Monsters. Brace for bigger quests, wilder creatures, and lightning-charged mayhem.
📺 Simon Cowell: The Next Act
(Wed, Dec 10th — on Netflix)
Music mogul Simon Cowell steps back into star-making mode in this new Netflix docu-series, which follows his attempt to build the next global boyband from scratch. From open casting calls to debut-single pressure, the cameras capture every high, low, and unpredictable twist. The only question left: can he strike gold again?
📺 Record of Ragnarok III
(Wed, Dec 10th — on Netflix)
The 13 one-on-one battles for humanity’s survival between gods and humans begin once more. The seventh match arrives to break the 3–3 tie in Ragnarok, setting the stage for a decisive showdown. Blood spills, fists fly, and unshakable convictions collide in this final, fate-defining clash.
📺 Man vs Baby
(Thurs, Dec 11th — on Netflix)
Trevor Bingley (Rowan Atkinson) has sworn off chaotic housesitting, until one irresistible Christmas gig lures him back. Now a school caretaker, he suddenly finds himself managing a luxury London penthouse and an unclaimed Baby Jesus from the school nativity. With a fragile infant, a high-end flat, and holiday chaos mounting, Trevor’s quiet Christmas doesn’t stand a snowball’s chance.
📺 Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft: Season 2
(Thurs, Dec 11th — on Netflix)
In the new season of Netflix’s globe-trotting animated adventure, Hayley Atwell returns to voice Lara Croft, the fearless archaeologist racing across Africa to stop a tech-driven mastermind from weaponizing ancient relics. With Richard Armitage and Allen Maldonado co-starring, expect mystic secrets, high-speed mayhem, and emotional ghosts she can’t outrun.
📺 Little Disasters
(Thurs, Dec 11th — on Paramount+)
Based on Sarah Vaughan’s novel, this emotional thriller starring Diane Kruger and Jo Joyner digs into the razor-thin line between trust, fear, and the choices that can devastate the people we love most. When Jess (Kruger) brings her injured baby into the ER, her longtime friend Liz (Joyner) is the doctor on duty — and the only one who senses something isn’t right. One call to social services unleashes a chain of consequences that twists loyalty into suspicion and turns their lifelong friendship into a psychological battleground.
📺 Starring Dick Van Dyke
(Fri, Dec 12th — on PBS)
This career-spanning documentary tracks Dick Van Dyke’s eight decades in entertainment, from radio and slapstick stages to TV legend and big-screen icon. Packed with rare footage and new interviews with Julie Andrews, Carol Burnett, Jim Carrey, Steve Martin, and more, it celebrates the irresistible warmth and wit that made him timeless.
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Tales of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Season 2
(Fri, Dec 12th — on Paramount+)
From the world of Mutant Mayhem, the turtles are back with fresh adventures, familiar foes, and plenty of pizza-fueled chaos. Produced by Nickelodeon Animation and led by showrunners Christopher Yost and Alan Wan, Season 2 bridges the hit 2023 film and its upcoming sequel, keeping the mutant energy alive and kicking.
📺 Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour — The End of an Era
(Fri, Dec 12th — on Disney+/Hulu)
Get a front-row seat to the final show of the record-breaking concert. This alternate-cut concert film delivers the 14-time GRAMMY winner’s full performance in its entirety, including the climactic finale and a brand-new acoustic set.
📺 Home for Christmas: Season 3
(Fri, Dec 12th — on Netflix)
Netflix’s first Norwegian original series is back, with Johanne (Ida Elise Broch) determined to make this Christmas heartbreak-free and blissfully uncomplicated — which, of course, guarantees the exact opposite. What begins as a vow to stay clear of romance quickly unravels into another warm, messy, and charming holiday scramble.
📺 Taylor
(Sat, Dec 13th — on the CW)
This star-powered CW documentary special traces the meteoric rise of a once-in-a-generation singer-songwriter whose twenty-year ascent transformed teenage ambition into global cultural dominance. Through industry insiders, superfans, and sharp-eyed commentators, it unpacks the eras, controversies, creative reinventions, and passionate community that shaped Taylor Swift into a worldwide phenomenon.
