Best new movies and TV series on Neon: December 2025

Neon continues to bring in a convoy of quality shows and films. See our handpicked highlights below followed by the full release schedule.

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* The best movies to watch on Neon
* All new streaming movies & series

Top picks:

Kneecap (December 2)

The little Irish-rap-biopic that could. As the musician biopic genre gets only more clunky and didactic, this film showed up with boundless energy and a beating political heart, retelling the origins of the titular Irish hip-hop group and their proud quest to make music in their underheard mother tongue. Better yet, the three subjects play themselves, in hilarious and emotive performances that make you wonder if casting professional actors was ever considered for even a moment.

In August, Stephen A Russell got to chat with the lads themselves, learning more about the film’s impact from group member Móglaí Bap: “Rural areas have spoken Irish for a long time, but we’re seeing it resonate with people in the cities a lot more now…That’s a core element of the movie, identity.” The whole interview is well worth a read, before or after you get your tickets to this raucous and rousing show.

Mickey 17 (December 4)

More than five years back, Bong Joon Ho collected a bunch of Oscars for his crossover hit Parasite, meaning this big, bombastic sci-fi is quite the swerve. There’s still social satire and capitalist critique, though, in the story of Robert Pattinson’s hapless clone Mickey dying time and time again to serve the needs of his planet-colonising bosses.

Mark Ruffalo and Toni Collette play the happy-clappy missionary fatcats in question; Naomi Ackie is Mickey’s feisty love interest; and best of all, the forbidden planet’s setting is home to a species of adorably disgusting (or disgustingly adorable?) Creepers, globby alien critters that look kinda like huge bedbugs. The movie’s tone is a tad all over the place, but director Bong has also packed it with heart and inventiveness.

Bookish: Season 1 (December 7)

Like a dog-eared, moth-bitten whodunnit you’d find in an op shop or your nanna’s shelf, this likeable new mystery series offers familiar comforts and also illuminates a complex past. Mark Gatiss, who also created the series, stars as Gabriel Book: post-war bookseller and part-time crime solver, combining his passions to put problems right with everything he’s learned from the literary world.

Trouble is, Book is also a closeted gay man in a period when homosexuality is illegal, despite being happily married to his bestie/beard. When love seems to be on the cards, the character’s sleuth work and delicate facade are both called into question. Compelling stuff, and we’re getting it at the same time as the UK, too.

Everything Coming to Neon this December

December 1

The Bakersfield 3: A Tale of Murder and Motherhood: Season 1
Booba: Season 5
The Christmas Chocolatier
Elf
Everything Christmas
Holiday Baking Championship: Gingerbread Showdown: Season 2
Holiday Road
Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1
House Party
Laughing All the Way
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
Sasquatch Sunset
The Thicket
Time for Him to Come Home for Christmas

December 2

Butterbean’s Cafe: Season 1
Happy Howlidays
Holiday Hotline
Kneecap
The Loud House: Seasons 1-3
The Apprentice
The Last Stop in Yuma County
Rizzoli and Isles: Seasons 1-7
South Park: Seasons 1-2, and 12-13
Spongebob Squarepants: Seasons 1-3

December 3

I Am the River, the River is Me
Bananas in Pyjamas: Seasons 1-2
Bump: Christmas Special
CatDog: Seasons 1-2
Expedition X: Season 5
Love of the Irish
Memoir of a Snail
Milked
Rugrats: Season 1-2
Welcome to the Darkness

December 4

Dora: Seasons 1-2
Mickey 17
My Christmas Guide
Octonauts: Seasons 1-4
The Royal Nanny
The Sound of Christmas Special
Until Dawn

December 5

Fear Below
Gold Rush: Season 16
Jingle all the Way
Nathan for You: Seasons 1-4

December 6

Jane Austen Wrecked My Life
Play School: Story Time: Seasons 3-6
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Season 1
Wiggles: Fruit Salad Big Show
Wiggles: Wiggly Big Day Out

December 7

Bookish: Season 1
One from the Heart

December 8

Batwheels: Season 2
Drunk History: Seasons 1-2
Love on the Danube: Love Song
The Night Before

December 9

The Devil is Busy
The Dark Money Game: Season 1
Forever: Season 1
Love on the Danube: Royal Getaway
Take my Tumor: Season 1

December 10

Atsuko Okatsuka: The Intruder
Love on the Danube: Kissing Stars
Under the Banner of Heaven: Season 1

December 11

Greenland
Key & Peele: Seasons 1-5

December 12

Inside Man
Non-Stop
Paid in Full: The Battle for Payback: Season 1

December 13

Bruce Almighty
South Park: Season 28
The Star

December 14

A Beautiful Mind
Dark Game

December 15

Friendship
Michal and Moe: Season 1

December 16

Man of the House
Sex Diaries: Season 1

December 17

Love on the Right Course

December 18

Critical Incident: Death at the Border

December 19

Counting Crows: Have You Seen Me Lately?
Laughing all the Way
Out of the Furnace

December 20

Hugo
Tiny Toons Looniversity: Winter Blunderland: Season 1

December 21

Bluey: Season 3
Still Alice
Teen Titans Go! Season 9 Christmas Special

December 22

Barney’s World: Season 1
The Tech Bro Murders: Season 1

December 23

Beyond the Gaze: Jule Campbell’s Swimsuit Issue

December 25

Boiling Point

December 26

Happy and You Know It
Hard Home
Murder at the End of the World: Season 1

December 27

12 Years a Slave
Day of Reckoning
Gambit

December 28

Four Letters of Love
Murder Before Evensong: Season 1

December 29

Jellystone!: Season 3

December 31

Hacksaw Ridge