Best new movies and shows on Prime Video New Zealand: December 2025

Each month, new films and TV shows are added to Prime Video’s New Zealand library. Eliza Janssen presents her picks for titles worth watching. For the full list of everything arriving on the platform, scroll down.

See also
* All new movies & series on Prime Video
* All new streaming movies & series
* The 50 best movies on Amazon Prime Video Australia

Top Picks

The Merchants of Joy (December 1)

Wow, Amazon has really quadrupled-down on Christmas programming this year: I’m highlighting four new, original films that each promise a slightly elevated take on your typical seasonal slop. Not that there’s anything wrong with rewatching Hallmark’s Her Minnesota Christmas Gingerbread Prince for Christmas in the Christmastime again.

The first is this feature-length documentary, taking us “inside New York’s cut-throat Christmas tree trade”. Apparently five families reign over NYC’s tree game, growing more fiercely competitive as December plays out. We always have time for a doco honing in on a minute, eccentric industry and the people that populate it, and this one’s New Yawk flavour and subtle mafia vibes are promising.

Oh. What. Fun. (December 3)

Next up, Michelle Pfeiffer brings every downtrodden suburban mum’s reality to life in a new yuletide comedy. She’s the baker behind every batch of cookies, the wrangler of every foot of tinsel—but when her ungrateful family forget to bring her on a special Christmas outing (that she planned!!!), Pfeiffer’s matriarch goes AWOL on an adventure of her own.

The supporting cast is quite fab, with Felicity Jones, Chloe Grace Moretz, Dominic Sessa, Danielle Brooks, Jason Schwartzman and Eva Longoria among others—and director Michael Showalter has a great track record, having also shot the successful The Idea of You for Prime Video.

Merv (December 10)

Lastly and on a perhaps less intensely Christmassy note, this romcom stars Charlie Cox and Zooey Deschanel as a couple who’ve called it quits. The only problem is their dog Merv, whose wellbeing has apparently taken a serious hit with news of his human parents’ breakup—for the good of their furbaby, the estranged pair agree to spend a sunny vacation together in Florida, lifting poor Merv’s spirits.

Will Cox and Deschanel be forced to remember all the good parts of their relationship, perhaps drawn into an embrace by Merv mischievously tangling ’em up in his leash or chased back to the site of their first date when he gets loose? I don’t know, but I can certainly make my assumptions, can’t I.

Fallout: Season 2 (December 17)

What happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas, which is precisely where our heroes are headed in the sophomore season of  Fallout. That’s Ella Purnell’s Vault voyager Lucy, Aaron Moten’s squire Maximus, and the tremendous Walton Goggins as noseless maverick The Ghoul—a bizarre nuclear found family, sure, but one that promises black buddy comedy and apocalyptic discoveries aplenty.

The series earned praise for its expansive worldbuilding, drawing on the 23rd century setting of the phenomenally popular video game series it’s adapting. As someone with less than no knowledge of that franchise, I (and seemingly many other viewers) was still able to get real invested real quick, making this one of 2025’s most anticipated returning shows.