New Netflix Shows and Movies in January 2025

New year, same overwhelming influx of Netflix shows and movies that you can't keep up with. The world's biggest streaming service is starting 2025 with a bang, headlined by the second season of The Night Agent, one of Netflix's most-watched shows ever. This time, Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso) is leaving the comfy confines of D.C. and going international on his next adventure. 

Also coming in the month are the second season of the romance series XO, Kitty, the intriguing Japanese drama Asura, Season 2 of The Recruit, the British comedy special Cunk on Life, and the violent Western American Primeval. And for disturbing horror lovers, good news: Hereditary is returning to Netflix.

Here are our most anticipated Netflix shows and movies for the month, plus the full list of everything coming to and leaving Netflix in January.

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The best new Netflix movies and shows in January

Cunk on Life (Jan. 2)

Idiotic British program presenter Philomena Cunk (Diane Morgan) returns to baffle academics with her buffoonery in Cunk on Life, the latest special from Black Mirror's Charlie Brooker. After musing about our planet in Cunk on Earth, which Netflix aired in 2022, Cunk will ponder the meaning of life while asking scholars some of the dumbest questions they've ever heard. Cunk on Earth was fantastic; this should also be a hoot. [Trailer]

American Primeval (Jan. 9)

Macho director Peter Berg brings his macho sensibility to the Wild West with the incredibly macho American Primeval, a Western showing how dismal (and macho) the old American West once was. Seriously, this show is all about how horrible it was just to try to see tomorrow as the cowboys, Native Americans, the prospectors, the Mormons, the fugitives, the drunks, and even some naughty children all tried to get their piece of the pie. Expect shootings, stabbings, and scalpings, sometimes all at once. Betty Gilpin, Taylor Kitsch, and Shea Whigham star. [Trailer]

XO, Kitty Season 2 (Jan. 16)

The To All the Boys cinematic universe continues on with the second season of its TV spin-off XO, Kitty. Anna Cathcart returns as Kitty, the love-happy matchmaker who ran into a bunch of relationship problems in Season 1 as she enrolled in an international school in Korea. In Season 2, she's single and ready to mingle! But only casually. Yeah right. [Teaser] [Everything to Know About XO, Kitty Season 2]

The Night Agent Season 2 (Jan. 23)

No one knew what The Night Agent was when it came out in 2023, but that's not the case for Season 2. The debut season of Shawn Ryan's thriller became Netflix's seventh-most watched English-language show of all time, surprising just about everyone. Most details are under wraps, but in Season 2, FBI agent Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso), working toward becoming a full-fledged Night Agent, will travel to Thailand and New York City. [Teaser] [Everything to Know About The Night Agent Season 2]

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Everything coming to Netflix in January

Jan. 1
Don't Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever — Netflix Documentary
The Love Scam (IT) — Netflix Film
Missing You (GB) — Netflix Series
Number 24 (NO) — Netflix Film
13 Going on 30
3 Ninjas: Kick Back
Apollo 13
Blended
Bruce Almighty
Colombiana
Dallas Buyers Club
Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat
Dr. Seuss' The Lorax
Erin Brockovich
Hotel Transylvania
Hotel Transylvania 2
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Inception
Interstellar
Little Fockers
Love Actually
Meet the Fockers
Meet the Parents
Melancholia
The Net
Notting Hill
Out of Africa
Rush Hour
Rush Hour 2
Rush Hour 3
Schindler's List
Scooby-Doo
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
Spider-Man
Spider-Man 2
Spider-Man 3

Jan. 2
Cunk on Life (GB) — Netflix Film
Stranded with My Mother-in-Law: Season 2 (BZ) — Netflix Series

Jan. 3
Bandidos: Season 2 (MX) — Netflix Series
Love Is Blind: Germany (DE) — Netflix Series
Shafted (FR) — Netflix Series
Selling The City — Netflix Series
Umjolo: My Beginning, My End! (ZA) — Netflix Film
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (GB) — Netflix Family

Jan. 4
When the Stars Gossip (KR) — Netflix Series

Jan. 6
My Happy Marriage: Season 2 (JP) — Netflix Anime
WWE Raw: 2025 — Netflix Live Event

Jan. 7
The Breakthrough (SE) — Netflix Series
Gabriel Iglesias: Legend of Fluffy — Netflix Comedy Special
The Graham Norton Show: Best Bits: Week of Dec. 31, 2024
Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action — Netflix Documentary
Younger: Seasons 1-7

Jan. 8
Dubai Bling: Season 3 (AE) — Netflix Series
Hound's Hill (PL) — Netflix Series
I AM A KILLER: Season 6 — Netflix Documentary
Subteran (RO) — Netflix Series

Jan. 9
American Primeval — Netflix Series
Asura (JP) — Netflix Series
I am Ilary (IT) — Netflix Series
Lion
The Upshaws: Part 6 — Netflix Series

Jan. 10
Ad Vitam (FR) — Netflix Film
Alpha Males: Season 3 (ES) — Netflix Series
Love Is Blind: Germany (DE) — Netflix Series (New Episodes)

Jan. 11
Sakamoto Days (JP) — Netflix Anime

Jan. 13
The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live: Season 1

Jan. 14
Ari Shaffir: America's Sweetheart — Netflix Comedy Special
Single's Inferno: Season 4 (KR) — Netflix Series

Jan. 15
Hereditary
Krapopolis: Season 1
Public Disorder (IT) — Netflix Series

Jan. 16
XO, Kitty: Season 2 — Netflix Series

Jan. 17
Back in Action — Netflix Film
Love Is Blind: Germany (DE) — Netflix Series (New Episodes)
Young, Famous & African: Season 3 (ZA) — Netflix Series

Jan. 18
Sakamoto Days (JP) — Netflix Anime (New Episodes)

Jan. 21
The Graham Norton Show: Best Bits: Week of Jan. 10, 2025

Jan. 22
W.A.G.s to Riches — Netflix Series

Jan. 23
NCIS: Seasons 1-5
The Night Agent: Season 2 — Netflix Series

Jan. 24
The Sand Castle (LB) — Netflix Film

Jan. 25
Sakamoto Days (JP) — Netflix Anime (New Episodes)

Jan. 26
You Hurt My Feelings

Jan. 28
The Graham Norton Show: Best Bits: Week of Jan. 17, 2025
Liza Treyger: Night Owl — Netflix Comedy Special

Jan. 29
Six Nations: Full Contact: Season 2 (GB) — Netflix Series

Jan. 30
Mo: Season 2 — Netflix Series
The Recruit: Season 2 — Netflix Series
The Seven Deadly Sins: Four Knights of the Apocalypse: Season 2 — Netflix Anime

Jan. 31
Lucca's World (MX) — Netflix Film
The Snow Girl: Season 2 (ES) — Netflix Series

Everything leaving Netflix in January

Jan. 1
Jigsaw

Jan. 3
A.X.L.

Jan. 7
65

Jan. 9
Focus
The Wedding Year

Jan. 11
Last Tango in Halifax: Seasons 1-4

Jan. 14
The Magicians: Seasons 1-5
Monk: Seasons 1-8

Jan. 15
Cats
New Amsterdam: Seasons 1-5
Selma

Jan. 20
The Gift

Jan. 25
The Babadook
The Rental

Jan. 26
FullMetal Alchemist
Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Jan. 31
21 Jump Street
22 Jump Street
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
The Next Karate Kid
Not Another Teen Movie
Project X
White Chicks
White House Down
Whitney
We're the Millers
Zero Dark Thirty