Knives Out is now on Netflix – Picture: Lionsgate

We’re just two nights away from Christmas Day and if you’ve got all the presents wrapped, it’s time to kick back and check out Netflix, which has 36 new movies and nine new series to dive into this weekend.

Do you want to look ahead? We’ve prepared our new Netflix UK preview for January 2023 here.


The best new movies and series on Netflix UK this week

knives out & Crystal Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Director: rian johnson

Netflix has just released one of its biggest movies of the year in the form of Glass Onion and Netflixers in the UK were also greeted with the release of the first movie, which means you can make a full knives out drunkenness!

Daniel Craig plays the role of the inquisitive and suave detective Benoit Blanc, who is recruited to solve mysteries.

The first film stars Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Collette, Don Johnson, Michael Shannon, and LaKeith Stanfield.

The sequel stars Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Jessica Henwick, Madelyn Cline, Kate Hudson, and Dave Bautista.

Also, as a quick note, if you sign up for Netflix to watch knives 1 and 2you will need to subscribe to a premium tier to see the first movie.


Maternity Sunday (2021).

Director: eva husson
To emit: Odessa Young, Josh O’Connor, Glenda Jackson, Olivia Colman, Colin Firth, Ṣọpẹ Dìrísù

Also from Lionsgate this week is Maternity Sundaya movie the playlist called «A thoughtful, if occasionally melodramatic reflection on the nature of mourning.»

This is what you can expect from the movie:

“On a warm spring day in 1924, housemaid and orphan Jane Fairchild finds herself alone on Mother’s Day. Her employers, Mr. and Mrs. Niven, are away and she has the rare chance to spend an afternoon of abandonment with her secret lover, Paul (Josh O’Connor), the boy from the nearby manor house who is her long-term love. from Jane despite the fact that he is engaged to be married to another woman, a childhood friend and the daughter of his parents’ friends. But events neither of them can foresee will change the course of Jane’s life forever.»


ink heart (2008)

Director: lain softley
To emit: Brendan Fraser, Paul Bettany, Helen Mirren, Jim Broadbent, Andy Serkis, Sienna Guillory

With Brendan Fraser now fully in the zeitgeist over the past year thanks to his spectacular return, it’s no surprise that since Inkheart was added to Netflix UK earlier in the week, it’s been lighting up Netflix’s top 10.

Fraser stars as Mo in the fantasy epic in which a teenage girl discovers that her father can bring characters from the books to life.


Full list of 36 new movies/documentaries added to Netflix UK this week

  • 97% ownership (2012)
  • A Not So Merry Christmas (2022) N
  • Big Boys Don’t Cry (2020)
  • Checkpoint (2022)
  • Christmas Lovers (2022)
  • Dawn of the Dead (2004)
  • Different Experience (2021)
  • Dominion Effect (2014)
  • Crystal Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) N
  • Het Schildersleven by Vincent van Gogh (2008)
  • Honeymoon (2022)
  • Inkheart (2008)
  • Knives Out (2019)
  • Love Today (2022)
  • Lullaby (2010)
  • Mathieu Dufour at Bell Center (2022) N
  • Mother’s Sunday (2021)
  • Observations on 65 South (2021)
  • One Gone: The Early Years of Wim Wenders (2007)
  • Rainforest First: Climate Protection in Central Africa (2021)
  • Riding High (1981)
  • Romantic Road (2021)
  • Tare VS. Billal (2022)
  • The Battle of Chernobyl (2006)
  • The Hero (2018)
  • The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (2015)
  • The Night (2018)
  • The Seven Deadly Sins: The Edinburgh Grudge Part 1 (2022) N
  • The Master (2022)
  • Until the Judge Do Us Part (2018)
  • Tomorrow is Saturday (2020)
  • You My Nascondi Qualcosa (2008)
  • One for tutti (2015)
  • Welcome to Gomorraland (2017)
  • What It’s About (1995)
  • As Long as You Live, Shine (2018)

Full list of 9 new TV series added to Netflix UK this week

  • Alice in Borderland (Season 2) N
  • Emily in Paris (Season 3) N
  • I AM A MURDERER (Season 4) N
  • Masha and the Bear: Children’s Songs (Season 1)
  • One More Time (Season 1) N
  • Pinata Masters! (Season 1) N
  • The Fabulous (Season 1) N
  • The Love Interest (Season 1) N
  • Trolley (Season 1) N

What are you watching on Netflix UK this week? Let us know in the comments and on behalf of all of us here at What’s on Netflix, have a great Christmas!