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After a high-profile fall and early winter, with the premieres of several awards hopefuls and major events like the end of Stranger Things, Netflix appears to be going into hibernation a bit in the new year, with far less glitzy, hotly anticipated titles hitting the streamer than in the past few months. Of course, that doesn’t mean nothing is happening. There’s a new Agatha Christie mystery series, a popular romance novel adaptation, some true-crime and anime, plus Matt Damon and Ben Affleck reteaming for a crime thriller. And then there’s the big one: more Bridgerton, baby. Here’s everything else we’re looking forward to most on Netflix in January.
What’s new on Netflix January 2026 at a glance:
📍Movies: People We Meet on Vacation (Jan. 9), The Rip (Jan. 16)
📍Shows: Bridgerton season 4 part 1 (Jan. 29)
📍Limited Series: His and Hers (Jan. 8)
📍Documentaries: Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart (Jan. 21)
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His and Hers
A dead body found in the woods exacerbates the tension between a cop and his estranged reporter wife, both of whom suspect the other of foul play. Starring Jon Bernthal and Tessa Thompson, this adaptation of the Alice Feeney thriller novel should fill the The Beast in Me-shaped hole in your streaming life.
Premieres Jan 8
People We Meet on Vacation
The popular Emily Henry novel about longtime friends who re-meet-cute once a year at a different international locale gets the romcom adaptation you always knew was coming. Emily Bader and Tom Blyth star, with Lukas Gage, Alan Ruck and Molly Shannon in supporting roles.
Premieres Jan 9
Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials
Need another murder mystery to sate your sleuthing addiction post-Wake Up Dead Man? Broadchurch creator Chris Chibnall brings Agatha Christie’s 1929 novel to the screen for the first time since 1981, with the cherubic Mia McKenna-Bruce as an aristocrat investigating a prank gone terribly wrong at a country house party.
Premieres Jan 15
The Rip
Maffleck is back! Ben Affleck and Matt Damon star in Netflix’s now-annual winter action-thriller as Miami cops whose trust begins to fray after their team discovers $24 million in cash in an abandoned stash house. Director Joe Carnahan (Smokin’ Aces) can be hit-or-miss, but the premise is right in his wheelhouse.
Premieres Jan 16
Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart
If you were conscious in the early 2000s, you certainly remember the case of Elizabeth Smart, the 14-year-old girl in Salt Lake City abducted from her home in the dead of night. If you weren’t around then – and somehow haven’t caught the multiple TV movies and books about the incident – this docuseries will recount it all for you.
Premieres Jan 21
Cosmic Princess Kaguya!
This year’s Kpop Demon Hunters? Netflix is certainly hoping to capture lightning twice with this musical fantasy from anime studio Colorido, about a young teenage girl whose life is thrown into chaos when she meets a runaway alien princess. Ryo, leader of the massive J-pop group Supercell, contributed songs, along with other Japanese pop luminaries.
Premieres Jan 22
Skyscraper Live
In the spirit of Evel Knievel jumping Snake River Canyon, rock-climber Alex Honnold, subject of the Oscar-winning documentary Free Solo, will attempt to scale the massive Taipei 101 skyscraper, without the aid of ropes, live on television. Why? Well, why not?
Airs Jan 23
Bridgerton season 4, part 1
Pantaloons, prepare to be lit aflame. The period romance series returns for a fourth season, focusing on the affair between Benedict Bridgerton and Sophie Baek. That’ll certainly mean something to someone!
Premieres Jan 29
Everything New Coming to Netflix in January 2026
Available January 1:
Dr. Seuss’s Red Fish, Blue Fish, season 2
Love from 9 to 5
My Korean Boyfriend
Run Away
Time Flies
12 Years a Slave
30 Minutes or Less
Becky
Brüno
Colombiana
Conan the Destroyer
Dawn of the Dead
Despicable Me
Despicable Me 2
District 9
Dune
Erin Brockovich
Falling Skies, seasons 1-5
Forever My Girl
Free Solo
Ghostbusters: Answer the Call
Green Room
Harry and the Hendersons
Hellboy
Johnny Mnemonic
Just Go With It
Lone Survivor
Man on Fire
Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
My Girl
Only the Brave
Pitch Perfect
Priscilla
Twins
Wild Things
Available January 2:
Found, seasons 1-2
Land of Sin
Available January 3:
The Following, seasons 1-3
Available January 6:
Pokémon Horizons – Rising Hope Part 1, season 3
Available January 7:
11.22.63, season 1
Marcello Hernández: American Boy
Unlocked: A Jail Experiment, season 2
Available January 8:
HIS & HERS
Love Is Blind: Germany, season 2
Available January 9:
Alpha Males, season 4
People We Meet on Vacation
Prodigal Son, seasons 1-2
Stone Cold Fox
The Threesome
Available January 13:
The Boyfriend, season 2
Available January 14:
The Queen of Flow, season 3
Available January 15:
Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials
Bone Lake
Love Through a Prism
The Upshaws: Part 7
To Love, To Lose
Available January 16:
Can This Love Be Translated?
To Tail to Tell
Southland, seasons 1-5
The Rip
Available January 19:
Sandokan, season 1
Available January 20:
Just a Dash, seasons 1-3
Rizzoli & Isles, seasons 1-7
Star Search
WWE: Unreal, season 2
Available January 21:
Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart
Available January 22:
Cosmic Princess Kaguya!
Finding Her Edge
Available January 23:
Skyscraper Live
The Big Fake
Available January 26:
My Sesame Street Friends: My Sesame Music
Available January 27:
Mike Epps: Delusional
Available January 29:
Bridgerton, season 4 part 1