New to Netflix UK: December 2022
From Emily in Paris season 3, starring Lily Collins, to the latest Lady Chatterley's Lover movie starring Emma Corrin, Netflix in December provides many warm treats for a cold Christmas

UK Netflix release date: Wednesday 21 December
New season, new style. That’s right: the Instagrammable American in Paris is back, with a brand-new fringe. A year has passed since Emily (Lily Collins) dropped into the French capital to zhuzh up the marketing firm Savoir, and she’s had a lavish, surreal time of it – helping campaigns that range from leeks to Dior. She also tangles herself up in complicated romances, splitting fans between Team Gabriel (the cute, culinary neighbour) and Team Alfie (the hunky, straight-talking Londoner).
Netflix has said little about the plot for season 3, but has revealed that Emily will face 'a crucial crossroads in every aspect of her life'. Her decisions will affect her future in France, but that doesn’t stop the ludicrous, Parisian adventures.
Read our review of season two.
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
UK Netflix release date: Friday 2 December
Let’s face it: banned books are often the most interesting. Lady Chatterley’s Lover is one of those historic literary divisions, igniting a failed obscenity trial in 1960 for its sex and swearing. That's never stopped its continuous popularity and constant adaptations, the newest of which stars The Crown’s Emma Corrin as Lady Chatterley and The North Water’s Jack O’Connell as her working-class lover Oliver.
After her husband suffers injuries in World War I, Lady Chatterley falls out of love with him. She starts an affair with her gamekeeper, who shows her a life of desire and intimacy she didn’t think possible – breaking the traditions of the time.
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
UK Netflix release date: Friday 9 December
2022 is the year of Pinocchio rivalry between streaming services. Robert Zemeckis’ remake of the Disney classic premiered on Disney+ last September, starring the loveable Tom Hanks as Geppetto. Naturally, Guillermo del Toro’s stop-motion Netflix adaptation adopts a darker tone.
Del Toro
and co-writer Patrick McHale (Adventure Time) set the story in Mussolini’s
Italy, where Gepetto (David Bradley) carves a wooden puppet child from the tree
under which his dead son is buried. Pinocchio (Gregory Mann) is animated to
life by Tilda Swinton (playing the sister of Death), and he's pushed into a
journey of many moralistic adventures with Sebastian J Cricket (Ewan McGregor)
by his side.
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
UK Netflix release date: Friday 23 December
Everyone’s favourite Southern detective returns for another case. Rian Johnson’s eclectically enjoyable whodunnit Knives Out was a surprise hit in 2019, spurring Netflix to invest in further mysteries for Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc to solve. Glass Onion, Blanc's latest puzzle, takes him to a stupendous mansion on a Greek island owned by the arrogant, Elon Musk-y billionaire Miles Braun (Edward Norton).
A
group of wealthy individuals (‘disruptors’) are invited to
his island to play a murder-mystery game. There’s a politically incorrect model
(Kate Hudson), a men’s rights activist (Dave Bautista), a politician (Kathryn
Hayn), and a sour ex-colleague (Janelle Monáe). For some strange reason, Blanc
also receives an invitation and the ‘game’ becomes more real.
White Noise
UK Netflix release date: Friday 30 December
Martin Amis once called Don DeLillo's novel White Noise a ‘beautifully tender fever dream’, and that doesn’t immediately call Noah Baumbach (Marriage Story) to mind. Generally, the latter has a Woody Allen-like aesthetic: mutedly examining the emotional lives of creatives and intellectuals. Baumbach's new film adaptation is a trippy, experimental diversion, translating an author whose post-modern body of work is rarely converted to the big screen.
White Noise stars Adam Driver as a professor of ‘Hitler studies’ at a university town, with students and lecturers staring in awe at his command of an audience. He balances those talents with an embarrassing grasp of German, a complex family of kids from previous marriages, and an incoming wave of airborne toxic waste that floods the town. Greta Gerwig and Don Cheadle also star.
Bardo
UK Netflix release date: Friday 16 December
For Bardo, Alejandro G Iñárritu (The Revenant, Birdman) channels Federico Fellini’s 8½ – another vivid, somnambulant stride through the mind of a film director. The Mexican-born ‘docufiction’ filmmaker Silverio (Daniel Giménez Cacho) struggles with his identity and his native country’s history, channelling those complicated feelings into his latest project.
You’re treated to unforgettable
images of a baby returned to its mother's womb, a pyramid constructed from
human bodies, and a long shadow flying through the desert. But more accessible
human emotions peek through as Silverio discusses his sense of self, fractured
between the US and Mexico, and his growing fear of death.
The full Netflix in December slate:
Thursday 1
December
Goodbye
The
Raven
Stuart
Little
Troll
Friday 2
December
Firefly
Lane, season 2, part 1
Girlclock
Hot
Skull
Lady
Chatterley’s Lover (2022)
My
Unorthodox Life, season 2
Scrooge:
A Christmas Carol
Sr.
Warriors
of Fortune
Tuesday 6
December
The
Boss Baby: Christmas Bonus
Sebastian
Maniscalo: Is It Me?
Wednesday 7
December
Burning
Patience
I
Hate Christmas
The
Marriage App
The
Most Beautiful Flower
Smiley
Too
Hot to Handle, season 4
Thursday 8
December
In
Broad Daylight: The Narvarte Case
Friday 9
December
Dragon
Age: Absolution
Guillermo
del Toro’s Pinocchio
Tuesday 13
December
Gudetama:
An Eggcellent Adventure
Last
Chance U: Basketball, season 2
Tom
Papa: What A Day!
Thursday 15
December
Sonic
Prince
Who
Killed Santa? A Murderville Murder Mystery
Friday 16
December
Bardo:
False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
Cook
At All Costs
Dance
Masters
The
Recruit
A
Storm for Christmas
Tuesday 20
December
Mothering
Sunday
Wednesday 21
December
Emily
in Paris, season 3
Thursday 22
December
Alice
in Borderland, season 2
Friday 23
December
Glass
Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Monday 26
December
Treason
Tuesday 27
December
Chelsea
Handler: Revolution
Friday 30
December
White
Noise