Latest OTT releases (Dec 29- January 4): 10 new movies and TV shows on Netflix, Prime Video, JioHotstar and more

The final days of 2025 and the opening moments of 2026 bring a streaming lineup that feels unusually heavy — less about comfort viewing and more about confrontation. Across platforms, this week is defined by endings, moral reckonings, and stories that probe power, faith, survival, obsession, and loss. From a landmark Indian courtroom drama to the long-awaited farewell of Stranger Things, the slate spans continents and genres, united by one theme: consequences.

Here’s a complete look at everything releasing between December 29 and January 4, with the most significant titles leading the way.

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Members Only: Palm Beach – December 29 (Netflix)

Set within the manicured excess of Palm Beach’s elite social circles, Members Only explores the power dynamics of wealthy women navigating private clubs, inherited privilege, and reputation-based hierarchies.

Behind the champagne brunches and sunlit facades lies a pressure cooker of ambition, insecurity, and unspoken rivalry. Paradise quickly becomes a battleground where belonging is conditional and influence is currency.

Ricky Gervais: Mortality – December 30 (Netflix)

In Mortality, Ricky Gervais turns inward, interrogating ageing, death, belief systems, and humanity’s obsession with legacy. Balancing irreverence with unexpected honesty, the stand-up special dismantles taboos around dying without softening its punchlines.

Rather than mocking fear, Gervais stares directly at it — laughing not to dismiss mortality, but to strip it of its power.

Run Away – January 1 (Netflix)

Based on a novel by Harlan Coben, Run Away is a relentless British thriller driven by parental desperation. James Nesbitt stars as Simon Greene, a father searching for his daughter Paige, who has slipped into addiction and homelessness.

When Simon finally tracks her down and witnesses a violent confrontation ending in murder, he becomes the prime suspect — and Paige disappears once again. As Simon is pulled into a criminal underworld of cult-like groups and buried family secrets, the series dismantles the illusion of a perfect household.

Each episode tightens the moral vise, forcing viewers to question how far love can stretch before it becomes complicity.

Stranger Things Season 5 Finale – January 1 (Netflix)

After nearly a decade, Stranger Things closes its story with a two-hour finale titled Chapter Eight: The Rightside Up. Hawkins faces total annihilation as the Upside Down is finally revealed to be more than an alternate dimension — it is a temporal bridge capable of overwriting reality itself.

Vecna’s endgame involves merging worlds using twelve abducted children, including Holly Wheeler. Eleven is forced to lead a multi-front assault across collapsing timelines, psychic landscapes, and physical space. Will Byers’ lingering connection to the hive mind becomes both the Party’s greatest weapon and its greatest risk, while the older teens undertake a near-suicidal mission to destroy the device holding the rift open.

The finale prioritises consequence over spectacle. As Hawkins is freed from the shadow cast since 1983, the survivors are left to confront loss, irreversible change, and the uneasy quiet of a normal world finally restored.

The Good Doctor – January 1 (Netflix)

The long-running medical drama continues its exploration of Dr Shaun Murphy, a brilliant surgeon navigating life and work while living with autism.

As professional and personal stakes rise, the series remains focused on empathy, ethics, and the humanity behind clinical brilliance — asking what competence truly means in a system built on pressure and perfection.

Love From 9 to 5 – January 1 (Netflix)

This workplace romantic comedy blends corporate ambition with unresolved desire. After a one-night stand, two employees discover they are rivals for the same CEO position at a lingerie empire — one of them being the owner’s charismatic son.

What follows is a mix of boardroom warfare and emotional vulnerability, where power dynamics complicate attraction and success threatens intimacy.

My Korean Boyfriend – January 1 (Netflix)

This docu-reality series dismantles K-drama fantasy through lived experience. Five Brazilian women in long-distance relationships with Korean men travel to Seoul, confronting language barriers, cultural gaps, and emotional recalibration.

What begins as escapist curiosity evolves into a study of compromise, identity, and the reality behind idealised romance.

Follow My Voice – January 2 (Amazon Prime Video)

A quiet and emotionally restrained Spanish teen drama, Follow My Voice centres on Klara, a young woman housebound by anxiety and mental health struggles.

Her world slowly expands through an unexpected connection with a late-night radio host she has never met. The series avoids neat recovery arcs, instead focusing on human connection as a form of survival rather than solution.

Cheetahs Up Close With Bertie Gregory – January 2 (JioHotstar)

This National Geographic special takes filmmaker Bertie Gregory deep into the Serengeti during the great wildebeest migration. The focus is on cheetahs — a species that has lost nearly 90 percent of its population in a century.

The documentary follows two parallel narratives: a lone mother defending her cubs against lions and hyenas, and a coalition of young male cheetahs executing coordinated, high-risk hunts. Shot with cutting-edge wildlife cinematography, the film abandons postcard beauty in favour of harsh realism.

It becomes a survival chronicle — a study of speed, hunger, and extinction in a rapidly changing ecosystem.

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Haq: A Courtroom Battle That Shakes the Constitution– January 2 (Netflix)

Inspired by the historic Shah Bano case, Haq is a politically charged courtroom drama that places personal betrayal against the machinery of Indian constitutional law. Directed by Suparn Verma, the film stars Yami Gautam Dhar as Shazia Bano, a woman whose life collapses when her influential lawyer-husband divorces her, remarries, and refuses to provide maintenance.

What begins as a deeply personal injustice soon escalates into a national legal battle. Backed by her ageing but resolute father and a fiercely principled female lawyer, Shazia takes her fight from lower courts to the Supreme Court. Along the way, she faces public scrutiny, media distortion, and political pressure designed to wear her down.

Rather than simplifying the faith-versus-law debate, Haq presents the struggle as exhausting and isolating. Shazia is not framed as a symbol by choice, but as a woman forced into one — fighting a system that repeatedly demands women justify their dignity.