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Netflix It gives viewers exactly what we want in 2026: true crime, A-list celebrities, anime, and romantic comedies. We’ve really discovered the streaming device. Several new films will be released this January, including the highly anticipated cop thriller The Rip (arriving on January 16), written and directed by Joe Carnahan, whose previous films include The A-Team and Copshop. The film stars Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Teyana Taylor and Kyle Chandler. The police lineup is not bad.
Also on the schedule this month is a film adaptation of Emily Henry’s best-selling book People We Meet on Vacation, along with a dramatic documentary about the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart featuring Smart herself, speaking publicly about the traumatic kidnapping and her healing journey in the decades that followed. Also scheduled to premiere is “One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things,” Season 5, a behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of one of Netflix’s biggest shows.
These films and more are new to Netflix in January. Here’s a look at the titles we can’t wait to watch.
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In the 1970s, Philippe Petit performed a stunt on a tightrope between the World Trade Center towers, a feat chronicled in the fascinating 2008 documentary Man on Wire. In 2018, Free Solo offered a look at another kind of daredevil, Alex Honnold, the world-famous rock climber famous for free soloing, which is climbing without any ropes or harnesses. The film follows Honnold on his quest to solo free El Capitan, a steep 3,000-foot cliff in Yosemite National Park, and the toll it takes on his body and mind. Free Solo hits Netflix on January 1, so you can stream it before watching Skyscraper Live on January 23, a special Netflix event in which Honnold will attempt to climb one of the world’s tallest skyscrapers, the 1,667-foot-tall Taipei 101, without ropes, live on camera.
People we meet on vacation (January 9)
Tom Blythe and Emily Bader play Alex and Poppy in the Netflix original film adaptation of Emily Henry’s romance novel People We Meet on Vacation. Poppy and Alex are complete opposites, having been best friends for a decade and living in different cities but spending every summer holiday together. However, eventually, they began to wonder if they shared more than just passport stamps. The cast includes White Lotus star Sarah Katharine Hook, as well as Jameela Jamil, Lucien Laviscount and Lucas Gage.
One Final Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things, Part 5 (January 12)
The final season of Stranger Things was an epic production, and Season 5 of ‘One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things’ captured what the final episodes of the show were like. This documentary offers a behind-the-scenes look at the cast, creators, and crew as they created the show that made many of them famous. The documentary arrived on Netflix on January 12.
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon reunite. It’s hard to explain why it’s so exciting to see these two Boston brothers together on screen, but I was here for it with Good Will Hunting, I loved him in Dogma, and I even enjoyed him in The Last Duel – although… wig In this movie it was wild. Damon and Affleck are back in one of Netflix’s biggest releases this month in The Rip. Fraud is a term used to describe when cops seize weapons, drugs, or illegal money. The actors, along with Teyana Taylor, Steven Yeun, Catalina Sandino Moreno and Kyle Chandler, play Miami cops who discover a huge amount of money and begin to question the loyalties on their team. The thriller opens on January 16.
Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart (January 21)
14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped from her Salt Lake City home at midnight on June 5, 2002. Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart is a new documentary featuring interviews with Smart herself and others close to the case to provide an intimate look into the investigation into her disappearance, and how she was found nine months later in the home of husband and wife Brian David Mitchell and Wanda Barzee. The documentary will premiere on January 21.
Cosmic Princess Kaguya! (January 22)
Anime creator Shingo Yamashita, known for directing the opening sequences of popular titles like Jujutsu Kaisen, Chainsaw Man, and Urusei Yatsura, makes his full-length directorial debut with Cosmic Princess Kaguya! On Netflix. The film is based on the Japanese folk tale The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, which is about a child named Kaguya-hime who was sent from the moon to live on Earth, and was discovered inside a bamboo stalk. Here, the telephone pole is replaced by a bamboo stalk, and instead of a princess, Kaguya becomes a musician and internet celebrity. Featuring new original music, 3D camera work, and Yamashita’s bold, gorgeous visuals, this modern adaptation will arrive on January 22.
The Big Fake (Il Falsario in Italian) is based on the true-life story of Antonio Cecchiarelli, an artist who turned to a life of crime, becoming one of Italy’s most notorious criminals and counterfeiters. After being rejected by the traditional art establishment, Cecchiarelli realizes that his ability to replicate the work of past artists may be his meal ticket. But as he gets deeper into counterfeiting, he finds himself working with some of Italy’s most powerful gangs, and masterminds one of Italy’s biggest robberies, the 1984 Brinks robbery in Rome.
Miracle: Children of the Eighty (January 30)
Miracle: The ’80s Boys arrive just in time to get you excited for the Winter Games in Milan. This new documentary, arriving January 30, offers a closer look at the 1980 U.S. hockey team, which beat the Soviet Union in the Olympic semifinals despite being considered the underdog at that year’s Winter Games. The team would go on to win a gold medal at the Lake Placid Olympics. The so-called “Miracle on Ice” game has been the subject of several other films, including the 2004 Kurt Russell film, Miracle.