Best new movies and TV series on Amazon Prime Video UK: December 2021

Each month, new films and TV shows are added to Amazon Prime Video‘s UK library. Eliza Janssen presents her picks for titles worth watching. For the full list of everything arriving on the platform, scroll down.

Top picks

The Expanse: Season 6 (December 10)

This well-regarded sci-fi series is on its last trip around the galaxy: the Free Navy are in the midst of all-out war, Earth and Mars are getting bashed by asteroids, and “a new power begins to rise” beyond the Rings. Who’ll live long and prosper beyond the series’ finale, and who will cark it in these last six episodes?

The Expanse has some fresh competition in the luxe space-travel TV sphere with Apple TV+ presenting both Foundation and Invasion in the past couple of months. But fans of thoughtful galactic telly will have high hopes for the show’s conclusion: there aren’t many programs that are so fleshed-out and, well, expansive.

Encounter (December 10)

Riz Ahmed will do anything to protect his kids in this emotional sci-fi feature. Is he capable? Sure, he’s a grizzled military vet with a survival plan in mind. Is he hot? Yes, I would love to Encounter him if ya know what I mean. But is he right?

The question at the centre of the boys’ journey is whether or not dad is delusional about the impending, mysterious threat he’s been prepping for. Like Take Shelter, the resulting chaos and uncertainty should lead to to some stirring moments for the Oscar-nominated actor and his kids, as they get hunted to the ends of the earth by shadowy government forces.

Being The Ricardos (December 21)

No disrespect to Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem, who I’m sure will do great impressions here of Hollywood power couple Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. But Being The Ricardos is most alluring as a self-reflexive story of TV’s past and future: a big, flashy, red-headed thermometer, stuck down the throat of the medium to see just where we’re at.

We’ll switch between black-and-white reconstructions of I Love Lucy’s greatest moments, and colourful behind-the-scenes arguments in writer-director Aaron Sorkin’s dizzying trademark style. Desilu Studios made its fortune back when there were live, laughing studio audiences and three TV channels: now, their mythic story is retold for the streaming era, on one of the hundreds of platforms bawling like Lucy for our attention.

All titles arriving on Prime Video UK in December

December 1

A Discovery of Witches – Season 1A
House Divided: Season 1
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Adam Sandler’s Eight Crazy Nights
Alex Cross
All Is Lost
Alpha & Omega: Journey to Bear Kingdom
Alpha & Omega: The Big Fureeze
American Assassin
Annie
Believe
Beowulf
Bewitched: Season 3
Bonanza : Season 1
Brad Meltzer’s Decoded: Season 1
Bridget Jones’s Baby
Charlie Wilson’s War
Chef
Christmas Everlasting
Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who!
Dr. Seuss’ The Cat In The Hat
Edward Scissorhands
Ender’s Game
End Of Days
Ernest Saves Christmas
Funny People
Galaxy Quest
Guess Who
Hallmark Drama’s Christmas Cookie Matchup: Season 1
Halloween II
Halloween III: Season Of The Witch
Hostages: Season 1
Jennifer’s Body
John Tucker Must Die
Lawrence of Arabia
Letters to Juliet
Little Miss Sunshine
Little Women
Marmaduke
Masterminds
Maverick
Megamind
Mistletoe Mixup
Mr. Deeds
Mr. Popper’s Penguins
My Crazy Ex: Season 1
Nacho Libre
Norm of the North
Norm of the North: Family Vacation
Norm of the North: Keys to the Kingdom
Norm of the North: King Sized Adventure
Our Family Wedding
Phat Girlz
Pineapple Express
Pineapple Express (Unrated)
RED 2
Roadkill: Season 1Ronin
Sanford: Seasons 1-2
Sanford And Son: Seasons 1-6
Santa Who?
Selma
Seraphim Falls
Signed, Sealed, Delivered for Christmas
Silent Witness: Seasons 1-2
Sleepless In Seattle
Soul Surfer
Taken
Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby
That’s My Boy
The Gulf: Season 1
The Great Outdoors
The Hunt For Red October
The Jackal
The Jeffersons: Seasons 1-11
The Joy Luck Club
The Last Song
The Perfect Wedding Match
The Prestige
The Proposal
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Secret Life of Bees
The Thin Red Line
The Tom & Jerry Show: Season 1
The Usual Suspects
The Vow
The Waterboy
Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys
Under The Tuscan Sun
Walking with Dinosaurs
What Happens in Vegas
What’s Love Got To Do With It
When Calls the Heart: Home for Christmas: Season 7
White As Snow

December 3

Joe Bell
Harlem: Season 1
Alex Rider: Season 2
We Are X

December 5

A Lot Like Christmas

December 8

FC Bayern: Behind the Legend: Season 1
Triple 9

December 9

The Ferragnez: Season 1

December 10

Child’s Play
Encounter
LOL: Last One Laughing Mexico: Season 3
Play-Doh Squished Holiday Special
The Expanse: Season 6

December 12

The Christmas Star

December 16

Theory of Everything

December 17

Boxing Day
Christmas Is Cancelled
Top Class: The Life and Times of the Sierra Canyon Trailblazers: Season 2
With Love: Season 1

December 18

When Hope Calls Christmas

December 19

Joy for Christmas

December 20

Who Do You Think I Am

December 21

Being the Ricardos

December 23

Yearly Departed

December 31

Escape Plan
Lady of the Manor
Time Is Up