NETFLIX is to axe dozens of fan favourite films and shows within DAYS.
Here’s your round up of every movie and TV show leaving Netflix UK in December 2025 – all 42 of them.
The streaming giant’s hit list includes two movies from superstar Brad Pitt – and two blockbuster spy films starring Hollywood legend Tom Cruise.
Two of the Mission: Impossible releases will disappear from the streaming service in December.
Mission: Impossible, released in 1996, and Mission: Impossible 2, released four years later, will no longer be available after December 1.
It is part of the streaming giant’s regular revamp of its offering, clearing the way for new shows to be added.
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Some movie critics believe the MI franchise has saved cinema – with The Sun’s Dulcie Pearce raving about Tom Cruise character Ethan Clarke.
Reviewing the seventh outing of Mission Impossible in 2023, Dulcie wrote: “After the success of the superb Top Gun: Maverick, that finally got bums in cinema seats after lockdown, Cruise has hit the ground running – and jumping/flying/driving/train hopping – again with this action-packed ride.”
Also being culled before Christmas is World War Z, which stars Brad Pitt as former UN investigator Gerry Lane.
Lane and his family get stuck in urban gridlock – and discover it’s no ordinary traffic jam after the city erupts into chaos, with Pitt’s character tasked with finding the source of a lethal pandemic that is threatening to kill off humanity.
The film was well received when it was first released in cinemas in 2013, receiving a respectable 67% on movie website Rotten Tomatoes.
Fans still have a bit of time to watch World War Z, which ends its Netflix run on December 6.
Also being removed from Netflix is Mr & Mrs Smith, which stars Pitt and Angelina Jolie as a bored upper middle-class married couple, who are surprised to learn that they are assassins.
Other favourites on the Netflix chopping block ahead of Christmas include scary movie The Offering, released in 2022.
It received rave reviews on its release, with critics praising it for its “genuinely scary spin on demonic possession horror tropes”.
The Offering can be watched on Netflix until December 1.
It’s not only films that are being axed though.
Kids favourites such as Adventures of Puss in Boots (1 Season) is being axed after December 1 with three of the Thomas & Friends Thomas the Tank Engine spin-offs also being removed.
These include Thomas & Friends: Digs & Discoveries: All Tracks Lead to Rome (2019); Thomas & Friends: Digs & Discoveries: Mines of Mystery (2019); and Thomas & Friends: Steam Team to the Rescue (2019).
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All three Thomas spin-offs will disappear after December 1.
You can see the full list of axed films and shows in the box below.
All 42 films and shows being axed on Netflix in December
December 1, 2025
24 Hours in Waitrose (2023)
Adventures of Puss in Boots (1 Season)
The Blue Lagoon (1980)
Dangerous (2022)
Devil’s Workshop (2022)
Equity (2016)
Farha (2021)
Filth (2013)
Grandma (2015)
Half Past Dead (2002)
I Spy (2002)
Kantaro: The Sweet Tooth Salaryman (2017)
Love in Taipei (2023)
The Missing (2003)
Mission: Impossible (1996)
Mission: Impossible 2 (2000)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)
The Offering (2022)
Pru (2021)
Revolver (2005)
Snowpiercer (2013)
Thomas & Friends: Digs & Discoveries: All Tracks Lead to Rome (2019)
Thomas & Friends: Digs & Discoveries: Mines of Mystery (2019)
Thomas & Friends: Steam Team to the Rescue (2019)
Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas (2013)
Welcome to the Jungle (2003)
December 2, 2025
Black Is The New Black (2016)
Fierce (2020)
Kantaro: The Sweeth Tooth Salaryman (2017)
The Pembrokeshire Murders (1 Season)
Veve (2014)
The Walk-In (1 Season)
Wolf (1 Season)
December 3, 2025
Check the Store Next Door: The Next Chapter (2020)
The Coyotes (2021)
December 4, 2025
Dreams Drawn by Dust (2022)
December 5, 2025
The Ruins (2008)
December 6, 2025
World War Z (2013)
December 8, 2025
American Made (2017)
André & his Olive Tree (2020)
Blood Line (2020)
The Master Plan (2020)
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