Stranger Things 5, Baahubali & More: Top OTT Releases This Week
Looking for what to watch this week? Discover the top OTT movies and shows on Netflix, ZEE5 & JioHotstar, from thrillers to family dramas.
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The last week of December 2025 marks the beginning of a new year full of releases on the major OTT platforms such as Netflix, ZEE5, and JioHotstar, and it is going to be a delightful time for the viewers with a rush of high-octane thrillers as well as family dramas in the streaming area during the Christmas holidays.
Netflix Highlights
Stranger Things 5 (Part II) – December 26, 2025
The ultimate episodes of the world-famous sci-fi series are released. The Hawkins trio of Eleven and kids has a final showdown with Vecna in an epic 3.5-hour trilogy. Indian audiences can begin watching it from 6:30 am IST.
Baahubali – The Epic – December 25, 2025
SS Rajamouli’s legendary two-part saga is now re-edited into a single super film of 3 hours and 43 minutes which can be watched non-stop. The smooth version unites The Beginning and The Conclusion, allowing the audience to witness the paths of Amarendra and Mahendra Baahubali in one go.
Revolver Rita – December 26, 2025
Keerthy Suresh plays the lead role in this Tamil action-comedy. Rita is a brave little girl who faces the gang war endangering her family and demonstrates her great courage and intelligence. The movie is accessible in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam.
Ullozhukku (Undercurrent) – December 26, 2025
In this National Award-winning Malayalam film, Urvashi and Parvathy Thiruvothu star as the lead characters. It portrays a mother-in-law-daughter-in-law conflict relationship during the mourning period which is filled with family secrets and emotional tensions.
Andhra King Taluka – December 25, 2025
Ram Pothineni and Bhagyashri Borse play the lead roles in this Telugu drama that tells the story of a faded actor who is trying to reclaim his place in the industry with the help of a die-hard fan.
Paradise (Malayalam) – December 24, 2025
The film, directed by Prasanna Vithanage and produced by Mani Ratnam, showcases the journey of a marriage from crisis to the couple’s anniversary trip to Sri Lanka amid the chaos of the society they come from.
Cover-Up – December 26, 2025
A documentary on the life of the famous investigative reporter, Seymour Hersh. It involves his unmasking of various high-level global scandals played out through personal notes and archived documents.
Ricky Gervais: Mortality – December 30, 2025
The latest stand-up special of the comedian shoots at the London Palladium and revolves around life, death, and society with dark humor and confessional honesty besides touching the latter.
Goodbye June – December 24, 2025
Kate Winslet makes her directorial debut with a warm family drama that stars Helen Mirren, Toni Collette, and Timothy Spall. The plot is about siblings coming together when a mother is diagnosed with terminal illness.
Cashero – December 26, 2025
A mixture of a superhero tale from Korea, where the character of Lee Junho receives superpowers in accordance with the money he has. The whole genre of action comedies gets a new twist with satire.
ZEE5 Releases
Ek Deewane Ki Deewaniyat – December 26, 2025
The lovesick thriller stars Harshvardhan Rane and Sonam Bajwa. The story of a politician’s son obsessed with a film star leads to the gradual unfolding of the nuances of obsession and power games.
Middle Class (Tamil) – December 24, 2025
The plot of a family comedy about Karl Marx, an ordinary man wishing to live a quiet and peaceful life farming. Chaos, humor, and middle-class battles merge in this very relatable story.
JioHotstar Releases
The Copenhagen Test – December 28, 2025
This sci-fi and spy thriller stars Simu Liu. As intelligence analyst Alexander Hale is piecing together a global conspiracy, the line between reality and simulation keeps getting blurrier in this thrilling and high-stakes intrigue of espionage.
