January 2021 Netflix Movies & TV Shows Schedule (United States)

1. The Minimalists: Less Is Now

Release Date: January 1, 2021

Documentary

Cast: Joshua Fields Millburn, Ryan Nicodemus, Dave Ramsey

The title of the film was influenced by the famous term “Less is more,” popularized by the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969), who used this aphorism to characterize his architectural aesthetic; his technique was to organize the building’s required components to produce an appearance of intense simplicity. To build a sense of urgency for today’s consumer culture, the Minimalists have reworked this sentence: now is the time for less.

2. Headspace Guide to Meditation

Release Date: January 1, 2021

Series

Cast: Andy Puddicombe

With the latest original Netflix series Headspace Guide to Meditation, take a deep breath and launch the new year by being kind to your mind. Andy Puddicombe, retired Buddhist monk and co-founder of the internationally beloved Headspace meditation app, guides audiences through the advantages and research behind meditation over the course of eight animated series. Each episode is 20 minutes long.

3. Asphalt Burning

Release Date: January 1, 2021

Movie

Cast: Ruby O. Fee, Alexandra Maria Lara, Kostja Ullmann

Roy takes an invitation from a new adversary to race for his runaway bride at the legendary Nürburgring circuit in Germany as the brakes slam on his wedding. At a breakneck pace and in tuned cars it goes from the Trollstigen mountain road in Norway via Sweden and Denmark to the Nürburgring in Germany – where Roy (Anders Baasmo Christiansen) has to win a race or lose his fiancée Sylvia (Jenny Skavlan).

4. Surviving Death

Release Date: January 6, 2021

Series

Based on best-selling author and journalist Leslie Kean’s book, Surviving Death is an in-depth investigative series exploring the possibility of an afterlife. Over 6 episodes, Surviving Death explores questions that have been contemplated throughout time: What does it mean to die, and is death the end of our existence?

5. Pieces of a Woman

Release Date: January 7, 2021

Movie

Cast: Vanessa Kirby, Shia LaBeouf, Ellen Burstyn

When the home birth of a young mother ends in an inscrutable tragedy, in this intensely personal tale of a woman struggling to survive alongside her grief, she starts a year-long odyssey of grieving that breaks relationships with loved ones.

6. Stuck Apart

Release Date: January 8, 2021

Movie

Cast: Engin Gunaydın, Haluk Bilginer, Binnur Kaya, Oner Erkan, Fatih Artman, Irem Sak.

Azizler portrays Aziz’s story, after searching for his childhood, going through an existential crisis, he is not content with his job or his private life, which is also hijacked by his sister and her family who have lived with him for some time now. His friendship is still not in the best condition with his partner after 4 years and he has the need to leave it too! He needs his long-gone freedom back and he will eventually come upon an opening to save himself from the blackhole he’s stuck in when he least expects it. He knows, though, that this makes him a serial liar to a point where there’s no going back.

7. Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy

Release Date: January 11, 2021

Documentary

The crack epidemic ripped into America’s inner cities like a hurricane in the early 1980s, ravaging all in its midst. The devastating effects on the lives, homes and cultures of people are now intensely felt decades later. Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy investigates not only the drug-induced personal destruction, but also the shadowy roots of the epidemic and the subsequent continuing marginalization of Black and Brown communities trapped by the U.S. prison and health systems.

8. Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer

Release Date: January 13, 2021

Documentary

Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer, the Netflix short documentary film, tells the spellbinding true tale of how one of American history’s most infamous serial murderers was tracked down and brought to justice. A record-breaking heatwave struck Los Angeles in the sweltering summer of 1985, along with a string of murders and sexual attacks that appeared unconnected at first. Men, women and kids were the casualties. They aged from six to 82 in age. They hailed from diverse communities, social classes and ethnic backgrounds. Never before had a lone murderer been blamed for such a grisly series of murders in criminal history. A teenage detective named Gil Carrillo from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and the famed murder investigator Frank Salerno were working against the clock to combat this nocturnal beast. The media hounded their footprints as they tried relentlessly to settle the case, and panic gripped California.

9. Outside the Wire

Release Date: January 15, 2021

Movie

Cast: Anthony Mackie, Pilou Asbæk, Emily Beecham

Set in the future, a drone pilot, Harp (Damson Idris), is sent to a dangerous militarized region where he finds himself working for an Android soldier, Leo (Anthony Mackie), charged with finding a doomsday gadget before the insurgents do so.

10. Disenchantment

Release Date: January 15, 2021

Series

Cast: Abbi Jacobson (“Bean”), Eric Andre (“Luci”) and Nat Faxon (“Elfo”)

Disenchantment, the adult animated comedy fantasy series which follows the medieval misadventures of hard-drinking young Princess Bean, her feisty elf companion Elfo and her personal demon Luci, comes from Matt Groening’s mind. The oddball trio meets ogres, mermaids, walruses, and tons of human fools all along the way, thus uncovering Dreamland’s deeper mystery. In Disenchantment Part 3, the suspense is building as Bean begins to develop into her strength and own her destiny. When the brave friends set off to explore new places, they may just find that no place like home ever exists.

11. The White Tiger

Release Date: January 22, 2021

Movie

Cast: Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Rajkumar Rao, Adarsh Gourav

In modern India, Balram Halwai tells of his epic and darkly humorous rise from poor peasants to wealthy entrepreneurs. Our young hero jockeys his way into becoming a driver for Ashok and Pinky, who have just returned from America, cunning and ambitious. Balram has been educated by society to be one thing, a servant, so he makes himself important to his rich masters. But he knows, after a night of betrayal, the corrupt depths they’re going to go to trap him and save themselves. Balram fights against a rigged and unjust society on the brink of losing it to rise up and become a different kind of master. Centered on the bestseller and 2008 Man Booker Prize-winning novel by the New York Times.

12. 50M2

Release Date: January 27, 2021

Series

Cast: Engin Ozturk

It is easy to have a second chance, but making use of it is tougher than one feels. Gölge is doing Servet Nadir’s dirty job, as he is raised by. He, who has no memory of his youth, pursues a photograph linking him to his past. Escaping the mysteries of Servet Nadir, Gölge takes shelter in a 50-square-meter tailor shop in the Güzelce neighborhood. Neighborhood residents claim that he is Adem, the son of Adil, the tailor who died only recently. No matter how complicated the neighborhood is, Gölge will change the neighborhood and Gölge will change the neighborhood.

13. Penguin Bloom

Release Date: January 27, 2021

Movie

Cast: Naomi Watts, Andrew Lincoln, Jacki Weaver

Samantha Bloom (two-time Academy Award winner Naomi Watts), her husband Cameron (Andrew Lincoln of The Walking Dead) and their three sons left their home in Australia for Thailand for a holiday in 2013. Sam dropped off a rooftop while enjoying a view due to what was eventually found to be a rotted fence… fracturing her vertebrae in two places. Paralyzed from the shoulders down, Sam was unrecognizable to herself, a former outdoor lady, surfer, and adventurer, and spent long months in a depression that made her wonder how she might be in the world and in her own family. Her kids took home a wounded infant magpie they discovered a year back. “Sam bonded with the new member of the household, beginning a process of emotional healing that surprised her husband and sons, her mother (Academy Award nominee Jacki Weaver), and herself, warily eyeing the black-and-white bird the children affectionately named “Penguin, PENGUIN BLOOM tells the extraordinary true renewal tale that happened when a woman whose world was broken finds joy and meaning in the love of her family and on her own path of redemption in a pigeon.

14. We Are: The Brooklyn Saints

Release Date: January 29, 2021

Documentary

We Are The Brooklyn Saints, a four-part documentary series following a youth football initiative in the heart of downtown East NY, Brooklyn, comes from Emmy-award winning director Rudy Valdez (The Sentence), Visualize Documentaries, and Disarming Films. The Brooklyn Saints program is more than a sport, it’s a home, and a vehicle for opportunity, targeted towards boys 7-13 years old. The series immerses viewers into the world of Brooklyn Saints football and its culture through intimate verité video, chronicling the personal experiences of the motivated young players, as well as the support circle of coaches and parents standing behind them. We witness the Saints’ strength on and off the field over the course of a season, as they rejoice wins and overcome defeats, both personal and sporting. Raw and authentic, as the boys work to push themselves to a better future, the stresses of puberty unfold in real time.

15. Finding Ohana

Release Date: January 29, 2021

Movie

Cast: Kea Peahu, Alex Aiono, Lindsay Watson, Owen Vaccaro

For two Brooklyn-raised siblings, a summer in rural O’ahu takes a thrilling turn when a journal pointing to a long-lost wonder sends them on an epic journey with new friends, bringing them to reconnect with their Hawaiian roots.

16. Cobra Kai — Season 3

Release Date: January 1, 2021*

Series

Cast: Mary Mouser, William Zabka, Tanner Buchanan 

Cobra Kai takes place 30 years after the 1984 All Valley Karate Competition, where, without the help of Mr. Miyagi, a now-successful Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) tries to retain equilibrium in his life, and must confront his former foe, down-and-out Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka), who finds revenge by reopening the infamous Cobra Kai karate dojo.