December premieres on Sky Cinema

The biggest hits of 2025 are coming your way on Sky Cinema this festive season, when you’ll be able to watch Sinners, A Minecraft Movie and Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning on your tellybox. There’s also quirky comedy with The Phoenician Scheme and Friendship, and don’t miss the martial arts action in Karate Kid: Legends.

And of course, December means Christmas movies a-go-go! As well as the premieres of Sky Original movie Tinsel Town and The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, Sky Cinema has tons of festive films to keep you feeling Christmassy this month including Elf, Love Actually, Arthur Christmas, The Grinch and Scrooged, as well as more Sky Originals like Genie, A Boy Called Christmas and This Is Christmas. And don’t miss The Story Of… Classic Christmas Movies, starting on Thursday 4 December at 8pm on Sky Arts HD (CH 123).

With new premieres every week, there’s always a wide range of superb movie action to enjoy. And if you’ve been too busy over the past few months to keep up with all the new premieres on Sky Cinema, scroll down to see our round-up of all the latest titles available in On Demand.

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Available from Friday 28 November in Sky Cinema on demand. Cert 15

Classic horror meets classic sci-fi in this effective chiller inspired by the dark video game. After her sister goes missing, Clover (Ella Rubin, Anora) and her friends attempt to retrace her final steps to figure out what happened to her. Amid a downpour, the group are attacked at a tourist office and killed – but when they wake up to find they’re listed as missing persons, they realise something super-spooky is happening. Can they solve the mystery and survive until dawn? A fun ride that includes a typically eccentric cameo from Peter Stormare (Fargo, John Wick: Chapter 2).

Available from Saturday 29 November in Sky Cinema on demand. Cert PG

Based on the much-loved children’s book by US author Barbara Robinson, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever is the story of the Herdmans – six wayward siblings who snag the lead roles in their town’s festive celebrations. Grace (Judy Greer, Ant-Man), who’s directing the performance for the first time, is soon battling to control the errant youngsters while also dealing with locals who would prefer never to see the Herdmans again. If you think some people are about to learn the true meaning of Christmas, you’re almost certainly right, in this fun Yuletide movie that will bring joy to the whole family.

Available from Sunday 30 November in Sky Cinema on demand. Cert 15

Iris (Naomi Watts, The Impossible) is shaken when her friend and mentor Walter (Bill Murray, Lost In Translation) dies suddenly. But his legacy is life-changing for Iris in a very real way, because Walter has bequeathed her Apollo, his beloved Great Dane. This causes immediate practical problems – like keeping the furniture in one piece and receiving an eviction notice – but also more existential ones, with Apollo a constant reminder of Walter’s absence (not to mention his problematic choices). But as Iris begins to bond with Apollo, it helps her process grief and understand more about herself. Moving, heartwarming and occasionally chaotic.

Available from Friday 5 December in Sky Cinema on demand. Cert TBC

Hollywood star Brad Mac (Kiefer Sutherland, 24) is known for action movies but wants a new challenge, so he’s delighted when his agent sends him to do theatre in England. Just one problem: it’s not Shakespeare or the West End, but panto in the small town of Stoneford. Can Brad leave his ego at the stage door and bring the house down on opening night? This heartwarming Christmas movie co-stars Pitch Perfect’s Rebel Wilson alongside a host of familiar faces from the UK comedy scene (Jason Manford, Katherine Ryan, Asim Chaudhry and more) plus bonus Danny Dyer.

Available from Sunday 7 December in Sky Cinema on demand. Cert 15

What’s better than a gangster film starring Robert De Niro? A gangster film starring two Robert De Niros. In The Alto Knights, De Niro plays both Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, who were real-life crime bosses vying for control of New York in the 1950s. Former friends and associates who were driven apart by business, betrayals and a disastrous attempted hit, the two find themselves on a deadly collision course that will reshape the city and the Mafia forever. Scripted by GoodFellas writer Nicholas Pileggi, it’s a forceful and twisty thriller with De Niro as magnetic as ever.

Available from Friday 12 December in Sky Cinema on demand. Cert 12

When Li (Ben Wang) moves from Beijing to New York with his mother, she makes him promise to give up martial arts, which she blames for the death of his brother. But when Li falls victim to a bully, who happens to be a local karate champion, he recruits his great-uncle Mr Han (Jackie Chan) to train him – and Han in turn seeks help from Daniel Russo (Ralph Macchio). With plot echoes of the series’ first film, Karate Kid: Legends ties together the events of the earlier movies and the TV series Cobra Kai to produce a satisfying drama with exhilarating karate action.

Available from Sunday 14 December in Sky Cinema on demand. Cert 15

Wicked’s Bowen Yang stars in this comedy of errors, an update of the acclaimed 1993 film. Yang is Chris, happily living with his boyfriend Min (Han Gi-chan) until visa issues threaten their relationship. With Chris reluctant to commit to marriage, Min proposes a solution: he’ll marry their friend Angela (Kelly Marie Tran, Star Wars: The Last Jedi), get a green card, keep his family happy, and help out Angela and her partner Lee (Lily Gladstone, Killers Of The Flower Moon) with their IVF costs. Wins all round. But the path of fake love never did run smooth… Minari Oscar winner Youn Yuh-jung has a scene-stealing role as Min’s clued-up grandmother in this charming and perceptive movie.

Available from Friday 19 December in Sky Cinema on demand. Cert 12

After the events of Dead Reckoning, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his team are running out of time to stop the Entity, a rogue artificial intelligence that threatens to plunge the world into chaos. There’s nothing for it but to embark on another series of globe-spanning, mind-blowing, life-endangering action set pieces that will have you holding your breath for longer than you thought possible. Cruise and director Christopher McQuarrie do not disappoint in this final instalment of what’s been a truly epic movie series, with stars Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Hayley Atwell and Pom Klementieff all returning.

Available in December in Sky Cinema on demand. Cert 15

The director-star team of Ryan Coogler and Michael B Jordan (Creed, Black Panther) joined forces again to make this genre-bending 1930s-set film one of the biggest hits of 2025. Jordan plays twin brothers who return to their hometown to open a dance club, never suspecting it’s going to be overrun by vampires. As a supernatural musical period horror with a predominantly Black cast, Sinners is a true original. Also starring Wunmi Mosaku (Passenger), Delroy Lindo (Da 5 Bloods) and Hailee Steinfeld (Bumblebee).

Available in December in Sky Cinema on demand. Cert 15

In this huge hit movie based on the popular world-building video game, four misfits are pulled through a portal into the Overworld, a bizarre cubic wonderland where creativity is essential to survival. If they want to get back home, they’ll need to get building, fight off evil beings and complete a magical quest – and they have help from Steve (Jack Black, Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle), who’s been trapped in the Overworld for years and can help them master the skills they need. Jason Momoa (Aquaman), Emma Myers (Wednesday) and Danielle Brooks (The Color Purple) co-star in a colourful, exciting fantasy that will be loved by kids and big kids alike of all ages.

Available in December in Sky Cinema on demand. Cert 15

Benicio del Toro (One Battle After Another) and Mia Threapleton (I Am… Ruth) are an unlikely father-daughter duo in the latest film from ultra-quirky director Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel). Wily industrialist Zsa Zsa (Del Toro) is sick of constantly escaping assassination attempts and decides to hand over his business empire to estranged daughter Liesl (Threapleton) – who’s also a novice nun. Anderson’s work always attracts a full house of famous faces and Scarlett Johansson, Michael Cera, Tom Hanks, Bill Murray and Benedict Cumberbatch are among the stellar cast of this intricate and whimsical comedy.

Available in December in Sky Cinema on demand. Cert 15

Cult comedian Tim Robinson, creator of bizarro sketch show I Think You Should Leave and current hit The Chair Company, stars as Craig, a socially awkward man who unexpectedly hits it off with his laid-back neighbour Austin (Paul Rudd, Ghostbusters: Afterlife). After a couple of fun get-togethers, Craig thinks this new experience might help him overcome his problems – but what starts as friendship turns into something much darker. This offbeat study of insecurity has been described by critics as “stressful”, “hilarious”, “painful” and “the funniest film I’ve seen in my life”. A true one-off.

• The Woman In The Yard

• Christmas On Duty

• Thieves Highway

• A Newport Christmas

• My Dead Friend Zoe

• Mickey 17

• A Keller Christmas Vacation

• Three Wisest Men

• Drop

• Tidings For The Season

• Opus

• Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy

• Code 3

• It Feeds

• Grow 10th

• Presence

• The Stranger In My Home

• Black Bag

• Lake George

• Ick

• Dog Man

• Psycho/Therapy

• Y2K

• Companion

• Amongst The Wolves

• One Of Them Days

• Nosferatu

• Die Alone

• Spin The Bottle

• Wolf Man

• Love Hurts

• Wish You Were Here

• Novocaine

• Panda Plan

• Juliet & Romeo

• Novocaine

• Panda Plan

• Juliet & Romeo

• Long Gone Heroes

• The Thicket

• The Room Next Door

• September 5

• Sonic The Hedgehog 3

• Gator Creek

• Heart Eyes

• Saturday Night

• The Mountain

• The Surfer

• Into The Wonderwoods

• Night Call

• The Lord Of The Rings: War Of The Rohirrim

• Restless

• The Prosecutor

• William Tell

• Strange Darling

• I Don’t Understand You

• Wicked

• Sew Torn

• Running On Empty

• Juror #2

• Sacramento

• Buffalo Kids

• Kraven The Hunter

• Rumours

• The Sloth Lane

• A Nice Indian Boy

• Venom: The Last Dance

• Your Monster

• Exhibiting Forgiveness

• Anora

• Luckiest Man In America

• Home Delivery

• Joker: Folie À Deux

• Piece By Piece

• Salem’s Lot

• Gladiator II

• Sharp Corner

• Empire Waist

• Cleaner

• Omni Loop

• The Damned

• Speak No Evil

• Mob Cops

• Rebellious

• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

• Bookworm

• Poison

• The Wild Robot

• A Different Man

• Escape From The 21st Century

• Old Guy

• The Front Room

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