New on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video & Co.: The Streaming Starts from December 16 to 29
Film and series fans take note: These are the film and series premieres from December 16th to 29th on Netflix, Sky, Amazon Prime Video, and Paramount+.
Streaming Starts on Netflix
THE SIX TRIPLE EIGHT (DECEMBER 20)
Feature film
127 min
USA 2024
Director: Tyler Perry
With: Kerry Washington, Ebony Obsidian, Oprah Winfrey, Sam Waterston,
Susan Sarandon
www.netflix.com/at/title/81590591 (with trailer)
Filmmaker Tyler Perry tells in "The Six Triple Eight" about an aspect of the Second World War that has so far been little illuminated. The focus is on the titular combat unit of the US Army, the then only battalion consisting of African American women with more than 800 soldiers. At a time when open racism and sexism were the order of the day, they were determined to serve their country. And so the women went to Europe, where literally mountains of mail awaited them, which had to be distributed to maintain the morale of the American troops.
FERRY 2 (DECEMBER 20)
Feature film
94 min
NL/B 2024
Director: Wannes Destoop
With: Frank Lammers, Aiko Beemsterboer, Huub Stapel, Huub Smit, Monic
Hendrickx
www.netflix.com/at/title/81674409 (with trailer)
Everything could have been so beautiful: Ferry has finished with his gangster life and said goodbye to Brabant. But even a leisurely Santa Claus can't shake off his dark past so easily. And so it happens as it must: A familiar face shows up at Ferry's, which means: Drugs, lies, and violence return to his life. This time Wannes Destoop took the director's chair to put the second part of the gangster story with Frank Lammers in the title role in the right light.
SQUID GAME (DECEMBER 26)
Series (Season 2 / 7 Episodes)
South Korea 2024
Director: Hwang Dong-hyuk
Starring: Lee Jung-jae, Yim Si-wan, Park Gyu-young, Lee Jin-uk, Park
Sung-hoon
www.netflix.com/at/title/81040344 (with trailer)
The game is on again: With the second season of "Squid Game", Netflix continues its most successful series to date. In the South Korean production, hundreds of people must survive several games that are as cunning as they are deadly to get to the big money. What some might consider fun quickly becomes deadly serious. In the middle of it all: Number 456, who has already survived the game. Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) still agrees to another round, trying to free his fellow players from the terror of the "Squid Game". Above all, however, he wants to take revenge on the masterminds. But this will be no easy task.
MAESTRO IN BLUE (DECEMBER 28)
Series Finale (Season 3 / 4 Episodes)
Approx. 50 min/Episode
GR 2024
Director: Christoforos Papakaliati
Starring: Christoforos Papakaliatis, Haris Alexiou, Maria Kavoyianni,
Marisha Triantafyllidou, Fanis Mouratidis
www.netflix.com/at/title/81644787 (with trailer)
On the surface, it may seem idyllic on the small Greek island where musician Orestis (also responsible for directing: Christoforos Papakaliatis) ends up to organize a music festival. But of course, beneath this surface lurk some deep-seated secrets that bring plenty of conflict potential. With Season 3, the first Greek Netflix series "Maestro in Blue" comes to its finale, which directly ties into the traumatizing events of the previous episodes. And so, romantic entanglements meet tension-filled crime passages.
Streaming Starts on Disney+
BLINK - EVERY MOMENT COUNTS (DECEMBER 17)
Documentary
87 min
USA 2024
Directors: Daniel Roher, Edmund Stenson
https://films.nationalgeographic.com/blink (with trailer)
The Pelletiers are essentially a happy family. However, one that is overshadowed by a dark cloud when the parents learn that three of their four children will soon lose their sight due to Retinitis pigmentosa. The six-member group promptly decides to go on a world tour to experience the beauties of the world together before the children go blind. They offer the children's visual memory the wonders of the planet. Accompanying the family on this journey were directors Daniel Roher and Edmund Stenson, who created a touching documentary from it.
ENGLISH TEACHER (DECEMBER 18)
Series (Season 1 / 8 Episodes)
22-24 min/Episode
USA 2024
Directors: Jonathan Krisel, Brian Jordan Alvarez, Kathryn Dean
Starring: Brian Jordan Alvarez, Stephanie Koenig, Enrico Colantoni, Sean
Patton, Carmen Christopher
Trailer: www.youtube.com
www.disneyplus.com/de-at
Things are not going well for Evan Marquez (Brian Jordan Alvarez) at the moment. The English teacher recently separated from his partner Malcolm (Jordan Firstman). He is also under the scrutiny of the school authorities, having given Malcolm a kiss in front of students. It doesn't help that he finds the new teacher Harry (Langston Kerman) extremely attractive - according to the statutes, he is not allowed to flirt with a colleague. And he certainly doesn't want to become a gay icon at the high school in Texas, even if some would like to make him one.
Streaming Starts on Canal+
OF MONEY AND BLOOD (26TH DECEMBER)
Miniseries (12 episodes)
47-58 min/episode
F 2023
Directed by: Xavier Giannoli, Frédéric Planchon
Starring: Vincent Lindon, Niels Schneider, Ramzy Bedia, David Ayala, Olga
Kurylenko
Trailer: www.youtube.com
Even though it is less known in the German-speaking cultural area, it was one of the biggest financial scandals in Europe that took place in 2008 and 2009. The two petty criminals Alain Fitoussi (Ramzy Bedia) and Bouli (David Ayala) and the stockbroker Jerome Attias (Niels Schneider) manipulated the new tool of the EU-initiated emissions trading in such a way that it resulted in a billion-dollar fraud. However, the investigators around Simon Weynachter (Vincent Lindon) are soon on the trio's trail. The director duo Xavier Giannoli and Frédéric Planchon have created an exciting miniseries from the book "Of Money And Blood" by investigative journalist Fabrice Arfi, which leads around the globe.
Streaming Starts on Netflix Paramount+
QUEEN WOO (23RD DECEMBER)
Series (Season 1 / 8 episodes)
Approx. 50 min/episode
South Korea 2024
Directed by: Jung Se-kyo
Starring: Jeon Jong-seo, Kim Mu-yeol, Ji Chang-wook, Jung Yoo-mi, Lee
Soo-hyuk
https://watch.cjenm.com/broadcast/sub/view?contentsId=B120242887
(with trailer)
When King Gogukcheon of Goguryeo dies, a bitter power struggle erupts among the tribes of the kingdom. The newly widowed Queen Woo (Jeon Jong-seo) tries to determine the new king within a day by entering into a levirate marriage with one of her deceased husband's younger brothers. But the five rival tribes resist her. In the end, Woo will have been the only woman in Korean history to have been named queen twice.
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