New year, new recommendations. We come with an impressive avalanche of recommendations for you to start the year audiovisually. All platforms, all genres and all tastes. Don’t let 2026 catch you at a different pace, here are our proposals of all kinds for the month of January.
him and her
Promising six-episode psychological thriller starring Tessa Thompson (who also serves as executive producer) and Jon Bernthal, which follows a former news anchor who returns to her hometown to cover a crime. A detective suspects her involvement, pursuing her until he places her at the center of his own investigation. The twist: they were married, and they both knew the victim. A story full of twists and surprises that has a most attractive cast.
- On Netflix from January 8
Agatha Christie: The Seven Spheres
He whodunit is, without a doubt, in fashion: the success of ‘Daggers in the Back’ or ‘Only Murders in the Building’ corroborate this, so Netflix has decided to resort to the sourdough of all this: three episodes based on one of Agatha Christie’s least adapted works. In a luxurious rural mansion, a high society party turns into tragedy when a practical joke against a known sleepyhead who is given eight alarm clocks set for 6:30 in the morning triggers a murder. In the cast, Mia McKenna Bruce, Helena Bonham Carter and Martin Freeman. Behind the scenes, Chris Chibnall, creator of ‘Broadchurch’, produces and writes. It includes scenarios filmed in Ronda, with the Real Maestranza bullring, the Puente Nuevo and the Palace of the Moro King.
- On Netflix from January 15
The loot
Police thriller directed and written by Joe Carnahan (‘White Hell’, ‘The A-Team’), which reunites Matt Damon and Ben Affleck as protagonists and represents the first collaboration between Netflix and Artists Equity, the production company founded by the two actors. Inspired by true events, it follows a group of Miami agents who during a raid discover $20 million hidden in an abandoned safe house. The discovery unleashes a spiral of mistrust, ambition and moral dilemmas. Carnahan talks about the film as an homage to classic seventies crime thrillers like ‘Serpico’. Firm candidate to be one of Netflix’s first hits by early 2026.
- On Netflix from January 16
The Bridgertons – S4
New season of the hit series romantic, this time based on the third novel by Julia Quinn, which focuses on Benedict Bridgerton, the second and bohemian son of the family, and who has resisted marital conventions while his brothers have found marital happiness. It will premiere divided into two parts: Part 1 arrives on January 29 with four episodes and Part 2 on February 26 with the remaining four. The season promises a visual tone inspired by fairy tales, with an emphasis on the masked ball as a dream setting, and combining romance, secret identities, class tensions and the classic visual elegance of ‘The Bridgertons’.
- On Netflix from January 29
Beauty
Science fiction and body horror at the hands of Ryan Murphy, with two FBI agents sent to Paris to investigate the mysterious and grotesque deaths of international supermodels in the world of haute couture. His research reveals the existence of a sexually transmitted virus that gives physical perfection to ordinary people, but with lethal consequences. The trail leads directly to a tech billionaire who has secretly designed a miracle drug. A reflection on the cult of the physical, in a film where performers like Isabella Rossellini stand out in a role that dialogues with her witch from ‘Death suits you so well’.
- On Disney+ from January 21
wonder man
A bit of cover (and with a format binge watchingas already proven with ‘Echo’) the new Marvel series arrives at the end of January. With a meta point and some humor, it tells the story of Hollywood actor Simon Williams, who is trying to get his career off the ground. After a chance meeting with another actor, Trevor Slattery (Ben Kingsley, the fake Mandarin from ‘Iron Man 3’), Simon discovers that a remake of ‘Wonder Man’, a classic superhero film, is being prepared. The two actors, at opposite ends of their careers, will try to get a role. Developed by Destin Daniel Cretton, director of ‘Shang-Chi’, it is the first live-action project of Phase 6 in 2026.
- On Disney+ from January 27
The Death of Bunny Munro
Six-episode British miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Nick Cave published in 2009. Matt Smith plays a sex-addicted beauty product salesman who, after the suicide of his wife, embarks on a chaotic road trip through the south of England with his nine-year-old son while a serial killer disguised as a demon stalks the area. A dark comedy about toxic masculinity and grief where Smith’s performance and his commitment to a repulsive character stand out.
- On Showtime starting January 30
The Demolition Brothers
Action comedy directed by Ángel Manuel Soto (‘Blue Beetle’) that brings together two Hollywood action heavyweights: Jason Momoa and Dave Bautista. The film features two estranged half-brothers, an impulsive police officer and a disciplined Marine, forced to reunite after the mysterious death of their father in Hawaii. What begins as a family reunion quickly turns into a dangerous investigation. Explosive action, characteristic humor of its heroes and setting in the exotic streets of Hawaii.
- On Prime Video from January 28
crazy old woman
Psychological horror that marks the directorial debut of Argentine screenwriter Martín Mauregui. Produced by JA Bayona, it stars Carmen Maura in one of the darkest and most disturbing roles of her career, and in it we will meet a boy who receives a message from an ex-girlfriend asking him to temporarily take care of her mother, who has senile dementia. What seems like a simple act of compassion quickly transforms into a claustrophobic nightmare that addresses, according to Bayona, how violence is transmitted from one generation to another.
- On Prime Video from January 14
The Pitt – T2
Nine months after the end of its acclaimed first season, ‘The Pitt’ returns, fulfilling the promise of an annual installment. The medical series became one of the big revelations of 2025 and won five Emmy awards, and returns with 15 episodes that will air weekly until April. This second season maintains the real-time format, this time taking us to the July 4th holiday, with a time jump of approximately 10 months from the events that closed the first season. Noah Wyle returns as Dr Robby Robinavitch, who contemplates taking a few days off to recover psychologically and emotionally, but before leaving the hospital’s computer system crashes.
- On HBO Max from January 9
Primal – T3
The acclaimed animated series for adults created and directed by Genndy Tartakovsky (‘Samurai Jack’, ‘Hotel Transylvania’), winner of five Emmy Awards, returns with a bold continuation that challenges narrative conventions: after Spear’s definitive sacrifice in the final confrontation of the second season, the new installment begins with a shocking twist that resurrects the protagonist, stripping him of his memory and humanity, making him wander the world as a zombie. Tartakovsky’s decision to kill the main character and resurrect him transformed is not what you would expect, but it shows that ‘Primal’ is determined not to take anything for granted.
- On HBO Max from January 12
The Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
Prequel to the ‘Game of Thrones’ universe based on the short novels of the cycle ‘The Tales of Dunk and Egg’, set a century before the events of the main series and 72 years after ‘The House of the Dragon’. We are set in a time where the Targaryens still rule the Iron Throne but the dragons are now just a distant memory. We will follow the adventures of Ser Duncan the Tall, a wandering knight of humble origins but noble heart, and his little squire Egg, who is actually Prince Aegon Targaryen, future Aegon V, hidden under a false identity. A story with a different tone than usual in the franchise, less hopeless and with room for humor and traditional adventure.
- On HBO Max from January 19
Nibelungs: the war of the kingdoms
Ambitious six-episode European medieval fantasy miniseries based on The Song of the Nibelungsone of the most influential medieval epic poems in the Germanic tradition and a fundamental source of inspiration for Tolkien. With a budget of more than 45 million euros, it is one of the most expensive fantasy productions ever made in Europe and centers on a loyal soldier and Lord Commander of the kingdom of Burgundy whose world is shaken after the death of the monarch, simultaneously facing the threat of invasion from the Huns, pressure from the Romans and the arrival of the enigmatic Siegfried, the legendary dragon slayer.
- On Movistar Plus+ since January 2
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