How to Train Your Dragon, Karate Kid leave Netflix in December

Netflix’s U.S. December purge takes the live-action How to Train Your Dragon on Dec. 10, and a Christmas movie, Holiday in Santa Fe, leaves on Dec. 1, right as the holidays start.

Netflix is clearing shelves for the holidays. The live-action How to Train Your Dragon (2025) leaves Netflix in the U.S. on Dec. 10, and four Karate Kid movies go on Dec. 1, according to What’s on Netflix’s December list, posted Wednesday.

The list also takes Jurassic World Rebirth on Dec. 28 and a Christmas movie, Holiday in Santa Fe, on Dec. 1. Yes, Netflix is removing a Christmas movie on the first day of December.

For grown-up binge-watchers, the big TV losses are Scandal (Dec. 17) and Teen Wolf (Dec. 1), plus Netflix’s own “The Last Kingdom” on Dec. 9, What’s on Netflix reported.

What family movies are leaving Netflix in December?

These are the picks most likely to hit a family movie night, with What’s on Netflix’s dates:

• The Karate Kid (1984), The Karate Kid Part II (1986), The Karate Kid Part III (1989) and The Karate Kid (2010): Dec. 1

• 17 Again (2009): Dec. 1, with High School Musical’s Zac Efron

• The Art of Racing in the Rain (2019): Dec. 1, the dog-narrated drama

• Holiday in Santa Fe (2021): Dec. 1

• How to Train Your Dragon (2025): Dec. 10

• Miraculous World: New York, United Heroez (2020): Dec. 15

• Jurassic World Rebirth (2025): Dec. 28

Check ratings before the little ones join in. Jurassic World Rebirth, for one, is rated PG-13.

What other movies are leaving Netflix on Dec. 1?

Dec. 1 is the big one. Rom-com fans lose Sleepless in Seattle, The Wedding Planner and Made of Honor, plus the office comedy 9 to 5.

Also leaving that day: Alien and Aliens, Point Break (1991), Law Abiding Citizen, Zero Dark Thirty, xXx and Concussion, among others.

Later in the month, Lawrence of Arabia and The Northman leave Dec. 3, Memento goes Dec. 5 and Gladiator exits Dec. 21.

What TV shows are leaving Netflix in December 2026?

These are the biggest series on the way out, with their removal dates:

• Teen Wolf (Seasons 1 to 6): Dec. 1

• Victoria (Seasons 1 to 3) and Grantchester (Seasons 1 to 4): Dec. 1

• Hunters (Seasons 1 and 2): Dec. 3

• The Last Kingdom (Seasons 1 to 5): Dec. 9

• Supergirl (Seasons 1 to 6): Dec. 15

• Scandal (Seasons 1 to 7): Dec. 17

• The Closer (Season 1): Dec. 21

Scandal is the one that stings for ABC fans. Shonda Rhimes’ political drama aired on Disney-owned ABC for seven seasons.

Why is The Last Kingdom leaving Netflix?

It’s a Netflix original in name, but Netflix only rented the streaming rights. The show is produced by Carnival Films, part of NBCUniversal, and the license runs out in the U.S. on Dec. 9, What’s on Netflix explained in a separate report Tuesday.

The good news: the follow-up movie, “The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die,” stays on Netflix in the U.S. So viewers will still have the ending, just not the five seasons that lead up to it.

Other Netflix originals leaving this month include Bonus Family (Dec. 14), Crazyhead (Dec. 16), If I Hadn’t Met You (Dec. 18) and Yanxi Palace: Princess Adventures (Dec. 31). The cozy mobile game Knittens: Cats and Dogs also leaves Netflix Games on Dec. 1.

How do you know when something is leaving Netflix?

Netflix usually adds a “last day to watch” note to a title’s page in its final weeks. What’s on Netflix says removal dates can change, and titles typically disappear overnight, around midnight PT (3 a.m. ET). To be safe, finish anything you care about the night before its listed date.

More removals could still be added before December, so check back before you plan a movie night around one of these.

Article compiled and written by Kambrea Pratt (editor-in-chief), Derek Gibbs (beat editor) and the Pirates & Princesses newsroom. Pirates & Princesses is part of WebReef Media.

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Hat Tips:

• What’s on Netflix (Nov. 11, 2026), full U.S. December 2026 removal list and dates

• What’s on Netflix (Nov. 10, 2026), The Last Kingdom U.S. removal date, licensing background and Seven Kings Must Die staying put

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