What’s Leaving Netflix in December 2024: ‘Ali,’ ‘Trolls,’ ‘Royal Pains’

This coming December on Netflix is defined by the buzzy arrival of highly-anticipated titles like Pablo Larraín‘s Maria, season 2 of Squid Game, and the first post-Bobby Berk season of Queer Eye. But pay close attention to what’s leaving, because it’s a sleigh full of goodness.

Will Smith in ‘Ali’, Greta Gerwig in ‘Frances Ha’, and ‘Trolls’.

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Netflix is mainly bringing the axe down on movies this December. There are the prestige pictures, like the Academy Award-nominated 1992 adaptation of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross; Joe Wright‘s 2017 historical drama Darkest Hour, which won Gary Oldman the Oscar for his Winston Churchill; and The Devil’s Own, Alan J. Pakula’s police thriller starring Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt.

There are several notable action films leaving the platform, as well, including Michael Mann‘s Ali; Doing Hard Time, the Boris Kodjoe prison thriller; and Oldman again in the Gerard Butler-costarring Hunter Killer. Martin Lawrence‘s National Security tempers the action-exodus with some comedy, and What To Expect When You’re Expecting goes full froth, with the ensemble onslaught of Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Lopez, Elizabeth Banks, and Anna Kendrick.

Parents of children for whom Netflix’s animated catalog takes on a kind of nannying role, pay attention to this part: A host of animated films, series, and interactive specials are departing in December. All eight seasons of Voltron: Legendary Defender are among the marked, as well as last year’s popular coming-of-age film Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken, and the first of the Trolls film trilogy.

A good chunk of the animated titles on the leaving list are interactive specials. That includes Battle Kitty, the Boss Baby universe’s answer to the interactive craze, Boss Baby: Get That Baby!, Captain Underpants Epic Choice-o-Rama, and Carmen Sandiego: To Steal or Not to Steal.

Finally, the entirety of the Hamptons-set medical dramedy Royal Pains is on its way out, so get your Hank Lawson kick while you can. And for the trivia-party set, both Triviaverse and the first season of Trivia Quest are goners.

Here are the rest of the titles leaving Netflix in December 2024.

Dec. 1

Ali

Battle Kitty: Season 1

Blood and Bone

The Boss Baby: Get That Baby!

Buddy Thunderstruck: The Maybe Pile

Captain Underpants Epic Choice-o-Rama

Carmen Sandiego: To Steal or Not to Steal

Cat Burglar

Choose Love

The Devil’s Own

Diary of a Mad Black Woman

Doing Hard Time

Escape The Undertaker

Frances Ha

Glengarry Glen Ross

Headspace: Unwind Your Mind

Hunter Killer

It Chapter Two

Johnny Test’s Ultimate Meatloaf Quest

The Last Kids on Earth: Happy Apocalypse to You

The Little Things

National Security

Point Break

Space Jam: A New Legacy

Spirit Riding Free: Ride Along Adventure

Stretch Armstrong: The Breakout

To Leslie

Trivia Quest: Season 1

Triviaverse

Troy

We Lost Our Human

What to Expect When You’re Expecting

Dec. 2

White Girl

Dec. 3

The Commuter

Dec. 6

Reminiscence

Dec. 7

Trolls

Voltron: Legendary Defender: Seasons 1-8

Dec. 16

Darkest Hour

Mortal Kombat

Dec. 20

Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken

Dec. 25

The Flash

Dec. 31

Royal Pains: Seasons 1-8