Everything leaving HBO Max in December 2025

HBO Max announced what would be leaving its platform in December, and while I’m sad to see some titles disappear, there’s still plenty of time to watch these gems while you still can. From reality shows and original documentaries to film franchises like Supermanwith a lot of Justice League content, there is something to keep you busy. Oh, and be sure to see Christmas classics like Elf And A Christmas story before they leave!

These are the three movies I’ll be watching before they’re gone, followed by a full list of everything leaving HBO Max in December.

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Four Christmases

Four Christmases is for anyone who is part of a blended family and knows the stress of trying to cram all the visits and dinners into one short day.

Brad (Vince Vaughn) and Kate (Reese Witherspoon) are a successful, independent couple enjoying their lives, free from traditional constraints like marriage and children. It’s been three years and they still haven’t met. To avoid this, they always lie and say they are going on a humanitarian vacation – until this year. When all flights are grounded and they are arrested on live television in beachwear, they have no choice but to endure the madness. For them, that includes four stops filled with home cage fights and dens of betrayals, babies and cougar judgments.

Four Christmases

Release date

November 26, 2008

Runtime

88 minutes

Director

Seth Gordon

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Edward Scissorhands

There has never been a gothic fairy tale as beautifully constructed as Tim Burton’s. Edward Scissorhands. A modern fable about the tragedy of social diversity, the film focuses on themes of love, acceptance and friendship told through the story of an outcast.

Edward (Johnny Depp) is, for all intents and purposes, completely normal – apart from his scarred face, pasty white skin and deadly scissors for hands. The creation of a scientist who died before he was finished, he spent decades alone in his decaying mansion before Avon Representative Peggy Boggs (Dianne Wiest) found him and brought him home. Accepted into the family but judged by the community, he falls in love with Peggy’s daughter, Kim (Winona Ryder), who is the only one to see his true nature and love him despite his differences, without wanting to change him. It’s one of the best excluded love stories in cinematic history.

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missing girl

If you haven’t seen the masterful thriller Missing girl, now is your chance. Its climax, paired with strange and unsettling music, is so frightening and unpredictable that you’ll find it buried in your brain and lingering like a haunting memory.

Based on the book by fiction author Gillian Flynn and inspired by the media coverage and public feeding frenzy that surrounds true crime cases, missing girl tells the poignant story of a distraught husband who finds himself the prime suspect in his wife’s mysterious disappearance. But she’s not just any wife: Amy (Rosamund Pike) is the inspiration for a series of bestselling children’s books. Her disappearance therefore requires extensive media coverage, as does all the evidence that points directly to her husband, Nick (Ben Affleck).

missing girl

Release date

October 3, 2014

Runtime

149 minutes

Director

David Fincher

Everything will leave HBO Max in December 2025

Once you’ve caught up with your favorites before they leave HBO Max, shift gears and dive into all the new stuff coming this December.

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