To kick off the year, catch Jennifer Lawrence as a woman hired to romance a wealthy couple’s awkward son in the comedy No Hard Feelings on 8 January. Sofia Vergara is Griselda Blanco, the notorious Colombian drug lord who built a cocaine empire in Miami, in Griselda dropping on 25 January. The crime drama is created by Narcos and Narcos: Mexico showrunner Eric Newman.
On 12 January, Kevin Hart leads action-comedy Lift about an international heist crew racing to lift $500 million in gold from a passenger plane 40,000 feet in the air. Lift is part of Hart and Netflix’s multi-year deal that has already produced projects like Fatherhood, Man From Toronto, Me Time and True Story.
Edgar Wright’s 2021 time-bending psychological horror starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Last Night in Soho arrives on 26 January. Also catch popular Japanese anime The Seven Deadly Sins: Four Knights of the Apocalypse on 31 January.
Acclaimed Kenyan film The First Grader, first released in 2011, will also be available to stream from 18 January. Based on the life of Kimani Maruge, the biographical drama follows an 84-year-old Kenyan Mau Mau freedom fighter (played by Oliver Litondo) who takes advantage of the free education decree by the government to go back to school.
Also from Kenya, Foxton Productions’ Mpakani: The Story of The North drops on 10 January. The military drama series, directed by Victor Gatonye, follows six special forces soldiers posted in northern Kenya, as they hunt down a dangerous terrorist called Burhaan (played by Bilal Mwaura). Update: We have received new information that this title will no longer be launching on 10 January. A new date is yet to be communicated.
Revisit our review of ‘Mpakani: The Story of the North’ here.
South African thriller Soon Comes Night, from Ochre Moving Pictures (behind Justice Served, Fatal Seduction and The Brave Ones) premieres on 19 January. The series follows a former freedom fighter who orchestrates a series of heists in defiance while trying to evade corrupt authorities and the police.
Catch Nigerian drama Adire on 12 January and comedy crime thriller Merry Men 3: Nemesis, starring Ramsey Nouah on 18 January.
See a full list of what to watch on Netflix in Kenya in January 2024:
1 January
Fool Me Once S1
You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment (Docuseries)
Bitconned (Documentary)
4 January
The Brothers Sun S1
Society of the Snow (Film)
Delicious in Dungeon S1
5 January
Good Grief (Film)
9 January
Pete Davidson: Turbo Fonzarelli (Comedy Special)
10 January
The Trust: A Game of Greed (Reality)
Break Point (Docuseries)
Mpakani: The Story of the North S1
11 January
Killer Soup S1
Champion S1
Sonic Prime S3
Boy Swallows Universe S1
Detective Forst S1
12 January
Lift (Film)
Love is Blind: Sweden S1 (Reality)
Adire (Film)
15 January
Murder on the Orient Express (Film)
Maboroshi (Film)
16 January
Dusty Slay: Workin’ Man (Comedy Special)
17 January
American Nightmare (Docuseries)
End of The Line S1
18 January
The First Grader (Film)
Kübra S1
From the Ashes (Film)
Merry Men 3: Nemesis (Film)
19 January
Soon Comes Night S1
The Bequeathed S1
Love on the Spectrum S2 (Docuseries)
Sixty Minutes (Film)
The Kitchen (Film)
Caged Wings (Film)
21 January
Captivating the King S1
22 January
Not Quite Narwhal S2
23 January
Love Deadline (Reality)
Jacqueline Novak: Get on Your Knees (Comedy Special)
24 January
Queer Eye S8
Six Nations: Full Contact (Docuseries)
Dear Evan Hansen (Film)
25 January
Griselda S1
Masters of the Universe: Revolution S1
26 January
Last Night in Soho (Film)
Sit Down with Stand Up Udom Taephanich (Comedy Special)
Badland Hunters (Film)
29 January
The Greatest Night in Pop (Documentary)
Deep Fear (Film)
Mighty Bheem’s Playtime S1
30 January
Jack Whitehall: Settle Down (Comedy Special)
31 January
Baby Bandito S1
Alexander: The Making of a God (Docuseries)
The Seven Deadly Sins: Four Knights of the Apocalypse S1
WILL (Film)
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