What to Watch This Week in the UAE (January 5, 2026)

This week’s watchlist delivers edge-of-your-seat thrills, gripping mysteries, and powerful character drama across cinemas and streaming platforms.

If you missed recent highlights like Stranger Things Season 5 Vol. 3, Run Away, Beneath the Light, Affinity, A Minecraft Movie, The Woman in the Yard and The Holiday List, they’re still worth catching. You’ll find them in our previous guides – What to Watch This Week UAE – December 29, 2025 and What to Watch This Week UAE – December 22, 2025 – plus via New in Cinemas UAE, New on Netflix UAE, New on OSN+ UAE and New on StarzPlay UAE.

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This Week’s Top Must-See Titles

Greenland 2: Migration – In cinemas

HIS & HERS – Season 1 – Netflix

The Pitt – Season 2 – OSN+

Ghosts – Season 5 – StarzPlay

A Thousand Blows – Season 2 – Disney+

In Cinemas Across the UAE

Check formats and showtimes via New in Cinemas UAE.

Greenland 2: Migration

Action / Adventure / Thriller / Sci-Fi | TBC

Five years after a comet strike brought civilisation to its knees, survival was only the beginning. Forced out of their bunker, the Garrity family must cross a devastated Earth, facing hostile landscapes, desperate survivors and impossible choices as they search for a new place to call home.

Greenland 2: Migration, starring Gerard Butler, Roman Griffin Davis and Morena Baccarin, hits UAE cinemas from January 8, 2026.

Watch at Vox Cinemas and other major chains.

No Other Choice

Comedy / Crime / Thriller | TBC | Korean

After decades at a paper mill, a loyal manager is discarded by a brutal job market. Humiliated and cornered, he spirals into a violent path to reclaim his dignity, blurring the line between survival and revenge in a society that has written him off.

No Other Choice, starring Lee Byung-hun, Park Hee-soon and Son Ye-jin, opens in UAE cinemas from January 8, 2026.

New on Netflix UAE

For the full monthly slate, check New on Netflix UAE.

HIS & HERS – Season 1

Crime / Mystery / Thriller | 18+

In the suffocating heat of Atlanta, former news anchor Anna lives in isolation, hiding from her past. When whispers of a murder surface in Dahlonega – the hometown she fled – she gets pulled back into reporting and crosses paths with a cynical detective who thinks she’s hiding more than she says. Told from two perspectives, HIS & HERS peels back lies, bias and buried secrets to show how every story has more than one truth.

Starring Sunita Mani, Tessa Thompson and Jon Bernthal, HIS & HERS premieres exclusively on Netflix on January 8, 2026.

People We Meet on Vacation

Romance | 18+

Poppy is restless and adventurous; Alex loves routine and quiet. They’re total opposites who somehow became best friends, meeting once a year for a single summer week that slowly blurs the line between friendship and something deeper. Warm, witty and heartfelt, People We Meet on Vacation explores timing, missed chances and the one person who feels like home.

Starring Emily Bader, Tom Blyth and Sarah Catherine Hook, the film premieres on Netflix on January 9, 2026.

New on Prime Video UAE

For the full monthly slate, check New on Prime Video UAE.

Spring Fever – Season 1

Comedy / Drama / Romance | 18+ | Korean

After painful experiences in Seoul, Yun Bom escapes to the quiet town of Sinsu as an exchange teacher, determined to keep her heart closed. As she settles into her new surroundings, an unexpected connection with Seon Jae-gyu slowly breaks through her defences, turning a tentative friendship into a gentle story of healing and second chances.

Spring Fever, starring Kim Seon-hye, Ahn Bo-hyun and Lee Joo-bin, premieres on Prime Video on January 5, 2026.

New on Apple TV+ UAE

For the full monthly slate, check New on Apple TV+ UAE.

Tehran – latest season

Action / Crime / Thriller | PG13

Set in the heart of a hostile capital, Tehran follows Tamar Rabinyan, a gifted hacker-agent on a high-risk mission in the city where she was born. When a covert operation to sabotage Iran’s nuclear programme collapses, Tamar is forced underground, torn between her duty and her identity as she reconnects with her roots and an underground activist. As security forces close in and loyalties blur, the stakes balloon into a nerve-shredding game of espionage and survival.

The latest season of Tehran, starring Niv Sultan, Shaun Toub and Shila Ommi, premieres exclusively on Apple TV+ on January 9, 2026.

New on OSN+ UAE

Keep New on OSN+ UAE handy for more HBO and premium drama.

The Pitt – Season 2

Drama | PG15

Inside a busy Pittsburgh hospital, The Pitt follows doctors and nurses who are barely holding their lives together as they fight to save others. Ten months after the explosive Season 1 finale, the story picks up over an intense Independence Day weekend, with fireworks outside and emotional crises on every ward testing resilience, ethics and friendship.

Starring Noah Wyle, Ned Brower and Patrick Ball, The Pitt – Season 2 streams on OSN+ from January 9, 2026.

New on StarzPlay UAE

See more on New on StarzPlay UAE.

Ghosts – Season 5

Comedy | 15

Sam and Jay’s dream of turning a crumbling mansion into a B&B keeps colliding with one big problem: the house is already full of ghosts. After an accident left Sam able to see and hear the spirited residents, everyday life turned into supernatural chaos. In Season 5, the living-dead cohabitation gets even messier, with new hauntings, weirder schemes and more heartfelt moments between the worlds of the living and the dead.

Ghosts – Season 5, starring Rose McIver, Utkarsh Ambudkar and Brandon Scott Jones, streams on StarzPlay from January 10, 2026.

New on Disney+ UAE

Don’t forget to check New on Disney+ UAE for more.

High Potential (Series)

Comedy / Crime / Drama / Mystery | 16+

By night, Morgan juggles life as a single mum of three; by shift, she cleans at the police department. When she casually rearranges evidence on a whiteboard and unlocks a case no one else can solve, her hidden gift for patterns and logic is exposed. High Potential mixes smart humour, sharp mysteries and an underdog heroine you’ll want to see win.

Starring Kaitlin Olson, Daniel Sunjata and Javicia Leslie, both seasons of High Potential stream on Disney+ from January 7, 2026.

A Thousand Blows – Season 2

Crime / Drama / History / Sport | 18+

In the brutal underworld of Victorian London’s East End, Jamaican immigrant Hezekiah Moscow fights to survive. Crossing paths with Mary Carr, queen of the all-female Forty Elephants gang, and feared boxer Sugar Goodson, he’s pulled into a violent struggle for power. In Season 2, Mary’s dangerous game for control of the streets threatens to reshape every allegiance – and crown a new ruler of the East End.

Starring Erin Doherty, Malachi Kirby and Francis Lovehall, A Thousand Blows – Season 2 streams on Disney+ from January 9, 2026.

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