Depeche Mode bring Mexico City concert film ‘M’ to Netflix this Friday January 9
Depeche Mode concert film "M" lands on Netflix
Depeche Mode’s 2025 concert documentary “Depeche Mode: M” will join Netflix’s catalogue on Friday, January 9, 2026, bringing the band’s 2023 “Memento Mori” tour shows in Mexico City to the streaming platform’s global audience. The 100-minute film documents three sold-out nights at Mexico City’s Foro Sol / Estadio GNP Seguros in September 2023, performed in front of nearly 200,000 fans.
Directed by Mexican filmmaker Fernando Frías de la Parra and produced with Sony Music Vision, Columbia Records, Anonymous Content and Redrum, “Depeche Mode: M” blends live footage, archival material and street-level vignettes from Mexico City.
Thematically the documentary links themes from the fifteenth studio album “Memento Mori” to Mexico’s cultural relationship with death. Netflix itself describes the film as an exploration of Mexico’s relationship with music, mortality and tradition.
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When to watch and stream Depeche Mode concert film ‘M’ on Netflix
“Depeche Mode: M” is scheduled to stream on Netflix from Friday, January 9, 2026 for the US and key European territories. Regional availability on Netflix can vary, but the title already appears in the service’s catalogue pages for multiple markets, including Germany and Japan, as a 2025 music documentary.
The concert film remains available in physical formats as well which combines the documentary and full concert across CD/DVD, CD/Blu-ray, 2xCD and 4xLP editions.
For those wanting a preview, check the “Depeche Mode: M (Official Trailer)“.
‘Depeche Mode: M’ – From Tribeca premiere to Netflix
“Depeche Mode: M” premiered in June 2025 at the Tribeca Festival in New York as part of the Spotlight+ programme, followed by an on-stage Q&A with Dave Gahan, Martin Gore and Fernando Frías.
After Tribeca, the film rolled out worldwide via Trafalgar Releasing with a limited cinema and IMAX engagement starting on October 28, 2025.
On December 5, 2025, the band released the combined live album and film package “Memento Mori: Mexico City”, pairing “Depeche Mode: M” with a 24-track live audio set and four studio outtakes from the original Memento Mori sessions: “Survive”, “Life 2.0”, “Give Yourself to Me” and “In the End”. All 4 originated from the Memento Mori recording sessions.
Netflix’s acquisition of streaming rights now closes this release arc, moving the Mexico City concert documentary from festival and cinema audiences to the broader M Netflix streaming audience in early 2026.
About Depeche Mode
Depeche Mode are an English electronic band from Basildon, Essex, formed in 1980 by Dave Gahan, Martin Gore, Andrew Fletcher and Vince Clarke under the earlier name Composition of Sound. Following the release of their synth-pop debut album “Speak & Spell” in 1981, Clarke left and later formed Yazoo and Erasure, while Gore took over as principal songwriter. Alan Wilder joined as a full member in 1982, helping shape the group’s increasingly dark, sample-driven sound until his departure in 1995. Since 2022, after Fletcher’s death, Depeche Mode have continued as a duo of Gahan (vocals) and Gore (guitar, keyboards, vocals).
Across 15 studio albums, Depeche Mode have moved from early new wave and synth-pop towards a blend of electronic rock, industrial-tinged pop and atmospheric ballads. Their run of 1980s albums – “A Broken Frame” (1982), “Construction Time Again” (1983), “Some Great Reward” (1984), “Black Celebration” (1986) and “Music for the Masses” (1987) – pushed the band towards darker textures. With the 1990 album “Violator” and its singles “Personal Jesus” and “Enjoy the Silence”, followed by “Songs of Faith and Devotion” in 1993, Depeche Mode consolidated a large international audience and entered the US mainstream charts.
Later releases followed such as “Ultra” (1997), “Exciter” (2001), “Playing the Angel” (2005), “Sounds of the Universe” (2009), “Delta Machine” (2013) and “Spirit” (2017). “Memento Mori”, released in 2023, introduced new material shaped by themes of mortality and loss and became the starting point for the Memento Mori World Tour and the Mexico City performances now documented in “Depeche Mode: M”.
Depeche Mode’s visual and live output has been documented in numerous concert films and video albums, including “101”, “Devotional”, “One Night in Paris”, “Touring the Angel: Live in Milan”, “Tour of the Universe: Live in Barcelona”, “Live in Berlin” and “Spirits in the Forest”.
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