Streaming in Gibraltar and other small countries
We started FlickFinder in Gibraltar, and this guide is a little personal. Living somewhere small, you get used to a strange question: "Is it on Netflix here?" A show everyone in the UK is talking about can be missing, while something you'd never expect turns up. Big streaming services don't treat small countries as smaller copies of their neighbours. Each one gets its own catalogue, and the difference can be huge.
Here's what the big international services look like in five small European countries, based on the catalogue data we collect every day. These figures are from November 11, 2026 and count movies and shows included with a standard subscription.
Gibraltar: two big services, and they're nothing like the UK's
In our data, Gibraltar has catalogues for only two of the nine big services: Prime Video and Netflix. Disney+, Max, Apple TV, Hulu, Peacock, Paramount+ and Starz don't list a Gibraltar catalogue at all.
What surprises most people is how different those two are from the UK, even though Gibraltar shares its language and a lot of its TV habits. Prime Video in Gibraltar has about 8,500 titles. In the UK it has about 24,300, nearly three times as many. Netflix is closer: about 8,350 titles in Gibraltar against about 9,450 in the UK. Gibraltar's Netflix is also more TV-heavy than most, with about 3,500 shows and 4,800 movies.
| Service | Gibraltar | UK |
|---|---|---|
| Prime Video | 8,518 | 24,330 |
| Netflix | 8,349 | 9,466 |
| Disney+ | Not in our data | 4,157 |
| Max | Not in our data | 1,681 |
| Paramount+ | Not in our data | 1,021 |
| Apple TV | Not in our data | 353 |
Movies and TV shows included with a subscription, November 11, 2026. "Not in our data" means our data source has no catalogue for that service in Gibraltar.
Malta, Iceland, Cyprus and Luxembourg
The other small countries we looked at have more services than Gibraltar, but the same pattern shows up: Netflix is the anchor, and everything else varies a lot.
| Country | Netflix | Prime Video | Max | Disney+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Malta | 9,433 | 1,771 | 1,275 | 22 |
| Iceland | 10,180 | 5,418 | 1,258 | 31 |
| Cyprus | 9,519 | 1,472 | 1,255 | Not in our data |
| Luxembourg | 9,080 | 7,507 | 1,202 | 3,559 |
A few things stand out:
- Netflix is remarkably steady. It has between about 9,000 and 10,200 titles in all four, and Iceland's is the biggest of the group.
- Prime Video swings wildly. Luxembourg gets about 7,500 titles, while Cyprus gets under 1,500, roughly a fifth as many.
- Disney+ can be present in name only. In Malta and Iceland our data lists a Disney+ catalogue of just a few dozen titles, while Luxembourg's has over 3,500. If Disney+ matters to you, check what's actually in your country before you subscribe.
Why small countries get such different catalogues
Streaming rights are usually sold country by country, or in regional bundles. For a big market, a service will pay to license a huge back catalogue. For a small one, the rights may be bundled with a neighbour, sold to a local TV company instead, or simply never licensed, because the audience is too small to be worth a separate deal. That's why a small place can end up with less than its neighbour, or occasionally with something its neighbour doesn't have. We explain the general mechanics in why Netflix is different in every country.
What this means if you live in a small country
- Don't go by what friends abroad say is "on Netflix". Their catalogue may be very different from yours.
- Check your country, not the region. Search any title on FlickFinder and you'll see every country it's streaming in, including small ones like Gibraltar, Malta and Iceland.
- Compare before you subscribe. The best streaming services in Gibraltar, Malta, Iceland, Cyprus and Luxembourg pages rank every big service there by catalogue size, updated daily.