Every month, streaming services add new movies and TV shows to their libraries. Here are some of July’s most promising new titles. (Note: Streaming services may change their schedules without notice. For more streaming recommendations, see the Netflix and Netflix Channels article.) View the newsletter here.
What’s New on Amazon Prime Video
Sausage Party: Foodtopia Season 1
Start streaming: July 11
The sequel series to the 2016 erotic animated comedy Sausage Party picks up in the aftermath of the film’s climactic battle between supermarket food and the humans who consume it. Seth Rogen (who also co-created the series) returns as the voice of Frank the Hot Dog, who, along with his girlfriend Brenda (Kristen Wiig), must figure out how to build and lead a new society for the benefit of all food. The original’s sex-obsessed Pixar parody is here replaced by political satire, as the good-natured sausages try to prevent their friends from succumbing to anarchy and authoritarianism.
“Betty La Fee, the story continues.”
Start streaming: July 19th
One of the most popular television series of all time, the Colombian telenovela “Yo soy Betty, la fea” has been remade dozens of times around the world, including in the United States as “Ugly Betty.” Now, many of the original cast members and characters return for a sequel more than 20 years after the story began. In “The Story Continues,” Betty (Ana María Orozco) returns to the fashion house where she rose from poverty to riches and met her now-estranged husband, Armando (Jorge Enrique Avello). Dealing with bittersweet memories and familiar old rivalries, Betty must once again fight for respect for her sharp mind and kind heart in an industry that tends to prize superficiality and swagger.
Also arriving:
July 4th
“astronaut”
July 9
“Sam Morrill: You’ve Changed”
July 11
“Tyler Perry’s Black Divorce”
July 18
“My Spy: The Eternal City”
“Top-class tennis in Uninterrupted”
July 25
“Cirque du Soleil: No Internet”
“Troppo” Season 2
AMC+ Newbie
Snowpiercer Season 4
Start streaming: July 21
After three seasons on TNT, the post-apocalyptic thriller’s fourth and final season will move to AMC, completing the story of a highly stratified society yearning for revolution. Adapted from director Bong Joon-ho’s 2013 film (itself based on a 1982 comic book series by writer Jacques Lob and illustrator Jean-Marc Rochette), Snowpiercer stars Daveed Diggs as Andre Layton, one of the masses of underclass people who once lived a squalid existence aboard a gigantic passenger train hurtling across a desolate, icy Earth. At the end of season three, Layton’s band of rebels literally go off the rails and set up a new, democratic community, but as the new season begins, they find that their old nemesis from the train won’t leave them alone.
Also arriving:
July 12
“Arcadian”
July 13
“Earth: Mammals”
July 22
“Candice Lenoir” Season 9
July 26
“Humanitarian”
July 29th
“Signora Volpe” Season 2
What’s new in Apple TV+
“The Lady of the Lake”
Start streaming: July 19th
Based on Laura Lippman’s 2019 mystery novel, this period drama is set in 1966 Baltimore, where two gruesome crimes – the unrelated murders of a Jewish girl and a middle-aged black mother – change one woman’s perception of her hometown. Starring Natalie Portman, Maddie, a housewife fed up with her cold, demanding husband (Brett Gelman), suddenly moves from her upscale suburban home to a dingy downtown apartment and pursues her childhood dream of becoming a newspaper reporter. Fascinated by the two deaths, Maddie visits places in Baltimore she’s never seen before and places she thought she knew. All the while, she’s watched and judged by the ghost of the miniseries’ narrator, Cleo (Moses Ingram), the mother whose murders the city would rather ignore.
“Time Bandit”
Start streaming: July 24th
It took an all-star team of TV comedy creators to adapt Terry Gilliam’s 1981 fantasy classic Time Bandits into a TV series. Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords), Ian Morris (The Inbetweeners) and Taika Waititi (Our Flag Means Death) collaborated to expand the original premise and make it more episodic. Kal-El-Tuck plays Kevin, a young British history buff who discovers his bedroom is a waystation for time travelers. Lisa Kudrow plays the leader of a band of thieves who use a stolen celestial map to jump through time in search of historical treasures to steal. The series differs from the film in the specific details of the time-hopping, but has a similar tone, mixing dry humor with child-like heroism and legend.
Also arriving:
July 10
“sunny”
July 12
“myself”
July 19th
“Omnivorous”
July 31
“Women in Blue”
Disney+ Newbie
Descendants: The Rise of Red
Start streaming: July 12
The 2015 Disney Channel Original live-action film “Descendants” was a huge hit for the network, spawning a multimedia franchise set in a world where the children of famous Disney villains are trying to forge their own paths. The fourth film in the series, “The Rise of Red,” introduces a new generation of fairy tale characters as the daughter of Cinderella and the Queen of Hearts from “Alice in Wonderland” tries to mend old wounds between her parents in order to save her prep school. The mission involves time travel and teaming up with a host of other Disney heroes and nemeses.
Also arriving:
July 1
“Red Sea Shark Attack”
“Baby Shark in Town”
Shark Attack 360 Season 1
“Sharks are a hot topic”
“Super-sized shark”
July 3
“Bluey Minisword”
Hulu beginner
“Mastermind: Think Like a Killer”
Start streaming: July 11
This three-part documentary series explores the career of one of criminology’s true heroes, Dr. Anne Burgess, a consulting psychologist for the FBI who helped develop methods to identify and catch serial rapists and murderers. Director Abbie Fuller and her creative team of crime documentary veterans begin “Mastermind” with one of Burgess’s earliest cases, that of the “Ski Masked Rapist,” who killed multiple times across the United States in the late 1970s and early ’80s, and reveal how difficult it was initially to convince law enforcement that rape was a serious crime. While the documentary shines a spotlight on some of the most notorious killers she helped capture (including Ted Bundy), the series focuses equally on Burgess’s tenacious commitment to understanding and supporting victims of sexual assault.
Also arriving:
July 2
“Tunnel to Summer, Exit to Farewell”
July 3
“Red Swan”
July 4th
“The Land of Tanabata”
July 5
“The Monk and the Gun”
July 11
“Animal Kingdom”
July 15
Hit-Monkey Season 2
July 17
“Unprisoned” Season 2
July 18
How to Catch a Murderer Season 2
July 23
Dress My Tour Season 1
“Fam.”
July 29th
“Futurama” Season 12
July 30
“Betrayal: A Father’s Secret”
Max beginner
“Love bleeds”
Start streaming: July 19th
One of the most critically acclaimed films of 2024, this sensual neo-noir stars Kristen Stewart as Lou, a New Mexico gym manager who finds herself dangerously attracted to a traveling bodybuilder named Jackie (Katie O’Brien). The star-studded cast also includes Ed Harris as Lou’s no-good father, Lou Sr., Jena Malone as Lou’s long-suffering sister, Beth, and Dave Franco as Beth’s unpleasant, creepy husband. Co-writer and director Rose Glass (whose previous film was the masterful horror exercise Saint Maud) sets the film in the late 1980s, evoking the mainstream thrillers of that era, such as Blood Simple and Body Heat. Stewart delivers a memorable performance as a lonely young woman who gives in to desire and desperation over morality.
Also arriving:
July 2
“Hard Knocks: The New York Giants Offseason”
July 4th
“Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire”
July 5
“King of Zanzibar”
July 10
“Quad God”
July 11
“Norwegian MILF” Season 1
“Teen Torture Inc.”
July 13
“Fay.”
July 17
“Wild Wild Space”
July 18
“Commander’s Shadow”
Kite Man: Yes it is!
July 24th
“The Charlie Hustle and Pete Rose Incident”
July 26
“Knox is leaving.”
What’s New on Paramount+
“Melissa Etheridge: I’m Not Broken”
Start streaming: July 9
Singer-songwriter and gay rights advocate Melissa Etheridge has had a tough few years, including losing her son to the effects of opioid addiction. But the two-part documentary series “Melissa Etheridge: I’m Not Broken” only partially talks about the musician’s own struggles. Instead, it focuses on her latest special project: turning letters from five women incarcerated in prisons in her home state of Kansas into new original songs. The inmates share their own experiences with drugs and family trauma, helping Etheridge work through her grief. And she tries to show how music can heal deep wounds and make forgotten people feel present.
Also arriving:
July 1
“memory”
July 10
Camp Coral: SpongeBob’s Under Years Season 2
July 16
“Mafia spy”
Peacock Beginner
“The Dying”
Start streaming: July 18
Daniel P. Mannix’s 1958 book, Those Who Die, introduced many non-historians to the details of Roman gladiatorial combat and later served as the inspiration for the Academy Award-winning film, Gladiator. Now the book is being directly adapted for this big-budget Peacock series that aims to bring the decadence and violence of ancient Rome to television. Anthony Hopkins stars as Emperor Vespasian, who rises to power after years of turmoil and seeks to ensure a more orderly succession. Iwan Rheon plays Tenax, a shrewd power broker who uses his connections to the imperial family and top gladiators to subtly control who wins and who loses, both inside and outside the arena. Written by Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Robert Rodat in collaboration with producer and director Roland Emmerich, Those Who Die puts the deep connection between politics and sports into a historical context.
Also arriving:
July 5
“Back to Black”
July 11
“Hungry Games: Alaska’s Big Bear Challenge”
July 26
“Olympic Highlights with Kevin Hart and Kenan Thompson”
July 27
“Gold Zone”
