The best movies and TV shows coming to Disney+, Max, Hulu, Apple TV+ and more in July
Every month, streaming services add movies and TV shows to their libraries. Here are our picks for some of July’s most promising new titles. (Note: Streaming services sometimes change schedules without notice. Sign up for our View newsletter here.)
New on Amazon Prime Video
‘Sausage Party: Foodtopia’ Season 1
Starts streaming: July 11
This follow-up series to the raunchy 2016 animated comedy “Sausage Party” picks up in the aftermath of the film’s climactic battle between conscious supermarket food and the people who consume it. Seth Rogen (who also co-created the franchise) returns as the voice of Frank, a hot dog who, along with his girlfriend/bun Brenda (Kristen Wiig), must figure out how to build and lead a new society for the benefit of all foods . The sex-obsessed Pixar parody from the original film gives way to a more political satire, in which the well-meaning sausages try to prevent their friends from succumbing to anarchy or authoritarianism.
‘Betty la Fea, the story continues’
Starts streaming: July 19
One of the most popular television series ever produced, the Colombian telenovela Yo soy Betty, la fea has been adapted dozens of times around the world—including in the United States as Ugly Betty. Now, many of the original cast members and characters are returning for a sequel, set two decades after their story began. In “The Story Continues,” Betty (Ana María Orozco) returns home to the fashion house where she rose from rags to riches and met her now-estranged husband, Armando (Jorge Enrique Abello). While dealing with bittersweet memories and some familiar old rivalries, Betty must once again fight to be respected for her sharp mind and kind heart in an industry that tends to prize superficiality and bravado.
Also inside:
July 4th
“Space Cadet”
July 9
“Sam Morril: You’ve Changed”
July 11
“Tyler Perry’s parting in black”
July 18
“My Spy: The Eternal City”
“Top class tennis from Uninterrupted”
July 25
“Cirque du Soleil: without a net”
“Troppo” Season 2
New at AMC+
‘Snowpiercer’ Season 4
Starts streaming: 21 July
After three seasons on TNT, the fourth and final season of this post-apocalyptic thriller moves to AMC, completing the saga of a highly stratified society ripe for revolution. “Snowpiercer” is adapted from Bong Joon Ho’s 2013 film (itself adapted from a 1982 comic book series created by writer Jacques Lob and illustrator Jean-Marc Rochette). It stars Daveed Diggs, one of a mass of underclass citizens who once lived in squalor aboard a massive passenger train, hurtling across a ravaged, ice-covered Earth. At the end of Season 3, Layton’s band of rebels literally derailed to found a new democratic society; but as the new season begins, they realize that their old enemies from the train won’t leave them alone.
Also arriving:
July 12
“Arcadian”
July 13
“Planet Earth: Mammals”
July 22
Season 9 by Candice Renoir
July 26
“Human”
July 29
Season 2 of Signora Volpe
New to Apple TV+
‘Lady in the lake’
Starts streaming: July 19
Based on Laura Lippman’s 2019 mystery novel, this period drama is set in 1966 Baltimore, where two grim crimes—the separate, unrelated murders of a young Jewish girl and a middle-aged black mother—shatter the image of a woman about her hometown change. Natalie Portman stars as Maddie, a housewife who is so fed up with her cold, demanding husband (Brett Gelman) that she abruptly moves from their posh suburban home to a dingy downtown apartment, where she begins to pursue her childhood dream: a become a newspaper. news reporter. Maddie’s fascination with the two deaths takes her to parts of Baltimore she has never seen before and parts she wrongly thought she knew. All the while, she is watched and judged by the miniseries’ narrator: the ghost of Cleo (Moses Ingram), the mother whose murder the town prefers to ignore.
‘Time Bandits’
Starts streaming: July 24
It took an all-star team of TV comedians to adapt Terry Gilliam’s classic 1981 fantasy film Time Bandits into a television series. Jemaine Clement (“Flight of the Conchords”), Iain Morris (“The Inbetweeners”) and Taika Waititi (“Our Flag Means Death”) team up to expand the original’s premise and make it more episodic. Kal-El Tuck plays Kevin, a history-obsessed young English boy who discovers that his bedroom is a way station for time travelers. Lisa Kudrow plays the leader of a gang of thieves, who use a stolen celestial map to help them hop through eras in search of historical treasures to steal. The series deviates from the film in the specifics of the time-hopping, but has a similar tone, combining dry humor with a childlike view of heroes and legends.
Also arriving:
10th of July
“Sunny”
July 12
“Me”
July 19
“Omnivore”
July 31
“Women in blue”
New on Disney+
‘Descendants: The Rise of Red’
Start streaming: July 12
Disney Channel’s 2015 original live-action movie “Descendants” was such a hit for the network that it spawned a multimedia franchise set in a world where the children of famous Disney villains try to forge their own paths. find. “The Rise of Red” — the fourth film in the series — introduces several new second-generation fairytale characters, as Cinderella’s daughter and the daughter of the “Alice in Wonderland” Queen of Hearts try to heal the old wounds between their parents. time to save their preparatory school. The mission involves some time travel — and plenty of cooperation from a host of other Disney heroes and nemeses.
Also inside:
July 1st
“Red Sea Shark Attack”
“Baby sharks in the city”
“Shark Attack 360” Season 1
“Sharks are going viral”
“Super-sized sharks”
3 July
“Blue minisodes”
New to Hulu
‘Mastermind: Thinking Like a Murderer’
Starts streaming: July 11
This three-part docuseries chronicles the career of one of criminology’s true heroes: Dr. Ann Burgess, a consulting psychologist for the FBI who helped develop methods for tracking and capturing serial rapists and murderers. Director Abby Fuller and a creative team of true-crime veterans begin Mastermind with one of Dr. Burgess’s first cases—involving the “Ski Mask Rapist,” who traveled cross-country in the late 1970s and early ’80s—to explore her initial struggles to convince law enforcement that rape was a serious crime. The documentary spotlights some of the most notorious killers she helped put away (including Ted Bundy), though the series is equally interested in Dr. Burgess’s dogged dedication to understanding and supporting victims of sexual assault.
Also arriving:
July 2nd
“The tunnel to summer, the exit of farewell”
3 July
“Red Swan”
July 4th
“Land of Tanabata”
July 5
“The Monk and the Gun”
July 11
“The Animal Kingdom”
July 15
Season 2 of Hit-Monkey
July 17
“UnPrisoned” Season 2
July 18
“How I Caught My Killer” Season 2
July 23
“Dress My Tour” Season 1
“Woman”
July 29
“Futurama” Season 12
July 30
“Betrayal: A Father’s Secret”
New at Max
‘Love is bleeding’
Starts streaming: July 19
One of the most critically acclaimed films of 2024, this steamy neo-noir stars Kristen Stewart as Lou, a New Mexico gym manager who develops a dangerous attraction to a traveling bodybuilder named Jackie (Katy O’Brian). The stellar cast also includes Ed Harris as Lou’s evil father, Lou Sr., Jena Malone as her long-suffering sister, Beth, and Dave Franco as Beth’s obnoxious creep of a husband. Co-writer-director Rose Glass (whose previous film was the artful horror exercise “Saint Maud”) sets this scene in the late ’80s, reminiscent of the era’s pulpy thrillers like “Blood Simple” and “Body Heat.” Stewart gives a memorable performance as a lonely young woman who lets her desire and desperation override her morality.
Also inside:
July 2nd
“Hard Knocks: Offseason with the New York Giants”
July 4th
“Godzilla x Kong: The New Kingdom”
July 5
“King of Zanzibar”
10th of July
“Quad Gods”
July 11
“MILF of Norway” Season 1
“Teen Torture Inc.”
July 13
“Faye”
July 17
“Wild Wild Space”
July 18
“The Shadow of the Commander”
“Kiteman: Sure!”
July 24
“Charlie Hustle and the Pete Rose Issue”
July 26
“Knox is leaving”
New to Paramount+
‘Melissa Etheridge: I Am Not Broken’
Starts streaming: July 9
Singer-songwriter and gay rights advocate Melissa Etheridge has faced some tough times in recent years, including the death of her son from opioid addiction. But the two-part docuseries Melissa Etheridge: I’m Not Broken is only partly about the musician’s own struggles. It focuses more on a special project she’s recently been working on: transforming letters from five incarcerated women in her Kansas hometown into a new, original song. The inmates share their own experiences with drugs and family trauma, helping Etheridge process her grief. In turn, she aims to show how music can heal deep wounds and allow the forgotten to be seen.
Also arriving:
July 1st
“Memory”
10th of July
“Camp Coral: Spongebob’s Under Years” Season 2
16th of July
“Mafia spies”
New to Peacock
‘Those About to Die’
Start streaming: July 18
Daniel P. Mannix’s 1958 book “Those About to Die” introduced many non-historians to the peculiarities of Roman gladiatorial combat; and it later served as the inspiration for the Oscar-winning film ‘Gladiator’. Now it’s being directly adapted into this big-budget Peacock series, which aims to bring the decadence and violence of ancient Rome to television. Anthony Hopkins stars as Emperor Vespasian, who came to power after years of turmoil and tries to secure a more orderly succession. Iwan Rheon plays Tenax, a shrewd power broker whose connections to the Imperial Family and top gladiators help him subtly determine who wins and loses, both inside and outside the arena. Created by Oscar-nominated screenwriter Robert Rodat, along with producer and director Roland Emmerich, “Those About to Die” places the deep connections between politics and sports in historical context.
Also inside:
July 5
“Back to black”
July 11
“The Hungry Games: Alaska’s Big Bear Challenge”
July 26
“Olympic highlights with Kevin Hart and Kenan Thompson”
July 27
“Gold Zone”