The Best Movies and TV Shows Streaming 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 occasionally change schedules without giving notice. For more recommendations on what to stream, sign up for our Watching newsletter here.)

New to Amazon Prime Video

‘Sausage Party: Foodtopia’ Season 1
Starts streaming: July 11

This sequel series to the raunchy 2016 animated comedy “Sausage Party” begins in the aftermath of that movie’s climactic battle between sentient supermarket foods and the humans who consume them. Seth Rogen (who also cocreated the franchise) returns as the voice of Frank, a hot dog who alongside his girlfriend/bun Brenda (Kristen Wiig) has to figure out how to build and lead a new society, for the benefit of all foodstuffs. The original film’s sex-obsessed Pixar parody gives way here to more of a political satire, as 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 TV series ever produced, the Colombian telenovela “Yo soy Betty, la fea” has been adapted dozens of times, all over the world — including in the United States as “Ugly Betty.” Now much of the original’s cast members and characters return for a sequel, set over 20 years after their story began. In “The Story Continues,” Betty (Ana María Orozco) comes home to the fashion house where she started her rags-to-riches rise and met her now-estranged husband, Armando (Jorge Enrique Abello). While dealing with bittersweet memories and some familiar old rivalries, Betty once again has to fight to be respected for her sharp mind and kind heart, in an industry that tends to value superficiality and swagger.

Also arriving:

July 4
“Space Cadet”

July 9
“Sam Morril: You’ve Changed”

July 11
“Tyler Perry’s Divorce in the Black”

July 18
“My Spy: The Eternal City”
“Uninterrupted’s Top Class Tennis”

July 25
“Cirque du Soleil: Without a Net”
“Troppo” Season 2

New to AMC+

‘Snowpiercer’ Season 4
Starts streaming: July 21

After three seasons on TNT, the fourth and final season of this postapocalyptic thriller moves to AMC, completing the saga of a heavily stratified society ripe for a revolution. Adapted from Bong Joon Ho’s 2013 film (itself adapted from a comic book series originated in 1982 by the writer Jacques Lob and the illustrator Jean-Marc Rochette), “Snowpiercer” stars Daveed Diggs as Andre Layton, one of the masses of underclass citizens who once were living in squalor on a massive passenger train, speeding across a ruined, ice-covered Earth. At the end of Season 3, Layton’s band of rebels went literally off the rails to found a new democratic community; but as the new season begins, they realize that their old nemeses from the train aren’t going to leave them alone.

Also arriving:

July 12
“Arcadian”

July 13
“Planet Earth: Mammals”

July 22
“Candice Renoir” Season 9

July 26
“Humane”

July 29
“Signora Volpe” Season 2

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 Baltimore in 1966, where two grim crimes — the separate, unrelated slayings of a young Jewish girl and a middle-aged Black mother — change one woman’s understanding of her hometown. Natalie Portman stars as Maddie, a housewife who gets so fed up with her cold, demanding husband (Brett Gelman) that she abruptly moves from their fancy suburban house to a dingy downtown apartment, where she begins to pursue her childhood dream of being a newspaper reporter. Maddie’s fascination with the two deaths takes her to parts of Baltimore she’s never seen before and parts she mistakenly thought she knew. All the while she’s being watched and judged by the mini-series’ narrator: the ghost of Cleo (Moses Ingram), the mother whose murder the city would rather ignore.

‘Time Bandits’
Starts streaming: July 24

It took an all-star team of TV comedy creators to turn 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”) collaborate to stretch out 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 band of thieves, who use a stolen celestial map to help them jump across eras, searching for historical treasures to steal. The series diverges from the movie in the specific details of its time-hopping, but it has a similar tone, mixing dry humor with a child’s-eye view of heroes and legends.

Also arriving:

July 10
“Sunny”

July 12
“Me”

July 19
“Omnivore”

July 31
“Women in Blue”

New to Disney+

‘Descendants: The Rise of Red’
Starts streaming: July 12

The 2015 Disney Channel original live-action movie “Descendants” was such a huge success for the network that it has spawned a multi-media franchise, set in a world where the children of famous Disney villains try to forge their own paths. “The Rise of Red” — the fourth film in the series — introduces some new second-generation fairy tale characters, as the daughter of Cinderella and the daughter of the “Alice in Wonderland” Queen of Hearts try to patch up the old wounds between their parents in time to save their prep school. The mission involves some time-travel — and a lot of cooperation from a host of other Disney heroes and archnemeses.

Also arriving:

July 1
“Attack of the Red Sea Sharks”
“Baby Sharks in the City”
“Shark Attack 360” Season 1
“Sharks Gone Viral”
“Supersized Sharks”

July 3
“Bluey Minisodes”

New to Hulu

‘Mastermind: To Think Like a Killer’
Starts streaming: July 11

This three-part docuseries covers the career of one of criminology’s true heroes: Dr. Ann Burgess, a consulting psychologist for the F.B.I., who helped develop methods for finding and catching serial rapists and murderers. The director Abby Fuller and a creative team of true crime veterans begin “Mastermind” with one of Dr. Burgess’s earliest cases — involving the “Ski Mask Rapist,” who went on a cross-country spree in the late 1970s and early ’80s — to show how difficult it was for her initially to persuade the law enforcement establishment that rape is a serious crime. The documentary puts a spotlight on a few of the best-known killers she helped put away (including Ted Bundy), though the series is just as interested in Dr. Burgess’s dogged commitment to understanding and supporting victims of sexual assault.

Also arriving:
July 2
“The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes”

July 3
“Red Swan”

July 4
“Land of Tanabata”

July 5
“The Monk and the Gun”

July 11
“The Animal Kingdom”

July 15
“Hit-Monkey” Season 2

July 17
“UnPrisoned” Season 2

July 18
“How I Caught My Killer” Season 2

July 23
“Dress My Tour” Season 1
“Femme”

July 29
“Futurama” Season 12

July 30
“Betrayal: A Father’s Secret”

New to Max

‘Love Lies Bleeding’
Starts streaming: July 19

One of the most acclaimed movies 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 no-good father Lou Sr., Jena Malone as her long-suffering sister, Beth, and Dave Franco as Beth’s obnoxious creep of a husband. The co-writer and director Rose Glass (whose previous film was the artful horror exercise “Saint Maud”) sets this picture in the late 1980s, evoking the pulpy thrillers of that era, 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 arriving:

July 2
“Hard Knocks: Offseason With the New York Giants”

July 4
“Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire”

July 5
“King of Zanzibar”

July 10
“Quad Gods”

July 11

“MILF of Norway” Season 1
“Teen Torture Inc.”

July 13
“Faye”

July 17
“Wild Wild Space”

July 18
“The Commandant’s Shadow”
“Kite Man: Hell Yeah!”

July 24
“Charlie Hustle & the Matter of Pete Rose”

July 26
“Knox Goes Away”

New to Paramount+

‘Melissa Etheridge: I’m Not Broken’
Starts streaming: July 9

The singer-songwriter and gay rights advocate Melissa Etheridge has lived through some tough times over the past few years, including the death of a son from the effects of opioid addiction. But the two-part docuseries “Melissa Etheridge: I’m Not Broken” is only partly about the musician’s own struggles. It’s more focused on a special project she worked on recently: turning 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 to process her grief. In turn, she tries to show how music can heal deep wounds and let the forgotten feel seen.

Also arriving:

July 1
“Memory”

July 10
“Kamp Koral: Spongebob’s Under Years” Season 2

July 16
“Mafia Spies”

New to Peacock

‘Those About to Die’
Starts streaming: July 18

Daniel P. Mannix’s 1958 book “Those About to Die” introduced a lot of non-historians to the particulars of Roman gladiatorial combat; and it later served as an inspiration for the Oscar-winning movie “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 the Emperor Vespasian, who came to power after years of turmoil and is trying to secure a more orderly succession. Iwan Rheon plays Tenax, a shrewd power-broker whose connections to the imperial family and to the top gladiators help him subtly control who wins and loses, both inside the arena and out. Created by the Oscar-nominated screenwriter Robert Rodat with the producer and director Roland Emmerich, “Those About to Die” puts the deep connections between politics and sports into historical context.

Also arriving:

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”