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WITH TEMPERATURES PLUMETTING, there has never been a better time to rug up, plant yourself on your couch and find a new series to sink your teeth (or eyeballs) into. There’s no way around it, winter is the season to binge watch. The great outdoors are becoming less hospitable while TV screens are looking even more enticing – and who are we to resist the charms of the golden age of streaming?

Streaming platforms are due for a big month this July. There’ll be something for everyone, with Vikings: Valhalla, Cobra Kai and The Twelve all returning for new seasons, as well as a number of new films and series making their debuts. The vast swaths of new content don’t make it easy for you though. The big hitters like Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime are so packed with content that they make it difficult to discern what’s worth your time and what’s best left on the backburner – especially when you’re prone to indecision and are paying for the luxury of choice with subscriptions to multiple platforms.

Not to worry though, Esquire has you covered. To help you avoid being paralysed with indecision, we’ve rounded up all the very best films and shows coming to streaming platforms in July 2024.

What’s new on Netflix in July?

July Netflix Highlight – Vikings: Valhalla, season 3

A somewhat quieter month for Netflix is headlined by the final chapter of critically acclaimed historical series Vikings: Valhalla. A spin-off of Vikings, the series is yet to leave a viewer disappointed, with a 100 percent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Since the spin-off was first announced, its creators have stated that they see the franchise wrapping up with the battle of Stamford Bridge, which took place in 1066 and is widely considered the end of the Viking age. Although, when last we left the gang, they were just about to begin pillaging Constantinople, on the other side of the European continent. Looks like they’ll have some travelling to do – did someone say Euro summer?

Also on Netflix in July, family favourite Karate Kid spin-off Cobra Kai is back for a sixth season. It really is fun for the whole family, with enough cool karate moves to keep the kids entertained, and enough nostalgia to keep Gen X parents coming back for more. Lastly, Beverly Hills Cop is finally getting another sequel for the first time in 20 years with Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F. Eddie Murphy reprises his starring role alongside Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

July 1

  • Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
  • I Saw The Light

July 2

  • SPRINT

July 3

  • Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
  • Father Stu
  • Love is Blind: Brazil, season 4
  • The Man with 1000 Kids

July 4

  • Barbarian
  • Barbecue Showdown, season 3
  • Rhythm + Flow France, season 3

July 5

  • Desperate Lies
  • Goyo
  • The Imaginary

July 9

  • The Boyfriend
  • Hannah Berner: We Ride At Dawn

July 10

  • Eva Lasting, season 2
  • Receiver
  • Sugar Rush: The Baking Point, season 2
  • Wild Wild Punjab

July 11

  • Another Self, season 2
  • Vanished Into the Night
  • Vikings: Valhalla, season 3

July 12

  • Blame the Game
  • The Champion
  • Exploding Kittens
  • Lobola Man
  • Men

July 14

  • Miss Night and Day

July 15

  • Wonderoos
  • Titanic

July 16

  • Chad Daniels: Empty Nester
  • Homicide: Los Angeles

July 17

  • The Green Glove Gang, season 2
  • T-P BON, season 2

July 18

  • Cobra Kai, season 6 part 1
  • Master of the House

July 19

  • Find Me Falling
  • The Good Mother
  • Skywalkers: A Love Story
  • Sweet Home, season 3
  • Too Hot To Handle, season 6
  • LALIGA: All Access

July 24

  • Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam
  • Love of my Life
  • Resurrected Rides

July 25

  • The Decameron
  • Kleo, season 2
  • Tokyo Swindlers

July 26

  • The Dragon Prince, season 6
  • Elite: season 8
  • House of Ga’a
  • Non Negotiable

July 31

  • Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa
  • Unsolved Mysteries, volume 4

What’s new on Disney+ in July?

July Disney+ Highlight – Brats

Back in the ’80s, a group of loosely connected and similarly good looking young actors who were slated to be the next faces of Hollywood became known as the ‘Brat Pack’. The Brats included rising stars like Demi Moore, Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Ally Sheedy, Molly Ringwald and the director of new documentary Brats, Andrew McCarthy. In Bratz, McCarthy looks at the impact of young fame and fortune on the group’s shared trajectory, from an inside perspective.

Elsewhere on Disney+, keep an eye on The Acolyte, which is now five episodes into its first season. The first Star Wars series or film set outside the parameters of the ‘Skywalker Saga’, The Acolyte is a tense crime thriller set hundreds of years before the events of the main film timeline, and it’s setting itself up for a must-watch finale.

July 1

  • Shark Attack 360
  • Shark Beach with Anthony Mackie: Gulf Coast
  • Baby Sharks in the City
  • Supersized Sharks
  • Attack of the Red Sea Sharks
  • Sharks Gone Viral
  • Sharks vs. Ross Edgley

July 3

  • Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted, season 4
  • Life Below Zero: Next Generation, seasons 6-7
  • Miraculous World Paris: Tales of Shadybug and Claw Noir
  • Red Swan, season 1

July 4

  • Land of Tanabata

July 5

  • Brats

July 10

  • Family Guy, season 22
  • Macross Delta, season 1
  • Macross Frontier, season 1
  • Wicked Tuna, season 13

July 11

  • Mastermind: To Think Like a Killer

July 12

  • Descendants: The Rise of Red
  • Descendants Sing-Along
  • Descendants 2 Sing-Along
  • Descendants 3 Sing-Along
  • Lainey Wilson: Bell Bottom Country
  • Macross Delta: Passionate Walkure
  • Macross Frontier: The False Songstress
  • Macross Delta: Zettai Live!!!!!
  • Macross Frontier: Labyrinth of Time
  • Macross Frontier: The Wings of Farewell
  • My Home Hero
  • Wicked Woods: A Descendants Halloween Story

July 17

  • American Dad, season 19
  • America’s Funniest Home Videos, seasons 27-29
  • Life Below Zero: First Alaskans, seasons 1-3

July 19

  • The Boss, season 3
  • EPCOT Becoming: Inside The Transformation

July 29

  • Futurama, season 12

July 31

  • To Catch a Smuggler, seasons 2-7

New episodes of The Acolyte, Welcome to Wrexham, The Simpsons, Bob’s Burgers and Big City Greens will also appear weekly throughout July.

What’s new on Stan in July?

July Stan Highlight – Arcadian

So, does Nicolas Cage exclusively act in horror movies and psychological thrillers now? Seriously, last year he was in Renfield, Sympathy for the Devil, The Retirement Plan and Dream Scenario – all thrillers in varying forms. Later this year, Cage will also appear in another psychological thriller, The Surfer, but before then, we’ll get to see Arcadian. The film stars Cage as a father of two sons in a dystopian near future, where he must battle nightmarish forces that only come out at night.

The Killing Kind will also premiere on Stan in July. The series follows a defense attorney who successfully defends a client against stalking charges and begins a relationship with him, only to become one of his victims. Finally, we can’t forget about the Olympics, which begin on July 26th and can be streamed on Stan.

July 1

  • A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
  • A Storm Foretold
  • Hostel
  • Hostel Part II
  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
  • Friends, seasons 1-10
  • Friends Reunion

July 2

  • Stath Lets Flats, seasons 1-3
  • The Fence

July 3

  • StartUp, seasons 1-3
  • The Florida Project
  • Till the End of the Night

July 4

  • Spider-Man: Far From Home
  • The Keeping Room
  • Empire

July 5

  • The Killing Kind
  • Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
  • Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
  • Cookie’s Crumby Pictures

July 6

  • The Zone of Interest
  • Return to Nim’s Island
  • Manny
  • I Am Ali

July 7

  • Menendez Brothers: Murder by Media
  • Mark Hunt: The Fight Of His Life
  • Healing
  • The Jungle Bunch

July 8

  • Shadow (Ying)
  • A Singular Crime

July 9

  • Showtime
  • Shadow Island

July 10

  • Panorama: Beyond Human: Artificial Intelligence and Us
  • He Died With A Felafel In His Hand

July 11

  • Don’t Breathe
  • Our Ties

July 12

  • The Serpent Queen, season 2 premiere
  • Bram Stoker’s Dracula
  • Call The Midwife, season 11 and 2021 Christmas Special

July 13

  • A League Of Their Own

July 14

  • Mindscape
  • Put Nonna In The Freezer

July 15

  • In the Company of Women

July 16

  • Girl In Progress
  • Field of Dreams
  • Momentum Generation

July 17

  • Red Planet
  • The Eight Mountains

July 18

  • Kings From Queens: The Run DMC Story
  • Swimming With Men
  • The Fortress

July 19

  • The Client List, seasons 1-2
  • The Client List (film)

July 20

  • Arcardian
  • Canada’s Drag Race: Canada vs the World, season 2 premiere
  • A Few Good Men

July 21

  • Grand Piano
  • The King of Laughter

July 23

  • Crashed: $800m Festival Fail
  • Train Wreck: My Life As An Idiot
  • Me, Myself & Her

July 24

  • Devil’s Peak
  • Eagle vs Shark
  • The Exception

July 25

  • Robot Dreams
  • All The Money In The World
  • The Big Hit

July 26

  • Perfect Days
  • Seriously Red

July 27

  • Jerry Maguire
  • Swing Kids

July 28

  • Bend It Like Beckham
  • A Stroke of Luck

July 30

  • Infinitely Polar Bear
  • Our Idiot Brother
  • Beginning

July 31

  • Juliet, Naked
  • Inseparables
  • Home, seasons 1-2

New episodes of Hotel Cocaine, All American, Power Book II: Ghost, RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars, will also appear weekly throughout June.

What’s new on Amazon Prime Video in July?

July Amazon Prime Video Highlight – Those About To Die

Beating Gladiator 2 to the punch in capitalising on the Roman Empire hype, historical epic series Those About To Die stars Anthony Hopkins as a Roman Emperor. The series explores Rome’s dark side: the corruption, slavery and savagery that goes into gladiatorial combat, all for an audience who craves nothing but blood and sport.

July will also see two newly released films make their streaming debuts on Amazon Prime. First, Love Lies Bleeding, which stars Kristen Stewart in a romance surrounding a lonesome gym worker and a mysterious, – but undeniably buff – drifter, will arrive on July 9th. Then, guy Ritchie’s The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare premieres on July 25th. It’s an action romp about a group of British special forces soldiers in World War II who hunt Nazis deep behind enemy lines. It’s likely to be more Inglorious Basterds than Dunkirk, but it’s supposedly based on a true story.

July 1

  • 21 Jump Street
  • 22 Jump Street
  • Blow Out
  • Downton Abbey
  • Max Steel
  • Robocop
  • Robocop 2
  • Robocop 3
  • Tank Girl
  • Twister

July 4

  • My Music with Rhiannon Giddens, season 2
  • Space Cadet

July 5

  • Mirzapur, season 3
  • Temptation Island: Mexico

July 7

  • Butcher’s Crossing
  • Law Abiding Citizen

July 9

  • Captain Underpants
  • Creed
  • Creed II
  • Creed III
  • Deepwater Horizon
  • Lego DC Super Heroes: Batman Beleaguered
  • Love Lies Bleeding
  • Rocky
  • Rocky II
  • Rocky III
  • Rocky IV
  • Rocky V
  • Rocky Balboa
  • Sam Morril: You’ve Changed
  • The Secret Life of Pets 2

July 12

  • The Hunger Games: A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

July 15

  • NCIS: Boxset

July 16

  • Abominable
  • The Boss Baby

July 17

  • Regression

July 18

  • My Spy: The Eternal City
  • Uninterrupted’s Top Class Tennis

July 19

  • Those About To Die
  • Betty La Fea: The Story Continues

July 22

  • Dexter: Boxset
  • Ray Donovan: Boxset

July 25

  • Cirque Du Soleil: Without A Net
  • The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

July 28

  • Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga – available to rent or buy

July 29

  • Beverly Hills 90210: Boxset

July 30

  • She’s The Man

What’s new on Binge in July?

July Binge Highlight – The Twelve, season 2

One of Binge’s most watched local offerings is getting another season. Sam Neill is back as a genius barrister in The Twelve. This time, he’s heading to Western Australia, where a matriarchal landowner has been found dead at the bottom of a well. Her own daughter and a farmhand stand accused of the murder as the most likely suspects, but a polarised group of jurors from all walks of Australian life mean the case will be anything but straightforward.

July 1

  • Cold Blood, seasons 8-9
  • The Swingers, season 4
  • The Middle, seasons 1-9
  • Countdown to Money In The Bank 2024
  • The New Adventures of Old Christine, seasons 1-5
  • Evilside
  • Monk, season 7
  • Promised Land
  • The Family Fang
  • Change Of Habit
  • Monkey Business
  • The Man Without A Star

July 2

  • Costco: Is It Really Worth It?
  • Thou Shalt Not Kill, season 2
  • Secrets Of The Hells Angels
  • Flipping 101 With Tarek El Moussa, season 3
  • Horse Feathers
  • Streets Of Laredo
  • The Day Of The Jackal

July 3

  • Outback Truckers, season 7
  • Something In The Water

July 4

  • Qi, season 20

July 5

  • Lewis And Clark, season 1
  • Paediatric Rescue, season 2
  • Secrets In The Ice, season 1

July 6

  • Trolls Band Together

July 7

  • WWE Money in the Bank 2024
  • Blow

July 8

  • Would I Lie To You?, season 9
  • The Vietnam War
  • NXT Heatwave 2024

July 9

  • All American: Homecoming, season 3 premiere
  • The Magician, seasons 1-5
  • Bondi Vet, season 12

July 10

  • Would I Lie To You?, season 16 premiere
  • Death On The Common: My Mother’s Murder
  • Relax, I’m From The Future

July 11

  • The Twelve, season 2 premiere
  • Million Dollar Listing: Los Angeles, season 15 premiere
  • Little People, Big World, season 16

July 12

  • The Real Housewives of Orange County, season 18 premiere
  • Murder: Fight For The Truth

July 14

  • Faye

July 15

  • Emperor Of Ocean Park, season 1 premiere
  • Petra: Lost City Of Stone
  • 90 Day Fiance: The Other Way, season 5 premiere
  • Miller’s Girl

July 16

  • Heathrow, season 7

July 17

  • Saving Lives at Sea, season 4

July 18

  • Murder In The Red Light
  • Wild, Wild Space
  • The Disappearance Of Gabby Petito

July 19

  • Chopped Next Gen
  • Secrets Of The London Underground, season 3

July 20

  • Lights Out

July 21

  • My Adventures with Superman, season 2

July 22

  • 90 Day Fiance: Before The 90 Days, seasons 5-6
  • Ancient Superstructures, season 2

July 23

  • The Curse Of Oak Island, season 11
  • Forsaken Places
  • No Body Recovered

July 24

  • Hidden Histories Of World War II
  • Perfect Pub Walks With Bill Bailey
  • Ancient Egypt: Chronicles Of An Empire

July 25

  • Kirstie And Phil’s Love It Or List It, season 8
  • Lost Cities Of The Trojans
  • White Chicks

July 26

  • Swipe, Match, Murder: The Disappearance Of Grace Millane
  • Neanderthal Apocalypse

July 29

  • Motorway Patrol, season 17

July 30

  • American Pickers, season 20
  • Celebrity Wheel Of Fortune, season 4

What’s new on Apple TV+ in July?

July Apple TV+ Highlight – Lady in the Lake

Lady in the Lake is a noir crime thriller centring on two women in 1966 Baltimore. One, a Jewish housewife played by Natalie Portman who finds her calling as an investigative journalist. The other, a black mother caught up in the political tensions of the ’60s. Their paths cross when a young girl mysteriously disappears, uncovering dark secrets and leaving ambitions unchecked.

July 10

  • Sunny

July 12

  • Me

July 19

  • Lady in the Lake
  • Omnivore

July 24

  • Time Bandits

July 31

  • Women in Blue

I’m short on time, what should I watch in July to keep up with the zeitgeist?

We get it. Time is thin and the streaming commitments are coming thick and fast. To ensure you’re keeping up with next month’s Stranger Things or Squid Game (read: the shows everyone’s talking about), this is our list of recommended must-watch films and series.

  • Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, Netflix, July 3rd
  • Brats, Disney+, July 5th
  • The Killing Kind, Stan, July 5th
  • Love Lies Bleeding, Amazon Prime, July 9th
  • Vikings: Valhalla season 3, Netflix, July 11th
  • The Twelve season 2, Binge, July 11th
  • Cobra Kai season 6, Netflix, July 18th
  • Those About To Die, Amazon Prime, July 19th
  • Lady in the Lake, Apple TV+, July 19th
  • Arcadian, Stan, July 20th
  • The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Amazon Prime, July 25th

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