The Best Movies to Stream at Home in July

Summer blockbuster season is here at the movie theaters, but in more important and relevant news to you, it's also here in your own living room cineplex. Call up that one friend of yours, because July is a great month to host a few movie nights, with multiple bona fide smashes coming home to stream, including three of the top five grossers of 2026.

Comedy! Sci-fi! Horror! Romance! Teens getting eaten by a shark! The new movies to stream at home in July cover it all. Take a look at what's coming to Netflix, HBO Max, Hulu, Prime Video, and more. 

Note: The list includes movies coming to major subscription streaming services for the first time; others movies not yet on a streaming service will be available via video on demand. 

Stranger Things' Millie Bobby Brown returns for the third movie in Netflix's film franchise as Sherlock Holmes' sister. This time, her impending nuptials are interrupted when her big brother goes missing.

Wednesday, July 1 on Netflix

The sequel to the 2019 film Ready or Not picks up right where the first one ended, with Samara Weaving's Grace MacCaullay covered in blood (not her own) as she once again fends off families trying to murder her for control of the world. This time, she's brought her sister (Kathryn Newton) along for the fun.

Thursday, July 2 on Hulu

One of 2026's biggest commercial and critical hits will now be one of streaming's biggest hits. Project Hail Mary combines geeky astrophysics with emotional character beats — much like The Martian, which was also based on an Andy Weir book — as a science teacher (Ryan Gosling) takes on a mission to save the Earth (and the entire universe) with the help of a new friend. Note: This has been streaming on the Amazon-owned MGM+, but is now on the much more popular Prime Video.

Friday, July 3 on Prime Video

Evil Dead Rise director Lee Cronin slaps his name on this new take on the classic legend of the Mummy, in which a couple (Jack Reynor and Laia Costa) discover that something is wrong with their daughter, who was recently kidnapped and mummified (wtf?).  

Friday, July 3 on HBO Max

An adaptation of Colleen Hoover's 2022 novel, Reminders of Him stars Maika Monroe as a woman who, after serving a sentence for the manslaughter of her boyfriend, tries to reconnect with the daughter she had while she was in prison. Needless to say, many people try to keep her away, but not the local barkeep (Tyriq Withers), with whom she forms a romance.  

Friday, July 10 on Peacock

Back in the old days of the late 1970s and early 1980s, dubbed copies of the VHS tape Faces of Death made the rounds at the slumber parties of daring teenagers who wanted to watch real, rare footage of people dying. The snuff film inspired this fictionalized horror about a young content moderator (Barbie Ferreira) for a social media platform who believes someone is uploading footage of people actually being killed.

Friday, July 10 on Shudder

This adaptation of the post-apocalyptic Stephen King novel is set in an alternate America where a totalitarian government holds an annual event in which 50 young men compete in a walking contest, with the penalty for stopping being death. (Though getting out of that ridiculous contest seems like a win no matter the cost.) Cooper Hoffman and David Jonsson star.

Friday, July 10 on HBO Max

Sofia Coppola is the Sofia and Marc Jacobs is the Marc in Marc by Sofia, a documentary film directed by Coppola about the famous American fashion designer.

Thursday, July 16 on HBO Max

The fifth installment of the popular Disney Channel original movie franchise sees Princess Red (Kylie Cantrall) — the Queen of Hearts' daughter — and Chloe (Malia Baker) — Cinderella's daughter — return to present-day Wonderland, where their time-traveling hijinks from the previous film create a new villain. The film makes its debut on Disney Channel on Thursday, July 16, a day before hitting streaming.

Friday, July 17 on Disney+

It's a bit of a misnomer, but the film Heartstopper Forever is the final chapter of Netflix's sweet queer romance drama series. This time, Charlie (Joe Locke) and Nick (Kit Connor) are dealing with their toughest challenge yet: the prospect of a long distance relationship as Nick heads to university.

Friday, July 17 on Netflix

In this touching drama, André Holland stars as a man recently released from prison who finds work at a gym as a boxing coach for teens. Wendell Pierce and Samira Wiley also star.

Friday, July 17 on Hulu

One of the breakout horror hits of the year is ready to spend a lot of time with you at home. Obsession, Curry Barker's hit about being careful what you wish for in love and relationships, heads to Peacock after becoming the highest-grossing film ever for a movie made for less than a million bucks. 

Friday, July 17 on Peacock

Even with the power of Grayskull, the Masters of the Universe movie was a box-office bomb. But it has a chance to achieve some level of cult status now that it's coming home. Nicholas Galitzine suits up as He-Man, who returns to his home world of Eternia to protect it from Skeletor (Jared Leto). Based on a line of 1980s toys, Masters of the Universe doesn't take itself too seriously, but fans have a disagreement about whether or not it found that right balance. 

Wednesday, July 22 on Prime Video

Growing up, Sophia Maddox never knew who her grandfather was and probably now wishes it stayed that way. After some research, she discovered that her father was the son of notorious cult leader Charles Manson. This documentary charts her efforts to learn more about her lineage, her fear of what she's inherited, and her strained relationship with her dad, who seems to have more in common with Manson than she hoped.

Wednesday, July 22 on Hulu

Netflix has been churning out some of streaming's best true crime documentaries, and A Toxic Love Story hopes to join them. This one's shrouded in secrecy, as a couple becomes terrorized by a former flame who details a violent plan to get back at her ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend. Except the truth of what is actually going on — and who the real victim is — comes out in a surprising twist.  

Wednesday, July 22 on Netflix

Kevin Hart and Netflix... name a more obvious duo. Hart stars in this Netflix original raunchy comedy about a fortysomething guy who is accidentally added to a text thread for a bachelor party, so he joins them in Miami for three days of debauchery. 

Friday, July 24 on Netflix

In this comedy, Jake Johnson plays a former pro tennis player who takes up pickleball (ugh) in order to save a struggling country club. Mary Steenburgen, Aaron Chen, and Chloe Fineman also star.

Friday, July 24 on Apple TV

Mortal Kombat II, the sequel to 2021's Mortal Kombat, does indeed have a plot — martial arts actor Johnny Cage (The Boys' Karl Urban) is recruited to participate in an interdimensional fighting tournament to stop the evil Shao Khan from taking over the universe — but you're not going to watch it for that. You just want to see someone explode an opponent's skull and kick their headless body into a vat of acid after a brutally violent fight. Finish him!

Friday, July 24 on HBO Max

After you catch up on Netflix's live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender, check out this all-new animated film following a grown-up Aang (voiced by Eric Nam) as he goes on a quest to find an ancient power that can save his culture from extinction. 

Saturday, July 25 on Paramount+

The anime movie Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle was one of 2025's biggest box office hits — it made almost $800 million in theaters, good for seventh for 2025 films — beating big traditional releases like Superman and F1. It's the first of a trilogy focusing on the Infinity Castle arc.

Tuesday, July 28 on Crunchyroll

Partying teens head to Thailand to go cave exploring — what can go wrong? Well, a lot when said cave has some sort of shark or other marine predator that has a taste for young Americans. The cast has a trio of YA superstars in The Summer I Turned Pretty's Gavin Casalegno, To All the Boys' Lana Condor, and The Society's Kathryn Newton.

Wednesday, July 29 on Prime Video

Twenty years after the original The Devil Wears Prada, Andy (Anne Hathaway) returns to Runway magazine to help her overbearing boss (Meryl Streep) keep up with the fast-paced times of modern online publishing (what's a social media?) and stave off corporate takeovers. Stanley Tucci and Emily Blunt also star.

Wednesday, July 29 on Disney+

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie made over a billion dollars at the box office, so chances are you've already seen it, but now's your opportunity to watch Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, and Yoshi head to outer space again, with — hopefully — fewer screaming kids around you.

Thursday, July 30 on Peacock

Finally, see what all The Drama was about. The A24 dark comedy stars Robert Pattinson and Zendaya as an engaged couple whose relationship is tested during their wedding week when a previously unknown revelation comes to light. 

Friday, July 31 on HBO Max

One of my favorite documentaries of the 2020s is Sara Dosa's Oscar-nominated story of love and volcanoes, Fire of Love. Dosa returns four years later with Time and Water, another personal story of someone's relationship with a force of nature, this time on the other side of the heat index. The film serves as a biography of Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason and an exploration of Iceland's melting glaciers. Using home footage filmed by Magnason's parents, Time and Water attempts the near impossible: a cinematic time capsule at both a micro- and macroscopic level.

Friday, July 31 at 9/8c on National Geographic, next day on Disney+

Everything you need for summer TV:

• The complete guide to summer TV
• The most anticipated shows coming this summer
• All the new shows coming this summer
• The ultimate guide to what to watch in July