Every month, Netflix adds movies and TV shows to its library. 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.)
‘The Old Guard 2’
Starts streaming: July 2
The action movie “The Old Guard” became one of Netflix’s most-watched original films when it debuted in 2020 and drew good reviews for its impressive globe-hopping action sequences. Five years later, the sequel brings back the screenwriter Greg Rucka (adapting his own comic book series, in collaboration with the co-writer Sarah L. Walker and the director Victoria Mahoney) along with much of the original cast. Charlize Theron, KiKi Layne and Chiwetel Ejiofor play members of a supersecret mercenary group, mostly made up of immortals. At the end of the first installment, Theron’s character, Andy, lost her rapid-healing superpower. So in “The Old Guard 2” she adjusts to the idea of mortality while also helping her team fight their evil counterparts, led by Booker (Matthias Schoenaerts) and Discord (Uma Thurman).
‘The Sandman’ Season 2
Starts streaming: July 3
This adaptation of the writer Neil Gaiman’s popular comic book series picks up the pace in its second and final season, skipping past multiple story arcs in order to get to the end of “The Sandman” saga more quickly. In these final episodes, the dream king Lord Morpheus (Tom Sturridge) — an entity who has existed in some form or another since before the dawn of human history — reckons with the many mistakes he has made over millions of years. In Season 2 he attempts to rescue a former lover from Hell and to reconcile with long-lost family members, before facing a reckoning from ancient enemies.
‘The Gringo Hunters’ Season 1
Starts streaming: July 9
Most of the news stories and action movies set on the U.S.’s southern border focus on migrants and smugglers who are trying to cross over into America. But this Mexican crime drama — based on the cases of a real-life police unit — is set on the other side of the line, in Tijuana, where U.S. fugitives sometimes try to hide out from justice. Despite the Spanish dialogue, “The Gringo Hunters” resembles an American TV cop show, following a committed band of men and women who chase down dealers, killers and human traffickers. These officers also have some spirited conversations over what they want their Mexico to look like, debating whether cleaning the local neighborhoods up for tourists and real estate developers will make their city unaffordable.
‘Too Much’ Season 1
Starts streaming: July 10
Lena Dunham returns to TV writing and directing with this comedy series, which combines the sensibility of her much-discussed 2010s hit “Girls” and the breeziness of British rom-coms. Megan Stalter plays Jessica, who relocates to London for work, hoping to recover from a messy breakup by living like the heroine of a Regency novel. When she meets Felix (Will Sharpe), a sensitive singer-songwriter, Jessica has to figure out whether this marks the beginning of the romance she has always dreamed about or a looming disaster. Created by Dunham and her husband, Luis Felber (a British singer-songwriter), “Too Much” looks at how people’s expectations of love can be shaped by popular culture.
‘Untamed’ Season 1
Starts streaming: July 17
Eric Bana stars in this combination neo-western and neo-noir as Kyle Turner, a National Park Service special investigator looking into the mysterious and gruesome death of an unidentified young woman on El Capitan, in Yosemite. Turner is diligent, keen-eyed and willing to take risks his colleagues won’t. He also drinks on the job and does not work well with others, in part because of a tragic past. Created by the screenwriters Mark L. Smith and Elle Smith, “Untamed” is a moody mystery set against a backdrop of majestic mountains and lakes, with a strong cast that includes Rosemarie DeWitt as Turner’s anxious ex-wife, Sam Neill as a veteran Yosemite park ranger who knows Turner better than almost anybody, and Lily Santiago as a former Los Angeles police officer now employed by the N.P.S. — and maybe the only person Turner can trust.
Also arriving:
July 1
“Attack on London: Hunting the 7/7 Bombers”
“Mom” Seasons 1-8
“Portlandia” Seasons 1-8
“Yellowjackets” Season 2
July 2
“Tour de France: Unchained” Season 3
July 3
“Mr. Robot” Seasons 1-4
July 4
“All the Sharks”
July 5
“The Summer Hikaru Died” Season 1
July 8
“Better Late Than Single” Season 1
“Nate Jackson: Super Funny”
“Quarterback” Season 2
July 9
“Building the Band” Season 1
“Mad Max: Fury Road”
“Under a Dark Sun” Season 1
“Ziam”
July 10
“7 Bears”
“Brick”
“Leviathan” Season 1
July 11
“Almost Cops”
“Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Destination Wedding”
July 14
“Apocalypse in the Tropics”
July 16
“Amy Bradley Is Missing”
“Mamma Mia!”
July 17
“Catalog” Season 1
“Community Squad” Season 2
“Sunday Best”
July 18
“I’m Still a Superstar”
“Superstar”
“Vir Das: Fool Volume”
“Wall to Wall”
July 21
“The Hunting Wives” Season 1
“The Steve Harvey Show” Seasons 1-6
July 24
“Hitmakers”
“My Melody & Kuromi” Season 1
“A Normal Woman”
July 25
“Happy Gilmore 2”
“Trigger”
July 28
“The Lazarus Project” Seasons 1-2
July 29
“Dusty Slay: Wet Heat”
“WWE: Unreal” Season 1
July 30
“Conversations with a Killer: The Son of Sam Tapes”
“Unspeakable Sins”
July 31
“Glass Heart” Season 1
“An Honest Life”
“Leanne” Season 1
“Marked” Season 1
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