Every month, streaming services add movies and TV shows to their libraries. Here are our picks for some of June’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
‘We Were Liars’
Starts streaming: June 18
This adaptation of E. Lockhart’s award-winning young adult novel of the same name follows Cadence (Emily Alyn Lind), one of a group of teenage relatives known in the family as “the liars.” (Their parents and their billionaire grandfather, Harris Sinclair (David Morse) called them that because of all of the mischief they got up to and then lied about when they were little.) When one of the summers together at the Sinclair family’s oceanfront estate goes tragically awry, Cadence is left with only vague memories of what happened. She has to piece together the details, with very little help from her bickering aunts or her suddenly and inexplicably aloof cousins. The mystery winds through a flashback-filled story, covering the romances and the regrets of the very rich.
Also arriving:
June 12
“Deep Cover”
June 15
“The Chosen” Season 5
June 25
“Countdown” Season 1
June 27
“Marry My Husband”
New to AMC+
‘Hell Motel’ Season 1
Starts streaming: June 17
In the opening scene of the Shudder series “Hell Motel,” a newlywed couple stops on a stormy night at a remote roadside inn, where they are ritually slaughtered by Satanists. Thirty years later, a handful of true-crime enthusiasts and influencers are invited to the motel to promote its reopening. When the guests start dying in gruesome ways, the survivors have to figure out who among them might be responsible. “Hell Motel” was cocreated by Aaron Martin and Ian Carpenter, whose anthology series “Slasher” paid similar homage to classic horror and mystery tropes. Eric McCormack stars as a creepy celebrity chef, whose snide attitude exemplifies the kind of questionable characters who have gathered at this place, any one of whom could be a potential victim — or a potential killer.
‘Nautilus’ Season 1
Starts streaming: June 29
A reimagining of Jules Verne’s “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas,” this adventure series has Shazad Latif playing the infamous Captain Nemo. In this version of the story, Nemo has been held in a prison in India, forced to do slave labor in helping to design and build a technologically advanced submarine, the Nautilus, for a tyrannical British mercantile company. When Nemo and several of his cellmates break out of jail and steal the ship, they embark on a mission to the farthest reaches of the seas, to find treasure and infuriate colonialists. “Nautilus” plays a little like an ocean-bound, steampunk “Star Trek,” following a motley crew of honorable outlaws as they explore the unknown.
Also arriving:
June 1
“Dead Silence”
“Insidious”
June 2
“Relative Secrets”
June 5
“The Killer Clown: Murder on the Doorstep”
June 9
“The Feud”
June 13
“Best Wishes to All”
June 16
“The Stylist”
June 20
“The Rule of Jenny Pen”
June 22
“The Strain” Seasons 1-4
June 23
“Inside” Season 1
June 30
“Ash”
“DI Ray” Season 1
New to Apple TV+
‘Stick’
Starts streaming: June 4
In this underdog sports comedy series, Owen Wilson plays Pryce Cahill, a former P.G.A. hotshot who suffered a psychological breakdown. He now lives a slacker lifestyle as a suburban country club pro, teaching lessons to old ladies and selling overpriced equipment to overconfident rich guys. When Pryce encounters a talented amateur named Santi Wheeler (Peter Dager), he sees a chance to reinvent himself as a coach, teaching Santi how to use his gifts and to avoid the sport’s pitfalls — so that he can make them both some money. Created by Jason Keller, “Stick” is in the spirit of movies like “Caddyshack” and “Tin Cup,” about all those scruffy jocks who have caught a few bad breaks, but who feel they could turn their lives around with just one great day on the links.
‘Smoke’
Starts streaming: June 27
Based on a true story, this moody drama stars Taron Egerton as Dave Gudsen, an experienced arson investigator who struggles to bring in the serial firebug — or perhaps multiple firebugs — terrorizing his Pacific Northwestern community. Jurnee Smollett plays a police detective assigned to help Gudsen, and she soon discovers that her new partner may be keeping a huge secret. It would be a spoiler to mention the name of the case that inspired “Smoke,” but suffice to say that it is notorious enough to have been covered previously in books, movies and podcasts. The series’ creator, Dennis Lehane, though, is a veteran detective novelist (the author of “Mystic River” and “Gone Baby Gone”), who has his own insights into the worlds of criminals and crime-solvers, and what drives them.
Also arriving:
June 13
“Best Wishes to All”
“Echo Valley”
“Not a Box”
June 18
“The Buccaneers” Season 2
New to Disney+
‘Phineas and Ferb’ Season 5
Starts streaming: June 6
One of the most beloved kids’ cartoons of the early 21st century returns, a full 10 years after Disney Channel aired what — at the time — was said to be the series finale. The title characters of “Phineas and Ferb” are stepbrothers, who begin each summer day with a plan to entertain themselves and their friends with some amazing new project. Their stories generally run in parallel to the latest nefarious scheme by the local mad scientist, Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz, whose greatest nemesis is a secret agent who lives deep undercover as the boys’ pet platypus, Perry. Wildly creative and infectiously sunny — with catchy songs in nearly every episode — this show was a favorite of both school-age children and their parents in the 2000s and 2010s. It should appeal just as much to a new generation.
‘Sally’
Starts streaming: June 17
When Sally Ride became the first American woman to travel into space, she became a national celebrity and a role model. Ride embraced some parts of the job, such as inspiring other young women and girls to pursue careers in science. But some parts she disliked, such as being pressured by the media into embracing stereotypical modes of femininity — while hiding her own homosexuality. Cristina Costantini’s emotionally affecting documentary “Sally” combines some fascinating old NASA footage with insightful new interviews — including with Tam O’Shaughnessy, Ride’s life partner of over 30 years — to tell the story of a complicated hero who died before she could show the public her full self.
‘Ironheart’
Starts streaming: June 24
The superhero mini-series “Ironheart” marks the end of the most recent Marvel Cinematic Universe “phase” — the term the Marvel bosses use for the loosely connected feature films and TV shows released within a certain time period. (Phase 5 began with “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” (2023). Phase 6 kicks off next month with the movie “The Fantastic Four: First Steps.”) But for fans of the “Black Panther” film franchise, “Ironheart” may be more notable for continuing the adventures of Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne), the young genius introduced in “Wakanda Forever.” In the mini-series, Riri takes her high-tech, Iron Man-like armor back to her home in Chicago, where she meets a mysterious, charismatic activist (Anthony Ramos) who believes more in magic than science.
Also arriving:
June 8
“Ocean With David Attenborough”
June 20
“Frozen: The Hit Broadway Musical”
New to Hulu
‘Predator: Killer of Killers’
Starts streaming: June 6
With the 2022 science-fiction thriller “Prey,” the director Dan Trachtenberg brought some fresh energy to the “Predator” franchise by telling a simpler, more grounded story, set in 18th-century America. Trachtenberg and the “Prey” screenwriter Patrick Aison have reunited for another, more futuristic film, “Predator: Badlands,” coming later this year. But in the interim, the director has teamed up with the writer Micho Robert Rutare (and a co-director, Joshua Wassung) for an animated feature that serves as a bridge between the two movies: “Predator: Killer of Killers.” It presents a series of vignettes, in which one of the deadly “Predator” aliens tests its mettle against an Earthling warrior: one Viking, one ninja and one World War II fighter pilot. Like “Prey,” the animated film is action-heavy, focusing more on intense chases and battles than on dense fantasy mythology.
‘The Bear’ Season 4
Starts streaming: June 25
Give a lot of credit to the cast and crew of “The Bear” for continuing to produce a full season every year, in an era where most award-winning TV shows can have two years of downtime (or more). The quick turnaround is especially welcome given that Season 3 — while still very good — felt a little less dynamic than what had come before. Having spent two seasons telling the story of how one talented, emotionally unstable Chicago chef, Carmy Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White), saves his family’s failing restaurant, Season 3 mostly dealt with Carmy and his team struggling with how to sustain that success. There should be more plot movement in Season 4, as the rising star chef Sydney Adamu (Ayo Edebiri) considers her career options and the restaurant deals with cash flow problems.
Also arriving:
June 10
“Call Her Alex”
June 13
“Atsuko Okatsuka: Father”
June 23
“Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything”
June 30
“The Actor”
New to Max
‘The Gilded Age’ Season 3
Starts streaming: June 22
“The Gilded Age” has become one of HBO’s most buzzed-about shows, although it is unclear whether people are watching this historical melodrama to appreciate its colorful depiction of American life in the late 19th century or to make fun of its outsized characters and wild plot twists. Created by Julian Fellowes, the series does for 1880s New York City what Fellowes’s “Downton Abbey” did for early-20th-century England, capturing major social changes through the eyes of various wealthy families and their servants. While the United States was founded on more egalitarian principles than the Old World countries, much of the fun of “The Gilded Age” has come from following social climbers like the robber baron’s wife, Bertha Russell (Carrie Coon), the aged spinster Ada Forte (Cynthia Nixon), and the enterprising young journalist Peggy Scott (Denée Benton), as they buck convention and try to change their station.
Also arriving:
June 1
“The Mortician”
June 6
“Parthenope”
June 13
“Cleaner”
June 24
“Enigma”
June 27
“The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie”
“My Mom Jayne”
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