Best Movies on Netflix – July 2026

Struggling to find his place in the world while juggling school and family, Brooklyn teenager Miles Morales is unexpectedly bitten by a radioactive spider and develops unfathomable powers just like the one and only Spider-Man. While wrestling with the implications of his new abilities, Miles discovers a super collider created by the madman Wilson "Kingpin" Fisk, causing others from across the Spider-Verse to be inadvertently transported to his dimension.

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Director

Bob Persichetti

Starring

Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld

In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad.

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Director

Dee Rees

Starring

Carey Mulligan, Jason Clarke, Jason Mitchell

Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife in a scheme to collect a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. It's going to be a snap and nobody's going to get hurt... until people start dying. Enter Police Chief Marge, a coffee-drinking, parka-wearing - and extremely pregnant - investigator who'll stop at nothing to get her man. And if you think her small-time investigative skills will give the crooks a run for their ransom... you betcha!

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Director

Joel Coen

Starring

Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi

A stage director and an actress struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal extremes.

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Director

Noah Baumbach

Starring

Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, Laura Dern

Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.

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Director

Martin Scorsese

Starring

Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci

The story of Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball team on a budget, by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.

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Director

Bennett Miller

Starring

Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman

A domineering but charismatic rancher wages a war of intimidation on his brother's new wife and her teen son, until long-hidden secrets come to light.

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Director

Jane Campion

Starring

Benedict Cumberbatch, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Kirsten Dunst

The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew, with the failed journey turning into a thrilling saga of heroism. Drifting more than 200,000 miles from Earth, the astronauts work furiously with the ground crew to avert tragedy.

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• Philo

Director

Ron Howard

Starring

Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon

Following the events of Captain America: Civil War, Peter Parker, with the help of his mentor Tony Stark, tries to balance his life as an ordinary high school student in Queens, New York City, with fighting crime as his superhero alter ego Spider-Man as a new threat, the Vulture, emerges.

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Director

Jon Watts

Starring

Tom Holland, Michael Keaton, Robert Downey Jr.

Based on the experiences of Agu, a child fighting in the civil war of a West African country. Follows Agu's journey as he's forced to join a group of soldiers. While he fears his commander and many of the men around him, his fledgling childhood has been brutally shattered by the war raging through his country, and he is at first torn between conflicting revulsion and fascination.

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Director

Cary Joji Fukunaga

Starring

Abraham Attah, Idris Elba, Emmanuel Nii Adom Quaye

After his long-time girlfriend dumps him, a thirty-year-old record store owner seeks to understand why he is unlucky in love while recounting his "top five breakups of all time".

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Director

Stephen Frears

Starring

John Cusack, Iben Hjejle, Todd Louiso

In 1630, a farmer relocates his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of a forest where strange, unsettling things happen. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, each family member's faith, loyalty and love are tested in shocking ways.

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Director

Robert Eggers

Starring

Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie

After being bitten by a genetically altered spider at Oscorp, nerdy but endearing high school student Peter Parker is endowed with amazing powers to become the superhero known as Spider-Man.

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Director

Sam Raimi

Starring

Tobey Maguire, Willem Dafoe, Kirsten Dunst

Frustrated with the direction of the church, Cardinal Bergoglio requests permission to retire in 2012 from Pope Benedict. Instead, facing scandal and self-doubt, the introspective Pope Benedict summons his harshest critic and future successor to Rome to reveal a secret that would shake the foundations of the Catholic Church.

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Director

Fernando Meirelles

Starring

Jonathan Pryce, Anthony Hopkins, Juan Minujín

With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

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Director

David Fincher

Starring

Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris

An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and identifies more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.

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Director

Mike Newell

Starring

Johnny Depp, Al Pacino, Michael Madsen

An FBI agent teams with the town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.

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Director

Taylor Sheridan

Starring

Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen, Gil Birmingham

A young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend - a massive animal named Okja.

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Director

Bong Joon Ho

Starring

An Seo-hyun, Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano

Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.

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Director

Oliver Stone

Starring

Tom Cruise, Raymond J. Barry, Caroline Kava

As America's stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up in the Midwest, funded by publicity-hungry candy maker Walter Harvey. Competitive sisters Dottie Hinson and Kit Keller spar with each other, scout Ernie Capadino and grumpy has-been coach Jimmy Dugan on their way to fame.

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• Philo
• AMC

Director

Penny Marshall

Starring

Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Lori Petty

In the final days of World War II, the Nazis attempt to use black magic to aid their dying cause. The Allies raid the camp where the ceremony is taking place, but not before they summon a baby demon who is rescued by Allied forces and dubbed "Hellboy". Sixty years later, Hellboy serves the cause of good rather than evil as an agent in the Bureau of Paranormal Research & Defense, along with Abe Sapien - a merman with psychic powers, and Liz Sherman - a woman with pyrokinesis, protecting America against dark forces.

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Director

Guillermo del Toro

Starring

Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones

During the Civil War, at a Southern girls’ boarding school, young women take in an injured enemy soldier. As they provide refuge and tend to his wounds, the house is taken over with sexual tension and dangerous rivalries, and taboos are broken in an unexpected turn of events.

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Director

Sofia Coppola

Starring

Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst

On the rugged isle of Berk, where Vikings and dragons have been bitter enemies for generations, Hiccup stands apart, defying centuries of tradition when he befriends Toothless, a feared Night Fury dragon. Their unlikely bond reveals the true nature of dragons, challenging the very foundations of Viking society.

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Director

Dean DeBlois

Starring

Mason Thames, Nico Parker, Gerard Butler

In 1964, a brash, new pro boxer, fresh from his Olympic gold medal victory, explodes onto the scene: Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an entirely new image for African Americans in sport with his proud public self-confidence and his unapologetic belief that he is the greatest boxer of all time. Yet at the top of his game, both Ali's personal and professional lives face the ultimate test.

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Director

Michael Mann

Starring

Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Jon Voight

When his dysfunctional family clashes over the holidays, young Max is disillusioned and turns his back on Christmas. Little does he know, this lack of festive spirit has unleashed the wrath of Krampus: a demonic force of ancient evil intent on punishing non-believers.

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Director

Michael Dougherty

Starring

Adam Scott, Toni Collette, David Koechner

A successful, single businesswoman who dreams of having a baby discovers she is infertile and hires a working class woman to be her unlikely surrogate.

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Director

Michael McCullers

Starring

Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Greg Kinnear

The seemingly invincible Spider-Man goes up against an all-new crop of villains—including the shape-shifting Sandman. While Spider-Man’s superpowers are altered by an alien organism, his alter ego, Peter Parker, deals with nemesis Eddie Brock and also gets caught up in a love triangle.

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Director

Sam Raimi

Starring

Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco

A dog finds the meaning of his own existence through the lives of the humans he meets.

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Director

Gail Mancuso

Starring

Marg Helgenberger, Betty Gilpin, Henry Lau

In their quest to confront the ultimate evil, Percy and his friends battle swarms of mythical creatures to find the mythical Golden Fleece and to stop an ancient evil from rising.

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Director

Thor Freudenthal

Starring

Logan Lerman, Brandon T. Jackson, Alexandra Daddario

A dog goes on quest to discover his purpose in life over the course of several lifetimes with multiple owners.

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Director

Lasse Hallström

Starring

Josh Gad, KJ Apa, Britt Robertson

Happy young married couple Paige and Leo are, well, happy. Then a car accident puts Paige into a life-threatening coma. Upon awakening she has lost the previous five years of memories, including those of her beloved Leo, her wedding, a confusing relationship with her parents, or the ending of her relationship with her ex-fiance. Despite these complications, Leo endeavors to win her heart again and rebuild their marriage.

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Director

Michael Sucsy

Starring

Rachel McAdams, Channing Tatum, Sam Neill

Two FBI agent brothers, Marcus and Kevin Copeland, accidentally foil a drug bust. To avoid being fired they accept a mission escorting a pair of socialites to the Hamptons--but when the girls are disfigured in a car accident, they refuse to go. Left without options, Marcus and Kevin decide to pose as the sisters, transforming themselves from black men into rich European-American women.

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Director

Keenen Ivory Wayans

Starring

Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Frankie Faison

An award-winning cynical journalist, Lloyd Vogel, begrudgingly accepts an assignment to write an Esquire profile piece on the beloved television icon Fred Rogers. After his encounter with Rogers, Vogel's perspective on life is transformed.

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Director

Marielle Heller

Starring

Matthew Rhys, Tom Hanks, Chris Cooper

Caleb, a coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.

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Director

Alex Garland

Starring

Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander, Oscar Isaac

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.

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Director

Steven Spielberg

Starring

Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes

Adventure follows detective Enola Holmes to Malta, where her plans to tie the knot unravel when Sherlock's disappearance plunges her into a perilous case.

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Director

Philip Barantini

Starring

Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill, Helena Bonham Carter

A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the western United States after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.

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Director

Chloé Zhao

Starring

Frances McDormand, David Strathairn, Linda May

While on a forgettable first date together in Ohio, a black man and a black woman are pulled over for a minor traffic infraction. The situation escalates, with sudden and tragic results.

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Director

Melina Matsoukas

Starring

Daniel Kaluuya, Jodie Turner-Smith, Bokeem Woodbine