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New on Netflix: July 2024’s Best New Movies & Shows

With a new month comes a long-awaited Eddie Murphy sequel, as well as new seasons of Unsolved Mysteries, Cobra Kai, and Elite.
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Summer is in full swing, and with it comes a heated update to what’s new on Netflix. Several long-running shows from the streamer are getting hotly-anticipated new seasons, including the Emmy-nominated Cobra Kai, hit reality dating series Too Hot to Handle, Spanish-language teen soap Elite, and the recently-resurrected Unsolved Mysteries, which digs into true crime’s most confounding cold cases.

Speaking of stories rooted in real life, an intriguing lineup of new documentaries are headed for the platform. Skywalkers: A Love Story chronicles the career and romance of a daredevil couple who traverse the globe and scale the world’s last super skyscraper in an unforgettable life-or-death stunt. The checkered history of Lou Perlman, the music mogul behind ‘90s groups like the Backstreet Boys and N’SYNC, gets the docuseries treatment in Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam. And ahead of the 2024 Olympics in Paris, Netflix is delving further into the world of sports with projects about Simone Biles and NFL receivers, on the heels of the last year’s successful Quarterback series.

Here’s what else is coming to Netflix in July:

Lost Seasons 1-6

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Just as Sex and the City’s arrival on Netflix drummed up discourse from a younger generation who had yet to experience the show, expect a similar welcome for Lost. The Emmy-winning ABC drama, which premiered in the fall of 2004 and ran for six seasons, has been a source of contention since its divisive finale. But it introduced stars including Evangeline Lilly, Daniel Dae Kim, Ian Somerhalder, and perhaps most importantly showrunner Damon Lindelof—who has since made Watchmen and The Leftovers—to a wider TV audience. All 121 episodes hit the streamer on July 1.

Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F

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It has been 40 years since Eddie Murphy brought intrepid Axel Foley to the screen in 1984’s Beverly Hills Cop. Decades later, the comedy giant teams up with co-stars old (Judge Reinhold reprises his role as police detective Billy Rosewood) and new (Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays relative rookie Bobby Abbott) for a fourth film in the action-comedy franchise, which debuts on July 3.

Simone Biles Rising

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Ahead of her highly-anticipated return to the Olympics after withdrawing from the 2020 Tokyo Games, the greatest gymnast of all time is allowing viewers into her training process. Biles, who holds a record-breaking 37 Olympic and World Championship medals, balances her forthcoming competition with married life and public pressures in the two-part series. As she told Vanity Fair earlier this year, “I think everyone wants to be famous, and then when it happens, you almost hit a wall and you have an identity crisis. You’re like, Am I made out for this? Why did I wish for this?” Both episodes premiere on July 17.

Unsolved Mysteries: Volume 4

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Since its 2020 resurrection by Netflix, Unsolved Mysteries has unearthed four seasons’ worth of mystifying cases. The latest iteration, which follows an original 15-season run on network TV, boasts another collection of cold cases worth reheating on July 31.

The full list of what’s coming to Netflix in July:

Coming Soon

LALIGA: All Access (NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY)

July 1

About Antoine: Season 1

Amazing Antoine

American Hustle

American Psycho

Annabelle

Back to the Future

Back to the Future Part II

Back to the Future Part III

Big Daddy

The Blind Side

Call Me by Your Name

Captain Phillips

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2

Easy A

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (Batch 3)

The House Bunny

Jigsaw

The Karate Kid

Lost: Seasons 1-6

Magic Mike XXL

Matilda

The Nun

Paw Patrol: The Movie

Spider-Man

Spider-Man 2

Spider-Man 3

Star Trek: Prodigy: Season 2

Suits: Season 9

The Sweetest Thing

Uncle Buck

The Wiz

Zombieland

July 2

SPRINT (NETFLIX SPORTS SERIES)

July 3

Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (NETFLIX FILM)

Love Is Blind: Brazil: Season 4 (NETFLIX SERIES)

The Man with 1000 Kids (NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY)

July 4

Barbecue Showdown: Season 3 (NETFLIX SERIES)

Rhythm + Flow France: Season 3 (NETFLIX SERIES)

July 5

Desperate Lies (NETFLIX SERIES)

Goyo (NETFLIX FILM)

The Imaginary (NETFLIX FAMILY)

The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch: Season 3

July 7

Boruto: Naruto the Movie

The Last: Naruto the Movie

Road To Ninja: Naruto the Movie

July 8

Bad Boys

Bad Boys II

July 9

The Boyfriend (NETFLIX SERIES)

Hannah Berner: We Ride at Dawn (NETFLIX COMEDY)

July 10

Eva Lasting: Season 2 (NETFLIX SERIES)

Receiver (NETFLIX SPORTS SERIES)

Sugar Rush: The Baking Point: Season 2 (NETFLIX SERIES)

Wild Wild Punjab (NETFLIX FILM)

July 11

Another Self: Season 2 (NETFLIX SERIES)

Vanished into the Night (NETFLIX FILM)

Vikings: Valhalla: Season 3 (NETFLIX SERIES)

July 12

Blame the Game (NETFLIX FILM)

The Champion (NETFLIX FILM)

Exploding Kittens (NETFLIX SERIES)

Lobola Man (NETFLIX FILM)

July 15

Midnight Sun

Trolls Band Together

Wonderoos (NETFLIX FAMILY)

July 16

The Boy Next Door

Chad Daniels: Empty Nester (NETFLIX COMEDY)

Fifty Shades Darker

Fifty Shades Freed

Homicide: Los Angeles (NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY)

July 17

The Green Glove Gang: Season 2 (NETFLIX SERIES)

T . P BON: Season 2 (NETFLIX ANIME)

Simone Biles Rising (NETFLIX SPORTS SERIES)

July 18

Cobra Kai: Season 6 Part 1 (NETFLIX SERIES)

Master of the House (NETFLIX SERIES)

July 19

Find Me Falling (NETFLIX FILM)

Skywalkers: A Love Story (NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY)

Sweet Home: Season 3 (NETFLIX SERIES)

Too Hot to Handle: Season 6 (NETFLIX SERIES)

July 23

All American: Season 6

July 24

Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam (NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY)

Love of my life (NETFLIX SERIES)

Resurrected Rides (NETFLIX SERIES)

July 25

The Decameron (NETFLIX SERIES)

Kleo: Season 2 (NETFLIX SERIES)

Tokyo Swindlers (NETFLIX SERIES)

July 26

The Dragon Prince: Season 6 (NETFLIX FAMILY)

Elite: Season 8 (NETFLIX SERIES)

House of Ga’a (NETFLIX FILM)

Non Negotiable (NETFLIX FILM)

July 27

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

July 31

Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa (NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY)

Unsolved Mysteries: Volume 4 (NETFLIX SERIES)

What’s leaving Netflix in July 2024:

As the summer season rolls on, Netflix will be sunsetting several titles, including films from Sofia Coppola, Tim Burton, Nancy Meyers, and M. Night Shyamalan. Consider this your last call to fire up a rewatch of Shrek or shirk in terror at Fatal Attraction—both films will be exiting the platform alongside films like The Matrix trilogy.

July 7

War Dogs

July 14

Abducted in Plain Sight

July 15

The Beguiled

July 23

Big Eyes

July 31

American Graffiti

Anaconda

Enough

Fatal Attraction

Glass

Hulk

King Richard

Knocked Up

Lucy

Moneyball

Public Enemies

Resident Evil

Resident Evil: Retribution

Role Models

Shrek

Smokey and the Bandit

Smokey and the Bandit II

Something’s Gotta Give

The Great Wall

The Matrix

The Matrix Reloaded

The Matrix Revolutions

The Other Boleyn Girl

The Theory of Everything

Top Gear: Seasons 29-30

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