Best new movies and TV series on Netflix New Zealand: July 2025

Each month, loads of new films and TV shows are added to Netflix Australia‘s library. Eliza Janssen presents her picks for titles worth watching. For the full list of everything arriving on the platform, scroll down.

Top Picks: TV

The Sandman: Season 2 (July 3, 24, 31)

Netflix is in a strange spot with this big-budget, audacious fantasy adaption. The writer of the original, beloved graphic novels, Neil Gaiman, has faced heinous sexual assault allegations, and so the whole immortal saga is seemingly coming to a pretty abrupt and perhaps awkward end. Fans, however, will rejoice in the fact that the second and final season of The Sandman releases in two big chunks, with a special follow-up episode at the end of this month to boot.

Tom Sturridge returns as Dream or Lord Morpheus, part of the ultimate dysfunctional family that includes embodiments of fates, feelings and cosmic forces. The best-loved is Death, a goth manic-pixie-dream-girl played by actor Kirby: their somber yet smiling final chapter will be released on the 31st, promising a look at “the high cost of living”. It’s probably less of an economics report and more of a tear-inducing, existential farewell.

Too Much: Season 1 (July 10)

There is, to put it simply, “too much” to like about this new rom-com series from infamous creator Lena Dunham. Megan Stalter plays the lead, and she’s been nothing but utterly hilarious in a scene-stealing supporting role on Hacks; loveable Brit Will Sharpe plays her enigmatic love interest; and Richard E Grant and Stephen Fry are on the sidelines for comic support.

Stalter’s workaholic all-American gal decides to take a trip across the pond, seriously burned out by her hectic life in New York. Planning to live in icy solitude like a forgotten Brontë sister, her OTT personality instead lands her right in the social heart of London—with love, friendship and probably a bunch of self-acceptance on the cards.

Untamed: Limited Series (July 17)

Starring a few talents from Down Under (Eric Bana and Sam Neill!) and yet setting its scene in picturesque Yosemite National Park, this new thriller miniseries sinks its talons into nature: wondrous landscapes, and the rugged darkness lying within human behaviour alike. Bana is Kyle Turner, a park ranger enforcing man’s law upon the wilderness—his gig gets considerably more tricky with the discovery of a dead body within the park’s leafy depths, sparking questions of whether an animal or another pesky human put him there.

A mystery with some seriously pretty, desktop background-able vistas, the show should scratch that itch The Dry has left.

Top Picks: Movies + Specials

The Old Guard 2 (July 2)

Charlize Theron is Andy, or Andromache of Scythia if you’re nasty, in this fantastical action sequel: following a troop of mercenaries with mystical, practically immortal abilities. Gina Prince-Bythewood directed the fun first film and Victoria Mahoney picks up the ball for this next instalment, with screenwriter Greg Rucka adapting his own comic book series.

Excitingly, Uma Thurman and Henry Golding join the mythic team, too, and the last film’s cliffhanger suggesting the return of Andy’s old pal Quynh should inspire a fabulous grudge mate: poor buddy was trapped in an underwater iron maiden, causing them to drown and die over and over again for centuries. Hopefully this film’s knucklebusting action sequences won’t feel quite so punishing.

Happy Gilmore 2 (July 25)

“I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast.” “You eat pieces of shit for breakfast?” Adam Sandler un-retires his aggro golf champ Happy for this comedy sequel, bringing back most of the original cast (pivotally, Christopher McDonald as pissy villain Shooter McGavin!) as well as Sandler’s own daughter Sunny and Latin pop superstar Bad Bunny as a lowly caddy. A bunch of professional golfers are also signed on for cameos, but I simply cannot bear to look up their names and report them to you here as I find golf agonisingly tedious.

Nonetheless! I will tune into any Adam Sandler low-effort doofus broad comedy, and with the comedian rarely operating in that mode lately in favour of more sentimental dramatic roles, I’ll take what I can get.

Nosferatu (July 26)

Women only go for bad boys who treat them like sacks of meat!! They never wanna settle down with a nice guy like me, Nicholas Hoult!! Robert Eggers doesn’t so much revamp Murnau’s classic silent film as flesh it out into a modern, full-bodied nightmare, casting an unrecognisable Bill Skarsgård as the bloodsucking Count Orlok and encouraging Lily-Rose Depp to really show off her acting talent for the first time, as the frail woman caught in his web of deadly seduction.

The film left me feeling a little cold as a horror vision reimagined, but as a period piece it’s really something: the script, the sets, the costumes and entire production are beautifully realised. A perfect watch for a wintery night in.

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All titles arriving on Netflix New Zealand in July

July 1

Attack on London: Hunting the 7/7 Bombers
Trainwreck: The Cult of American Apparel

July 2

The Old Guard 2
Tour de France: Unchained: Season 3

July 3

Countdown: Taylor vs Serrano
The Sandman: Season 2

July 4

All the Sharks

July 6

The Summer Hikaru Died

July 8

Better Late Than Single
Make it Look Real
Nate Jackson: Super Funny
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Trainwreck: The Real Project X
Quarterback: Season 2

July 9

Building the Band
The Gringo Hunters
Under a Dark Sun
Ziam

July 10

7 Bears
Brick
Leviathan
Off Road
Sneaky Pete: Seasons 1-3
Too Much

July 11

Aap Jaisa Koi
Almost Cops
New Zealand Today: Seasons 1-2
Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Destination Wedding

July 12

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Katie Taylor vs Amanda Serrano 3

July 13

The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity

July 14

Apocalypse in the Tropics
SAKAMOTO DAYS: Season 1
WWE Evolution: 2025

July 15

The Rookie: Season 6
Trainwreck: Balloon Boy

July 16

Amy Bradley is Missing
Patriot Games

July 17

Catalog
Community Squad: Season 2
UNTAMED

July 18

Almost Family
Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger
Delirium
I’m Still a Superstar
Superstar
Vir Das: Fool Volume
Wall to Wall

July 22

Trainwreck: PI Moms

July 23

Critical: Between Life and Death
Letters from the Past

July 24

Hitmakers
My Melody and Kuromi
A Normal Woman
The Sandman: Season 2 Volume 2

July 25

Happy Gilmore 2
Trigger
The Winning Try

July 26

Nosferatu

July 29

Dusty Slay: Wet Heat
Trainwreck: Storm Area 51
WWE: Unreal

July 30

Conversations with a Killer: The Son of Sam Tapes
Unspeakable Sins

July 31

Glass Heart
An Honest Life
Leanne
Marked
The Sandman: Special Episode

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See also
* Best new movies and TV series Stan
* Best new movies and TV series on Amazon Prime
* Best new movies and TV series on Disney+
* All new streaming movies & series