Everything New on Netflix UK in July That You Need to Watch

Stop endlessly scrolling through the menus, and watch these.

Jun 30, 2016

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The ever-growing amount of content on Netflix can seem daunting, perhaps even overwhelming. With so much coming and going this month it can be hard to keep track of what you should watch and what you need to leave in watch-list purgatory. Luckily we're on-hand to guide you on what you need this month on Netflix.

Scroll down to our list below of the best new stuff coming to Netflix UK this July.

Bojack Horseman (season three)

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When Bojack Horseman was first revealed, it looked like just another lame ‘adult’ animation, with swearing substituting for depth. But viewers quickly realised it was something far more — an incredibly smart, deep, often very bleak examination of depression and alienation, only with Will Arnett voicing a talking horse. Season three sees 90s sitcom actor Bojack actually become genuine movie star, and we really want to see things turn out well for him. As well as also wanting to see more Vincent Adultman and ‘Hollywoo Stars and Celebrities: What Do They Know? Do They Know Things?? Let's Find Out!’.

Streaming from July 22.

Last Chance U (season one)

After the success of Making A Murderer, Netflix are probably going to go HAM on their extended documentary shows. So here is Last Chance U, a six-part series offering “gut-wrenching behind-the-scenes look at the world of college football”, and following young players of East Mississippi Community College trying to make the NFL. Expect a real-life version of Friday Night Lights. And even if you don’t care about American football at all, great sports documentaries can be some of the most engrossing viewing around. 

Streaming from July 29.

Tallulah

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Netflix’s most high-profile original movie this month comes from Orange Is The New Black writer Sian Heder, and stars Ellen Page as the titular character, a young poor girl on the streets who "rescues" a baby from a negligent mother. It looks like the sort of indie drama that would be getting good reviews on the festival circuit, but instead of having to wait for it to turn up at your local Picturehouse, you can stream it straight away.

Streaming from July 29.

Stranger Things (season one)

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And the original Netflix dramas just keep coming. Stranger Things is a 1980s set mystery about a young boy who disappears into thin air. We don’t know much else about it — and from the sound of it that’s maybe the point — though the synopsis says to expect “top-secret government experiments, terrifying supernatural forces and one very strange little girl”. It does however boast a reasonably big-name cast including Winona Ryder and Mathew Modine. Will this be the next Netflix smash, or will it go relatively unnoticed like Hemlock Grove or Marco Polo?

Streaming from July 15.

Brahman Naman

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Brahman Naman looks like any other teen sex comedy — apart from one thing: it’s set in 1980s India. That’s enough to set it apart from the American Pies and Inbetweeners of the world, plus it got good reviews when it played at the Sundance Film Festival, so this could be a future cult hit.

Streaming from July 7.

Power (season three)

The 50 Cent-produced crime series returns for its third series, with new episode dropping weekly. This time, lead character James "Ghost" St. Patrick (Omari Hardwick) says he’s out of the crime game — but if you’ve seen any gangster movie ever, you’ll know that no one gets out that easy. 

New episodes streaming weekly from July 18.

Daft Punk Unchained

Daft Punk are one of the biggest acts in the world, but due to their robot-based anonymity, not that much is actually known about the French duo. This BBC Worldwide documentary pulls back the curtain on Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter detailing their rise to fame. Sadly, but probably unsurprisingly, they don't contribute any new interviews for the film, but there are contributions from the likes of Pharrell Williams, Giorgio Moroder, Nile Rodgers and Michel Gondry.

Streaming from July 1.

Thief

If you’ve a fan of crime movies and you’ve never seen Thief, you are in for a real treat. The debut of director Michael Mann (Heat, Ali, Miami Vice, The Insider), it stars James Cann as a loner jewel thief trying to pull off one last job. It was a massive influence on Drive, with it’s sleek 80s aesthetics and unrelentingly cool electronica score from Tangerine Dream, and it’s simply one of the coolest crime films of all time.

Streaming from July 1.

X-Men: Days of Future Past

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While this year’s X-Men: Apocalypse was deemed a disaster by most critics, its predecessor stands up as a highly enjoyable, if very messy, blockbuster. It has everything you want from an X-Men film — new mutants, old mutants, Hugh Jackman, the now obligatory period setting, and big superhero set pieces, all wrapped up in a classic time travel storyline from the comics.

Streaming from July 20.

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