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Best new movies and TV series on Max: June 2025

Here are our top highlights, for what’s dropping on the Warner Bros streaming service this month.

By Eliza Janssen|30 May 2025

Each month, new films and TV shows are added to Max’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 Mortician: Docuseries (June 2)

The death industry: it’s a livin’! As someone who has seriously considered learning the tools of the mortician trade (if I didn’t just love my life as a pop culture writer so dang much, that is), this engrossing and probably a bit gross docuseries should be a window into a dark and corrupt world.

Following a trusted family-run funeral home that became driven by profit and devolved into inhumane and unethical practices, Joshua Rofé’s three-episode expose illuminates a segment of work, life and blood relations that most of us would rather not dwell on. If you’re in the mood for a true crime doco with blood still pumping in its veins, scroll down. But if you’d rather peer into a quirkier coda—where the victims are already dead and on their way to eternal rest—this gripping and morbid account will be your (body)bag.

Sherri Papini: Caught in the Lie (June 20)

Stranger-than-fiction tales of murder, crime and con artistry are a dime a dozen on streaming services. But when a project like this secures the involvement of the controversial figure at its centre, it shoots right to the top of my to-watch list.

The titular enigma here is a young California mum who emerged from a devastating abduction ordeal, bruised and even branded—only for her slippery story to completely slide apart when the FBI poked holes in the story. Papini has since undergone a media firestorm and been sentenced to prison time for her falsities, and so it’s a huge get that HBO managed to plonk her on the couch; ready to hear her side of the story and perhaps emboss it with a little more empathy, or to expose a bizarre lie in greater detail than ever before.

Top Picks: Movies + Specials

Mountainhead (June 1)

Are there too many movies of late about rich assholes getting their comeuppance? Probably, but with Succession mastermind Jesse Armstrong writing and directing this one, any HBO fan worth their salt and subscription will know to expect something brilliant and bitter.

Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Cory Michael Smith and Ramy Youssef play some of the most moneyed-up blokes on the planet, all cloistered away in a luxury mountain home as some shadowy global disaster unfolds beyond their compound. The social satire should be sickening, even if the movie restrains itself into a chamber piece about the room where the internationally devastating sausage gets made. “Humanity is in their hands”, the tagline warns us: let’s see how the boys sell us out.

Keanuthon: John Wick + The Matrix trilogy (June 21)

Warner Bros.’ streaming service is gradually collecting up all their prized intellectual properties from other platforms, and so this month features a fabulous quadruple-feature of the greatest high-concept action movies from one Keanu Reeves. As the man himself would breathily say: “whoa…”

Only the first feature from Reeves’ redemptive turn as revenant John Wick is available thus far, and the most recent (and wackiest) Matrix movie Resurrections has not joined the party yet either. But you, Neo and John should still have more than enough fun reliving some of the greatest fight choreo and bullet-fu this side of the millennium: make a night of it. Make a shrine of Keanu. Feed it red Skittles, not blue ones.

My Mom Jayne (June 28)

“Nepo baby” is not necessarily an insult. Mariska Hargitay, best known for her fantastic and era-spanning work on Law & Order: SVU as the heroic Olivia Benson, has obviously made a name for herself beyond her dark family origins as the kid of tragic mid-century starlet Jayne Mansfield.

In her directorial doco debut, Hargitay painfully winds back the clock to age three, when her mother died in a gruesome car accident at age 34. Looking warmly backwards at the mum (or “mom”, rather) she barely got to know, the star will uncover tearjerking archival footage—and even some tabloid-baiting family secrets that she’s boldly willing to reveal in feature-length form.

All titles arriving on Max in June

June 1

Mountainhead
Naked and Afraid: Season 18
Wildcard Kitchen
90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days: Seasons 1-4
90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After?: Seasons 1-4
90 Day Fiancé Pillow Talk: Happily Ever After?: Season 7
90 Day Diaries: Season 4
Welcome to Plathville: Seasons 1, 2, 6
My Big Fat Fabulous Life: Season 12

June 2

The Mortician: Docuseries
1000-lb Sisters: Season 7
Where Murder Lies
The Black Widower: The Six Wives of Thomas Randolph
The Real Murders on Elm Street
On The Case with Paula Zahn: Seasons 26 & 27
The Dead Files: Seasons 13-15
Alien Encounters: Fact or Fiction