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Best new movies and TV series on Stan: July 2025

Your jam-packed guide to everything landing on Stan this month.

Each month, lots of new films and TV shows are added to Stan‘s library. Eliza Janssen surveys the month’s selections and picks for titles most worth watching. For the full list of everything arriving on the platform, scroll down.

Top Picks: TV

The Carters: Hurts to Love You (July 2)

Behind every shiny, happy child star is a history of trauma, exploitation and tragedy—and the case of Nick and Aaron Carter is no exception. Both were blond, all-singing all-dancing kid dynamos who made their family’s name in the Backstreet Boys and as an impish solo talent, and in this intimate docuseries their sister Angel reveals the sadness that went on behind the scenes. All episodes of the series are available at once, and millennials should find it a tough watch: exposing that the sunny, family-friendly hits of their childhood were manufactured at the expense of one tormented family.

The Institute: Season 1 (July 14)

If this new thriller series stinks of Stephen King to you, you’re on the right track: it’s based on one of the horror maestro’s novels and features a few of his pet themes, following multiple characters caught up in a seedy government conspiracy involving children with unique and destructive supernatural abilities. One such kid is teen prodigy Luke, who awakens in a mysterious facility, his fate colliding with police officer Tim (Ben Barnes) as the worlds beyond the Institute’s gate and the secrets within congeal into something haunting. The show’s creators are established in mystery box TV classics like Lost, so here’s hoping it sticks the landing with a satisfying reveal.

Twisted Metal: Season 2 (July 31)

It’s not difficult to imagine why dystopian media is so evergreen—but most shows (looking at you, HBO and Pedro Pascal) take a tone of weepy existential dread about the whole ordeal. Not so, in this splattery, clattering action series based on a raucous video game series. Anthony Mackie returns as an apocalyptic wanderer, tracked by marauding goons driving ice-cream trucks in clown masks.

Reviewing the first season, Clarisse Loughrey had this to say about Mackie and his companion Stephanie Beatriz: “Twisted Metal offered me what I can only describe as my own character development arc, as I watched my hard-nosed cynicism in the face of two irritating jokesters gradually soften into genuine affection.” In the endtimes most of all, ya gotta have friends!

Top Picks: Movies + Specials

Queer (July 6)

The name’s Burroughs: William S Burroughs. Combining the sticky, repressed sensuality of the great Beat writer ‘s works with Bond performer Daniel Craig in an alarming lead performance, Luca Guadagnino’s latest film didn’t win everybody over. Perhaps there’s simply too much to cover here, painting a vaguely autobiographical portrait of Burroughs and pent-up gay desire with surreal sojourns and a shocking, disorienting ending to boot. “It’s all a fitting closing stretch for one of Guadagnino’s most beguilingly intimate works to date,” Rory Doherty wrote in his review of the film direct from Cannes: “an imperfect, arresting voyage into discomfort and euphoria.” I’m more than keen to dive in.

The Last Showgirl (July 20)

When we use the term “role of a lifetime”, we might be imagining something similiar to this drama by Gia Coppola. It stars Pamela Anderson as a Las Vegas dancer cast out to sea when her long-running, old-school revue finally closes down—and it’s not so much the role of her lifetime for its quality, though Anderson does give a profound lead performance. Moreso, the movie speaks to Anderson’s public image and poor treatment, of what we expect and accept for stars who enter middle age and refuse to leave the stage. Not a great film, but one with plenty of somber feeling.


All titles arriving on Stan in July

July 1

The Square (2008)
Spider-Man: No Way Home
Morbius
Venom: Let There Be Carnage

July 2

The Carters: Hurts to Love You: Season 1

July 3

Buried
White Fever: Season 1

July 4

Such Brave Girls: Season 2
Ready Steady Wiggle: Season 6
The Patriot (2000)

July 5

Black Swan (2010)
Zola

July 6

Queer
Charming

July 7

Jungle Bunch 2
Strangeness
Dolphins: Is Our Love Too Deep

July 8

The Final Quarter
A Journal For Jordan

July 9

Uncharted
Checkmates
Summertime (La Belle Saison)

July 10

Looper

July 11

Octonauts: Great Arctic Adventure
The Way We Wore: Season 1

July 12

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

July 13

Project Nim

July 14

The Institute: Season 1 Premiere
Aire: Just Breathe
We’ll Be Young And Beautiful

July 15

Butter (2022)

July 16

S.W.A.T. (2017): Seasons 1-6
S.W.A.T. (2003)
White Chicks
Sons
The Emigrants

July 17

City Of Lies
Ghostbusters: Afterlife

July 18

The Book Of Life

July 19

Poms

July 20

Sin City Gigolo: A Murder in Las Vegas: Season 1 Premiere
The Last Showgirl

July 21

From Hilde, With Love
Like A Cat On A Highway 2

July 22

American Sniper

July 23

The Dark Emu Story
Nothing To Laugh About
Padrenostro
Mona Lisa Smile

July 24

Scoop
Mother and Son (2023): Season 1

July 25

Fireman Sam: Season 15

July 26

The Day After Tomorrow

July 27

The Accidental President
Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City

July 28

The Forger
Ordinary Happiness

July 29

The Children Act

July 30

The Whiteley Art Scandal: Season 1
Little Nicholas’ Treasure
Helene
The Pursuit Of Happyness

July 31

Twisted Metal: Season 2 Premiere
The 355
Gangnam Project: Season 1

See also
* Best new movies and TV series on Netflix Australia
* Best new movies and TV series on Amazon Prime
* Best new movies and TV series on Disney+
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