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The start of a new month is always exciting, especially if you’re eagerly waiting for your favorite streaming service to update its content and drop new TV shows or films. Plus, with summer now in full swing, it’s the perfect time to relax, sip your favorite beverage, indulge with a delicious snack, and binge some new shows or movies. For the month of July, Paramount+ has an exciting lineup of films to enjoy. From world premieres to old favorites, you’re sure to find a new favorite movie in its catalog. So, sit back and relax as we take a peek at some of the best films coming to Paramount+ this July.
8 Rumble
Celebrate summer family style with the delightful family friendly animated film Rumble, a Paramount+ original which is essentially about staying true to yourself. In Rumble, monsters are a superstar phenomenon and monster wrestling has become a very popular sport. Winnie seeks to follow in her father’s footsteps to train and manage the next successful monster wrestler. However, such a task is easier said than done, especially when the stakes are high. Along the way, Winnie discovers more about herself and learns how to pave her own path to success.
7 Scream 5
If you’re a fan of the popular, horrific, farcical Scream franchise, then you’re in luck because the newest installment of the slasher series is coming to Paramount+. The legacy sequel brings back everyone's favorite characters for a playful horror satire on the nature of legacy sequels themselves. So join Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox), Dewey Riley (David Arquette), Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell), and even hallucinations of the dead Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich) as they face a new killer in the Ghostface mask who targets teenagers with the hopes of resurrecting dark secrets from Woodsboro’s past. Scream 5 has everything you could ever want from the previous classic films and even some new twists and turns.
6 Flowers In The Attic, Petals On The Wind, If There Be Thorns, and Seeds of Yesterday
V. C. Andrews’ popular movie series comes to Paramount+ in its entirety. The four films are based on her Gothic novel series known as The Dollanganger Family Series and consists of Flowers In The Attic, Petals On The Wind, If There Be Thorns, and Seeds of Yesterday. The series follows the story of the Dollanganger family: father Christopher, mother Corinne, 14-year-old Chris, 12-year-old Cathy, and five-year-old twins Carrie and Cory, and the secrets, lies, incest, and forbidden love that surrounds the family. You’ll be able to binge-watch the four films back-to-back when they all hit Paramount+ in July.
5 The Untouchables
The Untouchables is a 1987 crime drama starring Robert De Niro, Kevin Costner, and Sean Connery and follows United States Federal Agent Eliot Ness as he makes it his mission to take down ruthless Chicago gangster Al Capone during the era of Prohibition. Despite David Mamet’s script taking many historical liberties, the film is still slick, comedic at times, and loaded with tons of talent from a top-notch cast that will keep you entertained until the credits roll. Catch The Untouchables when it hits Paramount+ in early July.
4 Beverly Hills Cops 1, 2, and 3
Beverly Hills Cop has the perfect blend of action and comedy, bringing you the best of both worlds this summer. Follow Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy), a street-smart Detroit cop who travels to Beverly Hills, California to investigate crimes and lay down the law. The action sequences paired with Murphy’s inexhaustible charisma and comedic timing is a golden recipe for success which has kept audiences entertained for three films. Plus, rumor has it that there will be a fourth Beverly Hills Cops with Eddie Murphy confirmed to reprise his role as Axel Foley.
3 Mission Impossible 1, 2, and 3
Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to watch the first three Mission Impossible films back-to-back. As always, should you be caught or killed, the secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This article will self-destruct in five seconds. Good luck.
Our next entry is based on the thrilling action spy series from 1966 to 1973 and features action movie star Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt, a U.S. government operative who has a knack for getting himself in dangerous situations, and then getting himself out. The films have all the action, excitement, and thrills of the beloved TV series (and much more to boot) and features a strong performance from the A-list Cruise.
2 Girl, Taken
Girl, Taken is one of Paramount+’s new movie premieres. The documentary follows the real-life story of Celeste and Morne Nurse, happy parents of a brand-new baby girl until she was stolen from the hospital just three days after her birth in Cape Town of April 1997. For years, the couple searched tirelessly for their baby, making countless media appearances and even hiring private detectives, all efforts met with zero results.
However, all that changes when 17 years later, their second daughter Cassidy enrolls in a new school and meets an older student, Miche Solomon, who looks a lot like her. DNA confirms a match, and it seems the Nurses are in for a fairytale ending. Or are they? Will Miche want to leave her kidnaper's home, the family who lovingly raised and cared for her? Find out in Girl, Taken, the incredible true story of two broken families trying to heal, forgive, and put the past behind them.
1 Honor Society
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Perhaps the film most people are excited about is the world premiere of Paramount+’s Honor Society, which stars Angourie Rice (Mare of Easttown) and Gaten Matarazzo (Stranger Things). In this edgy, hilarious coming-of-age comedy, high school student Honor will do anything to get want she wants — admission into her one and only college choice, Harvard. She is a top contender, but first she must take out her three biggest competitors. Piece of cake, right? Until she falls head over heels in love with one of them. Will Honor throw caution to the wind and follow her heart? Or will she keep her eyes focused on the prize?