This July, Showmax is serving up an irresistible lineup of must-watch titles. From heartwarming comedies and genre-defying biopics to pulse-pounding thrillers and award-winning dramas. Whether you’re in the mood for coming-of-age self-discovery (Am I OK?), spine-tingling horror (Late Night With The Devil), or out-of-this-world animated mayhem (The Day The Earth Blew Up), there’s something new and unmissable for every kind of viewer.
With major award nominees, all-star casts, and a few bold surprises—yes, even Robbie Williams as a CGI monkey, this month’s offering is stacked with fresh favourites and future classics. Let the binge begin.
AM I OK?
Stream from Thursday, 3 July on Showmax
Am I OK? tells the story of Lucy and Jane, lifelong best friends who believe they know everything about each other. But when Jane announces she’s moving to London, Lucy reveals a long-held secret. As Jane tries to help Lucy navigate coming out in her 30s, their friendship is put to the test.
People’s Choice winner Dakota Johnson (the Fifty Shades films) and Sonoya Mizuno (House of the Dragon) co-star. The cast also includes Sundance winner Molly Gordon (The Bear). Emmy winner Sean Hayes (Jack in Will & Grace), and Grammy- and Emmy-nominated comedian Tig Notaro, who co-directed Am I OK? with her wife, Emmy-nominated director Stephanie Allynne.
Am I Okay? was nominated for Outstanding Film at this year’s GLAAD Media Awards, the most visible annual LGBTIAQ+ awards show in the world.
Am I Okay? has an 82% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The Pink Lens calls it “a warm hug of a movie that feels like a cupcake for the soul.”
Watch the trailer, which has over 2m views:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP: A LOONEY TUNES MOVIES
Stream from Sunday, 6 July on Showmax
Looney Tunes’ first animated character, Porky Pig, turned 90 this year! To celebrate, Warner Bros. and Ketchup Entertainment bring us the first fully animated feature-length film in Looney Tunes history: The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie!
The hand-drawn 2D animated adventure stars one of the greatest comedic duos in history, Porky Pig and Daffy Duck, who become unlikely heroes and Earth’s only hope when their antics at the local bubble gum factory uncover a secret alien mind control plot. Faced with cosmic odds, the two are determined to save their town (and the world!)… if they don’t drive each other totally looney in the process.
The movie has an 86% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes, where the critics’ consensus says, “Restoring much of Looney Tunes’ quintessential charm with a daffy dose of high energy and inventive gags, The Day the Earth Blew Up goes to show that these iconic characters remain evergreen fun.”
Common Sense Media recommends the movie for ages 7+.
Watch the trailer, which has over 7.5m views:
https://www.youtube.com/
WE LIVE IN TIME
Stream from Monday, 7 July on Showmax
Oscar nominees Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh star in We Live in Time, a decade-spanning, deeply moving romance from BAFTA winner John Crowley (Brooklyn).
We Live in Time earned Crowley a Best Director nomination at the 2025 Irish Film and Television Awards, where Pugh was up for Best International Actress.
Empire Magazine says We Live in Time is “worthy of your time, and your tears.” Time Out calls it “real, and honest, in a way that too few romantic films manage.” And The Hollywood Reporter says, “Seldom has such an unflinchingly honest take on mortality felt so transcendently life-affirming.”
Watch the trailer, which has nearly 7m views:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL
Stream from Thursday, 10 July on Showmax
Rotten Tomatoes’ fourth best-reviewed horror of 2024, Late Night with the Devil takes us to 1977 and a Halloween talk show special like no other, one that will either resuscitate Johnny Carson rival Jack Delroy’s ailing ratings, or unleash evil into the living rooms of America…
As Stephen King himself tweeted, “It’s absolutely brilliant. I couldn’t take my eyes off it.”
Late Night with the Devil won Best Independent Film at the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films’ 2025 Saturn Awards, while David Dastmalchian (Gurathin in Murderbot) won Best Actor at the Fangoria Chainsaw Awards, where writer-directors Cameron and Colin Cairnes took home Best Screenplay. Dastmalchian is also nominated for Best Actor in a Horror at the 2025 Critics Choice Super Awards.
Watch the trailer, which has over 2.8m views:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE
Stream from Friday, 11 July, first on Showmax
Directed by Tim Burton (Wednesday, Beetlejuice), Beetlejuice Beetlejuice was last year’s best-reviewed fantasy movie on Rotten Tomatoes and the 13th biggest box office hit globally.
After a family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia’s life is turned upside down when her teenage daughter, Astrid, accidentally opens the portal to the Afterlife. With trouble brewing in both realms, it’s only a matter of time until the mischievous demon returns to unleash his very own brand of mayhem.
Oscar nominee Michael Keaton (Batman, Spotlight) reprises his iconic role as Beetlejuice. Oscar nominee Winona Ryder (Stranger Things, Edward Scissorhands) and Emmy winner Catherine O’Hara (Schitt’s Creek, The Last of Us) return as Lydia and Delia Deetz, with Emmy nominee Jenna Ortega (Wednesday) joining the cast as Astrid. Also look out for Oscar nominees Willem Dafoe and Danny DeVito, as well as Emmy winner Justin Theroux (The Leftovers).
Watch the trailer, which has over 21m views:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
HERE
Stream from Monday, 14 July on Showmax
A tale of love, loss, laughter and life, Here brings us a story that travels through generations and across multiple families in the special place they inhabit.
The film reunites Oscar winner Tom Hanks and Golden Globe winner Robin Wright with the Oscar-winning team behind Forrest Gump – director Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future, Contact) and screenwriter Eric Roth (Killers of the Flower Moon, Dune: Part One, A Star is Born).
The stacked cast includes Critics Choice nominees Paul Bettany (WandaVision, A Beautiful Mind), Kelly Reilly (Yellowstone’s Beth Dutton) and Michelle Dockery (Downton Abbey’s Lady Mary Crawley), as well as Ophelia Lovibond (Minx) and Nigerian-British BAFTA nominee Nikki Amuka-Bird (Knock at the Cabin).
Several cast members, including Hanks and Wright, were digitally de-aged for certain scenes, and Here was nominated for this year’s Emerging Technology Award from the Visual Effects Society. The film also won the 2025 International Film Music Critics awards for Composition of the Year and Best Original Score for a Drama Film for Oscar-nominated composer Alan Silvestri (Forrest Gump, Back to the Future).
Watch the trailer, which has over 6m views:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
BETTER MAN
Stream from Friday, 18 July on Showmax
Better Man reimagines one of Britain’s biggest pop superstars ever, Robbie Williams, as he sees himself: a monkey.
“Daring to substitute its marquee star with a VFX creation and somehow pulling it off, Better Man makes a monkey out of the traditional musical biopic, to thrilling effect,” says Rotten Tomatoes, where it has an 89% critics’ rating.
Directed by Michael Gracey (The Greatest Showman), Better Man’s central character is played by Jonno Davies (Hunters, Kingsman: The Secret Service) and voiced by Williams. The motion capture is by Wētā Workshop and Wētā Digital, who created Caesar in Planet of the Apes and Gollum in The Lord of the Rings.
Nominated for Best Visual Effects at the 2025 Oscars, Better Man was also up for Best Original Song at the Golden Globes, among other accolades.
Empire Magazine calls this “batshit music biopic … an absolute blast,” and “the biggest cinematic surprise of the year.”
Watch the trailer, which has nearly 10m views:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
TRAP
Stream from Thursday, 24 July on Showmax
Oscar-nominated writer-director M Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Old) is back with Trap, starring Josh Hartnett (Oppenheimer) as a father who treats his teen daughter to a pop concert, where they realise they’re at the centre of a dark and sinister event.
Hartnett cracked the Top 10 for Best Performance in Indiewire’s 2024 Critics’ Poll and won Best Actor at the 2025 Golden Scythe Horror Awards, while Trap was nominated for a Dorian Award for Campy Flick of the Year at the 2025 GALECA Awards.
ScreenCrush calls Trap, “The most overtly Hitchcockian thing Shyamalan’s ever made,” while TheWrap says it’s “one of his best thrillers.”
Watch the trailer, which has over 28 million views:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
SUPER/MAN: THE CHRISTOPHER REEVE STORY
Stream from Friday, 25 July, first on Showmax
Christopher Reeve’s definitive portrayal of Clark Kent/Superman set the benchmark for the superhero cinematic universes that dominate cinema today. Reeve portrayed the Man of Steel in four Superman films, before being injured in a near-fatal horse-riding accident in 1995 that left him paralysed from the neck down. After becoming a quadriplegic, Reeve became a charismatic leader and activist in the quest to find a cure for spinal cord injuries, as well as a passionate advocate for disability rights and care – all while continuing his career in cinema in front of and behind the camera and dedicating himself to his beloved family.
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story has won over 30 awards, including Best Documentary Award at the 2025 BAFTAs and six Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards. The feature documentary has a 98% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with The Hollywood Reporter calling it, “a powerful story of human endurance.”
Emmy-winning filmmakers Peter Ettedgui and Ian Bonhôte (McQueen, Rising Phoenix) direct Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, with South African Robert Ford among the producers. Ford has won two Emmys, a BAFTA and Producers Guild of America award for his work on acclaimed documentaries like The Deepest Breath, Rising Phoenix, Formula 1: Drive to Survive, Citizen K and more.
Watch the trailer, which has over 2.5m views:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
ROB PEACE
Stream from Thursday, 31 July on Showmax
Based on a true story, Rob Peace stars Jay Will (Tyson in Tulsa King) as a brilliant young man destined for greatness at Yale. Raised by his devoted mother, Rob risks everything he has worked for to free his imprisoned father.
Oscar nominees Mary J Blige and Chiwetel Ejiofor play his parents, with Ejiofor also directing and adapting from the bestselling book The Short and Tragic Life of Rob Peace, written by Peace’s real-life friend and Yale roommate, Jeff Hobbs.
The cast includes Gbenga Akinnagbe (The Wire), four-time Emmy nominee Michael Kelly (Lioness), Oscar nominee Mare Winningham (Dopesick) and Grammy nominee Camila Cabello, who starred in 2021’s live-action Cinderella.
“Rob Peace isn’t the story of an ‘Ivy League drug dealer’,” The Wrap says, “it’s the story of a human being who deserved way better than what society gave him.”
Rob Peace was nominated for Outstanding Independent Film at the 2025 Image Awards.
Watch the trailer, which has over one million views:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
AWARDS UPDATE
Nominations for The Critics Choice Super Awards are out, and you watch lots of them on Showmax, including:
ACTION MOVIES
• Civil War (Best Action Movie, Best Actress: Cailee Spaeny & Kirsten Dunst)
• Furiosa (Best Actress: Anya Taylor-Joy)
• Gladiator II (Best Villain: Denzel Washington)
• Monkey Man (Best Action Movie, Best Actor: Dev Patel)
• The Fall Guy (Best Action Movie, Best Actor: Ryan Gosling, Best Actress: Emily Blunt)
HORROR MOVIES
• Heretic (Best Horror Movie, Best Actor: Hugh Grant, Best Villain: Hugh Grant)
• Late Night With The Devil (Best Actor: David Dastmalchian)
• Longlegs (Best Horror Movie, Best Actor: Nicolas Cage)
• Smile 2 (Best Actress: Naomi Scott)
SUPERHERO MOVIES
• Venom: The Last Dance (Best Superhero Movie, Best Actor: Tom Hardy)
SCI-FI/FANTASY MOVIES
• Dune: Part Two (Best Sci-fi/Fantasy Movie, Best Actor: Austin Butler & Timothée Chalamet, Best Actress: Zendaya, Best Villian: Austin Butler)
• The Wild Robot (Best Sci-fi/Fantasy Movie, Best Actress: Lupita Nyong’o)
The Critics Choice Super Awards will be announced on Thursday, 7 August 2025.
ALSO ON SHOWMAX IN JULY
3 July
Dune: Part One, The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions
7 July
Cradle 2 The Grave, Troy
10 July
Infinite, Wonder Woman
14 July
Argo, Gravity, Utopia
17 July
Annihilation, Gemini Man, The Man With No Past
21 July
Minions: The Rise of Gru, The Crow, The Dictator
28 July
Armor
31 July
Bernard: Mission Mars, Cassino In Ischia
HIGH-RES PICS
• Am I OK?
• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
• Better Man
• Here
• Late Night With The Devil
• Rob Peace
• Super/Man
• The Day The Earth Blew Up
• Trap
• We Live In Time
