What's Coming Out This Week In Theaters and On Streaming, VOD & TV: July 13 thru July 19, 2026
All the 🎥 films and 📺 shows hitting theaters and streaming this week!
The summer season has already delivered its share of hits and misses, and this week brings a new batch of releases ready to either break through or get lost in the shuffle. While nervous studio heads keep a close eye on the box office numbers, moviegoers are left to decide which films are worth leaving the house for. Meanwhile, television continues to roll out just enough intriguing new shows to keep the weekly watchlist crowded.
So whether you’re thinking of giving your local cinema some business or staying in and settling onto the couch, here are the new movies and TV shows worth keeping on your radar this week. As always, we’ve lined up the week’s most notable releases coming to theaters, streaming platforms, VOD, and television. While it seems theaters have kept the runway relatively clear for Nolan’s fantasy epic to dominate this weekend, there are still a few other titles deserving of your attention. Scroll down to see what’s arriving over the next few days. We’re sure you’ll find something worth watching.
🎥 In Theaters This Week
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🎥 The Odyssey
(Fri, July 17th — wide release)
Oscar-winning filmmaker Christopher Nolan turns Homer’s ancient Greek epic into a massive IMAX-scaled adventure about war, monsters, gods, and one exhausted man trying to get home. Matt Damon stars as Odysseus, whose return from Troy becomes a brutal trial of survival and devotion, while Anne Hathaway’s Penelope holds Ithaca against circling suitors and Tom Holland’s Telemachus protects a father’s legacy. With Zendaya, Charlize Theron, Robert Pattinson, and more, this old-school studio epic turns one of literature’s oldest journeys into the kind of big-screen event only Nolan could make feel new again.
🎥 Steal Away
(Fri, July 17th — limited release)
Angourie Rice stars as a teenager whose identity starts to crack when her family takes in a refugee played by Mallori Johnson. What begins as curiosity slides into desire, jealousy, and obsession, until wanting someone else’s life becomes dangerously close to erasing her own. Written and directed by Clement Virgo, this indie drama turns adolescent fascination into something sharper, stranger, and harder to escape.
🎥 Horsegirls
(Fri, July 17th — limited release)
Lillian Carrier stars as Margarita, a 22-year-old woman with autism who finds freedom in the wonderfully specific world of hobbyhorsing. As her mother’s illness returns, that passion becomes more than an escape... it becomes a declaration of independence. Written and directed by first-time feature filmmaker Lauren Meyering, this heartfelt debut turns an unlikely arena into a moving story about family, self-determination, and letting go.
🎥 The Kidnapping of Arabella
(Fri, July 17th — limited release, in the NY)
Quarter-life crises usually involve career panic and questionable choices, not a runaway kid who may be your younger self. Benedetta Porcaroli stars as Holly, a restless woman stuck in a dead-end job who becomes convinced Arabella (Lucrezia Guglielmino) has crossed time to give her another shot. Written and directed by Carolina Cavalli, with Chris Pine as Arabella’s self-absorbed author father, this Italian fable turns regret and escape into a tender cosmic road story.
🎥 American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez
(Fri, July 17th — limited release, at NY’s Film Forum)
Luis Valdez gets the spotlight in this cultural portrait from writer-director David Alvarado, tracing the Mexican-American playwright and filmmaker’s path from the farm fields of Delano to Broadway and Hollywood. Narrated by Edward James Olmos, who starred in Valdez’s landmark Zoot Suit and its 1981 film adaptation, the documentary revisits the founding of El Teatro Campesino, the breakthrough of Zoot Suit, and the making of La Bamba. It’s a story about art as a weapon, theater as a movement, and the Chicano voice that helped reshape the American stage.
🎦 Streaming This Week
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🎦 Golden Kamuy: The Abashiri Prison Raid
(Mon, July 13th — premiering on Netflix)
An ironclad prison, hundreds of criminals, and one tattooed treasure map. This live-action action-adventure film continues Netflix’s Golden Kamuy saga as Saichi Sugimoto and Asirpa push deeper into the hunt for stolen Ainu gold, leading them toward the heavily guarded Abashiri Prison. Starring Kento Yamazaki, Anna Yamada, Gordon Maeda, Yūma Yamoto, and Asuka Kudo, the manga’s iconic prison arc becomes a high-stakes raid where every scar could point to war.
🎦 Mile End Kicks
(Mon, July 13th — streaming on Netflix)
Barbie Ferreira chases a big byline and finds a bigger mess in this indie coming-of-age dramedy from I Like Movies filmmaker Chandler Levack. She stars as an aspiring music journalist who heads to Montreal to write about Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill, only to get pulled into the city’s indie rock scene and a complicated romance with two bandmates. Consider it a mixtape of ambition, desire, and early-adulthood confusion.
🎦 Is God Is
(Tues, July 14th — streaming on MGM+, via Prime Video)
Kara Young and Mallori Johnson star as twin sisters crossing brutal emotional and physical terrain to confront the father (Sterling K. Brown) who shattered their childhood. Written and directed by Aleshea Harris from her award-winning play, this fierce revenge saga turns trauma, sisterhood, and justice into one burning question: what happens when the fire that hurt you becomes the fire that drives you?
🎦 Cold Storage
(Wed, July 15th — streaming on MGM+, via Prime Video)
This darkly comic sci-fi thriller stars Stranger Things’ Joe Keery and Barbarian’s Georgina Campbell as two storage-facility clerks whose graveyard shift erupts into utter chaos after they accidentally unleash a lethal fungal outbreak, pushing them into an uneasy alliance with Liam Neeson’s grizzled bioterror fixer to stop extinction before dawn. Written by David Koepp and adapted from his own novel, it argues the end of the world won’t arrive with a bang... just one spectacularly disastrous night on the job.
🎦 Marc by Sofia
(Wed, July 15th — streaming on HBO Max)
Sofia Coppola steps into nonfiction filmmaking for the first time, turning her lens toward longtime friend and fashion designer Marc Jacobs. This intimate documentary plays less like a biography and more like a candid, evolving conversation, as Jacobs reflects on creativity, identity, and the pressures of modern fashion. With Coppola placing herself inside the frame, their decades-long friendship unfolds into a thoughtful exchange about artistic instinct, where fashion and filmmaking mirror each other in mood, image, and personal expression.
🎦 Heartstopper Forever
(Fri, July 17th — premiering on Netflix)
Netflix’s queer teen romance gets a feature-length farewell as Charlie and Nick face the next stage of their lives together and apart. Written by Alice Oseman and based on her beloved webcomic, the finale brings back Joe Locke and Kit Connor as distance, university plans, and growing independence begin testing a relationship built through first love and hard-won trust. The wider Truham-Higgs circle also faces bittersweet growing pains, giving the series one last chance to turn young love into something ready for adulthood.
🎦 23 000 Lives
(Fri, July 17th — premiering on Netflix)
A rescue mission across the Mediterranean becomes a moral pressure cooker in this German drama inspired by a true story. Directed by Markus Goller, the film follows a group of young activists who set sail to help refugees in distress, only to find their ideals tested by law, politics, and the brutal reality of human lives caught in between. Louis Hofmann, Maria Dragus, Trevor Magaya, and Mala Emde star in a story about what happens when looking away stops feeling like an option.
🎦 They Fight
(Fri, July 17th — premiering on Hulu / Disney+)
André Holland stars as Walt Manigan, a reformed ex-con returning home to Southeast D.C. and trying to build a life that won’t drag him back down. His second chance leads him to a struggling boxing gym run by his old mentor Slim (Wendell Pierce), where three young fighters are battling problems far bigger than anything inside the ring. This inner-city boxing drama turns redemption into a corner fight, where helping the next generation may be the only thing that saves Walt... or the thing that costs him everything.
🎦 Obsession
(Fri, July 17th — streaming on Peacock)
Be careful what you wish for, especially when love is involved. Michael Johnston stars as a socially awkward music store employee who uses a mysterious novelty item to make his longtime crush (played by this year’s breakout Inde Navarrette) fall for him. But in Curry Barker’s feature debut, affection turns dangerous fast, transforming one lonely guy’s romantic fantasy into a supernatural nightmare with no safe word.
🎦 Exit 8
(Fri, July 17th — streaming on Shudder)
A routine subway ride turns into an endless loop when a Japanese man (Kazunari Ninomiya) finds himself trapped in a shifting corridor where every detail feels off and every decision could be a mistake. Directed by Genki Kawamura and based on the viral game by Kotake Create, this psychological Japanese horror thriller thrives on repetition and creeping paranoia, where escape depends on noticing what doesn’t belong.
✅ On VOD This Week
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✅ Backrooms
(Tues, July 14th — on VOD/Digital)
YouTube creator Kane Parsons turns his viral creepypasta shorts into a full-blown theatrical horror film, dragging audiences into an endless maze of empty office rooms, dead-end corridors, and reality-bending dread. Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve star as a troubled man and his therapist pulled into a secret dimension where getting lost may be the least terrifying part.
✅ The Breadwinner
(Tues, July 14th — on VOD/Digital)
Nate Bargatze trades stand-up calm for stay-at-home chaos in this family comedy about a laid-back dad suddenly promoted to full-time household commander. When his wife (Mandy Moore) lands a major career opportunity, Nate is left juggling three daughters, school schedules, chores, and the terrifying realization that parenting is not a side gig. Colin Jost, Kumail Nanjiani, and Will Forte round out the cast in a comedy where dad jokes may not be enough to save the day.
✅ Stop! That! Train!
(Tues, July 14th — on VOD/Digital)
Disaster movies finally get dragged onto the rails. Drag queens Ginger Minj and Jujubee star as two coach train stewardesses aboard the Glamazonian Express, where a catastrophic “Stormaganza” threatens to send the ride crashing toward Los Angeles. Directed by Adam Shankman, this campy disaster spoof turns drag performance, disaster parody, and RuPaul as the U.S. President into one runaway spectacle.
✅ Ip Man: Kung Fu Legend
(Tues, July 14th — on VOD/Digital)
Dennis To returns as Ip Man in this martial-arts sequel, where a fresh start quickly becomes another battle for tradition. After leaving the police force, Ip Man opens a martial arts club, only to watch the neighborhood come under pressure from a western boxing gym buying up local property. Cultural pride, real estate muscle, and old-school discipline set the stage for some hard-hitting Wing Chun payback.
✅ Son of the Soil
(Tues, July 14th — on VOD/Digital)
Razaaq Adoti stars as Zion Ladejo, a former Nigerian Special Ops paratrooper whose quiet exile ends with his sister’s death. When he returns home, he finds a community drowning under a drug epidemic and a criminal network ruling through fear. This Nigerian action thriller turns one soldier’s grief into a mission with no room for retreat.
✅ The Souffleur
(Tues, July 14th — on VOD/Digital)
Willem Dafoe checks into a losing fight against money, development, and time in writer-director Gastón Solnicki’s dark comedy. As Lucius, the longtime manager of an iconic Vienna hotel marked for demolition, he recruits his daughter and staff for a strange campaign of detours, espionage, and resistance. Some people fight for property; Lucius fights for a disappearing world.
✅ Kill Trip
(Fri, July 17th — on VOD/Digital)
The road to Austin goes wrong fast in this horror thriller about festival-goers who hitch the wrong ride on their way to a dream weekend. What starts as carefree travel turns into a deadly detour as people disappear, the group shrinks, and survival becomes the only plan left. Tate Christensen, Diletta Guglielmi, Stelio Savante, and Corin Nemec star in this road-trip chiller where every mile brings the remaining travelers closer to whatever is waiting out there.
✅ The Bay
(Fri, July 17th — on VOD/Digital)
Francesca Eastwood and Dani Oliveros star as best friends whose destination-wedding trip to Thailand turns into a fight for survival. After their tour boat sinks in the middle of a tiger shark sanctuary, they’re left stranded far from shore with panic rising and predators circling below. Written and directed by Phil Volken, this survival thriller turns open water into a brutal test of friendship, endurance, and how long hope can stay afloat.
✅ Jinsei
(Fri, July 17th — on VOD/Digital)
A life can take many forms, and this hand-drawn anime takes that idea across an entire century. Written, directed, edited, and hand-drawn by newcomer Ryuya Suzuki, the film follows a hero voiced by rapper ACE COOL as he shifts through names, identities, and eras, chasing superstardom before becoming an outcast, a leader, and finally a strange oracle of destiny.
📺 On TV This Week
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📺 All American: Season 8
(Mon, July 13th — on The CW)
The final season of CW’s long-running football drama heads into its last stretch with the end zone finally in sight. Picking up six months after the Beverly-versus-Crenshaw showdown, the farewell season finds Jordan still dealing with Cassius’ betrayal while Cassius faces the fallout at Beverly. Daniel Ezra and Samantha Logan return as Spencer and Olivia, now expecting twin girls, as the Baker legacy keeps pulling old conflicts back onto the field before the series takes its final whistle.
📺 Murder 101
(Mon, July 13th — on Prime Video)
True crime gets a classroom lesson in empathy. Based on the hit KT Studios podcast, this three-part docuseries follows teacher Alex Campbell and his Elizabethton High School sociology students as they dig into the decades-old Redhead Murders, a series of unsolved killings that once haunted the South before slipping from public memory. Directed by Stacey Lee, the series turns a cold-case investigation into something more thoughtful: a story about teenagers learning that justice begins with paying attention and treating every forgotten case like someone’s unfinished story.
📺 2026 MLB Home Run Derby
(Mon, July 13th — on Netflix)
Baseball’s loudest night goes global as the 2026 T-Mobile Home Run Derby streams live on Netflix from Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia. The annual All-Star showcase brings the sport’s biggest sluggers together for a night built around towering shots, bat-crack spectacle, and pure power-hitting theater.
📺 Quarterback: Season 3
(Tues, July 14th — on Netflix)
The pressure of football’s most scrutinized position gets another close-up as Netflix’s NFL docuseries returns for Season 3. This season follows Jayden Daniels, Baker Mayfield, Cam Ward, and Joe Flacco through the 2025 NFL season, tracking the injuries, trades, family lives, and franchise expectations that shape life beyond the huddle.
📺 Lucky
(Wed, July 15th — on Apple TV)
A botched heist is bad. Having the FBI and a crime boss chasing you is worse. Anya Taylor-Joy stars as Luciana “Lucky” Armstrong, a skilled con artist whose life detonates after a multimillion-dollar job goes sideways. With Annette Bening as the ruthless boss hunting her, Timothy Olyphant as Lucky’s con artist father, and Drew Starkey as the boyfriend who vanishes with the money, this Apple crime thriller suggests survival is just another con... only this time, Lucky has no room to miss.
📺 Ride or Die
(Wed, July 15th — on Prime Video)
Some friendships are tested by secrets. Others are tested by assassins, aliases, and a very inconvenient body count. Octavia Spencer and Hannah Waddingham star as lifelong best friends whose bond explodes when one discovers the other has been living a secret life as an international assassin. With a botched hit and some dangerous figures from the past, this Prime Video action-comedy series sends two besties racing across Europe with killers, criminals, and plenty of unresolved friendship drama that needs to be handled between shootouts.
📺 The Hawk
(Thurs, July 16th — on Netflix)
Will Ferrell takes another swing at sports-world ego in this Netflix comedy series about a fallen golf legend who refuses to admit his best days are behind him. Ferrell stars as Lonnie “The Hawk” Hawkins, a once-dominant PGA superstar chasing one last comeback while his body, career, and common sense all suggest retirement. The real hazard arrives when his biggest rival turns out to be his own son, Lance (Jimmy Tatro), turning the fairway into a father-son battleground built for delusion, pride, and man-child meltdown.
📺 The East Palace
(Fri, July 17th — on Netflix)
A cursed palace, a dead crown prince, and rumors of a vengeful spirit turn royal succession into a supernatural crisis in this Korean mystery series. Nam Joo-hyuk stars as Gu-cheon, a man who can cross into the spiritual Realm of Gwi, while Roh Yoon-seo plays Saeng-gang, a court lady who hears spirits and is assigned to watch him inside the East Palace. Co-starring Cho Seung-woo as the King, this Netflix series blends palace intrigue, folklore, and ghostly danger into a haunted royal investigation.
📺 The Map of Longing
(Fri, July 17th — on Netflix)
Grief becomes a map in this emotional Spanish miniseries based on Alice Kellen’s bestselling novel. Alícia Falcó stars as Greta, a young woman raised to believe she was born to save her sister Lucy, only to be left adrift when Lucy dies unexpectedly. Before her death, Lucy leaves behind “The Map of Longing,” a deeply personal game meant to guide Greta through loss, self-discovery, and an unexpected bond with Will (Pablo Álvarez). Healing, it turns out, may come with instructions.
