Netflix usually updates its catalog every month, not only adding original titles but also some of the most well-known classics of cinema. July came with many new additions, including acclaimed cult movies.
Often, the streaming giant acquires broadcasting rights as part of its agreements with studios and distributors to expand its content offerings without the need for production.
From Easy A with Emma Stone to American Psycho with Christian Bale, the productions added to the platform are part of a long list of successes that have been praised by critics and viewers over time.
10 classics that premiered on Netflix in July
- The Blind Side (2009)
The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.
Cast | Sandra Bullock, Lily Collins, Ray McKinnon, Kim Dickens, Adriane Lenox, Andy Stahl, Tom Nowicki, Libby Whittemore, Quinton Aaron, Kathy Bates, Tim McGraw, Jae Head, Catherine Dyer, Sharon Conley and more.
- Zombieland (2009)
Columbus has made a habit of running from what scares him. Tallahassee doesn’t have fears. If he did, he’d kick their ever-living ass. In a world overrun by zombies, these two are perfectly evolved survivors. But now, they’re about to stare down the most terrifying prospect of all: each other.
Cast | Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Derek Graf, Justin Price, Abigail Breslin, Bill Murray, Amber Heard, Mike White and more.
- Bad Boys (1995)
Marcus Burnett is a henpecked family man. Mike Lowry is a footloose and fancy free ladies’ man. Both Miami policemen, they have 72 hours to reclaim a consignment of drugs stolen from under their station’s nose. To complicate matters, in order to get the assistance of the sole witness to a murder, they have to pretend to be each other.
Cast | Will Smith, Téa Leoni, Tchéky Karyo, Joe Pantoliano, Michael Imperioli, Theresa Randle, Anna Levine Thomson, Kevin Corrigan, Julio Oscar Mechoso, Saverio Guerra and more.
- American Psycho (2000)
A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.
Cast | Christian Bale, Reese Witherspoon, Justin Theroux, Josh Lucas, Bill Sage, Chloë Sevigny, Samantha Mathis, Matt Ross, Jared Leto, Willem Dafoe, Cara Seymour and more.
- Call Me by Your Name (2017)
In 1980s Italy, a relationship begins between seventeen-year-old teenage Elio and the older adult man hired as his father’s research assistant.
Cast | Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel, Victoire du Bois, Vanda Capriolo, Antonio Rimoldi, Elena Bucci, Marco Sgrosso, André Aciman, Peter Spears and more.
- The Nun (2018)
A priest with a haunted past and a novice on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate the death of a young nun in Romania and confront a malevolent force in the form of a demonic nun.
Cast | Demián Bichir, Taissa Farmiga, Jonas Bloquet, Bonnie Aarons, Ingrid Bisu, Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Lili Taylor, Charlotte Hope, Maria Obretin, August Maturo, Lynnette Gaza and more.
- Spider-Man (2002)
After being bitten by a genetically altered spider at Oscorp, nerdy but endearing high school student Peter Parker is endowed with amazing powers to become the superhero known as Spider-Man.
Cast | Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Willem Dafoe, James Franco, Cliff Robertson, Rosemary Harris, J.K. Simmons, Joe Manganiello, Gerry Becker, Bill Nunn, Elizabeth Banks, Bruce Campbell, K.K. Dodds and more.
- Matilda (1996)
An extraordinarily intelligent young girl from a cruel and uncaring family discovers she possesses telekinetic powers and is sent off to a school headed by a tyrannical principal.
Cast | Mara Wilson, Pam Ferris, Tracey Walter, Danny DeVito, Embeth Davidtz, Rhea Perlman, Paul Reubens, Brian Levinson, Kiami Davael and more.
- Magic Mike XXL (2015)
Three years after Mike bowed out of the stripper life at the top of his game, he and the remaining Kings of Tampa hit the road to Myrtle Beach to put on one last blow-out performance.
Cast | Channing Tatum, Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello, Kevin Nash, Adam Rodriguez, Gabriel Iglesias, Amber Heard, Donald Glover, Andie MacDowell, Elizabeth Banks, Jada Pinkett Smith, Brandon Cyrus and more.
- Easy A (2010)
Olive, an average high school student, sees her below-the-radar existence turn around overnight once she decides to use the school’s gossip grapevine to advance her social standing.
Now her classmates are turning against her and the school board is becoming concerned, including her favorite teacher and the distracted guidance counselor.
With the support of her hilariously idiosyncratic parents and a little help from a long-time crush, Olive attempts to take on her notorious new identity and crush the rumor mill once and for all.
Cast | Emma Stone, Amanda Bynes, Penn Badgley, Stanley Tucci, Lisa Kudrow, Cam Gigandet, Malcolm McDowell, Patricia Clarkson, Nathalie Carter, Dan Byrd, Thomas Haden Church, Aly Michalka and more.
