New To Streaming: What to watch on Netflix NZ, Neon and more this week
We round up everything coming to streaming services this week, including Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV, ThreeNow, Neon and TVNZ+.
The Westies (Neon, July 14)
From the 1960s through to the 1980s, the ruthless Irish-American gang The Westies ruled Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen. In this gritty series, Oscar winner J. K. Simmons is Eamon Sweeney, the fictional crime boss of this very real and infamously violent gang. Also starring Titus Welliver and Tom Brittney, The Westies traces the gang’s beef with the Italian mafia, and the intergenerational conflict that ultimately swept them into the arms of the FBI. It’d be a crime not to watch.
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (DocPlay, July 16)
In Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams, a film 36,000 years in the making, the legendary German director descends into the home of the earliest known pictorial drawings. This “one-of-a-kind art-history lesson” that reflects on “the immensity and fragility of human enterprise” is narrated by the inimitable Herzog, and features conversations with the lucky scientists who are given a brief window to study the fading cave paintings. Quite simply, Cave of Forgotten Dreams is “astonishingly moving.”
The F Ward (Neon, July 18)
Starring Emmy Award winner Anna Friel alongside Ioane Sa’ula, Lola Bond and Dan Wyllie, Australian medical drama The F Ward follows a ragtag group of talented but insecure interns. They’re sent to Sydney’s underfunded Pines Hospital, where they must overcome their pasts and their own expectations in a pressure-cooker environment where the stakes are life and death. If you like St. Elsewhere and ER, The F Ward is just what the doctor ordered.
My Father’s Shadow (AroVision, July 15)
My Father’s Shadow is the lauded debut feature of Akinola Davies Jr and the first Nigerian film to be selected for Cannes. Set amidst the turmoil of the 1993 Nigerian presidential election, this deft semi-autobiographical coming-of-age tale follows two boys (Godwin Chimerie Egbo and Chibuike Marvelous Egbo) who are briefly reunited with their estranged father (Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù). Described as an “enchanting film,” where “one feels spellbound by its earnest aims and its heartwarming excursions,” My Father’s Shadow is sure to pull on your heartstrings.
Lucky (Apple TV, July 15)
Led by Anya Taylor-Joy and from Your Friends & Neighbors showrunner Jonathan Tropper comes the crime-drama Lucky. Unable to escape her dark past, the “reformed” con artist Lucky (Taylor-Joy) finds herself being pursued by both the FBI and a cut-throat crime boss after a multi-million-dollar heist gone wrong. Also starring Drew Starkey, Annette Bening, Timothy Olyphant, and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Lucky is one for fans of Killing Eve and Black Doves.
Pick of the Flicks: Tenet (Netflix, July 17)
With Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey releasing in cinemas this week, now’s the time to revisit the polarising and palindromic Tenet. The dizzying sci-fi thriller follows John David Washington as the Bond-esque “Protagonist,” a suave CIA agent journeying through a twilight world of international espionage. His time-bending mission? The prevention of World War III. A film of “sheer spectacle,” Tenet may be madly preposterous, and you might not be able to make sense of it but, as a character in the film cautions: “Don’t try to understand it. Feel it.”
The rest
TVNZ+
Alone Australia S4 (July 14)
M.I.A (July 15)
Thirst Trap: The Fame, The Fantasy, The Fallout (July 16)
MĀORI+
Hinemihi – House with the Golden Eyes (July 13)
Paper Planes (July 17)
The Changeover (July 17)
Headspace (July 18)
Red Heat (July 18)
ThreeNow
90 Day Fiancé S10 (July 18)
Netflix
Hot Ones: Extra Heat (July 13)
Golden Kamuy – The Abashiri Prison Raid(July 13)
Quarterback: S3 (July 14)
MLB Home Run Derby 2026 (July 14)
The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On S4 (July 15)
Looking for Alibrandi (July 15)
The Hawk (July 16)
Me Before Me (July 16)
The Map of Longing (July 17)
23 000 Lives (July 17)
Heartstopper Forever (July 17)
Desire (July 17)
Monsters vs. Aliens (July 17)
Tenet (July 17)
21 Jump Street (July 17)
Spooky in Love (July 18)
Neon
The Westies (July 14)
Night of the Zoopocalypse (July 14)
Grace: A Prayer For Peace (July 14)
Thom Browne: The Man Who Tailors Dreams (July 14)
It Was Fifty Years Ago Today: The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper & Beyond (July 14)
The Underdoggs (July 15)
De Palma (July 15)
Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind (July 15)
Upgraded (July 15)
Born to Bowl (July 15)
FBI S1-S5 (July 16)
Bike Heist (July 16)
The Amateur (July 17)
Mr. Robot S1-S4 (July 17)
The F Ward (July 18)
Bad Man (July 18)
Providence Falls (July 19)
Prime Video
Murder 101 (July 13)
Ride or Die (July 15)
Young Farts Trailer Parts (July 17)
Disney+
Rabbit Hole (July 13)
Dancing with the Stars: The Next Pro (July 14)
Marvel’s Spidey and his Amazing Friends S5 (July 14)
America’s Funniest Home Videos: Global S19-S21 (July 17)
They Fight (July 17)
Descendants: Wicked Wonderland (July 17)
Apple TV
Lucky (July 15)
DocPlay
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (July 16)
AroVision
A Private Life (July 15)
Cutting Through Rocks (July 15)
My Father’s Shadow (July 15)
HBO Max
My Feet Are Killing Me S4 (July 13)
People Magazine Investigates Surviving a Cult (July 14)
My 600-lb Life: Brazil S2 (July 15)