Netflix has been killing it in 2025, and the streamer shows no signs of stopping in July.
Netflix just unveiled its programming schedule for next month, and there are so many quality movies set to debut, Watch With Us had a hard time picking the best films for you to stream.
Our top three selections include Brick, an original sci-fi movie; V for Vendetta, a comic book adaptation starring Natalie Portman; and The Deer Hunter, an Oscar-winning classic featuring a young Meryl Streep.
‘Brick’ (2025)
Tim (Matthias Schweighöfer) is having a bad day. His longtime girlfriend, Olivia (Ruby O. Fee), is breaking up with him, and there’s nothing he can do to stop her. But as she packs her bags and opens the front door to exit, something strange happens — she can’t leave. The entire building has been surrounded by a mysterious black brick wall that blocks anyone from exiting. How did it get there? And does it pose a threat, or is it shielding them from whatever is going on outside?
Brick is an original Netflix movie that has a great sci-fi premise. Tim, Olivia and the rest of the building’s residents not only must figure out how to get past the brick wall but also why it’s there in the first place. The wall is seemingly indestructible and could possibly be sentient. Fans of Cube will get a kick out of this film, and anyone who likes a claustrophobic thriller with a twist ending will enjoy it.
‘V for Vendetta’ (2005)
In the not-so-distant future, Great Britain is ruled by a fascist regime that imprisons anyone it deems “undesirable” or who resists its rule. Young Evey Hammond (Natalie Portman) falls in the latter category, and she eventually joins a masked vigilante known only as “V” (Hugo Weaving) to bring down the totalitarian government by any means possible. That includes assassinating key political figures and blowing up institutions of power like Parliament, which doesn’t sit well with Evey. Can she trust someone she barely knows? Or is V just as bad as the oppressors he seeks to destroy?
When it was released, V for Vendetta was criticized by some for sanitizing its explicitly anti-government and anti-capitalist source material. But like the Alan Moore graphic novel it’s based on, the movie has aged well and plays today as a subversive action movie that’s as brainy as it is entertaining. Portman is great as the radicalized heroine with a killer haircut, and the film’s portrait of a dystopian Britain is both imaginative and all too realistic.
‘The Deer Hunter’ (1978)
It’s 1968, and three friends in Pennsylvania are about to leave to fight in the Vietnam War. But Mike (Robert De Niro), Steve (John Savage) and Nick (Christopher Walken) are forever changed by their time in service, and when they come back they all experience PTSD that prevents them from resuming their usual lives. Can the trio overcome their horrific memories of war and somehow make peace with what they’ve done and experienced?
With its poetic imagery, outstanding performances and unflinching look at the aftereffects of warfare, there’s a case to be made that The Deer Hunter is one of the best war movies ever made. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences agreed, bestowing the film with five Oscars, including Best Picture, in 1979. It deserved all of them, as the film is a haunting look at how small-town America was forever changed by an international conflict that grew out of control.
