Here are TheWrap's picks for the seven best movies that have started streaming on Netflix in July. "Captain Phillips" (2013) Based on a real-life 2009 hijacking, "Captain Phillips" is a nerve-wracking hostage thriller with a shockingly cathartic final act.

Netflix's stranger-than-fiction true crime thriller, which marks Anna Kendrick's directorial debut, follows aspiring actress Cheryl Bradshaw (Kendrick), who agrees to appear on the hit reality show The Dating Game in 1979 to boost her career.

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