3 best movies leaving HBO Max soon that you should stream before they go —including an iconic action flick

The beauty of the streaming model is that there's always something new to watch. The best streaming services, including HBO Max, are always freshening up their extensive libraries with newly released films and TV series every few weeks, so that no two binge-watches have to be the same.

To make way for new content, however, the platforms have to regularly say goodbye to some pretty beloved flicks and shows every month, and July 2026 will be no exception for HBO Max. As the month comes to an end, the streamer will part ways with an Oscar-nominated musical biopic centered on one of America's finest poets, a classic film adaptation of one of literature's most famous romances and an action franchise built around a true movie icon.

Here are three movies leaving HBO Max by July 31, and why you need to check them out before they're long gone.

'Alien: Covenant"

Ridley Scott returns to the acclaimed "Alien" franchise with this 2017 prequel film, which takes place 18 years before the original "Alien" movie and 11 years after that ill-fated expedition in "Prometheus."

Made up of Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup and Danny McBride, among others, the crew of the colony ship Covenant is bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy. However, upon meeting David (Michael Fassbender), who was a crewmember on the destroyed Prometheus ship, they quickly realize that their destination is less untouched paradise and more extraterrestrial nightmare when the planet's sinister inhabitants force the crew into a deadly fight for survival.

Stream "Alien: Covenant" on HBO Max before July 31

'Wuthering Heights'

Long before there was Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie, there was Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon taking on the roles of Heathcliff and Catherine in William Wyler's legendary 1939 adaptation of the Emily Brontë novel.

Though the black-and-white romantic drama depicts only half of Brontë's Gothic classic and eliminates all of the second-generation characters (sorry kids!), it's widely acclaimed for its lush, deliciously melodramatic treatment of the source material. (For The New Yorker, John Mosher said the period film "approximates the quality of the fierce, tempestuous story with a force one might never have expected...Seldom has the tone of a great novel been so faithfully reproduced by the movie people.")

Wyler's "Wuthering Heights" went on to receive eight Oscar nominations, including for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor, and took home one for Gregg Toland's gorgeously moody cinematography.

Stream "Wuthering Heights" on HBO Max before July 31

'John Wick'

Keanu Reeves added yet another iconic character to his decades-spanning filmography as the titular hitman of the "John Wick" franchise, which kicked off with the 2014 action thriller directed by Chad Stahelski and spawned three sequels thus far. (A fifth "Wick" film has been confirmed by Lionsgate and is reportedly in active development with both Keanu Reeves and director Chad Stahelski returning.)

All four "John Wick" movies are set to leave HBO Max on July 31, so now's your time to revisit the visionary action franchise, which revolves around a former hired gun who is reluctantly pulled out of retirement and thrust back into the criminal underworld and all the dark dangers therein.

Stream "John Wick" on HBO Max before July 31

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