It’s the start of a new year, which means a host of new Max movies are now available to stream. Indeed, with 2024 finally making its bow, there are lots of good and bad new movies to savor on the super streamer – and we suspect you want to know what they are.
Below, you’ll find a complete round-up of every new film debuting on Max this month, including golden oldies and more recent flicks alike. Of the veritable bounty of new films on HBO Max’s successor in January, we’ve handpicked four that we consider must-see over the next few weeks, too. You can read about them in our spotlights section, which precedes the full line-up of new Max movies section.
Want an even bigger film selection on one of the world’s best streaming services? You’ll need to peruse our best Max movies guide, which is home to stone cold classics and recent hits. For now, though, here are all of the new Max films to watch in January 2024.
New Max movies: the best films to stream in January 2024
The Breakfast Club
Release date: January 1
This John Hughes-directed classic has had a huge impact on similarly positioned coming-of-age movies since its 1985 release, so it stands to reason that it would be one of our spotlighted new Max movies for this month.
Starring the likes of Emilio Estevez, Molly Ringwald, and Paul Gleason, The Breakfast Club tells the tale of five high schoolers – each of whom belong to a different high school clique – who bond during their Saturday detention overseen by their authoritarian vice-principal. Initially frosty to one another, the quintet soon find they have more in common than they realize, especially when it comes to their backgrounds and upbringing.
A seminal comedy-drama that more than deserves its place in the US National Film Registry, The Breakfast Club is a must-see for all movie fans. Expect it to join our best Max movies guide in due course.
Escape from Alcatraz
Release date: January 1
Escape from Alcatraz celebrates its 45th anniversary this year – and, considering it’s a brilliant jailbreak action thriller, it was nailed on to appear in our new Max movies spotlights section.
Based on J. Campbell Bruce’s 1963 non-fiction novel of the same name and real-life events that occurred in 1962, it stars legendary actor Clint Eastwood as Frank Morris, who leads a plot to, well, escape from the US maximum security prison on Alcatraz Island. Fred Ward, Jack Thibeau, Patrick McGoohan, and Larry Hankin are among the supporting cast.
One of the finest prison break movies ever made, Escape from Alcatraz is a highly entertaining, suspense-filled, and cinematically rich movie. If you can look past its all-too-brief ending, you’ll have a great time.
The RoboCop movie collection
Release date: January 1
A beloved sci-fi film franchise for many, all four RoboCop movies are available to watch now on Max.
Set in a dystopian neofuturistic world, the RoboCop series follows Alex Murphy, a Detroit-based police officer who is fatally wounded in the line of duty and subsequently turned into a cybernetically-enhanced supersoldier by mega-corporation Omni Consumer Products (OCP). Each film sees Murphy tackle violent crime and corruption at the heart of the OCP to various degrees.
Equal parts R-rated action, fascinating sci-fi, comedic visual effects, and satirization of consumerism and capitalism, the RoboCop flicks are largely good fun. The first installment is easily the best, two and three have their moments, and four – a reboot of the late 80s/early 90s trilogy – isn’t worth your time.
The Star Trek movie collection (1979 – 2002)
Release date: January 1
This month sees a whole heap of Star Trek movies make their bow on Max (they’re also available on Paramount Plus), but you won’t find all of the legendary sci-fi franchise’s flicks on the Warner Bros. Discovery-owned service.
Thankfully for diehard fans, a number of the best Star Trek films have beamed their way onto the platform, though. All six of The Original Series movies, which were initially released between 1979 and 1991, have joined Max’s movie library. Fans of The Next Generation quadrilogy will also be delighted to hear those movies have also invaded Max’s Alpha Quadrant.
Unsure where to start or which ones are worth streaming? 1982’s The Wrath of Khan, 1984’s The Search for Spock, 1986’s The Voyage Home, and 1996’s First Contact are your best bets. You can take or leave the other six, though you may want to check out 1979’s The Motion Picture first if you’re a first-time Trekkie. For more details on every movie, read our how to watch Star Trek in order guide.
New Max movies: every film coming in December 2023
Searching for a full rundown of all of the new Max movies for this month? Read on.
January 1
- The A-Team (2010)
- After Earth (2013)
- Alvin and The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009)
- Aniara (2019)
- Austenland (2013)
- Bachelorette (2012)
- Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me (2013)
- Body at Brighton Rock (2019)
- Booty Call (1997)
- The Breakfast Club (1985)
- The Brothers (2001)
- Cabin Fever (2003)
- Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever (2009)
- Collision Course (1989)
- Cyborg (1989)
- Dance With Me (1998)
- Dark Skies (2013)
- Date and Switch (2013)
- Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
- Empire State (2013)
- Escape From Alcatraz (1979)
- Everybody Wants to be Italian (2008)
- A Fistful of Dollars (1967)
- For A Few Dollars More (1967)
- Free Birds (2013)
- The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (1967)
- The Gospel According to Andre (2018)
- Greta (2019)
- Hail Satan? (2019)
- Hang Em’ High (1968)
- Head Office (1986)
- The Hitcher (1986)
- Hollywood Homicide (2003)
- I Don’t Know How She Does It (2011)
- I, Frankenstein (2014)
- The Ides of March (2011)
- It Comes At Night (2017)
- Jodorowsky’s Dune (2013)
- John Carpenter’s Escape From L.A. (1996)
- The Kill Team (2019)
- Killing Them Softly (2012)
- The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)
- Lawless (2012)
- Machete (2010)
- Mike Wallace is Here (2019)
- Odd Jobs (1986)
- Our Idiot Brother (2011)
- Quarantine (2008)
- Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins (2019)
- Rambo: Last Blood (2019)
- Ricochet (1991)
- Road Trip (2000)
- Road Trip: Beer Pong (2009)
- Robocop (1987)
- Robocop (2014)
- Robocop 2 (1990)
- Robocop 3 (1993)
- Rocket Science (2007)
- Scream 4 (2011)
- The Secrets We Keep (2020)
- Some Kind of Beautiful (2015)
- Star Trek Generations (1994)
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
- Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)
- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
- Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)
- Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
- Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
- Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
- Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
- Sweet Dreams (1985)
- Switch (1991)
- Ted 2 (2015)
- Tracers (2015)
- Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
- When A Stranger Calls (2006)
- White House Down (2013)
January 15
- Snowden (2016)
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