The Criterion Channel June 2026: New Movies, Short Films, & Documentaries

New Movies, Short Films, and Documentaries Coming to The Criterion Channel in June 2026

The Criterion Channel has announced its June 2026 lineup, including movies, short films, documentaries, music films, restorations, and exclusive premieres arriving on the streaming service. Want to own something listed below? Purchase The Criterion Collection films here. We’ve compiled the full list of June streaming titles along with their premiere dates below.

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The Criterion Channel June 2026 Schedule

Streaming June 1

Odysseys

The road of return is studded with adventure, discovery, and surprise in these tales of epic quests that draw on one of literature’s most enduring narrative archetypes: the journey back home. Whether traversing the hardscrabble highways of Depression-era America (Sullivan’s Travels; O Brother, Where Art Thou?), the surreal labyrinth of New York City after dark (After Hours), or the elemental wilderness of the frontier (The Searchers, Walkabout), these by turns tragic, comic, mythic, and deeply personal tales of wanderers and seekers tap into the fundamental human yearning to find our way back to where we belong.

Sullivan’s Travels, Preston Sturges, 1941
The Searchers, John Ford, 1956
Walkabout, Nicolas Roeg, 1971
After Hours, Martin Scorsese, 1985
The Straight Story, David Lynch, 1999
O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Joel Coen, 2000
The Darjeeling Limited, Wes Anderson, 2007

Coprogrammed by Sean Fennessey

James Bond

The legend of cinema’s most iconic superspy begins here, with the trio of films that turned writer Ian Fleming’s suave secret agent James Bond into a global phenomenon. Featuring Sean Connery’s still-unmatched portrayal of 007—equal parts danger, charm, and wit—Dr. No, From Russia with Love, and Goldfinger established what would become the series’s signature elements: exotic locales, shadowy villains, ingenious gadgets, and indelible style. Among the most rewatchable blockbusters of all time, these thrillers laid the groundwork for one of the most influential and enduring franchises in film history.

Dr. No, Terence Young, 1962
From Russia with Love, Terence Young, 1963
Goldfinger, Guy Hamilton, 1964

Starring Courtney Love

A performer of rare volatility and range, Courtney Love brings a feral intelligence and bruised glamour to the screen, meriting a place in cinematic culture alongside her hallowed stature in music. In films, Love is not merely an icon crossing mediums; her work with auteurs like Alex Cox (Straight to Hell), Julian Schnabel (Basquiat), and Miloš Forman (The People vs. Larry Flynt) reveals a deeply intuitive actor with an instinct for showcasing contradictory impulses: tenderness edged with danger, charisma undercut by disarming rawness. Messy, magnetic, and defiantly alive, Love’s is a screen presence that resists containment.

Straight to Hell, Alex Cox, 1987
Basquiat, Julian Schnabel, 1996
The People vs. Larry Flynt, Miloš Forman, 1996
200 Cigarettes, Risa Bramon Garcia, 1999
Beat, Gary Walkow, 2000
Trapped, Luis Mandoki, 2002

Weddings

With wedding season upon us, take a walk down the aisle of some of cinema’s most unforgettable nuptials. Focusing on the lead-up to and spectacle of the big day itself, these films dramatize the often-conflicting dreams, desires, and fears that bring two people together before the altar, with directors like Sofia Coppola (Marie Antoinette), Jonathan Demme (Rachel Getting Married), and Lars von Trier (Melancholia) examining the emotional ambivalence and intersecting familial expectations surrounding the main event. Replete with will-they-won’t-they romantic tension, simmering family drama, and extravagant mise-en-scène, these films look past the pageantry to reveal the fractures that underpin the promise of “happily ever after.”

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Jacques Demy, 1964
Wedding in White, William Fruet, 1972
A Wedding, Robert Altman, 1978
Golden Eighties, Chantal Akerman, 1986
Muriel’s Wedding, P. J. Hogan, 1994
Marie Antoinette, Sofia Coppola, 2006
Rachel Getting Married, Jonathan Demme, 2008
Melancholia, Lars von Trier, 2011

LGBTQ+ Favorites

Proud, rebellious, colorful, intimate, and frank, these essential visions of LGBTQ+ life find boundary-pushing filmmakers turning the richness of the queer experience into indelible art. From taboo-shattering art-house classics to defining works of the 1990s New Queer Cinema explosion to contemporary showstoppers from emerging talents, these films represent just a sample of the wide world of queer cinema, but they offer a taste of its breadth, creativity, and defiance in the face of adversity.

Features
Portrait of Jason, Shirley Clarke, 1967
Pink Narcissus, James Bidgood, 1971
Je tu il elle, Chantal Akerman, 1975
Regrouping, Lizzie Borden, 1976
Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives, Mariposa Film Group, 1977
Jubilee, Derek Jarman, 1978
Querelle, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1982
Born in Flames, Lizzie Borden, 1983
The Times of Harvey Milk, Robert Epstein, 1984
Desert Hearts, Donna Deitch, 1985
Kiss of the Spider Woman, Héctor Babenco, 1985
Mala Noche, Gus Van Sant, 1985
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt, Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, 1989
Paris Is Burning, Jennie Livingston, 1990
Poison, Todd Haynes, 1991
Totally F***d Up, Gregg Araki, 1993
Fresh Kill, Shu Lea Cheang, 1994
The Watermelon Woman, Cheryl Dunye, 1996
Nowhere, Gregg Araki, 1997
Benjamin Smoke, Jem Cohen and Peter Sillen, 2000
Lan Yu, Stanley Kwan, 2001
The Aggressives, Daniel Peddle, 2005
Weekend, Andrew Haigh, 2011
So Pretty, Jessica Dunn Rovinelli, 2019
Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later, Daniel Peddle, 2023
Orlando, My Political Biography, Paul B. Preciado, 2023
All Shall Be Well, Ray Yeung, 2024
Daughter’s Daughter, Huang Xi, 2024
Misericordia, Alain Guiraudie, 2024

Streaming Premieres

Eno
Premiering June 16, with a new version featured each month

A documentary as innovative as its subject, this kaleidoscopic portrait of visionary musician, producer, and self-described “sonic landscaper” Brian Eno is a different experience every time it’s shown. Using custom non-AI software, director Gary Hustwit and digital artist Brendan Dawes created the world’s first generative feature film, which endlessly reedits and resequences hundreds of hours of never-before-seen footage, interviews, and unreleased music into 52 quintillion (or 52 billion billion) possible permutations. Chronicling Eno’s legendary contributions to the band Roxy Music, his influential work as a pioneer of ambient music, and his producing career for artists like David Bowie, U2, and Talking Heads, Eno is a fittingly form-breaking tribute to an artist who changed the way modern music is made.

The Love That Remains
Featuring a new introduction by director Hlynur Pálmason, part of Criterion’s Meet the Filmmakers series

Suffused with tenderness and deadpan humor, The Love That Remains asks: What happens when a relationship ends but the bonds of caring endure? Moving unpredictably through four seasons in the lives of a separating couple—artist Anna (Saga Garðarsdóttir) and fisherman Magnus (Sverrir Guðnason)—and their three children, Hlynur Pálmason’s fourth feature is as vibrantly attuned to the ebb and flow of domestic routine as it is to the stark, spectacular landscape of coastal Iceland. Juggling intimate scenes of adults at work and children at play with wild intrusions of surrealism, this strange and poignant film is a rare study of family life in all its beauty and confusion.

Criterion Originals
John Waters’ Adventures in Moviegoing

With Criterion Editions of Hairspray and Desperate Living coming to home video this month, there’s no better time to watch the Pope of Trash discuss his formative moviegoing memories and introduce a selection of favorites.

Brink of Life, Ingmar Bergman, 1958
The Naked Kiss, Samuel Fuller, 1964
Wanda, Barbara Loden, 1970
Story of Women, Claude Chabrol, 1988
Last Summer, Catherine Breillat, 2023

Rediscoveries and Restorations

Typhoon Club
A work of raw, elemental power widely regarded as director Shinji Somai’s finest achievement, this intensely visceral take on the coming-of-age film follows an ensemble of junior-high students in a provincial town beset by a summertime malaise as a typhoon looms. When the storm makes landfall, the teens find themselves holed up in their school unsupervised, while another classmate (Yuki Kudo) disappears alone on a harrowing trek to the big city. Set adrift in a world suddenly unmoored, the students let loose their pent-up angst and burgeoning passions in a series of propulsive, phantasmic scenes—part apocalypse, part utopia—as the deluge rages on into the night. In daring long takes, Somai gives material form to the students’ turbulent inner lives.

Nomad
An audacious blast of pop subversion, this touchstone of the Hong Kong New Wave by director Patrick Tam begins as a blissed-out portrait of carefree youth—and continually spins off into ever more shocking realms. In his breakthrough role, golden boy Leslie Cheung stars as one of a quartet of beautiful drifters who spend their days staving off ennui through the pursuit of hedonistic pleasure, until a figure from the past reappears to shatter their idyll. Merging genre-cinema gloss with jolts of avant-garde disruption, Tam arrives at a sublimely destabilizing vision of youthful abandon giving way to harrowing reality.

Criterion Collection Editions

Fresh Kill: Criterion Collection Edition #1310
A lesbian couple is drawn into a sinister conspiracy involving corporate greenwashing, toxic waste, and their daughter’s disappearance in this audacious ecosatire.

SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: Interviews with director Shu Lea Cheang and actor Sarita Choudhury, a discussion with Cheang for the film’s thirtieth anniversary, a program on the 2024 theatrical rerelease of the film and Cheang’s self-distribution, and more.

The Game: Criterion Collection Edition #627
An invitation to a mysterious game upends a wealthy investment banker’s calculated existence in David Fincher’s noirish descent into one man’s personal hell.

SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: Audio commentary by Fincher and cast and crew members, behind-the-scenes footage, and more.

Martha Graham—Dance on Film: Criterion Collection Edition #406

Celebrate the centennial of the Martha Graham Dance Company with this sampling of the legendary choreographer’s stunning craft.

SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: Martha Graham: The Dancer Revealed, a 1994 documentary produced for PBS’s American Masters series; excerpts from a television pilot featuring composer Aaron Copland discussing his work on Appalachian Spring; and more.

The Harder They Come: Criterion Collection Edition #83
In the reggae film that brought Rasta rhythms to the world, genre legend Jimmy Cliff stars as a rural musician chasing fame in Kingston—only to achieve notoriety as an outlaw.

SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: Audio commentary by director Perry Henzell and Jimmy Cliff and an interview with Island Records founder Chris Blackwell.

After Hours: Criterion Collection Edition #1185

An uptown office worker’s downtown hookup spirals into a late-night odyssey of surreal menace in Martin Scorsese’s darkly comic cult classic.

SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: A conversation between Scorsese and writer Fran Lebowitz; audio commentary by Scorsese, editor Thelma Schoonmaker, director of photography Michael Ballhaus, actor and producer Griffin Dunne, and producer Amy Robinson; and more.

The Darjeeling Limited: Criterion Collection Edition #540
Wes Anderson directs this dazzling comedy about three estranged brothers forced to confront their emotional baggage on a soul-searching train voyage across India.

SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: Audio commentary by Anderson and cowriters Jason Schwartzman and Roman Coppola, a discussion between Anderson and filmmaker James Ivory on the music used in the film, a behind-the-scenes documentary, and more.

Repo Man: Criterion Collection Edition #654
A veteran repo man and his punk protégé chase a mysterious Chevy Malibu across a desolate LA in this grungily hilarious cult favorite.

SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: Audio commentary by director Alex Cox and cast and crew members, deleted scenes, a roundtable discussion about the making of the film, and more.

Sullivan’s Travels: Criterion Collection Edition #118

A Hollywood director posing as a hobo in his quest to make a socially conscious film finds romance and comic chaos on his journey across Depression-era America.

SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: Audio commentary by filmmakers Noah Baumbach, Kenneth Bowser, Christopher Guest, and Michael McKean; the documentary Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer (1990); and more.

Director Spotlights
Alex Cox’s Punk Provocations

A patron saint of punk cinema and borderless storytelling, Alex Cox remains one of the greatest subversives to ever pick up a camera, a rebel auteur who blends gonzo surrealism, anarchic irreverence, and blistering anticapitalist and anti-imperialist critique. From the radioactive deadpan of the sci-fi comedy Repo Man to the hallucinatory fever dream of his audacious biopic Walker, his films burn with a restless outsider energy, while smuggling politics, poetry, and outré humor into every frame.

Repo Man, 1984
Straight to Hell, 1987
Walker, 1987
Highway Patrolman, 1991

Fantasy and Fear: Short Films by Yann Gonzalez
Sexy, surreal, and darkly stylish, the short films of French director Yann Gonzalez (Knife+Heart) capture ecstatic moments of human (and sometimes beyond human) connection, merging throbbing eroticism with a charge of giallo-like menace to probe the inextricable links between love, sex, death, and transcendence. Shot in ravishing neon-noir style and submerged in hypnotic synth soundscapes, these fearlessly queer fusions of art and pop cinema—including the beautifully kinky, strangely life-affirming monster movie Islands—pulse with polymorphous sexuality and gothic romanticism.

By the Kiss, 2006
Intermission, 2007
I Hate You Little Girls, 2008
Three Celestial Bodies, 2009
We Will Never Be Alone Again, 2012
Land of My Dreams, 2012
Islands, 2017

Directed by Eric Rohmer
Among the most singular, miraculous bodies of work in all of cinema, the films of French auteur Eric Rohmer constitute a genre unto themselves. Gently existential, hyperarticulate character studies set against vivid seasonal landscapes, these dialogue-driven yet gracefully cinematic films probe universal moral questions about love, desire, and the intricacies of connection with wry humor and an invitingly relaxed naturalism. From the wintry philosophical parable My Night at Maud’s to the sublime summertime melancholy of The Green Ray to the autumnal emotional maturity of Love in the Afternoon, his work is evergreen in its piercing insight into human contradiction and folly.

Features
Suzanne’s Career, 1963
La collectionneuse, 1967
My Night at Maud’s, 1969
Claire’s Knee, 1970
Love in the Afternoon, 1972
A Good Marriage, 1982
Pauline at the Beach, 1983
Full Moon in Paris, 1984
The Green Ray, 1986
A Tale of Springtime, 1990
A Tale of Winter, 1992
A Tale of Summer, 1996
A Tale of Autumn, 1998

Shorts
Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak, 1951
Véronique and Her Dunce, 1958
The Bakery Girl of Monceau, 1963
Nadja in Paris, 1964
A Modern Coed, 1966

Hollywood Hits
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
With Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day in theaters this month, there’s no better time to revisit his sci-fi landmark, an awe-inspiring vision of contact with extraterrestrial life.

Wild at Heart
Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern are outlaw lovers on the run in David Lynch’s berserk blend of nightmare noir, southern-gothic soap opera, and surreal Americana.

Pacific Heights
It’s the ultimate yuppie nightmare when a young couple rents their spare apartment to a psychopath in this twisted thriller starring a memorably villainous Michael Keaton.

Anime
The Garden of Words
Visionary animator Makoto Shinkai (Your Name) explores the universal search for connection through the story of a bittersweet summertime friendship between a teenage boy and a mysterious woman.

Documentaries
Gary Hustwit: Documentary by Design
From the cities we live in to the products we use every day to the typefaces we communicate through, how do the subtle but impactful forces of design shape our lives? That’s the question at the heart of the illuminating documentaries of Gary Hustwit (Eno), who invites us to see the world around us with fresh eyes. Whether delving deep into the story behind one of the world’s most recognizable fonts (Helvetica) or breaking down the complex art of urban planning (Urbanized), Hustwit’s films reveal the often hidden connections between design, psychology, and human behavior.

Helvetica, 2007
Objectified, 2009
Urbanized, 2011
Rams, 2018

PREMIERING JUNE 16
Eno, 2024

Kedi
See the vibrant metropolis of Istanbul through the eyes of the street cats who roam the city freely and have become essential parts of the communities they inhabit.

Two Films by Daniel Peddle: The Aggressives and Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later

Filmed in New York City between 1997 and 2003, Daniel Peddle’s The Aggressives broke new ground in cinematic representation with its bold, unfiltered immersion into the lives of trans men and masculine-presenting lesbians of color who defy social expectations in their quest to live authentically. Peddle revisits the trailblazing subjects of the original film in Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later, a timely, intimate update that captures their ongoing struggles and hard-won victories in a world shaped by the turbulence of ICE arrests and evolving attitudes toward trans rights and health care.

The Aggressives, 2005
Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later, 2023

Twenty-First Century Cinema
The Lost Okoroshi
A Kafkaesque transformation into a mute purple spirit sends an average security guard on a surreal journey through the city of Lagos.

Motel Destino
Loyalties and desires intertwine at a roadside sex hotel under the burning blue skies of the Brazilian coast in this feverishly erotic tropical noir.

Short Films
LGBTQ+ Shorts
Stories of self-discovery, self-acceptance, and the simple but radical, often dangerous act of just existing as a queer person are on display in these empathetic and innovative shorts, which reflect the wide spectrum of experiences that make up the LGBTQ+ rainbow.

Greetings from Washington, D.C., Rob Epstein, Frances Reid, Greta Schiller, and Lucy Winer, 1981
Janine, Cheryl Dunye, 1990
She Don’t Fade, Cheryl Dunye, 1991
Pull Your Head to the Moon: Stories of Creole Women, Ayoka Chenzira, 1992
Vanilla Sex, Cheryl Dunye, 1992
Gender Troublemakers, Mirha-Soleil Ross and Xanthra Phillippa Mackay, 1993
The Potluck and the Passion, Cheryl Dunye, 1993
Snowfire, Ayoka Chenzira, 1994
Greetings from Africa, Cheryl Dunye, 1996
I Remember: A Film About Joe Brainard, Matt Wolf, 2012
Blood Below the Skin, Jennifer Reeder, 2015
The Foundation, P. Staff, 2015
Vámonos, Marvin Lemus, 2015
Bayard & Me, Matt Wolf, 2017
T, Keisha Rae Witherspoon, 2019
Rupert Remembers, Xanthra Phillippa Mackay, 2000
Another Hayride, Matt Wolf, 2021
i get so sad sometimes, Trishtan Perez, 2021
The Man of My Dreams, Tristan Scott-Behrends, 2021
Bold Eagle, Whammy Alcazaren, 2022
A Place on the Edge of Breath, Veronica Rutledge and Ada Avery Bogetti Pérez, 2022
How to Carry Water, Sasha Wortzel, 2023
MnM, Twiggy Pucci Garçon, 2023
The Script, Brit Fryer and Noah Schamus, 2023
Vermont, Joseph Barglowski, 2023
The Callers, Lindsey Dryden, 2024
God Is Good, C Prinz, 2024
Grace, Natalie Jasmine Harris, 2024
One Day This Kid, Alexander Farah, 2024
Newbies, Kimiko Matsuda-Lawrence and Megan Trufant Tillman, 2025

WassupKaylee
A young content creator learns how far she’ll go for a chance at viral fame in this clear-eyed and compassionate look at coming of age in an era of parasocial intimacy.

Newbies
On a neon-drenched New York City night, two strangers wrestle with queer longing and desire as events rewind to reveal what broke them.

Complete list of films premiering on the Criterion Channel this month:
200 Cigarettes, Risa Bramon Garcia, 1999*
The Aggressives, Daniel Peddle, 2005
After Hours, Martin Scorsese, 1985
Beat, Gary Walkow, 2000
Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later, Daniel Peddle, 2023
By the Kiss, Yann Gonzalez, 2006
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Steven Spielberg, 1977
The Darjeeling Limited, Wes Anderson, 2007
Dr. No, Terence Young, 1962
Eno, Gary Hustwit, 2024 (premiering June 16)
From Russia with Love, Terence Young, 1963
Full Moon in Paris, Eric Rohmer, 1984
The Game, David Fincher, 1997*
The Garden of Words, Makoto Shinkai, 2013*
Goldfinger, Guy Hamilton, 1964
A Good Marriage, Eric Rohmer, 1982
The Harder They Come, Perry Henzell, 1973
Helvetica, Gary Hustwit, 2007
Highway Patrolman, Alex Cox, 1991
I Hate You Little Girls, Yann Gonzalez, 2008
Intermission, Yann Gonzalez, 2007
Islands, Yann Gonzalez, 2017
Kedi, Ceyda Torun, 2016
Land of My Dreams, Yann Gonzalez, 2012
The Lost Okoroshi, Abba Makama, 2019
Marie Antoinette, Sofia Coppola, 2006
Melancholia, Lars von Trier, 2011*
Motel Destino, Karim Aïnouz, 2024
Muriel’s Wedding, P. J. Hogan, 1994*
Newbies, Kimiko Matsuda-Lawrence and Megan Trufant Tillman, 2025
Nomad, Patrick Tam, 1982
O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Joel Coen, 2000
Objectified, Gary Hustwit, 2009
Pacific Heights, John Schlesinger, 1990
Pauline at the Beach, Eric Rohmer, 1983
The People vs. Larry Flynt, Miloš Forman, 1996
Rachel Getting Married, Jonathan Demme, 2008*
Rams, Gary Hustwit, 2018
Repo Man, Alex Cox, 1984
The Searchers, John Ford, 1956
The Straight Story, David Lynch, 1999*
Straight to Hell, Alex Cox, 1987
Sullivan’s Travels, Preston Sturges, 194
Three Celestial Bodies, Yann Gonzalez, 2009
Touki bouki, Djibril Diop Mambéty, 1973
Trapped, Luis Mandoki, 2002
Typhoon Club, Shinji Somai, 1985
Urbanized, Gary Hustwit, 2011
Walker, Alex Cox, 1987
WassupKaylee, Pepi Ginsberg, 2025
We Will Never Be Alone Again, Yann Gonzalez, 2012
A Wedding, Robert Altman, 1978
Wedding in White, William Fruet, 1972
Wild at Heart, David Lynch, 1990*

*Available in the U.S. only

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