94 worth-watching films leave SBS On Demand in July

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:13:50 +1000

Every month SBS publishes a wall of text listing what is about to vanish from On Demand. Every month it mixes Studio Ghibli classics in with season 7 of some cooking show and a documentary about sharks, all sorted by date, none sorted by whether they are any good.

As I did in previous months I leaned on Claude to build a searchable and sortable page to make it easier to figure out what I really want to watch. SBS really should do this for their audience.

I pulled the full July list, stripped out the series and the reality TV, ran every standalone film past its IMDB rating and kept the ones at 7.0 or above. That left 94 films. The result is a single sortable, searchable page you can filter by rating, genre or leaving date.

A few that jumped out. The strongest scores belong to Australian documentaries: Etched in Bone, Yagan and Fantome Island all sit at 8.6. If you only watch a handful of things before they go, make it those.

The big names are here too. Unforgiven (8.2), The Big Lebowski (8.1) and a clutch of Ghibli - My Neighbour Totoro, Howl’s Moving Castle, Castle in the Sky. Newer picks worth your evening: Past Lives, Godzilla Minus One and The Boy and the Heron.

One thing to flag. The bulk of the catalogue clears out on July 31, so this is less a slow drip and more a single cliff edge at month end. If a title is on the list, treat the last day of July as your deadline.

Browse the full interactive list here: Movies leaving SBS On Demand in July 2026.

A note on method. A few obscure Australian and foreign titles had too few IMDB votes to carry a rating, so I left them off rather than guess. The real count of good films leaving is probably a touch higher than 94.

Sources:

What’s leaving SBS On Demand in July 2026 - SBS

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94 worth-watching films leave SBS On Demand in July