The Best Things Coming to Netflix in August 2025

Watch the best new shows and movies on the popular streamer this month — especially ‘The Thursday Murder Club’

Chris Nashawaty,

Updated July 31, 2025

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Published January 30, 2025

/ Updated July 31, 2025

ben kingsley, helen mirren and pierce brosnan in a scene from 'the thursday murder club'

“The Thursday Murder Club” is coming to Netflix on August 28.

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It’s time to stop putting off your summer to-do list and get busy living, because soon you’ll be raking leaves after Labor Day. And the best way to live it up is to watch what’s coming to Netflix in August. We’ve handpicked the top dozen titles we’re most looking forward to.

Coming August 1

My Oxford Year

If you aren’t familiar with Sofia Carson, you will be soon. Netflix has been keeping the young actress busy, hoping to turn her into its next homegrown star à la Millie Bobby Brown. In this transatlantic romance, Carson plays an ambitious American college student who enrolls in the English university and falls for a British playboy with a secret (Corey Mylchreest).

Perfect Match, Season 3

If you’re a dating show addict having a hard time getting through the downtime between now and The Golden Bachelor, you’re in luck. In this third season of the Netflix hit, the singles looking for true love whilst licking whipped cream off one another will include some familiar faces from other reality-TV franchises: Love Island, The Bachelor, Siesta Key, Too Hot to Handle, The Circle, The Ultimatum and Love Is Blind (the couple Amber Desiree Smith and Ollie Sutherland, who found love on the show and are expecting their first child).

Coming August 5

SEC Football: Any Given Saturday

Netflix takes yet another baby step toward becoming a serious sports destination with its latest behind-the-scenes, season-spanning doc series. It’s going straight to college football’s premier conference: the SEC. Tune in to check out all of the tailgating pageantry behind the fiercest rivalries in the NCAA.

Titans: The Rise of Hollywood

The birth of the movie industry is a thrilling tale of ambition, money, power and greed. There are the films and stars too, but this dramatized history series tells the story of Tinseltown’s first wave of power brokers like a sudsy soap opera crossed with an action-packed mobster movie. Warner Bros., MGM, Paramount — each of these pioneering studios had a boss, and chances are, he didn’t get to the top by being a Boy Scout.

Coming August 6

Wednesday, Season 2, Part 1

Netflix’s breakout 2022 hit is finally back with its sophomore season. Draped in the gothic sensibility of executive producer Tim Burton, 66, this inventive Addams Family spinoff reunites us with Jenna Ortega’s Wednesday, the moodiest and most macabre student at the infamous Nevermore Academy. Ortega’s deadpan, scalpel-sharp performance is one of the best things on TV right now.

Coming August 13

Fixed

Animation shouldn’t be dismissed as just kids’ stuff. There are plenty of toons out there (Big Mouth, BoJack Horseman) aimed at adults. Take this film about a randy puppy who gets neutered by his owner and reconsiders his belief in all that “man’s best friend” business. With its salty language, this isn’t a film for the little ones. It’s an R-rated treat for you after they go to bed. Featuring the voices of Adam Devine, Kathryn Hahn, 52, Idris Elba, 52, and Fred Armisen, 58.

Coming August 14

Miss Governor, Season 1, Part 2

This fizzy comedy series from Tyler Perry, 55, about Mississippi’s first Black female lieutenant governor debuted in October under the title Beauty in Black. In the renamed back half of the first season, expect more fish-out-of-water high jinks from star Terri J. Vaughn, 55, as she navigates the white male–dominated halls of power.

Coming August 15

Night Always Comes

Vanessa Kirby (The Crown, Mission: Impossible — Fallout) stars in this Netflix original film about a desperate and reckless woman who races to save her family’s home and protect her brother, doing whatever it takes to keep disaster at bay. The ticktock thriller takes place over the course of a single evening and is guaranteed to keep your pulse rate up.

Coming August 16

The Fast & Furious movie collection

You know the drill here. Souped-up hot rods going really fast and doing unbelievably dangerous stunts, power-crazed hipster villains acting villainously mad, and Vin Diesel, 58, and Michelle Rodriguez and the rest of the high-octane, thrill-junkie cast explaining the importance of family. Seven of the best titles from the franchise are now bundled in one place on Netflix. Vroom!

Coming August 19

America’s Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys

The Dallas Cowboys have been getting a lot of love from Netflix lately. After a fascinating, behind-the-curtain look at the team’s fabled cheerleading squad, the streamer now aims its cameras at the Cowboys’ colorful owner, Jerry Jones, 82; his legendary former head coach Jimmy Johnson, 82, and his players (both past and present). It’s promising to see the faces of Troy Aikman, 58, and “Neon” Deion Sanders, 57, in the trailer. You know they’ll be good for a revealing anecdote or two.

Coming August 21

Hostage

Want something classy and British, maybe a slick, high-stakes political thriller? You’re in luck. Suranne Jones plays the British prime minister whose husband is kidnapped during a state visit from the French president (Julie Delpy, 55). Both leaders are in danger, and they’re forced to work together (uneasily) for both their own safety and the safety of their political futures. This one looks good.

Coming August 28

The Thursday Murder Club

Circle this one on the calendar: It appears to be a winner. With a cast that includes Helen Mirren, 80, Ben Kingsley, 81, Pierce Brosnan, 72, and Celia Imrie, 73, this star-studded whodunit looks like a U.K. riff on Only Murders in the Building. Based on the bestselling novel from Richard Osman, it follows a nosy group of residents at a retirement community who decide to spend their golden years as amateur sleuths after a dead body turns up. The game is afoot!

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Chris Nashawaty, former film critic for Entertainment Weekly, is the author of Caddyshack: The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story and a contributor to Esquire, Vanity Fair, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.