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What’s new on Netflix and what’s leaving in August 2025

Wednesday season 2 and The Thursday Murder Club our are top picks this month

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The amateur detective from a famous family returns for another go-around in August. After a nearly three-year hiatus, Wednesday season 2 arrives on Netflix on August 6. The season will be divided into two parts, with four episodes in August and four episodes in September.

A slew of original movies are premiering this month, including My Oxford Year , a romantic dramedy with Sofia Carson, and The Thursday Murder Club , a crime comedy based on a novel.

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The arrival of new projects means the removal of familiar movies and TV shows. Dunkirk, The Place Beyond the Pines, Field of Dreams, Heartland , and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves are several of the noteworthy titles departing Netflix.

Ahead, read the list of movies and TV shows coming to and departing from Netflix in August 2025.

If you’re looking for some additional guidance on what to watch, we also have lists of the best movies on Netflix and the best shows on Netflix . If Netflix isn’t your only streaming service, we also have helpful articles on the best new movies to stream , the best new shows to stream , the best movies on Amazon Prime, and the best movies on Hulu .

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Everything new on Netflix in August

August 1

  • My Oxford Year
  • Perfect Match season 3
  • American Pie
  • American Pie 2
  • Anaconda
  • Clueless
  • Dazed and Confused
  • The Departed
  • Despicable Me
  • Despicable Me 2
  • Fast Times at Ridgemont High
  • Fire Country: Season 2
  • Groundhog Day
  • Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
  • Journey to the Center of the Earth
  • Jurassic Park
  • The Lost World: Jurassic Park
  • Jurassic Park III
  • Megamind
  • Minions
  • Pawn Stars: Season 16
  • Rush Hour
  • Rush Hour 2
  • Rush Hour 3
  • Thirteen
  • Weird Science
  • Wet Hot American Summer
  • Wyatt Earp

August 2

  • Beyond the Bar

August 5

  • Love Life seasons 1-2
  • SEC Football: Any Given Saturday
  • Titans: The Rise of Hollywood season 1

August 6

  • Wednesday season 2 part 1

August 8

  • Stolen: Heist of the Century

August 10

  • Marry Me

August 11

  • Outlander season 7 part 1
  • Sullivan’s Crossing season 3

August 12

  • Final Draft
  • Jim Jefferies: Two Limb Policy

August 13

  • Love Is Blind: UK season 2
  • Fixed
  • Saare Jahan Se Accha: The Silent Guardians
  • Songs From the Hole
  • Young Millionaires

August 14

  • In the Mud
  • Miss Governor season 1 part 2
  • Mononoke The Movie: Chapter II – The Ashes of Rage
  • Quantum Leap seasons 1-2

August 15

  • The Echoes of Survivors: Inside Korea’s Tragedies
  • Fit for TV: The Reality of the Biggest Loser
  • Night Always Comes

August 16

  • The Fast and the Furious
  • 2 Fast 2 Furious
  • The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
  • Fast Five
  • Fast & Furious 6
  • Furious 7
  • Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw

August 18

  • CoComelon Lane season 5
  • Extant seasons 1-2

August 19

  • America’s Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys
  • Titans: The Rise of Wall Street season 1

August 20

  • Fisk season 3
  • Rivers of Fate

August 21

  • The 355
  • Death Inc. season 3
  • Fall for Me
  • Gold Rush Gang
  • Hostage
  • One Hit Wonder

August 22

  • Abandoned Man
  • Long Story Short
  • The Truth About Jussie Smollett?

August 27

  • Fantasy Football Ruined Our Lives

August 28

  • Barbie Mysteries: Beach Detectives
  • My Life With the Walter Boys season 2
  • The Thursday Murder Club

August 29

  • Two Graves
  • Unknown Number: The High School Catfish

Leaving Netflix in August

August 1

  • Are We Done Yet?
  • Bobby Z
  • Conan the Destroyer
  • Dawn of the Dead
  • Dunkirk
  • Everest
  • Fallen
  • Family Plot
  • Field of Dreams
  • For the Love of the Game
  • Frenzy
  • Happy Gilmore
  • Heartland seasons 1-16
  • Hitchcock
  • Jack the Giant Slayer
  • K-9
  • Lucy
  • Matilda
  • Mid90s
  • My Perfect Landing
  • Psycho
  • Rear Window
  • Return to the Blue Lagoon
  • Rooster Cogburn
  • Return to the Blue Lagoon
  • Senna: No Fear, No Limits, No Equal
  • Shortcomings
  • Smokey and the Bandit
  • Smokey and the Bandit II
  • Sniper
  • Sniper: Ghost Shooter
  • Spanglish
  • Tiger 24
  • The Best Man Holiday
  • The Birds
  • The Five-Year Engagement
  • The Furnace
  • The Ghost and the Tout
  • The Infiltrator
  • The Lego Movie
  • The Man Who Knew Too Much
  • The Place Beyond the Pines
  • The Shack
  • The Sugarland Express
  • The Town
  • The Wedding Planner
  • Tiger 24
  • Trolls
  • Uncle Buck
  • Vertigo
  • Close Your Eyes Before It’s Dark season 1
  • Have You Ever Fallen in Love, Miss Jiang?
  • Holey Moley
  • Life plan A and B season 1
  • Love Storm season 1
  • Masha and the Bear: Nursery Rhymes
  • Merry Men: The Real Yoruba Demons
  • My Perfect Landing season 1
  • Om Nom Stories season 1
  • Ugly Betty seasons 1-4

August 3

  • Elevator Baby
  • Shaka Inkosi YamaKhosi

August 4

  • The Set Up

August 5

  • Down Low
  • Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story
  • Lockdown
  • Love Is War
  • My Wife and Kids seasons 1-5

August 6

  • Ever After High seasons 1-5

August 7

  • High-Rise
  • Man on Wire
  • Up North

August 8

  • Journey to Bethlehem
  • Nimbe

August 9

  • Get Hard
  • Love in Taipei
  • Merry Men 2: Another Mission

August 10

  • Coming from Insanity
  • Uncle Drew

August 11

  • The Vendor

August 12

  • Black Mass
  • Blueback
  • The Razz Guy
  • The Wedding Party 2: Destination Dubai

August 13

  • A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella
  • Chinese Odyssey (Part I)

August 14

  • Jared Freid: 37 & Single
  • Summer Playlist

August 15

  • 4th Republic
  • Ballers seasons 1-5
  • Learn to Swim
  • Million Yen Women
  • Where Hope Grows

August 16

  • Baby Mama
  • Endless Love
  • Lagos Real Fake Life
  • Model
  • Mother Goose Club
  • Ouija: Origin of Evil
  • Victim Number 8

August 17

August 18

  • Light in the Dark

August 19

  • A Discovery of Witches seasons 1-3
  • Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches season 1
  • Dark Winds seasons 1-2
  • Fear the Walking Dead seasons 1-8
  • Gangs of London seasons 1-2
  • Interview with the Vampire season 1
  • Into the Badlands seasons 1-3
  • Kevin Can F**k Himself seasons 1-2
  • Monsieur Spade season 1
  • Preacher seasons 1-4
  • That Dirty Black Bag season 1
  • The Terror season 1
  • The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon season 1
  • The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live season 1
  • UnReal seasons 1-4

August 21

  • Alakada Reloaded
  • Kung Fu Panda 4
  • Logan Lucky

August 22

  • The Boss Baby

August 24

  • Pope Francis: A Man of His Word

August 25

  • Melancholia

August 26

  • Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

August 29

  • Kardec

August 31

  • The Hitman’s Bodyguard
  • The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard

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