Vanessa Kirby’s Gripping Thriller ‘Night Always Comes,’ and the 6 Best New Movies Coming to Netflix in August 2025

The last full month of summer is nearly here, and Netflix is looking to end the season with a bang this August. From familiar favorites to new movies starring some of Hollywood’s hottest stars (as well as some of the most legendary), here are the seven best new movies arriving on the service next month.

‘Clueless’

Available on: Friday, August 1

Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year is the beloved high school comedy classic Clueless, a ’90s rendition of Jane Austen‘s Emma.

Alicia Silverstone stars as Cher, a wealthy and popular high school student who decides to use her high status to do good deeds for others. In between playing matchmaker for her teachers, Cher befriends transfer student Tai Frasier, whom she decides to give the ultimate makeover to. In the process, Cher begins to realize her feelings for her former stepbrother, Josh.

Clueless was directed by Amy Heckerling (Fast Times at Ridgemont High) and also starred Paul Rudd (Ant-Man), Stacey Dash (Renaissance Man), the late Brittany Murphy (King of the Hill), Dan Hedaya (The Usual Suspects), Jeremy Sisto (FBI), Breckin Meyer (Robot Chicken), Wallace Shawn (The Princess Bride), and Donald Faison (Scrubs).

‘Dazed and Confused’

Available on: Friday, August 1

Academy Award nominee Richard Linklater‘s coming-of-age classic is heading to Netflix this August.

Dazed and Confused is the ultimate hangout movie, set on the last day of school in Austin, Texas, in 1976. The film follows a variety of teens, including incoming freshmen being subjected to hazing rituals, the star football player, Randall “Pink” Floyd, refusing to sign an anti-drug pledge, and the twenty-something Wooderson, who still hangs around with high schoolers, getting high.

The film served as a breakout moment for many big stars, including Academy Award winner Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club), Academy Award winner Ben Affleck (Good Will Hunting), Milla Jovovich (Resident Evil), and Parker Posey (The White Lotus Season 3).

‘My Oxford Year’

Available on: Friday, August 1

After working with Netflix on films like Carry-On, Purple Hearts, and The Life List, Sofia Carson once again reunites with the streamer for the scholarly romance flick My Oxford Year.

Based on Julia Whelan’s novel of the same name, the film focuses on Anna, an American student who travels across the Atlantic to attend the University of Oxford, finally fulfilling her lifelong dream. She thinks she has her whole life planned from here on out, that is, until she meets the charismatic local boy Jamie, who alters her life.

Iain Morris (The Inbetweeners) directs the film, which also stars Corey Mylchreest (Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story), Dougray Scott (Mission: Impossible II), Catherine McCormack (Braveheart), Harry Trevaldwyn (How to Train Your Dragon), Esmé Kingdom (Fallen), and Poppy Gilbert (Stay Close).

‘Fixed’

Available on: Wednesday, August 13

From acclaimed animator Genndy Tartakovsky, the creator of Samurai Jack, Dexter’s Laboratory, Primal, and Star Wars: Clone Wars, as well as the director of Hotel Transylvania 1, 2, and 3, comes the filthy R-rated animated comedy Fixed.

The new film follows Bull, a bull terrier and your everyday good boy, who is also aggressively horny. When he discovers that he will be neutered in the morning, Bull’s best friends decide to spend the night in the city for an all-out rager, to properly give Bull’s balls one last hurrah.

Fixed features the voices of Adam DeVine (The Righteous Gemstones), Idris Elba (Heads of State), Kathryn Hahn (Agatha All Along), Fred Armisen (Portlandia), Beck Bennett (Superman), Bobby Moynihan (Saturday Night Live), Michelle Buteau (Survival of the Thickest), and River Gallo (Ponyboi).

‘Night Always Comes’

Available on: Friday, August 15

Fresh off of her MCU debut as Sue Storm/The Invisible Woman in The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Academy Award nominee Vanessa Kirby ​​​​​​returns to more grounded material in the tense thriller Night Always Comes.

Based on the 2021 novel by Willy Vlautin, the film follows Lynette and is set over the course of one night as she races through the streets of Portland to raise money that will keep her and her brother safe.

Benjamin Caron (Andor) directs the film, which also stars Academy Award nominee Jennifer Jason Leigh (The Hateful Eight), Zack Gottsagen (The Peanut Butter Falcon), Stephan James (If Beale Street Could Talk), Randall Park (Always Be My Maybe), Julia Fox (Uncut Gems), Michael Kelly (The Penguin), and Eli Roth (Thanksgiving).

The Fast and Furious Franchise (Select Titles)

Available: Saturday, August 16

Rev up those engines, because Family is coming to Netflix. Six of the mainline Fast and Furious movies will be heading to Netflix in August, as well as the spin-off film Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw.

• The first film, The Fast and the Furious, was directed by Rob Cohen (xXx) and follows LAPD officer Brian O’Conner, who goes undercover in the world of illegal street racing, but soon finds his loyalties tested when he falls in love with the sister of the leader of the racing family, Dominic Toretto.
• 2 Fast 2 Furious was directed by the late Academy Award nominee John Singleton (Boyz n the Hood), and sees Brian leaving behind the police force and moving to Miami, where he becomes involved in their street racing scene. When he is apprehended by the FBI, he must work with his childhood friend, Roman Pearce, to take down a dangerous cartel leader.
• The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift was the first film in the franchise to be directed by franchise stalwart Justin Lin and takes the adrenaline overseas, as car enthusiast Sean Boswell is sent to live with his estranged father in Japan, where he challenges Tokyo’s top street-racing champion.
• Fast Five was also directed by Lin and is widely considered the best film in the franchise, as Brian and Dom find themselves in Rio de Janeiro, where they plan a dangerous heist with the federal agent Luke Hobbs hot on their trail.
• Fast & Furious 6 sees Lin return to the director’s chair once more, and sees Luke Hobbs forming a truce with Dom and his family to take down a gang of dangerous mercenary drivers, whose second-in-command is somebody from Dom’s past.
• Furious 7 has James Wan (Aquaman) stepping into the director’s chair as Dom and his family must take down Deckard Shaw, a dangerous criminal who is the older brother of their rival Deckard Shaw, who has murdered one of their own.
• Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw is the series’ first and only spin-off, with David Leitch (John Wick) directing. The film sees Luke Hobbs and Deckard Shaw working together to take down a cybernetically enhanced terrorist known as Brixton Lore.

The franchise features a vast ensemble that includes Vin Diesel (The Chronicles of Riddick), the late Paul Walker (Varsity Blues), Sung Kang (Better Luck Tomorrow), Michelle Rodriquez (Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves), Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson (Moana), Jason Statham (The Beekeeper), Tyrese Gibson (Transformers), Ludacris (Hustle & Flow), and Jordana Brewster (The Faculty).

‘The Thursday Murder Club’

Available on: Thursday, August 28

Richard Osman‘s best-selling mystery novel, The Thursday Murder Club, is coming to life this August, courtesy of director Chris Columbus (Home Alone).

The film follows retired spy Elizabeth Best, retired union leader Ron Ritchie, retired psychiatrist Ibrahim Arif, and retired nurse Joyce Meadowcroft, who spend their time solving mysteries within their retirement home. But when a real murder occurs too close to home, they’ll have to apply their sleuthing skills to an actual case.

The film stars Academy Award winner Helen Mirren (The Queen), Academy Award winner Sir Ben Kingsley (Gandhi), Pierce Brosnan (GoldenEye), Celia Imrie (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel), Naomi Ackie (Mickey 17), Daniel Mays (Atonement), Henry Lloyd Hughes (Anna Karenina), Tom Ellis (Lucifer), Academy Award nominee Jonathan Pryce (The Two Popes), David Tennant (Doctor Who), Paul Freeman (Raiders of the Lost Ark), Geoff Bell (Kingsman: The Secret Service), Ingrid Oliver (Doctor Who), and Academy Award nominee Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?).