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What's New on Netflix in August 2026 1%
By Emily Long55%
7/29/2026, 11:00:00 AM
Keywords: Netflix, August, New Releases, Movies, Tv Shows, Documentaries, Comedy Specials, Live Events
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August is a lighter month for Netflix, with a few familiar favorites and a handful of new series and films.
Comedy show Tires (Aug. 13) returns for a third season along with Outer Banks (season 5 on Aug.
20).
For reality TV lovers, there's a new season of Love Is Blind: UK (Aug. 19) and Let's Marry Harry (Aug. 5), a Bachelor-like competition show featuring Australian actor and reality star Harry Jowsey.
Robert DeNiro, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Keaton, and Adam Scott star in a new original crime thriller, The Whisper Man (Aug. 28), which is based on Alex North's novel of the same name.
Freefall: A Reckoning for Boeing (Aug. 19) is a documentary film investigating whistleblowing at Boeing.
Netflix will also host Phillies vs.
Twins in MLB Field of Dreams on Aug.
13.
Here's everything else coming to Netflix in August, and everything that's leaving.
What's coming to Netflix in August 2026
Mousetrap -Netflix Series
The Fast and the Furious
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
The Hitman's Bodyguard
The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
Something's Gotta Give
Speed 2: Cruise Control
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
Five Nights at Freddy's 2
Badly in Love: Season 2 -Netflix Series
Best Medicine: Season 1
The Cocktail Lab: Season 1
1670: Season 3 -Netflix Series
Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy -Netflix Documentary
Inside The Trustor Scandal -Netflix Documentary
Let's Marry Harry -Netflix Series
One Hundred Years of Solitude: Part 2 -Netflix Series
My Life With the Walter Boys: Season 3 -Netflix Series
Death Inc.: Season 4 -Netflix Series
Operation Safed Sagar -Netflix Series
Our Sticky Love -Netflix Series
Ricky Gervais Alley Cats -Netflix Series
THE RIBBON HERO -Netflix Film
Dr.
Seuss's Red Fish, Blue Fish: Season 3 -Netflix Family
MOURINHO -Netflix Documentary
Rory Scovel: Show Must Go On -Netflix Comedy Special
What's Eating Dan?: Season 1
Nando Between Two Worlds - A Sintonia Film -Netflix Film
A Child of My Own -Netflix Film
MLB Field of Dreams: Phillies vs.
Twins -Netflix Live Event
My Brilliant Career -Netflix Series
This, That and Everything in Between -Netflix Film
Tires: Season 3 -Netflix Series
Don't Say Good Luck -Netflix Film
Moria -Netflix Series
My Best Friend, His Girlfriend and Me -Netflix Film
To the Max -Netflix Film
Umthetho -Netflix Series
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Smurfs: The Lost Village
Kelsey Cook: Happy Hour -Netflix Comedy Special
On the Road: Season 1
Seal Team: Seasons 1-7
Take a Hike! -Netflix Series
Freefall: A Reckoning for Boeing -Netflix Documentary
Here the Whole Time -Netflix Film
Love Is Blind: UK: Season 3 -Netflix Series
Blood Sacrifice -Netflix Series
Chompoo: Lost & Forgotten -Netflix Documentary
Outer Banks: Season 5 -Netflix Series
Facing El Chapo -Netflix Film
Talamasca: The Secret Order : Season 1
Martha Cooks: Season 1
Stamptown -Netflix Comedy Special
Untold: The Testimony of Vince Young -Netflix Sports Series
Mom Knows Best? -Netflix Series
One Hundred Years of Solitude: Part 2: Grand Finale -Netflix Series
Leanne: Season 2 -Netflix Series
All the Truth in My Lies -Netflix Series
Graveyard: Season 3 -Netflix Series
The Secret Woman -Netflix Film
The Whisper Man -Netflix Film
Four Hands, Two Sonatas -Netflix Series
Sex Lives of College Girls : Seasons 1-3
Sheriff Labrador : Season 2
What's leaving Netflix in August 2026
A Million Ways to Die in the West
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
Father of the Bride: Part II
The Five-Year Engagement
Home Improvement: Seasons 1-8
Hunter X Hunter (2011): Seasons 1-6
Midnight Diner: Seasons 1-3
There's Something About Mary
The Game : Seasons 1-33
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