The Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch on Netflix in August 2020

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage, and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This weekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

Cupcake Wars to your queue doesn't mean you suddenly cut important, critically beloved dramas out of your life.

Everything to Know About Disney+ Remember the short-lived 2015 ABC series The Muppets? Jim Henson's gang of goofs returned to television with a more adult-oriented sitcom, and some people hated it. They didn't want to see Kermit and Ko.

All products featured on Glamour are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission.Set in the early 18th century, this historical romance stars Priyanka Chopra and Deepika Padukone as the wife and mistress of a famed general Bajirao (Ranveer Singh).

, a crew of A-list actors in bell-bottoms joins forces with a killer costume department almost yearly in hopes of bringing home some Oscars. But all of your favorite things about these movies—the style, mostly—are present in movies released in the actual ‘70s. It was also one of the most experimental and groundbreaking eras in Hollywood history.

Many new movies and TV shows are coming to Netflix in August, but the influx of new titles means a handful will disappear from the steamer this month. Among the film titles leaving Netflix throughout August are Love, Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer, The Incident and Some Kind of Beautiful.

Bear Grylls-hosted series that will make you happy that you are sitting on your couch.  Our full picks are below, but here is the complete list of what's new on Amazon Prime in August. We also have our picks for what to watch this month on Hulu and Netflix, as well as a list of everything coming to all three in August.

Mean Girls *and* Legally Blonde?!). For your viewing pleasure, behold: The very best movies from the 2000s.

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage, and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This weekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentLe Grand Rex theater, which boasts France’s biggest cinema screen, will be closing down on Aug.

got you covered there, too.  What if a show was  American Gladiators, but the floor is made of metaphorical lava? That's the premise of this zany, wholesome Netflix series which adds a fun twist to a childhood classic. In this series, grown-ups in teams of three must navigate their way through a booby trap-filled obstacle course designed to look like a room in one's house.

We have recommendations for fans of horror, murder mysteries, animated shows, and much, much more. Where to Watch: Netflix Obviously we have to kick this list off with the most popular post-apocalypse show currently on TV.

Celia Shatzman editorWhat do James Bond, Marty McFly and Batman have in common? If you guessed that they’re all heroes on the silver screen then you’re not wrong, but we were thinking of something more specific. They’re all known for their iconic timepieces, wearing some of the best movie watches of all time.

Hanna is July's highlight and features Samantha Morton's daughter, Esmé Creed-Miles, putting her fists into bad guys' faces in thrilling fashion. On the metaphorical side, science gets its ass kicked by Marie Curie in Radioactive, a film detailing the chemist's breakthroughs in radioactivity and the uphill battle she faced from a bunch of jerks with penises in the scientific community. Our full picks are below, but here is the complete list of what's new on Amazon Prime in July.

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are going are some real deep cuts. For one, on August 1 we say goodbye to Skins, the U.K.

Biohackers, the German sci-fi thriller debuting on August 20. “Mia goes to medical school to get close to a professor she suspects had a hand in her past family tragedy and gets tangled in the world of biohacking,” reads the Netflix description.

Netflix has revealed all the television shows and movies that will be expiring from the streaming service beginning on August 1.

Netflix has revealed the full list of movies and television shows that will be debuting on the streaming service beginning on August 1.

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage, and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This weekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.