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What's New on Netflix in August 2021

The Witcher gets animated, She's All That gets gender-flipped...and is Jason Momoa the next Liam Neeson?
Jason Mamoa runs between two cars in a scene from Sweet Girl
Credit: Sweet Girl/Netflix

We don’t really have action movie stars these days—not like we did in the ‘80s and ‘90s, anyway. Who hath begat the likes of Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sly Stallone? No one comes to mind other than lower-tier (and certainly lower budget-commanding) actors the likes of Jason Statham and, somehow, Liam Neeson, and Netflix seems eager to add another to their ranks in Jason Momoa with the release of Sweet Girl (Aug.23).

Speaking of Neeson, the film seems to be pretty much in the Taken mold, albeit subbing in evil pharmaceutical companies for evil human traffickers. Momoa plays a husband and father whose life begins to unravel after his wife dies due to the unscrupulous actions of a large drug company. He grows determined to seek revenge, and is forced to get violent when his daughter’s life is threatened. (He has a particular set of skills, you see.)

On the gentler side of the Netflix Films release schedule comes a pair of teen-friendly rom-coms: The Kissing Booth 3 (Aug. 11), the thrilling conclusion to the Booth Saga (maybe); and He’s All That (Aug. 27), an opposite gender remake of the ‘90s Rachel Leigh Cook semi-classic She’s All That. Plus, the streamer is throwing a coin to fans of The Witcher who can’t wait for the season two premiere—the anime-style animated series The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf (Aug. 23) should help tide you over until the flagship series drops later this year.

Here’s everything else coming to (and leaving) Netflix in August 2021.

What’s coming to Netflix in August 2021

Coming soon (no date announced)

Available August 1

  • 30 Rock: Seasons 1-7

  • Beethoven

  • Beethoven’s 2nd

  • Beowulf

  • Catch Me If You Can

  • Darwin’s Game

  • Deep Blue Sea

  • The Edge of Seventeen

  • Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

  • Five Feet Apart

  • Friday Night Lights: Seasons 1-5

  • Good Luck Chuck

  • The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia

  • Hunter X Hunter (2011): Seasons 5-6

  • Inception

  • The Lincoln Lawyer

  • The Losers

  • The Machinist

  • Magnolia

  • Major Payne

  • My Girl

  • My Girl 2

  • The Net

  • The Original Kings of Comedy

  • Pineapple Express

  • Poms

  • Seabiscuit

  • Space Cowboys

  • Team America: World Police

Available August 3

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Available August 6

Available August 8

  • Quartet

Available August 9

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Available August 15

  • Mother Goose Club: Seasons 3-4

  • Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai: Season 1

  • Winx Club: Season 6

Available August 16

  • Walk of Shame

Available August 17

Available August 18

Available August 19

  • Like Crazy

Available August 20

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Available August 31

What’s leaving Netflix in August 2021

Leaving August 1

  • American Assassin

Leaving August 4

  • #cats_the_mewvie

Leaving August 7

  • The Promise

Leaving August 9

  • El Cartel: Season 1

  • El Cartel: Season 2

  • Nightcrawler

Leaving August 12

  • Safety Not Guaranteed

  • Scary Movie 5

Leaving August 14

  • Mother Goose Club: Seasons 1-2

Leaving August 15

  • Jericho: Seasons 1-2

  • Wish I Was Here

Leaving August 20

  • Kill the Irishman

  • Norm of the North: Keys to the Kingdom

  • The Founder

Leaving August 22

  • 1BR

Leaving August 26

  • The Angry Birds Movie 2

Leaving August 27

  • A Princess for Christmas

Leaving August 29

  • Strange But True

Leaving August 30

  • Casino Royale

  • The Eichmann Show

  • Full Out

  • Quantum of Solace

  • Stranger than Fiction

Leaving August 31

  • Adrift

  • Angel Eyes

  • The Big Lebowski

  • Chinatown

  • The Departed

  • Election

  • The Girl Next Door

  • Hey Arnold! The Movie

  • Hot Rod

  • Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)

  • Love Actually

  • Love Happens

  • The Manchurian Candidate

  • Monsters vs. Aliens

  • The Muppets

  • Muppets Most Wanted

  • Nacho Libre

  • Moon Kingdom

  • Pootie Tang

  • The Prince & Me

  • Resident Evil: Afterlife

  • Resident Evil: Extinction

  • The Ring

  • Road to Perdition

  • The Social Network

  • Superbad

  • The Time Traveler’s Wife