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List: New Movies & TV - August 2025


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The actor

In this existential romance, New York actor Paul Cole finds himself stranded in a mysterious small town with no memory of who he is or how he got here. With no sense of identity or purpose, he starts from scratch and begins courting a local costume designer Edna. As bits and pieces of his past slowly emerge, he attempts to find his way home.

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All we imagine as light

[MALAYALAM] All we imagine as light follows three very different women working at the same hospital Prabha, Anu, and Parvathy each contending with personal and material struggles amid a modernizing India riven by gentrification and rising Hindu nationalism. When Parvathy is evicted and forced to move back to her childhood village, Prabha and Anu travel with her to the seaside, where they shake loose their remaining secrets and in one otherworldly sequence a lingering ghost.

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The amateur

"Charlie Heller is a brilliant but deeply introverted CIA decoder working out of Langley. When his wife is killed in a London terrorist attack, and his supervisors refuse to act, Heller embarks on a dangerous trek, crisscrossing the globe to take down those responsible, his intelligence being his ultimate weapon"-- Container.

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Ash

A woman wakes up on a distant planet and finds the crew of her space station viciously killed. Her investigation into what happened sets in motion a terrifying chain of events.

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The ballad of Wallis Island

"The Ballad of Wallis Island follows Charles, an eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island and dreams of getting his favorite musicians, McGwyer Mortimer, back together. His fantasy turns into reality when the bandmates and former lovers accept his invitation to play a private show at his home on Wallis Island. Old tensions resurface as Charles tries desperately to salvage his dream gig"-- Container.

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Death of a unicorn

A father and daughter accidentally hit and kill a unicorn while en route to a weekend retreat, where a billionaire pharma executive and his family seek to exploit the creature's miraculous curative properties, but with deadly consequences.

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Eephus

Two recreational baseball teams, the River Dogs and Adler's Paint, have been meeting on their New England field on Sunday afternoons for longer than anyone can remember. These middle-aged sportsmen can't run as fast as they used to or connect as reliably with a pitch, but their vigorous appetite for socializing, squabbling, and busting chops remains undiminished. After the know-nothing county board opts to raze the baseball diamond to make way for a school, the teams meet for the final game at their beloved Soldier's Field, with girlfriends, kids, and local hooligans as intermittent spectators. As day turns to night and the innings bleed together, the players face the uncertainty of a new era.

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The featherweight

"The story of Italian-American boxer Willie Pep, the professional fighter with the most wins in sports history. Down and out after retirement, Pep decides to make a return to the ring, at which point a documentary camera crew enters his life"-- Provided by publisher.

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Fight or flight

A mercenary takes on the job of tracking a high-value asset known only as "The Ghost" on an international flight. Realizing the plane is filled with assassins assigned to kill them both, the pair must work together in a fight for their lives.

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Final destination. Bloodlines

"Plagued by a violence recurring nightmare, college student Stefani heads home to track down the one person who might be able to save her family from the grisly demise that inevitably awaits them all and break the cycle."-- Container

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Grantchester. The complete tenth season

It's 1962 and hope is in the air. Alphy feels embraced by the parish, which is blossoming under his care. In Geordie too, Alphy's found a best friend and his intellectual equal. Love is proving more elusive, however, until a case throws him in the path of an unexpected romance. But Alphy has secrets that he's kept close to chest. Before he's able to let anyone else in, he'll have to confront who he is. Thankfully, Geordie's there to show him what he needs. Geordie, meanwhile, wrestles with his expectations for his son, as Cathy takes steps to better her career, helped by Mrs. Chapman. And amidst all this excitement, it goes unnoticed that Leonard might be hitting the sherry too hard. In Britain in the early '60s, the sexual revolution, the rise of second wave feminism, and the insidious creep of the far-right will test Alphy and Geordie to their limits.

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Hell of a summer

"24-year-old camp counselor Jason Hochberg arrives at Camp Pineway thinking his biggest problem is that he feels out of touch with his teenage co-workers. What he doesn't know is that a masked killer is lurking on the campgrounds, brutally picking counselors off one by one"-- Container.

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The legend of Ochi

In a remote village on the island of Carpathia, a shy farm girl named Yuri is raised to fear an elusive animal species known as ochi. But when Yuri discovers a wounded baby ochi has been left behind, she escapes on a quest to bring him home.

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A photo of Murdoch mysteries. Season 18

Murdoch mysteries. Season 18

Murdoch forfeits promotion to Inspector and continues doing what he does best - solving the intricate murders and complex crimes that plague Toronto. The station house welcomes the jovial and highly regarded Albert Choi to the team in the all-new season of Murdoch Mysteries.

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Patience. [Season one]

Patience Evans has always been a bit different. She views the world in a unique way because she has a special gift, she is autistic. But her life is about to change forever. Patience works in the Police Criminal Records Office and Detective Inspector Bea Metcalf notices that Patience makes connections in cases that other people don't. Bea wants Patience on her team, not realizing that a change in routine could be destabilizing. As Bea learns more about Patience's traumatic upbringing and how autism affects her life, the two women form an unlikely friendship and a formidable crimefighting partnership.

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The Phoenician scheme

The story of a family and a family business. Benicio del Toro plays tycoon Anatole "Zsa-zsa" Korda, one of the richest men in Europe; Mia Threapleton is Sister Liesl, his daughter/a nun; Michael Cera is Bjorn Lund, an entomologist.

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Rosario

Rosario, a successful Wall Street stockbroker, is forced to spend the night with the body of her estranged grandmother after she abruptly dies. While waiting for the ambulance, twisted and menacing supernatural forces possessing her grandmother's corpse begin their assault on Rosario as she becomes the target of a deadly family curse that spans generations.

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The rule of Jenny Pen

Confined to a secluded rest home and trapped within his stroke-ridden body, a former Judge must stop an elderly psychopath who employs a child's puppet to abuse the home's residents with deadly consequences.

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Rust

A 13 year-old boy, left to fend for himself and his brother following the death of their parents, is taken on a harrowing journey to old Mexico by his estranged grandfather after he's sentenced to hang for an accidental killing.

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Sinners

"Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back"-- Container.

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Solo leveling. Season 1

[JAPANESE] "Monsters invade our planet through portals, and only hunters can stop them. The world's weakest hunter, Sung Jinwoo, struggles to survive until a near-death dungeon battle grants him a program called 'the system.' With hard work, he'll level up like no one before"--Container.

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Thunderbolts* : *The new Avengers

After finding themselves ensnared in a death trap set by Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, these disillusioned castoffs must embark on a dangerous mission that will force them to confront the darkest corners of their pasts. Will this dysfunctional group tear themselves apart, or find redemption and unite as something much more before it's too late?

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The trouble with Jessica

Married couple Sarah and Tom are in terrible financial trouble. On the brink of losing everything, they've managed to find a buyer for their stylish London home. When their best friends Richard and Beth come over for a final dinner, an uninvited old friend, Jessica, tags along. After a seemingly trivial argument at dinner, Jessica disappears. She has the temerity to hang herself in the garden, totally oblivious to the adverse consequences for Sarah and Tom's real estate sale. The only solution: Sarah and Tom must convince Richard and Beth to help take care of this little inconvenience. If they're clever enough about it, what could possibly go wrong?

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Until dawn

"One year after her sister Melanie's disappearance, Clover and her friends head into the remote valley where she vanished in search of answers. In an abandoned visitor center, they are hunted and murdered one by one...only to find themselves reliving the night again and again--each time with a new, terrifying threat. With limited deaths left, they must survive until dawn to escape"-- Container.

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Warfare

"Warfare embeds audiences with a platoon of American Navy SEALs in an Iraqi apartment building as they surveil a group of insurgents plotting an attack ... [A] visceral, boots-on-the-ground story of modern warfare, told like never before: in real time and based on the memory of the people who lived it"-- Container.

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