What’s Coming to Netflix in August 2026: The Best New Movies, Drama, and Series
NetFlix is closing out the summer with a genuinely loaded slate of fresh 2026 titles. Setting aside the nostalgic library drops and reality fare, this month is built on original storytelling: a sci-fi survival epic, a brooding De Niro crime thriller, the tearful final chapter of a beloved teen saga, and a global spread of dramas and series stretching from Seoul to Buenos Aires to Sydney. Here is your focused guide to every new movie, drama, and series arriving on Netflix in August 2026.
New 2026 Movies
This month’s slate leans big and international, anchored by two of Netflix’s most anticipated late-summer originals.
- The Last House (2026), a genre-bending sci-fi horror blockbuster from action veteran Louis Leterrier, starring Greta Lee and Wagner Moura. Formerly developed under the working title 11817, the near two-hour survival thriller is positioned as one of Netflix’s biggest cinematic events of the season (August 7th)
- The Whisper Man (2026), a gritty crime thriller produced by the Russo Brothers’ AGBO banner and starring Robert De Niro and Adam Scott. When a widowed crime writer’s young son is abducted, he turns to his estranged detective father and uncovers a link to a decades-old serial killer case (August 28th)
- Don’t Say Good Luck (2026), a breezy summer comedy with a stacked ensemble including Melanie Lynskey, Max Greenfield, Stephanie Beatriz, and Sunny Sandler (August 14th)
- The Ribbon Hero (2026), a lavish new anime feature based on Osamu Tezuka’s pioneering manga Princess Knight (August 8th)
- Midwinter Break (2026), an intimate relationship drama starring Lesley Manville and Ciaran Hinds as a long-married couple confronting old wounds on a trip to Amsterdam (August 10th)
- A Child of My Own (2026), an emotionally charged docudrama from Oscar-nominated filmmaker Maite Alberdi about a woman who fabricates a pregnancy and triggers a national scandal (August 13th)
- The Secret Woman (2026), a Danish mystery thriller about a woman with amnesia who returns to a wealthy past to learn why she left (August 28th)
- To Catch a Cheater (2026), a Lifetime mystery-thriller in which a harmless game turns deadly for three mothers (August 20th)
- Nando Between Two Worlds: A Sintonia Film (2026), a Portuguese-language spin-off movie centered on the fan-favorite character from the Brazilian crime drama (August 12th)
- Here the Whole Time (2026), a Brazilian feature (August 19th)
- My Best Friend, His Girlfriend and Me (2026), a German romance (August 14th)
- To the Max (2026), a Spanish comedy (August 14th)
- This, That and Everything in Between (2026), a Filipino drama (August 13th)
- Facing El Chapo (2026), a Mexican film (August 21st)
- Pyaar Prema Kalyanam (2026), a Bollywood film (August 21st)
- Gin Tama: Yoshiwara in Flames (2026), an anime film (August 27th)
New 2026 Drama
From the end of a treasure-hunting phenomenon to a sweeping literary finale, this month’s dramatic series reach across continents and genres.
- Outer Banks (Season 5), the fifth and final season of the wildly popular coming-of-age action drama. Filmed back-to-back with Season 4, this conclusive chapter promises an emotional, action-packed farewell as John B, Sarah, and the crew embark on one last high-stakes treasure hunt (August 20th)
- One Hundred Years of Solitude (Part 2), the sweeping Spanish-language adaptation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s masterpiece, wrapping up the generations-spanning saga of the Buendia family in the mythic town of Macondo (August 5th)
- My Life with the Walter Boys (Season 3), the hit teen romantic drama returning to Colorado, where a hospital scare sends the Walter household into fresh emotional turmoil (August 6th)
- My Brilliant Career (Season 1), an Australian period drama about a rebellious young woman torn between her writing ambitions and an unexpected love (August 13th)
- Moria (Season 1), a fictionalized biographical drama about Argentine entertainment icon Moria Casan, with three acclaimed actresses portraying her at different stages alongside the icon herself (August 14th)
- Operation Safed Sagar: The Untold Story of the Kargil War (2026), an Indian military drama series following the Indian Air Force’s Golden Arrows Squadron during the 1999 conflict (August 7th)
- Our Sticky Love (Season 1), a South Korean romantic drama starring Jung Hae-in and Ha Young, about a prosecutor with amnesia and the former boxing prodigy who poses as her boyfriend to protect her (August 7th)
- The Airport Chaplain (Season 1), a new Australian drama headlined by Hugo Weaving and Shabana Azeez, arriving with weekly episodes (August 26th)
- Beauty in Black (Season 3), the latest season of Tyler Perry’s high-stakes drama series (August 27th)
- All the Truth in My Lies (Season 1), a Spanish romance drama miniseries adapted from Elisabet Benavent’s novel (August 28th)
- Graveyard (Season 3), the hit Turkish drama returning for an emotionally charged third season (August 28th)
- Mousetrap (Season 1), a K-drama about a reclusive writer whose identity is stolen, forcing him to ally with a ruthless loan shark (August 28th)
- Four Hands, Two Sonatas (Season 1), a new K-drama series (August 29th)
- Blood Sacrifice (Limited Series), a Swedish crime drama (August 20th)
- Black Trick: The Lawyer Who Controls Justice (Season 1), a Japanese courtroom drama featuring Gackt (August 6th)
- GATE24: The Border (Season 1), a Japanese drama arriving with new episodes weekly (August 2nd)
- S and X (Season 1), a Japanese drama series (August 20th)
- Umthetho (Season 1), a South African drama series (August 14th)
New 2026 Series
Comedy, anime, and genre thrills round out the month’s episodic offerings.
- Alley Cats (Season 1), an adult animated comedy from the mind of Ricky Gervais, following a gang of foul-mouthed feral British cats musing on the meaning of life (August 7th)
- Tires (Season 3): Shane Gillis’s raucous workplace comedy racing back to the Valley Forge Automotive Center (August 13th)
- Leanne (Season 2), the Leanne Morgan and Chuck Lorre multi-cam comedy, featuring a guest appearance from Tyne Daly (August 27th)
- Revival (Season 1), a supernatural horror-noir series in which the recently deceased rise in rural Wisconsin as seemingly normal people, based on the comic series (August 24th)
- Talamasca: The Secret Order (Season 1), a supernatural spy thriller set within Anne Rice’s Immortal Universe, created by John Lee Hancock and starring Nicholas Denton and William Fichtner (August 23rd)
- Best Medicine (Season 1), a Fox adaptation of the British hit Doc Martin, with Josh Charles as a blood-phobic surgeon who relocates to a quirky Maine village (August 2nd)
- Death Inc. (Season 4), the final season of the rescued Spanish comedy drama (August 7th)
- 1670 (Season 3), the beloved Polish period comedy (August 5th)
- Banana Fish (Season 1), the acclaimed anime making its Netflix debut with a new English dub (August 12th)
- Unlucky Bae (Season 1), a Thai romantic comedy about a curse gone wrong, arriving with weekly episodes (August 6th)
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Strip August 2026 down to its new releases and you are left with a remarkably strong month of original storytelling. The Last House and The Whisper Man give the film slate genuine star power, Outer Banks and One Hundred Years of Solitude deliver two of the year’s most anticipated finales, and a deep bench of international dramas and sharp comedies keeps the momentum going all the way to the end of the month.
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