Best Movies on HBO Max – August 2026

A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's farm in West Texas.

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Director

David Mackenzie

Starring

Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine, Ben Foster

After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters the Spider Society, a team of Spider-People charged with protecting the Multiverse's very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must set out on his own to save those he loves most.

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Director

Kemp Powers

Starring

Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Brian Tyree Henry

In town for a job interview, a young woman arrives at her Airbnb late at night only to find that it has been mistakenly double-booked and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better judgement, she decides to stay the night anyway.

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Director

Zach Cregger

Starring

Georgina Campbell, Justin Long, Bill Skarsgård

An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.

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Director

Denis Villeneuve

Starring

Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro, Josh Brolin

Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.

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Director

Robert Eggers

Starring

Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, Valeriia Karaman

Following the death of the Leigh family matriarch, Annie and her children uncover disturbing secrets about their heritage. Their daily lives are not only impacted, but they also become entangled in a chilling fate from which they cannot escape, driving them to the brink of madness.

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Director

Ari Aster

Starring

Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Gabriel Byrne

After learning that a boy their age has been accidentally killed near their rural homes, four boys decide to go see the body. Gordie, Vern, Chris, and Teddy encounter a mean junk man and a marsh full of leeches, but they also learn more about one another and their very different home lives. Just a lark at first, the boys' adventure evolves into a defining event in their lives.

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• Philo
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Director

Rob Reiner

Starring

Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman

In a dystopian 1970s America, fifty teenage boys take part in a deadly annual walking contest, forced to maintain a minimum pace or be executed, until only one survivor remains.

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Director

Francis Lawrence

Starring

Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Ben Wang

Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son, but this will soon be put to test when a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge.

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Director

Trey Edward Shults

Starring

Joel Edgerton, Christopher Abbott, Carmen Ejogo

Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro harbor – leaving few survivors. Verbal lures his interrogators with an incredible story of the crime lord's almost supernatural prowess.

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Director

Bryan Singer

Starring

Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio del Toro

Vlogger Keith Gill sinks his life savings into GameStop stock and posts about it. When social media starts blowing up, so do his life and the lives of everyone following him. As a stock tip becomes a movement, everyone gets rich—until the billionaires fight back, and both sides find their worlds turned upside down.

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Director

Craig Gillespie

Starring

Paul Dano, Shailene Woodley, America Ferrera

When three parents discover that each of their daughters have a pact to lose their virginity at prom, they launch a covert one-night operation to stop the teens from sealing the deal.

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Director

Kay Cannon

Starring

Leslie Mann, John Cena, Ike Barinholtz

Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence - a commodity capable of unlocking humanity's greatest potential - only those who can conquer their fear will survive.

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Director

Denis Villeneuve

Starring

Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac

Wisecracking mercenary Deadpool battles the evil and powerful Cable and other bad guys to save a boy's life.

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Director

David Leitch

Starring

Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin, Morena Baccarin

Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.

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Director

Ari Aster

Starring

Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper

An ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control legislation.

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Director

John Madden

Starring

Jessica Chastain, Mark Strong, Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Robert McCall finds himself at home in Southern Italy but he discovers his friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do: become his friends' protector by taking on the mafia.

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Director

Antoine Fuqua

Starring

Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Eugenio Mastrandrea

Fashionable sorority queen Elle Woods has it all, but, she wants nothing more than to be Mrs. Warner Huntington III. But he dumps her before heading to Harvard Law School. Elle rallies all of her resources and gets into Harvard, determined to win him back. While there, she figures out that there is more to herself than just good looks.

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Director

Robert Luketic

Starring

Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, Selma Blair

Debbie Ocean, a criminal mastermind, gathers a crew of female thieves to pull off the heist of the century at New York's annual Met Gala.

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Director

Gary Ross

Starring

Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway

Ash, a handsome, shotgun-toting, chainsaw-armed department store clerk, is time warped backwards into England's Dark Ages, where he romances a beauty and faces legions of the undead.

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Director

Sam Raimi

Starring

Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz, Marcus Gilbert

A teenager finds herself transported to a deep forest setting where a battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil is taking place. She bands together with a rag-tag group characters in order to save their world—and ours.

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Director

Chris Wedge

Starring

Colin Farrell, Amanda Seyfried, Christoph Waltz

After losing their baby, a married couple adopt 9-year old Esther, who may not be as innocent as she seems.

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Director

Jaume Collet-Serra

Starring

Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, Isabelle Fuhrman

Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.

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Director

Kenneth Branagh

Starring

Kenneth Branagh, Tom Bateman, Michelle Pfeiffer

Following their explosive showdown, Godzilla and Kong must reunite against a colossal undiscovered threat hidden within our world, challenging their very existence – and our own.

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Director

Adam Wingard

Starring

Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, Dan Stevens

Mumble the penguin has a problem: his son Erik, who is reluctant to dance, encounters the Mighty Sven — a penguin who can fly! Things get worse for Mumble when the world is shaken by powerful forces, causing him to bring together the penguin nations and their allies to set things right.

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Director

George Miller

Starring

Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, P!nk

It has been ten years since The Battle of the Breach and the oceans are still, but restless. Vindicated by the victory at the Breach, the Jaeger program has evolved into the most powerful global defense force in human history. The PPDC now calls upon the best and brightest to rise up and become the next generation of heroes when the Kaiju threat returns.

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Director

Steven S. DeKnight

Starring

John Boyega, Scott Eastwood, Cailee Spaeny

Sally and Gillian Owens, born into a magical family, have mostly avoided witchcraft themselves. But when Gillian's vicious boyfriend, Jimmy Angelov, dies unexpectedly, the Owens sisters give themselves a crash course in hard magic. With policeman Gary Hallet growing suspicious, the girls struggle to resurrect Angelov -- and unwittingly inject his corpse with an evil spirit that threatens to end their family line.

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Director

Griffin Dunne

Starring

Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Stockard Channing

Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient queen whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our current day, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia, and terrors that defy human comprehension.

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Director

Alex Kurtzman

Starring

Tom Cruise, Annabelle Wallis, Sofia Boutella

The ultimate wish-fulfillment tale of a teenage Gran Turismo player whose gaming skills won him a series of Nissan competitions to become an actual professional racecar driver.

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Director

Neill Blomkamp

Starring

Archie Madekwe, David Harbour, Orlando Bloom

A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family.

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Director

Hayao Miyazaki

Starring

Rumi Hiiragi, Miyu Irino, Mari Natsuki

When an innovative modern architect flees post-war Europe, he is given the opportunity to rebuild his legacy. Set during the dawn of the modern United States (in Pennsylvania), his wife joins him, and their lives are forever changed by a demanding, wealthy patron.

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Director

Brady Corbet

Starring

Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce