Netflix balances a number of films and series in its catalog each week, without being noticed or that the platform officially announces it. Large screen returns to the new features added by Netflix from August 15 to 21, 2025, films and series combined in a non -exhaustive list.
What are the films and series not to be missed this week on the streaming platform?
night always comes
- Already available
- Duration: 1h50
What is it talking about? Threatened with expulsion in a city that her family can no longer pay himself, a woman embarks on desperate and increasingly dangerous research, all night, to bring together 25,000 dollars.
Why should you see it? If there is one reason to be tempted by Night Always Comesit’s Vanessa Kirby. The actress revealed in The Crown may be associated with Hollywood blockbusters with its role in the saga Mission : Impossible and his very recent arrival in the Marvel universe with The Fantastic 4it deserves better than this simple label. It was also at Netflix that she had it perfectly proven in Pieces of a Womanwhich had earned him the interpretation prize in Venice in 2020.
So here it is back in one of these “Small films” entirely built around a performance. In this case it is to play a role Between the simple drama and the pure thrilleradapted from Willy Vlautin’s book. With the excellent Jennifer Jason Leigh to give him the reply, and director Benjamin Caron (behind the thriller Apple TV+ Sharperand passed over the series Andor et… The Crownhold), Vanessa Kirby is well surrounded. And since it is currently running the next Avengerspossible that it is not seen as soon as a more modest and earth-to-terre film.
Battleship
- On Netflix on August 16
- Duration: 2h10
What is it talking about? The aliens attack, and go through the ocean. So, it’s time to play the naval battle!
Why should you see it? Because it is necessary to remember the sweet era (no) when everyone swore by the success of Transformers. Hasbro therefore searched in his juicy catalog, and after the robots in disguise And the GI Joe, decided to turn to … the naval battle. But beware, a naval battle with aliens capable of making their vessels invisible, just to justify A lunar sequence where the general staff really plays to touched flow.
Battleship is above all an aberration of studiodesperately trying to recreate a formula without having understood the sap. Even if Peter Berg was able to impose himself over time as one of the least shameful imitators in the Michael Bay style, he cannot do much about this informed thing, which fails miserably to check his boxes. But with a good beer, it has the merit of being funny, especially for the presence of Rihanna, as credible in a badass soldier as a dramatic actress (that is to say not much).
Trojan
- Available on Netflix on August 20
- Duration: 2h35
What is it talking about? The Trojan War raged after the abduction of the beautiful Hélène by Paris, opposing the hero Achille to the Trojan Hector.
Why should you see it? You should have lived in a cave for the last six months not to know that Christopher Nolan is preparing his adaptation of theOdysseyHomer’s mythological account. But who says “Odyssey“Also said”Illiade”, Another (very long) poem of the same Homer who is not devoted to the trip of Ulysses but to the Trojan War (that with the horse and everything). And theIlliade Also, of course, was entitled to his adaptations. The latest, which dates back to 2004 (yes yes, it’s more than twenty rods), it’s Trojan.
A peplum of action in which Brad Pitt (the boiling Achilles) and Eric Bana (Hector) crepes the skirt In the middle of a reinforced concrete cast (Orlando Bloom, Brian Cox, Diane Kruger, Sean Bean, Peter O’Toole, Brendan Gleeson, Julie Christie, Rose Byrne … In short, half of Hollywood). Failing to find any loyalty to the poet or history there, there are at least epic spectacle and shiny muscles. And sometimes that’s all we need.
Hostages
- On Netflix on August 21
- Duration: 5 episodes of approximately 45 min
What is it talking about? When the husband of the British Prime Minister is removed and the French president begins to receive threats, an impossible choice presents himself to the two dealers.
Why should you see it? Because Hostages is a mini-series (for the moment), so no risk of cancellation from the streaming giant. More seriously, this is the new creation of the scriptwriter Matt Charman, in the a priori vein of his previous mini-series Thriller, Traitor With Olga Kurylenko and Charlie Cox, also broadcast on Netflix.
He is also the screenwriter of the film The spy bridge by Steven Spielberg. On the casting side, the presence of Julie Delpy is another solid argument. The actress, appointed to the Oscars for Before Sunset et Before Midnightembodies Vivienne Toussaint, which we imagine to be the famous French president. Just for that, it deserves to watch at least the first episode to take the temperature.
BUT ALSO…
Catwoman, the client, two hearts, New York Taxi, the new adventures of Aladdin, the children of others, Alad’2, Babysittin, Babysitting 2, where the crayfish sing, abominable, sudden death 2 …
