Streaming services have taken over as one of the best ways to catch the latest movies. Whether they’re making a stop in theaters before rolling out digital rentals or they launch as first-run originals from the likes of Netflix, Apple TV, or HBO; we’re rounding up the best titles so you’re not left in the dark — until it’s time to start the film, that is. Check back each week (usually on Friday) to see the latest additions for movies that are now available to stream, the latest theatrical releases, and movies coming next week.

New This Week — August 18

Elemental

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance

Release Date: August 15 | June 16 (theater)

Cast: Leah Lewis, Mamoudou Athie, Ronnie del Carmen, Shila Ommi, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Catherine O’Hara, Mason Wertheimer, Ronobir Lahiri, Wilma Bonet

In a city where fire, water, land, & air residents live together, a fiery young woman & a go-with-the-flow guy will discover something elemental: How much they have in common.

No Hard Feelings

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Release Date: August 14 | June 23 (theater)

Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Andrew Barth Feldman, Laura Benanti, Matthew Broderick, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Hasan Minhaj, Kyle Mooney, Alysia Joy Powell, Natalie Morales

On the brink of losing her childhood home, Maddie discovers an intriguing job listing: wealthy helicopter parents looking for someone to “date” their introverted 19-year-old son, Percy, before he leaves for college. To her surprise, Maddie soon discovers the awkward Percy is no sure thing.

Puppy Love

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Release Date: August 18

Cast: Lucy Hale, Grant Gustin, Jane Seymour, Michael Hitchcock, Nore Davis, Al Miro, Corey Woods, Sarah Almonte Peguero, Rachel Risen

After a disastrous first date, wild-child Nicole and socially-anxious Max vow to lose each other’s numbers until they learn that their dogs found a love match, and now puppies are on the way! The hilariously mismatched Nicole and Max are forced to become responsible co-parents, but may end up finding love themselves.

Miguel Wants to Fight

Genre: Comedy

Release Date: August 16 (hulu)

Cast: Tyler Dean Flores, Christian Vunipola, Imani Lewis, Suraj Partha, Raúl Castillo

In a neighborhood where fighting is stitched into the fabric of everyday life, Miguel has never found himself in one. However, when a combination of events turn his life upside down, Miguel and his friends enter into a series of misadventures.

The Monkey King

Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Adventure, Family, Comedy

Release Date: August 18

Cast: Jimmy O. Yang, Bowen Yang, Jolie Hoang-Rappaport, Jo Koy, Ron Yuan, Hoon Lee, Stephanie Hsu, Andrew Pang, Andrew Kishino

A stick-wielding monkey teams with a young girl on an epic quest for immortality, battling demons, dragons, gods — and his own ego — along the way.

Babylon 5: The Road Home

Genre: Science Fiction, Animation, Action, Adventure

Release Date: August 15 (buy), August 29 (rent)

Cast: Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Peter Jurasik, Bill Mumy, Tracy Scoggins, Patricia Tallman, Paul Guyet, Anthony Hansen, Mara Junot

Travel across the galaxy with John Sheridan as he unexpectedly finds himself transported through multiple timelines and alternate realities in a quest to find his way back home. Along the way he reunites with some familiar faces, while discovering cosmic new revelations about the history, purpose, and meaning of the Universe.

Fanny, Annie & Danny

Genre: Drama, Comedy

Release Date: August 15

Cast: Jill Pixley, Carlye Pollack, Jonathan Leveck, Colette Keen, George Killingsworth, Nick Frangione, Anne Darragh, Suzanna Aguayo, Nancy Carlin

The oldest of three children, Fanny has long been a source of strain and resentment within her family. When the three siblings are forced by their powerful mother to reunite for a holiday dinner, everyone’s worst fears are realized.

Sound of Freedom

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Release Date: August 18 (buy), September 8 (rent) | July 4 (theater)

Cast: Jim Caviezel, Mira Sorvino, Bill Camp, Kurt Fuller, Gerardo Taracena, José Zúñiga, Scott Haze, Gary Basaraba, Eduardo Verástegui

The story of Tim Ballard, a former US government agent, who quits his job in order to devote his life to rescuing children from global sex traffickers.

Kill Shot

Genre: Action

Release Date: August 15

Cast: Rib Hillis, Rachel Cook, Todd Gordon, Ari Novak, Xian Mikol, Mara Ohara, Anaya Patel, Jeff Medley, Bobby Maximus

Posing as hunters, a group of terrorists are in search of $100 million that was stolen and lost in a plane crash en route from Afghanistan.

Dead Shot

Genre: Action, Thriller

Release Date: August 18 (US), May 12 (UK and Ireland)

Cast: Colin Morgan, Aml Ameen, Mark Strong, Felicity Jones, Sophia Brown, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Will Keen

In the 1970s, a member of the IRA takes over an Active Service Unit in London after his wife is accidentally shot dead in Ireland. The unit’s mission is to cause chaos and destruction, while his personal aim is to hunt down his wife’s killer — an SAS captain, who is also hunting him.

The Engineer

Genre: Action, Thriller

Release Date: August 18

Cast: Emile Hirsch, Danny A. Abeckaser, Tsahi Halevi, Angel Bonanni, Yarden Toussia-Cohen, Oshri Cohen, Adam Haloon, Lee Keinan, Omer Hazan

As Israel is rocked by a series of terrorist bombings, a US senator’s daughter is killed in one bloody explosion. Now, ex-Mossad agent Etan must lead an elite, covert team of agents and mercenaries to find the man responsible—the elusive “Engineer.” Can they find and destroy the madman before more innocent lives are lost?

Caverna

Genre: Drama, Fantasy

Release Date: August 15

Cast: Giorgia Tomasi, Lorenzo Passaniti, Fabio Benvenuti, Elia Nichols, Marco Lombardi

A cyclops strangles a man and chases a princess through a forest. In a progressive theater workshop outside of Florence, students Giorgia and Lorenzo act out their dreams and childhood traumas, as teacher Alba pushes them to confront their inner myth.

Stay Awake

Genre: Drama

Release Date: August 15 | May 19 (theater)

Cast: Wyatt Oleff, Steffan Argus, Chrissy Metz, Albert Jones, Cree Cicchino, Quinn McColgan, Lorrie Odom

Set against the backdrop of the prescription drug and opioid crisis in the USA, Jamie Sisley depicts the individual consequences of a societal tragedy, while taking an unflinching yet gentle look at a complicated web of relationships.

Downwind

Genre: Documentary

Release Date: August 18

Cast: Martin Sheen, Lewis Black, Michael Douglas, Patrick Wayne, Mark Dickson Deans, Darlene Graham, Kevin Kamps, Brian Moench, Darwin Morgan

A documentary about nuclear fallout in the United States, specifically members of the Shoshone Nation whose sacred land continues to be cordoned off as a nuclear test site.

Billion Dollar Heist

Genre: Documentary

Release Date: August 14

Cast: Eric Chien, Mikko Hyppönen, Keith Mularski, Misha Glenny

Global, dynamic, and eye-opening, this is story of the most daring cyber heist of all time, the Bangladeshi Central Bank theft, tracing the origins of cyber-crime from basic credit card fraud to the wildly complex criminal organisations in existence today, supported by commentary and fascinating insight from highly regarded cyber security experts.

Reinventing Elvis: The 68′ Comeback

Genre: Documentary, Music

Release Date: August 15 (Paramount+)

Cast: Elvis Presley, Steve Binder, Darius Rucker, Maffio, Tom Parker, Vernon Presley, Gladys Presley, John Lennon, Paul McCartney

The making of Elvis Presley’s famous live TV concert and the chaotic behind the scenes. It was the most-watched television event of the year with nearly half of the audience tuned in to watch Presley perform in his iconic black leather suit.

Kokomo City

Genre: Documentary

Release Date: August 15 | July 28 (theater)

Cast: Daniella Carter, Koko Da Doll, Liyah Mitchell, Dominique Silver, XoTommy, Rich-Paris, Inw Tarxan, Lexx Pharaoh, Michael Carlos Jones

Directed by two-time Grammy nominee D. Smith, KOKOMO CITY takes up a seemingly simple mantle — to present the stories of four Black transgender sex workers in New York and Georgia. Shot in striking black and white, the boldness of the facts of these women’s lives and the earthquaking frankness they share complicate this enterprise, colliding the everyday with cutting social commentary and the excavation of long-dormant truths. Accessible for any audience, unfiltered, unabashed, and unapologetic, Smith and her subjects smash the trendy standard for authenticity, offering a refreshing rawness and vulnerability unconcerned with purity and politeness.

The Lesson

Genre: Thriller

Release Date: August 15 | July 7 (theater)

Cast: Richard E. Grant, Julie Delpy, Daryl McCormack, Stephen McMillan, Crispin Letts, Tomas Spencer

An aspiring young author takes a tutoring position at a legendary writer’s estate, hoping to leverage it to help his own career. But the young tutor is soon engulfed in the older writer’s complicated family legacy, and a deadly past that could threaten his own future.

Haunting of the Queen Mary

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Release Date: August 18

Cast: Alice Eve, Joel Fry, Nell Hudson, Angus Wright, Jim Piddock, Dorian Lough, William Shockley, Tim Downie, Lenny Rush

When photographers Erin and Patrick are brought aboard the ship with their young son Lukas, they unleash a series of events that entwines their family with the ship’s dark past. As the terror unfolds around them they begin to realise there is more to this sumptuous ocean liner than meets the eye: its remarkable legacy masking violent secrets.

Dark Windows

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Release Date: August 18

Cast: Annie Hamilton, Rory Alexander, Rachel Fowler, Jóel Sæmundsson, Morten Holst, Vanessa Borgli, Anna Bullard, Grace Binford Sheene

A group of teenagers take a trip to an isolated summerhouse in the countryside. What starts as a peaceful getaway turns into a horrific nightmare when a masked man begins to terrorize them in the most gruesome ways.