Here's Our Top Recommendations on Netflix's August 2020 Lineup

TOP PICKS THIS MONTH 

Once Before (Hindi Tayo Pwede)

Torn between two lovers, a woman decides whether to move on and open her heart to the present or hold on to the love of someone lost and gone forever.  

• Launch Date: August 4

How She Left Me (Kung Paano Siya Nawala)

A man with face blindness finds it impossible to connect with others — until he meets a beautifully free spirit who changes his life. 

• Launch Date: August 13

Love the Way U Lie (film)

With the help of a spunky, lonely-in-love psychic, a deceased wife tries to get her grieving husband to move on. In the process, sparks begin to fly.

• Launch Date: August 19

Us, at the End of the Year (Tayo sa Huling Buwan ng Taon)

Five years after their break-up, ex-lovers turned friends attempt to find romance but find nothing except the pain of being in love with someone else whom they can never be with.

• Launch Date: August 27

SIZZLING SERIES 

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend 

It's an interactive Kimmy special! Kimmy's getting married, but first she has to foil the Reverend's evil plot. It's your move: What should she do next? 

• Launch Date: August 5

The Rain: Season 3

Years after the rain decimated the population of Scandinavia, Simone and Rasmus find themselves at odds about how to save humanity.    

• Launch Date: August 6 

Selling Sunset: Season 3

Big changes come to The Oppenheim Group as a major sale closes, the agents consider career moves, and one broker faces a very public breakup. 

• Launch Date: August 7

3%: Season 4

This dystopian thriller returns for another season.   

• Launch Date: August 14

Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story

Socialite Betty Broderick hits a homicidal boiling point during a bitter divorce from her unfaithful husband. Based on the headline-making crime.   

• Launch Date: August 14

Lucifer: Season 5A

Lucifer makes a tumultuous return, Chloe rethinks romance, Ella finally finds a nice guy, and Amenadiel adjusts to the whole fatherhood thing.     

• Launch Date: August 21 

Trinkets: Season 2 

The teen shoplifters are back for another season.    

• Launch Date: August 25

Cobra Kai: Seasons 1-2 

Thirty years after the 1984 All Valley Karate Tournament, Johnny's rivalry with Daniel reignites. Ralph Macchio and William Zabka reprise their roles.    

• Launch Date: August 28

FRESH FILMS

Blade: Trinity

Recognizing that they're powerless to stop vampire hunter Blade, the vampires who rule the human race set up Blade to look like a serial killer.     

• Launch Date: August 1

Skyscraper 

When terrorists attack the tallest building in the world, a security consultant will do anything to save his family from the carnage.  

• Launch Date: August 5  

Nightcrawler 

A young hustler finds success trolling the streets of Los Angeles to film disasters and death. But the darkness he captures starts to take hold of him.

• Launch Date: August 6

Ocean's 8

Debbie Ocean gets out of prison bent on stealing a knockout necklace at the Met Gala. She recruits seven other women to pull off the grand heist.

• Launch Date: August 8

Project Power (film) 

An ex-soldier, a teen and a cop collide in New Orleans as they hunt for the source behind a dangerous new pill that grants users temporary superpowers.

• Launch Date: August 14

Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life

Thrill seeker Lara Croft journeys to an underwater temple, where she finds a sphere that contains a map pointing to the mythical Pandora's box.   

• Launch Date: August 16 

The Commuter

On his daily train commute, an insurance salesman gets railroaded into accepting a suspiciously lucrative offer from a mysterious fellow passenger.  

• Launch Date: August 28

MOVING K-DRAMAS

200 Pounds Beauty 

Han-na, an overweight woman with a beautiful voice, undergoes drastic plastic surgery and emerges a year later as svelte singer Jenny. 

• Launch Date: August 1 

Stranger: Season 2

In the midst of a power clash between prosecutors and police, Si-mok and Yeo-jin uncover murky secrets as they pursue a labyrinth of intertwined cases.   

• Launch Date: August 15

Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol (series) 

Lovely pianist Gurara hits rock bottom when she meets the rough and mysterious Fritta Sunwoojun. Can Fritta bring Gurara back to life? 

• Launch Date: August 26 

Sweet Munchies 

To get his own TV show, a chef known for delectable late-night eats tells a major lie that complicates his relationships with those around him. 

• Launch Date: August 28

The World of the Married 

A turbulent twister of lies, betrayals and revenge tears apart the seemingly picture-perfect marriage between a doctor and a filmmaker. 

• Launch Date: August 28 

  

AMAZING ANIMES

Berserk: Season 1-2

Guts, the Black Swordsman, is on a journey to find and kill Griffith, the former leader of his mercenary group. He is joined by Puck the elf. 

• Launch Date: August 1

Great Pretender 

Supposedly Japan's greatest swindler, Makoto Edamura gets more than he bargained for when he tries to con Laurent Thierry, a real world-class crook. 

• Launch Date: August 20

Aggretsuko: Season 3

Retsuko the Red Panda and her death metal karaoke return for another season. 

• Launch Date: August 27