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August 2015 Movies

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Mar. 27, 2022

Best Movies Released August 2015

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Two years after Battle of Gods, Dragon Ball Z is back in a highly anticipated new film – featuring the return of one of the most iconic villains of all time, Frieza.

Tadayoshi Yamamuro, Akira Toriyama

Action Sequel 1 hr, 45 mins

80%

  • 4.5
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An origins Fantastic Four story with an all new cast. 20th Century Fox is the latest studio to start the process of overhauling one of its big Marvel Entertainment franchises, Fantastic Four, which has already hatched two films.

Simon Kinberg, Michael B. Jordan, Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell, Toby Kebbell, Matthew Vaughn, Josh Trank

PG-13 Action Adventure 1 hr, 45 mins

79%

  • 3
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A sheep named Shaun and his sheepdog friend Bitzer are forced to take their entire flock on an adventure to the big city to rescue the Farmer.

Julie Lockhart, Mark Burton, Richard Starzak, Paul Kewley

PG Adventure Comedy

83%

  • 3.4
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Explores if bygones are really ever bygones.

Rebecca Hall, Jason Bateman, Joel Edgerton, Jason Blum, Rebecca Yeldham, David Denman, Beau Knapp, Couper Samuelson

Thriller Suspense

76%

  • 3.5
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A woman abandons her family when she is younger to find fame and fortune as a rock star. Decades later, she decides to be a mother again to her estranged children, one of whom is going through a rough divorce.

Marc Platt, Sebastian Stan, Meryl Streep, Diablo Cody, Rick Springfield, Jonathan Demme, Kevin Kline, Ben Platt

PG-13 Drama Music 1 hr, 37 mins

33%

  • 3.7
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Set in the aftermath of the tragic 2010 BP oil spill, Colin Price, an idealistic but flawed New Orleans congressman, is forced to confront his dysfunctional life after his career is destroyed in a sex scandal.

Nicolas Cage, Wendell Pierce, Sarah Paulson, Austin Stark, Glenn Williamson, Connie Nielsen, Peter Fonda, Bryan Bratt

R Drama Thriller 1 hr, 30 mins

62%

  • 3.2
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Set in a Mediterranean sea-side village, Kamila (Salma Hayek) cleans house for exiled artist and poet Mustafa (Liam Neeson), but the more difficult job is keeping her free-spirited young daughter, Almitra, (Quvenzhané Wallis) out of trouble. The three embark on a journey meant to end with Mustafa’s return home – but first they must evade the authorities who fear that the truth in his words will incite rebellion. Featuring music from Damien Rice, Glen Hansard and Yo-Yo Ma.

Salma Hayek, Liam Neeson, Quvenzhane Wallis, Alfred Molina, John Krasinski, Roger Allers, Frank Langella

PG Adaptation Animation 1 hr, 25 mins

23%

  • 3.9
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Like most teenage girls, Minnie Goetze (Bel Powley) is longing for love, acceptance and a sense of purpose in the world. Minnie begins a complex love affair with her mother's (Kristen Wiig) boyfriend, "the handsomest man in the world," Monroe Rutherford (Alexander Skarsgård). What follows is an account of one girl's sexual awakening, without judgment.

Alexander Skarsgard, Bel Powley, Kristen Wiig, Christopher Meloni, Marielle Heller

R Drama

74%

  • 3.9
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Inspired by the beloved classic, Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet is a richly-animated story and celebration of Gibran’s book, created by artists, animators and musicians from around the world.

Salma Hayek, Liam Neeson, Quvenzhane Wallis, Alfred Molina, John Krasinski, Roger Allers, Frank Langella

Family Animation

79%

  • 4
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Follows a woman who survived the brutal massacre of her family when she was seven-years old and testified against her own brother. Twenty-five years later, a secret society obsessed with crime-solving called the Kill Club brings her in for questioning to discover the truth of the horrific crime.

Chloë Grace Moretz, Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan, Peter Safran, Charlize Theron, Christina Hendricks, Gilles Paquet-Brenner, Stephane Marsil

R Drama Adaptation 1 hr, 53 mins

53%

  • 3.2
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When two rebellious young boys stumble across an abandoned cop car hidden in a secluded glade they decide to take it for a joyride. When the small town sheriff (Kevin Bacon) goes looking for his missing car, the boys find themselves in the center of a deadly game of cat and mouse and the only way out is to go as fast as their cop car can take them.

Kevin Bacon, Sheriff Kretzer, Jon Watts, Camryn Manheim, James Freedson-Jackson

R Thriller 1 hr, 26 mins

78%

  • 2.9
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An African 3D documentary. No other plot details have been announced.

Idris Elba, Neil Nightingale, Patrick Morris, Mike Newell, Nigel Williams

Documentary Nature 1 hr, 27 mins

24%

  • 4.7
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Revolves around the rise and fall of the Compton, California rap group N.W.A., whose initials read Niggas With Attitude. The members include drug dealer turned label founder Eazy-E, young disc jockey Dr. Dre and the politically bent Ice Cube, plus MC Ren and DJ Yella.

Ice Cube, Jason Mitchell, Andrea Berloff, Tomica Woods, David Engel, Bill Strauss, Matt Alvarez, Leigh Savidge

R Drama Mystery 2 hrs, 27 mins

79%

  • 4.4
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The story of a reluctant hero whose town is threatened when his long-time rival returns home to avenge an old grudge. When the players from his foosball table are magically brought to life, he recruits them to help him enter into the biggest underdog match ever, save the town and win back the love of his life.

Nicholas Hoult, Ariana Grande, Juan Jose Campanella, Matthew Morrison

PG Family Animation 1 hr, 22 mins

51%

  • 3.2
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The espionage adventures of Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin, agents of United Network Command for Law Enforcement (U.N.C.L.E.) who fight the forces of T.H.R.U.S.H. (Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity).

Henry Cavill, Hugh Grant, John Davis, Armie Hammer, David Dobkin, Alicia Vikander, Elizabeth Debicki, Jared Harris

PG-13 Action Adventure 1 hr, 56 mins

59%

  • 4.3
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A meticulous small-town nurse (Rosamund Pike) falls victim to a life-altering event after she goes on a blind date with a man (Shiloh Fernandez) who turns out not to be who he says he is. She must find the strength and courage to rebuild her life and return to her former self.

Rosamund Pike, Fouad Mikati, Joe Gossett, Shiloh Fernandez, Patricia Beauchamp, Nick Nolte

Suspense Psychological 1 hr, 35 mins

55%

  • 3.1
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Follows an orphan who learns the art of hypnosis and has the ability to hypnotize the people around her.

Emily Watson, Christopher N. Rowley, Dominic Monaghan, Raffey Cassidy

Fantasy Adaptation

75%

  • 4.8
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A Vermont teenager Jude moves in with his hippie dad in NYC after his best friend Teddy overdoses. There he falls in with the no drugs, no sex, no meat straight-edge hardcore punk scene of the East Village.

Hailee Steinfeld, Celine Rattray, Ethan Hawke, Asa Butterfield, Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini, Luca Borghese, Emile Hirsch

R Drama Adaptation 1 hr, 44 mins

68%

  • 3
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In Mistress America, Tracy (Lola Kirke) is a lonely college freshman in New York, having neither the exciting university experience nor the glamorous metropolitan lifestyle she envisioned. But when she is taken in by her soon-to-be stepsister, Brooke (Greta Gerwig) – a resident of Times Square and adventurous gal about town – she is rescued from her disappointment and seduced by Brooke's alluringly mad schemes.

Cindy Cheung, Noah Baumbach, Lola Kirke, Greta Gerwig, Juliet Brett, Michael Chernus, Shana Dowdeswell, Charlie Gillette

R Comedy 1 hr, 26 mins

26%

  • 2.5
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A newly single, under-employed graphic novelist navigates life, his young twin daughters, a case of writer's block, a classroom full of students, and a new love while letting go of the woman who left him.

Jemaine Clement, Regina Hall, Jessica Williams, James C. Strouse, Michael Clark, Alex Turtletaub, Stephanie Allynne

R Drama Comedy 1 hr, 25 mins

64%

  • 2.2
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Before he created Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney was an animator and businessman who spent a decade shrugging off failure in order to build the studio that would turn him into an icon. The indie period drama Walt Before Mickey chronicles nine years worth of these early struggles

Jon Heder, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Khoa Le, Arthur L. Bernstein, Armando Gutierrez, Jodie Sweetin, David Henrie

PG Drama Biography 2 hrs, 0 mins

90%

  • 4.2
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At an abandoned asylum, six teens tinker with the occult, causing a possession, a paranormal mystery and a bloody nightmare that no one could predict. From the director of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and producers of Paranormal Activity and Insidious.

Brett Dier, Marcus Nispel, Kirsten McCallion, Kelly Blatz, Brittany Curran, Gage Golightly, Nic Nicotera

Horror 1 hr, 31 mins

81%

  • 3.6
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Follows a pack of feral teenage boys who choose the wrong girl to be the victim of their final "initiation."

Wes Bentley, Abigail Breslin, Tyler Shields, Jeff Kwatinetz, Rob Carliner, Joseph Nasser, Steve Scarlata, Johnny Silver

R Thriller

78%

  • 3.2
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After the sudden death of his lover, Guillaume (Caleb Landry Jones), Tom (Xavier Dolan), travels from his home in the city to a remote country farm for the funeral. Upon arriving, he’s shocked to find that Guillaume's family knows nothing about him and was expecting a woman in his place. Torn between his own grief and that of the family, Tom keeps his identity a secret but soon finds himself increasingly drawn into a twisted, sexually-charged game by Guillaume’s aggressive brother (Pierre-Yves Cardinal), who suspects the truth.

Xavier Dolan, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Lisa Roy

Drama Thriller

42%

  • 2.7
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A modern odyssey – a dizzying, almost science fiction-like journey into the heart of Africa. At the moment when the Sudan, the continent’s biggest country, is being divided into two nations, an old “civilizing” ideology re-emerges – one of colonialism and a clash of empires – with new episodes of bloody (and holy) wars over land and resources. Academy Award® nominated director of Darwin’s Nightmare, Hubert Sauper, takes us on a voyage in his tiny, self-made aircraft constructed from tin and canvas, leading us into the most improbable locations and into people’s thoughts and dreams in both stunning and heartbreaking ways.

Hubert Sauper

Documentary 1 hr, 50 mins

53%

  • 3.8
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Follows a man who wakes up in bed suffering from memory loss after being in an accident, only to begin to suspect that his wife may not be his real wife and that a web of lies and deceit deepen inside the house where he soon finds himself a prisoner.

Wes Bentley, Michael Polish, Amy Kolquist, Kate Bosworth

Thriller

65%

  • 3
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In the aftermath of the shocking events in Sinister, a protective mother (Shannyn Sossamon) and her 9-year-old twin sons (real-life twins Robert and Dartanian Sloan) find themselves in a rural house marked for death as the evil spirit of Buhguul continues to spread with frightening intensity.

Scott Derrickson, Jason Blumenthal, James Ransone, Ciaran Foy, Shannyn Sossamon, Tate Ellington, Laila Haley

R Sequel Thriller

71%

  • 3.8
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A genetically engineered elite assassin with a barcode tattooed on the back of his head works for a mysterious organization dubbed the Agency.

Rupert Friend, Zachary Quinto, Daniel Alter, Aleksander Bach, Chuck Gordon, Alex Young, Adrian Askarieh, Kyle Ward

R Action Remake

70%

  • 3.9
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Jesse Eisenberg will portray a stoner who lives with his girlfriend (Kristen Stewart) in a small town. His life takes an unexpected turn when his past comes back to haunt him and he becomes the target of a government operation to wipe him out.

Uma Thurman, Kristen Stewart, Jesse Eisenberg, Topher Grace, Walton Goggins, Nima Nourizadeh, Max Landis, Tony Hale

R Action Comedy

71%

  • 4.2
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A screwball comedy about an escort, a theatre director and a private detective.

Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach, Imogen Poots, Jennifer Aniston, Peter Bogdanovich, Owen Wilson, Rhys Ifans, Debi Mazar

R Drama Comedy 1 hr, 33 mins

30%

  • 2.9
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Richard (Pierce Brosnan) is a successful college professor who gives up a steady stream of one-night stands and beautiful undergrads for fatherhood with much younger Kate (Jessica Alba). Three years later when Kate falls in love with someone else and moves out, she sends her sister, Olivia (Salma Hayek), to make sure Richard is properly caring for their son. Assuming Richard is back to his irresponsible playboy lifestyle, Olivia is shocked when she starts to fall in love with him herself.

Salma Hayek, Malcolm McDowell, Jessica Alba, Pierce Brosnan, Tom Vaughan, Duncan Joiner, Benjamin McKenzie

R Comedy Romance 1 hr, 39 mins

61%

  • 3.7
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The storry follows a high school senior who thinks graduating is a matter of life or death.

Penelope Mitchell, Helen Slater, Bella Heathcote, Lucas Till, Derick Martini, Oren Segal, Chiara Trento, Jason Dubin

Thriller Horror 1 hr, 30 mins

77%

  • 3.3
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The discovery of a bone and a gun sends a husband and wife on separate adventures over the course of a weekend.

Anna Kendrick, Sam Rockwell, Jake Johnson, Rosemarie DeWitt, Orlando Bloom, Brie Larson, Joe Swanberg

Drama 1 hr, 23 mins

65%

  • 3
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A modern odyssey – a dizzying, almost science fiction-like journey into the heart of Africa. At the moment when the Sudan, the continent’s biggest country, is being divided into two nations, an old “civilizing” ideology re-emerges – one of colonialism and a clash of empires – with new episodes of bloody (and holy) wars over land and resources. Academy Award® nominated director of Darwin’s Nightmare, Hubert Sauper, takes us on a voyage in his tiny, self-made aircraft constructed from tin and canvas, leading us into the most improbable locations and into people’s thoughts and dreams in both stunning and heartbreaking ways.

Hubert Sauper

Documentary 1 hr, 50 mins

53%

  • 3.8
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Mateo follows America’s most notorious gringo mariachi singer on his misadventures in Cuba. Matthew Stoneman dreamed of pop stardom. Instead, he went to jail, learned Spanish, and emerged as “Mateo,” America’s first white mariachi singer. Mateo is on the brink of completing an album of original songs in Havana. But his estrangement from friends and family, his criminal past, and his love for Cuban women could derail him on his quest for fame.

Aaron I. Naar

Documentary 1 hr, 28 mins

33%

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Follows the downward spiral of a man who has no limits. David Gold, 36, a pathologically immature former child actor, has never been able to get over high school. Recently diagnosed with skin cancer, unemployed and with nothing left to lose, he fakes his resume and gets a job as a high school guidance counselor. Quickly winning over the students at Grusin High with his laidback attitude and similar interests, he befriends Jabrielle, a teenaged outcast and soon learns that sometimes you can go too far, especially when it comes to committing a ridiculous crime.

Pat Mills, Zahra Bentham

Comedy 1 hr, 20 mins

53%

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Wendy Shields is a book editor from New York facing a marriage crisis. Darwan Singh Tur is a driving instructor from India with an abiding respect for tradition. When Wendy sets out to reclaim her independence, she hits a unique roadblock - she never learned to drive. She hires Darwan, a driving instructor and part-time cabdriver, to teach her. They form an unlikely bond that inspires each to embrace the humor, freedom, and strength that come with starting anew.

Isabel Coixet, Ben Kingsley, Sarita Choudhury, Patricia Clarkson, Grace Gummer, Samantha Bee, Jake Weber

PG-13 Comedy Romance

79%

  • 3
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Lily Tomlin is Elle Reid. Elle has just gotten through breaking up with her girlfriend when Elle's granddaughter Sage unexpectedly shows up needing $600 bucks before sundown. Temporarily broke, Grandma Elle and Sage spend the day trying to get their hands on the cash as their unannounced visits to old friends and flames end up rattling skeletons and digging up secrets.

Julia Garner, Lily Tomlin, Judy Greer, Elizabeth Pena, Laverne Cox, Paul Weitz, Marcia Gay Harden, Nat Wolff

R Comedy

74%

  • 3
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An American family moves to Southeast Asia and finds themselves embroiled in a violent coup where rebels mercilessly attack the city.

Adam Ripp, Drew Dowdle, Pierce Brosnan, Owen Wilson, Lake Bell, Sterling Jerins, John Erick Dowdle, Rob Paris

R Action Thriller 1 hr, 41 mins

50%

  • 4.1
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The story of a troubled aspiring DJ named Cole who finds his place in the world of electronic dance music.

Wes Bentley, Zac Efron, Emily Ratajkowski, Eric Fellner, Max Joseph, Tim Bevan, Meaghan Oppenheimer, Jon Bernthal

R Drama Romance

64%

  • 3.3
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War Room follows Tony and Elizabeth Jordan, a middle-class couple who seemingly have it all – great jobs, a beautiful daughter, their dream home. But appearances can be deceiving. In reality, the Jordan's marriage has become a war zone and their daughter is collateral damage. With the help of Miss Clara, an older, wiser woman, Elizabeth discovers she can start fighting for her family instead of against them. Through a newly energized faith, Elizabeth and Tony's real enemy doesn't have a prayer.

Alex Kendrick, Stephen Kendrick, T.C. Stallings, Ashley Bratcher, Scotty Curlee, Karen Abercrombie

PG Drama Faith

85%

  • 4.4
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Story centers around Val, a hard-working live-in housekeeper in modern day Sao Paulo. Val is perfectly content to take care of every one of her wealthy employers’ needs, from cooking and cleaning to being a surrogate mother to their teenage son, who she has raised since he was a toddler. But when Val’s estranged daughter Jessica suddenly shows up the unspoken but intrinsic class barriers that exist within the home are thrown into disarray. Jessica is smart, confident, and ambitious, and refuses to accept the upstairs/downstairs dynamic, testing relationships and loyalties and forcing everyone to reconsider what family really means.

Anna Muylaert, Regina Casé

R Drama 1 hr, 54 mins

70%

  • 3
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The story follows Reagan, a track star, who is kidnapped by a pair of sociopaths after her car breaks down on a deserted road. Trapped and afraid, Reagan soon realizes her captors love the thrill of “the hunt,” and she is the hunted. Reagan must use her wits and physical prowess to escape her tormentors and find her way to freedom, while putting together the pieces of a horrifying puzzle.

James Gaudioso, Simeon Rice, Murray Gray, Rusty Joiner

Thriller Suspense

59%

  • 1
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Tells the tale of a werewolf hunted down in her fishing village, while also discovering love.

Jonas Arnby, Sonia Suhl, Lars Mikkelsen

R Romance 1 hr, 25 mins

63%

  • 4
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A teenage girl lives alone and maintains a farm in the only valley with breathable air in the wake of nuclear war. Her world is turned upside down when two strangers wander in from the forest. The young girl nurses back to health a rugged scientist with a dark past, after he is weakened by a contaminated stream.

Margot Robbie, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Chris Pine, Craig Zobel, Tobey Maguire, Matthew Plouffe, Thor Sigurjonsson, Nissar Modi

PG-13 Drama

23%

  • 3.3
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Top August 2015 Movie Trailers

The Fantastic Four Theatrical Teaser
Hitman: Agent 47 Theatrical Trailer
Underdogs Theatrical Trailer
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Desert Road
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The Friend
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Dirty Angels Official Trailer
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Superman Teaser Trailer
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Grafted Official Trailer
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