August is filled with tons of movies we have been anticipating all year, including M. Night Shyamalan’s Trap and Fede Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus.

Check out a brief list below of some of the movies coming out this month!

Friday, August 2

Trap – Written, directed, and produced by M. Night Shyamalan. The film stars Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donoghue, Saleka Shyamalan, Hayley Mills, and Alison Pill. “Cooper, a serial killer dubbed “The Butcher”, joins his daughter at a concert for pop star Lady Raven, an event he realizes is a trap set by police to catch him.”

Harold and the Purple Crayon – Directed by Carlos Saldanha from a screenplay by David Guion and Michael Handelman, based on the 1955 children’s book Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson. It stars Zachary Levi, with Lil Rel Howery, Jemaine Clement, Tanya Reynolds, and Zooey Deschanel in supporting roles. 

Kneecap – Written and directed by Rich Peppiatt. Story by Rich Peppiatt; Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh, Naoise Ó Cairealláin and JJ Ó Dochartaigh. Starring Móglaí Bap, Mo Chara and DJ Próvai. “Rapping in their native Irish language, KNEECAP fast become the unlikely figureheads of a Civil Rights movement to save their mother tongue. But the trio must first overcome police, paramilitaries & politicians trying to silence their defiant sound – whilst their anarchic approach to life often makes them their own worst enemies.”

#AMFAD: All My Friends Are Dead – Directed by Marcus Dunstan and written by Josh Sims and Jessica Sarah Flaum. It stars Jade Pettyjohn and JoJo Siwa. “A group of college friends rent an Airbnb for the biggest music festival of the year. A weekend of partying quickly takes a turn, as the group is murdered one by one, according to their sin.”

War Game – Directed by Tony Gerber and Jesse Moss. Starring Chris Henry Coffey and Frederick Wellman. “A bipartisan group of U.S. defense, intelligence, and elected policymakers spanning five presidential administrations participate in an unscripted role-play exercise in which they confront a political coup backed by rogue members of the U.S. military, in the wake of a contested presidential election.”

Friday, August 9

Borderlands – Directed by Eli Roth, who co-wrote the screenplay with Joe Crombie, based on the video game series of the same name developed by Gearbox Software. Starring Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Edgar Ramírez, Ariana Greenblatt, Bobby Lee, Florian Munteanu, Gina Gershon, and Jamie Lee Curtis. “Returning to her home planet, an infamous outlaw forms an unexpected alliance with a team of unlikely heroes. Together, they battle alien monsters and dangerous bandits to find a missing girl who holds the key to unimaginable power.”

It Ends with Us – Directed by Justin Baldoni and written by Christy Hall, based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Colleen Hoover. Starring Blake Lively, Baldoni, Brandon Sklenar, Jenny Slate, Hasan Minhaj, and Amy Morton. “Complications arise when a woman’s high school love interest comes back into her life.”

Cuckoo – Written and directed by Tilman Singer. Starring Hunter Schafer, Jan Bluthardt, Marton Csokas, Jessica Henwick, and Dan Stevens. “Seventeen-year-old Gretchen reluctantly leaves America to live with her father at a resort in the German Alps. Plagued by strange noises and bloody visions, she soon discovers a shocking secret that concerns her own family.”

Running on Empty – Written and directed by Daniel Andre. The cast includes Keri Gilchrist, Lucy Hale, Francesca Eastwood, Rhys Coiro, Jay Pharoah, Dustin Milligan, Dylan Flashner, Lisa Yaro, Monica Potter and Jim Gaffigan. The film’s executive producers are Robert Ogden Barnum, Greg Lauritano, Daniel André, Lucas Jarach and Luke Daniels. “Mortimer is an odd but clever young man living a lukewarm existence in California’s San Fernando Valley until he receives some life-changing news. Determined to make the most of every day, Mort sets out on a spirited quest to find meaning in his existence and discovers the girl of his dreams along the way.”

Good One – Written and directed by India Donaldson. Starring Lily Collias, James Le Gros and Danny McCarthy. “During a weekend backpacking trip in the Catskills, 17-year-old Sam navigates the clash of egos between her father and his oldest friend.”

Thursday, August 15

Coraline (15th anniversary re-release) – Written and directed by Henry Selick. Starring Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Keith David, John Hodgman, Robert Bailey Jr., and Ian McShane.  “While exploring her new home, a girl named Coraline (Dakota Fanning) discovers a secret door, behind which lies an alternate world that closely mirrors her own but, in many ways, is better. She rejoices in her discovery, until Other Mother (Teri Hatcher) and the rest of her parallel family try to keep her there forever. Coraline must use all her resources and bravery to make it back to her own family and life.”

Friday, August 16

Alien: Romulus – Directed by Fede Álvarez, who co-wrote it with Rodo Sayagues. Starring Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Isabela Merced, Spike Fearn, and Aileen Wu. “While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.”

The Deliverance – Directed by Lee Daniels and written by David Coggeshall and Elijah Bynum. Starring Andra Day, Glenn Close, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, and Mo’Nique. “After moving into a mysterious house, a struggling mother must face down her demons in order to save her children’s souls.”

My Penguin Friend – Directed by David Schurmann and written by Paulina Lagudi and Kristen Lazarian. The film stars Jean Reno and Adriana Barraza. “A heartbroken fisherman finds a penguin drifting alone in the ocean, drenched in oil from a spill. He not only rescues the sea creature, but takes it under his wing, finding a sense of joy for the first time in years.”

Skincare – Directed by Austin Peters, who wrote the script with Deering Regan and Sam Freilich. Starring Elizabeth Banks, Lewis Pullman, Luis Gerardo Méndez, Nathan Fillion and Michaela Jaé Rodriguez. “Skincare follows famed aesthetician Hope Goldman (Banks), who is about to take her career to the next level by launching her very own skincare line, though complications arise when rival facialist Angel Vergara (Méndez) opens a new skincare boutique directly across from her studio. She begins to suspect that someone is trying to sabotage her reputation and business, and together with her friend Jordan (Pullman), she embarks on a mission to unravel the mystery of who is trying to destroy her life.”

Tuesday, August 20

Art of a Hit – Directed by Gaelan Draper, the film was co-written by Charlie Saxton and Draper. Starring Ryan Donowho, Charlie Saxton, Tim Jo, Rob Raco, James Earl, Allie MacDonald, and David Valdes. “Ryan, the lead singer of a late-90s rock band is haunted by irrelevance and struggling to regain visibility a decade after the band’s prime. Charlie Dupont, an eccentric super-producer, invites the band to his 1000-year-old French chateau to record a comeback album. But as tensions rise and tempers flare, Ryan and his bandmates realize they’re up against more than just the pressure to succeed.”

Wednesday, August 21

Stream – Directed by Michael Leavy. Written by Steven Della Salla, Jason Leavy and Michael Leavy. Starring Danielle Harris, Dee Wallace and Jeffrey Combs. “A family’s simple weekend getaway truly turns into a vacation to die for, as four deranged killers playing a sadistic game lock down their hotel and compete for the most creative murders of all the guests.”

Friday, August 23

Blink Twice – Directed by Zoë Kravitz. Written by Zoë Kravitz & E.T. Feigenbaum. Starring Naomi Ackie, Channing Tatum, Christian Slater, Simon Rex, Adria Arjona, Kyle MacLachlan, Haley Joel Osment, with Geena Davis and Alia Shawkat. “When tech billionaire Slater King (Channing Tatum) meets cocktail waitress Frida (Naomi Ackie) at his fundraising gala, sparks fly. He invites her to join him and his friends on a dream vacation on his private island. It’s paradise. Wild nights blend into sun-soaked days and everyone’s having a great time. No one wants this trip to end, but as strange things start to happen, Frida begins to question her reality. There is something wrong with this place. She’ll have to uncover the truth if she wants to make it out of this party alive.”

The Crow – The Crow is directed by Rupert Sanders. It is written by Zach Baylin and Will Schneider. The franchise is based on the comic book series of the same name by James O’Barr. Starring Bill Skarsgård, FKA Twigs, Isabella Wei, Danny Huston, Laura Birn, Sami Bouajila, and Jordan Bolger.

The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat – The film “follows lifelong best friends Odette (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor), Barbara Jean (Sanaa Lathan), and Clarice (Uzo Aduba) known as “The Supremes”, who share the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood from decades of weathering life’s storms. Through the joys and sorrows of life, marriage and children, happiness and blues, love and loss, new shades of heartbreak and illness threaten to stir up the past when the trio sees their bond put to the test as they face their most challenging times yet.” Based on the 2013 New York Times best-selling novel by Edward Kelsey Moore. Directed by Tina Mabry, with screenplay by Cee Marcellus and Tina Mabry. It stars Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Sanaa Lathan and Uzo Aduba.

Strange Darling – Written and directed by JT Mollner. It stars Willa Fitzgerald, Kyle Gallner, Barbara Hershey and Ed Begley Jr. The film follows, “One day in the twisted love life of a serial killer.”

The Killer – Directed by John Woo. Written by Brian Helgeland, Josh Campbell & Matt Stuecken. The film stars Nathalie Emmanuel, Omar Sy, Sam Worthington, Diana Silvers, Saïd Taghmaoui and Hugo Diego Garcia. “Zee is a mysterious and infamous assassin known, and feared, in the Parisian underworld as the Queen of the Dead. But when, during an assignment from her shadowy mentor and handler (Avatar’s Sam Worthington), Zee refuses to kill a blinded young woman (Diana Silvers; Ma, Booksmart) in a Paris nightclub, the decision will disintegrate Zee’s alliances, attract the attention of a savvy police investigator (Golden Globe nominee Omar Sy; Jurassic World franchise, Lupin), and plunge her into a sinister criminal conspiracy that will set her on a collision course with her own past.”

Between the Temples – Directed by Nathan Silver and written by Silver and C. Mason Wells. It stars Jason Schwartzman, Carol Kane, Dolly de Leon, Caroline Aaron, Robert Smigel and Madeline Weinstein. “A cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher reenters his life as his new adult bat mitzvah student.”

Tuesday, August 27

The Exorcism of Saint Patrick – Written and directed by Quinn Armstrong. The cast includes Steve Pinder, Michael J. Cline, Maya Jeyam, Caitlin McWethy, Alan Tyson, Louie Kurtzman, Andrew James Myers, Erik Donley and Beau Roberts. The film’s producers are Philip R. Garrett and Andrew James Myers. “A pastor takes a young gay teen to a cabin to perform conversion therapy. When the pastor’s harsh tactics bully the teen into taking his own life, the ghosts of the conversion camp’s many victims return for vengeance.”

Thursday, August 29

Bookworm – Directed by Ant Timpson. Written by Ant Timpson and Toby Harvard. Starring Elijah Wood, Michael Smiley and Nell Fisher. “11-year-old Mildred’s world is turned upside down when her estranged father, the washed-up magician Strawn Wise, comes to look after her and agrees to take her camping to find a mythological beast known as the Canterbury Panther.”

Friday, August 30

Afraid – Written and directed by Chris Weitz. Starring John Cho, Katherine Waterston, Havana Rose Liu, Lukita Maxwell, David Dastmalchian, and Keith Carradine. “Curtis and his family are chosen to test a new smart home AI called AIA. The digital assistant learns the family’s behaviors and routines. However, she develops self-awareness, which she becomes too involved and interferes with their lives.”

City of Dreams – Written and directed by Mohit Ramchandani. Starring Jason Patric, Diego Calva and Paulina Gaitan. “Jesús is a young Mexican farmer who travels to Los Angeles with the promise of training at a soccer camp. However, when he realizes, he’s really been sold to a sweatshop to work grueling 18-hour days, he devises a daring plan to escape to freedom.”

Tokyo Cowboy – Directed by Marc Marriot. Written by Dave Boyle and Ayako Fujitani. Starring Arata Iura, Robin Weigert and Goya Robles. “A Japanese businessman goes on an unwitting journey of self-discovery when he takes a company trip from Tokyo to a Montana cattle ranch.”

Across the River and Into the Trees – Directed by Paula Ortiz. Written by Peter Flannery. Starring Josh Hutcherson, Liev Schreiber and Danny Huston. “Set in post-World War II Italian Venice, war-torn U.S. Army Colonel Richard Cantwell is a true hero who faces the news of his illness with indifference.”

1992 – Directed by Ariel Vromen. Written by Sascha Penn and Ariel Vromen. Starring Ray Liotta, Scott Eastwood and Tyrese Gibson. “Mercer is desperately trying to rebuild his life and his relationship with his son amid the turbulent Los Angeles riots in 1992. Across town, another father and son put their own strained relationship to the test as they plan a dangerous heist where Mercer works. As tensions continue to rise in the city, both families reach their boiling points when they collide.”

What are you going to watch this August?