10 Best Movies Like August
If you loved August, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.
Awakenings
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to August for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversia...
Shutter Island
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to August for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by tro...
Oppenheimer
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to August for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II....
American Beauty
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to August for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend....
Ex Machina
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to August for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Caleb, a coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But ...
Back to the Future
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to August for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty mu...