Get ready to hear Reacher say Whiz Wit
Prime Video is known for two things: dad shows and teen romances. Both are front and center in Prime Video’s new releases for August, and both are prime examples of the genres done right.
First up is Sterling Point, a YA drama created by My Old Ass writer and director Megan Park about a New York City teen who heads up to a Canadian lakeside town to learn more about her mother, who died when she was young. Secrets are unearthed! Romances are forged! Parties are had! Later in the month comes Season 4 of Reacher, which sees the big guy rampage around Philadelphia after witnessing a woman take her own life on the subway. Conspiracies are unraveled! Tibias are shattered! Justice is served!
Below, you’ll find our picks for the best shows and movies to watch with a Prime Video subscription in August, as well as everything coming to Prime Video this month.
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Last month’s guide: New Prime Video shows and movies in July 2026
The best new shows and movies on Prime Video in August
Sterling Point (Aug. 5)
YA dramas are plentiful on streaming, especially of late, and after watching a few they tend to blend into each other. (There are so many love triangles with sets of brothers.) But Sterling Point feels different, and it’s all the better for it. The series follows 17-year-old Annie (Ella Rubin), who heads from New York up to a quaint Canadian lakeside town after her grandfather leaves her property there in his will. But that’s not all he left behind: There are also mysterious hints about family secrets that are too juicy for Annie not to hop on a puddle jumper with little to no plan about what to do when she gets there. With a lineage-based mystery at its core, Sterling Point feels purposeful, and a full cast of quickly developed characters and potential love entanglements of all shapes (triangles are way too simple these days) make it a satisfying end-of-summer YA vacation. Bonus reason to watch: Keen Ruffalo, son of Mark, steals every scene he’s in as Annie’s twin brother. [Trailer]
Reacher Season 4 (Aug. 12)
I don’t want to get punched in the face, but I want to be honest: Reacher wasn’t as good in Seasons 2 and 3 as it was in its breakout first season. But Season 4, based on the 13th Jack Reacher novel, Gone Tomorrow, is being touted as its most action-packed outing yet, as it moves its setting to Philadelphia. On the business side, Reacher Season 4 will be an interesting experiment. As a former MP who crisscrosses the country dispensing his own brand of vigilante justice with his fists, Reacher (Alan Ritchson) has become a bit of a folk hero for right wingers. But the star famously has different views, and in a recent interview on a podcast, an unfiltered Ritchson went off on Donald Trump, calling him a pedophile and a rapist. Will Reacher still make Amazon great again with boffo ratings? [Trailer]
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Everything coming to Prime Video in August
Aug. 1
Baby Boom (1987)
Back To School (1986)
Bandits (2001)
Barbershop (2002)
Barbershop 2: Back In Business (2004)
Barbershop: The Next Cut (2016)
Beauty Shop (2005)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Bridesmaids (Unrated) (2011)
Challengers (2024)
Colors (1988)
Cop Car (2015)
Everything, Everything (2017)
Fargo (1996)
Fighting With My Family (2019)
Hard Target (1993)
Hard Target 2 (2016)
Hercules (2014)
Hoodlum (1997)
Interstellar (2014)
Into The Blue (2005)
Joy Ride (2023)
Just Go With It (2011)
Killing Me Softly (2003)
Licorice Pizza (2021)
Moonstruck (1988)
Mystic Pizza (1988)
No Way Out (1987)
Oblivion (1994)
Operation Finale (2018)
Overboard (2018)
Primate (2026)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Quigley Down Under (1990)
Return To Me (2000)
Robocop (1987)
Robocop (2014)
Robocop 2 (1990)
Robocop 3 (1993)
Small Soldiers (1998)
Sudden Death (1995)
The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai (1984)
The Gambler (2014)
The Hustle (2019)
The Silencing (2020)
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
What’s The Worst That Could Happen? (2001)
Women Talking (2022)
Yours, Mine, And Ours (1968)
Aug. 2
Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes (2024)
Aug. 5
Sterling Point (2026)
Yankees on Prime (2026)
Aug. 7
NWSL on Prime (2026)
Piece By Piece (2024)
The Gates (2026)
Aug. 8
Journey To Bethlehem (2023)
Aug. 9
The Chosen in the Wild with Bear Grylls (2026)
Aug. 14
NWSL on Prime (2026)
ONE Championship on Prime (2026)
Aug. 19
Is God Is (2026)
Yankees on Prime (2026)
Aug. 20
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: The Wolf in Winter (2026)
WNBA on Prime (2026)
Yankees on Prime (2026)
Aug. 21
Back to the 90s (2026)
Good Fortune (2025)
NWSL on Prime (2026)
Aug. 26
The Last Sunrise (2026)
Yankees on Prime (2026)
Aug. 27
Nickel Boys (2024)
WNBA on Prime (2026)
