New on Netflix & Top 10 Movies & Shows: August 3rd, 2021

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We hope you like documentaries as today saw the release of three different docs covering very different topics. A classic movie also touched down on Netflix US today. Here’s what’s new and what’s trending on Netflix US for August 3rd, 2021. 

On the removals front, you have just a couple of days left to watch a few titles including #cats_the_mewvie (2020) and Detention Letter (2017).

We just updated our guide to what’s coming to Netflix in August 2021 with a few more titles towards the end of the month.


Best New Movies & TV Shows on Netflix for August 3rd, 2021

Pray Away (2021)

Genre: Documentary
Director: Kristine Stolakis
Runtime: 101 min

Pray Away comes to Netflix as part of Ryan Murphy’s expansive lineup for Netflix. It’s a documentary that sets out to shine a light on the controversial and widely condemned practice of gay conversion therapy.

Through insightful and often heart-wrenching testimony, you’ll see the ins and outs of the process.


Heavy (1995)

Genre: Drama, Romance
Director: James Mangold
Cast: Pruitt Taylor Vince, Shelley Winters, Liv Tyler, Debbie Harry
Writer: James Mangold
Runtime: 105 min

On the classics movie front (lots more came to Netflix on August 1st) we see the re-addition of Heavy.

Here’s what you can expect if you’ve never seen the romance before:

“Overweight Victor hides from the world making pizzas in his mother’s gloomy dive until a new waitress blows in and disrupts his isolation.”


Top Secret UFO Projects: Declassified (Season 1)

Genre: Documentary

Taking a leaf out of HISTORY channels book is the 6 new episode series looking into some of the most famous UFO sightings throughout history.

Reviews have been mixed thus far with many complaining about the editing of the series.

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Full List of New Releases on Netflix for August 3rd, 2021

4 New Movies Added Today

  • Heavy (1995)
  • Ije: The Journey (2010)
  • Pray Away (2021) Netflix Original
  • Shiny_Flakes: The Teenage Drug Lord (2021) Netflix Original

1 New TV Series Added Today

  • Top Secret UFO Projects: Declassified (Season 1) Netflix Original

Top 10 Movies, Shows & Kids Titles on Netflix

# TV Shows Movies Kids
1 Outer Banks The Losers CoComelon
2 All American Resort to Love Home
3 Love is Blind The Vault Centaurworld
4 Virgin River Blood Red Sky Transformers: War for Cybertron
5 CoComelon The Last Mercenary Gabby’s Dollhouse
6 Manifest Fear Street: 1994 Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
7 The Flash Five Feet Apart Wish Dragon
8 The Walking Dead Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
9 Tattoo Redo Fear Street: 1666 Kung Fu Panda
10 Glow Up: Britain’s Next Make-Up Star Fear Street: 1978 Henry Danger
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