August 2014 Movies

Amy Renner Amy Renner

Jan. 16, 2023

Best Movies Released August 2014

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A group of alien beings travel back in time to protect the earth from alien invasion.

Chris Pratt, Dave Bautista, Michael Rooker, Benicio Del Toro, Karen Gillan, Vin Diesel, Gregg Henry, James Gunn

PG-13 Action Fantasy Superhero Sci-Fi 3D Comic Book

68%

  • 4.6
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The story will centers on the life and music of James Brown.

Viola Davis, Erica Huggins, John Henry Butterworth, Fred Melamed, Victoria Pearman, Chadwick Boseman, Tika Sumpter, Craig Robinson

PG-13 Drama Biography Music

26%

  • 4.1
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Father James (Brendan Gleeson) is a good priest who is faced with sinister and troubling circumstances brought about by a mysterious member of his parish. Although he continues to comfort his own fragile daughter (Kelly Reilly) and reach out to help members of his church with their various scurrilous moral - and often comic - problems, he feels sinister and troubling forces closing in, and begins to wonder if he will have the courage to face his own personal Calvary.

M. Emmet Walsh, John Michael McDonagh, Brendan Gleeson, Kelly Reilly, Chris O'Dowd, Aidan Gillen, Dylan Moran, Domhnall Gleeson

R Drama Comedy Ensemble

10%

  • 3.6
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Olivia Howell is a modern-day woman—brilliant, educated, funny, but with a secret. Turns out this 27-year-old graduate student thinks her intimacy issues might actually be a sign that she is—asexual. Confused and stressed out, Olivia's world is turned upside down when a concerned girlfriend offers to “loan” her very own boyfriend to Olivia for sex! Now with the support of her gay roommate, a lesbian friend and the digital age, Olivia embarks on a quest of exploration to understand the most basic of human mysteries: sex.

Sonja Schenk, Skye Noel, Jen Lilley, Brett Baumayr

Drama Comedy Romance LGBTQIA+

25%

  • 2.5
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Centers on a bachelor party cruise in the Caribbean that unexpectedly runs ashore on a medical research island, where a deadly virus is unleashed.

Evan Astrowsky, Ben Hollingsworth, Brando Eaton, Kaare Andrews, Jake Wadewall, Sean Astin

Sequel Horror 1 hr, 31 mins

40%

  • 2.7
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Sixteen-year-old Ric Thibault and his crush Nina Pennington embark on a rock 'n' roll-themed odyssey. Along the way, they run into Mafia hitmen, a nymphomaniac, a few dying Latin teachers, narcoleptic nuns, inept policemen, unscrupulous lawyers, buffoon reporters, huckster televangelists and greedy relatives.

Selena Gomez, Heather Graham, Cary Elwes, Tim Garrick, Andrew Lazar, Nat Wolff, Austin Stowell, Dylan McDermott

Comedy

86%

  • 3
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A New Yorker, who is strung out after a succession of failed relationships, begins to have premonitions about the end of each new relationship at the moment of the first kiss.

Elan Mastai, Daniel Radcliffe, Mackenzie Davis, Zoe Kazan, Adam Driver, Rafe Spall, Oona Chaplin

PG-13 Comedy Romance Romantic Comedy

28%

  • 4
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A group of high school students document the events and aftermath of a devastating super tornado.

Max Deacon, Alycia Debnam-Carey, Matt Walsh, Steven Quale, Todd Garner, John Swetnam, Simon Beaufoy, Arlen Escarpeta

PG-13 Action Thriller

41%

  • 3.8
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The reboot story centers on the turtle crime fighters, which include Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael, as well as their master Splinter. Rumored to involve the return of Shredder.

Josh Appelbaum, Alan Ritchson, Michael Bay, Andre Nemec, Abby Elliott, Jonathan Liebesman, Jeremy Howard, Whoopi Goldberg

PG-13 Action Adventure Comedy Sequel Family 3D

74%

  • 4
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A rivalry exists between an Indian restaurant and the three-Michelin-star restaurant which is 100 feet away in a small village in the French Alps. The French restaurant is run by eccentric chef Madame Mallory, who reluctantly forms a mentoring bond with a young Indian boy whose family owns the rival eatery. The boy has a culinary awakening which leads him to Paris, the launch of his own restaurant, and a slew of new adventures.

Steven Spielberg, Juliet Blake, Lasse Hallstrom, Steven Knight, Helen Mirren, Carla Gardini, Oprah Winfrey, Om Puri

PG Drama

21%

  • 4
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A New Yorker, who is strung out after a succession of failed relationships, begins to have premonitions about the end of each new relationship at the moment of the first kiss.

Elan Mastai, Daniel Radcliffe, Mackenzie Davis, Zoe Kazan, Adam Driver, Rafe Spall, Oona Chaplin

PG-13 Comedy Romance Romantic Comedy

28%

  • 4
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Follows two best friends looking for a little more out of life. They impersonate cops for kicks, but when they unknowingly mess with a real mobster, the game gets real.

Nina Dobrev, Andy Garcia, Jake Johnson, James D'Arcy, Luke Greenfield, Simon Kinberg, Nick Thomas, Damon Wayans Jr.

R Comedy

46%

  • 4
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A 12-year-old boy, living in a futuristic, emotionally suppressed utopian society, is selected to bear his community's emotional history. As he's loaded up with long-discarded feelings like fear and pleasure, the youth realizes that living a pain-free life comes at a high cost.

Meryl Streep, Taylor Swift, Neil Koenigsberg, John Heyman, Vadim Perelman, Brenton Thwaites, Alexander Skarsgard, Katie Holmes

PG-13 Drama Action Adventure Fantasy Sci-Fi

77%

  • 3.7
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A third installment of The Expendables franchise.

Nicolas Cage, Jason Statham, Jackie Chan, Milla Jovovich, Mel Gibson, Sylvester Stallone, Patrick Hughes, Dolph Lundgren

PG-13 Action Adventure Sequel

68%

  • 3.7
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An archeologist is convinced the Oseberg Viking ship contains the answer to the mystery of Ragnarok, the end of days in Norse mythology. He mounts an expedition to “No Man’s Land” between Norway and Russia, which holds a secret more terrifying than he could possibly imagine.

Mikkel Sandemose

Adventure

42%

  • 3.3
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When Paleontologist Peter Larson and his team from the Black Hills Institute made the world’s greatest dinosaur discovery in 1990, they knew it was the find of a lifetime: the largest, most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex ever found. But during a ten-year battle with the U.S. government, powerful museums, Native American tribes and competing paleontologists, they found themselves not only fighting to keep their dinosaur but fighting for their freedom as well.

Todd Douglas Miller

NR Documentary 1 hr, 35 mins

57%

  • 2.5
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After his girlfriend unexpectedly dies, Zach is devastated. However, he gets a second chance at love after she rises from the dead.

Paul Weitz, Jeff Baena, Anna Kendrick, Dane DeHaan, Aubrey Plaza, Alia Shawkat, Matthew Gray Gubler, John C. Reilly

R Comedy Horror Zombies

22%

  • 3.3
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Two men, six meals in six different places on a road trip around Italy. Liguria, Tuscany, Rome, Amalfi and ending in Capri.

Michael Winterbottom, Rob Brydon, Steve Coogan, Rosie Fellner

Comedy

24%

  • 4.3
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An offbeat comedy about a young wannabe musician, Jon (Domhnall Gleeson), who finds himself out of his depth when he joins an avant-garde pop band led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank (Michael Fassbender), a musical genius who hides himself inside a large fake head, and his terrifying bandmate Clara (Maggie Gyllenhaal).

Lenny Abrahamson, Peter Straughan, Jon Ronson, Michael Fassbender, Domhnall Gleeson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Scoot McNairy, Tess Harper

R Drama Comedy Mystery

21%

  • 2.6
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In a single moment, everything changes... 17-year-old Mia has no memory of the accident; she can only recall riding along the snow-wet Oregon road with her family. Then, in a blink, she finds herself watching as her own damaged body is taken from the wreck.

Liana Liberato, Lauren Lee Smith, Shauna Cross, Chelah Horsdal, Heitor Dhalia, Erik Feig, Chloë Grace Moretz, Mireille Enos

PG-13 Drama Thriller Supernatural

47%

  • 4
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It's one of those hot nights, dry and windless. The kind that makes people do sweaty, secret things. Dwight's thinking of all they ways he's screwed up and what he'd give for one clear chance to wipe the slate clean, to dig his way out of the numb grey hell that is his life. And he'd give anything. Just to cut loose. Just to feel the fire. One more time.

Bruce Willis, Bob Weinstein, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Stephen L'Heureux, Mickey Rourke, Alexander Rodnyansky, William Monahan, Rosario Dawson

Action Adventure Sequel Crime Gangster Prequel

48%

  • 3.1
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Bob Ladouceur, a young coach, turns the De La Salle Spartans football team, a perennial loser, into a legend by launching a streak of 138 straight victories. From 1992 to 2004, he guides his team to 12 consecutive undefeated seasons.

Laura Dern, Joe Massingill, Scott Marshall Smith, Thomas Carter, Cathy Schulman, David Zelon, Jim Caviezel, Michael Chiklis

PG Drama Sports True Story

20%

  • 4.7
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No plot details have been announced.

Jeremy Passmore, Bruce Willis, Randall Emmett, 50 Cent, Gia Mantegna, Brian A. Miller, Rick Jacobs, George Furla

R Action Thriller Horror 1 hr, 43 mins

78%

  • 2.8
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After an extremely regrettable one night stand, two strangers (Miles Teller and Analeigh Tipton) wake up to find themselves snowed in after sleeping through a blizzard that put all of Manhattan on ice. They're now trapped together in a tiny apartment, forced to get to know each other way more than any one night stand should.

Mark Hammer, Miles Teller, Max Nichols, Jessica Szohr, Analeigh Tipton, Leven Rambin

R Comedy Romance 1 hr, 26 mins

21%

  • 3.7
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Trained in clandestine combat from childhood, the Jinyiwei were masters of the 14 Blades. Above the law and with a license to kill, they devoted their lives and lethal prowess to the service of the Emperor alone.

When the Imperial Court is taken over by evil eunuch JIA, the best of the Jinyiwei, QINGLONG is assigned to steal a list identifying those still loyal to the Emperor. Unbeknownst to Qinglong, the Jinyiwei have fallen under the control of Jia, and during the mission he’s betrayed and barely escapes with his life.

Now the most wanted man in the land Qinglong must seek out and rally the loyalists to rise against Jia and restore the Emperor to power.

In his way are the deadliest assassins in the land, his former brethren, the Jinyiwei.

Daniel Lee, Donnie Yen

1 hr, 56 mins

24%

  • 3
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Tells of a documentary filmmaker who does not believe in God or the Devil. When his wife dies, he sets out to make his next movie on religion and spirituality, hoping to prove those things are just myth. But in allowing demonologists, necromancers and various practitioners of the occult to try the deepest, darkest spells and rituals on him, he unleashes a horrifying force.

Dale Dickey, David Jung, Shane Johnson, Ella Anderson, Cara Pifko, Tomas Arana, Julie McNiven

Horror Supernatural

31%

  • 3.8
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Follows a woman haunted by a secret past.

Claire Forlani, Geraldine Chaplin, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Isabel Coixet, Sophie Turner, Rhys Ifans, Gregg Sulkin, Leonor Watling

PG-13 Psychological 1 hr, 26 mins

50%

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A romantic comedy from "Mad Men" creator Matthew Weiner.

Owen Wilson, Matthew Weiner, Gary Gilbert, Jordan Horowitz, Scott Hornbacher, Amy Poehler, Laura Ramsey, Alana Garza

Comedy

88%

  • 3.5
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A couple escapes for a weekend in pursuit of their better selves only to discover an unusual dilemma that awaits them.

Elisabeth Moss, Mark Duplass, Ted Danson, Charlie McDowell, Justin Lader

Drama Comedy 1 hr, 31 mins

19%

  • 3.5
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The story concerns a young tourist who travels to Thailand in an effort to solve her sister’s murder. She befriends a group of young ex-pats led by a seductive young woman who knows more than she lets on.

Joel Soisson, Tammin Sursok, Raimund Huber

Thriller

43%

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Ben and George take advantage of New York's new marriage laws and tie the knot after being together for 39 years. Unfortunately, the Catholic school where George teaches does not approve, and they reluctantly fire him, forcing the couple to split up and stay with friends while they sell their apartment and look for cheaper housing. George crashes with two gay police officers, while Ben, who's a painter, bunks with his nephew's family in Brooklyn—a temporary situation that weighs heavily on all involved.

John Lithgow, Ira Sachs, Marisa Tomei, Alfred Molina, Darren E. Burrows

R Drama

8%

  • 2.8
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Weaves the story of Madagascar's weird and wily lemurs together with the tale of one woman's heroic quest to save them from extinction.

Morgan Freeman, David Douglas, Benjamin Eicher

G Documentary Nature 3D

31%

  • 3.7
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Over seven decades, actor and activist George Takei journeyed from a World War II internment camp to the helm of the Starship Enterprise, and then to the daily news feeds of five million Facebook fans. Here, we follow George and his husband, Brad, on a profound quest for life, liberty, and love.

Mayuran Tiruchelvam, Jennifer M. Kroot, Gerry Kim, George Takei, Brad Takei, Walter Koenig, William Shatner

Documentary 1 hr, 34 mins
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The film will follow a "sleeping" agent (Pierce Brosnan) who is called out of retirement thanks to a government conspiracy.

Luke Bracey, Pierce Brosnan, Michael Finch, Eliza Taylor, Caterina Scorsone, Roger Donaldson, Karl Gajdusek, Olga Kurylenko

R Drama Action Adventure

54%

  • 4
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Two archaeologists search for a lost treasure in catacombs below Paris.

John Erick Dowdle, Drew Dowdle, Perdita Weeks, Ben Feldman, Edwin Hodge, Alex Hedlund

R Thriller Psychological

27%

  • 3.9
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An evil, sadistic Leprechaun goes on a killing rampage in search of his beloved pot of gold.

Harris Wilkinson, Zach Lipovsky, Dylan Hornswoggle Postl, Brendan Fletcher, Stephanie Bennett, Teach Grant, Bruce Blain

Fantasy Horror Remake Reboot

43%

  • 2.9
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Fifteen year old Adam McCormick's life hasn't been the same since classmate Gracie Highsmith found Jamie Marks dead body at the edge of the river. The town is shocked by the news, but as speculation swirls, it becomes clear that they knew as little about Jamie as they do about the circumstances surrounding his death. Adam becomes fixated on Jamie's death and gradually a deep bond develops between the living teenager and the dead boy's ghost. Their unlikely friendship provides Adam with the support and friendship he needs as the rest of the world falls apart. But the more attached Adam becomes to Jamie's ghost, the weaker his ties to reality become. As he struggles with the real world relationships, Adam is forced to rediscover what it means to be alive.

Carter Smith, Omri Bezalel, Hunter Gray, Jacob Jaffke, Alex Orlovsky, Judy Greer, Liv Tyler, Cameron Monaghan

Horror Teen

41%

  • 5
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An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider.

Jon Hamm, Robin Wright, Paul Giamatti, Ari Folman, Harvey Keitel

Sci-Fi Animation

12%

  • 2.9
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Ordell and Louis hitting it off in prison, where both are doing time for grand theft auto. Upon their release, they join forces for one big score that finds them kidnapping the wife of a wealthy Detroit developer. When the husband refuses to pay the ransom for his wife’s return, Ordell and Louis are forced to reconceive their plan, and the angry housewife uses the ex-cons to get her revenge.

Will Forte, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Jennifer Aniston, Mos Def, Dan Schechter, Michael Siegel, Lee Stollman, John Hawkes

R Drama Thriller Crime 1 hr, 34 mins

7%

  • 2.9
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Mary (Heather Wahlquist) has problems. She has a difficult time feeling things, and swallowing twenty Vicodin a day doesn’t help. She’s seeing a psychiatrist for the disconnect daydreams she keeps having, and her younger sister with Tourette’s hates her. When she loses her job after sleeping with one of the fathers on Parent’s Night, Mary decides to go home. And that’s when the fun really starts. The dreams that seemed so random now start to take real shape as we understand where she came from. From young and in love, to drug dealing on the road, to her father’s slow, painful death, from questions of love and incest to her older sister’s descent into insanity, the secret that destroyed Mary’s entire family reveals itself on her journey back home, along with her ultimate responsibility for it. Busby Berkeley, Cirque du Soleil, sideshow freaks and human livestock all make an appearance in this hallucinogenic tale of love and comeuppance.

David Morse, Ben Foster, Nick Cassavetes, Lucy Punch, Hank Azaria, Heather Wahlquist, Sienna Miller, Melanie Griffith

Drama

73%

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The story centers on Latino comedian and actor Cantinflas (né Fortino Mario Alfonso Moreno Reyes) who helped usher in a golden era of Mexican filmmaking in the '40s and '50s.

Sebastian del Amo, Oscar Jaenada, Ilse Salas, Michael Imperioli

PG-13 Drama Biography 1 hr, 33 mins

94%

  • 3.8
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During the last days before he dies of a heart attack at age 50, Errol Flynn continues his relationship with 17 year-old Beverly Aadland, an actress who he seduced when she was only 15 years-old and eventually grew to love the Adventures of Robin Hood star. Her mother wanted to be a star herself but ends up living vicariously through her daughter.

Dakota Fanning, Kevin Kline, Susan Sarandon, Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland, Christine Vachon, Pam Koffler, Maggie Malina

Drama Biography Romance

83%

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Top August 2014 Movie Trailers

Guardians of the Galaxy Theatrical Trailer #1
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Theatrical Trailer #1
The Expendables 3 Theatrical Teaser
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