Film Movement Plus - August 2025 Streaming Premieres
By Film Movement|August 1, 2025
AUGUST 1
Momoko meticulously maintains her home and attends to her husband, but her devoted care masks an emotional rift that blurs the line between love and obsession.
Can satisfaction with life be rated on a scale from one to ten? The Kingdom of Bhutan believes that it can. Amber, a government happiness agent, travels the Himalayas surveying people's happiness while searching for his own fulfillment.
AUGUST 8
A writer summons four actresses to rehearse her play in the country. Over the course of a week, the creative process gains momentum and the girls begin to share their yearnings and desires.
When the bank threatens to foreclose on his family's custom suits store, Nikos must figure out how to make cash fast. Teaming up with his neighbor, he begins producing extravagant bridal wear that becomes the rage of Athens.
AUGUST 15
Bookstore owner Tada can’t forget Ikka, a former colleague, despite the fact that one of his customers, Misaki, persistently asks him to marry her. Meanwhile, Ikka feels overwhelmed by her wedding to Ryosuke, but has no idea that he has been seeing their wedding planner.
Amir and Narges have found true love together by the Caspian Sea. But in order to win over Narges’ upper-class family and pay an appropriate dowry, Amir gets drawn into the dangerous but lucrative business of black-market caviar smuggling.
AUGUST 22
Theodore, an awkward and clumsy Parisian still struggling to come to terms with a bad breakup. Depressed and hopeless, he stumbles upon the existence of a supernatural song that can make people fall in love instantly.
AUGUST 29
Medea, a Georgian immigrant who works in a St. Petersburg antique workshop, goes to view an apartment in the city's historic center. The prime piece of real estate is available for a reasonable price because its cantankerous owner, Vadim, comes as part of the deal.
Released from military service, Makdong returns to a hometown he no longer recognizes. After rescuing a beautiful young woman from harassment, his life takes an unexpected turn when she unwittingly lures him into the criminal underworld.
Ex-con Hong Jong-du finds an unlikely soulmate in Gong-ju, the wheelchair-bound daughter of the victim of the hit-and-run accident that sent him to jail. The two begin an improbable relationship that defies judgement.
Yongho stares down an oncoming train as twenty years of his life flash before his eyes. Proceeding to move backward in time, Lee Chang-dong's second feature rewinds the protagonist's loss of humanity from middle age through his teens.