VOD News | On 08, Aug 2025

Two recent MUBI releases make their streaming debut on the platform this month – Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Harvest and Hot Milk, Rebecca Lenkiecwiz’s adaptation of Deborah Levy’s novel starring Fiona Shaw and Emma Mackey.

In the meantime, it’s your last chance to stream Saint Frances.

What’s new, coming soon and leaving soon? Read on for your monthly MUBI Digest.

 

This month on MUBI

A Bigger Splash – 1st August

A steamy thriller driven by four superb performances, A Bigger Splash is cinema to soak up and savour.

Harvest – 8th August

Set in the dwindling days of a medieval Scottish village, Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Harvest (2024) follows Walter Thirsk (Caleb Landry Jones), a solitary manservant who watches the farming community around him teeter onto the brink of collapse after a barn is mysteriously burned. As the village lays blame on three outsiders, the meek but well-intentioned landowner Master Kent (Harry Melling) struggles to maintain control over it, only made worse by the arrival of his wealthy cousin Master Jordan (Frank Dillane), who seeks to modernise and profit off the land. 

Vice Is Broke – 8th August

A blistering, first-person takedown of media mythologies and millennial burnout, Vice Is Broke (2024) marks Eddie Huang’s return to the screen with his most provocative work to date. Blending memoir with gonzo journalism, Huang turns his incisive eye on Vice Media, tracing its rise and ruin through wild archive clips, confrontational interviews, and satirical digressions. 

Fruits of Passion – 11th August

Shūji Terayama’s Fruits of Passion (1981) unfolds in 1920s Shanghai, where decadent lust and power games collide. The film centres on O (Isabelle Illiers), a young woman caught in a complex, often cruel relationship with the wealthy Sir Stephen (Klaus Kinski), who pushes her into a dark world of desire and control. 

Broadway by Light – 14th August

William Klein’s vibrant Broadway by Light (1958) is an experimental short capturing the neon spectacle of 1950s Times Square. With striking visuals of flashing signs and silhouetted workers, Klein creates a dazzling portrait of New York’s Great White Way. 

Beating Hearts – 15th August

Gilles Lellouche’s Beating Hearts (2024) follows the turbulent relationship between Jackie, a girl from an upper-middle-class family, and Clotaire, a boy from a modest background who falls into a life of crime. As their bond deepens, Clotaire’s descent into violence and eventual twelve-year prison sentence drives the couple apart, while Jackie struggles to move on with her life.

Hot Milk – 22nd August

Adapted from Deborah Levy’s novel of the same name, Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s directorial debut Hot Milk (2025) sees young anthropology student Sofia (Emma Mackey) accompanying her wheelchair-using mother Rose (Fiona Shaw) to Almería, Spain, where Rose seeks healing from a specialised therapist for mysterious physical ailments. While in Almería, Sofia strikes up a volatile romance with the elusive Ingrid (Vicky Krieps), a romance that has her questioning the dynamics of her relationships with her own family and also the alluring new figure in her life. 

Bad Seed – 23rd August

Billy Wilder and Alexander Esway’s Bad Seed (1934) is a debut film made during Wilder’s brief time in Paris, blending crime caper and romantic fable to tell the tale of a spoiled youth, Henry, drawn into an organised car-theft ring. As Henry falls for the sister of a fellow thief, his loyalties shift and tensions rise within the gang.

Eight Postcards from Utopia – 29th August

Assembled entirely from broadcast commercials in post-socialist Romania, Eight Postcards from Utopia (2024) reimagines late-20th-century capitalism as a surreal montage of branding, longing, and absurdity. Co-directed by celebrated Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude and philosopher Christian Ferencz-Flatz, the film reframes kitsch media detritus into eight themed vignettes, each dissecting a facet of society in transition — from gender roles and consumption to digital hysteria and national memory.

 

Other titles also coming to MUBI UK in August 2025:

1st August
Passing Summer
Frankie
Days of the Bagnold Summer

 

Last chance to stream: Titles leaving MUBI soon

Diamond Island
Available until: 14th August

Saint Frances
Available until: 15th August

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