The week of August has a little bit of everything for movie and series lovers. From Emraan Hashmi returning as Shivam in Awarapan 2, to the OTT premieres of Cocktail 2 and Aakhri Sawaal, there is plenty to add to your watchlist. Read on…

José Mourinho’s larger-than-life football career gets a three-part documentary treatment in Mourinho. The series follows the celebrated manager across his career, from his breakthrough Champions League triumph with Porto to his spells at Chelsea, Inter Milan and Real Madrid. It features Mourinho himself as well as interviews with several major names from the football world, including Sir Alex Ferguson, John Terry, Iker Casillas, Zlatan Ibrahimović, Didier Drogba, Frank Lampard and others.

Alan Ritchson is back as Jack Reacher for the fourth season of the action thriller series. The new season begins with three episodes and finds Reacher caught up in another high-stakes conspiracy, this time as the story moves to Philadelphia.

Platform: Netflix

Platform: Netflix

This German comedy follows best friends Olli and Matze, who have been inseparable for years and even plan to travel the world together. Their equation changes when Matze falls in love with Rebecca. Feeling pushed aside, Olli and his friend Schmitti decide to interfere in the new relationship. What follows is a series of misunderstandings, jealousy and increasingly complicated situations that put both the romance and the long-standing friendship to the test.

Aakhri Sawaal is a political drama that centres on Vicky Hegde, a young academic whose PhD thesis is rejected by his professor, Gopal Nadkarni, played by Sanjay Dutt. What begins as a disagreement between a student and his mentor gradually develops into a much larger ideological confrontation.

Nearly two decades after Awarapan, Emraan Hashmi returns as Shivam Pandit in the sequel. Directed by Nitin Kakkar, Awarapan 2 revisits the character while taking his story in a new direction, with themes of revenge, redemption and unresolved pain at its centre.

Directed by Rajkumar Santoshi and produced by Aamir Khan, Batwara 1947 is set against the backdrop of the Partition of India. The film is based on Asghar Wajahat’s acclaimed play Jis Lahore Nai Vekhya, O Jamya E Nai, which tells a story of displacement, communal tension and humanity during one of the most turbulent periods in Indian history.

Cast: Anne Hathaway, Ewan McGregor

Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor headline this sci-fi survival film directed by David Robert Mitchell. The story follows the Platt family after a mysterious cosmic event tears their suburban neighbourhood away from its familiar surroundings and transports it somewhere unknown.

Directed by Will Gluck, One Night Only is a romantic comedy set in a world where premarital sex is illegal except for one night every year.