30 best movies to watch on Hulu right now (updated for June 2026)

Cast: Lee Byung-Hun, Son Ye-jin, Park Hee-soon

Director: Park Chan-wook

Capitalism makes criminals of us all, argues Korean master Park Chan-wook in this bloodstained satire, a dark comedy with the ‘comedy’ part triple underlined. After getting laid off from his job at a paper company, a bumbling middle-manager (Squid Game’s Lee Byung-Hun, hilarious) determines to find employment by any means necessary – even if it means killing off his competition. Chan-wook sledgehammers the message so there’s little room for misinterpretation, but the craftsmanship on display shows a master at the peak of his powers. Rated R. 2 hr 19 min.

Watch No Other Choice now on Hulu

Director: Sean Baker

Cast: Mikey Madison, Mark Eydelshteyn, Yura Borisov

Fairy tales don’t come true in America, except, sometimes, at the Oscars. Sean Baker’s small-time indie dramedy cleaned up, winning five awards, including Best Picture — an ironic capstone for a movie about the lie of Cinderella stories. The lesson? Never bet against Mikey Madison. The Best Actress honoree is pure dynamite as Ani “Don’t Call Me Anora, Actually” Mikheeva, a take-no-shit stripper who believes her prince has come in the form of a Russian oligarch’s charming failson. It’s youthful naivety, of course, but you can’t fault her for wanting it to be true love. Stranger things have happened, anyway, and on much bigger stages. Rated R. 2 hr 19 min.

Watch Anora now on Hulu 

Director: Denis Villaneuve

Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Javier Bardem, Florence Pugh

Succeeding where greats like David Lynch and Alejandro Jodoworsky fell short, Denis Villaneuve finally gives Frank Herbert’s famously dense 1965 sci-fi novel the grandly visualized big-screen adaptation it’s always deserved. What’s it about? Well, y’see, there’s this rich kid named Paul, who may or may not be the messiah for a planet of colonized desert-dwellers, and there’s this stuff called “spice” that’s basically space angeldust, and also massive sandworms and Zendaya and a talking fetus and albino Austin Butler and… all right, so the story is still not easy to explain. But Villaneuve’s treatment is a wonder to behold — and truth be told, not as inaccessible as it sounds. Rated PG-13. Total runtime: 5 hrs 11 min.

Watch Dune Pt. 1 now on Hulu 

Watch Dune Pt. 2 now on Hulu

Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho

Cast: Wagner Moura, Tânia Maria, Udo Kier

Set during Brazil’s military dictatorship of the 1970s, Kleber Mendonça Filho’s conspiracy thriller has all the paranoia of The Parallax View or Three Days of the Condor, but also a dead shark, a two-faced cat and a severed leg that comes to life and goes on a kicking spree. Oscar-nominated Wagner Moura stars as an academic who pisses off the wrong bureaucrat, forcing him into hiding as he tries to figure a way out of the country for himself and his young son. Filho folds bits of playful absurdism into the rich period details, and while the story unfurls at a pace that’ll make the impatient squirm, it pays off with a nailbiting climax. Rated R. 2 hr 40 min.

Watch The Secret Agent now on Hulu

Director: Oliver Laxe

Cast: Sergi López, Bruno Núñez Arjona, Richard Bellamy

A scorching-hot journey into the sunburned heart of darkness, Spanish director Oliver Laxe’s bleak thriller is like Mad Max: Fury Road slowed to the pace of William Friedkin’s Sorcerer. A father (Sergi López, the movie’s only professional actor), along with his young son and dog, travels to an outdoor rave in Morocco in search of his missing daughter and ends up going deeper into the desert than he bargained for. A mid-movie rug-pull is where some viewers may draw the line, but for those willing to keep going, you’ll be left rattled by a sensorial experience that twists the phrase ‘dance like there’s no tomorrow’ into an apocalyptic premonition. Rated R. 2 hrs.

Watch Sirāt now on Hulu

Director: Michael Angelo Covino

Cast: Kyle Marvin, Michael Angelo Covino, Dakota Johnson, Adria Arjona

A little Judd Apatow, a little Woody Allen and prone to sudden outbursts of slapstick violence, the second feature from co-writers and stars Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin is one of 2025’s great surprises: a romcom about two schlubs with improbably gorgeous wives (Dakota Johnson and Adria Arjona) who decide to open their respective marriages, with disastrous consequences. Jokes come flying from all angles, but the centrepiece is an absurd house-destroying brawl that might be the best fight scene of the year. Rated R. 1 hr 40 min.

Watch Splitsville now on Hulu

Director: Justine Triet

Cast: Sandra Hüller, Swann Arlaud, Milo Machado-Graner

Turns out all those true-crime docs you’ve binged were prep for this knotty and enthralling murder-mystery puzzle box. A man falls out of a chalet, but did he jump or was he pushed by his disgruntled wife? When your first witness is a border collie, it’s never going to be a straightforward case. With a complex and not always sympathetic central performance from Toni Erdmann’s Sandra Hüller and Justine Triet’s deftly ambiguous direction, it’s far better than your average Netflix binge. Rated R. 2 hr 32 min.

Watch Anatomy of a Fall now on Hulu

Director: Mona Fastvold

Cast: Amand Seyfried, Lewis Pullman, Christopher Abbott

Strange, ravishing and rhapsodic, there aren’t many movies like Mona Fastvold’s historical drama about the Shaker religious sect, let alone movie musicals. Amanda Seyfried is mothering, in more than one sense of the term, as the movement’s impassioned founder, whose acolytes expressed devotion through convulsive, caterwauling fits of praise, which Fastvold renders as Busby Berkeley-style dance sequences. At turns completely stunning and utterly baffling, it’s a truly singular movie experience which, at its most successful, doesn’t just depict ecclesiastical fervor but sweeps you up in it. Rated R. 2 hr 17 min.

Watch The Testament of Ann Lee now on Hulu

Director: Osgood Perkins

Cast: Maika Monroe, Nic Cage

The power of Marc Bolan compels you! In Osgood ‘Son of Anthony’ Perkins’ breakthrough horror-thriller, a barely recognisable Nic Cage is a serial killer who worships T. Rex, Lou Reed and Satan, not necessarily in that order. But the true star is It Follows’ Maika Monroe, mesmerising (and seemingly hypnotised) as the rookie FBI agent tracking him down. Neon’s marketing campaign went a tad overboard selling the film as the scariest movie of the decade, but Perkins certainly knows how to make audiences nearly nauseous with dread. Rated R. 1 hr 41 min.

Watch Longlegs now on Hulu

Director: Céline Sciamma

Cast: Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel

When a movie opens your eyes to a new way of seeing, it’s almost insufficient to praise it. French filmmaker Céline Sciamma’s radical feminist love story turns its viewers into artists close to the canvas, sketching out a line that leads to expression, desire and the remaking of identity. The story takes place within the strictures of 18th-century Brittany but gives way to something frank and modern. Rated R. 2 hr 1 min.

Watch Portrait of a Lady on Fire now on Hulu

Director: Jafar Panahi

Cast: Vahid Mobasseri, Mariam Afshari, Ebrahim Azizi

Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi hasn’t made many genre movies in his long career, but this Palme d’Or winner proves he can do thrillers just as well as social dramas and allegorical docufiction. A onetime prisoner of the Islamic Republic (Vahid Mobasseri, somehow a first-time actor) kidnaps the guard he believes tortured him for months, only to be struck by a twinge of doubt that he’s got the right guy. As he drives his transit van around Tehran, consulting with other ex-prisoners about what to do with the person he’s got locked in a trunk, the movie takes on a tone of absurdist comedy. The climax, however, will leave you gripping the arm of your couch long after the credits roll. Rated PG-13. 1 hr 44 min.

Watch It Was Just An Accident now on Hulu

Director: Dan Trachtenberg

Cast: Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi, Elle Fanning, 

In just three years, Dan Trachtenberg has managed to make three of the best movies in the 40-year-old Predator franchise, all of which are available on Hulu: 2022’s Prey, the direct-to-streaming animation Killer of Killers and this kinder, gentler entry, a coming-of-age story with Elle Fanning as a chatty android helping a young alien prove himself as an intergalactic sport hunter. A cynical reading would call it the ‘Disneyfication of Predator’, but once again Trachtenberg shows he knows what makes this series work better than anyone – and despite the PG-13 rating, it’s still pretty gross in spots. Rated PG-13. 1 hr 47 min.

Watch Predator: Badlands now on Hulu

Director: Joachim Trier

Cast: Stellan Skarsgård, Renate Reinsve, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Elle Fanning

Joachim Trier is an empathetic observer of flawed humanity, and there are plenty of flaws to go around in his Oscar-winning family drama. A true actors showcase, it features several of 2025’s best performances, including Stellan Skarsgård as an absentee filmmaker father, Renate Reinsve and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas as his neglected daughters and Elle Fanning as the movie star he tries to mold into their surrogate. It deals with heavy stuff, but it’s not without humour: make sure you’re up on Gaspar Noé’s Irreversible so you can get one of the year’s funniest blink-and-miss-it gags. Rated R. 2 hr 14 min.

Watch Sentimental Value now on Hulu

Director: Andrew Haigh

Cast: Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal

A queer love story and a palimpsest of childhood loss coalesce in Andrew Haigh’s empathetic drama about a lonely Londoner, Adam (Andrew Scott), finding connection with a mysterious neighbour (Paul Mescal) in his London high-rise. A ghostly London is a haunting backdrop to his journey of healing and hedonism. It’s one of those films that knocks you down and then picks you right back up again. Rated R. 1 hr 45 min.

Watch All of Us Strangers now on Hulu

Director: Max Barbakow

Cast: Andy Samberg, Cristin Milioti, JK Simmons

A time-loop comedy released in summer 2020, after we’d all spent months living the same day over and over again, was a bit on-the-nose, but it still counts as escapist, because who wouldn’t want to spend eternity in a pool with Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti? Still Hulu’s best original movie to date, it’s less a millennial redux of Groundhog Day than a continued exploration of the concept. What if you weren’t alone in cosmic purgatory? Would you fall in love? If you did, would it even be real? And how would you handle the third guy with the crossbow who enjoys hunting you for sport? Rated R. 1 hr 30 min.

Watch Palm Springs now on Hulu

Director: Wes Ball

Cast: Owen Teague, Kevin Durand, Peter Macon

Caesar is dead. Long live Caesar. A whole 300 years after the death of the revered ape king, his life still looms large. But with mankind reduced to feral scavengers, the formerly oppressed have started to oppress each other, and a new generation is beginning to call bullshit on the whole system. At this point, you’ve either bought into the blockbuster sci-fi franchise or ignored it, but the fifth film in the rebooted series is yet another uncommonly smart and entertaining entry, even without Andy Serkis. Rated PG-13. 2 hr 25 min.

Watch Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes now on Hulu

Director: Ben Leonberg

Cast: Indy, Shane Jensen, Arielle Friedman, Larry Fessenden

If you’ve ever wondered why your dog barks at seemingly nothing, you might want to steel yourself before watching this quick-hit ghost story, which gives a pup’s-eye-view to a haunting in a rural farmhouse. As his owner falls ill, a remarkably expressive retriever named Indy steps up to protect him from sinister supernatural forces. The producers mounted a tongue-in-cheek awards campaign on his behalf, but he really does outperform his human co-stars. Couldn’t GQ have given him Man of the Year at least? Rated PG-13. 1 hr 13 min.

Watch Good Boy now on Hulu

Director: Fede Álvarez

Cast: Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux

This enjoyably gruesome and often inspired Alien reboot has a special on facehuggers: the little bastards are everywhere, as a small band of young interstellar fugitives discover when they reboot the wrong derelict spacecraft. Don’t Breathe’s Fede Álvarez conjures the spirit of Ridley Scott’s 1979 original with blue-collar strugglers to root for, led by Cailee Spaeny’s Ellen Ripley redux, and a zero-G acid blood sequence with real flair. Rated R. 1 hr 59 min.

Watch Alien: Romulus now on Hulu

Director: Wim Wenders

Cast: Kōji Yakusho, Aoi Yamada, Tokio Emoto

Sometimes you need to settle down with a gentle rumination on life courtesy of German great Wim Wenders. If this is one of those times, Perfect Days is right here for you. Ignore the seemingly inauspicious subject matter – a middle-aged Tokyo loo cleaner mostly keeping his plants alive and vibing out to American new wave in his car – and tune into its soothing wavelength, deep empathy for ordinary lives led well, and a beautiful performance from veteran actor Kōji Yakusho. Rated PG. 2 hr 5 min.

Watch Perfect Days now on Hulu

Director: Bradley Cooper

Cast: Will Arnett, Laura Dern, Bradley Cooper

Bradley Cooper returns to the director’s chair for a portrait of midlife crisis that doesn’t manifest in the purchase of a new sportscar or a fresh ear-piercing but something almost equally embarrassing: amateur stand-up comedy. Will Arnett is a newly divorced father of two who ends up haunting open mics and processing the disorientation of his life by joking about it onstage. Arnett co-wrote the script with Cooper and Mark Chappell, and while it came and went from theatres, it’s the sort of adult-oriented dramedy that’s all too rare these days. Rated R. 2 hr 1 min.

Watch Is This Thing On? now on Hulu

Director: Arkasha Stevenson

Cast: Nell Tiger Free, Ralph Ineson, Bill Nighy

A rare horror prequel that actually works, Arkasha Stevenson’s prologue to The Omen succeeds by standing on its own and not just filling in the blanks of the 1976 original. It does, however, answer one pertinent question: how did a woman get impregnated with the spawn of Satan in the first place? Turns out, it was a conspiracy by the Catholic Church all along. Surprise! What’s truly terrifying, though, is how the themes of female subjugation and forced birth resonate in post-Roe America. The devil’s work, they say, is never done. Rated R. 1 hr 59 min.

Watch The First Omen now on Hulu

Director: Josh Margolin

Cast: June Squibb, Richard Roundtree, Parker Posey, Malcolm McDowell

A movie about a nonagenarian out for revenge against the scammers who ripped her off could go wrong in so many ways, either by being too cutesy, too slapstick or too ironically violent. But first-timer Josh Margolin strikes an ideal balance, neither condescending toward his characters nor underplaying the absurdity of a grandmother on a motorized scooter going Mission: Impossible on her enemies. It’s really all about Squibb, though. At age 93, she not only lands her first leading role, but gets to be an action star, and she makes the absolute most out of it. Rated PG-13. 1 hr 39 min.

Watch Thelma now on Hulu

Director: Raine Allen Miller

Cast: David Jonsson, Vivian Oparah, Munya Chawawa, Omari Douglas

Showing Richard Curtis how to do it, this funny, bright and buoyant romcom follows David Jonsson’s nerdy, newly-heartbroken south Londoner as he meets and spends a day with Vivian Oparah’s spiky, sure-footed Peckhamite. It’s the best kind of romantic hangout movie, where a break-in to snatch back a treasured A Tribe Called Quest LP from an ex is as high as the stakes go and the meet-cute is in a toilet cubicle. Rated R. 1 hr 22 min.

Watch Rye Lane now on Hulu

Directors: Colin and Cameron Cairnes

Cast: David Dastmalchian, Laura Gordon, Ian Bliss

Aussie brothers Colin and Cameron Cairnes make found footage fun again in this mockumentary covering the night, in 1977, when a talk-show host attempted to commune with the devil himself live on the air. David Dastmalchian is excellent as an arrogant late-night also-ran so desperate to pop a rating he invites a young girl supposedly in the throes of demonic possession on as a guest. We see the purported broadcast in full, plus panicked backstage footage, and footage from… somewhere else entirely. It’s a wild ride to hell and back. Rated R. 1 hr 29 min.

Watch Late Night with the Devil now on Hulu

Director: Alice Rohrwacher

Cast: Josh O’Connor, Carol Duarte, Isabella Rossellini

Italian director Alice Rohrwacher’s magical-realist crime fable gets a jolt of magnetism from the mere presence of Josh O’Connor as a British archaeologist turned graverobber. A man living in the past in more ways than one, we meet him newly out of jail, as he reunites with his old gang, is plagued by memories of an old flame and touched by visions of ancient Etruscan artefacts buried beneath his feet. In a film full of gorgeous treasures and surreal scenes, the object you can’t keep your eyes off is his face, which hides secrets of its own. A one of a kind actor in a one of a kind movie. Not rated. 2 hr 13 min.

Watch La Chimera now on Hulu

Director: Andre Ahn

Cast: Bowen Yang, Joel Kim Booster, Margaret Cho

Adapting Pride and Prejudice to New York’s ‘gay Disney World’, this romcom follows a group of friends as they flirt, fuck, drink, drug and grapple with myriad insecurities, from financial status to body image, during a debauched weekend at the queer hotspot of the title. Writer and co-star Joel Kim Booster at once celebrates LGBTQ+ togetherness while interrogating the community’s internal social structure, but the movie is also just a great hang, with an ensemble cast of real-life buddies – including SNL’s Bowen Yang as the Jane Bennet figure – whose bond is unfakeable. Rated R. 1 hr 45 min.

Watch Fire Island now on Hulu

Director: Barry Jenkins 

Cast: KiKi Layne, Stephan James

A swooning romance peppered with jarring moments of institutionalised racism, Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight follow-up may have been set in the early ’70s but it spoke to modern America just as surely as contemporary race dramas like The Hate U Give and Monsters and Men. For a novelist of such epic standing, James Baldwin has rarely been adapted for the screen, but Jenkins and his cast bring real poetry to his prose. Rated R. 1 hr 59 min.

Watch If Beale Street Could Talk now on Hulu

Director: Josh Greenbaum

Cast: Kristen Wiig, Annie Mumolo, Jamie Dornan

A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, this loopy comedy landed on streaming, and it was precisely what everyone needed at the height of their housebound delirium. Co-writers Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo are the best Saturday Night Live characters who never were, two middle-age gal pals from Nebraska who leave home for the first time to vacation in Florida, only to stumble into the centre of a villainous plot targeting their resort. It’s like The White Lotus on nitrous oxide. Rated PG-13. 1 hr 47 min.

Watch Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar now on Hulu

Director: Marielle Heller

Cast: Amy Adams, Scoot McNairy, Jessica Harper

While sold as ‘the movie where Amy Adams turns into a dog’, the allegorical elements of Marielle Heller’s dark comedy about early motherhood are frankly undercooked. What works are the literal depictions of life as a stay-at-home mom: the monotony of mealtime and park trips and parent meetups, the dads who think they’re helping but are really, truly not. Adams, looking convincingly exhausted and unshowered, carries the movie as a former artist hoping to reclaim her sense of self and reconnecting with something more feral. Rated R. 1 hr 39 min.

Watch Nightbitch now on Hulu

Director: Bing Liu

Golden hour for three skaters in a Rust Belt town is captured by the glidecam of Bing Liu, who won the breakthrough director award at Sundance for Minding the Gap. His doc initially flies on the euphoric energy of youth, before becoming an unflinching exploration of growing up amid male violence. Not rated. 1 hr 33 min.

Watch Minding the Gap on Hulu