The 27 Best Movies on Hulu to Stream Now (September 2025)

There’s no place like Hulu!

With its Disney integration and exclusive access to Searchlight and 20th Century Studios titles, the popular streamer offers Academy Award contenders and blockbusters to your screen all year round.

Whether you’re seeking a heartfelt drama (A Real Pain) or an artsy biopic (A Complete Unknown), there’s a whole library full of buzzy films waiting for you — including a strong lineup of original content.

With so many options at your fingertips, we’ve rounded up the ones most worth your time on Hulu.

The Last Showgirl

Shelly Gardner (Pamela Anderson) has spent the past three decades as a Vegas revue dancer for Le Razzle Dazzle. With the show preparing for its final performance, Shelly is forced to confront the life choices she made in pursuit of her dream and an uncertain future within an industry that often sidelines women her age.

Watch The Last Showgirl on Hulu

A Real Pain

Once joined at the hip, cousins Benji (Kieran Culkin) and David (Jesse Eisenberg) reunite for a Jewish heritage tour through Poland, including a visit to their late grandmother’s hometown. As their mismatched personalities stir tension with each other — and the group — old resentments bubble up, forcing them to reckon with their relationship and the lives waiting for them back home.

Watch A Real Pain on Hulu

Longlegs

Semi-clairvoyant FBI Agent Lee Harker (Maika Monroe) takes on one of the most disturbing cases of her career: A string of family murder-suicides spanning two decades, all linked by cryptic, Satanic-coded letters signed “Longlegs.” Now, Lee must identify the occultist serial killer before he reaches the next family — or worse, her.

Watch Longlegs on Hulu

The Banshees of Inisherin

What do you do when your lifelong best friend suddenly doesn’t want to talk to you anymore? That’s the premise of The Banshees of Inisherin, Martin McDonagh’s 2022 drama that follows a pair of former friends living on a remote island off the coast of Ireland. The decisions ultimately have dire consequences for both the erstwhile pals and everyone else living on Inisherin. Banshees was nominated for nine Oscars— including four individual nods for actors Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon and Barry Keoghan.

Watch The Banshees of Inisherin on Hulu + Live TV

Anora

Winning five Academy Awards (including Best Picture), Anora spins a different kind of Cinderella story through Brooklyn stripper and sex worker, Anora — a.k.a. Ani (Best Actress winner Mikey Madison). One night on the job, Ani meets Ivan “Vanya” Zakharov (Mark Eydelshteyn), the 21-year-old son of a Russian oligarch, who pays her to be his girlfriend for the week and then marries her in Las Vegas. However, when Vanya runs away, Ani finds herself trapped with his godfather (Karren Karagulian) and henchmen (Yura Borisov and Vache Tovmasyan), who refuse to let her go until they track him down and annul the marriage.

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A Complete Unknown

In an Oscar-nominated performance, Timothée Chalamet channels troubadour Bob Dylan in James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown. Set in early-1960s New York City, the film follows a folk song singing Minnesotan with a guitar and a dream, rising from a coffeehouse performer to a counterculture legend. Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro and more also star.

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Thelma

When 93-year-old Thelma Post (June Squibb) receives a panicked phone call from someone posing as her grandson, she’s duped into mailing $10,000 to bail him out of trouble. After realizing she’s been conned — and tired of being underestimated and patronized — Thelma teams up with an old friend (the late Richard Roundtree, in his final on-screen performance) for a wild ride across Los Angeles on a motorized scooter to reclaim her money.

Watch Thelma on Hulu

Kinds of Kindness

Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, this 2024 dark dramedy anthology is told across three loosely interwoven chapters, each exploring characters who take extraordinary measures to demonstrate their love to someone else. The 164-minute film features a stacked ensemble, including Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Joe Alwyn and more.

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Cuckoo

Following the death of her mother, Gretchen (Hunter Schafer) reluctantly trades her life in America for a different one with her father (Marton Csokas) and his new family at their upscale resort in the German Alps. However, the 17-year-old’s unease quickly worsens as she’s haunted by eerie noises and blood-soaked visions, eventually uncovering a dark secret in the woods surrounding the resort.

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Late Night with the Devil

On Halloween 1977, late-night TV had a shocking guest destined to boost ratings … but at a stiff cost. Jack Delroy (David Dastmalchian), the ambitious host of Night Owls, is hellbent on eclipsing The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson with an occult-themed episode for the holiday. However, when he welcomes Lilly D’Abo (Ingrid Torelli) — a 13-year-old girl possessed by a demon — to the stage, the resulting chaos becomes too powerful for the cameras and the skeptics to contain.

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Babes

Childhood best friends Eden (Ilana Glazer) and Dawn (Michelle Buteau) are stepping into new chapters of adulthood: Dawn has just welcomed baby No. 2 with her husband (Hasan Minhaj), while single and carefree Eden gets pregnant after a one-night stand. As they aspire to support each other through these life changes, their evolving personal lives and mounting responsibilities put their friendship to the test like never before.

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Immaculate

From a love-starved teen on Euphoria to a devout nun in Immaculate, Sydney Sweeney is always showing her range. The Emmy-nominated actress stars in — and produces — this 2024 horror as Cecilia, a young American who becomes a member of a secluded Italian convent. However, her newfound life takes a sinister turn when she becomes pregnant as a virgin … and soon learns there’s an evil to her divine “miracle.”

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Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar

After co-writing and costarring in the 2011 comedy Bridesmaids, IRL friends Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo reunite as two lifelong besties who flee their small Midwestern town for a balmy vacation in Florida. Hilarious and incredibly ridiculous, Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar features everything under the sun — from supervillains (with Wiig pulling double duty as the unrecognizable Sharon Gordon Fisherman) and talking crabs to musical numbers and stellar performances by Wiig, Mumolo, Jamie Dornan, Vanessa Bayer and more.

Watch Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar on Hulu + Live TV

BRATS

Four decades after the Brat Pack era of Hollywood, St. Elmo’s Fire star Andrew McCarthy leads a reunion of ’80s royalty Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Jon Cryer, Lea Thompson, Timothy Hutton and more in his latest documentary, BRATS. Premiering at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival, BRATS offers an intimate look at the group’s cultural impact in films such as The Breakfast Club (1985), Back to the Future (1985) and Pretty in Pink (1986), as well as behind-the-scenes footage and promotional clips.

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Ferrari

Given his name, Adam Driver was seemingly predestined to play the man behind the world’s most prestigious sports car. In Michael Mann’s 2023 biopic, Driver throws on the shades of race-car driver and automobile manufacturer Enzo Ferrari as he readies his racing team for the 1957 Mille Miglia — a 1,000-mile, open-road race. The film also stars Penélope Cruz, Shailene Woodley, Sarah Gadon, Gabriel Leone, Jack O’Connell and Patrick Dempsey.

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Eileen

Debuting at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, this psychological thriller set in 1960s Massachusetts centers on the titular Eileen (Thomasin McKenzie), a young secretary ostracized by her peers at a correctional facility for teenage boys. However, when she strikes an unlikely friendship with the glamorous new psychologist, Rebecca (Anne Hathaway), their bond is put to the ultimate test as they become mired in an unspeakable crime.

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He Went That Way

Based on the real-life account of Dave Pitts and Larry Lee Ranes, He Went That Way stars Zachary Quinto as Jim Goodwin, a celebrity animal trainer on the road with his performing chimpanzee. When Jim offers a ride to 19-year-old hitchhiker Bobby Falls (Jacob Elordi), he soon realizes he and his prized cargo are stuck on Route 66 with a sadistic serial killer.

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Anatomy of a Fall

Taking home the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, this French courtroom drama features Sandra Hüller in the lead role of Sandra Voyter, a renowned German novelist on trial for allegedly pushing her husband, Samuel Maleski (Samuel Theis), from the top floor of their secluded mountain chalet, ultimately killing him. Caught in intense court proceedings and media scrutiny, their half-blind 11-year-old son (Milo Machado-Graner) is torn between his loyalty to his parents and the truth as a witness.

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Self Reliance

From the innovative mind of writer, director and actor Jake Johnson comes an action comedy that resembles The Hunger Games … but with impairment goggles on. Single network manager Tommy (Johnson) has been chosen to be the star of the dark web’s grandest reality competition series, but to win the $1 million cash prize, he has to outlast hunters trying to kill him when he’s alone. Despite his family and friends refusing to join his entourage, he teams up with another player (Anna Kendrick) to boost his odds.

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Quiz Lady

In this 2023 comedy, game-show fanatic Anne (Awkwafina) and her free-spirited estranged sister, Jenny (Sandra Oh), go on a wild cross-country caper, all in the name of getting Anne on Can’t Stop the Quiz to win the jackpot and bail their mother out of her gambling debts. Along for the ride in Quiz Lady are stars like Will Ferrell, Holland Taylor, Tony Hale and Jason Schwartzman, among others.

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No One Will Save You

In this 2023 sci-fi horror with no dialogue, Brynn Adams (Kaitlyn Dever) finds comfort in her quaint childhood home despite being estranged from her community. However, Brynn’s peace is upended when a swarm of extraterrestrial beings barges into her space, leading her into an action-packed showdown with these interstellar intruders — all while reckoning with the ghosts of her past.

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Rye Lane

Debuting at 2023’s Sundance Film Festival, this charming British rom-com — filmed with a colorful production design — follows two jilted twentysomethings (Vivian Oparah and David Jonsson) who meet in a gender-neutral bathroom and bond over their break-ups. The strangers spend the day wandering down the movie’s eponymous street while a vibrant chemistry blossoms between them.

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Boston Strangler

Based on the gripping true story, this 2023 historical crime thriller stars Keira Knightley and Carrie Coon as Boston Record-American reporters Loretta McLaughlin and Jean Cole, respectively. Facing unbridled sexism in the workplace, the two join forces to connect local murders to a serial killer — now known as the Boston Stranger (Dastmalchian), the man responsible for sexually assaulting and killing more than a dozen women.

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Triangle of Sadness

Winning the Cannes Film Festival’s highest honor, the Palme d’Or, Ruben Östlund’s 2022 dark satire Triangle of Sadness explores themes of class, gender and race as it follows a group of out-of-touch, affluent personalities whose trip aboard a luxury yacht ultimately goes haywire. In her last film role before her death in August 2022, Charlbi Dean stars alongside Harris Dickinson, Woody Harrelson, Dolly de Leon and more.

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Not Okay

Be prepared, this 2022 psychological dramedy contains “an unlikeable female protagonist” who makes unbelievably problematic choices. When Gen Z fast fashionista Danni Sanders (Zoey Deutch) fakes an extravagant trip to Paris on her Instagram, a terrorist attack near the Eiffel Tower leads her to put on an act as a trauma-stricken survivor.

Watch Not Okay on Hulu

Palm Springs

Palm Springs is like 1993’s Groundhog Day with a sci-fi edge. When two wedding guests get stuck in a time loop together, they work together to figure out how to escape it. The rom-com features Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti.

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Fire Island

Inspired by Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice, this 2022 LGBTQ+ romantic comedy follows a group of queer friends on their summer trip to Fire Island. The hilarious cast features Joel Kim Booster (who also wrote the script), Bowen Yang and Margaret Cho.

Watch Fire Island on Hulu