The 10 best movies on Hulu to watch right now

Welcome to our list of the best movies on Hulu. On this page you'll find 10 fantastic films that are all available to watch right now on the streamer. From recent hits like Steven Soderbergh's Presence to all-timers like Die Hard or the Back to the Future trilogy, these movies will make your summer even better.

Hulu holds its place in our list of the best streaming services thanks to its enviable selection of cinematic gems. There's a huge wealth of great titles to see here, and this list of 10 is really only scratching the surface! Because of that we've also added a Pick of the Month. For July 2025, we've chosen the 2011 comedy gem Bridesmaids.

So, if you're looking for something new to watch, check out our picks below. And when you're done, take a look at our lists of the 10 best Hulu shows and the best shows on Disney Plus.

Pick of the month

Bridesmaids

Hulu has added Bridesmaids to its library this month, and that's the only excuse we really need to watch it again. Paul Feig's 2011 film is not only one of the best comedies of the 21st century, but one that broke box office records for female-led comedies.

Starring Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Ellie Kemper and Melissa McCarthy, the film turns wedding movies' traditions upside down. The story follows Annie, a maid of honor who has to juggle her duties in her best friend's wedding and her personal and professional struggles. As she starts a heated rivalry with another bridesmaid, Annie will see herself fighting tooth and nail for the bride's affections.

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The 10 best Hulu movies

10. Presence

Year: 2024
Director: Steven Soderbergh

Steven Soderbergh's innovative supernatural thriller is coming to Hulu on June 3. A haunted house story with a difference, Presence is told entirely from the spirit's point of view. Taking place within a recently renovated house, the ghost observes a new family – Lucy Liu's Rebekah, Chris Sullivan's Chris, and their kids, Tyler (Eddy Maday), and Chloe (Callina Liang) – move in. When Tyler's new friend Ryan (West Mulholland) becomes a regular visitor, however, the "presence" starts to become more active...

Shot in secret during 2023, Presence offers a fresh take on one of the oldest storytelling traditions. Soderbergh puts us in the position of the spirit, silently watching a family that is slowly falling apart. Meditative and moving as well as occasionally genuinely eerie, this is a true one-off.

9. Prey

Year: 2022
Director: Dan Trachtenberg

There's a diabolical simplicity to the pitch behind Prey, the latest entry in the Predator franchise: What if a Predator hunted in a different period in history? Instead of having a Predator go up against the deadliest, Schwarzenegger-esque modern warrior with all the guns and ammo that entails, Prey is set in the Great Plains in the early 1700s. Amber Midthunder plays Naru, a Comanche woman whose desire to be a warrior instead of a healer, as her tribe would have her be, is tested to the extreme when an alien hunter searches for its quarry where the buffalo roam.

Prey is a fun, refreshing change of pace for Predator, and it will have you wondering why there aren't more movies like this. Have a Predator fight samurai, or gladiators, or pirates, or have a Predator square off against a battalion of Allied forces in World War II. The possibilities that Prey unlocked should be endless.

Read our Prey review for more insights ahead of Prey 2.

8. BlackBerry

Year: 2023
Director: Matt Johnson

For whatever reason, there was a glut of movies in 2023 that dramatized how certain products — like Air Jordans, Tetris, and Flamin' Hot Cheetos — were created. But, by far the best movie to emerge from this trend focuses on the rise and fall of the once-ubiquitous BlackBerry mobile phone that dominated the '00s until the iPhone ate its lunch.

Starring Jay Baruchel and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's Glenn Howerton as a geek and a ruthless businessman who forge a partnership as successful as it is tenuous, BlackBerry stands out from the crowd in its willingness to show the dark lows of capitalism in addition to its highs. It's a smart, insightful, and bleakly comedic look at tech and commerce.

Dive into one of the best drama movies around with our BlackBerry review.

7. The Host

Year: 2006
Director: Bong Joon-Ho

Parasite director Bong Joon-Ho made a creature feature in his own distinct way with 2006's The Host, which follows a Seoul family as they try to rescue a young family member who has been taken by a grotesque monster that emerged from the river and started wreaking havoc.

As with almost all of Director Bong's films, The Host blends comedy with darkness, dealing with some heavy themes involving class, bureaucracy, environmentalism, and more. The monster, some sort of mutated tadpole-like creature, is like nothing else you'll see on the screen, as is the unforgettable scene where it first comes ashore in broad daylight — totally throwing away the typical Jaws-style playbook of keeping the monster hidden. This is one of the best monster movies released in the 2000s and is well worth your time.

For more insights read our The Host review to find out more on this gem.

6. Die Hard

Year: 1988
Director: John McTiernan

The holiday season is coming up, and that's what we call a good bit of timing because Die Hard does indeed qualify as a Christmas movie. However, you can (and should) watch it at any time of year, regardless of your calendar, because it's an action masterpiece.

Bruce Willis stars as John McClane, a tired New York City cop who goes to LA to visit his estranged wife. Unfortunately, a group of robbers masquerading as terrorists led by Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) have taken everybody hostage, and only John McClane stands a chance at saving the day. Die Hard is a perfectly executed romp, and Willis makes for an all time action hero, in large part because he isn't like The Rock. He's just a regular guy — a very competent guy, granted, but an exasperated one.

Get your blood pumping with our list of the best action movies on Netflix next.

5. The Back to the Future trilogy

Year: 1985–1990
Director: Robert Zemeckis

Go back to the '80s with this iconic film trilogy. Michael J. Fox stars as Marty McFly, a teenager who meets Emmett Brown "Doc" Brown (Christopher Lloyd), a daffy scientist who has invented a time machine house in a DeLorean car. When Marty finds himself trapped in 1955 he has to ensure that his parents successfully meet or he will blink out of existence.

The first film is without doubt the best of then bunch – a timeless '80s classic that's as hilarious as it is exciting. The sequel leaps forward in time to the unimaginably futuristic world of 2015, and while it's less surefooted than the first film, it's just as much fun. That Part III jumps back 100 years to 1885 and straight into a Western is a little odd, but the film has more than enough charm to make it work. All three movies are streaming on Hulu and are great, family-friendly fun.

4. Inception

Year: 2010
Director: Christopher Nolan

Is Inception Chris Nolan's finest film? As much as we love the Dark Knight trilogy, this cerebral sci-fi action flick remains a fantastic one-off. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Dom Cobb, a professional thief who uses technology to infiltrate the dreams of others and steal valuable information. His latest client is Ken Watanabe's businessman Saito, who hires Cobb to implant an idea in the mind of a competitor's playboy son: to dissolve his father's company.

Cue a surreal reverse heist as Cobb (who is grappling with a tragedy in his past) and his team tumble through different layers of dreams within dreams. It's heady stuff, but Nolan remembers to have fun, too. A snowbound assault on a mountain fortress is straight out of Bond, while Tom Hardy's Eames brings some welcome levity.

Want an in-depth look at this flick? Read our Inception review.

3. The Holdovers

Year: 2023
Director: Alexander Payne

One of 2023's best films is often talked about as a Christmas movie, but we reckon it's a timeless classic whatever time of the year you see it. The Holdovers follows Paul Giamatti as Paul Hunham, an unpopular classics teacher at Barton Academy in New England who is forced to spend the festive season of 1970 with troubled Angus Tully (Dominic Sessa), left behind on campus over the holidays, as well as Da'Vine Joy Randolph as grieving cafeteria manager Mary Lamb.

The Holdovers has a way of creeping up on you. At first it feels like a fussy comedy about two difficult, privileged people butting heads, while Lamb grows increasingly exasperated. As the trio get closer, however, the walls come down revealing the deep wounds these three people are carrying. Beautifully bittersweet, The Holdovers is a perfect evocation of the 1970s that packs a real emotional punch.

2. Anora

Year: 2024
Director: Sean Baker

The year's big winner at this year's Oscars was this heartbreaking, hilarious comedy-drama from director Sean Baker. Mikey Madison gives an outstanding performance as Ani, an American sex worker who ends up falling for Vanya (Mark Eydelshteyn), the playboy son of a Russian oligarch. The two marry and look set for a happy life together, but Vanya's parents are far from pleased with the arrangement...

Anora starts out like a twisted fairytale, but quickly morphs into a tragic nightmare. Vanya's parents send a squad of goons to forcibly annul the marriage, leading to a stomach-knotting home invasion sequence and an unexpected tour of nocturnal New York. Despite all of this, it remains a genuinely funny film even as it arrives at its touching, painful, yet entirely believable conclusion.

Find out what we made of this year's Best Picture winner in our full Anora review.

1. Alien

Year: 1979
Director: Ridley Scott

A chest buster exploding out of Kane is one of the best and most gory scenes in film history, so it's only fitting that it's attached to one of the best horror movies ever made. When the seven-member crew of a commercial spaceship encounters a strange, parasitic alien killer, they're picked off one by one until only one of the great cinema heroines, Sigourney Weaver's Ellen Ripley, remains.

Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror masterpiece has spawned an entire franchise (the second installment, James Cameron's action flick Aliens, is also streaming on Hulu, and it’s also a must-watch). Because of how successful Alien has become, it can be a bit easy to take the Xenomorph for granted. Try to forget everything you know about Alien before seeing the movie. It's best to try and be like the audiences in 1979 who had never seen, let alone imagined, a creature like the one H. R. Giger designed.

If you want more Xenomorphs in your life, you can read our guide on how to watch all the Alien movies in order.

For more streaming picks head over to your lists of the best movies on Disney Plus, the best movies on Amazon Prime and the best movies on Netflix. We also have a handy guide breaking down all the new movies on the horizon if you want fresh releases.