2026 is marching on, and with it brings a whole host of exciting new movies to the big screen this month. But if you'd rather stay in, then we've got you covered with our list of the best movies on Hulu. Here you'll find a mix of 10 new and old titles ready to stream, as well as our pick of the month, which is always the freshest title on the site.
Hulu is quickly becoming one of the best streaming services out there, boasting an impressive library of titles to choose from, and this list picks out some of the best. There are recent hits like sci-fi sequel Predator: Badlands, action classics like Point Break, and the epic that won Leonardo DiCaprio his first Oscar. We've also added a bonus Pick of the Month, which this time goes to Oscar-nominated crime drama, The Secret Agent.
If you're planning to settle down in front of the TV tonight, you've come to the right place. When you're done here, make sure to check out our lists of the 10 best Hulu shows and the best shows on Disney Plus too.
Pick of the month
The Secret Agent
Year: 2025
Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho
This month, the 98th Academy Awards will take place, awarding the best and brightest pictures to come out of the past year. So, if you're on a mission to watch all of the nominated titles ahead of the 2026 Oscars, we've got another great movie to add to your list. The Secret Agent has already received accolades from Cannes, The Golden Globes, and The Critics' Choice, but the historical political thriller has been nominated for three shiny Oscars, including Best Picture.
Set in the late '70s, themovie follows a technology teacher named Marcelo, who moves away from São Paulo to seek a normal life away from violence. However, although he uses the guise of the annual bustling Carnival to sneak away quietly, his nosy neighbours and the chaos of the city soon make his move a living hell. Exploring Brazil's tense political climate and life under military dictatorship, The Secret Agent puts the viewer in the shoes of a man desperately wanting to escape his past.
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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 Predator: Badlands.
8. Predator: Badlands
Year: 2025
Director: Dan Trachtenberg
Once you've finished watching Prey, you might want to move on to Trachtenberg's newest entry to the franchise. However, Predator: Badlands is nothing like you've seen before, as it flips the sci-fi series on its head, making the Predator the hero of the story who has to be careful of who he trusts. No matter if you're an avid franchise fan or a total newcomer, Badlands is a standalone movie with no prior knowledge necessary.
Starring Elle Fanning and Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi, the seventh Predator installment follows a young Predator who is cast out of his clan and sent to a hostile planet where he must prove himself as a worthy warrior. However, on the hunt for the most fearsome beast he can find and kill, he stumbles upon a Weyland-Yutani Corporation android, and the two form an unlikely alliance.
For more, see our Predator: Badlands 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. Late Night with the Devil
Year: 2023
Director: Colin Cairnes and Cameron Cairnes
This recent horror is a terrific showcase for its star, David Dastmalchian. He plays Jack Delroy, the host of a late night talk show called Night Owls. Still grieving the death of his wife Madeleine, Delroy returns to work. It's Halloween, and the show is about to air a paranormal special. His guests for the show include parapsychologist Dr June Ross-Mitchell (Laura Gordon), who brings her latest study, 13-year-old Lilly D'Abo (Ingrid Torelli), who is said to be possessed by a demon.
Late Night with the Devil is a huge amount of fun, moving from a kitschy, camp tone to some genuinely unnerving scares. Dastmalchian excels as Jack Delroy, making the character both arrogant and sympathetic. Witty and original, this is a great modern horror movie.
5. Small Things Like These
Year: 2024
Director: Tim Mielants
Cillian Murphy has long been one of our best actors, but his career has really stepped up a notch post-Oppenheimer. Small Things Like These may not be as grandiose a production as his Nolan collaborations or the forthcoming third 28 Years Later film, but this gripping drama was still one of the best films of 2024.
Murphy plays a good-natured and hard-working coal merchant named Bill Furlong. When Bill stumbles upon a dark secret at the heart of his community, it puts him on a collision cause with Emily Watson's stern Sister Mary. This dark 1980s-set drama is a wonderful showcase for Murphy's undeniable talents and a powerful story about a bleak real life chapter in Ireland's history.
4. Donnie Darko
Year: 2001
Director: Richard Kelly
25 years since it first blew minds – and made Jake Gyllenhaal a star – Richard Kelly's cult mystery thriller still fascinates. Gyllenhaal stars as Donnie, a troubled teenager with a sinister imaginary friend, who may turn out to be more real than he realises. Things seem to be looking up when Donnie starts dating Gretchen Ross (Jena Malone), but if his visions are correct, then the end of the world is coming soon...
Blessed with an iconic '80s soundtrack and a dreamy logic that recalls David Lynch's work, Donnie Darko is wonderfully atmospheric and perplexing. All the pieces for solving this eerie mystery are there, but Kelly smartly leaves it up to the viewer to piece it all together.
3. The Revenant
Year: 2015
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
What better way to celebrate awards season than rewatching the very picture that won Leonardo DiCaprio the Oscar for best leading actor? Despite the star shining in such masterpieces as Titanic, Gangs of New York, and The Departed, it's easy to see why his tense and gripping performance in this historical thriller got him the gold.
Set hundreds of years ago in the snowy landscape of the Midwest US, the film stars DiCaprio as a frontiersman who fights for survival after he is abandoned by his crew following a grisly bear attack. To make matters worse, his son is left in the care of Tom Hardy's vicious pelt peddler, and when that goes sideways, DiCaprio's fearless warrior finds the strength to seek revenge on his companion who betrayed him.
For more, check out our list of the best Leonardo DiCaprio movies.
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. Point Break
Year: 1991
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Surfing. Heists. And Patrick Swayze. Can you name a better combo? If you have never seen this '90s classic, Point Break can easily be the kind of film you scroll past when trying to find something to settle down and watch. But don't be put off by it's bizzare premise, as this is a gem. Plus, there's no better time to rewatch the tense action flick, as Point Break turns 35 years old this year.
Starring Keanu Reeves as an undercover FBI agent, and Swayze as the fluffy-haired leader of a violent surfing gang, the movie transports you to sunny Southern California, where one seaside town is ruled over by criminal beach bums. Following a series of bank robberies, Keanu attempts to infiltrate the group, but gets a little too caught up in the waves of crime and the rather beautiful female member of the gang.
For more, read why our writer thinks that Point Break is one of the best movies ever made.
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