Although Hulu stumbled with its live stream of the Oscars, it had the very good fortune to land Anora before it won Best Picture for 2024. And now it’s streaming among the best movies on Hulu.
The rest of March’s top new additions are pretty terrific as well. L.A. Confidential, The Social Network, and The Wrestler were all critically acclaimed and Oscar-nominated, with a few Academy Award wins between them. These fantastic films are just the beginning of what you’ll find in the best movies on Hulu below.
Subscribe to a different platform? Not only do we have a guide to the best new movies to stream, but we’ve rounded up the best movies on Amazon Prime Video, the best movies on Netflix, and the best movies on Disney+.
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The Wrestler2008
Anora (2024)
91%
7.6/10Anora, the reigning winner for Best Picture at the Oscars, is all about a young woman who really wants her Cinderella story to come true. Mikey Madison won Best Actress for her turn as Anora Mikheeva, a sex worker who has gone about as far as she can in life until she meets Ivan “Vanya” Zakharov (Mark Eydelshteyn). In Ivan, Anora sees a way out and a potential life of ease and luxury thanks to his wealth. Unfortunately for Anora, she and Ivan underestimated just how far his Russian oligarch parents, Nikolai (Aleksei Serebryakov) and Galina Zakharova (Darya Ekamasova), will go to annul their marriage and keep them apart. When Ivan runs off, he leaves Anora to face his parents’ henchmen alone.
L.A. Confidential (1997)
90%
8.2/10L.A. Confidential is a movie made almost three decades ago, and it’s set four decades even earlier than that. And yet there’s something timeless about its recreation of Los Angeles in the early 1950s, with the classic Hollywood landscape juxtaposed with the brutal realities of the LAPD, many of whom are either corrupt or cruel jerks who happily abuse the people they’re supposed to protect.
Ed Exley (Guy Pearce) despises the brutality of his fellow officers, including Wendell “Bud” White (Russell Crowe), but he’s not above leveraging his testimony against them to get a promotion. That fuels a very personal vendetta between Exley and White, just as they both stumble upon different aspects of a wide-reaching criminal conspiracy that has the LAPD in its grasp. Like it or not, White and Exley are going to need each other in order to unravel this case.
The Social Network (2010)
95%
7.8/10The real Mark Zuckerberg is a pretty unpopular guy despite co-creating Facebook, one of the most dominant sites in social media history. The Social Network dramatizes the story of Facebook’s rise and casts Jesse Eisenberg as Zuckerberg. This film also goes a long way toward explaining the enmity that people have for Zuckerberg.
It’s one thing for him to swindle the Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler (both played by Armie Hammer), since they’re pretty unlikeable as well, at least in the context of the film. But when Zuckerberg betrays his friend and Facebook co-founder, Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield), it’s unforgivable. And yet David Fincher’s film is a masterpiece that’s impossible to look away from. There’s no need for a sequel, because we’re living in it.
The Wrestler (2008)
80%
7.9/10Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler gave Mickey Rourke a late-career comeback as Randy ‘The Ram’ Robinson, a man who was once on top of the wrestling industry in the ’80s. Twenty years later, Randy can barely hold down a job, and his time in the ring is coming to an involuntary end. With little else he can do, Randy tries to repair his relationship with his daughter, Stephanie Ramzinski (Evan Rachel Wood), and find love with a stripper named Pam (Marisa Tomei).
The problem with Randy is that even at his best, he’s never quite good enough to have the relationships that he wants. Plus, the call of the ring may prove to be too irresistible despite the consequences.
Longlegs (2024)
77%
6.6/10Nicolas Cage is the thing that goes bump in the night as the title character in Longlegs. The studio made the right choice to withhold Cage’s appeareance before the movie was released. For two decades, Longlegs has targeted families and staged their murders to make it appear as if the father killed everyone.
In 1994, FBI agent Lee Harker (Maika Monroe) is on the case, and she’s made it her personal mission to bring Longlegs’ reign of terror to an end. While Harker is hunting Longlegs, he’s got his own deadly objectives to meet, and the mystery behind his identity leads directly back to her past.
Fall (2022)
62%
6.4/10If you’re afraid of heights, Fall may not be the movie for you. But it is a very effective low-budget survival thriller about two best friends, Becky Connor (Grace Caroline Currey) and Shiloh Hunter (Virginia Gardner), who find themselves trapped in a dangerous situation of their own making. Climbing an old radio tower in the desert was reckless, to begin with, but Becky was talked into doing it in honor of her late husband.
While the climb goes relatively smoothly, Becky and Shiloh become trapped when they attempt to climb back down. With their supplies out of reach and no one around to help them, the two friends desperately need to find a way down in order to survive.
Heat (1995)
76%
8.3/10Three decades ago, Michael Mann’s Heat became one of the best epic crime movies of the ’90s. This was also the first film since The Godfather Part II to feature Al Pacino and Robert De Niro in the main cast together. De Niro plays Neil McCauley, a veteran thief with Chris Shiherlis (Val Kilmer) as his right-hand man.
McCauley’s most recent heist has gotten far more attention on both sides of the law than he’d like, and fleeing the country seems like a viable option. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Vincent Hanna (Pacino) of the LAPD is closing in on McCauley and his gang. McCauley and Hanna share some mutual respect, but all of that goodwill will fly out the window as their destinies collide.
That Thing You Do! (1996)
71%
7.0/10Tom Hanks wrote, directed, and co-starred in That Thing You Do!, a very charming music biopic about a fictional band called The Wonders. In the mid-1960s, Jimmy Mattingly (Jonathan Schaech), Guy Patterson (Tom Everett Scott), Lenny Haise (Steve Zahn), and T.B. Player (Ethan Embry) created a hit song that shares the title of the film.
Thanks to their new manager, Mr. Amos White (Hanks), The Wonders — and Jimmy’s girlfriend, Faye Dolan (Liv Tyler) — go on tour to reach greater stardom. However, the pressures of the industry and tensions in the band threaten to wipe out their success before they ever truly get a chance to make it big.
Which Brings Me to You (2023)
52%
5.6/10Which Brings Me To You kind of plays like an extended introduction between two strangers at a wedding. Although Jane (Lucy Hale) is very eager to have a casual fling with Will (Nat Wolff), he insists upon talking with her first.
Throughout the movie, Jane and Will reveal heartbreaking details about their previous relationships, which have shaped their perspectives on life and love. There’s a real potential for something more between them if they can both move past their fears and regrets.
Cast Away (2000)
74%
7.8/10There are few movies that could hang entirely on one actor. Tom Hanks proved that he is one of the few in Cast Away. Hanks is the greatest special effect in Robert Zemeckis’ film because he physically transforms his body to better reflect the fate of his character, Charles “Chuck” Noland.
While working for FedEx, Chuck is lost at sea in a plane crash and left alone on a desolate island, with minimal food and resources. All Chuck wants to do is get home to his girlfriend, Kelly Frears (Helen Hunt), but first, he’ll have to find a way to survive with what little he has. And if Chuck can pass those trials, then he can tackle the bigger problem of escaping the island itself.
Cuckoo (2024)
62%
5.8/10Cuckoo is an indie horror film that debuted under the radar in 2024, but it has a chance to branch out on Hulu. Hunter Schafer stars as Gretchen, a teenager who is grieving the death of her mother when her father, Luis (Marton Csokas), and her stepmother, Beth (Jessica Henwick), move her to the German Alps alongside her mute half-sister, Alma (Mila Lieu).
Gretchen soon discovers that strange things are happening in and around the hotel owned by Herr König (Dan Stevens), which may be connected to a mysterious hooded woman and a secret about Alma that no one could have guessed.
Alien: Romulus (2024)
64%
7.2/10The Weyland-Yutani corporation has basically been the villain in every Alien movie to date, and Alien: Romulus is no exception. In this film, we learn that not only has Weyland-Yutani been using humans as conscripted labor in space, but that the corporation also found the wreckage of the Nostromo, Ripley’s ship from the original Alien.
To escape their unjustly extended contracts with Weyland-Yutani, Rain (Cailee Spaeny), her android Andy (David Johnsson), Kay Harrison (Isabela Merced), and a few others undertake a risky mission to scavenge materials from an abandoned space station. By the time they realize that Weyland-Yutani’s Xenomorph experiments took place on that station, it’s too late to escape intact. And it may not be possible to escape at all after a lingering surprise from the past changes Andy’s programming and turns his loyalty away from Rain.
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)
66%
7.0/10The Planet of the Apes films have been around since 1968, but there’s still a lot of life left in the franchise in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. This story takes place 300 years after the life of Caesar, as one tribe of apes has taken to raising eagles as companions. Noa (Owen Teague) is the heir to Eagle Clan, until his people are brutally kidnapped and enslaved by the forces of Proximus Caesar (Kevin Durand).
Proximus has perverted the teachings of Caesar and installed himself as a tyrant. He’s also after Mae (Freya Allan), a young human girl who may be able to lead him to hidden tech and weapons. Both Noa and Mae have reasons to oppose Proximus, but can they bring themselves to trust each other enough to bring him down?
Immaculate (2024)
57%
5.8/10If you’ve seen one movie this year about a young nun at the center of an evil plan, then you’ve either seen Immaculate or The First Omen. There are definitely a lot of overlapping themes between them. But so you can keep them straight, this is the one that stars Sydney Sweeny as Cecilia, a woman who can’t wait to take her vows and devote herself to God.
Unfortunately for Cecilia, there are shady things happening at her new home in the Italian countryside. Someone believes that Sister Cecilia is the perfect candidate to play an important role in the future of the world. Cecilia doesn’t get to choose what happens to her body, but she will have to decide how to react when the truth behind her immaculate pregnancy comes out.
The First Omen (2024)
66%
6.5/10Depending upon whether you consider the made-for-TV movie Omen IV: The Awakening as canon, the story of The Omen has been over since the third film hit theaters in 1981. And yet The First Omen reinvigorates the franchise with a prequel set in the early 1970s before the events of the original film.
The film follows Margaret (Nell Tiger Free), an American who has come to Rome to train for a life as a nun out of her religious devotion. Almost from the start, Margaret finds herself targeted by a conspiracy that she doesn’t understand. The forces of evil have decided that Margaret is the perfect woman to bring the antichrist into the world, whether she wants to or not.
Bullet Train (2022)
49%
7.3/10Brad Pitt was 58 years old when Bullet Train hit theaters in 2022, and yet you can’t tell his age by looking at him. As Pitt has grown older, he’s also gotten a lot funnier, and this movie makes his character, Ladybug, the butt of a lot of the jokes in the film. Ladybug is an assassin who is very unlucky, to the point where he wants to leave the life of a killer behind him. But he’s roped into filling in for an operative on a Japanese bullet train for a supposedly easy job.
All Ladybug has to do is retrieve a briefcase full of stolen money and slip out of the train before anyone realizes it’s missing. It’s easy to say, and almost impossible to do when multiple assassins get on the train, each with their own agendas. Ladybug may not have been looking for trouble, but it’s found him. And there’s an even more dangerous threat awaiting everyone at the end of the line.
Poor Things (2023)
88%
8.1/10Emma Stone won her second Oscar for Best Actress for her performance as Bella Baxter in Poor Things. Max McCandles (Ramy Youssef) falls for Bella before he learns that a mad scientist, Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe), brought her back to life with a newborn’s brain. That doesn’t dissuade Max from wanting to marry Bella, but she has other ideas.
Bella runs away with a lawyer, Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo), so she can experience everything that the world has to offer her. Much like Max, Duncan’s influence over Bella only goes so far before she starts setting the agenda for herself, and no one is prepared to accept that.
Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
86%
7.8/10Anatomy of a Fall was a five-time nominee at the Oscars, and the winner for 2023’s Best Original Screenplay. The story revolves around the death of Samuel Maleski (Samuel Theis) and the discovery of his body by his son, Daniel Maleski (Milo Machado-Graner). Did Samuel fall from the attic in his home, or was he pushed?
The police soon openly suspect that Samuel’s wife and Daniel’s mother, Sandra Voyter (Sandra Hüller), attacked Samuel and pushed him to his death. Even Daniel doesn’t quite know what to think when the truth about his parent’s strained marriage is brought out to the open. Affairs and resentment are only a small part of why Sandra and Samuel were estranged. But it looks damning when one of the leading characters in Sandra’s new novel contemplated killing her husband in a similar manner.
Suncoast (2024)
61%
6.6/10Laura Chinn’s Suncoast is largely based on true events that happened to her and her family, but the movie does take some dramatic license with the story. Nico Parker stars as Doris, a teenager who is overwhelmed by the brain cancer afflicting her brother, Max (Cree Kawa), and from her attempts to deal with their mother, Kristine (Laura Linney).
When Max enters hospice care, Doris befriends Paul (Woody Harrelson), an activist who is fighting to keep a woman named Terri Schiavo hooked up to life support despite her persistent vegetative state and the wishes of her husband. As for Doris, she has to face the very real possibility that her brother will never come home from hospice.
Uncharted (2022)
45%
6.3/10Fans of the Uncharted video games may have done a double take when the MCU’s Spider-Man, Tom Holland, was cast as a much younger version of adventurer Nathan “Nate” Drake. The Uncharted movie is an alternate take on Nate’s origin story and how he formed a partnership with Victor “Sully” Sullivan (Mark Wahlberg), a treasure hunter who claims to have been the partner of Nate’s missing brother, Sam Drake (Rudy Pankow).
In the way of Nate and Sully’s first expedition is Santiago Moncada (Antonio Banderas), a very wealthy man who hires Jo Braddock (Tati Gabrielle) and her mercenaries to take out anyone in their path. Nate and Sully only have Chloe Frazer (Sophia Ali) to call upon for help, but even she may be less than trustworthy.
No One Will Save You (2023)
60%
6.3/10Kaitlyn Dever stars in the Hulu original movie No One Will Save You as Brynn, a young woman who lives a solitary existence in large part because she is a pariah in her small town. That’s one of the reasons why Brynn has no one to turn to when an alien invades her home. In the aftermath, Brynn finds no support from her fellow humans, and she discovers just how alone she really is.
No One Will Save You barely has any dialogue at all, but Dever’s expressive and earnest performance carries the entire film. It also goes a long way toward making little gray men scary again, especially when Brynn meets the more horrific aliens.
Flamin' Hot (2023)
65%
5.8/10What do you do when there’s a true story that may not be true? As was famously said in the 1962 Western classic The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, “when the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” The story of Flamin’ Hot is truly inspirational regardless of whether these events actually played out this way in reality. The film is based on the memoir of Richard Montañez (Jesse Garcia), the man who claims that he created Flamin’ Hot Cheetos. And he didn’t do it alone.
With the support of his wife, Judy Montañez (Annie Gonzalez), and his co-worker, Clarence C. Baker (Dennis Haysbert), Richard rises from the rank of janitor and works up the nerve to pitch his Flamin’ Hot ideas to Frito-Lay executive Roger Enrico (Tony Shalhoub). From there, a snack food legend is born.
Something in the Dirt (2022)
An exciting example of the kind of narrative ingenuity that only a worldwide pandemic can foster, Something in the Dirt is the latest film from writer-director duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead (The Endless, Synchronic), and is arguably the most primitively fascinating work of these two collaborators. Shot over the course of a year with a crew of just 12, our story follows Levi and John, apartment-dwelling neighbors who decide to make a documentary about a range of supernatural events occurring in their Los Angeles residence. But as the two men discover that these kinds of extraordinary happenings are taking place all over L.A., their findings lead them to a combative exchange of theories and calculations.
Ultrasound (2022)
55%
5.8/10In director Rob Schroeder’s Ultrasound, Mad Men alum Vincent Kartheiser stars as Glen, an unassuming everyman who just so happens to encounter some car trouble on a dark and stormy night. Seeking some help, he knocks on the door of a perfectly kind stranger named Arthur (Bob Stephenson), leading the former down an uncanny rabbit hole of deceit and mind control. Presenting a nail-biter of a story without diving into carnage and other typical screen grabs, Ultrasound does its best work as a quietly curious foray into a world that’s hard to pin down.
The Last Tourist (2021)
7.3/10Prey (2022)
79%
7.3/10Sundown (2022)
70%
6.6/10Fresh (2022)
67%
6.7/10No Exit (2022)
54%
6.1/10Deep Water (2022)
53%
5.4/10Wander Darkly (2020)
66%
5.8/10
