The latestStephen King adaptationis now on Hulu. Based on King’s short story from the ’80s,The Monkeywowed audiences with its diabolical humor and insane kills. Now on streaming, the horror film should find a new audience.
Staying in the horror realm,Ready or Notwas a fantastic surprise in 2019. The thriller did so well that a sequel is on the way next year. Elsewhere,10 Things I Hate About Youis always a solid streaming selection.
Keep reading for the rest of the best movies on Hulu.
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10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
The movie that turned the late Heath Ledger into a heartthrob (and rightfully so) was10 Things I Hate About You. In this modern adaptation of a Shakespeare comedy,Joseph Gordon-Levittstars as Cameron, a new student who wants to date the popular Bianca Stratford (Larisa Oleynik).
In Bianca’s house, there is one rule: she can’t date until her antisocial sister, Kat (Julia Stiles), does. Enter Patrick Verona (Ledger), the handsome bad boy recruited by Cameron to woo Kat. Patrick is used to getting what he wants, but winning over Kat will be his hardest challenge yet.
The Monkey (2025)
Death comes in the form of a sadistic toy inOsgood Perkins’The Monkey. Growing up, twins Hal and Bill Shelburn (Christian Convery) discover that a toy monkey causes the most violent and horrific deaths. The boys throw the monkey away, hoping to never see it again.
25 years later, the monkey reappears and wreaks havoc. Hal and Bill (Theo James) reunite to save their loved ones by destroying this evil monkey. Unfortunately, some people will have to die along the way.
Ready or Not (2019)
A children’s game turns deadly at a family event inReady or Not. Grace (Samara Weaving) hits the jackpot by marrying Alex (Mark O’Brien) and joining his wealthy family. On her wedding night, Grace is forced to play a game of hide-and-seek with her new family.
Thinking nothing of it, Grace playfully abides by the rules and hides. She soon finds out that Alex’s family must kill her before dawn, or they die instead. To last until dawn, this bride must fight back and outlast her in-laws by any means necessary.
The Amateur (2025)
Rami Malekis a CIA analyst out for revenge inThe Amateur. Charlie Heller (Malek) is a cryptographer who prefers to work behind a desk. Charlie’s world comes crashing down after his wife (Rachel Brosnahan) is killed in a terrorist attack. Conducting his own investigation, Charlie identifies the four suspects who played a part in his wife’s death. When Charlie brings this information to his superiors, they refuse to take action.
Motivated by revenge, the introverted Charlie heads into the field and hunts down his wife’s killers. The CIA eventually realizes that it made a mistake to underestimate Charlie, who becomes a ruthless vigilante that the agency cannot control.
Sunshine (2007)
Before directing the Oscar-winningSlumdog Millionaire,Danny Boylehelmed the vastly underrated sci-fi thriller,Sunshine. In the future, Earth begins freezing due to the Sun’s deterioration. The human race will cease to exist if the Sun dies. Eight astronauts — including Robert Capa (Cillian Murphy), James Mace (Chris Evans), and Cassie (Rose Byrne) — aboard the Icarus II are tasked with detonating a stellar bomb inside the Sun in hopes of reigniting it.
Like all explorations to outer space, everything that can go wrong will go wrong. Each problem results in another tragedy. These astronauts thought they could make it home. As they approach the Sun, they quickly realize that completing the mission is all that matters.
(500) Days of Summer (2009)
Explore the highs and lows of a relationship in(500) Days of Summer. Greeting-card writer Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) instantly falls hard for the company’s new employee, Summer Finn (Zooey Deschanel). Tom and Summer seem like a perfect match due to their compatible personalities and similar interests. Summer wants to keep things casual, while Tom wants a serious commitment. Despite their views on love, they embark on a passionate relationship.
Because the film is presented in a nonlinear narrative, you immediately find out that Summer breaks up with Tom. As the film jumps back and forth between timelines, you learn what went wrong for Tom and what he must do to move on.(500) Days of Summeris a unique take on therom-com genre, backed by charming performances and a hopeful message.
Insidious: The Red Door (2023)
Separately, Dalton and Josh feel the tug of the entities in The Further breaking through to our world once again. Josh and Dalton will have to find a way to reconcile and work together if they want a chance to stop this evil in its tracks.
No Hard Feelings (2023)
Maddie Barker (Jennifer Lawrence) has big problems inNo Hard Feelings. She’s lost her car — which she needs to earn a living as an Uber driver — her family home is close to being repossessed, and she’s almost bankrupt. That’s what possesses her to accept an oddball job offer from Laird (Matthew Broderick) and Allison Becker (Laura Benanti).
The Barkers have a problem too, and his name is Percy (Andrew Barth Feldman). Their son is woefully unprepared to go off to college and become his own man. He’s never even had a real girlfriend! That’s what Maddie is supposed to fix by dating Percy and increasing his confidence before he leaves town. Unfortunately for Maddie, the socially awkward teen isn’t easily swayed by her charms. So she’ll have to go the extra mile to convince Percy she’s sincere and hope he doesn’t figure out her true motives.
The Order (2024)
1983 may seem like a long time ago, but there are aspects ofThe Orderthat feel all too timely. This film is based on a true story about a white supremacist group called The Order that planned to overthrow the U.S. government and start a race war.
Those goals may be beyond The Order’s grasp, but the bodies of their victims are piling up. FBI agent Terry Husk (Jude Law) began his investigation over a missing informant. And the more Husk learns about The Order and its ambitions, the more dangerous this case becomes.
Anora (2024)
Anora, 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.
Longlegs (2024)
Nicolas Cage is the thing that goes bump in the night as the title character inLonglegs.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.
Which Brings Me to You (2023)
Which Brings Me To Youkind 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.
Cuckoo (2024)
Cuckoois 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)
The Weyland-Yutani corporation has basically been the villain in every Alien movie to date, andAlien: Romulusis 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 originalAlien.
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)
The Planet of the Apes films have been around since 1968, but there’s still a lot of life left in the franchise inKingdom 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)
If you’ve seen one movie this year about a young nun at the center of an evil plan, then you’ve either seenImmaculateorThe First Omen. There are definitely a lot of overlapping themes between them. But so you’re able to 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)
Depending upon whether you consider the made-for-TV movieOmen IV: The Awakeningas canon, the story ofThe Omenhas been over since the third film hit theaters in 1981. And yetThe First Omenreinvigorates 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)
Brad Pitt was 58 years old whenBullet Trainhit 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)
Emma Stone won her second Oscar for Best Actress for her performance as Bella Baxter inPoor 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)
Anatomy of a Fallwas 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)
Laura Chinn’sSuncoastis 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.
Flamin' Hot (2023)
What do you do when there’s a true story that may not be true? As was famously said in the 1962 Western classicThe Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,“when the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” The story ofFlamin’ Hotis 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.
Prey (2022)
Serving as a centuries-ago prequel to the 1987 filmPredator,Preygives us the story of a Comanche warrior named Naru (Amber Midthunder) who aspires to be the mighty protector of her Great Plains tribe. One day, a powerful new foe descends on her clan, forcing Naru and her fellow Comanche to summon up all their wits and strength to thwart the combatant extraterrestrial.
Preyis a propulsive and blood-soaked nail-biter of an action film, and one that could effectively stand alone as a singular entity. But in this case, it’s a new entry in a much-loved franchise, and it’s one we’re betting will make plenty of fans happy.
Fresh (2022)
Noa (Daisy-Edgar Jones) is sick of swiping through dating apps to find a true companion. Lucky for her, she seems to have run into the man of her dreams, Steve (Avengers: Infinity War‘s Sebastian Stan), at the local grocery store.
After quickly warming up to each other, Noa’s new suitor invites her on a weekend retreat. But it’s not long before the idyllic, romantic outing devolves into a horrific fight for survival. A brilliantly brutal riff on the horror-comedy,Freshis a bombastic amalgamation of familiar genre tropes that we can’t get enough of.
