The best movies on Hulu include a lot of great offerings, from its original releases to several films licensed from other streaming services. Since Hulu is part of the Disney company, many of the films available on Hulu are the more adult-oriented of Disney releases, which include some fantastic options.

While Hulu and Disney have slowly been merging over the last year, and there are films from both Hulu and Disney+ available when people subscribe to package deals, there are also plenty of choices for people who choose Hulu by itself as a standalone service.

Hulu has some great choices for people who love genre entertainment, like horror, sci-fi, and fantasy, but there are also plenty of movies to watch for people who love dramas, comedies, and action flicks. In all, there are plenty of great films on Hulu to choose from as 2026 comes to a start.

• Nope (2022) [Horror] – Jordan Peele’s sci-fi horror movie from 2022 takes a group of people in a small Western town and has them dealing with an alien invasion in the most over-the-top way possible.
• Barbarian (2022) [Horror] – While Zach Cregger delivered one of 2025’s best horror movies with Weapons, he showed how great he was with his debut horror release, Barbarian, a movie about a woman who discovers an ancient evil at an Airbnb.
• Napoleon Dynamite (2004) [Comedy] – One of the most iconic slacker movies of all time hit in 2004 with Napoleon Dynamite, and it is now on Hulu for anyone who wants to see the ridiculous humor and fantastic one-liners.
• A Quiet Place (2018) [Horror] – A Quiet Place offers up a post-apocalyptic horror movie that sees aliens who can’t see and can only attack based on their hearing, centering on a family who has trained themselves to remain deathly silent.
• The Last Showgirl (2024) [Drama] – The Last Showgirl was part of Pamela Anderson’s comeback as she stars as a Las Vegas showgirl who has to figure out her place in the world when she ages out of her stage show and finds young talent ready to replace her.
• Prey (2022) [Horror] – Prey did the unthinkable and rebooted the Predator franchise with one of the best movies in the series, taking the story to the far past and showing an Indigenous woman fighting to survive a Predator attack.
• Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle (2017) [Fantasy] – Jumanji was a popular 90s movie franchise, but it got a massive boost with this reboot, where the action was taken into the games, and it remains one of the funniest and action-packed fantasy movies of the 2010s.
• Black Swan (2010) [Horror] – Black Swan was Darren Aronofsky’s entry into the psychological horror genre, where he follows the tale of a ballerina who begins to lose her grasp on reality as she fights for the lead role in Swan Lake.
• Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes (2014) [Sci-Fi] – The Planet of the Apes franchise was rebooted in 2014 with a film that was surprisingly great and ended up revitalizing the franchise for a new generation, as it shows how the apes ended up taking over the world.
• Time Bandits (1981) [Fantasy] – Time Bandits is a Terry Gilliam fantasy movie that received a recent series reboot, but the original movie remains the best as it follows a group of thieves who travel through time to steal artifacts from the past.
• Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) [Action] – The best movie in the Mission: Impossible series arrived in 2018 with Tom Cruise back and Ethan Hunt finding a new dangerous nemesis in Henry Cavill’s August Walker.
• Metropolis (1926) [Sci-Fi] – The 1926 sci-fi masterpiece Metropolis is available to stream on Hulu. This is Fritz Lang’s groundbreaking film about a future that sees machines and technology taking control, made in the silent film era of Hollywood.
• Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) [Action] – Spider-Man: Homecoming is a Marvel film, but it is available on Hulu because it is also a Sony film, which allows it to stream on other services, as Tom Holland takes on the role of Spider-Man to battle the Vulture.
• A Night To Remember (1958) [Drama] – A Night To Remember is a classic disaster film that depicts the sinking of the Titanic. While everyone knows about Titanic, this was the film that did it first, and is just as great as the former box office champion.
• Superbad (2007) [Comedy] – Superbad is one of the best coming-of-age comedies ever made, with two high school seniors going to one last high school party before they realize their lives are going in very different directions.
• The Life Of Chuck (2024) [Drama] – The Stephen King movie The Life of Chuck is on Hulu right now to stream, as the 2025 theatrical release is one of King’s rare non-horror outings and tells the story of a man at the end of his world.
• Labyrinth (1986) [Fantasy] – One of the best fantasy movies ever made is on Hulu, with Labyrinth streaming now, telling the story of a young woman who wishes the Goblin King would take her annoying baby brother, not realizing he was real.
• Big (1988) [Comedy] – One of Tom Hanks’ comedy masterpieces is on Hulu, with Big telling the story of a young boy who wishes he were grown up, only to wake up and see it really happened, and it isn’t what he had hoped.
• Independence Day (1986) [Sci-Fi] – The best disaster movie ever made is on Hulu, with Independence Day telling the story of an alien invasion where aliens start destroying cities around the world, and the people have to rise up to fight back.
• Monty Python And The Holy Grail (1975) [Comedy] – The Monty Python comedy troupe created some of the most memorable comedy skits in history in this story about King Arthur searching for the Holy Grail.
• The French Connection (1971) [Crime Drama] – Gene Hackman stars as Popeye Doyle, a police detective who doesn’t mind breaking the law to stop criminals, in one of the 1970s best crime dramas and one of Hackman’s best performances.
• The Princess Bride (1987) [Comedy] – The Princess Bride is a masterpiece of fantasy cinema by the late Rob Reiner, telling the story of a princess kidnapped and a mysterious pirate who shows up to attempt her rescue.
• Heat (1995) [Crime Drama] – Michael Mann’s masterpiece was this 1995 film that brings together Robert De Niro and Al Pacino as a police detective and a master thief who are on a crash course in one of the most explosive crime dramas ever made.
• Aliens (1986) [Sci-Fi] – In 1986, James Cameron changed everything about the alien franchise when he took the horror movie and turned it into an explosive sci-fi action movie with space marines battling the deadly Xenomorphs.
• Die Hard (1988) [Action] – The best Christmas movie that isn’t about Christmas is on Hulu, as Die Hard sees John McClane (Bruce Willis) saving the people at a Christmas party who were taken hostage by a terrorist played brilliantly by Alan Rickman.

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