Streaming’s popularity continues to rise with each passing month. Unfortunately, that also means the price continues to increase, with Netflix becoming the latest streamer to raise prices. There is no end in sight, especially with the streaming wars intensifying.
Now more than ever consumers need free streaming options. YouTube is a free service offering quality movies and television to its users. Every month, YouTube welcomes new programs to its service, many of which are well-known. This month, check out our top picks for this month below.
Looking for more stuff you can watch for free? Check out our guides to the best free shows on YouTube and the best sites for watching free movies online. If you’re willing to pay, read these guides on the best new movies to stream and the best movies on Netflix.
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The Proposal2009
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The First Time2012
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story (2004)
55%
6.7/10“If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball.” That phrase was made famous in DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story, one of the standout comedies of the mid-2000s. Peter La Fleur (Vince Vaughn) owns Average Joe’s Gym, a friendly health club struggling financially. Peter’s cocky rival, White Goodman (Ben Stiller), owns Glob-Gym and wants to buy Average Joe’s and turn it into a parking lot.
Peter has 30 days to come up with $50,000 to pay his mortgage, or White will get the gym. Peter needs cash, and he must get it fast. His only option is to compete in a Las Vegas dodgeball tournament and win the $50,000 cash prize. Peter hires dodgeball expert Patches O’Houlihan (Rip Torn) to coach the inexperienced team. It won’t be easy, especially when White enters a team to try and prevent Average Joe’s from winning.
The Proposal (2009)
48%
6.8/10Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds form an uneasy alliance in the rom-com, The Proposal. Margaret Tate (Sandra Bullock) is the Canadian editor-in-chief of a prestigious New York City book publishing company. Margaret’s extremely assertive personality rubs people the wrong way, making her extremely unlikable within the office.
Margaret will soon get deported back to Canada unless she can get a green card. Enter Andrew Paxton, Margaret’s overworked assistant. Andrew agrees to marry Margaret if he can become an editor, which she accepts. First, Andrew and Margaret go to Alaska to meet Andrew’s family and prove to an immigration official that their marriage is built on love. Of course, hijinks will ensue.
The First Time (2012)
55%
6.8/10Jon Kasdan tackles young love in The First Time. One night outside a party, high school senior Dave (Dylan O’Brien) strikes up a conversation with a junior named Aubrey (Britt Robertson). Dave loves his best friend Jane (Victoria Justice), while Aubrey dates meathead Ronny (James Frecheville)
After the cops crash the party, Dave and Aubrey escape and spend the rest of the night talking. The duo forms a genuine connection, but because of their existing relationships, they’re unsure whether to act on it. Eventually, Dave and Aubrey will realize that love isn’t perfect, so they don’t have to be.
Point Break (1991)
59%
7.3/10Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze square off in Kathryn Bigelow’s excellent action thriller, Point Break. Former college quarterback Johnny Utah (Reeves) is a hot-shot FBI agent who teams with veteran agent Angelo Pappas (Gary Busey) to catch a group of bank robbers known as the “Ex-Presidents.” The duo hypothesizes that the robbers are surfers, so Utah goes undercover within the beach community, searching for more information.
While posing as a surfer, Utah meets Bodhi (Swayze), the eccentric leader of a group of surfers. As Utah spends more time with the surfers, he develops a genuine bond with the free-spirited Bodhi. However, this complicates Utah’s mission, blurring the lines between his new friends and his job.
I Kill Giants (2018)
74%
6.1/10My Friend Dahmer (2017)
68%
6.2/10Someone at YouTube has very deftly picked up on the renewed interest in Jeffrey Dahmer by getting the rights to stream My Friend Dahmer. This serial killer movie is based upon the true story of John “Derf” Backderf (Alex Wolff), a cartoonist who was the closest friend that Jeffrey Dahmer (Ross Lynch) had in high school. In this adaptation of Backderf’s graphic novel, he and his fellow outcasts befriend Dahmer, but they aren’t blind to his bizarre behavior.
However, they couldn’t have predicted that the awkward young man that they knew would go on to become one of the most infamous serial killers of the last century. It’s also a tragic tale, as no one notices how monstrous Dahmer has become until it’s far too late to stop him.
The Illusionist (2006)
68%
7.6/10The Illusionist beat the similarly themed film, The Prestige, to theaters by about two months, but Christopher Nolan’s movie is the superior of the two. Regardless, The Illusionist has its charms, largely in the core trio of Edward Norton, Jessica Biel, and Paul Giamatti. When they were young, Eduard Abramovich (Norton) and Duchess Sophie Von Teschen (Biel) had a passion for each other that her parents forbade.
Upon adulthood, Edward reinvented himself as Eisenheim The Illusionist and reunited with Sophie before she could be married to the malevolent Prince Leopold (Rufus Sewell). When Sophie is murdered, Chief Inspector Walter Uhl (Giamatti) is unnerved when Eisenheim appears to be able to summon Sophie’s spirit at will.
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
89%
7.9/10A seminal entry for American horror cinema, George A. Romero’s classic horror movie follows seven people who find themselves trapped in Pennsylvania as the terrifying walking dead surround them. They have to try to survive without understanding the terror that lurks outside.
The movie has been noted as the first zombie film, and its influences can be seen in everything from 28 Days Later to Shaun of the Dead. Romero’s debut — he wrote, directed, edited, and acted in the film — made him into a superstar, quickly revolutionizing the genre on a budget of a mere $114,000.
