After a small update last week, our list of the best movies to stream on Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video, Max (HBO), and other services gets a slightly larger one this week. It’s a far cry from the March updates that included Oscar winners like Anora, A Complete Unknown, and Wicked, but we’re chugging along towards the summer blockbuster season.
In the second week of May, we add four films to this list: Vince Vaughn’s Netflix original comedy, Nonnas; atmospheric horror The Damned on Max; Hulu original comedy Summer of 69; and more.
We also have guides to the best movies on Netflix, the best movies on Hulu, the best movies on Amazon Prime Video, the best movies on Max, and the best movies on Disney+.
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Nonnas (2025)
The outstanding cast of grandmothers includes Susan Sarandon, Lorraine Bracco, Talia Shire, and Brenda Vaccaro.
Havoc (2025)
Gareth Evans, director of the Indonesian hit action series The Raid, gets his shot at a Netflix Original with Havoc. After a drug deal goes wrong, Detective Walker (Tom Hardy) is assigned the brutal task of fighting his way through the criminal underworld to rescue the politician’s son, who got caught up in a mess.
As Walker gets closer to the son, he begins unraveling a web of corruption and conspiracy that has the city in a vice.
Bullet Train Explosion (2025)
62%Netflix acquired this Japanese action hit and repackaged it into a Netflix Original. When an urgent phone call reports that a bomb has been planted on the Hayabusa No. 60 bullet train heading to Tokyo, the caller claims the bomb will explode as soon as the train drops its speed below 100 kilometers per hour.
Or, officials can pay 100 billion yen for the criminal to deactivate the bomb. Yes, it’s basically Japanese Speed, and it is a ton of fun.
The Room Next Door (2024)
70%Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton star as long-time but somewhat estranged friends in this thoughtful Pedro Almodóvar drama. Ingrid (Moore) and Martha (Swinton) were friends when they worked at the same magazine but eventually went their separate ways, each becoming accomplished in their literary careers.
After years of being out of touch, they finally meet again, but in much different circumstances. And now Martha has a difficult request of Ingrid.
One of Them Days (2025)
71%One of 2025’s earliest hits, One of Them Days has made a quick arrival to Netflix. Keke Palmer and SZA play best friends and roommates in this comedy about, you know, one of them days.
When they realize that Alyssa’s (SZA) boyfriend blew their rent money, they’re up against the clock to avoid eviction. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg, as the women’s issues keep compounding to the point that their friendship is stressed to the limit.
Max (formerly HBO and HBO Max)
The Damned (2025)
62%Tormented by guilt and feeling a mounting sense of dread for refusing to help the sailors, Eva and the rest of her close-knit community come to believe that they’re being punished for their decisions.
Babygirl (2024)
79%This A24 film examines intergenerational sexual dynamics in the workplace to the point of essentially being an erotic drama, albeit with more brain and less lust than 50 Shades of Grey.
Romy (Nicole Kidman) is a high-powered CEO with a beautiful family, but she puts all of that at risk when she enters into a submissive affair with her 21-year-old intern, Samuel (Harris Dickinson). With all the power at her disposal, Samuel simply assumes (correctly) that Romy wants to feel powerless.
Companion (2025)
70%Sophie Hatcher stars in Companion as Iris, an AI robot that was custom-created to be a companion to her boyfriend, Josh (Jack Quaid). But when she realizes that fact during a weekend getaway at a secluded lakeside estate, her sudden sentience leads her to start making her own decisions.
Soon, the group of friends she’s with is entangled in a web of secrets and deception keyed off by a clever robot determined to make them look at themselves in the mirror.
2073 (2024)
52%This documentary-style sci-fi thriller is inspired by Chris Marker’s 1962 featurette La Jetée and takes place in the dystopian New San Francisco in 2073. In this tech-dominant police state, democracy and personal freedoms have been completely obliterated, along with all signs of ecology and natural life.
A survivor besieged by nightmares of the past struggles to build a life in this authoritarian future.
Y2K (2024)
49%Rachel Zegler (Snow White) stars in this horror-comedy about a couple of high school nobodies who decide to crash the ultimate New Year’s Eve party in 1999.
Playing on some of the sensationalist fears that gripped the nation before the turn of the millennium, Y2K ratchets up into an overdrive of zaniness when the clock strikes midnight. And all with a couple of stars at its center who weren’t even born at the time.
Hulu
Summer of 69 (2025)
Through her one and only confidante, Abby learns that Max’s favorite sex position is 69, so, naturally, Abby hires a local stripper named Santa Monica (Chloe Fineman) to teach her everything she needs to know about sweeping Max off his feet and onto his back.
The End (2024)
65%The End sounds like it should be a comedy, but it very much isn’t, which may explain why it hasn’t been a buzzier release. The ambitious Golden Age-style musical is set in a salt mine 25 years after environmental collapse left the Earth uninhabitable.
There, a family leads a difficult life of routine and fading hope until a strange girl arrives, upending their routine and raising tensions. Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, George MacKay, and Moses Ingram star.
The Order (2024)
75%Set in 1983, The Order follows a series of increasingly violent bank robberies, counterfeiting operations, and armored car heists that are terrorizing small towns throughout the Pacific Northwest. Law enforcement is overwhelmed, except for FBI agent Terry Husk (Jude Law), stationed in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
Husk begins to suspect that the crimes aren’t the work of traditional criminals but of ideologically motivated domestic terrorists plotting a guerrilla war against the United States.
A Complete Unknown (2024)
70%Although it was shut out from the podium at the 2025 Oscars, A Complete Unknown did earn eight nominations, including Best Picture and acting nods for Timothée Chalamet, Edward Norton, and Monica Barbaro. The Bob Dylan biopic follows 19-year-old Dylan as an unknown Minnesota musician trying to make a splash on the New York music scene in the early 1960s.
The film follows his meteoric rise from folk singer to the top of the charts and the demands put upon him by such a sudden burst of fame. Just as his style becomes unique and inimitable, Dylan refuses to be pigeonholed, picking up an electric guitar at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965.
Anora (2024)
91%The biggest winner at this year’s Oscars, Anora took home five statues, including wins for Best Picture and Best Actress for debut star, Mikey Madison.
In this heartfelt dramedy, Madison stars as Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn who gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she captures the heart of an oligarch’s son. Getting married on a lark, the news soon reaches Russia, and Anora’s new in-laws head to New York to get the marriage annulled by any means necessary.
Shudder
The Ugly Stepsister (2025)
70%In a fairy-tale kingdom where beauty is prized above all things, young Elvira (Lea Mathilde Skar-Myren) is forced to compete with her more beautiful stepsister (Thea Sofie Loch Næss) for the attention of the handsome prince. But after being brainwashed into an obsession with beauty herself, Elvira will go to any length possible to be beautiful.
825 Forest Road (2025)
Peacock
Black Bag (2025)
85%Caught between loyalty to his marriage and his country, George hopes the accusations aren’t true but remains on high alert for his incredibly dangerous wife nonetheless.
Last Breath (2025)
65%Based on a true story, Last Breath is the pulse-pounding retelling of a deep-sea dive rescue. Even among an experienced crew, the risks of deep-sea diving can become extraordinary in a heartbeat.
When one of their crewmates is trapped hundreds of feet below the ocean’s surface, this team jumps into action, refusing to leave him behind. Racing against time, raging elements, and the dark, the crew takes on a task that should be completely impossible.
Wicked (2024)
73%2024’s biggest family-friendly movie became one of the year’s biggest cultural phenomena. The film adaptation of the first half of the beloved Broadway musical stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande. Elphaba (Erivo) is misunderstood due to her green skin. Glinda (Grande) is a popular girl, possessed by ambition.
Both students at Shiz University, they form an unlikely odd-couple friendship that leads them on diverging paths towards their destinies to become Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West. Nominated for ten Oscars, Wicked won Best Costume Design and Best Production Design.
Amazon Prime Video
Another Simple Favor (2025)
57%Seven years after A Simple Favor, Another Simple Favor is a sequel released as an Amazon Prime Original. In the second film, Stephanie Smothers (Anna Kendrick) and Emily Nelson (Blake Lively) reunite on the Italian island of Capri for Emily’s wedding to a wealthy Italian businessman. But as is necessary at any glamorous European wedding, there is murder and betrayal afoot! Stephanie and Emily are once again at the center of a dark, twisting mystery that consumes the beautiful Mediterranean island.
G20 (2025)
Viola Davis and Anthony Anderson star in this action-packed Amazon original G20. When the G20 summit comes under siege, the number one target is U.S. President Danielle Sutton (Davis).
Sutton has a few tricks up her sleeve, and when she evades capture in the moment, she works to outsmart the enemy to protect her family, global leaders, and the entire country.
Holland (2025)
44%Broken Rage (2024)
Director Takeshi Kitano has dropped on Prime Video the first part of his two-part saga into the Japanese underworld, Broken Rage. Seemingly unremarkable, “Mouse” (Kitano) is actually a prolific hitman.
When he’s caught by police, Mouse is given a deal to go undercover and infiltrate the yakuza. If he refuses, he will go to jail. Tapping into all of his cunning, Mouse struggles to stay a step ahead of both organizations, orchestrating a delicate plan while using just a little bit of violence when needed.
You're Cordially Invited (2025)
56%They don’t make many pure R-rated comedies anymore, so that in its own right makes You’re Cordially Invited something of a breath of fresh air. Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon star as antagonists in this flick about an accidental double-booking at the same wedding venue.
Each bridal party is determined to make the most of the situation and preserve their family’s special moment despite the tight quarters. Yet the father of one bride (Ferrell) and the sister of the other (Witherspoon) are motivated to make the day even more memorable for their special people.
Disney+
Mufasa: The Lion King (2024)
56%The tale follows Mufasa as an orphaned cub, alone and close to death when he’s found by Taka, who just happens to be heir to a royal bloodline. Suddenly, destiny is rewritten.
Moana 2 (2024)
58%Moana 2 was a box office success, but there’s no argument that it falls well short of the outstanding original. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s influence is noticeably absent on the disappointingly forgettable soundtrack, but at least the adventure and humor are present.
After an unexpected call from her wayfinding ancestors, Moana (Auli’i Cravalho) returns to the sea with Maui (Dwayne Johnson) and a new crew to seek out a mythical island that once served as a waypoint for voyaging cultures around the world and establish relations once again.
Blink (2024)
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The Fire Inside (2024)
76%Motivated by her tough-love coach, Jason Crutchfield (Brian Tyree Henry), Claressa pushes to reach the pinnacle of her sport. But even when she arrives, she discovers that as a Black woman in boxing, her fight has only just begun.
Paramount+
Better Man (2024)
77%While the film is about the challenges of fame and success, the greatest irony is that Williams was nowhere near a big enough star to make a film like this in the first place.
September 5 (2024)
76%After Israeli athletes are taken hostage during the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics, the world’s sports broadcasters had to learn a new style on the fly. September 5 follows a team of American sports broadcasters as they take over live coverage of one of the world’s most significant political events in the post-war world.
Ambitious producer Geoff (John Magaro) strives to prove himself to his boss, TV executive Roone Arledge (Peter Sarsgaard), with help from German interpreter Marianne (Leonie Benesch) and mentor Marvin Bader (Ben Chaplin).
Apple TV+
The Gorge (2025)
Anya Taylor-Joy and Miles Teller star in The Gorge, a sci-fi dystopian thriller. Appointed to posts in guard towers on opposite sides of a vast, highly classified gorge, two operatives grow close to one another as they protect the planet from an undisclosed, mysterious evil lurking within the gorge. After bonding from a distance, their connection is tested when a cataclysmic event finally rattles the gorge and threatens to release the evil upon the world.
Fly Me to the Moon (2024)
53%The rare film to be made by another studio and get a theatrical release before landing on Apple TV+, Fly Me to the Moon had some modest box office success this summer. Marketing pro Kelly Jones (Scarlett Johansson) is brought in to fix NASA’s public image problems as the agency prepares for its most important mission to date: putting a man on the moon.
All this messaging wreaks havoc on launch director Cole Davis’ (Channing Tatum) worksite. When the White House deems the mission too important to fail, suddenly both Jones and Davis have another job. They must stage a fake moon landing, just in case the real one doesn’t pan out.
