In 2017, Hulu made television history by becoming the first streaming network to win the Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series, thanks to the phenomenon that was The Handmaid’s Tale.
While Netflix has largely cornered the streaming market on original movies—and even managed to persuade A-listers like Guillermo del Toro, Alfonso Cuarón, and Martin Scorsese to come aboard—Hulu is starting to find its footing in features too, securing the exclusive rights to a large number of Oscar-nominated movies like A Real Pain and Anora. Below are some of our top picks for the best movies (original and otherwise) streaming on Hulu right now.
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Sister Midnight
Uma (Radhika Apte) and Gopal (Ashok Pathak) are a pair of social misfits who suddenly find themselves living as husband and wife in a tiny shack in Mumbai following an arranged marriage. Living in a new city, surrounded by strangers (her new hubby included), and longing to fight back against the path that society has set for the life ahead of her, Uma begins to rebel against the way the world has always been. Eventually, she becomes a semi-monster of her own making. Director Karan Kandhari uses all the cinematic tools at his disposal to turn his directorial debut, which premiered at Cannes, into an unforgettably funny dark comedy that uses movie magic to offer its own social critique of why the old-school treatment of women very much deserves to be a thing of the past.
Jennifer's Body
After winning the 2008 Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for Jason Reitman’s Juno (which also just began streaming on Hulu), Diablo Cody was essentially given a blank check to write any movie she wanted. She opted to pen this female-centric horror movie starring Megan Fox as the eponymous teenage cheerleader of every guy’s (and girl’s) dreams. Unfortunately for her would-be suitors, she also happens to be possessed by a demonic succubus who now must feast on the flesh of unwitting guys to survive. On the plus side, Jennifer’s geeky bestie Needy (Amanda Seyfried) is dead set on exorcising the demon possessing her pal. The film was a box office dud and mostly derided by critics, but in 2025 those things just demonstrate that it was ahead of its time. Critical reassessments of the film have led to it being held in much higher regard today and hailed as a feminist masterpiece. Who knew?
John Wick
It’s been more than a decade since Keanu Reeves introduced audiences to one of cinema’s most enigmatic vigilantes: John Wick, a very talented hit man who is forced out of retirement after a couple of low-level Russian gangsters decide to steal his beloved 1969 Mustang and kill his puppy Daisy in the process. What the men fail to realize is that John isn’t just your average mark. The film has since spawned three sequels, a prequel TV series (The Continental), and the recent spinoff film Ballerina, starring Ana de Armas. A fifth film is on the way.
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