Best Movies on Hulu Right Now (April 2026)

Hulu is hiding some serious gems right now. Between a handful of 2025 Oscar winners, a crop of acclaimed new releases, and a wave of beloved classics that landed April 1st, the streaming library is genuinely stacked heading into spring 2026. Whether you want something that will make you cry, something that will keep you up at night, or something you can throw on with anyone at any age — it is all here. We sorted through the full catalog and pulled out the 18 best movies on Hulu right now, covering everything from Park Chan-wook’s wickedly funny new thriller to a Best Picture Oscar winner to the original Shrek. Bookmark this list and work through it. You will not be disappointed.

The 18 Best Movies on Hulu Right Now (April 2026)

1. Anora (2024)

Genre: Romantic Comedy / Drama  |  RT Score: 96% Certified Fresh

A Brooklyn sex worker impulsively marries the son of a Russian oligarch — and then everything falls apart in the most chaotic, hilarious, and heartbreaking way imaginable. Sean Baker’s wild Cinderella-gone-wrong fairy tale swept the 2025 Oscars with five wins including Best Picture and Best Actress for Mikey Madison, whose star-making performance is genuinely one for the books. It is also sharp, funny, and propulsive in a way that makes the runtime feel half as long as it is. One of the best films of the decade, available on Hulu right now.

2. Sentimental Value (2025)

Genre: Drama  |  RT Score: 97% Certified Fresh

Director Joachim Trier (The Worst Person in the World) reunites with Renate Reinsve for this gorgeous, emotionally devastating story of two sisters reconnecting with their estranged father, played by Stellan Skarsgard. It won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film — the first Norwegian film ever to take that prize — and the ensemble acting is the best you will see all year. The kind of grown-up character drama that Hollywood rarely makes anymore. Streaming on Hulu since March 23, 2026.

3. No Other Choice (2025)

Genre: Dark Comedy / Thriller  |  RT Score: 97% Certified Fresh

Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, The Handmaiden) is back, and he is making you laugh while making you deeply uncomfortable — which is exactly his superpower. Lee Byung-hun plays a laid-off corporate worker who decides the fastest path to a new job is eliminating the competition. Literally. Wickedly funny, slick as hell, and endlessly surprising, it picked up three Golden Globe nominations and the top prize at the Venice Film Festival. Arrives on Hulu April 24, 2026.

4. The Secret Agent (2025)

Genre: Political Thriller / Drama  |  RT Score: 98% Certified Fresh

Brazilian director Kleber Mendonca Filho delivers one of the most tense and stylish political thrillers in years. Wagner Moura plays a former professor trying to flee Brazil’s brutal military dictatorship, and the film crackles with paranoia and moral urgency from its opening scene. It swept the 2025 Cannes Film Festival — Best Director, Best Actor, and the FIPRESCI Prize — and the critical reception has been rapturous. One of the year’s great discoveries, now on Hulu.

5. Sirat (2025)

Genre: Thriller / Drama  |  RT Score: 91% Certified Fresh

Oliver Laxe’s sand-scorched thriller is unlike anything else you will watch this year. A desperate father wanders the Moroccan desert with his son and a group of ravers, searching for his missing daughter — and the tension never lets up. Part Mad Max, part art-house meditation on grief, it builds to a gut-punch finale. It won the Jury Prize at Cannes 2025 and was nominated for Best International Feature Film at the Oscars. Landed on Hulu on April 6, 2026.

6. No One Will Save You (2023)

Genre: Sci-Fi Horror / Thriller  |  RT Score: 83% Certified Fresh

One of Hulu’s best originals: a nearly dialogue-free home invasion film starring Kaitlyn Dever as a lonely woman whose isolated life is shattered when extraterrestrials show up at her door. Dever carries the entire movie on her face alone — no small feat — and the tension is relentless. It premiered to major buzz at TIFF and was praised as a genuine formal experiment for studio horror. A Hulu exclusive that deserves far more attention than it got.

7. Predator: Badlands (2025)

Genre: Sci-Fi / Action  |  RT Score: 86% critics / 95% audience (see our list of best action movie trailers of all time)

The Predator franchise keeps getting better. Badlands builds on the momentum of Prey with a new hunter, new terrain, and some of the most inventive creature-feature action in years. Audiences absolutely loved it — a 95% audience score does not lie — and it grossed $184 million worldwide. It is the third-highest-rated film in the franchise’s history and a perfect big-screen-energy movie for your couch. Streaming on Hulu since February 12, 2026.

8. How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022)

Genre: Thriller / Drama  |  RT Score: 94% Certified Fresh

A taut, edge-of-your-seat heist thriller about a group of young environmental activists who plan to destroy a section of an oil pipeline — and the film treats them with full moral complexity, not easy heroism. It is a political movie that works first and foremost as a gripping thriller. Won the Special Jury Award at SXSW 2022. If you love the heist genre and want something with actual stakes, this is your film. One of the most impressive micro-budget films of recent years.

9. Fire Island (2022)

Genre: Romantic Comedy / Drama  |  RT Score: 94% Certified Fresh

Joel Kim Booster’s sharp, funny, and emotionally earnest reimagining of Pride and Prejudice — set among a group of gay friends vacationing on New York’s iconic Fire Island — is genuinely one of the best rom-coms of the decade. It is warm, witty, and gets the bones of Austen’s story exactly right while making it completely its own. Written by and starring Booster, directed by Andrew Ahn. Perfect for a movie night with anyone who loves a great love story.

10. Presence (2025)

Genre: Horror / Thriller  |  RT Score: 88% Certified Fresh

Steven Soderbergh films the entire movie from a ghost’s point of view — a formal experiment that actually works. As a family moves into a new suburban home, we watch them through unseen eyes, and the effect is genuinely unsettling. Lucy Liu leads the cast in this short, sharp thriller that plays with form in ways Hollywood rarely attempts. Under 90 minutes, Certified Fresh, and one of 2025’s more inventive genre entries. Streaming on Hulu and Disney+.

11. The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

Genre: Comedy / Drama  |  RT Score: 75% critics / 82% audience

Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly is one of the all-time great movie performances — villain, anti-hero, or something in between depending on the scene. Anne Hathaway’s fish-out-of-water arc is charming as ever, and the fashion-world satire still cuts sharp twenty years on. Streep earned an Academy Award nomination for the role. Added to Hulu on April 1st, it is the perfect warm-up for those waiting on the long-anticipated sequel hitting theaters in May 2026.

12. The Hunger Games Franchise (2012-2023)

Genre: Action / Sci-Fi / Drama

All five Hunger Games films landed on Hulu on April 14, making this the ideal moment to binge the entire saga or catch what you missed. The original starring Jennifer Lawrence is a cultural landmark. The prequel — The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes — is darker and more morally complex, with Tom Blyth delivering a revelation of a performance as a young Coriolanus Snow. With the sixth film arriving in theaters in November 2026, there has never been a better time to get caught up.

13. 21 Jump Street (2012)

Genre: Action Comedy  |  RT Score: 85% Certified Fresh

Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum’s buddy-cop chemistry is so good it is almost unfair. The film goes fully self-aware about the absurdity of its premise — older cops going undercover as high schoolers — and wrings every ounce of comedy out of it. Tatum has never been better deployed, and the film remains one of the smartest studio comedies of the 2010s. Still genuinely funny in 2026, arguably funnier now that Hollywood has so spectacularly failed to replicate it.

14. Shrek (2001)

Genre: Animated Comedy / Family  |  RT Score: 88% Certified Fresh

The one that started a cultural empire. Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, and Cameron Diaz remain a perfect comic trio, and Shrek’s subversion of fairy tale tropes still works as genuine satire even 25 years later. It won the very first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2002. Added to Hulu on April 1st — the ideal film to throw on with literally anyone, any age, any mood. If you have not watched it since childhood, you will be surprised by how well it holds up.

15. Napoleon Dynamite (2004)

Genre: Indie Comedy

One of the most endlessly quotable movies ever made, now streaming on Hulu. Jon Heder’s deadpan performance as the Idaho misfit who just wants to help his friend win class president is genuinely timeless weird comedy. The kind of film that only gets funnier when you show it to someone who has never seen it before. It arrived April 1st and has no business being as rewatchable as it is after more than two decades.

16. Neighbors (2014)

Genre: Comedy  |  RT Score: 73% critics / 75% audience

Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne vs. Zac Efron’s frat house is peak 2010s comedy — crude, riotous, and anchored by Byrne quietly stealing every scene she is in. The escalating prank war between exhausted new parents and their party-happy neighbors is timed perfectly, and the film never overstays its welcome. A comfort rewatch that holds up better than you might expect and is perfect for a low-commitment movie night.

17. Night at the Museum (2006)

Genre: Family Comedy / Adventure

Ben Stiller vs. a museum full of exhibits that come to life at night — Robin Williams as Teddy Roosevelt, Owen Wilson as a tiny cowboy, Rami Malek as an Egyptian pharaoh. It is pure crowd-pleaser energy and still a genuinely fun ride with the family. Critics underrated it in 2006 and audiences got it exactly right. The kind of movie Hulu was built for on a Sunday afternoon when you just need something everyone will enjoy.

18. Pizza Movie (2026)

Genre: Comedy / Absurdist Adventure  |  Hulu Original

A group of very stoned college students go downstairs to grab their pizza delivery and end up on a completely unexpected, mind-bending journey. This Hulu Original stars Gaten Matarazzo (Stranger Things) and is described as an absurdist comedy that fully commits to its premise and earns every laugh. It premiered April 3, 2026, and is exactly the kind of surprise that makes Hulu originals worth watching.

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