9 Best Movies on Hulu Right Now (April 2025)

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Hulu is the primary destination for many to watch TV shows, but the streamer has an impressive selection of movies as well. From modern classics like Jurassic Park and The Notebook to more recent additions like Immaculate with Sydney Sweeney, Hulu has films for casual viewers and die-hard movie fans alike. This April, Hulu’s movie lineup is bolstered by the addition of the Oscar-winning movie A Real Pain starring Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin. If scares are more your thing, then check out Longlegs or Cuckoo. All of these movies have Us Weekly’s “What to Watch” seal of approval, so you’re guaranteed a good time no matter your choice.

 ‘A Real Pain’ (2024) David (Jesse Eisenberg, who also directed the movie) and Benji (Kieran Culkin) travel to Poland to honor the last wish of their dead grandmother to take part in a Jewish heritage tour and visit her childhood home. But things don’t go according to plan as the once-close cousins realize they’ve grown too far apart to really relate to each other anymore. Can they find a way to reconnect before the tour ends and they go their separate ways back in America?

A Real Pain was one of 2024’s most critically acclaimed movies, and after watching it, you can understand why. The writing (Eisenberg wrote the excellent script) is punchy but never trite; at times, you want to slap David and Benji across the face and then give them a big hug and tell them everything will be okay. Culkin won an Oscar for his performance, and it was deserved. There’s a Benji in every family, and Culkin’s frantic energy makes him stand out in every scene he’s in.

 ‘Cuckoo’ (2024) Gretchen (Hunter Schafer) isn’t your ordinary teenager. She’s still getting over the death of her mother, and her dad’s work has taken her away from her home. Stuck in a remote resort in the Bavarian Alps, Gretchen notices some unusual things like loud shrieks at night, vomiting female guests and a hooded woman who seems to be stalking her. She begins to suspect her father’s employer, the inscrutable Herr Koning (Dan Stevens), is involved in all of this, but her efforts to prove her theory may get her killed. Cuckoo lives up to its title — it’s genuinely crazy in all the right ways. The film makes the most of its atmospheric setting, utilizing dark shadows and moments of disturbing silence to set up several well-earned jump scares. Schafer is a great addition to the Final Girl Hall of Fame, and Stevens adds another madman role to his already impressive resume of unhinged weirdos.

 ‘Anatomy of a Fall’ (2023) Sandra Voyter’s (Sandra Huller) husband is dead, and everyone suspects she did it. His gruesome fall from their two-story French chalet can’t easily be explained as an accident, and their past relationship was rocky. They fought bitterly, and even their visually impaired son Daniel (Milo Machado-Graner) isn’t so sure his mother is innocent. As Sandra stands trial for murder, can she convince a judge — and the audience — that she didn’t push her husband and let him fall to his death?

Anatomy of a Fall isn’t your traditional thriller since there are really no other suspects, and no one else is in harm’s way. But the director, Justine Triet, isn’t concerned with just generating suspense; she also wants to examine how Sandra’s once-solid marriage gradually disintegrated and why it’s not completely ridiculous to think Sandra would off her husband in such a manner. The film features superb acting from Huller and Machado-Graner, and one of the best canine performances (by Messi, who became a social media star in late 2023) in film history.

 ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ (2024) Hollywood is dominated by franchises, and most of them have been exhausted. But one that hasn’t is the Planet of the Apes series, which keeps getting better with each installment. The latest, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, is set long after Caesar (Andy Serkis) has died, and apes are now the dominant species on Earth. When his family is slaughtered by Proximus Caesar’s (Kevin Durand) henchmen, young chimpanzee Noa (Owen Teague) teams with elder orangutan Raka (Peter Macon) and human woman Mae (Freya Allan) to fight back against their ape oppressors. But can apes and humans work together and coexist peacefully? This fourth prequel to the original Planet of the Apes movie isn’t too different from its predecessors, but why mess with a formula that works? The special effects are convincingly realistic, making you believe these apes and chimps can walk, talk, fight and love. Serkis is missed, but Durand fills the villain void admirably, and Teague’s Noa is a protagonist you want to follow around for a few more movies.

 'Longlegs' (2024) In Oregon, a string of gruesome murder-suicides has left local investigations stumped. FBI agent Lee Harker (Maika Monroe) is called in to investigate and figure out why these crimes were committed. Her path eventually leads to a strange, pasty-faced serial killer named Longlegs (Nicolas Cage), who claims to work for “the man downstairs.” But what led to Longlegs’ involvement with all of the murders? And why does Lee feel personally connected to the case?

A surprise summer hit in 2024, Longlegs is a riff on The Silence of the Lambs with just a touch of deeply unsettling weirdness. Director Oz Perkins opts for atmosphere over jump scares, resulting in a movie that is filled with ominous foreboding and dread. As Longlegs, Cage is appropriately freaky and creepy, and Monroe makes for a great heroine burdened by childhood trauma who would make Jodie Foster’s Clarice Starling proud.

 ‘Eileen’ (2023) Eileen Dunlop’s (Thomasin McKenzie) life is pretty drab. She lives in Massachusetts, where the winters are long and bleak, and she works at a juvenile detention facility for teenage boys, which is about as exciting as it sounds. But one day, in walks the platinum blonde Rebecca Saint John (Anne Hathaway), and Eileen’s life is forever changed — at first for the better, and then for the worse. Eileen is an excellent thriller that’s also a compelling character study as it follows both women’s interest in a young inmate, Lee Polk (The White Lotus Season 3 star Sam Nivola), who Rebecca suspects is hiding a dark family secret. Hathaway is in full movie-star mode as the glamorous Rebecca, and McKenzie is convincing as the sexually repressed Eileen. The movie paints a vivid picture of New England life in the early 1960s, and its abrupt ending is both frustrating and appropriate.

 ‘Triangle of Sadness’ (2022) Class warfare takes place on a luxury superyacht in Triangle of Sadness, Ruben Östlund’s pitch-black social satire from 2022. Among the boat’s guests are Carl (Harris Dickinson) and Yaya (Charlbi Dean Kriek), two spoiled models/influencers who are in a relationship of convenience; Russian tycoon Dimitri (Zlatko Buric) and his wife Vera (Sunnyi Melles); and Jarmo (Henrik Dorsin), a tech billionaire with eyes for Yaya. They are served by the boat’s loyal crew, particularly maid Abigail (Dolly de Leon) and the captain (Woody Harrelson), but when a storm strikes and pirates attack, class lines blur, tables are turned and the fragile divide between the rich and the poor disappears completely. 

 ‘The Royal Hotel’ (2023) Hannah (Julia Garner) and Liv (Jessica Henwick) are two American backpackers traveling across the Australian Outback. When they run out of money, they take temporary jobs as bartenders at the Royal Hotel, a rundown pub that houses many of the local misfits. As the two women try to save enough money to leave, they find out very quickly that their new workplace isn’t as hospitable as they would like it to be. Violence inevitably erupts, and Hannah and Liv will have to fight for their lives to check out of the Royal Hotel.

 ‘Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar’ (2021) The phrase “Covid comedy” may seem like an oxymoron or, worse, an unnecessary reminder of a truly terrible time, but it accurately describes just how special and unique Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar is for some people. Released on Hulu at the height of the pandemic, it provided welcome comedic relief to many and yet another showcase of SNL vet Kirsten Wiig's out-there genius.