There’s something for movie lovers of all stripes on Hulu in January, which is one of the reasons why it’s among the top streaming destinations for films. This month, Hulu is welcoming the Uncharted feature film on January 15, and the streamer has already added The King of Comedy, Sommersby, and Straight Outta Compton to its movie library. That’s more than enough action, drama, romance, and music to get anyone through the month.
Thankfully, Hulu hasn’t simply settled for adding those movies in January. Our full rundown of everything new on Hulu has even more options. But if you’re looking for a peak cinema experience from the comfort of your own home, then this is where you can find all of the best movies on Hulu right now.
Subscribe to a different platform? Not only do we have a guide to the best shows on Hulu, but we’ve rounded up the best movies on Amazon Prime Video, the best movies on Netflix, and the best movies on Disney+.
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Uncharted (2022) new
Fans of the Uncharted video games may have done a double take when the MCU’s Spider-Man, Tom Holland, was cast as a much younger version of adventurer Nathan “Nate” Drake. The Uncharted movie is an alternate take on Nate’s origin story and how he formed a partnership with Victor “Sully” Sullivan (Mark Wahlberg), a treasure hunter who claims to have been the partner of Nate’s missing brother, Sam Drake (Rudy Pankow).
Standing in the way of Nate and Sully’s first expedition is Santiago Moncada (Antonio Banderas), a very wealthy man who hires Jo Braddock (Tati Gabrielle) and her team of mercenaries to take out anyone in their path. Nate and Sully only have Chloe Frazer (Sophia Ali) to call upon for help, but even she may be less than trustworthy.
The King of Comedy (1982) new
You may notice some intentional parallels between The King of Comedy and Joker, both of which featured Robert De Niro in leading roles. Except in Martin Scorsese’s film, De Niro is the one playing a mentally ill man, instead of a famous talk show host. Rupert Pupkin (De Niro) is absolutely convinced that he’s got what it takes to be a stand-up comedian. He’s also deluded about his “friendship” with late-night TV host Jerry Langford (Jerry Lewis).
Rupert eventually meets Marsha (Sandra Bernhard), a woman who has her own delusions about being romantic with Jerry. Together, they hatch a scheme to get everything they want. All they have to do is take Jerry hostage and hold him for ransom.
Sommersby (1993) new
Sommersby is a movie for lovers, and it’s a romantic drama that has held up for over 30 years. Jodie Foster stars as Laurel Sommersby, a woman who was apparently widowed during the Civil War, leaving her with a son, Rob (Brett Kelley), and a farm that is on the verge of going under. Then one day, John “Jack” Sommersby (Richard Gere) returns to Laurel as a changed man. Instead of an ill-tempered and abusive tyrant, Jack is now a loving husband and father.
To further illustrate Jack’s change of heart, he presents a plan to the community to share their resources and his land to pull through their economic hardship. This causes Laurel’s jilted suitor, Orin Meacham (Bill Pullman), and others in town to believe that Jack is an imposter. Even Laurel suspects that may be the truth, but she goes with her heart instead of her mind.
Straight Outta Compton (2015) new
Rock stars get biopics all of the time, but Straight Outta Compton was one of the first rap and hip-hop biographical films to cross over and become a box office hit. This movie is a dramatization of the formation of the iconic group N.W.A., with O’Shea Jackson Jr. starring as his father, Ice Cube, alongside Corey Hawkins as Dr. Dre, Jason Mitchell as Eazy-E, Neil Brown Jr. as DJ Yella, and Aldis Hodge as MC Ren.
In the mid-’80s, the group forges their own path forward and signs Jerry Heller (Paul Giamatti) to be their manager. But after finding success, fractures appear in N.W.A. and Ice Cube leaves the group to go solo. A private and public feud ensues between Ice Cube and his former friends, as everything they’ve built threatens to come crashing down.
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (2019)
If Quentin Tarantino is serious about making only one more movie, then his penultimate film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, will go down as one of his best pictures. In this alternate version of history, Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a faded Hollywood star, and his best friend and bodyguard, Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt), is a dangerous man with a murky past. Rick is desperate for a comeback, and his opportunities are drying up.
Meanwhile, Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie) is on the rise as a prominent actress, unaware that the Manson family’s violent ambitions may mean the death of her. Tarantino creates so much tension whenever the Mansons menace any of the three leads in this film that the inevitable violence is almost cathartic when it finally arrives.
EverAfter (1998)
True to its name, Ever After: A Cinderella Story is a riff on Cinderella. But there’s no Bibbidi‐Bobbidi‐Boo, talking mice, or fairy godmothers to be found here. The heroine isn’t even called Cinderella. Instead, her name is Danielle de Barbarac (Drew Barrymore), a young woman who is treated like a slave by her stepmother, Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent (Anjelica Huston), and her stepsister, Marguerite de Ghent (Megan Dodds). Danielle’s second stepsister, Jacqueline de Ghent (Melanie Lynskey), isn’t quite so wicked.
After years of servitude, Danielle comes across Prince Henry (Dougray Scott) as he attempts to flee his arranged marriage. Danielle and Henry have a definite spark, but she may need a little help from Leonardo da Vinci (Patrick Godfrey) to break free of her stepfamily and romance the prince.
The Hustler (1961)
When the classics arrive on Hulu, don’t let a little black and white scare you off. The Hustler is legitimately one of the greatest films ever made, and it’s more than worthy of a movie night six decades after its run in theaters. Paul Newman stars as Eddie Felson, a gifted pool player and con artist who lulls his marks into betting against him. But Eddie’s skills come up short against the legendary Minnesota Fats (Jackie Gleason).
Eddie is so consumed by his loss to Fats that he’ll do almost anything to get a rematch. His obsession is so powerful that it threatens to drive away Sarah Packard (Piper Laurie), the woman who loves Eddie despite his faults. Eddie also has to contend with Bert Gordon (George C. Scott), a gambler who stands between him and his goal unless Eddie cuts him in on unequal terms.
Paddington 2 (2017)
Paddington 2 is truly a film for the whole family, and that’s because Paddington Brown (Passages star Ben Whishaw) is the friendliest and the most charming talking bear who doesn’t live in the Hundred Acre Wood. It takes a real heart of stone to dislike Paddington, and in this movie, it belongs to Phoenix Buchanan (Hugh Grant), a thief who frames Paddington for the theft of a rare book.
To save the adoptive member of their family, Henry (Hugh Bonneville) and Mary Brown (Sally Hawkins) and their children strive to prove Paddington’s innocence. Meanwhile, Paddington proves to be popular even with his fellow inmates in prison. Regardless, Paddington’s desperation to be free again may lead to some rash decisions.
Quiz Lady (2023)
Quiz Lady features a unique pairing of Awkwafina and Sandra Oh as sisters Annie and Jenny Yum, respectively. When their mother flees the country to avoid a gambling debt, the struggling Jenny moves back home with her younger sister. While Annie effortlessly answers the questions as she watches a TV game show, Jenny films it and later posts it online where it goes viral.
This attracts the wrong kind of attention to Annie’s talent, as a criminal kidnaps the family dog to blackmail Annie into going on the game show in order to cover her mother’s debt and get their pet back. What Annie doesn’t realize is that Jenny also has other ulterior motives to get her sister on TV.
A Haunting in Venice (2023)
Kenneth Branagh’s Hercule Poirot is accustomed to murder mysteries, but less so to ghosts in A Haunting in Venice. Just two years after World War II, Poirot is ready to put his life as a detective in the past. However, Poirot just can’t resist the opportunity to unmask a fraud when he is invited to attend a seance held by Joyce Reynolds (Michelle Yeoh).
It doesn’t take Poirot long to figure out how Joyce pulls off her supposedly supernatural tricks. But much to Poirot’s alarm, someone soon tries to murder him before Joyce’s body is discovered. Now, Poirot has to figure out if he is dealing with a conventional murderer, or something more sinister from beyond the grave.
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)
The curse of Jumanji returns for a new generation of characters in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle. Now transformed into a video game, Jumanji entices four teenagers – Spencer Gilpin (Alex Wolff), Anthony “Fridge” Johnson (Ser’Darius Blain), Bethany Walker (Madison Iseman), and Martha Kaply (Morgan Turner) – into playing without fully understanding the consequences of their decision.
Suddenly, the group finds themselves physically transported into the game, with Spencer in the body of Dr. Xander “Smolder” Bravestone (Dwayne Johnson), Fridge as Franklin “Mouse” Finbar (Kevin Hart), Bethany as Professor Sheldon “Shelly” Oberon (Jack Black), and Martha as Ruby Roundhouse (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3‘s Karen Gillan). Each of the kids has only three lives to escape from Jumanji. But first, they have to locate the fifth player in their group.
No One Will Save You (2023)
Kaitlyn Dever stars in the Hulu original movie No One Will Save You as Brynn, a young woman who lives a solitary existence in large part because she is a pariah in her small town. That’s one of the reasons why Brynn has no one to turn to when an alien invades her home. In the aftermath, Brynn finds no support from her fellow humans, and she discovers just how alone she really is.
No One Will Save You barely has any dialogue at all, but Dever’s expressive and earnest performance carries the entire film. It also goes a long way toward making little gray men scary again, especially when Brynn meets the more horrific aliens.
Nightmare Alley (2021)
Despite its name, Nightmare Alley is not a horror story, and also one of director Guillermo del Toro’s most grounded drama to date. Bradley Cooper stars as Stanton “Stan” Carlisle, a con man who has a gift in getting people to believe that he can physically speak to their loved ones who have died.
While this skill gets him out of the carnival, it also sets Stan up for a fall when Judge Kimball (Peter MacNeill), a former skeptic who wants to speak with his dead son. Stan also appears to have met his match with Dr. Lilith Ritter (Cate Blanchett), a con artist who is even more ruthless than he is.
The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
There are few things more heartbreaking than when your best friend suddenly decides they don’t like you anymore. Writer and director Martin McDonagh explores this idea in his dark comedy The Banshees of Inisherin. Colin Farrell stars as Pádraic Súilleabháin, an ordinary man living on Inisherin, who is absolutely bewildered and hurt when his best friend, Colm Doherty (Brendan Gleeson), abruptly ends their relationship.
Pádraic assumes that he’s somehow offended Colm and bends over backwards to apologize … to no avail. Even the efforts of Pádraic’s sister, Siobhán Súilleabháin (Kerry Condon), fail to reconcile Colm and Pádraic. And soon, Colm threatens to take drastic actions if Pádraic doesn’t stop trying to speak with him.
Flamin' Hot (2023)
What do you do when there’s a true story that may not be true? As was famously said in the 1962 Western classic The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, “when the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” The story of Flamin’ Hot is truly inspirational regardless of whether these events actually played out this way in reality. The film is based on the memoir of Richard Montañez (Jesse Garcia), the man who claims that he created Flamin’ Hot Cheetos. And he didn’t do it alone.
With the support of his wife, Judy Montañez (Annie Gonzalez), and his co-worker, Clarence C. Baker (Dennis Haysbert), Richard rises from the rank of janitor and works up the nerve to pitch his Flamin’ Hot ideas to Frito-Lay executive Roger Enrico (Tony Shalhoub). From there, a snack food legend is born.
Something in the Dirt (2022)
An exciting example of the kind of narrative ingenuity that only a worldwide pandemic can foster, Something in the Dirt is the latest film from writer-director duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead (The Endless, Synchronic), and is arguably the most primitively fascinating work of these two collaborators. Shot over the course of a year with a crew of just 12, our story follows Levi and John, apartment-dwelling neighbors who decide to make a documentary about a range of supernatural events occurring in their Los Angeles residence. But as the two men discover that these kinds of extraordinary happenings are taking place all over L.A., their findings lead them to a combative exchange of theories and calculations.
The Valet (2022)
War Dogs (2016)
Ultrasound (2022)
In director Rob Schroeder’s Ultrasound, Mad Men alum Vincent Kartheiser stars as Glen, an unassuming everyman who just so happens to encounter some car trouble on a dark and stormy night. Seeking some help, he knocks on the door of a perfectly kind stranger named Arthur (Bob Stephenson), leading the former down an uncanny rabbit hole of deceit and mind control. Presenting a nail-biter of a story without diving into carnage and other typical screen grabs, Ultrasound does its best work as a quietly curious foray into a world that’s hard to pin down.
The Worst Person in the World (2021)
The Last Tourist (2021)
Hellraiser (2022)
It’s about time the world of Hellraiser received some much-needed reimagining. For years now, the franchise has seen sequel after sequel, and while Cenobite fans are always pleased to see Doug Bradley donning his Pinhead garb, the series has certainly run into its fair share of cinematic duds. But director David Bruckner has come along to get the saga on track once more. The 2022 remake stars Odessa A’zion as Riley, an on-the-mend drug addict who comes into the possession of a runic puzzle box — a mysterious device that summons an armada of hellish entities. Led by the Hell Priest (Jamie Clayton), Odessa is plunged into a fight for survival when the demonic visitors begin wreaking havoc in the real world. Bruckner’s Hellraiser reboot may not satisfy all of the saga’s diehards, but when you consider it as a gruesome yet polished homage to Clive Barker’s source novella and first batch of films, the 2022 version more than gets the job done.
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This Mountain Life (2018)
Dinner in America (2022)
Pig (2021)
Prey (2022)
Flee (2021)
Apollo 11 (2019)
Sundown (2022)
Three Identical Strangers (2018)
Fresh (2022)
Spencer (2021)
No Exit (2022)
Deep Water (2022)
In the Earth (2021)
The Obituary of Tunde Johnson (2019)
The Vigil (2020)
Wander Darkly (2020)
Another Round (2020)
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