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The Best Free Movies on Fandango at Home Right Now (October 2026)

By Matt Oakes · October 26, 2026

Fandango at Home, formerly Vudu, has a free, ad-supported section most people don’t know exists, and it’s stacked. These are the ones worth your time, led by Pleasure, Hereditary, and Midsommar, each a film I’ve reviewed or ranked among the best of its year.

Every pick links straight to where it’s streaming free, and the list gets refreshed as titles come and go.

Critics and Audience scores from Rotten Tomatoes; ratings from IMDb. Scores as of October 2026.

PLEASURE (2021)

A young Swede (Sofia Kappel) moves to Los Angeles determined to become the next big adult film star and discovers the cost of climbing the industry’s ladder. Ninja Thyberg’s bold, unflinching debut is an eye-opening study of ambition, power, and consent.▶ Streaming free on Fandango at Home · Read the full review

HEREDITARY (2018)

90%Critics 72%Audience 7.3IMDb

The death of a controlling matriarch sparks the implosion of a family unit in this horrifying study of grief amidst supernatural angst. Toni Collette was robbed. Heads should roll. Ari Aster’s debut is a grief-soaked nightmare, and Toni Collette’s ferocious performance is one of the great horror turns of all time.▶ Streaming free on Fandango at Home · Read the full review

MIDSOMMAR (2019)

83%Critics 63%Audience 7.1IMDb

Ari Aster returns with this sun-drenched nightmare epic about a dysfunctional couple who become entangled with a sunny Swedish murder-cult. Florence Pugh is terrific in the lead role. Florence Pugh is devastating as a grieving woman whose relationship falls apart at a sunlit Swedish festival that gets darker by the day.▶ Streaming free on Fandango at Home · See it in my Top Ten of 2019

IN FABRIC (2018)

A haunted red dress goes on a killing streak during the holiday sales season in Peter Strickland’s bizarrely captivating haunter which calls back to giallo classics. Peter Strickland’s surreal satire about a cursed red dress and a sinister department store is as funny as it is unnerving.▶ Streaming free on Fandango at Home · See it in my Top Ten of 2019

THE GUILTY (2018)

A suspended Danish cop working an emergency dispatch desk takes a call from a kidnapped woman and tries to save her using only a phone. Gustav Möller’s single-room thriller is a masterclass in tension, built entirely on sound and Jakob Cedergren’s face.▶ Streaming free on Fandango at Home

TALK TO ME (2023)

Teens pass around an embalmed hand that lets a spirit ride you for ninety seconds, and film each other doing it. Shakes itself into your conscious and roots deeply. Without a doubt the horror movie of its year. Danny and Michael Philippou’s debut is a possession thriller about teens getting high on contact with the dead, and Sophie Wilde is fantastic.▶ Streaming free on Fandango at Home · From my Top Ten of 2023

UNDER THE SILVER LAKE (2018)

A slacker (Andrew Garfield) searches for a vanished neighbor across Los Angeles and tumbles into a conspiracy of secret codes, pop songs, and buried messages. David Robert Mitchell’s sprawling neo-noir is weird, divisive, and endlessly fascinating.▶ Streaming free on Fandango at Home

COME TO DADDY (2019)

Elijah Wood flies to a remote coastal house to reconnect with the father who abandoned him, and things go sideways in the most deranged way possible. Ant Timpson’s pitch-black comedy swings from awkward to gruesome without warning, which is exactly the fun of it.▶ Streaming free on Fandango at Home

THE HOLDOVERS (2023)

97%Critics 92%Audience 7.9IMDb

A testament to the simple power of an outstanding script, strong direction, and standout performances, ‘The Holdover’’s is a delightfully bittersweet return to form for Alexander Payne. Paul Giamatti is as good as ever in one of 2023’s best films.▶ Streaming free on Fandango at Home · Read the full review

SWISS ARMY MAN (2016)

73%Critics 72%Audience 6.9IMDb

One of the most bizarre and bizarrely beautiful films to grace the Sundance Dramatic Competition, Swiss Army Man is not a film to be puzzled out in one go but that’s ok. It’s mightily entertaining, features two standout performances and has enough raw originality coursing through its veins to make it truly stand in a league of its own.▶ Streaming free on Fandango at Home · Read the full review

DON’T BREATHE (2016)

88%Critics 79%Audience 7.1IMDb

CONCLUSION: Riveting, horrifying and unwaveringly f*cked up, Don’t Breathe is one of the most breathless, relentlessly intense horror movies to ever open in the American territories. Not unlike ‘Martyrs’ or ‘Inside’, Fede Alvarez’s disturbing triumph of high-pitched tension and fanatical bad taste is as much an absolute must for hardcore horror fans as it is sure to horrify any and every mother on planet Earth.▶ Streaming free on Fandango at Home · Read the full review

THE DEATH OF DICK LONG (2019)

Two small-town Alabama dopes try to cover up the embarrassing circumstances of their friend’s death after a night of partying goes very wrong. Daniel Scheinert’s pitch-black comedy is shaggy, squirm-inducing, and far more humane than its premise suggests.▶ Streaming free on Fandango at Home

ONLY GOD FORGIVES (2013)

41%Critics 37%Audience 5.7IMDb

Even when the film is as subtle as a neon sign, it’s as sharp as a wakizashi, making Only God Forgives a 21st century creation myth at its most boldly esoteric. Cliff Martinez’s pulsing score and Larry Smith’s lurid cinematography make it a sensory experience as much as a story.▶ Streaming free on Fandango at Home · Read the full review

WHAT MAISIE KNEW (2013)

86%Critics 80%Audience 7.4IMDb

What Maisie Knew is an emotional powerhouse of a film led by an adorably funny-faced young actress functioning on a purely natural level, allowing the “performance” underneath to disappear entirely. Onata Aprile is remarkable as a little girl caught between her self-absorbed parents, played by Julianne Moore and Steve Coogan, in a quietly devastating custody drama.▶ Streaming free on Fandango at Home · Read the full review

STARRY EYES (2014)

75%Critics 56%Audience 6.0IMDb

Low-budge indie horror tracks the disintegration of a wanna-be Hollywood starlet, complete with a Kafka-esque transformation that’ll have even the hardest of horror fans squirming. Alex Essoe gives a fearless performance as an aspiring actress who will do anything for a role, in a nasty satire of Hollywood ambition.▶ Streaming free on Fandango at Home · Read the full review

THE ART OF SELF-DEFENSE (2019)

A timid accountant (Jesse Eisenberg) joins a karate dojo after a mugging and falls under the spell of its menacing sensei (Alessandro Nivola). Riley Stearns’ deadpan satire of toxic masculinity is hilarious, unsettling, and bone-dry.▶ Streaming free on Fandango at Home

AFTER YANG (2022)

When the android companion (Justin H. Min) to a family’s adopted daughter breaks down, her father (Colin Farrell) digs through its memories and discovers a life he never knew. Kogonada’s gentle, gorgeous sci-fi drama is a quiet meditation on grief and connection.▶ Streaming free on Fandango at Home

THELMA (2017)

A shy young woman (Eili Harboe) leaves her religious Norwegian family for university and develops terrifying, uncontrollable powers as she falls for a classmate. Joachim Trier’s elegant supernatural thriller is a chilly, gorgeous coming-of-age story.▶ Streaming free on Fandango at Home

THE ASSESSMENT (2025)

A couple (Elizabeth Olsen and Himesh Patel) in a climate-ravaged future must pass a seven-day evaluation to earn the right to have a child, administered by an increasingly unhinged assessor (Alicia Vikander). Fleur Fortuné’s sci-fi chamber piece is chilly, provocative, and anchored by a fearless Vikander.▶ Streaming free on Fandango at Home

UNDER THE SKIN (2014)

84%Critics 55%Audience 6.3IMDb

Scarlett Johansson plays an alien prowling Scotland for men to consume, and Jonathan Glazer shoots it like a waking nightmare. Under the Skin is engaging, seductive, and totally f*cked in the head. Mica Levi’s eerie score is half the experience.▶ Streaming free on Fandango at Home · Read the full review

PEARL (2022)

93%Critics 83%Audience 7.0IMDb

An electrifying improvement over ‘X’, Ti West’s Technicolor slasher is a darkly funny thirst trap; a gory origin story that sees Mia Goth give an absolute scene-stealing performance as the titular Pearl. Mia Goth co-wrote the film with Ti West, and her unbroken monologue and that end-credits smile are the stuff of horror legend.▶ Streaming free on Fandango at Home · Read the full review

ENEMY (2014)

74%Critics 64%Audience 6.8IMDb

Jake Gyllenhaal plays a history professor who spots his exact double in a movie and becomes obsessed with meeting him. Denis Villeneuve’s queasy, sepia-toned puzzle box is seductive and deeply strange, and its final shot is one of the great WTF endings.▶ Streaming free on Fandango at Home · Read the full review

BLUE RUIN (2014)

96%Critics 79%Audience 7.1IMDb

A homeless drifter learns the man who killed his parents is getting out of prison and sets out for revenge, very badly. Jeremy Saulnier’s lean, brutal thriller is all tension and no glamour, and Macon Blair is unforgettable as the world’s least capable avenger.▶ Streaming free on Fandango at Home · Read the full review

CLIMAX (2018)

68%Critics 65%Audience 6.9IMDb

A purified blast of masterfully refined schlock, Climax is a depraved and largely unpleasant experience that boasts technical genius, a roaring soundtrack and wholly authentic performances. It’s at once impossible to recommend and one of the most disturbing, effective pieces of filmmaking I’ve seen.▶ Streaming free on Fandango at Home · Read the full review

DINNER IN AMERICA (2022)

91%Critics 90%Audience 7.5IMDb

Dinner in America is a rough-around-the-edges ode to love on the fringes of society, where a criminal punk rocker and a bizarre loner court an unlikely flirtation, all while navigating the suburbs, musical aspirations and the law. Expect a brash curb-stomp of a coming-of-age saga and prepare for impact.▶ Streaming free on Fandango at Home · Read the full review

BLACKFISH (2013)

98%Critics 90%Audience 8.1IMDb

The story of Tilikum, the orca behind multiple deaths at SeaWorld, and the industry that kept him captive. Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s documentary is infuriating and heartbreaking, and it changed how a lot of people think about marine parks.▶ Streaming free on Fandango at Home · Read the full review

MASS (2021)

Two sets of parents meet in a church back room years after a school shooting, one couple’s son the victim and the other’s the perpetrator. Fran Kranz’s devastating chamber drama is a showcase for four extraordinary performances, Martha Plimpton and Ann Dowd especially.▶ Streaming free on Fandango at Home · Read the full review

THE SISTERS BROTHERS (2018)

87%Critics 69%Audience 6.9IMDb

The Sisters Brothers subverts every waking expectation one has for the Western genre, currying favor with rich, strange performances and a bold penchant for charging down the dirtroad less traveled. Poetic, eccentric, and surprisingly heartrending at times, consider this one from Jacques Audiard a flashbang must-see.▶ Streaming free on Fandango at Home · Read the full review

KUMIKO, THE TREASURE HUNTER (2014)

A lonely Tokyo office worker (Rinko Kikuchi) becomes convinced the money buried in Fargo is real and sets off for snowy Minnesota to find it. The Zellner brothers’ melancholy fable is strange, sad, and beautifully observed.▶ Streaming free on Fandango at Home · Read the full review

SHORT TERM 12 (2013)

Brie Larson plays a supervisor at a foster care facility for at-risk teens, balancing their crises with her own buried pain. Destin Daniel Cretton’s breakout is a raw, tender, and deeply moving drama, with early turns from Lakeith Stanfield and Rami Malek.▶ Streaming free on Fandango at Home · Read the full review