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The Best Free Movies Streaming Right Now, Service by Service

By Matt Oakes · October 26, 2026

You don’t need another subscription to watch something great. I pulled the four best picks from each of my free-streaming guides, service by service, every one a film I’ve reviewed or ranked, and all of them free with ads or a library card.

Each section links to that service’s full guide, where the rest of the lineup lives.

Jump to: Tubi · Kanopy · Plex · YouTube · Pluto TV · Hoopla · Fandango at Home

The Best Free Movies on Tubi

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

WILD TALES (2014)

94%Critics 92%Audience 8.1IMDb

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Szifrón’s smokin’ opus is batshit in all the right ways: it’s ironic, smart, blisteringly funny and downright brutal. It’s a concoction of true madness and borderline genius, shaken up and exploding onto the screen in gory, imaginative splashes.▶ Watch on Tubi · Read the full review

THEATER CAMP (2023)

86%Critics 90%Audience 6.9IMDb

Fueled by a script that absolutely sings and the thespian talent and improvisational ingenuity to back it up, Theater Camp is a hysterical and delightful trip to mockumentary perfection that stands as one of the best comedy films of the 2020s. More Molly Gordon in everything please.▶ Watch on Tubi · Read the full review

HONEYLAND (2019)

100%Critics 86%Audience 8.0IMDb

Honeyland masterfully employs the documentary medium to tell a sprawling story about sustainability through the lens of a traditional Macedonian beekeeper. The perfect cross section of educational entertainment and storytelling prowess, the Sundance award winner is nectar for the soul that buzzes with poignancy.▶ Watch on Tubi · 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.▶ Watch on Tubi · Read the full review

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The Best Free Movies on Kanopy

PRIDE (2014)

93%Critics 89%Audience 7.8IMDb

In 1984, a group of London gay and lesbian activists set out to support striking Welsh miners. Matthew Warchus’ true story is funny, rousing, and deeply moving, and its ensemble is a joy from top to bottom. Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton, and Ben Schnetzer lead an ensemble that will have you cheering by the end.▶ Watch on Kanopy · Read the full review

INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (2013)

92%Critics 74%Audience 7.4IMDb

Inside Llewyn Davis is a mood piece if there ever was any, rich with soulful folk ballads, colorful characters, and stripped of the usual framework that we call a story. Oscar Isaac’s breakthrough performance anchors the Coen brothers’ melancholy portrait of the 1961 Greenwich Village folk scene, cat and all.▶ Watch on Kanopy · 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.▶ Watch on Kanopy · Read the full review

ANORA (2024)

93%Critics 84%Audience 7.4IMDb

Mikey Madison rules the screen as a Brooklyn stripper who falls for the wealthy son of a Russian oligarch and the fallout their entanglement entails in the truly alive Anora. As their story unfolds, writer-director Sean Baker puts the romantic-comedy through a fun house mirror, where the promises of love and wealth distort into vapor and illusions, unraveling as the well-drawn characters confront the tricks they’ve played on themselves.▶ Watch on Kanopy · Read the full review

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The Best Free Movies on Plex

ALL IS LOST (2013)

95%Critics 64%Audience 6.9IMDb

Robert Redford, alone on a sinking yacht in the Indian Ocean, with almost no dialogue and no one coming to help. J.C. Chandor’s survival drama is pure, gripping cinema, and Redford gives one of the best performances of his career without saying a word.▶ Streaming free on Plex · Read the full review

BOYHOOD (2014)

97%Critics 80%Audience 7.9IMDb

Richard Linklater filmed the same cast for twelve years to capture a boy growing from first grade to college. The result is a quiet, monumental achievement, and Patricia Arquette is extraordinary as the mother holding everything together.▶ Streaming free on Plex · Read the full review

ANOTHER ROUND (2020)

Four Danish teachers test a theory that humans are born with a blood alcohol deficit, and their tipsy experiment slides from liberating to devastating. Mads Mikkelsen gives one of the great performances of the 2020s, and that final dance is pure, cathartic joy.▶ Streaming free on Plex

BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99 (2017)

Vince Vaughn plays a laid-off tow truck driver turned drug courier who lands in prison and has to fight his way to its darkest wing. S. Craig Zahler’s slow-burn grindhouse is brutal, bone-crunching, and anchored by Vaughn’s terrifying, career-redefining turn.▶ Streaming free on Plex

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The Best Free Movies on YouTube

THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO (2019)

Jimmie Fails plays a version of himself, determined to reclaim the Victorian house his grandfather built in a rapidly gentrifying San Francisco. Joe Talbot’s gorgeous, aching debut is a love letter to a city and the people it leaves behind.▶ Streaming free on YouTube · 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 YouTube · Read the full review

A GHOST STORY (2017)

A recently deceased man (Casey Affleck) haunts the house he shared with his partner (Rooney Mara), draped in a simple white sheet as time slips past him. David Lowery’s meditative, melancholy experiment is unlike any ghost story you’ve seen, and that pie scene is unforgettable.▶ Streaming free on YouTube

THE END OF THE TOUR (2015)

92%Critics 82%Audience 7.2IMDb

Both life-affirming, deeply-affecting and willing to play a dangerous game of bringing you to the brink of tears, The End of the Tour is essential watching, a lovely, beautiful tragedy that will shake you to the bone. Jason Segel is revelatory as David Foster Wallace opposite Jesse Eisenberg’s Rolling Stone reporter in James Ponsoldt’s talky, tender road movie.▶ Streaming free on YouTube · Read the full review

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The Best Free Movies on Pluto TV

THE OVERNIGHT (2015)

A couple new to Los Angeles accept a playdate invitation from a charismatic local family, and the evening gets progressively stranger and more intimate. Patrick Brice’s raunchy, awkward comedy is very funny and surprisingly sweet, with Jason Schwartzman at his most unhinged.▶ Streaming free on Pluto TV · Read the full review

10 CLOVERFIELD LANE (2016)

91%Critics 79%Audience 7.2IMDb

Bizarre by traditional sequel standards, ’10 Cloverfield Lane is nonetheless an immaculate work of genre craftsmanship, a bustling coup de grace of wit, intensity and phenomenal performances with John Goodman perhaps giving the best of his already standout career. A real “bucket” of winning.▶ Streaming free on Pluto TV · 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 Pluto TV · 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 Pluto TV · Read the full review

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The Best Free Movies on Hoopla

THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (2013)

79%Critics 83%Audience 8.2IMDb

Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jordan Belfort cons his way into a fortune and a mountain of drugs in the 1990s. Martin Scorsese’s three-hour bacchanal is a riotous, damning comedy, and DiCaprio’s Quaalude crawl is an all-timer. Jonah Hill and Margot Robbie both shine in an ensemble working at full tilt.▶ Streaming free on Hoopla · 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 Hoopla · See it in my Top Ten of 2019

SPEAK NO EVIL (2022)

83%Critics 60%Audience 6.7IMDb

A Danish family accepts a weekend invitation from the Dutch couple they met on holiday and won’t leave no matter how bad it gets. Every instinctual alarm goes off and nobody listens. They play into societal expectation, and then they are exploited. A vicious film. ▶ Streaming free on Hoopla · Read the full review

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 Hoopla

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The Best Free Movies on Fandango at Home

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

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