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The Best Thriller Movies on Hulu Right Now (October 2026)

By Matt Oakes · October 26, 2026

Hulu’s thriller lineup leans on festival darlings and international breakouts, which makes it one of the more adventurous shelves in streaming. These are the ones worth your time, led by Sirât, Ex Machina, and The Counselor, each a film I’ve reviewed or ranked among the best of its year.

Every pick links to where it’s streaming, 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.

SIRÂT (2025)

A father and son search for their missing daughter at desert raves in southern Morocco, falling in with a band of drifters headed deeper into the wasteland. Oliver Laxe’s hypnotic, pulse-pounding road movie builds to shocks you won’t see coming.▶ Streaming on Hulu

EX MACHINA (2015)

92%Critics 86%Audience 7.7IMDb

Living in a time when tech and humanity cycle increasingly closer to one another in the Rolodex of life, Ex Machina, from each and every angle, pummels you with the idea of what is to come. Alex Garland’s directorial debut is a chilly chamber piece, and Alicia Vikander’s Ava is one of the great screen AIs.▶ Streaming on Hulu · Read the full review

THE COUNSELOR (2013)

34%Critics 24%Audience 5.4IMDb

A lawyer (Michael Fassbender) dips a toe into a cartel drug deal and watches it go catastrophically wrong. Ridley Scott’s chilly, nihilistic thriller from Cormac McCarthy’s script is talky and divisive, but Cameron Diaz and Javier Bardem are unforgettable.▶ Streaming on Hulu · Read the full review

NIGHTMARE ALLEY (2021)

80%Critics 68%Audience 7.0IMDb

Guillermo del Toro’s lavish noir follows a carnival grifter (Bradley Cooper) who claws his way up to high-society mentalism, with Cate Blanchett’s psychiatrist waiting to outplay him. It’s gorgeous, grim, and builds to a deliciously cruel ending.▶ Streaming on Hulu · Read the full review

LAST BREATH (2025)

A saturation diver is stranded on the seabed with minutes of oxygen when a storm cuts his lifeline, and his crew (Woody Harrelson and Simu Liu) race to reach him. Based on a true story, it’s an effective exercise in sustained underwater tension.▶ Streaming on Hulu · Read the full review

MISSING (2023)

When her mother vanishes on vacation in Colombia, a tech-savvy teenager (Storm Reid) investigates from her laptop in Los Angeles. Told entirely through screens, it uses the gimmick effectively for a taut, twisty family thriller.▶ Streaming on Hulu · Read the full review

IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT (2025)

An Iranian mechanic becomes convinced the man who just walked into his shop is the guard who tortured him in prison, so he kidnaps him to be sure. Jafar Panahi’s Palme d’Or winner is a tense, darkly funny moral thriller about vengeance and certainty.▶ Streaming on Hulu

BREAKING (2022)

John Boyega gives a towering performance as Brian Brown-Easley, a Marine veteran who walked into an Atlanta bank with a bomb threat after the VA cut him off. Abi Damaris Corbin’s true-story thriller is tense, compassionate, and devastating.▶ Streaming on Hulu