Best Movies on HBO Max – April 2026

Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined.

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• HBO Max
• Cinemax

Director

Jordan Peele

Starring

Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Catherine Keener

The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.

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• HBO Max

Director

Barry Jenkins

Starring

Trevante Rhodes, André Holland, Janelle Monáe

In 1630, a farmer relocates his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of a forest where strange, unsettling things happen. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, each family member's faith, loyalty and love are tested in shocking ways.

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• HBO Max

Director

Robert Eggers

Starring

Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie

Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.

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• HBO Max
• Cinemax

Director

Robert Eggers

Starring

Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, Valeriia Karaman

When her mother disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuck thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, June creatively uses all the latest technology at her fingertips to try and find her before it’s too late. But as she digs deeper, her digital sleuthing raises more questions than answers... and when June unravels secrets about her mom, she discovers that she never really knew her at all.

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• Hulu
• Cinemax
• YouTube TV
• Fubo

Director

Will Merrick

Starring

Storm Reid, Joaquim de Almeida, Ken Leung

Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.

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• HBO Max

Director

Christopher Nolan

Starring

Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ken Watanabe

Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence-a commodity capable of unlocking humanity's greatest potential-only those who can conquer their fear will survive.

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• YouTube TV

Director

Denis Villeneuve

Starring

Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac

When a lively young family moves in next door, grumpy widower Otto Anderson meets his match in a quick-witted, pregnant woman named Marisol, leading to an unlikely friendship that turns his world upside down.

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• HBO Max
• Hulu
• Cinemax
• YouTube TV
• Fubo

Director

Marc Forster

Starring

Tom Hanks, Mariana Treviño, Cameron Britton

Following their explosive showdown, Godzilla and Kong must reunite against a colossal undiscovered threat hidden within our world, challenging their very existence – and our own.

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• Hulu
• Cinemax
• YouTube TV

Director

Adam Wingard

Starring

Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, Dan Stevens

Caleb, a coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.

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• Netflix
• HBO Max

Director

Alex Garland

Starring

Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander, Oscar Isaac

A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family.

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• HBO Max

Director

Hayao Miyazaki

Starring

Rumi Hiiragi, Miyu Irino, Mari Natsuki