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Best Movies on HBO Max – April 2026
The best movies on HBO Max right now, ranked by critic and audience scores. Updated for April 2026.
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1. Get Out (2017)
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.
7.8
98%
Streaming on: HBO Max, HBO Max Amazon Channel, Cinemax Amazon Channel, Cinemax Apple TV Channel
Starring: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Catherine Keener
Directed by: Jordan Peele
2. Moonlight (2016)
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.
7.498%
Streaming on: HBO Max
Starring: Trevante Rhodes, André Holland, Janelle Monáe
Directed by: Barry Jenkins
3. The Witch (2016)
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.
7.091%
Streaming on: HBO Max, HBO Max Amazon Channel
Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie
Directed by: Robert Eggers
4. The Lighthouse (2019)
Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
7.490%
Streaming on: HBO Max, HBO Max Amazon Channel, Cinemax Amazon Channel, Cinemax Apple TV Channel
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, Valeriia Karaman
Directed by: Robert Eggers
5. Missing (2023)
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.
7.189%
Streaming on: Hulu, fuboTV, HBO Max Amazon Channel, YouTube TV, Cinemax Amazon Channel, Cinemax Apple TV Channel
Starring: Storm Reid, Joaquim de Almeida, Ken Leung
Directed by: Will Merrick
6. Inception (2010)
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.
8.887%
Streaming on: HBO Max, HBO Max Amazon Channel
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ken Watanabe
Directed by: Christopher Nolan
7. Dune (2021)
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.
8.083%
Streaming on: HBO Max, HBO Max Amazon Channel, YouTube TV
Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac
Directed by: Denis Villeneuve
8. A Man Called Otto (2022)
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.
7.570%
Streaming on: Hulu, fuboTV, HBO Max, HBO Max Amazon Channel, YouTube TV, Cinemax Amazon Channel, Cinemax Apple TV Channel
Starring: Tom Hanks, Mariana Treviño, Cameron Britton
Directed by: Marc Forster
9. Godzilla x Kong The New Empire (2024)
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.
6.054%
Streaming on: Hulu, HBO Max, HBO Max Amazon Channel, YouTube TV, Cinemax Amazon Channel, Cinemax Apple TV Channel
Starring: Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, Dan Stevens
Directed by: Adam Wingard
10. Ex Machina (2015)
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.
7.1N/A
Streaming on: Netflix, HBO Max, HBO Max Amazon Channel, Netflix Standard with Ads
Starring: Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander, Oscar Isaac
Directed by: Alex Garland
11. Spirited Away (2001)
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.
N/AN/A
Streaming on: HBO Max, HBO Max Amazon Channel
Starring: Rumi Hiiragi, Miyu Irino, Mari Natsuki
Directed by: Hayao Miyazaki