Best Movies on HBO Max – September 2026

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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Director

Hayao Miyazaki

Starring

Rumi Hiiragi, Miyu Irino, Mari Natsuki

A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.

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• Cinemax

Director

John Huston

Starring

Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George

After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters the Spider Society, a team of Spider-People charged with protecting the Multiverse's very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must set out on his own to save those he loves most.

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• Disney+
• Fubo
• FXNow

Director

Justin K. Thompson

Starring

Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Brian Tyree Henry

A disturbed, aging Southern belle moves in with her sister for solace — but being face-to-face with her brutish brother-in-law accelerates her downward spiral.

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Director

Elia Kazan

Starring

Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter

A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's farm in West Texas.

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Director

David Mackenzie

Starring

Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine, Ben Foster

A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.

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• Starz

Director

John Carney

Starring

Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Lucy Boynton, Jack Reynor

Tensions run high when a crazed bomber rigs a Los Angeles bus with a device that will kill everyone on board if the vehicle's speed dips below fifty miles per hour.

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• Netflix
• HBO Max
• YouTube TV
• Fubo
• FXNow
• USA Network

Director

Jan de Bont

Starring

Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock

Withdrawn and sensitive teenager Carrie White faces bullying from her classmates and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers, things take a dark and violent turn.

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• Prime Video
• MGM+
• Criterion Channel
• Cinemax

Director

Brian De Palma

Starring

Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.

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• Cinemax

Director

Stanley Kubrick

Starring

Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio

An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.

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Director

Denis Villeneuve

Starring

Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro, Josh Brolin

When an innovative modern architect flees post-war Europe, he is given the opportunity to rebuild his legacy. Set during the dawn of the modern United States (in Pennsylvania), his wife joins him, and their lives are forever changed by a demanding, wealthy patron.

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Director

Brady Corbet

Starring

Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce

After learning that a boy their age has been accidentally killed near their rural homes, four boys decide to go see the body. Gordie, Vern, Chris, and Teddy encounter a mean junk man and a marsh full of leeches, but they also learn more about one another and their very different home lives. Just a lark at first, the boys' adventure evolves into a defining event in their lives.

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• Cinemax

Director

Rob Reiner

Starring

Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman

Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro harbor – leaving few survivors. Verbal lures his interrogators with an incredible story of the crime lord's almost supernatural prowess.

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• Prime Video
• Cinemax

Director

Bryan Singer

Starring

Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio del Toro

Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions collide.

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• Hulu

Director

Ti West

Starring

Mia Goth, David Corenswet, Tandi Wright

When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and that his father's $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives. Motivated by his father's money, Charlie checks Raymond out of the facility in order to return with him to Los Angeles. The brothers' cross-country trip ends up changing both their lives.

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• Prime Video
• Cinemax

Director

Barry Levinson

Starring

Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino

Meet Joel Goodson, an industrious, college-bound 17-year-old and a responsible, trustworthy son. However, when his parents go away and leave him home alone in the wealthy Chicago suburbs with the Porsche at his disposal he quickly decides he has been good for too long and it is time to enjoy himself. After an unfortunate incident with the Porsche Joel must raise some cash, in a risky way.

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• Paramount+
• Cinemax

Director

Paul Brickman

Starring

Tom Cruise, Rebecca De Mornay, Joe Pantoliano

In town for a job interview, a young woman arrives at her Airbnb late at night only to find that it has been mistakenly double-booked and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better judgement, she decides to stay the night anyway.

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• Fubo

Director

Zach Cregger

Starring

Georgina Campbell, Justin Long, Bill Skarsgård

Five friends set out for a weekend at a remote cabin in the woods, expecting nothing more than fun and relaxation. As night falls, they discover that something far more unsettling is at work and that nothing about their getaway is what it seems.

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Director

Drew Goddard

Starring

Kristen Connolly, Fran Kranz, Chris Hemsworth

In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast find themselves fighting for their lives.

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• Hulu

Director

Ti West

Starring

Mia Goth, Jenna Ortega, Brittany Snow

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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Director

Robert Eggers

Starring

Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, Valeriia Karaman

Following the death of the Leigh family matriarch, Annie and her children uncover disturbing secrets about their heritage. Their daily lives are not only impacted, but they also become entangled in a chilling fate from which they cannot escape, driving them to the brink of madness.

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Director

Ari Aster

Starring

Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Gabriel Byrne

In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure that'll rob him of all personal agency. In a time when conscience is a commodity, can Alex change his tune?

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• Cinemax

Director

Stanley Kubrick

Starring

Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Carl Duering

Columbus has made a habit of running from what scares him. Tallahassee doesn't have fears. If he did, he'd kick their ever-living ass. In a world overrun by zombies, these two are perfectly evolved survivors. But now, they're about to stare down the most terrifying prospect of all: each other.

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• Netflix
• HBO Max

Director

Ruben Fleischer

Starring

Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone

After an accident, acclaimed novelist Paul Sheldon is rescued by a nurse who claims to be his biggest fan. Her obsession takes a dark turn when she holds him captive in her remote Colorado home and forces him to write back to life the popular literary character he killed off.

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Director

Rob Reiner

Starring

Kathy Bates, James Caan, Richard Farnsworth

Two young missionaries are forced to prove their faith when they knock on the wrong door and are greeted by a diabolical Mr. Reed, becoming ensnared in his deadly game of cat-and-mouse.

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• Cinemax

Director

Scott Beck

Starring

Hugh Grant, Sophie Thatcher, Chloe East

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
• TBS
• TNT
• tru TV

Director

Denis Villeneuve

Starring

Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac

After receiving an exotic small animal as a Christmas gift, a young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet, which unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous creatures on a small town.

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Director

Joe Dante

Starring

Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton

In a dystopian 1970s America, fifty teenage boys take part in a deadly annual walking contest, forced to maintain a minimum pace or be executed, until only one survivor remains.

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• Starz

Director

Francis Lawrence

Starring

Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Garrett Wareing

On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy genius, an ex-boy genius, a game show host and an estranged daughter will each become part of a dazzling multiplicity of plots, but one story.

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• Cinemax

Director

Paul Thomas Anderson

Starring

Tom Cruise, Philip Baker Hall, Philip Seymour Hoffman

Wisecracking mercenary Deadpool battles the evil and powerful Cable and other bad guys to save a boy's life.

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• Disney+

Director

David Leitch

Starring

Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin, Morena Baccarin

The true story of pilot Barry Seal, who transported contraband for the CIA and the Medellin cartel in the 1980s.

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• Cinemax

Director

Doug Liman

Starring

Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson, Sarah Wright

A newly dead New England couple seeks help from a deranged demon exorcist to scare an affluent New York family out of their home.

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Director

Tim Burton

Starring

Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Winona Ryder

Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son, but this will soon be put to test when a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge.

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Director

Trey Edward Shults

Starring

Joel Edgerton, Christopher Abbott, Carmen Ejogo

Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.

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Director

Ari Aster

Starring

Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper

Vlogger Keith Gill sinks his life savings into GameStop stock and posts about it. When social media starts blowing up, so do his life and the lives of everyone following him. As a stock tip becomes a movement, everyone gets rich—until the billionaires fight back, and both sides find their worlds turned upside down.

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• Hulu
• YouTube TV
• Fubo

Director

Craig Gillespie

Starring

Paul Dano, Shailene Woodley, America Ferrera

In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.

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Director

Alejandro G. Iñárritu

Starring

Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson

When three parents discover that each of their daughters have a pact to lose their virginity at prom, they launch a covert one-night operation to stop the teens from sealing the deal.

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Director

Kay Cannon

Starring

Leslie Mann, John Cena, Ike Barinholtz

After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.

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Director

Stanley Kubrick

Starring

Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack

An ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control legislation.

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• Cinemax

Director

John Madden

Starring

Jessica Chastain, Mark Strong, Gugu Mbatha-Raw

An imaginative elephant named Horton hears a faint cry for help coming from a tiny speck of dust floating through the air. Horton suspects there may be life on that speck and despite a surrounding community, who thinks he has lost his mind, he is determined to save the tiny particle.

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• Cinemax

Director

Steve Martino

Starring

Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, Carol Burnett

An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.

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• Prime Video
• Cinemax

Director

David Leitch

Starring

Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, Eddie Marsan

Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the more sinister side of his company. Then, two Associates are murdered. The FBI contact him, asking him for information and suddenly his life is ruined. He has a choice - work with the FBI, or stay with the Firm. Either way he will lose his life as he knows it. Mitch figures the only way out is to follow his own plan...

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• Paramount+
• MGM+
• Cinemax
• Fubo

Director

Sydney Pollack

Starring

Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gene Hackman

Robert McCall finds himself at home in Southern Italy but he discovers his friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do: become his friends' protector by taking on the mafia.

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• Hulu
• YouTube TV
• Fubo
• FXNow

Director

Antoine Fuqua

Starring

Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Eugenio Mastrandrea

An unassuming substitute sheriff with a troubled past responds to a bank robbery in a small, sleepy town and unknowingly uncovers something far more explosive.

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Director

Ben Wheatley

Starring

Bob Odenkirk, Henry Winkler, Lena Headey

In this contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues and Capulets have moved their ongoing feud to the sweltering suburb of Verona Beach, where Romeo and Juliet fall in love and secretly wed. Though the film is visually modern, the bard's dialogue remains.

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• Hulu
• Cinemax

Director

Baz Luhrmann

Starring

Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, Jesse Bradford

Fashionable sorority queen Elle Woods has it all, but, she wants nothing more than to be Mrs. Warner Huntington III. But he dumps her before heading to Harvard Law School. Elle rallies all of her resources and gets into Harvard, determined to win him back. While there, she figures out that there is more to herself than just good looks.

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• Prime Video
• MGM+

Director

Robert Luketic

Starring

Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, Selma Blair

An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France. Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.

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Director

Tom Hooper

Starring

Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried

Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton, who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family's sprawling estate, for a summer never to be forgotten.

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• Prime Video
• Hulu

Director

Emerald Fennell

Starring

Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike

The ultimate wish-fulfillment tale of a teenage Gran Turismo player whose gaming skills won him a series of Nissan competitions to become an actual professional racecar driver.

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• Hulu
• YouTube TV
• Fubo

Director

Neill Blomkamp

Starring

Archie Madekwe, David Harbour, Orlando Bloom

When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.

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Director

Michael Philippou

Starring

Sophie Wilde, Alexandra Jensen, Joe Bird