Spring has fully sprung, but for some reason, our list of the best movies to stream on Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video, Max (HBO), and other services is in the doldrums between an electric March and the summer blockbuster season. But, as they say, the show must go on! The first update of May doesn’t have the same punch as March updates that included Oscar winners like Anora, A Complete Unknown, and Wicked, but it does have a couple of intriguing options.
May kicks off with just three new additions: Steven Soderbergh’s spy thriller, Black Bag; the post-apocalyptic musical, The End; and a sequel to Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick’s vehicle, A Simple Favor.
This week, four films land on this list, including the Nicole Kidman erotic drama Babygirl and the Netflix Original crime thriller Havoc, starring Tom Hardy and Forrest Whitaker. Read on for the best new movies to stream this week.
We also have guides to the best movies on Netflix, the best movies on Hulu, the best movies on Amazon Prime Video, the best movies on Max, and the best movies on Disney+.
Peacock
Black Bag (2025)
A sexy spy thriller in the vein of Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Black Bag stars Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett as a married pair of legendary intelligence agents. But when Kathryn (Blanchett) falls under suspicion of betraying the nation, George Woodhouse (Fassbender) is assigned the role of investigating her extralegal activity and carrying out the ultimate retribution.
Caught between loyalty to his marriage and his country, George hopes the accusations aren’t true but remains on high alert for his incredibly dangerous wife nonetheless.
Hulu
The End (2024)
The End sounds like it should be a comedy, but it very much isn’t, which may explain why it hasn’t been a buzzier release. The ambitious Golden Age-style musical is set in a salt mine 25 years after environmental collapse left the Earth uninhabitable.
There, a family leads a difficult life of routine and fading hope until a strange girl arrives, upending their routine and raising tensions. Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, George MacKay, and Moses Ingram star.
Amazon Prime Video
Another Simple Favor (2025)
Seven years after A Simple Favor, Another Simple Favor is a sequel released as an Amazon Prime Original. In the second film, Stephanie Smothers (Anna Kendrick) and Emily Nelson (Blake Lively) reunite on the Italian island of Capri for Emily’s wedding to a wealthy Italian businessman.
But as is necessary at any glamorous European wedding, there is murder and betrayal afoot! Stephanie and Emily are once again at the center of a dark, twisting mystery that consumes the beautiful Mediterranean island.
Max (formerly HBO and HBO Max)
Babygirl (2024)
This A24 film examines intergenerational sexual dynamics in the workplace to the point of essentially being an erotic drama, albeit with more brain and less lust than 50 Shades of Grey.
Romy (Nicole Kidman) is a high-powered CEO with a beautiful family, but she puts all of that at risk when she enters into a submissive affair with her 21-year-old intern, Samuel (Harris Dickinson). With all the power at her disposal, Samuel simply assumes (correctly) that Romy wants to feel powerless.
Netflix
Havoc (2025)
Gareth Evans, director of the Indonesian hit action series The Raid, gets his shot at a Netflix Original with Havoc. After a drug deal goes wrong, Detective Walker (Tom Hardy) is assigned the brutal task of fighting his way through the criminal underworld to rescue the politician’s son, who got caught up in a mess.
As Walker gets closer to the son, he begins unraveling a web of corruption and conspiracy that has the city in a vice.
Shudder
825 Forest Road (2025)
This Shudder original stars Brian Anthony Wilson as a family man hoping to start a new life in the woods with his wife after a family tragedy. But what is supposed to be a relaxing, rejuvenating life change quickly turns terrifying when he discovers that the town has a dark secret.
Disney+
Mufasa: The Lion King (2024)
Mufasa is one of the most iconic characters in the Disney Vault, so why not do a live-action/CGI prequel to The Lion King that tells his story? Right? Naturally, Disney ties in the classic characters by using Rafiki to tell the story of young Mufasa to Simba and Nala’s daughter, as well as Timon and Pumbaa.
The tale follows Mufasa as an orphaned cub, alone and close to death when he’s found by Taka, who just happens to be heir to a royal bloodline. Suddenly, destiny is rewritten.
MGM+
The Fire Inside (2024)
This historical drama tells the story of Claressa Shields (Ryan Destiny), a young woman from Flint, Michigan, who would become the first American woman to win an Olympic gold medal in boxing.
Motivated by her tough-love coach, Jason Crutchfield (Brian Tyree Henry), Claressa pushes to reach the pinnacle of her sport. But even when she arrives, she discovers that as a Black woman in boxing, her fight has only just begun.
Paramount+
Better Man (2024)
The biggest box office flop of the year and one of the biggest ever, Better Man, grossed just over $20 million worldwide against a $110 million budget. The extraordinary loss is much more on marketing failures, however, than on the actual quality of the movie, which has received good reviews. Based on British pop star Robbie Williams’ rise, fall, and resurgence, Williams made the somewhat bizarre call to cast himself as a CGI monkey in the largely autobiographical film.
While the film is about the challenges of fame and success, the greatest irony is that Williams was nowhere near a big enough star to make a film like this in the first place.
Apple TV+
The Gorge (2025)
Anya Taylor-Joy and Miles Teller star in The Gorge, a sci-fi dystopian thriller. Appointed to posts in guard towers on opposite sides of a vast, highly classified gorge, two operatives grow close to one another as they protect the planet from an undisclosed, mysterious evil lurking within the gorge.
After bonding from a distance, their connection is tested when a cataclysmic event finally rattles the gorge and threatens to release the evil upon the world.[/dt_media]
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