The Best Free Movies Online You Can Watch Right Now

If you’ve decided to cut out the cost of subscription streaming services like Netflix, HBO Max, and more from your monthly budget, we don’t blame you. I mean, have you seen the price of groceries?

But the good news is, even if you’re not paying for a subscription-based streamer, you can still watch free movies online, without visiting some shady, illegal website that will probably give your device a virus. How? With Tubi!

If you have internet access, you can watch hundreds of movies and TV shows streaming for free right now on Tubi. You don’t even need an account! (Though you might want to make one, so you can save your progress while you watch.) Tubi is a legitimate, free, ad-supported streamer, which means there will be a few commercials while you watch—but it’s nowhere near as many commercials as you’d see watching a movie on cable. You can watch on the Tubi app, or on the Tubi website.

That said, there are a lot of movies streaming on Tubi, and not all of them are worth your time. In an effort to help you cut through the noise, here are the best free movies you can watch on Tubi, updated for October 2026.

1. The Social Network (2010)

   DIRECTOR: David Fincher
   CAST: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake
   RATING: PG-13

   Once known derisively as “the Facebook movie,” The Social Network has since earned its spot as one of the best films of the 2010s. Aaron Sorkin might have whiffed on the recent sequel, The Social Reckoning—which has been panned by critics—but this Oscar-winning screenplay about the morally ambiguous Facebook founder will always be famous. Beyond the political relevance, this Mark Zuckerberg biopic from director David Fincher is an exceptional film. Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield delivered career-defining performances, and Armie Hammer, an unknown at the time, rose to stardom—as soon as people realized there weren’t actually two of him. The best part? It’s streaming free on Tubi! That might even be cooler than a billion dollars.

2. Midsommar (2019)

   DIRECTOR: Ari Aster
   STARS: Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper
   RATING: R

   This sunny horror film from Ari Aster is both deeply disturbing and one of Pugh’s most iconic performances. Fair warning that this movie features some uncomfortable and traumatic scenes involving grief, suicide, sexual assault, and gore. But if you’re able to handle that, then you’ll be rewarded with a truly brilliant showcase of Pugh’s talent as she stars as Dani Ardor, a psychology student traumatized after losing her entire family who tags along with her boyfriend and his friends for a trip to Sweden for a midsummer celebration at a commune. You’ll watch Pugh expertly evolve from a meek girlfriend to a woman of incredible power, and it’s truly transformative.

3. The Graduate (1968)

   DIRECTOR: Mike Nichols
   CAST: Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross
   RATING: PG

   Nearly 60 years later, this romantic comedy starring Dustin Hoffman still has mass appeal. But you don’t have to listen to me: The Graduate is widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time, and for good reason. Hoffman is charming, hilarious, and oh-so relatable as a man with no particular purpose or direction in life. And the soundtrack! Is there any film with a soundtrack as lasting as Simon & Garfunkel’s for The Graduate? You’ll be smiling as you watch this film on Tubi for that reason alone.

4. Ready or Not (2019)

   DIRECTOR: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett
   CAST: Samara Weaving, Adam Brody, Mark O’Brien, Elyse Levesque, Nicky Guadagni, Henry Czerny, and Andie MacDowell
   RATING: R

   Samara Weaving burst onto the horror movie scene as our new favorite scream queen with this brilliant horror-comedy that takes the awkward “meet the in-laws” dinner to a whole other level. Grace (Weaving) has just married her dream guy, Alex (Mark O’Brien). Grace loves Alex for who he is as a person, and it just so happens that who he is as a person is filthy rich. Grace is happy to go along with her groom’s family tradition of subjecting newcomers to a friendly game on their wedding night… until the game turns out to be a deadly version of Hide and Seek. Think of it as the aesthetic of Knives Out, the set-up of Get Out, and the plot of The Most Dangerous Game. It’s pure fun from start to finish.

5. The Color Purple (1984)

   DIRECTOR: Jonathan Demme
   CAST: Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover
   RATING: R

   Based on the 1982 novel of the same name by Alice Walker, this epic period film tells the heart-wrenching story of two African-American sisters, coming of age in rural Georgia in the early 1900s, who are separated and tortured by the abusive men in their lives. The film launched the acting careers of Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey, who deliver heartbreaking, Oscar-nominated performances.

6. Theater Camp (2023)

   DIRECTOR: Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman
   CAST: Ben Platt, Molly Gordon, Noah Galvin, Jimmy Tatro
   RATING: PG-13

   This mockumentary about a performance arts summer camp is a laugh-out-loud treat. Written by Molly Gordon, Nick Lieberman, Ben Platt, and Noah Galvin, and co-directed by Gordon and Lieberman, Theater Camp is Christopher Guest meets Wet Hot American Summer. Everyone in the cast—Gordon, Platt, Galvin, Jimmy Tatro, Patti Harrison, Ayo Edebiri, and more—brings their A-game. The script is full of razor-sharp one-liners, and clearly benefited from having all four writers on set for improv and punch-ups. It’s a hysterical evisceration of former “theater kids” that will hit particularly hard for anyone who spent the majority of their high school experience in the drama room.

7. Pearl (2022)

   DIRECTOR: Ti West
   CAST: Mia Goth, David Corenswet
   RATING: R

   The second movie in Ti West’s horror trilogy is arguably the best of the lot. You won’t be able to look away from Mia Goth’s compelling performance in this serial killer coming-of-age flick. As a prequel to West’s porno horror slasher X, Pearl brings back Goth to tell her villain origin story. Taking place in 1918, during the Spanish Flu pandemic and World War I, Pearl (Goth, this time sans old-age make-up) is stuck on an isolated farm with her family, caring for her sickly father and dealing with her overbearing mother. Pearl dreams of a life of Hollywood glamour and is eventually driven over the edge. Not only is Pearl a showcase for Goth’s considerable talent, but it’s also an entertaining depiction of pandemic madness.

8. Forrest Gump (1994)

   DIRECTOR: Robert Zemeckis
   CAST: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise
   RATING: R

   This feel-good Best Picture winner from director Robert Zemeckis is a classic for a reason. Tom Hanks stars as a developmentally challenged man from Alabama who unwittingly wanders in (and out) of several major historical events in 20th-century America. From meeting Elvis Presley to uncovering the Watergate scandal, this is an American movie for the ages filled with iconic characters, scenes, and dialogue. Pour one out for Lieutenant Dan.

   WATCH FORREST GUMP ON TUBI

9. Licorice Pizza (2021)

   DIRECTOR: Paul Thomas Anderson
   CAST: Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman
   RATING: R

   Now that we all love Paul Thomas Anderson again in the wake of One Battle After Another, it’s time to give the filmmaker’s controversial last movie, Licorice Pizza—streaming free on Tubi—another chance. This nostalgic coming-of-age drama raised a lot of brows, both because it depicts a romance between a teenage boy and a 25-year-old woman, and because of two scenes that invite audiences to laugh at a Japanese woman’s expense. The latter is absolutely offensive and inexcusable, but the former is, in my humble opinion, handled with appropriate care. The authentic charm of Alana Haim and Cooper Hoffman—the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s son—will make you believe in love again, and Anderson’s skill with the camera will remind you why you love cinema.

10. 9 to 5 (1980)

    DIRECTOR: Colin Higgins
    CAST: Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton
    RATING: PG-13

    It’s still hard to believe that Dolly Parton is gone, but we can keep her legacy alive by watching her dynamic performance in 9 to 5, the classic comedy where she starred alongside Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin as three working women who exact revenge on their sexist boss. As Doralee Rhodes—the boss’s attractive secretary who fends off his advances again and again—Parton defied the stereotype of the “blonde bimbo.” Doralee tirelessly pushed back against sexual harassment with a smile on her face—until she let the smile drop when he finally went too far, so she threatened to got get her gun and change him “from a rooster to a hen with one shot.” An icon, a legend, forever.

11. Miss Juneteenth (2020)

    DIRECTOR: Channing Godfrey Peoples
    CAST: Nicole Beharie, Kendrick Sampson, Alexis Chikaeze
    RATING: TV-MA

    This low-key film isn’t so much a history lesson on Juneteenth the holiday as it is a quiet reflection on a mother and daughter. It’s as laid-back and slow-moving as the small Texas town it’s set in. Beharie and Chikaeze have phenomenal chemistry as mother and daughter, and Chikaeze, in particular, will break your heart every time she smiles, sad and knowing, at her mom. Even though you know with near certainty where the plot is headed, the emotional payoff sneaks up on you. (I admit it: I cried when Turquoise finally saw her daughter for who she was, rather than who she wanted her to be.)

12. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

    DIRECTOR: Jonathan Demme
    CAST: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins
    RATING: R

    Hannibal Lecter has a whole franchise now, but nothing beats the original. This Oscar-winning psychological horror flick terrified the nation with its creepy story about a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibal serial killer who helps a young FBI agent (Jodie Foster) track down the brutish “Buffalo Bill” serial killer, who murders women and removes their skin. This movie is not for the faint of heart, but it’s unarguably a horror masterpiece.

13. Gloria Bell (2018)

    DIRECTOR: Sebastián Lelio
    CAST: Julianne Moore, John Turturro, Michael Cera
    RATING: R

    Absolutely no one is doing it like Julianne Moore, and it doesn’t get much better than Moore as a middle-aged divorceé in this critically-acclaimed, English-language remake of Lelio’s 2013 Chilean film of the same name. This no-frills comedy-drama relies on Moore’s performance, and obviously, she doesn’t disappoint. She never does! Despite rave reviews from critics, the film failed to pick up Oscar buzz, meaning it has flown woefully under the radar. But now you can watch it on Tubi!

14. Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

    DIRECTOR: Jon Watts
    CAST: Tom Holland, Zendaya, Michael Keaton
    RATING: PG-13

    While you wait for Spider-Man: Brand New Day to come to streaming on Netflix, you can go back to the movie that started Tom Holland’s tenure as the web-slinging superhero (following his appearance in Avengers: Civil War). Homecoming was a great Spider-Man movie because it was, essentially, a high school comedy, focusing on Peter Parker’s teenage antics in New York City. Isn’t that what it’s really all about?

15. Holes (2003)

    DIRECTOR: Andrew Davis
    STARS: Shia LaBeouf, Sigourney Weaver, Patricia Arquette
    RATING: PG

    Holes is one of the greatest children’s movies ever made. What I love about this movie—and what I love about the novel from Louis Sachar that it’s based on—is the storytelling. There are at least four different narratives spanning the course of several centuries, and yet they all weave together seamlessly. Holes is a gorgeously crafted puzzle that pieces itself together in the most emotionally satisfying way possible—much better, I’d argue, than most puzzle-box films aimed at adults. That’s not to mention the bangin’ soundtrack or presence of the always-great Sigourney Weaver, in one of her most iconic film entrances to date. Holes never fails to put a smile on my face.