After Exhaustive Research, Here Is The ULTIMATE MOVIE STREAMING GUIDE
ICYMI, MovieRankings.net is under construction so we aren't going to be able to update where movies are streaming for a while. As sort of an apology, I decided to spend the day parsing through the big 3 streaming services and find all of the best movies among the most popular genres. It took a long ass time but it was worth it to know what movies are on these platforms beyond the original content they plaster on every home page.
You will recognize a lot of familiar favorites without a doubt. Some of them, though, are closer to being considered a hidden gem. I went through and selected some movies that I feel haven't been watched a ton and could use more eyes on them. You will see them in BOLD throughout the lists. It took a long ass time sifting through the insane amount of garbage on all these platforms so I hope you all enjoy!
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Happy streaming!
Action
NETFLIX: Air Force One, Gladiator, Rush Hour, Bullet Train, Skyfall, The Dirty Dozen, Blood Diamond, The Gray Man, Wanted, Ip Man, Uncharted, Road House, The Quick and the Dead, Eraser, Polar, Den of Thieves, The Paper Tigers, RRR, Zero Dark Thirty, Hardcore Henry, Extraction, Headshot, The Night Comes for Us, Elysium, Troy, Rush
HBO MAX: 3:10 to Yuma, 300, The Batman, Black Hawk Down, The Bourne Identity + Supremacy, First Blood, The Great Escape, The King's Man, Lara Croft Tomb Raider, Lone Survivor, Mad Max Fury Road, Master and Commander, Nobody, Pulp Fiction, Troy, Warrior, Braveheart
HULU: Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The Dark Knight, Desperado, Dunkirk, Hidalgo, Ong Bak, The Patriot, Twister
Children/Family
NETFLIX: Storks, Megamind, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, The Mitchells vs the Machines, Charlotte's Web, Over the Moon, Trolls, Paddington, Dennis the Menace, Mirai
HBO MAX: The Lego movie, Bee Movie, Castle in the Sky, The Cat Returns, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Daddy Day Care, The Goonies, Happy Feet, Kiki's Delivery Service, My Neighbor Totoro, Paddington 2, Ponyo, Porco Rosso, Spirited Away, Spy Kids, The tale of Princess Kaguya, Whisper of the Heart, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
HULU: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Garfield, Rio, Rugrats in Paris
Comedies (Including Rom Coms)
NETFLIX: 21 Jump Street, Rush Hour 1-3, Pineapple Express, Austin Powers, The Nice Guys, The Other Guys, Rat Race, Big Daddy, That's My Boy, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Monty Python's Life of Brian, The Bounty Hunter, Crazy Stupid Love, Up in the Air, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, National Lampoons Vacation, I Love You Man, Snatch, Bad trip
HBO MAX: The Heat, Rush Hour 1-3, Napoleon Dynamite, 50 First Dates, Accepted, Airplane, American Psycho, Austin Powers 1-3, Back to School, Borat, Bottle Rocket, The Break Up, Club Dread, Burn After Reading, Caddyshack, Chef, Coming to America, Dodgeball, The Full Monty, The Hangover, Harold and Kumar, High Anxiety, Horrible Bosses, Hot Tub Time Machine, Ingrid Goes West, My Cousin Vinny, Popstar: Never Stop Stopping, The Replacements, Semi-Pro, Swingers, We Are The Millers, Wedding Crashers, The Wedding Singer, When Harry Met Sally, Withnail and I, You've Got Mail, Young Frankenstein
HULU: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Along Came Polly, Anger Management, The Art of Self Defense, Beerfest, Blazing Saddles, Grandma's Boy, I Tonya, Liar Liar, O Brother Where Art Thou, Office Space, Palm Springs, The Scout, Shaun of the Dead, Vacation Friends, The Worst Person in the World
Crime/Thriller
NETFLIX: Prisoners, Emily the Criminal, Training Day, Sherlock Holmes, Donnie Brasco, Molly's Game, Hell or High Water, Legend, Wanted, Natural Born Killers, The Gentlemen, Blow, Shutter Island, Nocturnal Animals, The Gift, The Platform, Calibre, The Hateful Eight, El Camino, Deliverence, The Stranger, I Don't Feel At Home in This World Anymore, The Call, The Guilty
HBO MAX: The Departed, Dirty Harry, Dragged Across Concrete, Sin City, Miami Vice, Police Story 1 + 2, RocknRolla, Se7en, Slow West, S.W.A.T., Blood Simple, Blue Velvet, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Cop Land, Fast Franchise, Goodfellas, Le Samourai, Miami Vice, Nightcrawler, Shot Caller, Spotlight, Training Day, The Untouchables, The Shawshank Redemption, Memento, Argo, The Butterfly Effect, Enemy, Gone Baby Gone, Gone Girl, North by Northwest
HULU: The Fugitive, Layer Cake, Parasite, American Animals, Casino, I Saw The Devil, Insomnia, Memories of Murder, Run, Titane, Unsane
Drama
NETFLIX: Moneyball, The Imitation Game, Captain Phillips, Marriage Story, Eyes Wide Shut, Clockwork Orange, John Q, Steve Jobs, Margin Call, Coach Carter,
HBO MAX: Chungking Express, Glory, The Hidden Fortress, Lord of War, A Prayer Before Dawn, Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Hoosiers, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Banshees of Inisherin, West Side Story (both), Bad Education, Belfast, Chinatown, Cool Hand Luke, First Reformed, The Green Mile, JFK, Macbeth (Fassbender version), No country For Old Men, Room, A Star is Born (new), Weathering With You, The Wrestler
HULU: Brothers, Riders of Justice, About Time, Rain Man, Pig, Adaptation, The Descendants, Ford vs Ferrari, Glengarry Glen Ross, Mass, Nomadland, 8 Mile, Quo Vadis Aida
Horror
NETFLIX: The Mist, Resident Evil, Army of the Dead, It Follows, Creep, Apostle
HBO MAX: Green Room, Malignant, Misery, The Shining, The Witch, The conjuring, Cronos, The Exorcist, The Hitcher, House, It, The Night House, Scanners, Barbarian
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HULU: 28 Weeks Later, Blade trilogy, Fresh, Possessor, Saw
Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Comic
NETFLIX: Star Trek, Spiderman 1-3. Men in Black 1-3, The Adam Project, Labyrinth, Beowulf
HBO MAX: Blade Runner, Constantine, Deep Impact, Demolition Man, District 9, Dune, Free Guy, From Dusk Til Dawn, Geostorm, Godzilla, Gravity, The Harry Potter franchise, Hellboy, The LOTR + Hobbit movies, Highlander, I Am Legend, iRobot, Jumper, Jurassic Park, Kick Ass, The Matrix Trilogy, Pacific Rim, Predator, Reel Steel, The Suicide Squad, Terminator 2, Total Recall, Watchmen, Joker, The Fly, Moon, Signs, Blade Runner 2049
HULU: Akira, Alita Battle Angel, Armageddon, The Host, Inception, X-Men, Prey
P.S. If you're wondering why I didn't include Prime Video or Disney+ the answer is simple. Disney+ is just Disney stuff so you know what is there. And Prime video's interface is just a fucking nightmare to try and surf genres in. Honestly, the entirety of Prime video (except for the X-Ray feature) fucking sucks really bad. Figure it out, Bezos