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Many movie theaters may have cracked back open, but even so, considering there's still a pandemic on, you might not want to go to the movies right now even if you could. Which means it falls heavily on streaming services to provide us with the escapism we typically get from the big screen. 

Thankfully, in the case of Hulu, they're up to the task with hundreds upon hundreds of movies across all genres to watch – from action favorites to comedy classics to sci-fi mind-benders and even a film about Anne Hathaway secretly being a giant monster destroying South Korea.

Of course, navigating through all of those choices can be intimidating and paralyzing, so to help you find your new favorite movie – or, at the very least, find a solid streaming option for your next night in – here are 100 good movies you should check out on Hulu while staying home, staying healthy and staying entertained. Because as with my 100 good movies on Netflix guide, if we do this right, I won't have to scrape together 100 MORE movies you can watch on Hulu while stuck at home.

Action movies

"13 Assassins": Legendary director Takashi Miike's samurai epic starts as a slow burn and takes its time assembling its 13 lethal stars and setting the stage for its heroes and villains – and it all pays off in the final third, an incredibly massive action set piece featuring intricate and intense swordplay, grandiose yet grounded combat and a stampede of fiery cows.

"Bumblebee": Hated the Michael Bay "Transformers" movies? Wash out the taste of those actively brain-battering blockbusters with this really wonderful '80s family-friendly action throwback about everyone's favorite radio-voiced robot surviving earth and the Decepticons with the help of Hailee Steinfeld and John Cena.

"Constantine": Sure, you could watch the other comic book movie right below this entry ... or you could watch this wildly underrated and under-appreciated comic book thriller about Keanu Reeves battling creepy incognito demons with holy relics. It's clever, creative, creepy, cool AND it has Tilda Swinton and Peter Stormare as the Angel Gabriel and Satan, respectively.

"Deadpool 2": Both of these R-rated irreverent and self-aware superhero flicks are on the streaming service right now, but go with the second one, which goes bigger and better with kookier setpiece moments and a better story. Also: a great surprise cameo from Brad Pitt! Because why not!?

"Face/Off": It's a movie about John Travolta and Nicolas Cage, eating scenery as rivals in one another's bodies, all directed by bombastic '90s action king John Woo in an action blockbsuter whose title is an outstanding pun about how the two are wearing each other's faces. So why aren't you watching this movie RIGHT NOW?!

"The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings": One of the great epic cinematic trilogies – truly, in the actual meaning of the word "epic" – is all on Hulu, so set aside a weekend and binge your way through these grandiose Oscar-winning blockbusters, starting obviously with "Fellowship of the Rings." 

"Mission Impossible: Fallout": "Mission Impossible" is one of our best action movie franchises – and "Fallout" is probably the best chapter of the bunch, featuring all-time great action sequences stacked on all-time great action sequences. Somehow, each breathtaking action scene manages to escalate and top the last one – so much so that, by the end, you've almost forgotten that, at one point, Tom Cruise sky-dived into a thunderstorm. 

"Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol": Well, hey, I didn't say it was one of our best action franchises for nothing! "Ghost Protocol" isn't quite as good as "Fallout" (what is, really?) but it still has some utterly mesmerizing and brilliantly intense action sequences. It's a great action movie – but also maybe a terrible choice if you're afraid of heights.

"The Wave": America just doesn't make natural disaster movies like they used to anymore – but thankfully Norway does, at least in the case of this 2015 thriller about a family trying to survive a miles-high tsunami headed toward their small unassuming Nordic town. You know how this movie's good? The director's name is Roar.

Comedies

"Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery": All three of these hit comedy spoofs are available on Hulu now, but definitely start with the first Austin Powers movie about a devilishly caddish British spy from the '60s waking up in the '90s to stop his cartoonish nemesis, Dr. Evil. 

"The Beach Bum": Harmony Korine's drunken, blazed, psychedelic comedy won't be for everyone – especially those who like coherent characters and plots – but if you can get on this oddball movie's wavelength, you'll be gifted with an incredible comedic performances from Martin Lawrence and Zac Efron, so beautifully sickly Florida imagery and star Matthew McConaughey playing the bongos while baked out of his mind. 

"Booksmart": Using the phrase "'Superbad' for a new generation" makes me feel like that guy who drank from the wrong Holy Grail in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" – but that's a good way to describe this entertaining and outrageous teen comedy about two seniors who, after dedicating their high school days exclusively to books and studying, want to graduate with one final night of partying. Surprise: Things don't go as planned.

"Force Majeure": Nothing brings a family together like vacation ... until dad runs away and abandons his wife and children as an avalanche bears down on them. Thankfully, everyone survives – but their family might not survive the aftermath of the father's split-second decision. This great Swedish film is either the funniest drama or the most intense comedy you've ever seen. 

"Heathers": One of the iconic high school movies, this vicious '80s dark comedy follows Winona Ryder and a psychotic Christian Slater as they plot to kill her worst enemies: her best friends, the most popular (and meanest) girls in school.

"Hunt for the Wilderpeople": A fan of Taika Waititi's "Thor Ragnarok" and "Jojo Rabbit"? Then don't miss this wildly charming wildlife tale about a young rebel who runs off into the New Zealand wilderness and befriends a gruff loner played by Dr. Grant himself, Sam Neill.

"Ingrid Goes West": The perfect movie for people who hate Instagram (hi!) and social media, "Ingrid Goes West" is an incisive dark comedy about a stalker (Aubrey Plaza) who heads out to Los Angeles, conniving to become her famous Insta influencer's new best friend.

"The Nice Guys": If we lived in a just world, we'd have a whole series of scuzzy, hilarious dark throwback detective comedies following Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling bumblingly solving crimes in retro Los Angeles. Unfortunately, we don't live in a just world – but at least we got this one "Nice Guys" movie, which is a silly and sleazy great time, especially Ryan Gosling channeling perhaps his best performance as an over-his-head drunken private eye. 

"The Overnight": A quirky comedy of manners breaks out in this indie about a duo (Adam Scott and Taylor Schilling) new to Los Angeles who has a playdate with a VERY L.A. couple that turns into something stranger, oddly sweeter and definitely smarter than expected. It's awkward cringe comedy done correctly. 

"Palm Springs": Need a break from the relentless routine of every day feeling exactly the same while social distancing inside? How about this delightfully dark new comedy about two strangers at a wedding (Andy Samberg and a great Cristin Milioti) who get stuck inside a time loop ... meaning they're stuck in the relentless routine of every day being exactly the same. OK, so it's not an escape – but it IS great!

"The Princess Bride": Have fun storming the castle ... and watching this iconic cult hit, one of the most famous comedy classics in Hollywood history about a fantasy tale involving revenge, love and Andre the Giant. 

"Save Yourselves": A funny indie hidden gem from the past year, "Save Yourselves" follows a young hip couple who ventures out into the woods for some time away from the world – and, most of all, away from the internet and their gadgets. Only problem: Aliens decided to attack while they're away, leaving them clueless about the panicking world around them. 

"Sorry to Bother You": A wild coked-up satirical goof against our current society, writer-director Boots Riley's directorial debut follows a telemarketer (LaKeith Stanfield, "Atlanta") who rises the ranks of his company by busting out his "white voice" over the phone and winds up discovering ... well, I'll let you find that out for yourselves.

"Superbad": An instant classic coming-of-age comedy, "Superbad" impressively holds up as a tribute to young tender male friendship as well as a just plain hilarious "wild night out" high school movie. A movie as quality as it is quotable. 

"Support the Girls": You probably wouldn't expect a tacky roadside breastaurant to be the setting for a witty, feminist and humanist comedy about women (led by a stupendous Regina Hall) just trying to get by and maybe even help each other out in this economy. But it's exactly what you should expect from "Support the Girls." If you liked last year's acclaimed hit "Hustlers," you'll probably dig this as well. 

"The Trip": You can't go anywhere cool on vacation right now, but you can at least watch British comedians Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon tour about England while dueling Michael Caine impressions, bantering about their careers and thinking melancholy as they clumsily entire new phases in their lives. 

Documentaries

"Amazing Grace": The late great Sydney Pollack's concert film of Aretha Franklin's iconic live performance at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Los Angeles was once lost but now it's found – and on Hulu for you to witness. Definitely check it out – what, like you've got concerts today to go see?

"The Amazing Johnathan Documentary": Documentarian Ben Berman thinks he's found a great story: Famed comedian and magician The Amazing Johnathan trying to tour while fighting a life-threatening heart condition. But his eclectic subject has his own ideas about how his story should be told in this hilarious and unpredictable documentary featuring meth, a mental breakdown and a mercurial star who may or may not be trustworthy.

"Apollo 11": In a better world, "Apollo 11" – mesmerizingly excellent and breathtaking documentary charting Apollo 11's still-incredible journey to the moon – would've been nominated for Best Documentary, Best Editing and even Best Picture at this year's Oscars. We don't live in that world, unfortunately – but at least you can watch this tremendous doc on Hulu and witness this old story with a new sense of amazed wonder.

"Cartel Land": Director Matthew Heineman's Oscar-nominated documentary takes an intense inside look at the state of the U.S./Mexico border tensions, spending time with American militia men roaming the land with guns as well as a Mexican political figure trying to push the cartels and corruption out of his country.

"Cold Case Hammarskjöld": In this compelling film, what starts as a prankster-like lark for gonzo documentarian Mads Brugger, investigating a dubious conspiracy involving the plane crash death of former UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, turns into legitimate detective work and ominous discoveries involving a secret mercenary organization.

"Hail Satan?": Bet you didn't think you'd be rooting for the Satanic Temple ever in your life, but that's what happens while watching this kooky and entertaining documentary about the "religious" group's uncouth attempts to troll those in power and maintain the country's separation of church and state.

"Honeyland": Even in a post-murder hornets universe, you should make time for "Honeyland," a quietly powerful, naturalistic and gorgeous documentary about a female bee hunter whose modest life harvesting honey in harmony with nature gets shaken to its core when a chaotic and often careless nomadic family moves into her territory.

"I Am Not Your Negro": James Baldwin's words echo loudly today as protests across America roar for Black lives and societal reform, which makes it a perfect time to revisit the Oscar-nominated "I Am Not Your Negro." Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, and assembled from potent archival footage as well as Baldwin's unfinished novel, Raoul Peck's essential documentary essay chronicles Black life in America – the anger, the hurt, the pain, the joy and the future of the country and the people living in it.

"Love Gilda": One of the most influential comedic performers on television, Gilda Radner, gets her due in this thoughtful and loving documentary tribute featuring appearances by modern "SNL" and comedy stars Bill Hader, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Melissa McCarthy and more.

"Minding the Gap": Three young skater friends bond, grow up together and face life's unpredictability and difficulties in this deeply-felt Oscar-nominated documentary.

"Pick of the Litter": The best way to make quarantining during a pandemic better? PUPPIES! And better yet, puppies that are as altruistic as they are adorable as this film festival favorite doc follows a batch of puppers as they go through remarkable seeing-eye dog training. 

"The Queen of Versailles": A disgustingly, comically rich family gets a taste of the real world when the housing bubble collapses, leaving them living on (*gasp*) slightly less money. A sympathetic but mostly darkly funny look at the dream life facing reality. 

"Somm": Pour yourself a delicious glass of documentary filmmaking with this charming, insightful and oddly intense look behind the scenes with several young wine-heads all vying to become master sommeliers – a title that only 269 vino fans have earned across the globe. You'll taste notes of excitement, education, fascinating characters and rope.

"Three Identical Strangers": There's stranger than fiction and then there's "Three Identical Strangers," a wild documentary about three boys living in different parts of the country who discover that they're identical triplets – and then try to discover why they were separated in the first place. What starts as a fun and bizarre curio of a story turns into a creepy, spine-chilling mystery.

"Tickled": You thought "Tiger King" was strange? How about this documentary about an investigative journalist who uncovers an underground international tickling competition, bringing in men from across the globe so they can tie them down and test their tickle-handling abilities. Unsurprisingly, things are not as they seem.

Dramas

"'71": A grim and gritty behind-enemy-lines thriller about a young British soldier (Jack O'Connell, star of another easy-going movie, "Unbroken") who finds himself stuck in unknown, dangerous territory when his squad is attacked and he's abandoned on the streets of Belfast in the midst of violent riots. Who can he trust? And how high can one's blood pressure go up while watching a movie?

"The Assistant": One of the best movies of 2020, Kitty Green's chillingly cold drama follows a young assistant (Julia Garner, "Ozark") as she attempts to navigate the engrained sexism and harassment quietly pervading every level of a Hollywood office run by an unseen, manipulating, dominating, abusive, sexual assaulting boss whose name might as well be Warvey Heinstein.

"The Art of Self-Defense": Jesse Eisenberg ("The Social Network") stars as a nebbish office worker who signs up for a strangely intense karate dojo after getting attacked by mysterious bikers in this frostily entertaining dark comedy about masculinity. 

"Bloody Sunday": Before he made "The Bourne Supremacy," "Captain Phillips" and "News of the World," director Paul Greengrass made quite the impression with this breathlessly intense, you-are-there 2002 docu-drama about an Irish civil rights protest march that turned horrifyingly violent during the '70s.

"Boogie Nights": The start of several major careers – writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson! Mark Wahlberg! – this '90s character drama about the early days of the L.A. porn industry and the all-too-human people trying to make it big and beyond the world of skin flicks is still tremendous.

"Changing Lanes": An underrated thriller from 2002, Ben Affleck and Samuel L. Jackson play strangers who ruin each others' lives after a brief but momentous instance of road rage. Remember being stuck in traffic? See, not everything the pandemic shut down was bad!

"Clemency": One of the best movies of 2019 – as well as one of the hardest to watch – this death penalty drama stars an impeccable Alfre Woodard as a warden wrestling with the demons of her job while preparing for the execution of yet another prisoner. Difficult to watch, but also an essential story of how the death penalty wears away at every soul it touches.

"Gone Girl": David Fincher's made some terrific movies – "Zodiac," "The Social Network," "Se7en") – and this viciously entertaining Gillian Flynn adaptation deserves to sit amongst that company, a twisting and turning black comedy about a disappearing woman (Rosamund Pike, a star-making role), an utter doof of a husband (Ben Affleck, a brilliant performance in a brilliant casting choice) and the bloody suburban chaos she leaves behind in her wake. 

"Grave of the Fireflies": An animated film? Surely this will be a sweet and fun lark of a film. (*sad trumpet sound effect*) Nope, this gorgeous but heartbreaking saga from the legendary Studio Ghibli will take you through the emotional ringer as you follow two siblings trying to stay alive in WWII-era Japan.

"The Guilty": Considering the current quarantine, you're probably not in utter need of a movie that's locked in a single room for its entire running time ... but even so, you should still check out this taut Danish thriller about a phone dispatch officer trying to save a kidnapped woman while stuck on the call at his desk. 

"Hell or High Water": In this terrific modern Western, Chris Pine and Ben Foster play brothers robbing their way across Texas while chased by Jeff Bridges. They may be the headlined stars, but the TRUE star of "Hell or High Water" is the grumpy dive restaurant waitress that serves Bridges and his weary deputy. Worth watching just for that – though the rest of the film is aces, too.

"If Beale Street Could Talk": Barry Jenkins' follow-up to his Best Picture winner "Moonlight" earned significantly less Oscar love, but it's just as mesmerizing, tender, beautifully scored, gorgeously shot and breathtakingly human as it follows a young black couple in the '70s trying to hold together after the man goes to prison for a crime he didn't commit.

"Killer Joe": A forgotten but worthwhile entry in the McConaissance, this grimy and country-fried dramatic thriller (the rare NC-17 rating!) follows a drug-dealing young man who gets over his head when he hires an assassin (Matthew McConaughey) to kill his mother. And somehow it's all written by the kindly dad from "Lady Bird"!

"Little Men": A subdued but special film about two young schoolmates whose growing friendship is put to the test when their parents go to war over a business lease. Low on theatrics and dramatics, but high on emotional impact.

"Love & Mercy": One of the most underrated music biopics in recent memory, "Love & Mercy" tracks the mental breakdown of Beach Boys musical genius Brian Wilson, from stressing to put together "Pet Sounds" to being placed in a medicated stupor in the '80s. Low-key MVP: the sound design and unsettling score from Atticus Ross.

"Lucky": The late great Harry Dean Stanton went out on a high note with this charming and thoughtful character study about a friendly small-town loner who starts coming to terms with his mortality with the help of the locals – including David Lynch as a guy panicking about his lost tortoise.

"Monos": Championed by Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro, this visually gorgeous and tense child soldier drama embeds with a crew of eight young troopers who begin to fall apart "Lord of the Flies"-style after they're pushed into the jungle with their hostage. 

"Mother": Bong Joon-ho has been one of the most creative, inventive, precise and unpredictable filmmakers for years – and in 2020, he finally got his due, winning multiple Academy Awards with "Parasite." You're probably craving more of his genre-defying, thrillingly sharp work after that Oscar winner – and luckily, Hulu has obliged with this tense and impeccably crafted 2009 thriller about a mother trying to free her son from prison by finding the criminal who actually committed the heinous crime.

"Melancholia": Get pumped for the unavoidable end of the world! WOO! Indeed, controversial director Lars von Trier's drama about two sisters trying to mend their relationship right as a mysterious new planet drunkenly drives itself right into Earth isn't quite light-hearted escapism, but it's gorgeously crafted and tells a fascinating story about people facing oblivion. 

"Parasite": Oh hey, another Bong hit! The ultimate Bong hit at that, the one that made history, became the first international film to win Best Picture at the Oscars and became the fourth highest grossing foreign movie in U.S. box office history. If you haven't seen it yet, amend that. (And when you're done, be sure to check out out his excellent thriller "Mother" as well – and then pop over to Netflix for "Snowpiercer" and "Okja" too.)

"The Peanut Butter Falcon": Weird name, winning movie. This charmingly relaxed road trip dramedy follows a young man with Down syndrome as he escapes his restrictive home and teams up with a redneck crook (an actually very good Shia LaBeouf) on a Twain-like adventure across the South in pursuit of his dream: becoming a wrestler. Disclaimer: At no point are any birds covered in peanut butter.

"The Prestige": Weird thing from movie history: "The Prestige" came out at the same time as the fellow old-timey magician drama "The Illusionist" – and somehow, the latter was seen as the better and more successful movie. More than a decade later, Christopher Nolan's dueling magicians thriller is considered one of the great director's best movies, a tense and smart triumph of cinematic slight of hand, while no one has ever spoken of "The Illusionist" ever again. Looking at things in retrospect: weird!

"Rocketman": Remember when "Bohemian Rhapsody" got a Best Picture nomination and a Best Actor win, and then "Rocketman" came out and, despite being better in every single way – a better story, more creatively and vibrantly told with more music and a lead performance that not only actually sang but also actually acted instead of just wearing dentures – was completely ignored? Let's fix that by at least watching it a lot now.

"Shirley": This wholly unique take on the standard biopic from the director of the acclaimed indie drama "Madeline's Madeline" takes on a fictionalized chapter in the life of Shirley Jackson – the famed horror author behind such time-tested classics as "The Lottery" and "The Haunting of Hill House" – as she and her overbearing husband take in a young couple, all while a girl goes missing in their college town and Shirley battles brutal writer's block.

"Shoplifters": A truly lovely yet heartbreaking drama, this 2019 Oscar nominee from Japan tells the story of a poor family scrapping and stealing to get by who takes in a small girl they find mistreated by her actual family. Acclaimed director Hirokazu Kore-eda's award-winning film, filled with beautiful performances and tender humanity, will hurt and heal you at the same time.

"The Sisters Brothers": Here's an oddball Western that was undeservedly buried by its studio. Part dark comedy, part frontier drama and all wonderful acting from John C. Reilly, Joaquin Phoenix, Riz Ahmed and Jake Gyllenhaal. Plus, it has a strangely lovely ending that I can't stop thinking about well after I've seen it.

"Teen Spirit": A day-glo tale of a young poor singer (Elle Fanning) trying to make it big with the help of a local music TV competition and a worn-down Russian mentor. It's maybe style over substance – you know how this story ends – but it's a very catchy and addictive cinematic and sonic earworm.

"The Truman Show": Jim Carrey may be most famous for his wild cartoonishly comedic roles, but maybe his best movie is this excellent exististential drama about a man who discovers he's living – and has been living – inside a hit television show. It's a movie as compellingly inventive and visually imaginative as its star. 

"Wild Rose": A lot of music movies in this section for some reason. Well, anyways, here's yet another really good one, this time about a wild child from Glasgow who desperately wants to leave her daughter and family behind to follow her dream of becoming a Nashville country star. If you don't tear up during the final number, fittingly titled "Glasgow" (and co-written by Mary Steenburgen!), your soul needs a soundcheck. 

"Wonder Boys": Catch up with this truly forgotten critical favorite from the beginning of the millennium, the late great Curtis Hanson's Oscar-nominated adaptation of Michael Chabon's novel about a professor (Michael Douglas) struggling his way through writers block on his second book while advising some promising university students. 

"Young Adult": A very good Charlize Theron stars in this venomous, Diablo Cody-penned dark comedy about a bitter author who returns home after years away to win an old high school boyfriend back. It's not a perfect movie, but it's a biting and unique character study with a great actress inhabiting that character with no vanity. 

For kids

"Chicken Run": At some point, a person went into a Hollywood studio and said, "I want to make 'The Great Escape' but with claymation talking chickens." Amazingly, that studio said yes – and the world was a better place for it because this is a wildly charming and witty children's film. 

"Missing Link": Laika is behind some of the most creative, charming and visually inventive movies – for kids or adults – out there, from "Paranorman" to "The Boxtrolls" and "Kubo and the Two Strings." "Missing Link," a delightful claymation journey about an explorer trying to get a chatty yeti back home, may not be the best of Laika's portfolio, but it's still a great animated film for kids of all ages – certainly better than most children's movies. 

"The Prince of Egypt": Is this maybe the most underrated animated movie in recent memory? Quite possibly! Don't let this crime against cinema continue and check out this gorgeously animated retelling of Moses freeing the Hebrews from slavery in Egypt.

"Shrek": SomeBODY once told me that this modern animated classic and fairy tale spoof is now on Hulu to watch at any time. And also they told me that this world was gonna roll me and that I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed, which I thought was kind of rude but whatever. 

Horror/thrillers

"Arachnophobia": I hate spiders – I don't care how many mosquitos they eat; launch them all into the sun – so I'll just have to take other people's word that this '90s horror comedy from Frank Marshall about a menace of eight-legged monsters taking over a small town is a good, creepy, crawly time. I will never know!

"The Cabin in the Woods": A crew of handsome teens (one played by a pre-"Thor" Chris Hemsworth) heads out to an ominous cabin in the woods. And if you think you know what happens next, well, you do ... and you REALLY don't. 

"Child's Play" (the reboot): You can't beat the original killer doll classic, but this reboot does a solid job bringing Chucky (or "Buddi" here thanks to some offscreen legal brouhaha) into the 21st century with some clever ideas and some surprisingly nasty scares. 

"Children of the Corn": One of the most famous evil children horror stories, Stephen King's "Children of the Corn" follows an unfortunate couple who winds up in a small town filled with creepy kids who murder anyone over the age of 18.

"Cloverfield": Don't get it confused with the bad direct-to-Netflix spinoff "The Cloverfield Paradox" that got dumped on the streaming service after the Super Bowl. Watch the original "Cloverfield," one of the few good found footage movies and just a straight-up solidly thrilling monster movie.

"Crawl": Much like his previous shlock favorite "Piranha 3-D," horror director Alexandre Aja's "Crawl" knows exactly what it is – a fun and tense barely 90-minute monster movie ride about a young woman trying to save her father from a house full of hungry gators (oh, and also there's a hurricane) – and delivers exactly that. 

"Cujo": What could be terrifying about a puppy? Dying of cuddles? Oh, OK, so in "Cujo," it's a BIG puppy? And it has rabies, making it go mad and cause violent havoc in a small town? OK, I see what could be horrifying about this situation now.

"The Nightingale": Very much not for the faint of heart, writer-director Jennifer Kent's follow-up to her indie horror hit "The Babadook" is a grim and brutal thriller about a young Irish woman in Tasmania seeking revenge against the British officer who committed horrific crimes against her and her family. Again: not a feel-good film. DEEEFINITELY not.

"We Need to Talk About Kevin": A creepy kid movie like few you've ever seen, acclaimed auteur Lynne Ramsay ("You Were Never Really Here," aka the good version of "Joker" from a year earlier) helms this eerie and unsettling story of a mother (Tilda Swinton) coping with her increasingly disturbing son.

Romance

"50 First Dates": Hopefully you haven't forgotten about this charming Adam Sandler/Drew Barrymore rom-com about a guy trying to romance a woman with short-term memory loss. And in case you have forgotten, this is a charming Adam Sandler/Drew Barrymore rom-com about a guy trying to romance a woman with short-term memory loss. 

"Footloose": Been workin' so hard? You're punchin' your card? Eight hours: for what? Oh, let me tell you what you got: You've got this toe-tapping '80s classic about Kevin Bacon saving a small town from their joyless dance-forbidding ways now on Hulu! (And also this feeling that that time's just holding you down – but now you can cut loose! "FOOTLOOSE"!)

"Love and Basketball": NBA hoops not quite bringing the heat without fans in the stands and training camp to help the teams play their best? Try out writer-director Gina Prince-Bythewood's warm 2000 romance about two childhood friends (Omar Epps and Sanaa Lathan) who go one-on-one on the court and in life. 

"Love, Simon": Look at that, it's one of the first mainstream Hollywood gay romantic comedies! And look at that, it's not just a groundbreaking movie; it's a quite good one too, telling the sweet and sincere story of a high schooler (Nick Robinson, "Jurassic World") who faces coming out to his unaware family and friends. 

"My Best Friend's Wedding": This rom-com, about a woman (Julia Roberts) who realizes that she's in love with her best friend (Dermot Mulroney) just in time for him to get married and so she does what she can to undermine his wedding to a nice lady (Cameron Diaz), should be an insufferable movie about terrible people. But instead it's a cute, sweet and charming movie about terrible people! That's the power of Julia Roberts. 

"Portrait of a Lady on Fire": One of the best reviewed movies of the past year, director Celine Sciamma's acclaimed and breathtakingly gorgeous romantic drama follows a portrait artist charged with painting a young woman before her upcoming forced marriage. 

Sci-fi

"Akira": One of the most influential anime movies – and one of the most influential science fiction stories – check out this wild story about post-World War III "Neo-Tokyo," evil bikers with telekinetic powers and reckless military power before Hollywood finally gets around to remaking it (and almost assuredly wrecking it).

"Fast Color": Here's a superhero movie for people who are tired of the usual superhero movies, a small-scale but still powerful story about a woman with superpowers hiding out at home with her family.

"The Host": If you loved "Parasite," then definitely check out Bong Joon-ho's twist on a monster movie, featuring a Korean father trying to save his monster-napped daughter from a tentacle monster. It's a crazy tonal experience that'll make you feel every possible feeling – including making you want a grilled squid.

"Star Trek Beyond": "Wrath of Khan" may be gone from this streaming service, but Hulu did snag a few more from the beloved sci-fi franchise – including its most recent entry, a bright, smart and colorful saga that makes great use of its incredible cast as well as of its tremendous action director Justin Lin.

"Sunshine": One half of Danny Boyle's 2007 sci-fi space epic is a tense psychological thriller about astronauts sent on a seemingly endless mission to nuke the sun back into full-strength. One half is ... a very different film that I won't spoil here. But both halves make for a fascinating, gorgeously crafted and unique sci-fi story – complete with an impressively star-studded cast (Chris Evans! Rose Byrne! Mark Strong!) before many of them had their breakouts.

"Super 8": If "Colossal" is too strange of a monster movie for you, here's something more familiar but equally entertaining in its own much-larger way: J.J. Abrams's '80s throwback about a bunch of young film-loving kids who stumble upon a mysterious creature causing havoc around their small town and turning it into a militarized war zone.

Sports movies

"Creed II": It's not quite as good as its near-perfect predecessor, but Steven Caple Jr.'s "Creed II" still packs an entertaining punch (because boxing!) as it brings back Michael B. Jordan's Adonis Creed and Sly Stallone's Rocky Balboa to fight – who else? – the son of Russian brutalizer Ivan Drago.

"The Longest Yard": Football's back, but in case it's a Packers bye week – or you're a Bears fan and want something a little less tragic to watch – check out this sports film favorite starring the late great Burt Reynolds as a former pro quarterback stuck having to turn his fellow prison inmates into a football team against their awful warden and his guards. Spoiler alert: They're not very good – but they're still better than the Lions!

"Major League": It may not be baseball season, but it's always "Major League" season – one of the most quotable sports comedies, features an iconic supporting performance from the great Bob Uecker and serves as a nice throwback to the olden days of Milwaukee County Stadium and other Brew City landmarks. 

"Warrior": I'm not a fan of the UFC, but I am a fan of this inspirational sports drama about two distant brothers (Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton) who end up in the ring fighting each other for the down. From the director of "Miracle" and the recent "The Way Back," so you know it knows how to play the emotional beats you want.