Best Movies on HBO Max
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Frequently Asked Questions
HBO Max offers everything from action to drama to comedy to documentaries, including Hollywood blockbusters and cult classics. This means you can find new favourites and well-loved classic, as there’s plenty to stream that suits different tastes.
Yes, HBO Max features exclusive original films you won’t find on other platforms. These titles often have high production value and star big names, giving you access to fresh, high-quality content that sets HBO Max apart.
Most movies on HBO Max are available in HD, ensuring clear and sharp viewing. While 4K options are limited, the platform still provides a quality streaming experience on supported devices.
Currently, HBO Max does not support downloading movies for offline use. To stream the best movies on HBO Max, you’ll need an active internet connection.
HBO Max regularly adds new movies, including recent releases and classics. This ensures there’s always fresh content to stream and gives you a steady supply of quality films to explore.
Yes, you can stream movies on several devices like smart TVs, smartphones, tablets, and computers. HBO Max lets you enjoy the best movies wherever you are, making it easy to switch between screens.
Weapons
Horror•Mystery•Thriller
Overview
When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.
Director
Zach Cregger
Duration
129 minutes
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Fantasy•Family•Kids•Action•Adventure
Overview
Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard—with a place waiting for him at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As he learns to harness his newfound powers with the help of the school's kindly headmaster, Harry uncovers the truth about his parents' deaths—and about the villain who's to blame.
Director
Chris Columbus
Cast
Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Richard Harris, Tom Felton
Duration
152 minutes
Sinners
Drama•Horror•Mystery•Thriller•Action•Adventure•Music•Musical
Overview
Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.
Director
Ryan Coogler
Duration
131 minutes
Superman
Sci-fi•Action•Adventure
Overview
Superman, a journalist in Metropolis, embarks on a journey to reconcile his Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing as Clark Kent.
Director
James Gunn
Duration
145 minutes
We Live in Time
Romance•Drama
Overview
An up-and-coming chef and a recent divorcée find their lives forever changed when a chance encounter brings them together, in a decade-spanning, deeply moving romance.
Director
John Crowley
Cast
Andrew Garfield, Florence Pugh, Grace Delaney, Lee Braithwaite, Aoife Hinds
Duration
108 minutes
The Conjuring: Last Rites
Horror•Mystery•Thriller
Overview
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren take on one last terrifying case involving mysterious entities they must confront.
Director
Michael Chaves
Duration
135 minutes
A Minecraft Movie
Fantasy•Action•Adventure•Comedy•Family•Kids•Animation
Overview
Four misfits find themselves struggling with ordinary problems when they are suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal into the Overworld: a bizarre, cubic wonderland that thrives on imagination. To get back home, they'll have to master this world while embarking on a magical quest with an unexpected, expert crafter, Steve.
Director
Jared Hess
Duration
105 minutes
Mickey 17
Sci-fi•Comedy•Fantasy•Action•Adventure
Overview
Unlikely hero Mickey Barnes finds himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living.
Director
Bong Joon Ho
Cast
Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, Mark Ruffalo
Duration
137 minutes
Dune
Sci-fi•Adventure•Action•Drama
Overview
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.
Director
Denis Villeneuve
Cast
Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård
Duration
149 minutes
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Fantasy•Drama•Action•Adventure
Overview
Young hobbit Frodo Baggins, after inheriting a mysterious ring from his uncle Bilbo, must leave his home in order to keep it from falling into the hands of its evil creator. Along the way, a fellowship is formed to protect the ringbearer and make sure that the ring arrives at its final destination: Mt. Doom, the only place where it can be destroyed.
Director
Peter Jackson
Cast
Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Bean
Duration
171 minutes
Gremlins
Fantasy•Comedy•Horror
Overview
When Billy Peltzer is given a strange but adorable pet named Gizmo for Christmas, he inadvertently breaks the three important rules of caring for a Mogwai, unleashing a horde of mischievous gremlins on a small town.
Director
Joe Dante
Cast
Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton, Frances Lee McCain, Corey Feldman
Duration
106 minutes
The Matrix
Sci-fi•Action•Adventure
Overview
Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.
Director
Lana Wachowski
Cast
Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Joe Pantoliano
Duration
136 minutes
The Polar Express
Animation•Kids•Fantasy•Family•Action•Adventure
Overview
When a doubting young boy takes an extraordinary train ride to the North Pole, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery that shows him that the wonder of life never fades for those who believe.
Director
Robert Zemeckis
Cast
Tom Hanks, Leslie Zemeckis, Eddie Deezen, Nona Gaye, Peter Scolari
Duration
96 minutes
Twisters
Action•Thriller•Adventure•Mystery
Overview
As storm season intensifies, the paths of former storm chaser Kate Carter and reckless social-media superstar Tyler Owens collide when terrifying phenomena never seen before are unleashed. The pair and their competing teams find themselves squarely in the paths of multiple storm systems converging over central Oklahoma in the fight of their lives.
Director
Lee Isaac Chung
Cast
Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, Anthony Ramos, Brandon Perea, Maura Tierney
Duration
122 minutes
The Wizard of Oz
Fantasy•Family•Kids•Action•Adventure
Overview
Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives. The Wicked Witch of the West is the only thing that could stop them.
Director
Victor Fleming
Cast
Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Margaret Hamilton
Duration
102 minutes
It
Horror•Thriller•Mystery•Comedy
Overview
In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.
Director
Andy Muschietti
Cast
Jaeden Martell, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, Chosen Jacobs
Duration
129 minutes
The Prestige
Drama•Mystery•Sci-fi•Thriller
Overview
A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.
Director
Christopher Nolan
Cast
Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall
Duration
125 minutes
Inception
Action•Sci-fi•Adventure•Mystery•Thriller•Drama
Overview
Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.
Director
Christopher Nolan
Cast
Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ken Watanabe, Tom Hardy, Elliot Page
Duration
148 minutes
Lee
Drama•History•War
Overview
The true story of photographer Elizabeth 'Lee' Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War II.
Director
Ellen Kuras
Cast
Kate Winslet, Josh O'Connor, Andrea Riseborough, Andy Samberg, Alexander Skarsgård
Duration
117 minutes
The Accountant
Thriller•Action•Drama•Mystery•Adventure•Crime
Overview
As a math savant uncooks the books for a new client, the Treasury Department closes in on his activities and the body count starts to rise.
Director
Gavin O'Connor
Cast
Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick, J.K. Simmons, Jon Bernthal, Jeffrey Tambor
Duration
123 minutes
Elf
Kids•Comedy•Fantasy•Family•Romance
Overview
When young Buddy falls into Santa's gift sack on Christmas Eve, he's transported back to the North Pole and raised as a toy-making elf by Santa's helpers. But as he grows into adulthood, he can't shake the nagging feeling that he doesn't belong. Buddy vows to visit Manhattan and find his real dad, a workaholic.
Director
Jon Favreau
Cast
Will Ferrell, James Caan, Bob Newhart, Ed Asner, Mary Steenburgen
Duration
93 minutes
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Fantasy
Overview
At the urging of the wizard Gandalf, unassuming hobbit Bilbo Baggins joins 13 dwarves on a perilous quest to reclaim the kingdom of Erebor and gains possession of the powerful One Ring.
Director
Peter Jackson
Cast
Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, James Nesbitt, Ken Stott
Duration
182 minutes
Companion
Sci-fi•Thriller•Mystery•Horror
Overview
During a weekend getaway at a secluded lakeside estate, a group of friends finds themselves entangled in a web of secrets, deception, and advanced technology. As tensions rise and loyalties are tested, they uncover unsettling truths about themselves and the world around them.
Director
Drew Hancock
Cast
Sophie Thatcher, Jack Quaid, Lukas Gage, Megan Suri, Harvey Guillén
Duration
97 minutes
Barry Lyndon
Drama•War
Overview
An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond Barry into the noble Barry Lyndon.
Director
Stanley Kubrick
Cast
Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Krüger, Diana Körner
Duration
185 minutes
It Chapter Two
Horror•Fantasy•Drama•Mystery•Thriller
Overview
27 years after overcoming the malevolent supernatural entity Pennywise, the former members of the Losers' Club, who have grown up and moved away from Derry, are brought back together by a devastating phone call.
Director
Andy Muschietti
Cast
Bill Skarsgård, James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa
Duration
169 minutes
Something's Gotta Give
Romance•Comedy•Drama
Overview
When perpetually single, aging music industry exec Harry Sanborn, and his latest trophy girlfriend, Marin, arrive at her mother's beach house in the Hamptons, they find that her mother, playwright Erica Barry, also plans to stay for the weekend. Erica is scandalized by the relationship and Harry's sexist ways. But when Harry has a heart attack while there, and the doctor prescribes bedrest, his only option is to stay at the Barry home. Left in the care of Erica and his doctor, a love triangle starts to take shape.
Director
Nancy Meyers
Cast
Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton, Keanu Reeves, Frances McDormand, Amanda Peet
Duration
128 minutes
Barbie
Comedy•Fantasy•Action•Adventure
Overview
Barbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to the real world, they soon discover the joys and perils of living among humans.
Director
Greta Gerwig
Cast
Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera, Kate McKinnon, Ariana Greenblatt
Duration
114 minutes
Dune: Part Two
Sci-fi•Adventure•Action•Drama
Overview
Follow the mythic journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a path of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the known universe, Paul endeavors to prevent a terrible future only he can foresee.
Director
Denis Villeneuve
Cast
Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler
Duration
167 minutes
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Kids•Fantasy•Family
Overview
Year three at Hogwarts means new fun and challenges as Harry learns the delicate art of approaching a Hippogriff, transforming shape-shifting Boggarts into hilarity and even turning back time. But the term also brings danger: soul-sucking Dementors hover over the school, an ally of the accursed He-Who-Cannot-Be-Named lurks within the castle walls, and fearsome wizard Sirius Black escapes Azkaban. And Harry will confront them all.
Director
Alfonso Cuarón
Cast
Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Robbie Coltrane, Michael Gambon
Duration
136 minutes
The Dish
Comedy•Drama•History
Overview
A group of maverick scientists on a remote Australian sheep farm are the globe's only hope for obtaining the epic images of man's first steps on the moon.
Director
Rob Sitch
Cast
Sam Neill, Patrick Warburton, Kevin Harrington, Tom Long, Eliza Szonert
Duration
101 minutes
Temple Grandin
Drama•History
Overview
A biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic American who has become one of the leading scientists in humane livestock handling.
Director
Mick Jackson
Cast
Claire Danes, David Strathairn, Barry Tubb, Melissa Farman, Charles Baker
Duration
108 minutes
Final Destination Bloodlines
Horror•Mystery•Thriller
Overview
Plagued by a violent recurring nightmare, college student Stefanie heads home to track down the one person who might be able to break the cycle and save her family from the grisly demise that inevitably awaits them all.
Director
Zach Lipovsky
Duration
109 minutes
The Dark Knight
Action•Adventure•Crime•Drama•Thriller•Mystery
Overview
Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as the Joker.
Director
Christopher Nolan
Cast
Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Aaron Eckhart
Duration
152 minutes
Zodiac
Crime•Thriller•Mystery•Drama
Overview
The Zodiac murders cause the lives of Paul Avery, David Toschi and Robert Graysmith to intersect.
Director
David Fincher
Cast
Mark Ruffalo, Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Anthony Edwards, Chloë Sevigny
Duration
158 minutes
Ocean's Eleven
Crime•Thriller•Mystery
Overview
Less than 24 hours into his parole, charismatic thief Danny Ocean is already rolling out his next plan: In one night, Danny's hand-picked crew of specialists will attempt to steal more than $150 million from three Las Vegas casinos. But to score the cash, Danny risks his chances of reconciling with ex-wife, Tess.
Director
Steven Soderbergh
Cast
George Clooney, Matt Damon, Andy García, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts
Duration
117 minutes
The Batman
Action•Adventure•Crime•Drama•Mystery•Thriller
Overview
In his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City that connects to his own family while facing a serial killer known as the Riddler.
Director
Matt Reeves
Cast
Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Wright, John Turturro
Duration
169 minutes
Paddington in Peru
Comedy•Family•Kids
Overview
Paddington travels to Peru to visit his beloved Aunt Lucy, who now resides at the Home for Retired Bears. With the Brown Family in tow, a thrilling adventure ensues when a mystery plunges them into an unexpected journey through the Amazon rainforest and up to the mountain peaks of Peru.
Director
Dougal Wilson
Cast
Ben Whishaw, Hugh Bonneville, Emily Mortimer, Antonio Banderas, Olivia Colman
Duration
106 minutes
The Town
Crime•Thriller•Drama•Mystery
Overview
Doug MacRay is a longtime thief, who, smarter than the rest of his crew, is looking for his chance to exit the game. When a bank job leads to the group kidnapping an attractive branch manager, he takes on the role of monitoring her – but their burgeoning relationship threatens to unveil the identities of Doug and his crew to the FBI Agent who is on their case.
Director
Ben Affleck
Cast
Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jeremy Renner, Jon Hamm, Blake Lively
Duration
125 minutes
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Family•Fantasy•Comedy•Kids
Overview
When eccentric candy man Willy Wonka promises a lifetime supply of sweets and a tour of his chocolate factory to five lucky kids, penniless Charlie Bucket seeks the golden ticket that will make him a winner.
Director
Mel Stuart
Cast
Gene Wilder, Peter Ostrum, Jack Albertson, Roy Kinnear, Julie Dawn Cole
Duration
100 minutes
The Hunger Games
Sci-fi•Action•Adventure•Thriller•Mystery
Overview
Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games. Part twisted entertainment, part government intimidation tactic, the Hunger Games are a nationally televised event in which “Tributes” must fight with one another until one survivor remains. Pitted against highly-trained Tributes who have prepared for these Games their entire lives, Katniss is forced to rely upon her sharp instincts as well as the mentorship of drunken former victor Haymitch Abernathy. If she’s ever to return home to District 12, Katniss must make impossible choices in the arena that weigh survival against humanity and life against love. The world will be watching.
Director
Gary Ross
Cast
Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks
Duration
143 minutes
2001: A Space Odyssey
Sci-fi•Mystery•Thriller•Action•Adventure
Overview
Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.
Director
Stanley Kubrick
Cast
Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Douglas Rain, Daniel Richter
Duration
149 minutes
Game Night
Comedy•Action•Crime•Thriller•Mystery•Adventure
Overview
Max and Annie's weekly game night gets kicked up a notch when Max's brother Brooks arranges a murder mystery party -- complete with fake thugs and federal agents. So when Brooks gets kidnapped, it's all supposed to be part of the game. As the competitors set out to solve the case, they start to learn that neither the game nor Brooks are what they seem to be. The friends soon find themselves in over their heads as each twist leads to another unexpected turn over the course of one chaotic night.
Director
John Francis Daley
Cast
Jason Bateman, Rachel McAdams, Kyle Chandler, Billy Magnussen, Sharon Horgan
Duration
96 minutes
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Kids•Fantasy•Family
Overview
Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of his second year at Hogwarts. Adventure and danger await when bloody writing on a wall announces: The Chamber Of Secrets Has Been Opened. To save Hogwarts will require all of Harry, Ron and Hermione’s magical abilities and courage.
Director
Chris Columbus
Cast
Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Kenneth Branagh, John Cleese
Duration
154 minutes
The Family McMullen
Drama
Overview
30 years after the events of The Brothers McMullen, romantic entanglements plague a now fiftysomething Barry McMullen and his twentysomething kids, as well as his brother Patrick and widowed sister-in-law Molly, who are also facing similar unexpected hurdles.
Director
Edward Burns
Cast
Connie Britton, Edward Burns, Halston Sage, Michael McGlone, Tracee Ellis Ross
Duration
110 minutes
Mulholland Drive
Thriller•Drama•Mystery
Overview
Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.
Director
David Lynch
Cast
Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux, Ann Miller, Robert Forster
Duration
146 minutes
Live by Night
Crime•Thriller•Action•Drama•Mystery•Adventure
Overview
A group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off against the competition and the Ku Klux Klan.
Director
Ben Affleck
Cast
Ben Affleck, Elle Fanning, Brendan Gleeson, Chris Messina, Sienna Miller
Duration
124 minutes
Don't Worry Darling
Thriller•Mystery•Drama•Sci-fi
Overview
Alice and Jack are lucky to be living in the idealized community of Victory, the experimental company town housing the men who work for the top-secret Victory Project and their families. But when cracks in their idyllic life begin to appear, exposing flashes of something much more sinister lurking beneath the attractive façade, Alice can’t help questioning exactly what they’re doing in Victory, and why.
Director
Olivia Wilde
Cast
Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Chris Pine, Olivia Wilde, Gemma Chan
Duration
122 minutes
Blade Runner
Sci-fi•Thriller•Action•Drama•Mystery•Adventure
Overview
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.
Director
Ridley Scott
Cast
Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh
Duration
112 minutes
Trap
Thriller•Horror•Mystery•Crime
Overview
A father and teen daughter attend a pop concert, where they realize they're at the center of a dark and sinister event.
Director
M. Night Shyamalan
Cast
Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donoghue, Saleka, Hayley Mills, Alison Pill
Duration
105 minutes
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Drama
Overview
A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.
Director
Miloš Forman
Cast
Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Danny DeVito, William Redfield, Scatman Crothers
Duration
133 minutes