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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Mickey 17
Sci-fi•Comedy•Fantasy
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Thoughts & Prayers
Documentary
Overview
In a dystopic America, children are taught how to prepare for school shootings through elaborate drills. Yet what are intended as self-defense mechanisms are themselves deeply traumatic for students, parents, educators, and entire communities.
Director
Zackary Canepari
Duration
84 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
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
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Drama•Mystery•Thriller
Overview
In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging Rock. Despite rules against it, Miranda and several other girls venture off. It's not until the end of the day that the faculty realizes the girls and one of the teachers have disappeared mysteriously.
Director
Peter Weir
Cast
Rachel Roberts, Vivean Gray, Helen Morse, Kirsty Child
Duration
115 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
Tenet
Action•Sci-fi•Thriller•Mystery•Adventure
Overview
Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.
Director
Christopher Nolan
Cast
John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Kenneth Branagh, Dimple Kapadia
Duration
144 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
Batman Begins
Action•Adventure•Drama•Crime•Mystery•Thriller
Overview
Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that plagues his home, Gotham City. Unable to work within the system, he instead creates a new identity, a symbol of fear for the criminal underworld - The Batman.
Director
Christopher Nolan
Cast
Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Gary Oldman
Duration
140 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
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Kids•Fantasy•Family•Action•Adventure
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
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 Devil's Advocate
Thriller•Fantasy•Drama•Mystery
Overview
Aspiring Florida defense lawyer Kevin Lomax accepts a job at a New York law firm. With the stakes getting higher every case, Kevin quickly learns that his boss has something far more evil planned.
Director
Taylor Hackford
Cast
Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino, Charlize Theron, Jeffrey Jones, Judith Ivey
Duration
144 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
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
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
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Fantasy•Action•Adventure
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
Beetlejuice 2
Comedy•Horror•Fantasy
Overview
After a family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Betelgeuse, Lydia's life is turned upside down when her teenage daughter, Astrid, accidentally opens the portal to the Afterlife.
Director
Ryan Perez
Cast
Natasha Lyonne, Allan McLeod, Annie Monroe
Duration
104 minutes
Dunkirk
War•Drama•History•Action•Thriller•Adventure•Mystery
Overview
The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.
Director
Christopher Nolan
Cast
Fionn Whitehead, Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy
Duration
102 minutes
The Beekeeper
Action•Thriller•Adventure•Crime•Mystery
Overview
One man’s campaign for vengeance takes on national stakes after he is revealed to be a former operative of a powerful and clandestine organization known as Beekeepers.
Director
David Ayer
Cast
Jason Statham, Jeremy Irons, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Bobby Naderi, Josh Hutcherson
Duration
105 minutes
Meet Me in St. Louis
Comedy•Drama•Romance•Family•Kids
Overview
Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family up to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.
Director
Vincente Minnelli
Cast
Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer, Leon Ames
Duration
113 minutes
2001: A Space Odyssey
Sci-fi•Action•Adventure•Mystery•Thriller
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
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
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
Paddington in Peru
Comedy•Family•Kids•Action•Adventure
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 Brothers McMullen
Comedy•Drama•Romance
Overview
Deals with the lives of the three Irish Catholic McMullen brothers from Long Island, New York, over three months, as they grapple with basic ideas and values — love, sex, marriage, religion and family — in the 1990s. Directed, written, produced by and starring Edward Burns.
Director
Edward Burns
Cast
Shari Albert, Maxine Bahns, Catharine Bolz, Connie Britton, Edward Burns
Duration
98 minutes
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
Action•Adventure•Fantasy•Sci-fi
Overview
Black Manta, still driven by the need to avenge his father's death and wielding the power of the mythic Black Trident, will stop at nothing to take Aquaman down once and for all. To defeat him, Aquaman must turn to his imprisoned brother Orm, the former King of Atlantis, to forge an unlikely alliance in order to save the world from irreversible destruction.
Director
James Wan
Cast
Jason Momoa, Patrick Wilson, Amber Heard, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Nicole Kidman
Duration
124 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 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
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
John Wick
Action•Thriller•Crime•Mystery•Adventure
Overview
Ex-hitman John Wick comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him.
Director
Chad Stahelski
Cast
Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist, Alfie Allen, Adrianne Palicki, Bridget Moynahan
Duration
101 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