Life is hell on Hulu — at least, that’s according to several movies it recently added to its library in May.
Fortunately for you, those movies are pretty good, which is why they’re on Watch With Us’ weekend list of the three best Hulu movies you should stream this weekend.
If you missed the January hit Send Help with Rachel McAdams while it was in theaters, you can now watch it from the comfort of your own home.
Zombie fans will likely eat up We Bury the Dead, while Oscar lovers still mourning the passing of awards season can stream the epic A Passage to India.
‘Send Help’ (2026)
Linda Liddle (Rachel McAdams) is a pushover in life and in her job as a corporate strategist. That all changes when her flight crashes and she’s stranded on a deserted island with her new boss, Bradley Preston (Dylan O’Brien). He doesn’t know how to take care of himself in the wild, but Linda does, and she uses her newfound power to her advantage. But Bradley doesn’t want to be controlled by anyone, and he’d rather kill Linda than submit to her.
Send Help is a bizarro mash-up of Lord of the Flies and The War of the Roses, with a dash of the gross-out humor director Sam Raimi is known for. O’Brien is appropriately smarmy as a chauvinist pig who can’t stand being ordered around by a woman, while McAdams is transcendent as a meek woman who inherits the earth — or at least a small portion of it. The Oscar-nominated star of Spotlight and The Notebook once again shows she’s an ace comedic actress, and Send Help is further proof that a hypothetical Mean Girls sequel with her as an older, bitchier Regina George would slay at the box office.
Send Help is streaming on Hulu.
‘We Bury the Dead’ (2025)
After an accidental explosion in Tasmania renders many dead and the rest brain dead, authorities soon discover that some survivors have become violent zombies. Ava (Daisy Ridley) and her husband Mitch (Matt Whelan) volunteer to help the clean-up efforts, but when Mitch goes missing, Ava teams up with drifter Clay (Brenton Thwaites) to find him. What happens next is an existential journey as Ava encounters the best and worst of humanity. Even if Mitch is alive, Ava won’t be the same woman he left behind. And if he is dead, Ava might not have another reason to continue living.
If We Bury the Dead sounds heavy, that’s because it is. The movie is less concerned with gratuitous, Resident Evil-style zombie thrills and more focused on Ava’s emotional state and what society would actually look like if the dead came back to life. While some of the undead are violent, others aren’t, and the movie is most interesting when it shows Ava encountering zombies who care more about settling unfinished business than eating flesh. We Bury the Dead is one of the better recent zombie films, and it deserves to live even after it died at the box office last year.
We Bury the Dead is streaming on Hulu.
‘A Passage to India’ (1984)
In the 1920s, young Adela Quested (Judy Davis) and Mrs. Moore (Peggy Ashcroft) journey from England to India to visit Ronny (Nigel Havers), Adela’s fiancé and Mrs. Moore’s son. It’s the ladies’ first time in the country, and they marvel at the strange and exotic animals that greet them — and wince at the rising tensions between the British government and the native Indian population. When a local doctor, Aziz Ahmed (Victor Banerjee), escorts them to the mysterious Marabar Caves, Adela and Mrs. Moore are at first thrilled. But the caves unnerve them in different ways, and Adela accuses Aziz of a crime he swears he didn’t commit. What happened in the Marabar Caves? And is Aziz innocent or guilty?
Adapted from E.M. Forster’s celebrated novel, A Passage to India is a lavish, old-school epic in the best possible sense. The movie takes its time to tell its story (it’s 163 minutes long, so get comfortable), but it successfully immerses you in a different time and culture that’s foreign to most viewers. The film’s central mystery is intriguing yet never fully explained — it’s up to you to decide for yourself what happened in those mysterious caves. The movie boasts several great performances that are topped only by outstanding cinematography that really breathes life into an India that no longer exists.
A Passage to India is streaming on Hulu.
