The Oscars are simply across the nook, and whilst you’ll need to pay to look at all the 2025 Best Picture nominees forward of their respective streaming launch dates, you’ll discover loads of Oscar-winning films from years passed by streaming on the greatest free streaming companies.
Below, I’ve highlighted 5 of the most effective free films to stream on Tubi, Pluto TV, Plex, and extra this week – from Dune to Boiling Point.
Dune (Tubi)
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Release date: September 2021
RT Score: 83%
Length: 155 minutes
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Main forged: Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin
These days, Timothée Chalamet isn’t any stranger to a freeway billboard, however it wasn’t till 2021’s Dune — which is now streaming at no cost on Tubi — that the younger actor earned his stripes as a bona fide main man.
Part one among Denis Villeneuve’s two-part (and shortly to be three-part) sci-fi epic stars Chalamet as Paul Atreides, a gifted prince whose life is upended when a) he and his household are despatched to ward over an unforgiving desert planet, and b) his father (Oscar Isaac) is unceremoniously murdered by the pinnacle of a rival home (Stellan Skarsgard).
Once you’re achieved battling Dune’s sandstorms and sandworms, take a look at our interviews with Villeneuve and the movie’s Oscar-winning manufacturing workforce to see how they introduced the world of Arrakis to life.
Lady Bird (Pluto TV)
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Release date: September 2017
RT Score: 99%
Length: 94 minutes
Director: Greta Gerwig
Main forged: Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Lucas Hedges
Just as Dune marked a gear change for Timothée Chalamet’s then-fledgling profession, so too did Lady Bird deliver first-time director Greta Gerwig into the mainstream highlight (on the time, she already had seven screenplays to her title).
Now streaming on Pluto TV, this coming-of-age drama stars Saoirse Ronan as a precocious teen who longs to flee her Sacramento hometown and transfer to “a metropolis with tradition”, in opposition to the needs of her strong-minded mom (Laurie Metcalf). Gerwig, Ronan, and Metcalf all earned Oscar nominations for his or her involvement in Lady Bird, and the movie stays a shifting and hilarious portrait of early noughties adolescence.
Tangerine (Plex)
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Release date: January 2015
RT Score: 96%
Length: 88 minutes
Director: Sean Baker
Main forged: Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Mya Taylor, Karren Karagulian, Mickey O’Hagan
Layer Cake (Pluto TV)
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Release date: October 2004
RT Score: 81%
Length: 105 minutes
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Main forged: Daniel Craig, Colm Meaney, Kenneth Cranham, George Harris
Some criticized Daniel Craig’s now-iconic casting as James Bond in 2005, however these naysayers clearly hadn’t seen his efficiency in Layer Cake a yr earlier.
Now streaming on Pluto TV, Matthew Vaughn’s slick crime thriller follows an unnamed London drug seller (Craig) whose retirement plans are scuppered when a ruthless mob boss (Kenneth Cranham) duties him with one closing job. Tom Hardy, Michael Gambon, and Sienna Miller additionally star in Layer Cake, which proved that Vaughn might make a profitable Guy Ritchie film with out Guy Ritchie.
Boiling Point (Pluto TV)
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Release date: August 2021
RT Score: 99%
Length: 92 minutes
Director: Philip Barantini
Main forged: Stephen Graham, Vinette Robinson, Alice Feetham, Hannah Walters
Stephen Graham is at present punching his manner via Victorian London in Steven Knight’s A Thousand Blows collection on Disney Plus, however for an actual showcase of the English actor’s expertise, look no additional than Boiling Point, which is now streaming at no cost on Pluto TV.
Filmed in real-time, in a single take, at an actual East London restaurant, Boiling Point facilities on a revered chef (Graham) whose private {and professional} issues threaten to derail service on the busiest night time of the yr. Praised for precisely portraying life in a high-pressure kitchen, this isn’t a movie to calm down to, however it positive is an exhilarating watch.
