So, the Oscars have been and gone, and all you’ve received to sit up for on the perfect streaming providers this week is the “fault-riddled” new Netflix film, The Electric State. What a (dangerous) time to be a movie fan. Audible sigh.
But wait! It’s not all doom and gloom. The finest free streaming providers are commonly topped up with basic films from years passed by, so whilst you gained’t discover any of the 2025 Best Picture nominees streaming on the likes of Tubi, Pluto TV, or Plex, you can see loads of movies which are nonetheless price your time.
Below, I’ve highlighted 5 of the perfect free films to stream on Tubi, Pluto TV, Plex, and extra this week – from Oscar-winning crime thrillers to beloved sci-fi adventures
Mississippi Burning (Pluto TV, Kanopy, Hoopla)
Release date: December 1988
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 79%
Length: 128 minutes
Director: Alan Parker
Main forged: Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Michael Rooker
You by no means want purpose to look at a Gene Hackman film, however the legendary actor’s passing final month means now’s nearly as good a time as any to rewatch classics like Mississippi Burning, which is now streaming free of charge on Pluto TV, Kanopy, and Hoopla.
Loosely based mostly on a real-life 1964 homicide investigation, Alan Parker’s Oscar-winning thriller stars Hackman and Willem Dafoe as two FBI brokers who arrive in Mississippi to research the mysterious disappearance of three civil rights staff. Despite its controversial fictionalization of occasions, Mississippi Burning stays an important showcase for the appearing expertise of its two leads, although Frances McDormand arguably turns within the movie’s finest efficiency.
The Fifth Element (Pluto TV)
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Release date: May 1997
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 71%
Length: 126 minutes
Director: Luc Besson
Main forged: Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm
I’ve a definite reminiscence of my Dad exhibiting me The Fifth Element – one in all his all-time favourite films – on VHS about 20 years in the past, so it’s no shock that Luc Besson’s sci-fi romp is now one in all my all-time favourite films, too.
Now streaming free of charge on Pluto TV, The Fifth Element facilities on a Twenty third-century cab driver (Bruce Willis) who turns into embroiled in a mission to save lots of the world when an alien humanoid named Leeloo (Milla Jovovich) falls into his car. In equal elements spectacular and ridiculous – the movie was nominated for BAFTAs and Golden Raspberry Awards – this unhinged space-set journey positively gained’t go away you bored.
Snowpiercer (Tubi, Pluto TV, Plex)
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Release date: June 2014
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 94%
Length: 126 minutes
Director: Bong Joon-ho
Main forged: Chris Evans, Song Kang-ho, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell
Parasite director Bong Joon-ho is at the moment busy selling his newest movie Mickey 17, however his dystopian 2014 thriller Snowpiercer is at the moment streaming free of charge on Tubi, Pluto TV, and Plex (sure, all three!).
Based on the 1982 French graphic novel Le Transperceneige and having since been tailored right into a three-season Netflix sequence, Snowpiercer follows passengers of a huge, divided-by-class, non-stopping prepare as they try to achieve management of its trajectory – and, by extension, their future. The movie’s political allegory isn’t delicate, however Snowpiercer is actually essentially the most entertaining takedown of capitalism (or communism? You resolve) I’ve ever seen.
Limitless (Plex, Pluto TV)
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Release date: March 2011
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 68%
Length: 105 minutes
Director: Neil Burger
Main forged: Bradley Cooper, Abbie Cornish, Robert De Niro, Andrew Howard
I hate to confess it, however Limitless might be the movie I’ve seen essentially the most in my life. There’s nothing distinctive about it, however I’ve at all times discovered it to be an inherently watchable film and one which’s onerous to change off at any time when I stumble throughout it on terrestrial TV.
Now streaming free of charge on Plex and Pluto TV, Limitless stars Bradley Cooper as a down-on-his-luck author who discovers a brain-enhancing drug that turns his life round. It’s Lucy meets Bruce Almighty meets Jumper, which is a mixture that shouldn’t work, however does. Don’t go in anticipating The Godfather, and also you’ll be pleasantly shocked by this one.
Blackfish (Plex)
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Release date: July 2013
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 98%
Length: 83 minutes
Director: Gabriela Cowperthwaite
For a very long time, Blackfish ranked on our listing of the perfect Netflix documentaries, and now this BAFTA-winning (and controversy-inciting) film is streaming free of charge on Plex.
Blackfish tells the story of Tilikum, the most important orca in captivity at SeaWorld who – after being paraded round varied US parks – in the end induced the deaths of three individuals, together with a famend killer whale coach. Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s account of these deaths sheds a damning gentle on the implications of protecting clever animals in captivity, and Blackfish continues to be cited as an element behind SeaWorld’s plummeting reputation.
