The best Tubi movies that you can watch for free

A young kid runs away and is joined by his uncle, played by Sam Neill. This is a chalk and cheese pairing. The annoying youth paired with the grumpy old man. And each learns from the other before the film is over. This is a winning, charming adventure from the years before director Taika Waititi was considered a bit of a Marmite presence.

Wes Anderson’s coming-of-age movie is one of his best. A couple of twelve year-old kids escape from their New England community, saying they’ve fallen in love. But there’s a storm approaching the area and the adults send out a search party to recover the lost kids. A charming film propelled by Anderson’s signature style.

Here’s a classic you may not have rewatched recently. It’s the film that introduced the Pixies to a generation, a mysterious cult hit starring a young Jake Gyllenhaal. He plays a disturbed youth haunted by a giant demonic bunny figure who says the world is about to end. But is it?

Kill Bill ranks high on our list of the best Tarantino movies. Well, the first one at least. You can watch both instalments on Tubi. It’s a classic revenge story in which Uma Thurman’s “The Bride” hunts down victims after her ex tries to kill her on her own wedding day. It’s brutal. It’s stylish. It’s peak Tarantino.

You may think of Inception or Mad Max: Fury Road as Tom Hardy’s breakout role. But for us, it’s all about Bronson, in which hardy plays Bronson himself. It’s a biopic of sort, centred on Charles Bronson, the famously violent prisoner who was originally incarcerated for armed robbery.

Before Batman and Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan directed Insomnia, one of Nolan’s less talked-about films. But it’s still a great watch. A detective, played by Al Pacino, heads to rural Alaska to investigate a murder. Robin Williams’s Walter is the main suspect, but the investigator is on the bring of losing it, drowning in (you guessed it) insomnia.

These days you can lazily split Adam Sandler’s movies into the bad low-brow comedies and the often brilliant dramatic works. But in the old days, some of the low-rent comedies were great too. Happy Gilmore is the story of a hockey player who can’t quite make it in his own sport, but finds he has a real talent for golf. Two worlds collide with hilarious results.

The Candyman premise is that this horror baddie will appear if you say his name three times. Silly, right? But the strength of Candyman is that there’s a sense of gritty groundedness few other genre movies of the era manage to recreate. It was based on a story by Clive Barker, whose mind also spawned Hellraiser and Nightbreed.

This is a horror comedy. But we like to think of it as simply an extremely fun horror movie, as there’s still plenty of tension to be found here. Our protagonist Tree Gelbman is murdered brutally. But she then wakes up to the same day, Groundhog Day style. She has to solve her own murder to escape from this bloody time loop. It’s an absolute high concept blast done and dusted in 96 minutes.

2006’s A Tale of Two Sisters is one of the classic Korean horror movies. One of the sisters of the title is institutionalised after discovering her hanged mother. She returns to her sister and the rest of the family, but is haunted by the ghost (or memory) of her mother. A creepy and powerfully singular watch.

Before Gareth Edwards made The Creator, Godzilla and Rogue One, he made Monsters. It’s a film made with a $0.5 million production budget that looks far better than some that cost 10x the amount. Scoot Nairy’s US journalist is travelling through the zone of a crashed NASA probe in Mexico, and strange life forms are afoot.