Peacock may not have as many movies as other streaming services, but the ones it does have are good. Recent additions to our list of the best movies to watch on Peacock right now include Dev Patel’s action film Monkey Man, Wes Anderson’s crime dramedy The Phoenician Scheme, and Drop, a tense, fun thriller led by rising stars Meghann Fahy (Sirens) and Brandon Sklenar (It Ends with Us). Peacock is the streaming home of Universal, which means it has blockbusters from the big studio as well as movies from sub-studios like Focus (indies), DreamWorks (family), and Blumhouse (horror). If you’re looking for a worthwhile new release, there’s a good chance you’ll find it on Peacock.
We’ve focused on movies released somewhat recently, as well as some Peacock exclusives that you can’t stream anywhere else.
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Last updated Oct. 30, 2025; newer additions are at the top
Monkey Man
Dev Patel writes, directs, and stars in this well-reviewed action film about a young man who works at an Indian underground fight club, where he bides his time looking for the right moment to get revenge on the local police chief who killed his mother. It’s a dark film loaded with extended bone-crunching fight scenes, but if you wipe away the blood, you’ll find an engaging revenge thriller about class and corruption. –Tim Surette [Trailer]
The Phoenician Scheme
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Wes Anderson’s latest living diorama follows Anatole “Zsa-Zsa” Korda (Benicio del Toro), an arms dealer and generally crooked businessman. Knowing that his bad way of living will inevitably catch up with him sooner rather than later, Zsa-Zsa persuades his estranged daughter, Sister Liesl (Mia Threapleton), to leave her convent and take over his business. As they go on an adventure to try to salvage a business deal on the verge of collapse, they realize that family is what’s important in life. Like all of Anderson’s films, it has an impressive ensemble cast; A-listers in this one include Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johansson, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Bill Murray. -Liam Mathews [Trailer]
Drop
Meghann Fahy (Sirens) stars in this fun thriller from Happy Death Day director Christopher Landon. She plays a widowed young mother named Violet who goes on a date for the first time since the death of her husband with Henry (1923‘s Brandon Sklenar), a photographer who seems very nice. Everything is going pretty well until she gets an Airdrop (they call it something else in the movie because the name is trademarked by Apple, but that’s what it is) from an unknown menace threatening to kill her son unless she kills Henry. So these two strangers have to work together to try to figure out who’s behind this — and why. Fahy and Sklenar have great chemistry, and the script is a blast. -Liam Mathews [Trailer]
The Woman in the Yard
She’s got style, she’s got grace, she’s a winner, she’s The Woman in the Yard. Danielle Deadwyler stars in this horror hit as Ramona, a mother grieving the recent death of her husband. One day, the titular entity appears and sits there, waiting. “Today’s the day,” she says. As Ramona and her kids try to deal with the Woman’s presence, the truth about who she is and why she’s there becomes apparent. The film hails from Carry-On director Jaume Collet-Serra and horror hit factory Blumhouse. -Liam Mathews [Trailer]
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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Renee Zellweger returns to her iconic romantic comedy role for the fourth time, and first time since 2016, in this straight-to-Peacock original. This time, Bridget is widowed. She’s still grieving the death of her husband four years earlier, but she’s starting to get back out there. But Bridget doesn’t do anything the easy way, and she starts dating a much younger man, Roxster (Leo Woodall), which is exciting but stressful. It’s a rom-com, but there’s a lot of sadness in it, so be prepared to have your tears jerked. -Liam Mathews [Trailer]
The Northman
The Northman, director Robert Eggers’ delightfully violent film set in Viking society, is totally radical. Modern-day Viking Alexander Skarsgård stars as a prince out to avenge the death of his father, and he does so with both incredible patience and brutality. Eggers is one of the best filmmakers working today, and The Northman is another fine addition to his collection, alongside influential folk horror classic The Witch, black-and-white head-trip The Lighthouse, and sumptuous vampire film Nosferatu. -Tim Surette [Trailer]
The Killer
Game of Thrones veteran Nathalie Emmanuel gets her action star on in this surprisingly good straight-to-streaming thriller. The special thing about the film is that it’s directed by John Woo, one of the greatest action filmmakers of all time, and is in fact a remake of his 1989 Hong Kong film, which starred Chow Yun-fat in the title role. Emmanuel plays a professional assassin in Paris who gets caught up in a job that turns personal. Omar Sy and Sam Worthington co-star. -Liam Mathews [Trailer]
The Bad Guys
This good-natured comedy is about a gang of anthropomorphic animals with bad reputations — a wolf, a shark, a snake, a tarantula, and a piranha — who decide to stop being bad and start being the opposite of bad. The voice cast includes Sam Rockwell, Marc Maron, and Awkwafina, and it has a really cool, Into the Spiderverse-influenced animation style. -Liam Mathews [Trailer]
Belfast
Kenneth Branagh won (ahem, stole from Paul Thomas Anderson for Licorice Pizza) the Best Original Screenplay Oscar in 2022 for his well-liked coming-of-age drama set in Northern Ireland, about a young boy growing up during The Troubles in the late ’60s. Jamie Dornan and Outlander‘s Caitríona Balfe star. -Allison Picurro [Trailer]
