If you've grown tired of relentless price hikes from your favorite streaming platforms, it's nice to know that free TV streaming services such as Tubi, Kanopy and Pluto TV can be counted on for all kinds of great shows and movies. New films (and TV shows) arrive on these platforms every month, making them fantastic options if you don't want to pay for another service.
Tubi has a new original thriller, Hive, arriving this month about a babysitter who loses her charge at the playground, only to realize dark forces are affecting all the kids around her. It looks delightfully frightening. Other films coming to the platform in April include Poor Things, which earned Emma Stone her second Oscar, and House of Gucci, starring Lady Gaga.
Kanopy is heavy on the creepy thrillers this April. Catch recent movies such as Together, starring Alison Brie and Dave Franco, along with the found-footage horror Shelby Oaks. Or keep it lighter with a modern cult classic like Saved! You'll also find A24 films including Dream Scenario and Problemista on multiple platforms this month, including Kanopy and Tubi. On Pluto TV, catch classics such as Chinatown, The Godfather and Roman Holiday, among many more great films.
Here's a look at the best films arriving on free streaming platforms this April.
Free movies on Tubi in April
Hive (April 17)
The new thriller Hive, starring Xochitl Gomez and Aaron Domnguez, premieres exclusively on Tubi Friday, April 17. In the film, Gomez (who you may recognize from The Babysitter's Club series or Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness) plays a babysitter who loses the child she's watching at a playground only to realize there's something sinister and surreal is afoot.
Other movies arriving on April 1 (unless otherwise noted):
- Bullet Train
- The Caretaker (April 10)
- Poor Things
- Predator (April 15)
- Moonstruck
- Scary Movie
- Hijacked (April 24)
- Superbad
- Ice Age: The Meltdown
- A Few Good Men
- Saving Private Ryan
- House of Gucci
- Problemista
Free movies on Kanopy in April
- Together (April 3)
- Dream Scenario (April 3)
- A Room With A View (April 3)
- Shelby Oaks (April 10)
- Chicago (April 10)
- Event Horizon (April 17)
- Saved! (April 17)
- Face/Off (April 24)
- George A. Romero's Resident Evil (April 24)
Free movies on Pluto TV in April
- Beverly Hills Cop
- Election
- The Dictator
- Everybody Wants Some!!
- Happy Gilmore
- Problemista
- Three Amigos!
- Soapdish
- Blonde
- The Big Short
- Jack Reacher
- Chinatown
- The Godfather
Free movies on Fawesome in April
- The Usual Suspects
- American History X
- Gangs of New York
- The Untouchables
- Legends of the Fall
- Margin Call
- Blue Valentine
- RoboCop
- The Master
Free movies on Plex in April
- Apocalypse Now
- Grizzly Man
- Dear White People
- Jackie Brown
- Vice
- Wind River
- Winter's Bone
- Wonderland
- Nashville
- Kick Ass