3 Best Free Movies to Watch on YouTube, Pluto TV, Tubi and More Streaming Platforms (May 2026)

With gas prices increasing and the rent still too damn high, you have to save money somewhere.

Well, that’s what YouTube, Pluto TV and Tubi are for. These streaming platforms have some pretty impressive libraries for a can’t-beat price — $0. That’s right, all of their movies are free to watch. Netflix could never …

This May, Watch With Us has curated a short list of the best free movies streaming right now, with the Emily Blunt thriller The Girl on the Train at the top.

Keep reading to find out all the free movies we recommend you stream in May 2026.

‘The Girl on the Train’ (2016) — YouTube

Rachel (Emily Blunt) is a recovering alcoholic who spends most of her day riding a commuter train to spy on her ex-husband, his new wife, and their beautiful neighbor, Megan (Haley Bennett). After Rachel sees Megan kissing a stranger, she wakes up the next day covered in blood, with no memory of what happened. Worse still, Megan is missing, and the police begin to suspect she’s the killer. Is Rachel guilty? Or is there some sinister conspiracy at work here?

Based on the massively popular novel by Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train is an effective and absorbing thriller — just as long as you don’t look too closely at the details. There are a lot of convenient coincidences in the movie’s plot, but it mostly delivers the thrills and plot twists you’d expect from a movie like this. What elevates it is Blunt’s performance as Rachel, a woman who is so out of it that even she thinks she’s the killer at one point. The Devil Wears Prada 2 actress was nominated for a SAG award for her performance, and she deserved it.

‘Serial Mom’ (1994) — Tubi

Beverly Sutphin (Kathleen Turner) is the perfect wife, mother and woman, but she has one fatal flaw — she likes to kill people. A lot. When her son’s math teacher badmouths him at a PTA meeting, Beverly goes full-on Psycho and runs him over. That’s just the beginning of Beverly’s reign of terror, which eventually places her in a courtroom defending her crimes. But surely someone as obviously guilty as Beverly won’t get away with murder. Right?

That plot description makes Serial Mom sound like a serious film, or at least a horrific one, but it’s 100 percent a comedy, and a funny one at that. Directed by John Waters, it skewers American middle-class values and our society’s obsession with true crime and serial killers. It’s also just funny on a very basic level, with gags about Bill Cosby, wearing white after Labour Day and the musical Annie that still make me chuckle all these years later.

‘In and Out’ (1997) — Pluto TV

Howard Brackett (Kevin Kline) is an ordinary high school English teacher whose life gets turned upside down after a famous student of his wins an Oscar and outs him in his acceptance speech. The only problem is that Howard isn’t gay — he has an adoring female fiancée, Emily (Joan Cusack), and a Barbra Streisand music collection to prove it. But as the media spotlight turns on him, Howard isn’t so sure he’s the man everyone thinks he is.

Based on a real story but with some comedic embellishments, In & Out is an amusing look at life in the age of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and Ellen DeGeneres’ “Yep, I’m Gay!” media hysteria. Some of the film’s jokes have aged poorly, but what’s remained timeless is Kline and Cusack’s ace comedic performances as an engaged couple who are more best friends than lovers.