The Showtime cable TV service also has a streaming department that allows anyone to access their movies and TV shows online without a cable or satellite connection. There are tons of movies to stream on Showtime, spanning a wide variety of genres. However, what are the best Showtime movies to stream on your phone, tablet, or smart TV?
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We'll help you by offering our picks for the top 10 Showtime movies you can stream right now. If you'd like to access these movies on Showtime, you can sign up for a seven-day free trial at the link below. After the trial period ends, the service will cost $ 10.99 per month.
Best Showtime Movies:
Editor's note: We'll be regularly updating this list of the best Showtime movies as new movies hit the streaming service.1. The advantage
Who would have thought bringing Kevin Hart and Bryan Cranston together in one movie would be a huge success? However, that's exactly what happened with this 2018 release. Hart plays a man who was recently released from prison. He's looking for a job, any job. He manages to get an interview with Bryan Cranston's character, a rich man who is also paraplegic. Hart is hired as Cranston's supervisor and they eventually become friends, each learning valuable lessons from one another. It's very melodramatic, but Hart and Cranston's performances establish this film and make it more real.
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This 2015 film earned Brie Larson her Academy Award for Best Actress. It's easy to see why she plays a woman who, as a young girl, is kidnapped by a man and has to live in a room for seven years. She even becomes pregnant and has a son while she remains captive. The film shows this unusual and tragic life between mother and daughter. It also sees their lives change when they escape their kidnapper and see the real world. It's definitely one of the best Showtime movies out there.
3rd 1917
Director and co-writer Sam Mendes created a truly unique war movie with this 2019 film. Set during a battle in World War I, it follows two British soldiers trying to get a message across to the front lines before the main army makes a big mistake. Mendes filmed and edited this film like it was a long take, and it's a truly incredible cinematic accomplishment. It really is one of the best movies on Showtime.
4. Ex Machina
Here's another great movie about finding true man-made life. Written and directed by Alex Garland, the 2015 film stars Domhnall Gleeson, who is invited to his home by a wealthy but eccentric CEO of a technology company played by Oscar Isaac. It turns out Isacc's character wants Gleeson to rate Ava, an artificial woman played by Alicia Vikander. Is Ava just a machine or is it really alive? That's what this film is about.
5. The gentlemen
Writer and director Guy Ritchie returns to his film roots with this UK 2020 crime thriller. It features Matthew McConaughey as an American living in the UK responsible for a major crime marijuana business. However, he wants to leave the business which leads to a ton of other criminals wanting to take it over. The film also stars Colin Farrell, Hugh Grant, Charlie Hunnam and Michelle Dockery.
6. 21 bridges
The late Chadwick Boseman had one of his final leading roles in this 2019 crime thriller. He plays a New York cop looking for two criminals who shot and killed a group of NYPD officers. Boseman's character has a unique solution to finding her. He wants to barricade the entire island of Manhattan for a few hours at night to prevent the shooters from escaping. The pursuit of these killers has some interesting twists, however.
7. Invasion of the Body Snatcher (1978)
There have been four films based on the classic 1954 science fiction novel The Body Snatchers. The 1978 adaptation, however, remains the best. Donald Sutherland appears as a health inspector in San Francisco. He slowly sees that the people around him are getting cold and emotionless. However, this is not a new form of new physical or mental illness. It's a silent alien invasion who replicate and then replace humans. Can Sutherland stop this threat? The tension in this film is high almost from the first minute and lasts until the end. It's definitely one of the best movies on Showtime.
8. Legally blonde
Sometimes all you need is a movie that's just for entertainment and just laughs. That's the perfect definition of that 2001 comedy. Reese Witherspoon had her breakthrough role as Elle Woods, a California valley girl with more sense than she realized. To follow her ex-boyfriend to Harvard Law School, she studied a lot and managed to get accepted. Lawyer-fashion fanatic merger is put to the test when Elle is asked to defend a suspect in a murder case.
9. Green paper
This historical drama is the surprise winner of the 2018 Oscar for Best Picture and, like others on this list, is based on a true story. Don Shirley, played by Oscar winner Mahershala Ali, is a black classical pianist who toured the south in 1962. To make sure he doesn't get injured during his tour, a former bouncer named Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga played by Viggo Mortensen, is hired as Shirley's driver and bodyguard. The film shows how two very different people from two very different areas of life can become friends while also facing the deep bigotry of some people in the deep south during this time.
10. Belushi
For several years in the late 1970s and early 1980s, John Belushi was the greatest actor in the world. This new documentary 202 delves into his life in great detail, from his discovery and appearance as original cast on the comedy sketch show Saturday Night Live to his groundbreaking film role in Animal House. He had it all, but his life became very short with his death in 1982. This new documentary reveals never-before-seen photos and videos of Belushi, as well as interviews with many of his close friends. It's definitely one of the best movies on Showtime.
This is our list of the best Showtime movies. We'll be adding more options to the list once it gets to the streaming service.
