The 15 Best Movies to Watch on Peacock Right Now (February 2026)

Peacock doesn't have as many movies as other streaming services, preferring a quality-over-quantity approach. Recent additions to our list of the best movies to watch on Peacock right now include Academy Award nominees Song Sung Blue (Best Actress Kate Hudson) and Bugonia (Best Picture, Best Actress Emma Stone, Best Director Yorgos Lanthimos, etc.). 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 Feb. 13, 2026; newer additions are at the top

Song Sung Blue

Kate Hudson is nominated for an Oscar for her performance in this clever take on on a musician biopic. The film follows Neil Diamond tribute act Lightning & Thunder, which consists of married musicians Mike (Hugh Jackman) and Claire Sardinia (Hudson). They experience all the ups and downs and dramatic moments and struggles with addiction and mental health that big stars face, but on a smaller, more intimate scale. The film comes from music drama specialist Craig Brewer (Hustle & Flow). It's "so good, so good, so good!" -Liam Mathews [Trailer]

Black Phone 2

The sequel to the 2021 horror hit finds Ethan Hawke returning as sinister child-killer the Grabber, who's still terrorizing Finney Blake (Mason Thames) from beyond the grave. Black Phone 2 takes place a few years after the events of the first film, and follows Finn and his sister Gwen (Madeleine McGraw) as they investigate the Grabber's murders at Alpine Lake Camp 25 years earlier and his traumatic connection to their family. The first Black Phone is also streaming on Peacock. -Liam Mathews [Trailer]

Bugonia

The latest collaboration between Emma Stone and director Yorgos Lanthimos is a typically atypical dark comedy. Stone plays a pharmaceutical executive who gets kidnapped by a conspiracy theorist (Jesse Plemons), who believes she is an alien sent to Earth to enslave humanity. He might be right — or maybe humans don't need outside help to destroy themselves. It's the type of sad, strange satire only Lanthimos can do. -Liam Mathews [Trailer]

The Hunger Games

All films of the Hunger Games franchise are currently streaming, if you want to catch up before the release of highly anticipated prequel Sunrise on the Reaping later this year. The Hunger Games is a mildly underrated blockbuster franchise, with terrific action sequences and character drama. Jennifer Lawrence is a true movie star, and she's surrounded by an excellent supporting cast with standout performances from Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Lenny Kravitz, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Donald Sutherland, and many more. The real world may be a boring dystopia, but this one isn't. -Liam Mathews[Trailer]

Jurassic World Rebirth

In the latest reboot of the blockbuster dinosaur movie franchise, Scarlett Johansson plays a covert ops mercenary who gets hired to sneak into a dino-infested island alongside a paleontologist (Jonathan Bailey) and the team leader (Mahershala Ali) and extract DNA from mutant thunder lizards in order to develop a lifesaving medicine. Things quickly go sideways, as they always do, and the team has to try to survive all kinds of crazy "colossus" dinosaurs and (almost) equally dangerous humans. You know what you're getting at this point with these movies, and this one does the job. -Liam Mathews [Trailer]

Despicable Me 4

When all else fails, there's always the Minions. The little yellow guys with a net worth of $5 billion are back for their latest adventure that your kids will watch 5 billion times. To be fair, the Minions aren't the main characters here — that would be Gru (Steve Carell), the reformed supervillain-turned-family man, who has to save his family from his old nemesis, a French bad guy named Maxime Le Mal (Will Ferrell). But you and I both know it's all about the Minions. It's always about the Minions. It's only about the Minions. All hail our Minion overlords. -Liam Mathews [Trailer]

Conclave (2024)

For fans of: Papal drama, great actors

Ralph Fiennes stars in this elevated potboiler that turns a papal conclave into a palace intrigue thriller. Fiennes plays a cardinal overseeing the process to select the next Pope after the sitting Pope dies. While carrying out his duties, he uncovers a secret that could tear the Church apart. Conclave is an engaging, grown-up drama from Academy Award-winning director Edward Berger (Best International Film, All Quiet on the Western Front). -Liam Mathews [Trailer]

Twisters

This semi-sequel to the 1995 blockbuster Twister has twice the action, twice the danger, and twice the Twisters. Daisy Edgar-Jones and Glen Powell star as storm chasers in Oklahoma trying to get as close to the tornados as possible, because "if you feel it, chase it!" It's probably the best movie catchphrase of 2024. The cast of rising stars also includes Anthony Ramos, Brandon Perea, Katy O'Brian, and David Corenswet. If you're looking for a fun movie, give it a whirl. -Liam Mathews [Trailer]

Didi 

This coming-of-age dramedy from first-time director Sean Wang captures what it was like to be a teenager in the 2000s with uncanny accuracy. Izaac Wang stars as 13-year-old Chris, who lives in a Bay Area suburb with his mother, Taiwanese immigrant Chungsing (Joan Chen, in her best American role in years). He skateboards, makes goofy YouTube videos with his friends, fights with his sister, makes fumbling attempts to flirt with girls, and struggles with the weight of family expectations. It's a sweet slice-of-life movie like Sundance used to make (and this did, in fact, premiere at the Sundance Film Festival). -Liam Mathews[Trailer]

The Fall Guy

Ryan Gosling is a Hollywood stuntman, and a man that's he's doubled for has gone missing. Now his ex, a film director played by Emily Blunt, recruits him to find out what happened. And so begins this Kiss Kiss Bang Bang-esque noir action comedy that's got as many plot twists as it has dope action sequences. Even better: Peacock has an extended cut that's 20 minutes longer than the theatrical version. -Phil Owen [Trailer]

Tár

Cate Blanchett's powerhouse performance and Todd Field's script and keen direction launched Tár into the discussions for best film of 2022, with many major prestigious film critics associations naming it their favorite. It was nominated for Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and more at the Oscars (but didn't win any), further establishing it as a cinephile's favorite. As for what it's about, Blanchett plays an internationally renowned orchestra conductor whose career is disrupted by accusations of misconduct. -Tim Surette [Trailer]     

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Freaky

There are plenty of body-swap movies out there, but usually it's a child changing places with their parent, or a kid exchanging basketball skills with Kevin Durant, or Kevin Spacey becoming a cat. How many find a teenage girl trading meatsuits with a serial killer? Kathryn Newton and Vince Vaughn get to have a blast in this incredibly self-aware horror-comedy from director Christopher Landon, who throws in plenty of high school drama for a genre-blender that actually works. -Tim Surette

The Bad Guys 2

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. The sequel adds a trio of no-goodniks called the Bad Girls — Danielle Brooks as a snow leopard, Natasha Lyonne as a raven, and Maria Bakalova as a wild boar. -Liam Mathews [Trailer]

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 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]