Streaming services provide thousands of movies for consumers to watch every month. Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, and Max are some of the top streaming services on the market. However, these services have monthly fees. If you subscribe to all four services, then it will cost you a pretty penny. If you’re looking for alternative streaming options, try YouTube, which offers free movies with ads.
YouTube is not a typical streaming service with thousands of movies in its library. However, don’t sleep on YouTube. There are plenty of popular films in multiple genres available to stream immediately. To help influence your selections, we curated a list of the best free movies to watch on YouTube this month.
Looking for more stuff you can watch for free? Check out our guides to the best free shows on YouTube and the best sites for watching free movies online.
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Notting Hill1999
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Cocktail1988
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There Will Be Blood2007
Notting Hill (1999)
68%
7.2/10Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant, two of the iconic rom-com stars of the 1990s, joined forces for the British romance Notting Hill. William Thacker (Hugh Grant) is a recently divorced everyman who works at a travel book store in Notting Hill, London. Recently divorced, William’s love life turns around when Hollywood actress Anna Scott (Julia Roberts) visits his shop.
After a conversation, the two share a chance encounter capped off with a kiss. Despite their differences, William and Anna begin a passionate love affair. Yet outside forces in their personal lives try to tear them apart. Can an “average Joe” win over the woman of his dreams?
Cocktail (1988)
12%
5.9/10Because of his intensity, swagger, and charisma, Tom Cruise was the perfect choice to play Brian Flanagan in Cocktail. After serving in the Army, Flanagan heads to business school in New York City. Flanagan becomes a bartender to make ends meet and learns the ropes from Doug Coughlin (Bryan Brown). Coughlin shows Flanagan how to flair, which leads to bigger crowds and tips.
When the duo end their partnership, Flanagan moves to Jamaica to secure enough money to start his own bar. Flanagan begins a passionate affair with Jordan Mooney (Elisabeth Shue). What happens on the island stays on the island. Or does it? Flanagan wants the bar, the girl, and the money. Is he in over his head, or can he have his cake and eat it too?
There Will Be Blood (2007)
93%
8.2/10On the shortlist of best films of the 21st century is There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson’s masterpiece about an oil tycoon’s rise to power in the early 20th century. Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) moves to California in the early 1900s and discovers oil. He later adopts the son of a dead employee, H.W. (Russell Harvard), to present himself as a family man when approaching people to buy their property for oil.
While examining an oil deposit in Little Boston, Daniel meets Eli Sunday (Paul Dano), a local preacher who suspects the oil man’s nefarious intentions. For the next decade, Daniel strives to become the wealthiest mogul in the region, no matter what it takes.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
89%
8.3/10If you could erase your memories of a former love, would you? In Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, there is a procedure making it possible to do this. Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) is heartbroken to learn that his ex-girlfriend, Clementine Kruczynski (Kate Winslet), signs up for the procedure to remove him from her memories. Depressed, Joel decides to do the same.
While asleep during the procedure, Joel relives his memories with Clementine, which reminds him how much he once loved her. As his memories slowly fade away, Joel fights to keep the spirit of Clementine alive. The movie is a beautiful and painful representation of love, loss, and how we choose to move on.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
67%
7.9/10Charlie (Logan Lerman) is a gentle but socially awkward teenager about to face the biggest challenge of his life: high school. Planning to skate by high school unnoticed, Charlie luckily makes friends with two outgoing seniors: the kindhearted Sam (Emma Watson) and her rebellious stepbrother Patrick (Ezra Miller).
With Sam and Patrick in his life, Charlie comes out of his shell, realizing there’s more to life than burying your head in books and standing on the sidelines. But Charlie suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, and his condition only worsens as the school year reaches its end. Before Charlie can help others, he must learn how to forgive himself.
Point Break (1991)
59%
7.3/10Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze square off in Kathryn Bigelow’s excellent action thriller, Point Break. Former college quarterback Johnny Utah (Reeves) is a hot-shot FBI agent who teams with veteran agent Angelo Pappas (Gary Busey) to catch a group of bank robbers known as the “Ex-Presidents.” The duo hypothesizes that the robbers are surfers, so Utah goes undercover within the beach community, searching for more information.
While posing as a surfer, Utah meets Bodhi (Swayze), the eccentric leader of a group of surfers. As Utah spends more time with the surfers, he develops a genuine bond with the free-spirited Bodhi. However, this complicates Utah’s mission, blurring the lines between his new friends and his job.
I Kill Giants (2018)
74%
6.1/10My Friend Dahmer (2017)
68%
6.2/10Someone at YouTube has very deftly picked up on the renewed interest in Jeffrey Dahmer by getting the rights to stream My Friend Dahmer. This serial killer movie is based upon the true story of John “Derf” Backderf (Alex Wolff), a cartoonist who was the closest friend that Jeffrey Dahmer (Ross Lynch) had in high school. In this adaptation of Backderf’s graphic novel, he and his fellow outcasts befriend Dahmer, but they aren’t blind to his bizarre behavior. However, they couldn’t have predicted that the awkward young man that they knew would go on to become one of the most infamous serial killers of the last century. It’s also a tragic tale, as no one notices how monstrous Dahmer has become until it’s far too late to stop him.
The Illusionist (2006)
68%
7.6/10Night of the Living Dead (1968)
89%
7.9/10A seminal entry for American horror cinema, George A. Romero’s classic horror movie follows seven people who find themselves trapped in Pennsylvania as the terrifying walking dead surround them. They have to try to survive without understanding the terror that lurks outside.
The movie has been noted as the first zombie film, and its influences can be seen in everything from 28 Days Later to Shaun of the Dead. Romero’s debut — he wrote, directed, edited, and acted in the film — made him into a superstar, quickly revolutionizing the genre on a budget of a mere $114,000.
