A number of movies arrive and leave streaming platforms every month. On one side, we anticipate watching something new to sink our teeth into, while on the other side, we sometimes miss the old movies that made us laugh, cry, or scream in horror.
Hulu has so many good movies for its subscribers to stream, but few of them are leaving the platform soon. So, if you have been delaying your nostalgic watch list, now is the time to watch them before they become unavailable.
Check out this list of 20 best movies on Hulu that are leaving in December.
Bohemian Rhapsody
Genre: Musical, Documentary
Bohemian Rhapsody stars Rami Malek, Ben Hardy, and Lucy Boynton. The documentary format movie follows the lead singer, Freddie Mercury, in the rock band Queen. The story shows their massive success outside in the concert arena while Freddie inside finds himself struggling with his sexuality, increasing ego, and terrible news related to his health.
Interview With the Vampire
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Interview With the Vampire stars Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, and Kirsten Dunst. The premise follows a vampire, Louis de Pointe du Lac, who is giving an interview and telling the life story of how he became a vampire. As a human, he was devastated by his wife’s death, so when he was offered to turn into a vampire by a terrifying vampire named Lestat de Lioncourt, he takes it, but soon he comes to regret his impulsive decision.
Death on the Nile
Genre: Mystery, Crime
Death on the Nile stars Gal Gadot, Kenneth Branagh, and Ali Fazal. After solving the mystery of the murder on the Orient Express, Hercule Poirot has been invited to solve the problem of a recently married couple who are on their honeymoon across Egypt and being stalked by the husband’s ex-lover.
Elf
Genre: Fantasy, Comedy
Elf stars Will Ferrell, James Caan, and Zooey Deschanel. Buddy, an orphan’s life changes when he is mistakenly taken away by Santa to the North Pole where he is raised among elves, thinking he is one too. But after coming of age, he is told of his origins, and he sets out to find his biological father, who works in New York.
Men in Black
Genre: Action, Science Fiction
Men in Black stars Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, and Linda Fiorentino. James, an NYPD officer, encounters a suspicious agile man and brings him to be interviewed by an agent from MIB. They hire him as an agent, confessing that their organization works to eliminate extra-terrestrial threats while ensuring that normal people don’t find out about their presence on Earth.
The Other Woman
Genre: Romance, Comedy
The Other Woman stars Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann, and Kate Upton. Carly, a beautiful attorney, starts a fling with a handsome businessman, Mark King. After being together for two months, Carly is smitten and decides to bring him to meet her father, but Mark cancels. Thinking of surprising him, she goes to his home in Connecticut only to find that he has a wife.
Tropic Thunder
Genre: War, Comedy
Tropic Thunder stars Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr, and Jack Black. The premise follows a new, inexperienced director with a bunch of quirky and unusual actors trying to film a war movie based on a Vietnam veteran. The director is unable to control his cast, causing a heavy loss, and is warned to take heed by the producers, leading him to seek help from the war veteran.
Hanna
Genre: Action, Thriller
Hanna stars Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett and Eric Bana. Hanna Heller had an unusual childhood. She was trained to become an assassin by her own father, who used to be an agent in the CIA. At the age of sixteen, Hanna is ready to take revenge but is taken in by the special forces who recruit her and send her on a mission across Europe.
Guns Akimbo
Genre: Action, Comedy
Guns Akimbo stars Daniel Radcliffe, Samara Weaving, and Natasha Liu Bordizzo. Miles, an online hater of an underground fight club, posts comments regularly about the moral degradation the fight has. His life takes a turn for the dark when he is kidnapped by the owner of the fight club and made to fight against the deadliest fighter in the arena.
Little Miss Sunshine
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Little Miss Sunshine stars Abigail Breslin, Paul Dano, and Alan Arkin. A dysfunctional family includes an overworked mother, a motivational speaker father, a silent son who has taken a vow to become a pilot, a grandfather who had been kicked out of the retirement home, and a daughter who wants to enter a beauty pageant. When she clears the selection of the pageant being held in California, the family decides to take a road trip, which only leads to more chaos.
Alita: Battle Angel
Genre: Action, Science Fiction
Alita: Battle Angel stars Rosa Salazar, Lana Condor and Keean Johnson. Alita is a cyborg with her origin unknown to herself and why she was made in the first place. With killer abilities, she is revived by Dr. Dyson Ido, who lets her go on a journey of finding where she came from and her purpose.
Night At the Museum
Genre: Comedy, Family
Night At the Museum stars Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, and Robin Williams. Larry, a man in between jobs, decides to take a job as a night watchman at the Museum of Natural History. After being suspiciously warned by the previous guard for not letting anything in or out, he starts his job, only to discover that all the objects and statutes in the museum come to life during the night.
The Bourne Identity
Genre: Action, Thriller
The Bourne Identity stars Matt Damon, Franka Potente, and Julia Stiles. Jason Bourne wakes up with no past memory of his name or identity, but his situation becomes entangled with dangerous peril when his attempt to find his identity results in placing a number of nefarious forces at his back who are trying to hunt him down.
Into the Woods
Genre: Fantasy, Musical
A dark fantasy movie, Into the Woods stars Emily Blunt, Anna Kendrick, and Meryl Streep. The amalgamation of the different worlds of fairy tales together where the characters from each world cross paths with each other to face a largely looming danger in the town they live in.
Oblivion
Genre: Science Fiction, Action
Oblivion stars Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, and Olga Kurylenko. Set in a future earth where it’s uninhabitable to live after a human vs alien war years ago, Jack, a drone repairman, lives a lonely life where he often dreams of a woman. These recurring dreams lead him to ask questions about the war, the cause of it, and start his search for the woman in his memories.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Genre: Action, Science Fiction
Rise of the Planet of the Apes stars Andy Serkis, James Franco, and Terry Notary. In the city of San Francisco, Will decides to raise an infant chimpanzee when its mother is killed after a failed experiment. The chimpanzee, Caesar, grows up to retain very high intelligence and cognitive ability, helping Will cure his suffering father. But Caesar’s growing curiosity about the world and his place in it triggered a chain reaction that led to a war.
Sweet Home Alabama
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Sweet Home Alabama stars Reese Witherspoon, Josh Lucas, and Patrick Dempsey. Melanie, a successful fashion designer, gets her heart’s desire when the hotshot bachelor of New York proposes to her. Now, Melanie, hiding a secret marriage, escapes back to Alabama to convince her husband to divorce her.
The Wedding Singer
Genre: Romance, Comedy
The Wedding Singer stars Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, and Christine Taylor. Robbie, a wedding singer, is left on the altar by his to-be bride, who resents him for his career. A girl named Julia, who Robbie met through a wedding, pulls him out of his depressed form to fulfill his promise to her about singing at her wedding. But as Julia and Robbie grow closer, Robbie also learns the shocking truth that Julia’s fiancé has been cheating on her.
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine is a documentary based on the life of Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple and Pixar. The director, Alex Gibney, explores the life of the genius man and what drove him, what inspired him, and how the news of his demise left a global impact.
Exorcist: The Beginning
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Exorcist: The Beginning stars Stellan Skarsgård, Izabella Scorupco, and Remy Sweeny. Father Lancester Merrin visits Africa for his missionary work and crosses paths with a boy, Joseph, who seems to be showing demonic possession by a dangerous and ancient demon.
