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The 20 Best Movies On HBO Now And HBO Go Right Now

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Last Updated: September 8th

In addition to being America’s most trusted source of Carnivale episodes, HBO Go/HBO Now has a lovely collection of movies available ranging trashy action thrills to elegant period pieces to star-studded comedies. Here are the 20 best movies on HBO Go/HBO Now that you could and should be watching right now.

Related: The 25 Best Shows On HBO GO Right Now

Blumhouse Productions

The Conjuring 2 (2016)
James Wan’s transformation from Saw sadist to blockbuster filmmaking has been fun to watch? The Conjuring 2 is a marvelously crafted horror movie that plays on the nerves as it plunks paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) in England to ultimately do battle with the Enfield Poltergeist. As in the first go-around, the 2016 sequel scored an R rating strictly for its “terror and horror violence” and not for salty language, nudity (sorry, scary nun fetishists) or gore. It’s good ol’ fashioned scary scares with leads that are all-in for every new freakout.

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20th Century Fox

Down With Love (2003)
Ewan McGregor and Renee Zellweger star in this cheeky (but incredibly affectionate) love letter to the Rock Hudson and Doris Day pictures of the ’60s that comes complete with Tony Randall’s seal of approval. A gorgeous comedy to drink in, Down With Love comes armed with enough naughty double entendres to outdo RuPaul and a snazzy supporting cast (including the likes of Sarah Paulson and David Hyde Pierce) that keeps this throwback/homage buzzing along with jokes and visual gags galore. It’s delightfully hammy and a touch more clever than it gets credit for.

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40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks

Do The Right Thing (1989)
Universally recognized as one of the great movies of the 1980s yet every bit as relevant in 2017 as it was in 1989, Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing brings us into a sweltering Bed-Stuy as tensions reach a boiling point. It’s smart, frequently funny, and featuring a remarkably talented ensemble cast, and you will not be able to look at the photos on a pizzeria’s wall the same way ever again.

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Warner Bros.

The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
Mad Max: Fury Road genius George Miller directed a film where a coven made up of Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Susan Sarandon encounter a devilish Jack Nicholson. What more could you possibly need to go on to determine if you would like or dislike The Witches of Eastwick? This eccentric female-fronted buddy comedy isn’t afraid to dive into its supernatural element and you get the added bonus of pretending you read the John Updike novel. (The book’s fantastic, I imagine.) Nicholson goes full Nicholson in his performance and it’s beautiful to watch. Many a crush was formed from watching this movie.

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HBO

Behind The Candelabra (2013)
It’d be rude for a Liberace-focused film not to be showered in sparkly awards upon release, don’t you think? Steven Soderbergh’s HBO Films take on Scott Thorson’s memoir Behind the Candelabra: My Life with Liberace earned Emmys galore for its blend of effective drama and dark comedy. Michael Douglas, Matt Damon and Scott Bakula all scored well-deserved praise and trophies for their work in this gripping (and appropriately stylish) drama that will have you scrambling down many a Wikipedia rabbit hole after.

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Fox Searchlight

The Birth Of A Nation (2016)
Nate Parker served as director/writer/star of this striking antebellum South drama based on Nat Turner’s 1831 slave rebellion. A visceral brand of motion picture, The Birth of a Nation isn’t afraid to address the horrors and cruelties inflicted by slavery and those that gain from it. It’s a film that stirs the emotions and hits right in the chest.

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Warner Bros.

Storks (2016)
For all the fanfare surrounding Seth Rogen knocking out an R-rated animated comedy about food-f*cking, fellow Apatow pal and comedy filmmaker Nicholas Stoller crafted his own cartoon comedy actually aimed at tots and it was pretty darn good. Stoller, who helmed Neighbors and Forgetting Sarah Marshall, wrote and co-directed this kids comedy that presents a world where storks deliver babies and packages. Andy Samberg voices a stork who’s rising high in the stork delivery, world which should give you an idea of how goofy (in the best possible way) this Warner Bros. animated offering is. A loaded voice cast roster with Katie Crown, Key & Peele, Jennifer Aniston, Ty Burrell and Kelsey Grammar bring the jokes to life.

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HBO

Mommy Dead And Dearest (2017)
Erin Lee Carr’s spellbinding crime doc Mommy Dead and Dearest plunges into the bizarre and absorbing true story surrounding the murder of Dee Dee Blancharde. It’s an absorbing, strange and disturbing watch that doles out enough jawdropping moments in 83 minutes to put full seasons of TV to shame. Sundance hopefuls would have a field day with the visuals in this documentary if they were to try and adapt this stranger-than-fiction tale of manipulation, murder and motherhood.

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Warner

The Dark Knight (2008)
Heath Ledger earned a posthumous Oscar for his brilliant portrayal Batman’s nemesis The Joker in the middle section of Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Trilogy. That performance is still incredible and continues to dance right on the nerves in this superhero classic where the monologues are just as compelling as the blockbuster action sequences. You’re overdue for a refresher before checking out Justice League anyhow.

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HBO

Temple Grandin (2010)
Inspirational without being self-congratulatory or condescending, Mick Jackson’s Temple Grandin places Claire Danes in the role of the real-life title character as she develops into a voice in animal science that cannot be ignored. A world that’s unaccommodating to autism and women in the ranching industry does not make things easy for Grandin and Danes portrays her with detail, intelligence and heart. Bonus points awarded for having the courage to include comedy and taking the effort to make something with warmth. You don’t get that too often in movies featuring the inner workings of slaughterhouses.

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Warner Bros.

Speed Racer (2008)
Misunderstood at the time, the bonkers visual triumph that is Speed Racer is worth giving a square go to roughly a decade later. The Wachowskis turned the cartoon into a gorgeous extended piece of pop art and gave us the blessed visual of mustachioed John Goodman as Pops Racer to boot. It’s like a Saturday morning cartoon because it’s an unapologetic celebration of the Saturday morning cartoon. Emile Hirsch fights a ninja for goodness sake! (Or a “nonja” as Pops declares after he throws the ninja to an unspeakably brutal death.) Speed Racer puts the iconic driver behind the wheel and blazing through a world of intrigue, corruption and readily available stylized neckwear.

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DreamWorks

Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Stylish fun based on a true story, Catch Me If You Can is the sort of big Hollywood movie that you want to wrap yourself up in it like a blanket. Leonardo DiCaprio plays con artist extraordinaire Frank Abagnale with a supremely dedicated FBI agent (Tom Hanks) on this trail in this Steven Spielberg-directed offering. (Not to be outdone, Christopher Walken earned an Oscar nomination for his performance here.) With apologies to Christina Ricci and ABC, this was what brought Pan-Am nostalgia back into vogue.

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Newmarket Films

Real Women Have Curves (2002)
Living up to the immense hype it earned at Sundance that year, Real Women Have Curves is a coming-of-age tale that balances drama and comedy while shining a spotlight on the acting skills of future Superstore star America Ferrera. (The film marked the actress’s cinematic debut.) Ferrera plays Ana García, a young Mexican-American woman navigating cultural, societal and familial expectations in Los Angeles as she works toward her goal of heading to college. Smart, dignified and occasionally bittersweet, Real Women Have Curves is a movie unafraid of its warmth and humanity.

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Universal

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016)
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping played to tumbleweeds in theaters, but Lonely Island film projects are built for cult worship on streaming and DVD anyhow, so this seems to be the order of things. This absolutely ridiculous gag-packed mockumentary follows delusional pop titan Conner4Real (Andy Samberg) as he squanders his assorted highs and crash lands into non-stop lows in hilarious fashion. (Recent Katy and Taylor rollouts might make this a touch on the “too real” side, mind you.) Roughly 38% of all famous people on Earth pop up in this thing for a cameo, if that also strokes your fancy.

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Buena Vista Pictures

The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
The Royal Tenenbaums gets oceans full of sh*t for being twee, but don’t let that put you off this stylish Wes Anderson dramedy dealing with an estranged family burdened by unfulfilled potential, raw emotional nerves and return of its brash patriarch. Gene Hackman’s performance as Royal Tenenbaum is cinematic genius and exists alongside a bounty of incredible turns from an all-star cast that also includes Anjelica Huston, Danny Glover, Bill Murray, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Stiller, Luke Wilson, and Owen Wilson.

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Rogue Pictures

Doomsday (2008)
Scotland’s walled off and things are going to hell in a hurry in the beautifully batsh*t post-apocalyptic fable Doomsday. Neil Marshall (Dog Soldiers, The Descent) wrote and directed this extremely silly sci-fi action film that has a virus ravaging 2030s London and sends a team (lead by The Last Ship star Rhona Mitra) in a Scottish hellscape to get the cure. It’s a feat that’d be much easier to achieve if roving maniac future gangs (with a taste for Fine Young Cannibals) and crazy-ass modern medieval knights weren’t staples of the region. Bless Marshall’s heart for packing this thing with such bombast.

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Gramercy Pictures

The Big Lebowski (1998)
Bowling, nihilist Kraftwerk stand-ins and a pissed-on carpet have never matched better than in this Coen brothers cult gem. Jeff Daniels is bath-robed slacker Californian Jeffrey “The Dude” Lebowski and John Goodman is on-edge Vietnam vet Walter Sobchak in this tale of a soiled rug and all the strange places the quest for compensation takes them. Traveling in its woozy haze, The Big Lebowski is the brand of shaggy dog story that rewards with every strange detour.

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Touchstone

Sister Act (1992)
As a Reno lounge singer hiding out from the mob is wont to do, Whoopi Goldberg goes undercover as a nun in the ’90s musical comedy Sister Act. Goldberg showcases her EGOT-certified skill set as Deloris Van-Cartier (or Sister Mary Clarence to those in the convent) and quickly establishing herself as the most unique nun the San Francisco convent of Poor Clares has ever had. Maggie Smith, Harvey Keitel and an array of unmistakably early ’90s touches (howdy C+C Music Factory!) co-star.

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Lionsgate

American Psycho (2000)
So much more than the movie that permanently bonded Huey Lewis & The News with axe slaughter, American Psycho takes Bret Easton Ellis’s novel that melds murder, torture and go-go ’80s Reaganaut capitalism and gives it a brilliant cinematic adaptation complete with Christian Bale playing a different brand of rich violent maniac. Directed with style and coal black humor by Punk alum Mary Harron, the 2000 film satirizes excess with an acerbic wit. There’s a reason why the business card scene is mentioned as much as any of violence.

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De Laurentiis Entertainment Group

Maximum Overdrive (1986)
If you enjoy your 80s action-horror movies soundtracked by AC/DC and featuring a gakked-out-of-his-mind Stephen King in the director’s chair, Maximum Overdrive has you covered. Emilio Estevez and a gaggle of truck stop folk battle machines that go homicidal, genocidal, but rarely suicidal in this fascinating curiosity. It’s not an elegant masterpiece by any stretch, but Emilio vs. Evil Trucks should be all any sensible person could want.

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