Tubi is perhaps a smaller streamer, but he wraps a powerful library with fun cinematographic bangers, nostalgic feedback and a musical film that you cannot help singing.
Yes, you may need to watch ads, but you can’t beat a completely free library. And they are not only titles of VHS days, some of these films were in theaters not so long ago, or have become ultimate American classics.
Here are our choices organized for some of the best new films in streaming for free on Tubi at the moment.
“Beetle Bleu” (2023)
While “Blue Beetle” did not necessarily meet expectations to the box office, the film remains a fun and exciting watch for the whole family, especially when you have actor legends and comics like George Lopez and Susan Sarandon as part of the distribution. In the film, Xolo Maridueña plays Jaime Reyes, a student who finds an old relic of extraterrestrial biotechnology called scarab. What he doesn’t know is that technology has his own mind and chooses it like his new host. A shock at first, Jaime is forced to take his new identity and his responsibility for superheroes Blue Beetle.
“Telephone Booth” (2003)
There was nothing more stressful than looking at the character of Colin Farrell Stu Shepard understand how he was going to escape a manic elite shooter in “Phone Booth”. The thriller is centered on Stu, a professional of sneaky public relations and not so worthy of confidence who finds himself locked and loaded in an anonymous and invisible mortal game after winning a salary phone in the middle of New York. He has only two options: convincing the police to believe his story or to be shot. Everything comes down to what extent it can be true with his life literally on the line.
“Stomp the Yard” (2007)
This one is for all the people who are missing their college days and for the people who have joined sororities and fraternities, in particular historically black organizations. The dance drama follows Dj Williams (Columbus Short) which enrolled in Truth University after having endured the death of his brother. When it arrives, it is welcomed by various social groups, including campus frates. With two groups looking at him for his dance movements, he will have to choose which of the two represents him best, because they will have to compete in a next dance competition.
“The Neverending Story” (1984)
All my babies from the 80s and my children from the 90s, this one is for you. Really, is there something more fantastic and dreamy than “the endless story”? At the time, when books were not replaced by tablets or social media, children really read. And this is how Bastian (Barrett Oliver) ended up in the distant and fantastic country of Fantasia, a world on which he reads in a book after going to a library to escape a group of intimidators. The only threat of Fantasia is a dark force called “nothing” that destroys everything he touches. When Bastian reads an extract from the book that describes him, he begins to wonder if he lives in a real fantasia.
“Moonlight” (2016)
The beloved and ossarized film “Moonlight” by Barry Jenkins filmmaker is a drama of passing to adulthood centered on a young black man named Chiron. While his hometown of Miami and the adult figures of his life raise him, he goes on a trip of self -discovery.
“Taken (2008)”
“Taked” is one of those films where when it is on television, you just have to watch it. Fortunately for you, Tubi has the action thriller Liam Neeson available with one click. Neeson plays Bryan Mills in the film, a father and former spy who maintains a mission to find and kill a gang of human traffickers who kidnap her daughter while she was on vacation in Paris.
“Big Momma’s House” (2000)
There were a ton of successful films on the list of Tubi’s additions, and we had to take a moment to highlight the hilarious, full of action and always quoted “Big Mimom’s House”. Really one of Martin Lawrence’s most comical performances, the actor-comedian embodies an FBI agent named Malcolm Turner who is a disguise master and goes under cover as a grandmother from the south of a family to find a sentenced escaped.
“Little Shop of horrors” (1986)
The casting, music, choreography and this speaking hilarious plant are all due to the reason why the “small horrors boutique” is on this list. He is centered on a flower boutique assistant named Seymore who cast his eyes on his colleague Audrey (Elle Greene). One day, a total eclipse sends a cute but dangerously carnivorous plant which only grows when it is nourished by human flesh. Although he will have to kill a few people and keep the dark secrets of the factory – named Audrey II – Hidden, the factory has reinforced the shop in the store. But how many people will he assassinate before people become too suspect?
