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Malcolm McMillan

Hulu top 10 movies — here's the 3 worth watching right now

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Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley in Alien.

The best streaming services, including Hulu, come with deep content libraries. While that's great, because we get endless hours of TV shows and movies, it can be a bit of a struggle to figure out what to watch. Luckily, Hulu has a top 15 shows and movies collection that gives you a look at what’s trending on the platform.

After going through what's popular this week, we've narrowed down three of Hulu's current top 10 movies that stand out from the rest — though it wasn't easy. "Immaculate" and "Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes" both easily made the cut, as they were both big movies earlier this year. But currently, in the top 10, there are not one but four movies from the "Alien" franchise thanks to the popularity of "Alien Romulus." Whether its the 1979 original or the 2014 prequel "Prometheus," all of the "Alien" movies on Hulu are worth checking out.

So without further ado, here are the three movies worth watching right now in Hulu’s top 10 movies.

This is based on the Hulu top 15 movies and shows as of Thursday, August 22.

BEST MOVIES IN THE HULU TOP 10

'Immaculate' (2024)

Fans of horror movies should definitely watch "Immaculate" now that it's finally on Hulu. It stars Sydney Sweeney as Sister Cecilia, a novice within the Catholic church who is convinced God saved her for a greater purpose when she nearly drowned in a lake at a young age. So when she receives an invitation to become a nun and join Father Sal Tedeschi (Álvaro Morte) at an Italian convent, she readily accepts.

Of course, you already know that this was a bad idea, and things quickly take a turn for the worse once Cecilia discovers she's pregnant despite being a virgin. Fans of "The First Omen," which also came out earlier this year will find common ground with "Immaculate," and after watching you'll know exactly why.

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'Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes' (2024)

"Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes" is set generations following the events of 2011's "Rise of the Planet of the Apes." After Caesar's rise to power, Earth has transformed into a world where apes are the dominant species. At the top of the food chain is the ape King Proximus Caesar (Kevin Durand), who has his sights set on dominating apes and humans alike.

These plans are thrown into chaos though when a young ape named Noa (Owen Teague) befriends a human scavenger Mae (Freya Allan). If you need to catch up on the "The Planet of the Apes" franchise, the previous three movies — "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" and "War for the Planet of the Apes" — are also all on Hulu. But given it's set so far in the future feel free to watch this 2024 blockbuster without doing any homework.

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'Prometheus' (2012)

Hopefully, you've already watched "Alien," the 1979 Ridley Scott classic that started it all. If you haven't, you should stop what you're doing and watch it now.

But if you don't start watching the "Alien" movies in order with "Alien," you should start with "Prometheus." A prequel to the 1979 movie, "Prometheus" stars Noomi Rapace and Logan Marshall-Green as Elizabeth Shaw and Charlie Holloway. These archeologists discover a star map in Scotland that they interpret as an invitation from a pre-human civilization known as the Engineers.

With this discovery, they're sent by businessman Peter Weyland (Guy Pearce) to follow the star map to the distant moon LV-223 aboard the scientific vessel Prometheus. Among others, they're joined by the android David (Michael Fassbender). But once they arrive on the moon, everything starts to go wrong.

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