The 7 Best Things Coming to Hulu in May

Watch a Tudor-era murder mystery, a bouquet of Wes Anderson movies and the whole ‘Die Hard’ franchise

Tracey Minkin,

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Published February 02, 2024

/ Updated April 30, 2024

Bruce Willis talking on a phone in the film Die Hard with a Vengeance

Bruce Willis in "Die Hard with a Vengeance."

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April showers bring May flowers — and a downpour of Die Hard movies on Hulu, plus the compelling whodunit series Shardlake, a bundle of Wes Anderson films and more. Check out our must-watch list of Hulu’s new crop of shows and movies.

Coming May 1

Wes Anderson films

Fans of the auteur’s finely tuned, chromatically rich environments and quirky characters will be thrilled to find many of his finest works streaming on Hulu this month. Titles include 2007’s The Darjeeling Limited, Fantastic Mr. Fox (celebrating its 15th anniversary), The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (on its 20th anniversary), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) and the marvelous Rushmore (1998), with two of the director’s great muses: Bill Murray, 73, and Jason Schwartzman, who vie hilariously and poignantly for the hand of elementary school teacher Olivia Williams, 55.

Shardlake, Season 1

If you’re not already a fan of author C.J. Sansom’s popular Tudor-era murder mysteries, this four-part series based on his first novel may get you hooked. Our hero is 16th-century lawyer Matthew Shardlake (Arthur Hughes), who’s ordered by Thomas Cromwell (Game of Thrones’s Sean Bean, 65) to investigate a murder at a remote monastery. Directed by Justin Chadwick, 55 (The Other Boleyn Girl).

Coming May 2

The Contestant

Part The Truman Show, part Dark Mirror and a chilling preview of the rise of anything-goes reality TV, this Hulu Original documentary revisits a cynical Japanese reality show in the late 1990s that tricked aspiring comedian Tomoaki Hamatsu, known as Nasubi, into stripping naked and filling out contest coupons from a stack of magazines to win what he needed to survive until he reached a prize goal of 1 million yen. He had no idea he was being filmed — and broadcast — to the Japanese public.

Coming May 3

The Die Hard franchise

Yippie ki-yay! Talk about a weekend binge opportunity: all five of the explosion-rich films starring Bruce Willis, 69, as the everyman cop on a mission John McClane, streaming for popcorn-munching, hooting-at-the-screen pleasure. After 1988’s Die Hard and 1990’s Die Hard 2, 1995’s Die Hard With a Vengeance adds Samuel L. Jackson, 75, to the mix. Willis is so good in Live Free or Die Hard (2007) that critic David Ansen quipped, “Nobody dies it better.” A Good Day to Die Hard (2013) is … the least good. Only have time for one? Make it the original, one of the greatest action movies of all time.

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Coming May 9

Black Twitter: A People’s History

It may be called X now, but the social platform was, for many, a vital link to the world and one another. This three-part docuseries based on Jason Parham’s article for Wired magazine charts the evolution and rise of Black Twitter, a rich crossroads of voices, memes and social movements that grew to be a major force in American political and cultural discourse.

Coming May 15

I Am Not Your Negro (2016, PG-13)

A reminder that exploring Black history should not be limited to the month of February, Hulu adds director Raoul Peck’s Oscar-nominated documentary about the unfinished book that author and intellectual James Baldwin hoped to write about three of his friends who were assassinated for their activism and vision: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. In addition to using excerpts from the manuscript, Peck weaves in his thoughts about cinema’s history of representation of Black people to elegiac and damning effect. A great choice to watch with your tweens and teens.

Don’t miss this: Discover more documentaries about the Black experience.

Coming May 24

Ferrari (2023, R)

Come for the cars, stay for the suits draping Adam Driver as legendary Italian motorcar titan Enzo Ferrari at a crossroads in matters of love and ambition. The always marvelous Penélope Cruz, 50, reveals Ferrari’s wife, Laura, as a vital, if not always acknowledged, partner in the high-risk business, and director Michael Mann, 81, delivers thrilling racetrack cinema that will have you itching to get behind the wheel and drive, drive, drive. Ferrari was an overlooked gem amid the full-court press of late-season Oscar contenders last year.

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Tracey Minkin is a writer and editor for Coastal Living, Veranda, Southern Living, Travel+Leisure, Outside, Food & Wine, Men’s Journal and AARP.

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