It’s encouraging that for the first time in a long time, none of our picks from last month’s best movies on Peacock were removed from the streamer in June. Unfortunately, the same isn’t true for the new arrivals in June. John Wick and its first two sequels will only be getting 30 days on Peacock before they go off to thrill viewers on some other streamer.
Hopefully, this month’s other new additions, including Anna and the Apocalypse and About Time, will stick around longer. Finally, Cocaine Bear is making its return to Peacock on June 14. Keep reading for the rest of the best movies on Peacock right now. And remember that some films are only available to Peacock subscribers on the two premium tiers.
Can’t find anything you like on Peacock? Lucky for you, we’ve also curated guides to the best movies on Netflix, the best movies on Hulu, and the best movies on Amazon Prime Video.
Cocaine Bear (2023)
While it’s true that there was a real “Cocaine Bear,” director Elizabeth Banks and her collaborators took some creative license with the movie of the same name. The title character of Cocaine Bear is basically Jaws with legs in the woods, and he’ll kill anyone who gets in the way of his next cocaine hit.
Sari (Keri Russell) is a single mom who gets caught up in this mess when her daughter, Dee Dee (Brooklynn Prince). To complicate things even further, a fixer named Daveed (O’Shea Jackson Jr.) has been sent by his boss to retrieve the missing cocaine from the woods. And even Daveed isn’t prepared to face an increasingly aggressive bear hopped up on cocaine.
Rotten Tomatoes: 66%
Genre: Horror, Comedy
Stars: Keri Russell, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Christian Convery, Alden Ehrenreich, Brooklynn Prince
Director: Elizabeth Banks
Rating: R
Runtime: 95 minutes
John Wick (2014)
For the umpteenth time, John Wick is back on Peacock. But don’t get too used to it, since it’s leaving again at the end of June. This movie is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2024, and it still holds up as a great action flick. Keanu Reeves revitalized his career thanks to his performance as John Wick, a hit man who retired because of his love for his wife, Helen (Bridget Moynahan).
Following Helen’s death, John adopts a dog that she arranged for him to care for. Then Iosef Tarasov (Alfie Allen) and his punk friends had to ruin everything by killing John’s dog, stealing his car, and leaving him for dead. By the time Iosef’s mobster father, Viggo Tarasov (Michael Nyqvist), can slap his son for being so reckless, it’s already too late. John Wick is looking for payback, and he’s going to get it.
Rotten Tomatoes: 86%
Genre: Action
Stars: Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist, Alfie Allen, Adrianne Palicki, Ian McShane, Willem Dafoe
Director: Derek Kolstad
Rating: R
Runtime: 101 minutes
Anna and the Apocalypse (2017)
Anna and the Apocalypse hasn’t been seen by enough people to be recognized as the holiday classic that it deserves to be. It may still be the world’s only feel-good zombie Christmas musical, and it’s a blast. Ella Hunt stars as Anna, a teenager who is ready to go out from her small Scottish town and discover what the world has waiting for her. Meanwhile, her best friend John (Malcolm Cumming), has to deal with his unrequited love for Anna.
When the inevitable zombie plague hits, Anna and John are initially unaware that anything has changed. But as things get dire, Anna, John, Steph (Sarah Swire), and Chris (Christopher Leveaux), have to fight their way to school in order to reunite with their loved ones. Meanwhile, their evil vice principal, Arthur Savage (Paul Kaye), will do anything to maintain his authority over the survivors … even if it kills them.
Rotten Tomatoes: 77%
Genre: Horror, Comedy, Musical
Stars: Ella Hunt, Malcolm Cumming, Sarah Swire, Christopher Leveaux, Marli Siu, Ben Wiggins
Director: John McPhail
Rating: R
Runtime: 92 minutes
About Time (2005)
About Time is an unconventional rom-com because it’s also a sci-fi story. Tim Lake (Domhnall Gleeson), like all of the men in the Lake family, discovers that he can time travel back to certain points in his life. And yet that power can’t help him win the heart of Charlotte (Barbie‘s Margot Robbie).
When Tim finally meets a woman, Mary (Rachel McAdams), who reciprocates his feelings, he accidentally erases their first night together when he travels back in time to help his friend. That’s the ongoing dilemma that Tim now faces. Even if he can repair and rebuild his relationship with Mary, his trips to the past have unexpected consequences in the future.
Rotten Tomatoes: 71%
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Sci-fi
Stars: Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy, Tom Hollander, Margot Robbie
Director: Richard Curtis
Rating: R
Runtime: 123 minutes
Mad Max (1979)
George Miller is a better director now at age 79 than he was at 34 years old when Mad Max came out in theaters. But there would be no Mad Max: Fury Road or Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga without the original film. Mel Gibson stars as Max Rockatansky, who’s not quite “Mad Max” yet. But give him time, because Max will have very good reasons to be angry and possibly crazy by the end of the movie.
In his first appearance, Max is essentially a cop during an age where law and order are things of the past. Max is already thinking about stepping away from his duties when he runs afoul of Toecutter (Hugh Keays-Byrne) and his brutal gang. Toecutter doesn’t show any mercy to his victims, and Max is going to have to play by the same rules if he wants to survive in an insane world.
Rotten Tomatoes: 93%
Genre: Action
Stars: Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Bisley, Tim Burns, Roger Ward
Director: George Miller
Rating: R
Runtime: 93 minutes
The Cabin in the Woods (2011)
What if there was a reason for every single horror movie cliche that you’ve ever seen? The Cabin in the Woods offers up an explanation, as five friends find themselves embodying the character archetypes from those stories. Dana Polk (Kristen Connolly), Curt Vaughan (Chris Hemsworth), Jules Louden (Anna Hutchison), Marty Mikalski (Fran Kranz), and Holden McCrea (Jesse Williams) don’t realize something’s wrong until it’s too late to run away.
As the friends start dropping one-by-one, the survivors inadvertently discover why they’ve been subjected to such evil. And why they may have to lay down their lives for the greater good.
Rotten Tomatoes: 92%
Genre: Horror, Comedy
Stars: Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz, Jesse Williams
Director: Drew Goddard
Rating: R
Runtime: 95 minutes
Get Out (2017)
Jordan Peele was better known as an actor and a comedian before he helmed Get Out. Now, he’s one of the most-revered directors in modern horror. This story could have simply been a comedy or a drama about Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya), a Black man who meets the wealthy family of his white girlfriend, Rose Armitage (Allison Williams), for the first time. Instead, it takes an inventive path that made it stand out from other movies in the horror genre.
At the Armitage estate, almost everyone is unfailingly polite toward Chris. But there’s something off about everything that scares Chris, and his fears are well-founded. By the time he discovers what’s really happening around him, Chris finds himself trapped because he didn’t realize that the words “get out” were a warning, not a threat.
Rotten Tomatoes: 86%
Genre: Horror
Stars: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, Caleb Landry Jones, Stephen Root
Director: Jordan Peele
Rating: R
Runtime: 104 minutes
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)
Cats supposedly have nine lives, and that’s something that Puss in Boots (Antonio Banderas) has used to his advantage for years. But in Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, the title character is on his last life, and he’s understandably scared. He even gives up his life of adventure just to play things safe.
When Puss discovers that a wishing star may be able to restore the eight lives that he lost, he embarks on what could be his final quest. The problem is that Puss isn’t the only one who wants or needs the wishing star, and he’ll have to face his mortality one way or another.
Rotten Tomatoes: 95%
Genre: Adventure
Stars: Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Harvey Guillén, Florence Pugh, Olivia Colman, Ray Winstone
Director: Joel Crawford
Rating: PG
Runtime: 102 minutes
Oppenheimer (2023)
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer may be the director’s best film to date, and it walked away with Best Picture at this year’s Oscars. Cillian Murphy stars as J. Robert Oppenheimer, and the film explores his life in non-chronological order. As a young man, Oppenheimer becomes a pioneer in the realm of quantum physics before World War II makes him realize that Germany will weaponize nuclear fusion unless America beats it to the punch.
Oppenheimer’s difficult relationships with his lover, Jean Tatlock (Florence Pugh), and his wife, Kitty Oppenheimer (Emily Blunt), are also explored before he leads the Manhattan Project in building the first Atomic Bomb. In flash-forwards, former Navy Rear Admiral Lewis Strauss (Iron Man actor Robert Downey Jr.) develops a vendetta against Oppenheimer as he does everything he can to discredit and tarnish his legacy.
Rotten Tomatoes: 93%
Genre: Drama
Stars: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh
Director: Christopher Nolan
Rating: R
Runtime: 160 minutes
3:10 to Yuma (2007)
3:10 to Yuma is the second adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s story, and director James Mangold was up to the task of updating this Western tale. In 1884, a rancher named Dan Evans (Christian Bale) has the misfortune of being robbed of his horses by Ben Wade (Russell Crowe). Although Ben spares Dan’s life, he leaves him desperate for money.
When Ben is arrested, Dan accepts a significant payment to join the posse who are supposed to deliver their prisoner to the train referenced in the title of this movie. However, a lot of people want Ben dead before he can get there, and he won’t stop trying to get away.
Rotten Tomatoes: 89%
Genre: Western
Stars: Christian Bale, Russell Crowe, Peter Fonda, Gretchen Mol, Ben Foster
Director: James Mangold
Rating: R
Runtime: 122 minutes
Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
Raymond Chandler’s hard-boiled private detective, Philip Marlowe, isn’t exactly in vogue anymore. But the classics never truly go out of style. In the 1975 adaptation of Chandler’s Farewell, My Lovely, Robert Mitchum steps into the role of Philip as he finds himself in the midst of two difficult cases that may be related.
In the first, a bank robber named Moose Malloy (Jack O’Halloran) hires Phillip to find his missing girlfriend, Velma (Charlotte Rampling). In the second case, Phillip is helpless to prevent the murder of his client, Lindsay Marriott (John O’Leary). Not even police intimidation can keep Phillip from finding answers and solving the mystery.
Rotten Tomatoes: 76%
Genre: Mystery, Suspense
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland, Sylvia Miles, Anthony Zerbe
Director: Dick Richards
Rating: R
Runtime: 95 minutes
