If you’ve grown tired of relentless price hikes from your favorite streaming platforms, it’s nice to know that free TV streaming services such as Tubi, Kanopy and Pluto TV can be counted on for all kinds of great shows and movies. New films and TV shows arrive on these platforms every month, making them fantastic options if you don’t want to pay for another service.
This May, Tubi has a few exciting new original movies to check out, including The Battle for Castle Itter, which is about a real World War II battle where American and French soldiers collaborated with a group of Nazis-turned-resistance fighters to save a group of prisoners. And just to keep things full of action, you can catch movies like Casino Royale and Training Day on Tubi this month, too.
Kanopy always has a great rotating selection of new movies. This month, you can check out the PBS doc The American Revolution: A Film by Ken Burns, plus the exclusive premiere of The Librarians, a new film about America’s book-banning debate produced by Sarah Jessica Parker. Kanopy, along with Plex and Pluto, also has a new slate of A24 films like Priscilla, Past Lives and The Farewell available now, too.
Here’s a look at the best films arriving on free streaming platforms this May.
Free movies on Tubi in May
The Battle For Castle Itter (May 1)
The new Tubi original movie, The Battle For Castle Itter, is a historical drama based on real events from the final days of World War II, often referred to as the strangest battle of the Great War. The movie, which stars Aleksandar Trmcic, Daniel Grogan, and Frano Lasic, is about a group of US soldiers and French prisoners of war who form an unlikely alliance with a group of German soldiers to save a group of French prisoners and politicians who were set to be executed at an Austrian castle by the Nazis. The movie arrives on May 1.
Other movies arriving on May 1 (unless otherwise noted):
- Give Me Back My Baby (May 8)
- The Woman King (May 13)
- I Didn’t Do It (May 22)
- Casino Royale
- When You Finish Saving the World
- Waiting to Exhale
- Training Day
- Legally Blonde
- Licorice Pizza
- Steel Magnolias
- Gladiator
- Misery
- The Angry Birds Movie
- The Hunger Games
Free movies on Kanopy in May
- Priscilla (May 1)
- Past Lives (May 1)
- Janet Planet (May 1)
- Splitsville (May 8)
- Bodies Bodies Bodies (May 8)
- No Ordinary Heist (May 15)
- Carrie (May 15)
- The American Revolution: A Film by Ken Burns (May 22)
- The Librarians (May 22)
- This Is Spinal Tap (May 22)
- Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (May 29)
- The Whistler (May 29)
Free movies on Pluto TV in May
- The Godfather
- The Talented Mr. Ripley
- Bringing Out the Dead
- Primal Fear
- You Hurt My Feelings
- There Will Be Blood
- The Virgin Suicides
- The Silence of the Lambs
- Almost Famous
- Heartburn
- Licorice Pizza
Free movies on Fawesome in May
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- Judgment at Nuremberg
- The Apartment
- Sing Street
- Source Code
- The Graduate
- Ghost in the Shell 2.0
- On Golden Pond
Free movies on Plex in May
- Stop Making Sense
- The Imitation Game
- Mr. & Mrs. Smith
- Oasis: Supersonic
- Man on Wire
- Under the Silver Lake
- Spotlight
- Hereditary