Stop Scrolling: 5 Unmissable Tubi Movies to Stream This April 2026

Tubi keeps flexing as the ad-supported streamer to beat. The library is so stacked you may start eyeing those monthly bills for the big paid apps. For April 2026, I pulled together a fresh batch of free-to-stream picks that swing from awards magnet to cult nightmare to chaotic rock meltdown. Dive in below; all of these are sitting on Tubi right now, no subscription required.Poor Things (2023)In an alt-Victorian London with a gadgety, proto-steampunk vibe, a brilliant (and wildly reckless) scientist named Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe) reanimates a woman who died by suicide. He replaces her brain with that of her unborn child and names her Bella (Emma Stone). It sounds grotesque, and it is, but Bella’s mind accelerates fast. As her language and self-awareness grow, so does her refusal to be anyone’s project. A medical student, Max (Ramy Youssef), proposes; Bella bolts with a smooth-talking lawyer (Mark Ruffalo ) and takes off across continents to figure out who she actually is. It’s a strange, funny, and frequently dazzling blend of sci-fi, fantasy, and dark comedy anchored by Stone going full supernova. She won the Oscar for this role in 2024, and it’s very clear why. The design work is gorgeous too, with knockout costumes by Holly Waddington. Under the spectacle, the film is also a sharp look at sexual freedom and the cages society tries to keep women in.Ricky Stanicky (2024)Three childhood best friends — Dean (Zac Efron), Wes (Jermaine Fowler), and JT (Andrew Santino) — invented a fake friend, Ricky Stanicky, to cover their teenage screwups. Twenty years later, they’re still blaming Ricky whenever they need an excuse at home or work. When loved ones finally demand to meet this phantom, the guys hire a bargain-bin performer, Rod Rimestead (John Cena), to play him. One problem: Rod is immediately beloved and treats the gig like life-or-death method acting, which detonates the guys’ carefully maintained lies. This thing runs a little long (nudging up near the two-hour mark), but Cena’s try-hard energy finally has the perfect outlet. As Rod, he’s hilariously earnest and desperate in a way that just works. Not an awards movie, obviously — but it does what a good studio comedy should: big laughs, solid bits, and a premise that keeps paying off.Event Horizon (1997)In 2047, a rescue crew aboard the Lewis and Clark is dispatched to Neptune to check out the Event Horizon — a ship designed by Dr. Weir (Sam Neill) that vanished seven years earlier and has suddenly popped back into orbit. Captain Miller (Laurence Fishburne) leads the team, which also includes medical officer D.J. (Jason Isaacs) and Lieutenant Starck (Joely Richardson). The Event Horizon’s original crew is gone, and something malignant is still on board. "What if a spaceship managed to fold spacetime and travel to Hell?" That’s the killer idea at the center here. Unfortunately, studio meddling chopped director Paul W.S. Anderson’s original ~130-minute cut down to a brisk 96, and the longer version is apparently lost or destroyed. The movie flopped in theaters and with critics, then slowly mutated into a cult classic on home video that influenced a ton of later sci-fi horror. Even at this length, it’s cold-sweat creepy, loaded with unsettling images, and powered by fierce turns from Neill and Fishburne.Her Smell (2018)Elisabeth Moss goes for broke as Becky Something, a self-sabotaging punk star who rockets her band, Something She, into the spotlight — then proceeds to torch everything around her. The film unfolds in five extended chapters across different moments in Becky’s life, tracing her combustible relationships with bandmates, family, and an ex-husband as she swirls toward rock bottom and maybe, just maybe, claws back a little grace. Writer-director Alex Ross Perry builds a pressure cooker that is stressful in the best way: sweaty, claustrophobic, impossible to look away from. Moss is a force of nature here, fully locked into the chaos and the vulnerability beneath it. The ensemble rules too, with Dan Stevens, Cara Delevingne, and Ashley Benson rounding things out.Down by Law (1986)Jim Jarmusch’s laconic jailbreak hangout movie drops three oddballs into the same New Orleans cell: Jack (John Lurie), an unflappable pimp; Zack (Tom Waits), a drifter DJ; and Roberto (Roberto Benigni), a relentlessly upbeat Italian tourist snagged in a gambling dust-up. Jack and Zack have been framed; Roberto is the one who finds the escape route. Once they’re out, the trio stumbles through the bayou, bickering their way toward somewhere — anywhere — that isn’t a police checkpoint. It’s dryly funny, poetic, and stubbornly low-key — a black-and-white mood piece about American inertia, the dream of a better life, and the effort it takes to actually move. Lurie and Waits bond mostly over how much Roberto drives them nuts, and Benigni’s buoyant joy turns their grumpiness into a punchline. Hypnotic stuff.

Stop Scrolling: 5 Unmissable Tubi Movies to Stream This April 2026

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