Best movies on Showmax

Best movies on Showmax

Not sure what to watch? We’ve picked some of our favourites to get you started. From trending films to highly rated hits, cult classics and easy-watching crowdpleasers, this is our pick of the best movies to stream right now. Not seeing anything you like? Browse the full catalogue of movies.

Trap on Showmax

Trap (2024)

In this tense M Night Shyamalan thriller, a father takes his daughter to a live show by her favourite artist as a treat … but all is not as it seems.

Better Man on Showmax

Better Man (2024)

This Oscar-nominated unusual biopic tells the tale of pop superstar Robbie Williams’s pursuit of money, fame and acceptance.

Here is on Showmax

Here (2024)

Forrest Gump stars Tom Hanks and Robin Wright are reunited for this quirky yet emotional drama. Follow the lives of multiple generations who have lived in the same home over a century.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)

A family tragedy brings Lydia Deetz back to Winter River, where her daughter discovers the portal to the afterlife … and meets the creepy Beetlejuice.

Late Night with The Devil on Showmax

Late Night with the Devil (2023)

A late-night talk show host in the 1970s plans a Halloween special, unaware he is about to unleash evil into people’s living rooms.

The Day the Earth Blew Up on Showmax

The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie (2024)

Porky Pig and Daffy Duck are Earth’s only hope. They must save the world from an alien threat, but only if they can work together!

We Live In Time on Showmax

We Live In Time (2024)

An emotional and unconventional love story led by Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh. Almut and Tobias meet, fall in love and start a family, but their love is tested by cancer.

Am I OK? on Showmax

Am I OK? (2024)

In this queer comedy-drama about self-discovery and friendship, a woman in her 30s navigates coming out and her lifelong friend’s impending move to London.

Justice League Crisis on Infinite Earths - Part Three on Showmax

Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Three (2024)

The Anti-Monitor wages an unrelenting attack on the surviving Earths that struggle for survival in a pocket universe.

Magpie (2024)

Magpie (2024)

Secret desires and lies threaten a couple’s marriage in this thriller. Their relationship begins to fracture when their daughter gets a role alongside a glamorous movie star.

Goodrich on Showmax

Goodrich (2024)

Andy Goodrich needs help raising his kids after his wife checks into rehab – so he leans on his daughter from his first marriage in this bittersweet family drama.

Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths - Part 2 on Showmax

Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths – Part Two (2024)

An army of shadow demons wanting to destroy all reality swarms all Earths! The only thing opposing them are the mightiest metahumans.

Sting (2024)

Sting (2024)

A rebellious 12-year-old secretly adopts a spider as a pet – but the creature soon starts growing in size and appetite … and never stops.

The F-Show on Showmax

The F-Show (2025)

The F-Show features a strong roster led by one of South Africa’s favourite comedians skewering the daily chaos that comes with being South African.

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Wicked is on Showmax

Wicked (2024)

An epic, star-studded first instalment in a two-part adaptation of the Broadway hit. A young woman with green skin forms an unlikely but profound friendship with a popular young woman.

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Longlegs (2024)

Longlegs (2024)

Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage play a game of cat and mouse as an FBI agent uncovers a series of occult clues as she hunts a serial killer.

Speak No Evil (2024)

Speak No Evil (2024)

James McAvoy leads this intense, disturbing psychological horror about a family spending a weekend at a country house. Things take a turn when the host family’s evil side is uncovered.

My Penguin Friend on Showmax

My Penguin Friend (2024)

Jean Reno drives this charming movie inspired by the true story of a heartbroken fisherman who forms an unlikely bond with a penguin he rescued from an oil spill.

Problemista is on Showmax

Problemista (2023)

A struggling toy designer from El Salvador becomes an assistant to an erratic art-world outcast to stay in the US in this Julio Torres comedy.

Mountainhead on Showmax

Mountainhead (2025)

Succession creator Jesse Armstrong delivers a star-studded satire about a group of super-rich tech gurus who meet for a boys’ trip as an international crisis unfolds.

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