9 Best Peacock Movies Ever, Ranked

A man is sentenced, devastatingly, to 35 years for a nonviolent drug crime, but he escapes his confines in an effort to see his daughter and eventually works his way to sanctioned release. It sounds like Hollywood fiction, but this Shawshank-esque tale is the true story of Quawntay “Bosco” Adams, played by Aubrey Joseph in this affecting film.

Scream creator Kevin Williamson gets his horror-genre street cred back with this clever slasher flick he co-wrote with Katelyn Crabb. At the height of the lockdown era, two young women quarantine together at a lake house. Unfortunately for them, they haven’t social-distanced from a killer threat in this horror film in the age of coronavirus.

We’re all for Peacock’s Psych movies, but for our money, Mr. Monk’s Last Case is a better continuation of a USA Network series. Monk’s cast reunites for one last case — and it’s a personal one for Tony Shalhoub’s obsessive sleuth, one of our favorite TV detectives — in this production that earned an Outstanding Television Movie Emmy nomination and a SAG Award nod for its leading man.

David Attenborough might be clutching his pearls, but this nature documentary — narrated by Andrew Rannells — shows in saucy style there’s a vast diversity of sexes and sexualities in the animal kingdom, and it’s only we humans who have a problem with it. Gay penguins, pansexual primates, multi-gendered mushrooms — they’re here, they’re queer, get used to it.

Movie theaters’ loss was Peacock’s gain with this straight-to-streaming fourth (and best-reviewed) installment in the Bridget Jones rom-com franchise. With Renée Zellweger providing another endearing performance as the unlucky protagonist and Chiwetel Ejiofor and Leo Woodall playing her new paramours, Mad About the Boy is a romantic, uproarious delight.

Getting to the Olympic Games is a Herculean task — especially for the athletes representing the more than 100 million people displaced by conflicts around the world. Released on Peacock in the run-up to the 2024 Olympics, Waad Al-Kateab’s goosebump-inducing documentary shows the resilience of the human spirit through the stories of the Refugee Olympic Team.

In the 1980s, Los Angeles was on the front lines of HIV/AIDS, and celebrities and everyday people from across the sexuality spectrum united to fight the epidemic, giving new meaning to City of Angels. Jeffrey Schwarz’s documentary shines a light on their efforts, depicting the power of allyship with first-hand accounts from people who were there, famous or otherwise.

The prevalence of Confederate flags and the uproar over the removal of Confederate monuments show how far the United States hasn’t come since the Civil War ended a century and a half ago. With Finding Your Roots’ Henry Louis Gates Jr. on board as executive producer, this essential-viewing documentary by Rachel Boynton uncovers misconceptions about the war and its aftermath.

This News & Documentary Emmy Award-winning film by Geeta Gandbhir and Sam Pollard shows how Lowndes County, Alabama — which had an 80% Black population in the 1960s but no registered Black voters — became a battleground for voting rights for Black Americans. And as gerrymandering and other race-based voter suppression efforts continue, the story feels especially crucial.