Looking for some boldest movies to watch, but don’t know what is on Hulu? Bold movies are those that risk challenging their audiences by using techniques and following narratives that might often go against conventional notions of storytelling, structure, and characterization.
Bold films may make use of experimental techniques, but more often than not they subvert thriller or romance genre conventions to create such a unique experience for the viewer as no blockbuster would dare do. Here we have gathered the boldest movies on Hulu that we think you’re really going to love.
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1. Disobedience
Sebastián Lelio’s 2017 love drama Disobedience is based on Naomi Alderman’s 2006 novel of the same name. The movie follows the tale of a woman who, after spending many years in New York, returns to the tight Orthodox Jewish community for her father’s burial. She has been estranged from her father and shunned by the community for a reason that becomes obvious as the story progresses.
2. Trust
Owner of an art gallery Brooke and her husband Owen appears to have it all in New York City. The desire between them is undeniable when Brooke signs a new artist—a ravishingly attractive painter with a penchant for married ladies. Owen seeks solace in a pub with an attractive journalist. While Brooke and her artist are away in Paris, leaving him home alone. As they unintentionally steer each other toward what they both fear the most, Brooke and Owen’s previously unbreakable trust starts to crumble.
3. Flower
Erica Vandross, lives with her single mother, Laurie and her mother’s new lover Bob. The arrival of Bob’s mentally unstable son, Luke, from treatment to live with the family overwhelms Erica’s home and personal life. Erica acts out by disclosing a high school teacher’s sinister secret while Luke and her sidekicks Kala and Claudine are around her.
4. Portrait of a Lady On Fire
The female artist hired to paint the young French countess’s bridal portrait and the young daughter of the Countess fell in love around 1770. Hélose commissions Marianne to create her wedding portrait. The women’s closeness and attraction to one another deepen as they enjoy Hélose’s first moments of freedom.
5. The Escort
When a journalist with a sex addiction pursues a prostitute with a Stanford degree, he is drawn into the world of upscale escorts. Mitch persuades Natalie, a Stanford-educated prostitute, to let him follow her around for an exposé he’s writing about the world of high-class escorts, and an odd bond blossom between two social outcasts.
6. A Perfect Ending
Rebecca wants to discover who she really is as she tells an escort her peculiar secret. The two main heroes have introduced right away in the movie. Paris is a young, attractive woman with dark hair who works as a high-end call girl and escort but is also an artist by trade. A wealthy, blonde, middle-aged wife named Rebecca. The opening voice-over also describes a cancer case that has progressed beyond treatment options.
7. Awol
Before falling in love with Rayna, Joey believes that entering the army will give her direction. Joey, a young woman, is looking for direction in her tiny village. She meets and falls in love with Rayna. The path that seemed to be provided by a trip to an Army recruitment office diverges in ways that neither woman could have predicted.
8. Premature
Ayanna, a poet who is 17 years old, and Isaiah, a music producer who has recently arrived in the city, start a summer affair on a summer night in Harlem when they are both still living at home before Ayanna leaves for college. As she struggles through the difficult terrain of youthful love in the summer before she travels for college, her entire world is flipped upside down.
9. Bohemian Rhapsody
Queen’s lead singer, Freddie Mercury, defies expectations and convention to become one of history’s most adored performers. Queen’s spectacular rise in the 1970s was fueled by the band’s innovative sound and catchy tunes. Mercury rejoins Queen for the Live Aid benefit concert after departing the group to pursue a solo career, resulting in one of the greatest performances in rock ‘n’ roll history.
10. Liz in September
Eva, a traveler who encounters car difficulty and finds herself spending some time with a group of women in a hotel outside of town. She is graciously welcomed into the homes of these women, who also provide her with support. Eva finds out the commonality shared by these seven intriguing women very quickly. As relationships develop, one between Eva and Liz becomes ever more intense.
11. Monogamy
Theo starts a unique side company called ‘Gumshoot’, where clients ask him to stalk them with his camera. He is tired of his job as a wedding photographer—the stock backgrounds, the staged poses, and the awkward newlyweds. Theo develops a voyeuristic fascination after falling in love with one of his clients, a mysterious woman. This infatuation drives him to face painful realities about himself and his imminent marriage to Nat.
12. Thelma
A college student in Oslo, Norway begins to have severe convulsions. She quickly discovers that the violent outbursts are a sign of mysterious, frequently lethal supernatural talents. Unsure of her feelings for a female friend who is in love with her, a devout girl tries to deny them. Her previously suppressed, subconsciously managed Psychokinetic abilities reappear as a result, with disastrous effects.
13. Girl With A Pearl Earring
Griet is forced to work as a maid for painter Johannes Vermeer after her father develops blindness. Griet and Vermeer form an odd bond while cleaning the house. They both vow to keep private out of respect for the painter’s envious wife, Catharina.
14. Hustlers
Destiny, who works as a stripper to make ends meet, meets Ramona, the club’s highest-earning member. Ramona demonstrates to Destiny how to get by the affluent Wall Street clients that attend the club. But when the 2008 financial crisis reduces their revenues, the girls and two other dancers come up with a risky plan to reclaim their lives.
15. The World To Come
Abigail, a farmer’s wife, and Tallie, her new neighbor, discover themselves irresistibly drawn to one another. When together their intimacy starts to fill a vacuum in each other’s life they never knew existed. A mourning Abigail tends to her reclusive husband Dyer while free-spirited Tallie rebels at the jealous control of her husband Finney. ‘The World To Come’ investigates how intense human connection might overcome solitude.
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