HBO offers almost 500 movies in their collection. Some are excellent, but many are not worth watching. This article presents the entire HBO movie collection ranked by Rotten Tomatoes Score.
HBO
HBO started broadcasting in 1972 with humble beginnings. The network is now the largest premium TV and online content provider. With 122 million subscribers worldwide, HBO even beats Netflix. In addition to hit television shows like Game of Thrones, HBO offers almost 500 movies.
Movies have always been a huge part of HBO. After all, the acronym stands for Home Box Office. Instead of going out to the movies, subscribers could enjoy films in the comfort of their own home. This was before VCRs and the consumer-facing Internet. Over time, HBO has grown its selection of movies. Some are excellent, critically acclaimed movies. Others just aren’t worth anyone’s time.
On April 7 2015, HBO launched their HBO NOW service. They already offered streaming movies over the web and on mobile devices since the mid 2000s. These services eventually culminated in HBO GO. Unfortunately, HBO GO required a cable or satellite subscription for activation. HBO managed to break out of the TV industry collusion, offering all of their content to cord-cutters.
Being a cord-cutter myself, I signed up for HBO NOW the day it launched. I use it so often, I actually cancelled my other streaming video subscriptions. HBO NOW, is, by far, the best streaming video provider. It’s also the most expensive, at almost twice the cost of Netflix, Hulu and other providers. You get what you pay for. HBO NOW is well worth the price.
HBO NOW doesn’t offer any reviews and ratings for movies. Unlike Netflix, iTunes and other content providers, viewers have to guess which movies are worth watching. After watching a few really bad movies, I started checking titles against Rotten Tomatoes. It was a frustrating process. It made sense to develop a list of HBO movies ranked by Rotten Tomatoes scores.
You may be tempted to add everything over a certain score to your watchlist. Be advised, this may slow down access to your watchlist. I learned this the hard way. It’s best to add a few movies at a time. You can bookmark or like this page and come back for more.
Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes launched in 1998 as part of the emerging .com scene. The site aggregates reviews from critics and attributes a “Tomatometer” score. The Tomatometer ranges from 0% to 100%, with 100% being a great movie and 0% being horrible. Films rated from 75-100% are “certified fresh”. They’re reviewed by 40 or more critics and garner excellent reviews. The 60% to 74% range applies to “fresh” movies. They could either have less than 40 excellent critical reviews or more than 40 average reviews. Anything from 0-59% is considered rotten. Don’t bother watching these unless you enjoy bad movies. The Mystery Science Theater 3000 fan may enjoy the occasional bad movie.
Rotten Tomatoes already offers a list of HBO movies and their Tomatometer scores. The problem is that it is incomplete and out of date. They only list 286 HBO movies, which is a little more than half of the collection. Browsing over Rotten Tomatoes results, I quickly noticed movies that are no longer offered by HBO, in addition to the missing films.
Please Report Errata
Managing a list of almost 500 movies is a daunting task. As a software engineer, I wanted to automate this task, but it’s more difficult than it seems. The biggest problem is that there are duplicate titles for a lot of movies. It takes a lot of clever logic to find the right movie. One could match these based on actors or date, but I found that this information is not always present. I could do it, but I didn’t want to spend 30 hours writing code for something that I could do manually in 10.
This was a time-consuming endeavor. HBO’s movie collection is constantly changing. It’s a moving target. In fact, by the time I finished assigning the Rotten Tomatoes scores, I noticed HBO had already added and removed some movies.
This list is the most complete and accurate one you will find on the web, but it’s not perfect. Please report any missing or incorrect information in the comments below. I will try to update this list as often as I can. Reporting updates and mistakes will help me do this.
Movies with No Score
At the very end of this list, you’ll notice movies that only have a “-” for their Tomatometer score. This means that it wasn’t reviewed yet or wasn’t in Rotten Tomatoes at all. These aren’t necessarily bad movies. Some aren’t movies at all, but are HBO “first looks”, shorts, and brief programs about what to watch on HBO in a particular month. A lot of HBO-produced movies don’t get reviewed, but they’re still excellent. I encourage you to go to the end of the list and explore these options. Continue on to the next page to view the list of HBO movies ranked by their Rotten Tomatoes score.
| Movie Title | Tomatometer Score |
|---|---|
| And the Band Played On | 100 |
| The Grapes of Wrath | 100 |
| Grey Gardens | 100 |
| Hilda | 100 |
| The Ladies’ Man | 100 |
| Longford | 100 |
| Sometimes a Great Notion | 100 |
| South Central | 100 |
| Temple Grandin | 100 |
| 101 Dalmations | 98 |
| Mean Streets | 98 |
| Say Anything… | 98 |
| The Wrestler | 98 |
| Mad Max: Fury Road | 97 |
| Sweet Sixteen | 97 |
| Appropriate Behavior | 96 |
| The Fabulous Baker Boys | 96 |
| The Insider | 96 |
| The Iron Giant | 96 |
| Missing | 96 |
| The Pianist | 96 |
| Behind the Candelabra | 95 |
| Dirty Harry | 95 |
| American Splendor | 94 |
| The Great Santini | 94 |
| Juno | 94 |
| The Normal Heart | 94 |
| Spy | 94 |
| Sweet Dreams | 94 |
| The Bourne Ultimatum | 93 |
| Dave Chappelle’s Block Party | 92 |
| Face/Off | 92 |
| Gia | 92 |
| The Laramie Project | 92 |
| The Martian | 92 |
| High Fidelity | 91 |
| Coraline | 90 |
| La isla minima | 90 |
| Raising Arizona | 90 |
| What’s Up, Doc? | 90 |
| Calvary | 89 |
| Bessie | 88 |
| Gridlock’d | 88 |
| La jaula de oro | 88 |
| Scent of a Woman | 88 |
| Shrek | 88 |
| All the Way | 87 |
| Jackie Brown | 87 |
| Kung Fu Panda | 87 |
| The Namesake | 87 |
| Runaway Train | 87 |
| Straight Outta Compton | 87 |
| Citizen X | 86 |
| Far From the Madding Crowd | 86 |
| Get Shorty | 86 |
| Slither | 86 |
| The Special Relationship | 86 |
| State and Main | 86 |
| The Tuskegee Airmen | 86 |
| Dead Poets Society | 85 |
| The Secret Garden | 85 |
| Trainwreck | 85 |
| Breach | 84 |
| Kissing Jessica Stein | 84 |
| Rocket Science | 84 |
| Dressed to Kill | 83 |
| Nightingale | 83 |
| Real Women Have Curves | 83 |
| Tropic Thunder | 83 |
| Barbershop | 82 |
| Bronco Billy | 82 |
| Love & Basketball | 82 |
| Me and Earl and the Dying Girl | 82 |
| Mistress America | 82 |
| Scarface | 82 |
| The Book of Life | 81 |
| Friday Night Lights | 81 |
| Furious 7 | 81 |
| The NeverEnding Story | 81 |
| One Hour Photo | 81 |
| America Gangster | 80 |
| Angel Rodriguez | 80 |
| Black Sea | 80 |
| Magic Mike | 80 |
| Magnum Force | 80 |
| Wit | 80 |
| Antwone Fisher | 79 |
| The Birdcage | 79 |
| Confirmation | 79 |
| The Theory of Everything | 79 |
| The 25th Hour | 78 |
| Bad Santa | 78 |
| Charlotte’s Web | 78 |
| Frantic | 78 |
| Gentleman’s Agreement | 78 |
| Harry Potter/Order of the Phoenix | 78 |
| Project X | 78 |
| Two Brothers | 78 |
| Wall Street | 78 |
| The Tailor of Panama | 77 |
| Baby Boom | 76 |
| Recount | 76 |
| Sea of Love | 76 |
| A Beautiful Mind | 75 |
| Black Mass | 75 |
| Everyday People | 75 |
| Happy Feet | 75 |
| Igby Goes Down | 75 |
| Rugrats in Paris: The Movie | 75 |
| Sweet Liberty | 75 |
| Finding Forrester | 74 |
| Ghost | 74 |
| Inherent Vice | 74 |
| Cry-Baby | 73 |
| Everest | 73 |
| Frailty | 73 |
| Jet Li’s Fearless | 73 |
| Joy Ride | 73 |
| Remember the Titans | 73 |
| Ricochet | 73 |
| The Score | 73 |
| Snatch | 73 |
| Suffragette | 73 |
| Youth | 73 |
| Jurassic World | 72 |
| Naked Lunch | 71 |
| 28 Weeks Later | 70 |
| Ocean’s Thirteen | 70 |
| Tron | 70 |
| Keeping the Faith | 69 |
| The Muppet Christmas Carol | 69 |
| Nighthawks | 69 |
| Soapdish | 69 |
| Barbershop 2: Back in Business | 68 |
| Snakes on a Plane | 68 |
| Trespass | 68 |
| Ali | 67 |
| Lucy | 67 |
| The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | 67 |
| Dumb & Dumber | 66 |
| Ladron que roba a ladron | 66 |
| Pitch Perfect 2 | 66 |
| Game Change | 65 |
| The Maze Runner | 65 |
| A Walk Among the Tombstones | 65 |
| Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa | 64 |
| Zero Effect | 64 |
| The Brothers | 63 |
| Magic Mike XXL | 63 |
| Saving Grace | 63 |
| The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | 63 |
| Shakedown | 63 |
| White Fang | 63 |
| The Intern | 62 |
| Joshua | 62 |
| MI-5 | 62 |
| The Salton Sea | 62 |
| American Pie | 61 |
| Blood and Wine | 61 |
| The Hitcher | 61 |
| Independence Day | 61 |
| Maps to the Stars | 61 |
| Prelude to a Kiss | 61 |
| Unfriended | 61 |
| Cloak & Dagger | 60 |
| Running Scared | 60 |
| Wimbledon | 60 |
| Flash of Genius | 59 |
| Dark Blue | 58 |
| The Luzhin Defence | 58 |
| Volunteers | 58 |
| The Astronaut Farmer | 57 |
| Gus Van Sant’s Last Days | 57 |
| Like Mike | 57 |
| Pu-239 | 57 |
| The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas | 56 |
| Deep Blue Sea | 56 |
| The Notorious Bettie Page | 56 |
| Paper Towns | 56 |
| Sudden Impact | 56 |
| Alpha Dog | 55 |
| Bernard and Doris | 55 |
| Home Alone | 55 |
| A Perfect Murder | 55 |
| The Dream Team | 54 |
| The Good Shepherd | 54 |
| Spaceballs | 54 |
| Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny | 54 |
| The Transporter | 54 |
| How the Grinch Stole Christmas | 53 |
| I Origins | 53 |
| The Last Mimzy | 53 |
| American Pie 2 | 52 |
| Clear History | 52 |
| The Last Castle | 52 |
| Sudden Death | 52 |
| Bee Movie | 51 |
| Halloween H20: 20 Years Later | 51 |
| Ella Enchanted | 50 |
| Endgame | 50 |
| Forget Paris | 50 |
| Hearts in Atlantis | 50 |
| Hemingway & Gellhorn | 50 |
| The Man With One Read Shoe | 50 |
| Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Movie | 50 |
| Taking Chance | 50 |
| Trouble With the Curve | 50 |
| Before the Rains | 49 |
| The Corruptor | 49 |
| Disney’s The Kid | 49 |
| Riding in Cars With Boys | 49 |
| San Andreas | 49 |
| We Are Marshall | 49 |
| Eight Legged Freaks | 48 |
| Freeheld | 48 |
| Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials | 48 |
| Night at the Museum: Secret of/Tomb | 48 |
| The Ruins | 48 |
| Stargate | 48 |
| The Banger Sisters | 47 |
| The Manhattan Project | 47 |
| Phil Spector | 47 |
| The Babe | 46 |
| Ted 2 | 46 |
| The Curse of the Jade Scorpion | 45 |
| Casper | 44 |
| Connie and Carla | 44 |
| The Jacket | 44 |
| A Little Chaos | 44 |
| National Treasure | 44 |
| Simon Birch | 44 |
| True Story | 44 |
| Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight | 43 |
| Big Fat Liar | 42 |
| No Reservations | 42 |
| 27 Dresses | 41 |
| Beerfest | 41 |
| To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything | 41 |
| Frequently Asked Questions/Time Travel | 40 |
| The Great Outdoors | 40 |
| The Perfect Weapon | 40 |
| Road House | 40 |
| Same Time, Next Year | 40 |
| Shrek the Third | 40 |
| We Are Your Friends | 40 |
| Feast of Love | 39 |
| The Brothers Grimm | 38 |
| The Nativity Story | 38 |
| Beauty Shop | 37 |
| Bicentennial Man | 37 |
| Fantastic Four: Rise of/Silver Surfer | 37 |
| Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium | 37 |
| As You Like It | 36 |
| Brewster’s Millions | 36 |
| Street Kings | 36 |
| Drop Zone | 35 |
| Max | 35 |
| Our Brand is Crisis | 35 |
| Racing Stripes | 35 |
| Super Troopers | 35 |
| Blackhat | 34 |
| Suicide Kings | 34 |
| Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead | 33 |
| Entourage | 33 |
| Other People’s Money | 33 |
| Switch | 33 |
| All the Pretty Horses | 32 |
| The Black Dahlia | 32 |
| Eulogy | 32 |
| The Uninvited | 32 |
| Windtalkers | 32 |
| Unaccompanied Minors | 31 |
| Everybody’s All-American | 30 |
| The Longest Ride | 30 |
| Lost River | 30 |
| Annabelle | 29 |
| The Cup | 29 |
| The Divergent Series: Insurgent | 29 |
| Dumb & Dumber To | 29 |
| Kiss the Girls | 29 |
| Not Another Teen Movie | 29 |
| Shrink | 29 |
| The Time Machine | 29 |
| Tio Papi | 29 |
| Alvin and the Chipmunks | 27 |
| Lost in Space | 27 |
| Love Potion No. 9 | 27 |
| Pan | 27 |
| As Above/So Below | 26 |
| Bait | 26 |
| Eagle Eye | 26 |
| Hoot | 26 |
| Jupiter Ascending | 26 |
| Kull the Conqueror | 26 |
| Vacation | 26 |
| Fathers’ Day | 25 |
| Reindeer Games | 25 |
| Fierce People | 24 |
| Jonas Brothers: The Concert Experience | 24 |
| RocketMan | 24 |
| Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo | 23 |
| Evan Almighty | 23 |
| Van Helsing | 23 |
| Dracula Untold | 22 |
| Memoirs of an Invisible Man | 22 |
| Taking Lives | 22 |
| Baby’s Day Out | 21 |
| Honey | 21 |
| Inspector Gadget | 21 |
| Autumn in New York | 20 |
| The Crew | 20 |
| La mujer de mi hermano | 20 |
| Life With Mikey | 20 |
| Next Friday | 20 |
| Thunderstruck | 20 |
| Clean Slate | 19 |
| Fly Me to the Moon | 19 |
| The Invasion | 19 |
| National Lampoon’s Van Wilder | 19 |
| Thunderbirds | 19 |
| Camp Nowhere | 18 |
| I Think I Love My Wife | 18 |
| Jem and the Holograms | 18 |
| Princess Kaiulani | 18 |
| Saving Silverman | 18 |
| Ernest Scared Stupid | 17 |
| Georgia Rule | 17 |
| Into the Blue 2: The Reef | 17 |
| Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie | 17 |
| Wild Wild West | 17 |
| The Astronaut’s Wife | 16 |
| Cursed | 16 |
| Jumper | 16 |
| Money Talks | 16 |
| The Gallows | 15 |
| Her Alibi | 15 |
| Deception | 14 |
| Mafia! | 14 |
| The Seeker: The Dark is Rising | 14 |
| Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London | 13 |
| Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen | 13 |
| Double Take | 13 |
| The Haunted Mansion | 13 |
| Club Paradise | 11 |
| Kung Pow! Enter the Fist | 11 |
| Millennium | 11 |
| Play it to the Bone | 11 |
| The Boy Next Door | 10 |
| Soldier | 10 |
| Strictly Business | 10 |
| Circus | 9 |
| Fantastic Four | 9 |
| Mom and Dad Save the World | 9 |
| My Life in Ruins | 9 |
| Summer Catch | 8 |
| The Forsaken | 7 |
| Ouija | 7 |
| Problem Child 2 | 7 |
| Shutter | 7 |
| Godsend | 4 |
| Happily N’Ever After | 4 |
| Problem Child | 4 |
| Vice | 4 |
| Bless the Child | 3 |
| McHale’s Navy | 3 |
| Meet the Spartans | 2 |
| Cabin Fever | 0 |
| Head Office | 0 |
| Killing Me Softly | 0 |
| The Leisure Class | 0 |
| Only the Strong | 0 |
| Wagons East! | 0 |
| 102 Dalmations | – |
| Absolutely Fabulous: HBO First Look | – |
| According to Spencer | – |
| Alice Telefilm Part 1 | – |
| Alice Telefilm Part 2 | – |
| And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself | – |
| Bikini: una historia real | – |
| Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee | – |
| Capturing Mary | – |
| Carmina y amen | – |
| Cast a Deadly Spell | – |
| Catacombs | – |
| Cheech & Chong’s Next Movie | – |
| Cinema Verite | – |
| Classical Baby: The Poetry Show | – |
| Conspiracy | – |
| Cronica del fin del mundo | – |
| D.C. Cab | – |
| Dark Floors | – |
| Daybreak | – |
| Dead Silence | – |
| Dirty War | – |
| Dr. Dolittle 2 | – |
| Einstein and Eddington | – |
| El Adios | – |
| El Diablo | – |
| El Vientre (The Womb) | – |
| El amor me queda grande | – |
| El beso (The Kiss) | – |
| El elefante desaparecido | – |
| Elizabeth I (Part 1) | – |
| Elizabeth I (Part 2) | – |
| Empire Falls (Part 1) | – |
| Empire Falls (Part 2) | – |
| The Enemy Within | – |
| Fellow Traveller | – |
| The Fever | – |
| Francisco, recen por mi | – |
| Frankie and Johnny | – |
| The Gathering Storm | – |
| The Girl | – |
| Goodnight Moon & Other Tales | – |
| Grilled | – |
| HBO Access 01: The Walk | – |
| HBO Access 02: Emergency Contact | – |
| HBO Access 03: Progress | – |
| HBO Access 04: The Last Song | – |
| Happily N’Ever 2 | – |
| House of Saddam – Part I | – |
| House of Saddam – Part II | – |
| House of Saddam – Part III | – |
| House of Saddam – Part IV | – |
| I Have Tourette’s… | – |
| Iceman | – |
| In Pursuit of Honor | – |
| Indictment: The McMartin Trial | – |
| Into the Storm | – |
| Jason Bourne: HBO First Look | – |
| Joe’s Palace | – |
| Juan in a Million | – |
| La Vida Inesperada | – |
| La pantalla desnuda | – |
| Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill | – |
| The Last Outlaw | – |
| The Last of the Blonde Bombshells | – |
| The Late Shift | – |
| Legally Blondes | – |
| The Leopards Take Manhattan | – |
| Les ovejas no pierden el tren | – |
| Life Support | – |
| Like Mike 2: Streetball | – |
| Looking: The Movie | – |
| Mandrake Telefilm: Part 1 | – |
| Mandrake Telefilm: Part 2 | – |
| Mary and Martha | – |
| Mateo | – |
| Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth | – |
| The Misfits Club | – |
| Miss Evers’ Boys | – |
| Muerte en Buenos Aires | – |
| The Music in Me: A Family Special | – |
| The Music in Me: Children’s Recitals | – |
| My Zinc Bed | – |
| No Man’s Land | – |
| No robaras (Thou Shall Not Steal) | – |
| A Number | – |
| Odd Jobs | – |
| Out on a Limb | – |
| Pancho, el perro millonario | – |
| Path to War | – |
| Pen Pals | – |
| The Pentagon Wars | – |
| Pinochet’s Last Stand | – |
| Primero de Enero | – |
| Primo | – |
| Problem Child 3: Junior in Love | – |
| Quedate | – |
| Ramona | – |
| Refugiado | – |
| A Ritmo de Fe (Rhythm of Faith) | – |
| The Secret of the Magic Gourd | – |
| The Seduction of Joe Tynan | – |
| Sin hijos | – |
| The Sissy Duckling | – |
| Someone Had to Be Benny | – |
| Something the Lord Made | – |
| Sometimes in April | – |
| Stargate: Continuum | – |
| Stargate: The Ark of Truth | – |
| Strip Search | – |
| Stuart: A Life Backwards | – |
| The Sunset Limited | – |
| Too Big to Fail | – |
| Tsunami, The Aftermath Part 1 | – |
| Tsunami, The Aftermath Part 2 | – |
| Tyson | – |
| Unhitched | – |
| Vendetta | – |
| Walkout | – |
| Warm Springs | – |
| Wes Craven Presents: Dracula 2000 | – |
| What to Watch: August 2016 | – |
| When Trumpets Fade | – |
| Whitewash | – |
| Witness Protection | – |
| Yesterday | – |
| You Don’t Know Jack | – |
| Zoot Suit | – |