May is just around the corner, and it’s time to see what three of the biggest streaming services will add to their catalogs in the coming month.
Prime Video adds a divisive superhero movie to its May 2025 lineup with last year’s Kraven the Hunter. This month also sees the debut of the original Star Wars trilogy on Hulu and the prequel Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. If you don’t have Disney+, watch the movies while you can.
Check out our full list below!
What’s Coming to Netflix in May 2025?
May 5, 2025
Paul (2011)
Directed by: Greg Mottola
Starring: Mia Stallard, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Jeremy Owen, Jeffrey Tambor
Synopsis: “Simon Pegg and Nick Frost reunite for the comedy adventure Paul as two sci-fi geeks whose pilgrimage takes them to America’s UFO heartland. While there, they accidentally meet an alien who brings them on an insane road trip that alters their universe forever.”
Starship Troopers (1997)
Directed by: Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards, Jake Busey, Neil Patrick Harris
Synopsis: “STARSHIP TROOPERS charts the lives of elite members of the Mobile Infantry, a corps of dedicated young men and women soldiers fighting side-by-side in the ultimate intergalactic war… the battle to save humankind. The enemy is mysterious and incredibly powerful with only one mission: survival of their species no matter what the human cost.”
What’s Coming to Amazon Prime Video in May 2025
May 12, 2025
Kraven the Hunter (2024)
Directed by: J. C. Chandor
Starring: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Fred Hechinger, Russell Crowe, Ariana DeBose, Christopher Abbott
Synopsis: “Kraven the Hunter is the visceral, action-packed origin story of how and why one of Marvel’s most iconic villains came to be. Aaron Taylor-Johnson plays Kraven, a man whose complex relationship with his ruthless father, Nikolai Kravinoff (Russell Crowe), starts him down a path of vengeance with brutal consequences, motivating him to become not only the greatest hunter in the world, but also one of its most feared.”
What’s Coming to HULU in May 2025
May 1, 2025
Alienoid (2022)
Directed by: Choi Dong-hoon
Starring: Ryu Jun-yeol, Kim Woo-bin, Kim Tae-ri, So Ji-sub, Yum Jung-ah
Synopsis: “For ages, aliens have kept their prisoners locked inside human bodies, but the guard in charge opens a gate through time in an attempt to prevent their escape. The portal links to 630 years in the past, where a master swordsman and others try to seize a legendary sword. Chaos and confusion ensue when travelers from the present cross paths with those from the past, and all are trying to find the mystical divine blade that holds the key to everything.”
Alienoid: Return to the Future (2024)
Directed by: Choi Dong-hoon
Starring: Ryu Jun-yeol, Kim Tae-ri, Kim Woo-bin, Lee Hanee, Yum Jung-ah
Synopsis: “ALIENOID: RETURN TO THE FUTURE Blu-ray / Trapped in the past while trying to prevent the escape of alien prisoners, our heroes locate the Divine Blade that opens the door through space and time. Pursued by sorcerers and warriors, they race back to the present to battle the aliens and their powerful commander intent on destroying mankind and the world”
Babylon A.D. (2008)
Directed by: Mathieu Kassovitz
Starring: Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh, Mélanie Thierry, Gérard Depardieu, Charlotte Rampling
Synopsis: “It is the not-too-distant future. Thousands of satellites scan, observe and monitor our every move. Much of the planet is a war zone; the rest, a collection of wretched way stations, teeming megalopolises, and vast wastelands punctuated by areas left radioactive from nuclear meltdowns. It is a world made for hardened warriors, one of whom, a mercenary known only as Toorop, lives by a simple survivor’s code: kill or be killed. His latest assignment has him smuggling a young woman named Aurora from a convent in Kazakhstan to New York City. Toorop, his new young charge Aurora and Aurora’s guardian Sister Rebeka embark on a 6,000-mile journey that takes them from Eastern Europe, through a refugee camp in “New Russia,” across the Bering Straight in a pilfered submarine, then through the frozen tundra of Alaska and Canada, and finally to New York.”
Attack the Block (2011)
Directed by: Joe Cornish
Starring: Jodie Whittaker, John Boyega, Alex Esmail, Leeon Jones, Franz Drameh
Synopsis: “From the producers of Shaun of the Dead, Attack the Block is a fast, funny, frightening action adventure movie that pits a teen street gang against an invasion of savage alien monsters. It turns a London housing project into a sci-fi battleground, the low-income apartment complex into a fortress under siege. And it turns a crazy mix of tough street kids into a team of kick ass heroes. It’s inner city versus outer space and it’s going to explode”
Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)
Directed by: Matthew Vaughn
Starring: Colin Firth, Samuel L. Jackson, Mark Strong, Taron Egerton, Michael Caine
Synopsis: “Based upon the acclaimed comic book and directed by Matthew Vaughn (Kick-Ass, X-Men First Class), the film tells the story of a suave, old-school British superspy who recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into his agency’s ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted American entrepreneur.”
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
Directed by: Matthew Vaughn
Starring: Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Taron Egerton, Mark Strong, Halle Berry
Synopsis: “When an attack on the Kingsman headquarters takes place and a new villain rises, Eggsy and Merlin are forced to work together with the American agency Statesman to save the world.”
The King’s Man (2021)
Directed by: Matthew Vaughn
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Gemma Arterton, Rhys Ifans, Matthew Goode, Tom Hollander
Synopsis: “As a collection of history’s worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe out millions, one man must race against time to stop them.”
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
Directed by: Gareth Edwards
Starring: Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Alan Tudyk, Donnie Yen, Wen Jiang
Synopsis: “In a time of conflict, a group of unlikely heroes band together on a mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire’s ultimate weapon of destruction. This key event in the Star Wars timeline brings together ordinary people who choose to do extraordinary things, and in doing so, become part of something greater than themselves.”
Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977)
Directed by: George Lucas
Starring: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, Alec Guinness
Synopsis: “A farm boy dreams of adventure and a princess rebels against an evil Empire. The fate of the galaxy is forever changed when Luke Skywalker discovers his powerful connection to a mysterious Force, and blasts into space to rescue Princess Leia. Mentored by a wise Jedi Master, and opposed by the menacing Darth Vader, Luke takes his first steps on a hero’s journey.”
Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Directed by: Irvin Kershner
Starring: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels
Synopsis: “Discover the conflict between good and evil in the electrifying Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back. After the destruction of the Death Star, Imperial forces continue to pursue the Rebels. After the Rebellion’s defeat on the ice planet Hoth, Luke journeys to the planet Dagobah to train with Jedi Master Yoda, who has lived in hiding since the fall of the Republic. In an attempt to convert Luke to the dark side, Darth Vader lures young Skywalker into a trap in the Cloud City of Bespin.”
Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983)
Directed by: Richard Marquand
Starring: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels
Synopsis: “After rescuing Han Solo from the palace of Jabba the Hutt, the rebels attempt to destroy the second Death Star, while Luke struggles to make Vader return from the dark side of the Force.”
May 9, 2025
Hitman (2007)
Directed by: Xavier Gens
Starring: Timothy Olyphant, Dougray Scott, Olga Kurylenko, Robert Knepper, Ulrich Thomsen
Synopsis: “Based on the top-selling, award-winning video game franchise, the HITMAN is a genetically engineered, elite assassin known only as Agent 47. Timothy Olyphant stars in the title role, a mysterious and complex man of profound contradictions: He was bred from the world’s deadliest criminals, but raised by an exiled brotherhood of the Church. His very existence seems to be a sin, but he wages a quiet war to rid the world of evil. He’s brilliant, charismatic and charming — yet reveals little about himself, has no name, and is known only by the last two digits of a barcode tattooed on the back of his head.”
Hitman: Agent 47 (2015)
Directed by: Aleksander Bach
Starring: Angelababy, Dan Bakkedahl, Tenement Woman, Berlin Police Officer #1, Nils Brunkhorst
Synopsis: “HITMAN: AGENT 47 centers on an elite assassin who was genetically engineered from conception to be the perfect killing machine, and is known only by the last two digits on the barcode tattooed on the back of his neck. He is the culmination of decades of research – and forty-six earlier Agent clones — endowing him with unprecedented strength, speed, stamina and intelligence. His latest target is a mega-corporation that plans to unlock the secret of Agent 47’s past to create an army of killers whose powers surpass even his own. Teaming up with a young woman who may hold the secret to overcoming their powerful and clandestine enemies, 47 confronts stunning revelations about his own origins and squares off in an epic battle with his deadliest foe.”
What are you watching on Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Video next month? Let us know in the comments below!
