11 movies to check out on Hulu this May

As the summer movie season gets ready to kick off in theaters, Hulu highlights some A-list stars in indie films for its May calendar. In Eileen, Anne Hathaway plays a psychologist working at a correctional facility for boys in Massachusetts during the 1960s. Nicolas Cage looks characteristically unhinged as “The Passenger” in the psychological thriller Sympathy For The Devil. Mads Mikkelsen stars in the epic historical drama The Promised Land based on the book The Captain And Ann Barbara by Ida Jessen. Michael Mann’s biographical sports drama Ferrari stars Adam Driver, Penélope Cruz, Shailene Woodley, and Patrick Dempsey. Also coming to Hulu in May 2024 is Sergio Leone’s Once Upon A Time In America for its 40th anniversary, the horror-comedy 12 Hour Shift starring Angela Bettis, the drama The Sweet East, and much more.

Once Upon A Time In America (1984, available May 1)

Sergio Leone’s final film, Once Upon A Time In America, celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Joe Pesci, Burt Young, Tuesday Weld, and Treat Williams star in this epic crime drama about Jewish gangsters in New York City during the Great Depression. The A.V. Club’s , “A film of fatally flawed heroes, oversized passions, nation-building, and, inevitably, violence, America follows its characters from childhood to old age by way of the kind of grand-scale filmmaking that wouldn’t be seen again until Martin Scorsese’s Gangs Of New York.”