The 15 best movies on ITVX you can stream for free in February 2026
One of Tom Hardy's best movies is on ITVX now
ITVX is one of the most underrated streaming platforms, particularly for its huge selection of free movies – and these are the best films you can watch now.
To be fair, no one can blame you if you’ve never thought to check out its film library.
If you’re not using ITVX to catch up with the likes of After the Flood and Betrayal, you’re probably watching Netflix movies or using other streamers.
However, not only does ITVX have brilliant movies, but they’re all completely free to stream!
Bronson
- Genre: Drama
- Year: 2008
- Cast: Tom Hardy, Matt King, James Lance
- Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
- Runtime: 1 hour 32 minutes
What it’s about: In 1974, Michael Peterson is sentenced to seven years in prison for armed robbery. In the violent decades that followed, he became known as Charles Bronson, the most dangerous prisoner in Britain.
Why to watch: The depths of A Clockwork Orange’s depravity will never be reached on-screen again. However, Bronson – directed by the maker of Drive – is close in spirit: an astonishing character study that doesn’t rationalise ‘evil’, with Hardy’s electrifying performance at its bare-knuckled centre.
Buried
- Genre: Thriller
- Year: 2010
- Cast: Ryan Reynolds
- Director: Rodrigo Cortés
- Runtime: 1 hour 35 minutes
What it’s about: Paul Conroy, an American civilian working in Iraq, wakes up inside a wooden coffin that’s been buried underground. With little more than a lighter and a phone, he tries to figure out how to escape.
Why to watch: John Waters once advised people to see Buried with “someone you hate”. That’s an exquisitely apt recommendation: it’s a celluloid nightmare more visceral than anything you’ve (hopefully) experienced. Plus, it reveals Reynolds’ true dramatic talents underneath his smarmy persona.
Dirty Dancing
- Genre: Drama, Romance
- Year: 1987
- Cast: Jennifer Grey, Patrick Swayze, Cynthia Rhodes
- Director: Emile Ardolino
- Runtime: 1 hour 40 minutes
What it’s about: While holidaying with her parents at a summer resort, Baby falls under the spell of Johnny, the camp’s rebellious dance instructor.
Why to watch: Dirty Dancing is one of the most joyous and rewatchable movies ever made. In short – sorry, but we can’t resist – you’ll have the time of your life. We swear… it’s the truth.
Jack Reacher
- Genre: Thriller, Action
- Year: 2012
- Cast: Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Werner Herzog
- Director: Christopher McQuarrie
- Runtime: 2 hours 10 minutes
What it’s about: Jack Reacher, a former military police investigator, is called upon to figure out the truth when an ex-army sniper is accused of committing a mass shooting.
Why to watch: Tom Cruise doesn’t look like Jack Reacher as he’s written by Lee Child. If you can let go of your preconceptions, this is one of his most underrated roles; harshly shrewd, clinical in combat, and against his usual movie-star type.
As a film, it’s a compelling conspiracy thriller with superb action sequences; it’s unsurprising that Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie have such a strong working relationship.
Kill Bill (Vol 1 and 2)
- Genre: Action, Thriller
- Year: 2003–2004
- Cast: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Lucy Liu
- Director: Quentin Tarantino
- Runtime: 4 hours 7 minutes (1 hour 51 minutes and 2 hours 18 minutes)
What it’s about: Years after a pregnant assassin – code-named The Bride – is slain by her troupe of contract killers, she emerges from a coma hellbent on revenge.
Why to watch: Kill Bill isn’t Quentin Tarantino’s greatest masterpiece (that honour goes to Inglourious Basterds). It is the movie he was born to make; a high-art, bloodily effervescent pastiche with some of the most unforgettable lines and images in the director’s canon. And, yes, we’re grouping them as one film – if you can, watch The Whole Bloody Affair.
La La Land
- Genre: Romance, Musical
- Year: 2016
- Cast: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, John Legend
- Director: Damien Chazelle
- Runtime: 2 hours 8 minutes
What it’s about: Mia and Sebastian, two young artists chasing their dreams in Los Angeles, meet and quickly hit it off. But what matters more, success or love?
Why to watch: Cynics would have you believe La La Land is overrated. They’re wrong: it’s a near-immaculate, swooning, infectious love story that’s shamelessly in love with its technicolour, song-and-dance ancestors. It’ll make you cry, too. What a picture.
Law Abiding Citizen
- Genre: Thriller
- Year: 2009
- Cast: Gerard Butler, Jamie Foxx, Leslie Bibb
- Director: F. Gary Gray
- Runtime: 1 hour 49 minutes
What it’s about: Years after Clyde Shelton’s wife and daughter are violently murdered, he seeks vengeance not just against their killer, but the corrupt authorities who let him walk free.
Why to watch: A gruesome, post-Taken crowdpleaser, Law Abiding Citizen is trashy, B-movie carnage with Gerard Butler cut loose. You may not think about it much when it’s done, but you’ll feel like you love it in the moment.
Parasite
- Genre: Drama, Thriller
- Year: 2019
- Cast: Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-shik
- Director: Bong Joon-ho
- Runtime: 2 hours 12 minutes
What it’s about: The Kim family lives in a semi-basement flat in Seoul, struggling to make ends meet. When their eldest son starts tutoring a rich family’s daughter, they see an opportunity to infiltrate their lives, but their deception starts to unravel.
Why to watch: Once you overcome the one-inch-tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films. This was the first foreign-language movie to win Best Picture at the Oscars, and for good reason: it’s a masterpiece that’s immensely entertaining.
Predestination
- Genre: Sci-fi, Thriller
- Year: 2014
- Cast: Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook, Noah Taylor
- Director: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
- Runtime: 1 hour 37 minutes
What it’s about: On his final mission, a time-travelling agent is tasked with going back to 1975 New York to prevent a terror attack.
Why to watch: Predestination is a bamboozling movie in the best possible way; enormously ambitious, dazzling, and expertly performed by Hawke and Snook. You’ll feel dizzy by the time the credits roll – and then you’ll want to watch it again.
The Football Factory
- Genre: Drama, Comedy
- Year: 2004
- Cast: Danny Dyer, Tamer Hassan, Frank Harper
- Director: Nick Love
- Runtime: 1 hour 30 minutes
What it’s about: Tommy, a 30-year-old football hooligan who binge-drinks and fights every weekend, starts to question his life choices after a series of incidents.
Why to watch: A bona fide noughties British classic, The Football Factory remains one of the sharpest entries in its hooligan sub-genre; a wary, yet indulgent peek into a hilarious (and frightening) world of complete nutters.
The Passion of the Christ
- Genre: Drama
- Year: 2004
- Cast: Jim Caviezel, Monica Bellucci, Rosalinda Celentano
- Director: Mel Gibson
- Runtime: 2 hours 7 minutes
What it’s about: After one of his disciples betrays him, Jesus endures the agonising final day of his waking life in Jerusalem.
Why to watch: Easter is fast-approaching; that’s a good enough reason to watch The Passion of the Christ. It’s a breathtaking feat of grotesque, unprecedentedly spiritual filmmaking the likes of which we’ll probably never see again.
The Prince of Egypt
- Genre: Animation, Drama
- Year: 1998
- Cast: Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sandra Bullock
- Director: Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, Simon Wells
- Runtime: 1 hour 39 minutes
What it’s about: Moses, an orphan raised as an Egyptian prince, discovers his true origins and flees – until a fateful conversation with God reveals his destiny: to liberate the slaves.
Why to watch: Try as Pixar, Disney, or Studio Ghibli might, there’s no topping The Prince of Egypt. This is the greatest animated movie ever made; a true wonder of artistry on the crest of the millennium.
Tropic Thunder
- Genre: Comedy, Action
- Year: 2008
- Cast: Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Tom Cruise
- Director: Ben Stiller
- Runtime: 1 hour 47 minutes
What it’s about: Movie star Tugg Speedman takes on his latest project: a prestigious, immersive Vietnam War movie. However, when their director drops them into the middle of a jungle, they must become soldiers for real.
Why to watch: Tropic Thunder may be the most outrageous mainstream movie to be released this side of Borat. It’s absolutely hilarious and, somehow, sharply satirical. This word is thrown around a lot, but it’s eligible here: classic.
Watchmen
- Genre: Action, Superhero
- Year: 2009
- Cast: Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Patrick Wilson, Malin Akerman
- Director: Zack Snyder
- Runtime: 2 hours 35 minutes
What it’s about: Vigilante Rorschach sets out to find the truth behind a former superhero’s murder with the help of some old colleagues. However, they stumble into a much greater conspiracy.
Why to watch: Despite its flaws, we’ll never get another comic book adaptation like this again. It’s a whole-hearted, explicitly adult superhero movie that takes itself seriously. It may even be Zack Snyder’s best film.
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