Best western, animation, drama, & horror shows on Max, ranked.
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MAXChernobyl
2019– · Series · 1 seasonDrama · History · Thriller
10 EmmysBest Drama SeriesIn April 1986, the city of Chernobyl in the Soviet Union suffers one of the worst nuclear disasters in the history of mankind. Consequently, many heroes put their lives on the line in the following days, weeks and months.
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MAXPrime VideoBatman: The Animated Series
1992–1995 · Series · 4 seasonsAnimation · Action
1 EmmyBillionaire Bruce Wayne secretly operates as Batman, a vigilante who battles a rouges' gallery of criminals and supervillains in Gotham City with the aid of various sidekicks and allies.
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MAXThe Tale of The Princess Kaguya
2013 · Movie · Japanese · 2h 17mAnimation · Drama · Family
Kaguya is a beautiful young woman coveted by five nobles. To try to avoid marrying a stranger she doesn't love, she sends her suitors on seemingly impossible tasks. But she will have to face her fate and punishment for her choices.
MAX - #1494#1494
MAXBattleship Potemkin
1925 · Movie · Russian · 1h 6mDrama · History · Thriller
In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.
MAX - #2393#2393
MAXSix Feet Under
2001–2005 · Series · 5 seasonsDrama · Comedy
9 EmmysWhen death is your business, what is your life? Laced with irony and dark situational humor, the show approaches the subject of death through the eyes of the Fisher family, who owns and operates a funeral home in Los Angeles.
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MAXPrincess Mononoke
1997 · Movie · Japanese · 2h 13mAnimation · Action · Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way, he encounters San, a young human woman fighting to protect the forest, and Lady Eboshi, who is trying to destroy it. Ashitaka must find a way to bring balance to this conflict.
MAX - #5291#5291
MAXHowl's Moving Castle
2004 · Movie · Japanese · 1h 59mAnimation · Action · Family
When an unconfident young woman is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his legged, walking castle.
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MAXThe Earrings of Madame de...
1953 · Movie · French · 1h 45mDrama · Romance
When an aristocratic woman known only as "Madame de . . ." sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband in order to pay some debts, she sets off a chain reaction of financial and carnal consequences that can end only in de...
MAX - #9788#9788
MAXThe Leftovers
2014–2017 · Series · 3 seasonsDrama · Sci-Fi & Fantasy · Mystery
Three years after the disappearance of 2% of the global human population, a group of people in a small New York community try to continue their lives while coping with the tragedy of the unexplained nature of the event.
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MAXThe Great Beauty
2013 · Movie · Italian · 2h 21mDrama
1 OscarJep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
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MAXKnife in the Water
1962 · Movie · Polish · 1h 34mDrama · Thriller
A couple pick up a hitchhiker on the way to their yacht. The husband invites the young man to come along for their day's sailing. As the voyage progresses, the antagonism between the two men grows. A violent confrontation is inevi...
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MAXNe Zha 2
2025 · Movie · Mandarin · 2h 24mAnimation · Action
After a great catastrophe, the souls of Nezha and Aobing are saved, but their bodies face ruin. To give them new life, Taiyi Zhenren turns to the mystical seven-colored lotus in a daring bid to rebuild them and change their fate.
MAX - #11087#11087
MAXWhen Marnie Was There
2014 · Movie · Japanese · 1h 43mAnimation · Drama · Family
Upon being sent to live with relatives in the countryside due to an illness, an emotionally distant adolescent girl becomes obsessed with an abandoned mansion and infatuated with a girl who lives there - a girl who may or may not be real.
MAX - #12586#12586
MAXPrime VideoA Haunting
2005–2022 · Series · 11 seasonsHorror · Drama · Sci-Fi & Fantasy
"A Haunting" was a USA paranormal anthology previewing stories told by the victims. Victims tell their terrifying encounters with the paranormal. This show contains narration, frightening re-enactments, and religious content.
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MAXUs
2019 · Movie · 1h 56mHorror · Mystery · Thriller
In order to get away from their busy lives, the Wilson family takes a vacation to Santa Cruz, California. At night, four strangers break into Adelaide's childhood home. The family is shocked to find out that the intruders look lik...
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MAXNight Is Short, Walk On Girl
2017 · Movie · Japanese · 1h 32mAnimation · Action · Comedy
In this comedy about one epic night in Kyoto, a college sophomore goes on a series of surreal encounters with the local nightlife, all the while unaware of the romantic longings of her classmate Senpai.
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MAXThe Lobster
2015 · Movie · 1h 59mDrama · Romance · Sci-Fi & Fantasy
In a dystopian near future, according to the laws of The City, single people are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in 45 days or they're transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.
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MAXTwo English Girls
1971 · Movie · French · 2h 10mDrama · Romance
Young Frenchman Claude meets Englishwoman Ann in Paris. Ann invites him to her family home, intending him for her sister Muriel. Claude falls for Muriel, but families demand year-long separation before approving marriage.
MAX - #21281#21281
MAXPeacockThe Vampire Diaries
2009–2017 · Series · 8 seasonsDrama · Sci-Fi & Fantasy · Horror
The lives, loves, dangers and disasters in the town, Mystic Falls, Virginia. Creatures of unspeakable horror lurk beneath this town as a teenage girl is suddenly torn between two vampire brothers.
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MAXMy Adventures with Superman
2023– · Series · 2 seasonsAnimation · Action
Clark Kent builds his secret Superman identity and embraces his role as the hero of Metropolis, while sharing adventures and falling in love with Lois Lane, a star investigative journalist, who also takes Jimmy Olsen under her wing.
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MAX5 Centimeters per Second
2007 · Movie · Japanese · 1h 3mAnimation · Drama · Family
Told in three interconnected segments, Takaki tells the story of his life as cruel winters, cold technology, and finally, adult obligations and responsibility converge to test the delicate petals of love.
MAX - #25177#25177
MAXRobot Chicken: DC Comics Special
2012 · Movie · 22mAnimation · Comedy · Sci-Fi & Fantasy
The Robot Chicken DC Comics Special brings you the awesomeness of the DC Comics universe of characters as only Robot Chicken can, with amazing guest stars and the stop-motion sketch comedy you've come to love.
MAX - #25377#25377
MAXAnimals.
2016–2018 · Series · 3 seasonsAnimation · Comedy
Whether it's lovelorn rats, gender-questioning pigeons or aging bedbugs in the midst of a midlife crisis, the awkward small talk, moral ambiguity and existential woes of non-human urbanites prove startlingly similar to our own.
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MAXLes Misérables
2012 · Movie · 2h 38mDrama · Musical · Romance
3 OscarsIn 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who, for decades, has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after breaking parole, agrees to care for a factory worker's daughter. The decision changes their lives forever.
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MAXSong of the Samurai - Chapter: Youthful Days in Edo
2026– · Series · JapaneseDrama · Action
A live-action adaptation that translates this deep legacy to the screen. Set in Kyoto at the end of the Edo period, the story depicts the intense and passionate lives of the Shinsengumi - the iconic samurai force that defended Kyoto in the final years of Japan's shogunate - through spectacular action and a bold interpretation based on historical facts. The story follows street brawler Toshizo Hijikata (Yuki Yamada), who finds a new kind of family in Isami Kondo and Soji Okita. Hijikata and his comrades in the Shinsengumi forge a bond of loyalty - tested by betrayal, illness, and war - as they fight not only their enemies but their own ideals.
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