Best war, drama, comedy, animation, & western 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.
MAXPrime Video - #1896#1896
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 - #3294#3294
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.
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MAXHuluSchitt's Creek
2015–2020 · Series · 6 seasonsComedy
9 EmmysAfter being a victim of fraud, Johnny Rose and his family go from extremely wealthy to penniless overnight. The only asset left to them is a small, unsophisticated town: Schitt's Creek. They relocate there. Culture shock ensues.
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MAXChimes at Midnight
1965 · Movie · 1h 55mComedy · Drama · History
Henry IV usurps the English throne, sets in motion the factious War of the Roses and now faces a rebellion led by Northumberland scion Hotspur. Henry's heir, Prince Hal, is a ne'er-do-well carouser who drinks and causes mischief with his low-class friends, especially his rotund father figure, John Falstaff. To redeem his title, Hal may have to choose between allegiance to his real father and loyalty to his friend.
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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.
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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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MAXHuluAbbott Elementary
2021– · Series · 5 seasonsComedy
4 EmmysA workplace comedy centered on a group of dedicated teachers - and an oblivious principal - in a Philadelphia public school where, despite the odds stacked against them, they are determined to help their students succeed in life.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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MAXNetflixTrue Beauty
2020–2021 · Series · Korean · 1 seasonComedy · Drama · Romance
After being bullied and discriminated because of her ugly looks, a high school girl transforms herself into a gorgeous "goddess" and quickly rises to fame after mastering the art of makeup via online tutorial videos.
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MAXTig Notaro: Boyish Girl Interrupted
2015 · Movie · 55mComedy
Grammy(R)-nominated comedian Tig Notaro headlines and directs this stand-up comedy special taped at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston, MA. Known for her distinctive storytelling, offbeat sense of humor and honesty, Notaro's deadpan sta...
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MAXHuluThe O.C.
2003–2007 · Series · 4 seasonsComedy · Drama · Romance
Ryan Atwood, a teen from the wrong side of the tracks, moves in with a wealthy family willing to give him a chance. But Ryan's arrival disturbs the status quo of the affluent, privileged community of Newport Beach, California.
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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.
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MAXSex and the City
1998–2004 · Series · 6 seasonsComedy · Drama · Romance
7 EmmysFour career women navigate life in NYC. Carrie writes about relationships, Charlotte runs an art gallery, Miranda practices law, and Samantha excels in PR. Each brings unique views on love, work, and friendship.
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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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MAXReal Women Have Curves
2002 · Movie · 1h 30mComedy · Drama
In East Los Angeles, an 18-year-old struggles between her ambitions of going to college and the desires of her domineering mother for her to get married, have children, and oversee the small, rundown family-owned textile factory.
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MAXLos Espookys
2019–2022 · Series · Spanish · 2 seasonsComedy · Sci-Fi & Fantasy · Horror
A group of friends turns their love for horror into a peculiar business, providing horror to those who need it in a dreamy Latin American country where the strange and eerie are just part of daily life.
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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.
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MAXThe Flight Attendant
2020–2022 · Series · 2 seasonsComedy · Drama · Mystery
1 EmmyA reckless flight attendant with an alcoholism problem wakes up in the wrong hotel, in the wrong bed, with a dead man - and no idea what happened. Unable to piece the night together, she begins to wonder if she could be the killer.
MAX - #40977#40977
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.
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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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MAXShining Vale
2022–2023 · Series · 2 seasonsComedy · Sci-Fi & Fantasy · Horror
A family moves to a small town into a house in which terrible atrocities have taken place. But nobody seems to notice except for Pat, who's convinced she's either depressed or possessed--turns out, the symptoms are exactly the same.
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MAXA Christmas Story Christmas
2022 · Movie · 1h 38mComedy · Family
Follows the now-adult Ralphie as he returns to the house on Cleveland Street to give his kids a magical Christmas like the one he had as a child, reconnecting with childhood friends, and reconciling the passing of his Old Man.
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MAXThe Sympathizer
2024– · Series · 1 seasonComedy · Drama · History
Near the end of the Vietnam War, a plant who was embedded in the South Vietnam army flees to the United States and takes up residence in a refugee community where he continues to secretly spy and report back to the Viet Cong.
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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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MAXBeetlejuice Beetlejuice
2024 · Movie · 1h 45mComedy · Sci-Fi & Fantasy · Horror
After a family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Betelgeuse, Lydia's life is turned upside down when her teenage daughter, Astrid, accidentally opens the portal to the Afterlife.
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MAXAvenue 5
2020–2022 · Series · 2 seasonsComedy · Sci-Fi & Fantasy
The troubled crew of Avenue 5, a space cruise ship filled with spoiled, rich, snotty space tourists, must try and keep everyone calm after their ship gets thrown off course into space and ends up needing three years to return to E...
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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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MAXThe Robot Chicken Walking Dead Special: Look Who's Walking
2017 · Movie · 22mAnimation · Action
The zombie plague is over, so a museum has been built to keep the memory of it alive, and most of the relics it holds incorrectly relate to Rick Grimes' group. Elderly Carl tries to set things straight, no matter the cost.
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MAXHave I Got News for You
2024– · Series · 4 seasonsDrama · Comedy
Hosted by Roy Wood Jr. with acclaimed comedians Amber Ruffin and Michael Ian Black serving as team captains, "Have I Got News for You" is a comedy panel show which delivers comic observations from the satirical to the surreal.
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MAXDC League of Super-Pets
2022 · Movie · 1h 45mAnimation · Action
Krypto the Super-Dog and Superman are inseparable best friends, sharing the same superpowers and fighting crime side by side in Metropolis. However, Krypto must master his own powers for a rescue mission when Superman is kidnapped.
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MAXThe Housemaid
2025 · Movie · 2h 11mDrama · Mystery · Thriller
Millie a struggling young woman becomes live-in maid for a wealthy couple Nina and Andrew. She enters a mansion of secrets, manipulation, and escalating psychological games that pull her into a dangerous relationship dynamic.
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MAXFired on Mars
2023– · Series · 1 seasonAnimation · Comedy · Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Jeff Cooper has to reinvent himself after being fired from his position in the space start-up Mars.Iy. With no chance to return to Earth, he has to find meaning again in a dangerous, alien, but familiar corporate landscape.
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MAXThe Munekata Sisters
1950 · Movie · Japanese · 1h 52mDrama
Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a drinking habit. She's always been in love with Hiroshi, but he left for France years ago without proposing. Now he is back and Mariko (Setsuko's sister) tries t...
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MAXNetflixLucas the Spider
2017– · Series · 2 seasonsAnimation · Family
Lucas the Spider is an animated character that appeared on YouTube, created by animator Joshua Slice. Now with his own TV series, the show keeps its highly realistic 3D animation as well the curious and kind-hearted-as-ever spider.
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MAXVota Juan
2019– · Series · SpanishComedy
Juan Carrasco is a nondescript Minister of Agriculture who must recognize that he has greater political ambitions due to a series of fortuitous political events, so he decides to run in the primary elections of his party, which may give him the opportunity to opt for the disputed position of President of the Spanish Government.
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MAXMy Favorite Shapes by Julio Torres
2019 · MovieComedy
In this multimedia comedy show, Torres explores his favorite shapes, which include a plexiglass square, a triangle, an oval that wishes he were a circle, a self-conscious cactus and a Ferrero Rocher chocolate that Julio is mad at because she left her little skirt at home. The objects are presented via an industrial conveyer belt and serve as a jumping-off point for fantastical stories, anecdotes and jokes.
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MAXThe Hole in the Ground
2019 · Movie · 1h 30mDrama · Horror · Mystery
A single mother living in the Irish countryside with her son begins to suspect he may not be her son at all, and fears his increasingly disturbing behavior is linked to a mysterious sinkhole in the forest behind their house.
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MAXGary Gulman: Born on 3rd Base
2023 · MovieComedy
Comedian, actor, and best-selling author Gary Gulman offers up his hilarious insights on a range of topics – from growing up poor to pretentious suffixes – all with a generous helping of his inventive humor and absurdism. Reflecting on his eccentric Jewish American family, Gulman chronicles his childhood experiences with free school lunch programs and questionable dental care, as well as incisive swipes at billionaire-ism.
MAX - #57170#57170
MAXNanny McPhee and the Big Bang
2010 · Movie · 1h 49mComedy · Family · Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Nanny McPhee arrives to help a harried young mother who is trying to run the family farm while her husband is away at war, though she uses her magic to teach the woman's children and their two spoiled cousins five new lessons.
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MAXTaxicab Confessions
1995– · SeriesComedy · Reality
Taxicab Confessions is a television series of hidden camera documentaries that have aired on HBO since January 1995. In segments taped in New York City and Las Vegas, the taxi drivers are also producers who steer both the vehicle and the conversations with passengers. When passengers enter the cab, they are recorded with several small cameras hidden in the taxi. The producer prompts passengers into discussing their past and/or present circumstances. This has led some participants to reflect on their life, recalling extreme tragedies or triumphs. Much is verbally or visually graphic, including explicit sex talk and sex acts performed in the back seat. At the end of the taxi ride, passengers are asked to sign waivers allowing the hidden camera footage to be used on the program, and footage of this revelation is sometimes seen during the closing credits.
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MAXScent of Time
2023– · Series · Mandarin · 1 seasonDrama · Sci-Fi & Fantasy · History
A woman who ruined her family by pursuing a man who did not love her gets a chance to go back in time and change her fate, while discovering the truth behind her past and the love of those who cared for her.
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MAXJim Norton: Monster Rain
2007 · MovieComedy
Jim Norton is back on HBO and holds nothing back in this 60-minute concert performed in front of a live audience at The Lincoln Theater in Washington DC. Norton, known for his straight up comedy that sometimes crosses lines no other comedians dare to cross, gives his hilarious perspectives on contemporary issues, dating, celebrities, prostitutes and much more.
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MAXColor Theories by Julio Torres. A Guide to Seeing the World
2026 · MovieComedy
Julio Torres takes the stage in NYC and invites the audience to see the people, places, and things around us through his kaleidoscopic lens. Blending stand-up, an interactive set, and live drawings, Julio explores the inherent traits, personalities, and emotions of particular colors.
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MAXClassical Baby
2005– · SeriesAnimation · Family
An animated medley of music, art, and dance ingeniously designed to introduce young children to masterpieces of these arts. This creative kaleidoscope of color, motion and music features a diapered baby 'conductor' who leads an all-animal orchestra through short musical pieces, played before a rapt animal audience.
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MAXTom and Jerry in New York
2021– · Series · 2 seasonsAnimation · Action
Follow the iconic cat and mouse duo as they settle in to their new digs at the Royal Gate Hotel and unleash mayhem across the big city, inciting hilarious chaos uptown, downtown and everywhere their manic escapades take them.
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MAXThe Accidental Influencer
2024– · Series · Mandarin · 1 seasonComedy · Drama
Follows the story of Red Ho, whose dreams of marrying her boyfriend and owning their own apartment on her 30th birthday were shattered into pieces as her boyfriend leaves her for another woman right on her birthday.
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MAXThe Machine That Kills Bad People
1952 · Movie · Italian · 1h 20mComedy · Sci-Fi & Fantasy
A demon bestows on a self-righteous working photographer's camera the power to smite from the Earth "evil-doers". Naturally, the indignant photographer turns his new weapon on, one by one, his entire village, beginning with the we...
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MAXMel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again
2011 · MovieComedy
For four decades comic genius Mel Brooks and talk show king Dick Cavett have partnered to give the world scintillating conversation and sidesplitting humor. In 2010 they reunited on stage to share show business memories and hilarious stories for loyal fans and a new generation of viewers.
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