HBO Max May 2026: new movies, series and sports to watch this month

New on HBO Max in France for May 2026 are films, series, documentaries, kids’ programs and sports slots. This month, the service leans into a cinema-forward lineup, blending fresh releases, modern classics, adult animation, documentaries and sports broadcasts with Eurosport. Highlights to note include: The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, Inglourious Basterds, Her, Rick and Morty season 9, MaXXXine, The Bikeriders, Notting Hill romance or the Giro d’Italia.?

The most anticipated HBO Max releases in May 2026

• Le Seigneur des Anneaux : La Guerre des Rohirrim — the animated film inspired by Tolkien lands on May 14.
• Rick and Morty season 9 — the adult animated series returns on May 25.
• MaXXXine — Ti West’s horror film joins the catalog on May 29.
• Inglourious Basterds — Quentin Tarantino’s film arrives on May 8.
• Her — Spike Jonze’s film is available on May 7.
• The Bikeriders — the drama starring Austin Butler, Jodie Comer and Tom Hardy hits the platform on May 19.
• Coup de foudre à Notting Hill — the beloved romantic comedy arrives May 16.
• Leurs enfants après eux — Nicolas Mathieu’s novel adaptation lands May 6.
• Regular Show : Les cassettes oubliées — the kids’ animated series arrives May 11.
• Tour d’Italie — the cycling race will be broadcast from May 8 to 31 on Eurosport.

What to watch on HBO Max in May 2026?

Pusher : the trilogy lands on HBO Max in May 2026
Nicolas Winding Refn's Pusher trilogy, three Danish crime films set in Copenhagen's underbelly, lands on HBO Max on May 22, 2026. [Read more]

Rick and Morty Season 9 lands on HBO Max in May 2026
Rick and Morty returns with a ninth season of 10 thirty-minute episodes, available on HBO Max on May 25, 2026, featuring Ian Cardoni, Harry Belden, Sarah Chalke, Chris Parnell and Spencer Grammer. [Read more]

Inglourious Basterds : Tarantino lands on HBO Max
Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino's war film starring Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent and Christoph Waltz, lands on HBO Max on May 8, 2026 after streaming on Netflix and Disney+. [Read more]

Ponies on HBO Max: Emilia Clarke as a spy in Moscow
Ponies, a spy series created by Susanna Fogel and David Iserson, starring Emilia Clarke, Haley Lu Richardson and Adrian Lester, arrives on HBO Max on May 28, 2026. [Read more]

Vanished on HBO Max: Kaley Cuoco stars in a thriller set in France
Vanished, a thriller miniseries featuring Kaley Cuoco, Sam Claflin, Karin Viard, Mathias Schweighöfer and Simon Abkarian, is coming to HBO Max on May 21, 2026. [Read more]

The Bikeriders are coming to HBO Max in May 2026.
The Bikeriders, Jeff Nichols’ film starring Austin Butler, Tom Hardy and Jodie Comer, lands on HBO Max on May 19, 2026, after its 2024 theatrical release in France. [Read more]

Good Fortune on HBO Max: Keanu Reeves plays a bumbling angel
Good Fortune, a comedy written and directed by Aziz Ansari starring Seth Rogen, Keanu Reeves, Sandra Oh, and Keke Palmer, arrives on HBO Max on May 8, 2026. [Read more]

We Own the Night, James Gray's crime thriller starring Joaquin Phoenix
We Own the Night, a crime drama by James Gray starring Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, Robert Duvall, and Eva Mendes, dives into the by-night New York of the late 1980s. [Read more]

Stillwater, starring Matt Damon, arrives on HBO Max in May 2026
Stillwater, Tom McCarthy’s dramatic thriller starring Matt Damon, Camille Cottin and Abigail Breslin, lands on HBO Max on May 14, 2026, after its 2021 theatrical release and run on M6. [Read more]

If I Had Legs I’d Kick You lands on HBO Max in May 2026
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, a Mary Bronstein dramedy starring Rose Byrne, Helen Hong and Josh Pais, lands on HBO Max on May 22, 2026. [Read more]

47 Ronin starring Keanu Reeves lands on HBO Max in May 2026
47 Ronin, Carl Rinsch’s fantasy-action film starring Keanu Reeves, Hiroyuki Sanada and Kô Shibasaki, lands on HBO Max on May 21, 2026. [Read more]

Their Children After Them on HBO Max: Our Review
Their Children After Them, the adaptation of Nicolas Mathieu's 2018 Goncourt Prize–winning novel by Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma, arrives on HBO Max on May 6, 2026. Check out our review and the trailer. [Read more]

Le Grand Partage: a social comedy on HBO Max
Le Grand Partage, a French comedy from Alexandra Leclère featuring Karin Viard, Didier Bourdon and Valérie Bonneton, is available on HBO Max starting May 1, 2026. [Read more]

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim on HBO Max
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, Kenji Kamiyama’s animated feature set 183 years before The Fellowship of the Ring, lands on HBO Max on May 14, 2026. [Read more]

Julia Ducournau's Grave heads to HBO Max in May 2026
Raw, the Franco-Belgian horror film by Julia Ducournau starring Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf and Rabah Naït Oufella, lands on HBO Max on May 15, 2026. [Read more]

The full lineup of HBO Max's May 2026 releases

Films

• Assault on Central 13 — 01/05
• The Big Share — 01/05
• Brothers — 02/05
• Their Children After Them — 06/05
• Her — 07/05
• The Immigrant — 07/05
• Good Fortune — 08/05
• Inglourious Basterds — 08/05
• Thirst, this is my blood — 08/05
• The Event — 09/05
• The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim — 14/05
• Stillwater — 14/05
• Jarhead: The End of Innocence — 15/05
• Raw — 15/05
• Love at First Sight in Notting Hill — 16/05
• The Bikeriders — 19/05
• 47 Ronin — 21/05
• If I Had Legs I'd Kick You — 22/05
• Pusher 1–3 — 22/05
• The Neon Demon — 22/05
• Emily — 23/05
• The Odyssey (2016) — 25/05
• The Night Belongs to Us — 28/05
• Joika — 29/05
• MaXXXine — 29/05

Series

• Song of the Samurai — Season 1 — May 9
• Disenchantment — Season 1 — May 13
• Vanished — Season 1 — May 21
• Ponies — Season 1 — May 28

Children's Animation

• Batwheels — Season 3 — May 8
• Regular Show: The Forgotten Tapes — Season 1 — May 11

Adult Animation

• Rick and Morty — season 9 — May 25

Documentaries and Documentary Series

• K-Everything: The Rise of Korean Culture — Season 1 — 08/05
• The Palu Family: Under a Dark Spell — Season 1 — 08/05
• Behind Bars: In the Spotlight — Documentary — 12/05
• Across America with Jason Momoa — Season 2 — 14/05
• The A List: 15 Stories from Asian and Pacific Diasporas — Documentary — 14/05
• Gang War: Bandidos — Season 1 — 15/05
• Slaves of Faith — Season 1 — 21/05

Entertainment

• Ed Stafford: Rite of Passage — Season 1 — May 3
• The Dark History of... — Season 2 — May 3
• American Monster — Season 13 — May 5
• Josh Gates and the Lost Treasures — Season 15 — May 16

Sports on Eurosport

• Tennis – Masters 1000 Madrid — through May 3 — EXCLUSIVE with Eurosport
• Cycling – La Vuelta Femenina — May 3–9 — EXCLUSIVE with Eurosport
• Tennis – Masters 1000 Rome — May 6–17 — EXCLUSIVE with Eurosport
• Cycling – Tour d'Italie — May 8–31 — EXCLUSIVE with Eurosport
• 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps — May 9 — with Eurosport
• Cycling – Tro Bro Leon — May 10 — with Eurosport
• UCI Mountain Bike World Series – Nove Mesto — May 22–24 — with Eurosport
• UCI Mountain Bike World Series – Loudenvielle — May 28–31 — with Eurosport

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