YouTube doesn’t always appear to promote its lineup of free movies, but it has some truly fantastic films that anyone can watch without a subscription.
The downside of YouTube’s free films is that there’s a very large turnover. The movies you want to see this month will probably be gone after the 30th.
Regardless, the Watch With Us team has put together this list of the four must-watch free YouTube movies you can catch in September. Catch them while you can, because they may not be around in October.
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‘Sleepy Hollow’ (1999)
Tim Burton‘s take on Sleepy Hollow re-envisioned Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp) as a constable whose scientific police work is decades ahead of the late 18th century. That may have been enough for common criminals, but the Headless Horseman is real and terrifying. So much so that proof of the Horseman’s supernatural abilities briefly turns Ichabod into a quivering mess.
Regardless of his lapse in courage, Ichabod attempts to discover why the Horseman is targeting specific people in Sleepy Hollow. The evidence seems to point towards the Horseman being controlled by Katrina Anne Van Tassel (Christina Ricci), a young woman with whom Ichabod is very infatuated. But if it’s not Katrina, then who is the real power behind the Horseman’s rampage?
Sleepy Hollow is streaming on YouTube.
‘Catch Me If You Can’ (2002)
Leonardo DiCaprio has rarely been more charming than he was in Steven Spielberg‘s Catch Me If You Can. This film was loosely based on the real life of Frank Abagnale Jr. (DiCaprio), a young con artist who has a gift for forging checks. That’s what attracts the attention of FBI agent Carl Hanratty (Tom Hanks), who spends years trying to bring Frank to justice.
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To stay one step ahead of the law, Frank assumes a number of false professions, including an airline pilot, a doctor and a lawyer. He even falls hard for a woman named Brenda Strong (Amy Adams), but the consequences of Frank’s life of crime are always closing in on him whenever he gets too comfortable with his assumed personas.
Catch Me If You Can is streaming on YouTube.
‘Unforgiven’ (1992)
The only major Oscar that Clint Eastwood didn’t get for Unforgiven was Best Actor. So he just had to be satisfied with winning the Best Director and Best Picture Academy Awards. This was Eastwood’s final film in the Western genre that had made him a star three decades earlier, and it serves as a spiritual sequel to some of his films. Eastwood plays former outlaw Will Munny, a man who can barely provide for his children.
Will’s friend, Ned Logan (Morgan Freeman) and an upstart gunslinger, the Schofield Kid (Jaimz Woolvett), convince Munny to come out of retirement for one last bounty. A cowboy named Quick Mike (David Mucci) scarred a prostitute who laughed at him, and the other women in the brothel are outraged by his lack of punishment. However, Sheriff “Little Bill” Daggett (Gene Hackman) stands in the way of their revenge, and he’ll take extreme measures to make sure Will and his friends can’t collect the bounty.
Unforgiven is streaming on YouTube.
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‘White Oleander’ (2002)
White Oleander has been largely forgotten over the last two decades, even though it has one of Michelle Pfeiffer‘s best performances. Pfeiffer stars as Ingrid Magnussen, the mother of a teenage daughter named Astrid (Alison Lohman). After Ingrid is arrested for poisoning her cheating lover, Astrid is sent into the foster system.
Ingrid’s forceful personality allows her to manipulate Astrid’s life even when she’s stuck behind bars. Two of Astrid’s foster mothers, Starr Thomas (Robin Wright) and Claire Richards (Renée Zellweger), are brought low by Ingrid’s machinations. If Astrid wants to get free of her mother, she’ll have to be willing to go even further to break her control.
White Oleander is streaming on YouTube.
