Quickly becoming one of Hollywood’s most charismatic and reliable leading men is Glen Powell – a star of one of the most exciting 2024 movies so far, Twisters, and Edgar Wright’s Running Man adaptation, which is one of the most highly anticipated upcoming sci-fi movies. Celebrate his success by taking a look at our picks for the best Glen Powell movies and TV shows, complete with a tip on how to watch each of them.
Twisters (2024)
Director: Lee Isaac Chung
Starring: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, Anthony Ramos
What it's about: Convinced to return to the storm-chasing business, Kate strikes up an unlikely alliance with viral "tornado wrangler" Tyler Owens.
Why it is one of the best Glen Powell movies: Glen Powell gives one of his most entertaining performances yet in Twisters — the surprisingly insightful sequel to one of the best movies of the 1990s, the beloved disaster thriller Twister.
How to watch Twisters
The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
Director: Mike Newell
Starring: Lily James, Michel Huisman, Glen Powell
What it's about: A writer discovers a hidden secret about a formerly Nazi-occupied island while researching their community for a book.
Why it is one of the best Glen Powell movies: Based on the novel by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is a romantic, feel-good, post-World War II drama featuring Glen Powell as Mark Reynolds – the American boyfriend of Lily James’ Juliet Ashton.
How to watch The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Anyone But You (2023)
Director: Will Gluck
Starring: Glen Powell, Sydney Sweeney
What it's about: After a failed first attempt at romance, a man and a woman bump into each other en route to a destination wedding, where they attempt to feign a relationship.
Why it is one of the best Glen Powell movies: An even more popular rom-com starring Glen Powell is Anyone But You, which boasts such convincing chemistry between him and Sydney Sweeney that fans theorized they were having an affair, but wrongly so.
How to watch Anyone But You
- Stream Anyone But You on Netflix
- Rent or buy Anyone But You on Amazon
- Buy Anyone But You on Blu-ray on Amazon
Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Starring: Tom Cruise, Jennifer Connelly, Miles Teller, Glen Powell
What it's about: A rebellious, veteran Naval pilot becomes a mentor to a new generation of young, aspiring aviators.
Why it is one of the best Glen Powell movies: As Lt. Jack “Hangman” Seresin, Glen Powell almost steals the show from Tom Cruise in the Top Gun: Maverick cast in the Academy Award-winning, smash-hit sequel to one of the best movies of the 1980s.
How to watch Top Gun: Maverick
- Stream Top Gun: Maverick on Paramount+
- Rent or buy Top Gun: Maverick on Amazon
- Buy Top Gun: Maverick on Blu-ray on Amazon
Family Guy: “Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Cheater” (2024)
Starring: Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Patrick Warburton, Glen Powell
What it's about: While Peter stands in as a pumpkin for Joe’s pumpkin growing contest, Stewie’s attempt to reanimate Rupert comes with catastrophic consequences.
Why it is one of the best Glen Powell TV shows: Glen Powell lends his voice to this Family Guy Halloween special (exclusive with a Hulu subscription) as Patrick McCloskey, who mocks Joe for his repeated Second Place-winning pumpkins.
How to watch Family Guy: “Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Cheater”
Devotion (2022)
Director: J.D. Dillard
Starring: Jonathan Majors, Glen Powell
What it's about: The Navy’s first Black pilot, Jesse Brown, and his friend and comrade, Tom Hudner, play a pivotal role in one of the Korean War’s most important and violent aviary battles.
Why it is one of the best Glen Powell movies: Hangman was only one of two pilots Powell played in 2022 — the other being real-life Naval officer Thomas Hudner in the inspiring and thrilling biopic, Devotion.
How to watch Devotion
Hidden Figures (2016)
Director: Theodore Melfi
Starring: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe
What it's about: Three mathematically gifted Black women are enlisted by NASA to help get the numbers right before sending a new astronaut recruit into the stars.
Why it is one of the best Glen Powell movies: Before playing back-to-back pilots in 2022, Powell starred in the Oscar-nominated, inspirational movie Hidden Figures as real-life pilot-turned-astronaut John Glenn, whose life is, essentially, in the hands of its three main leads.
How to watch Hidden Figures
Apollo 10-1/2: A Space Age Childhood (2022)
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Milo Coy, Zachary Levi, Glen Powell
What it's about: In the summer of 1969, a fourth-grader is recruited into a top secret mission to the Moon after NASA builds a vessel too small for a grown-up to pilot.
Why it is one of the best Glen Powell movies: Years after Hidden Figures, Glen Powell played a grounded NASA employee in Netflix’s otherwise not very grounded, rotoscoped dramedy, Apollo 10-1/2: A Space Age Childhood, which is also one of the actor’s many collaborations with Richard Linklater.
How to watch Apollo 10/12: A Space Age Childhood
Hit Man (2024)
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Glen Powell, Adria Arjona
What it's about: A college professor who helps the New Orleans police pull sting operations by posing as a killer-for-hire sets off a complicated chain of events when he lets a client walk free.
Why it is one of the best Glen Powell movies: Glen Powell’s most recent, Netflix-original collaboration with Linklater (as both his star and co-writer) is Hit Man — another fictionalized and quite funny revision of true events that sees the actor give one of his most versatile and hilarious performances yet.
How to watch Hit Man
Everybody Wants Some!! (2015)
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Blake Jenner, Zoey Deutch, Glen Powell
What it's about: A young baseball player gets a crash course in the college experience while passing the time with his new teammates during early practice in 1980 Texas.
Why it is one of the best Glen Powell movies: One of Powell’s earlier collaborations with Linklater is the underrated college movie, Everybody Wants Some!!, in which he plays Walt “Finn” Finnegan — a fast-talking upperclassman who takes his new teammates under his wing.
How to watch Everybody Wants Some!!
- Stream Everybody Wants Some!! on Amazon Prime
- Stream Everybody Wants Some!! on MGM+
- Buy Everybody Wants Some!! on Blu-ray on Amazon
Scream Queens (2015-2016)
Starring: Emma Roberts, Keke Palmer, Billie Lourd, Abigail Breslin
What it's about: A group of sorority sisters and others from their college fall prey to a masked killer, leading them to suspect everyone they know as a potential culprit.
Why it is one of the best Glen Powell movies: Around the same time he starred in a great college movie, Glen Powell appeared on one of the best college TV shows of its time, co-creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s Scream Queens — also one of the best horror TV shows on Hulu — as fraternity president Chad Radwell.
How to watch Scream Queens
Set It Up (2018)
Director: Claire Scanlon
Starring: Glen Powell, Zoey Deutch, Taye Diggs, Lucy Liu, Pete Davidson
What it's about: Two overworked office assistants team up to play matchmaker for their respective uptight bosses.
Why it is one of the best Glen Powell movies: Glen Powell reunited with fellow Everybody Wants Some!! star Zoey Deutch as the romantic leads of Set It Up — a charming Netflix original rom-com that is also one of the best Pete Davidson movies.
How to watch Set It Up
Sex Ed (2014)
Director: Isaac Feder
Starring: Haley Joel Osment, Lorenza Izzo, Glen Powell
What it's about: A middle school teacher provides unauthorized sexual education to his students while struggling to navigate romance in his personal life.
Why it is one of the best Glen Powell movies: Glen Powell stars in the sweet and edgy rom-com, Sex Ed, as JT – the sexually experienced, supportive roommate of Haley Joel Osment’s central character.
How to watch Sex Ed
Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous (2020-2022)
Starring: Darius Bowman, Jenna Ortega, Glen Powell
What it's about: The adventures of a group of young campers on an island overrun with genetically engineered dinosaurs.
Why it is one of the best Glen Powell movies: Glen Powell would lend his voice to Netflix’s animated Jurassic Park movies spin-off, Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, in the recurring role of goofy, laidback counselor, Dave.
How to watch Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous
Spy Kids 3: Game Over (2003)
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Starring: Alexa Vega, Daryl Sabara
What it's about: An 11-year-old secret-agent-turned-private-investigator must enter the bizarre reality of an unusually popular video game to rescue his sister.
Why it is one of the best Glen Powell movies: See just how far Glen Powell has come by checking out his acting debut in Spy Kids 3: Game Over as “Long-fingered Boy,” in which the then-teenager shows great promise toward becoming the energetic performer we know him as today.
How to watch Spy Kids 3: Game Over
- Stream Spy Kids 3: Game Over on Max
- Rent or buy Spy Kids 3: Game Over on Amazon
- Buy Spy Kids 3: Game Over on Blu-ray on Amazon
There are sure to be more great Glen Powell movies and TV shows to check out, so keep an eye on our upcoming 2025 movies schedule.
