Guy Ritchie has been landing hits since 1998, which makes cutting him down to six close to impossible. Here are six Guy Ritchie movies to stream in the US tonight, timed to the month he takes over TV: The Gentlemen season two on Netflix on Thursday, September 3, and MobLand season two on Paramount+ on Friday, September 18.
The cutting is the painful part. Six means no Sherlock Holmes, no Wrath of Man, no RocknRolla, and no Aladdin, the biggest movie of his career by a distance. Timing helps: Labor Day is Monday, September 7, three days of couch with nothing scheduled on it.
Two of these are free tonight. The rest want a subscription.
Start with the good news. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, his newest movie, is free on Tubi. So is Revolver. That is two Ritchies for zero dollars on a service you already have on the TV and forgot about.
The rest split across three apps, and the awkward part is what is missing. The movies that built his name are the ones you cannot easily get. Lock, Stock is rent or buy only, Snatch is parked on Sundance Now, RocknRolla sits behind an Amazon add-on, and Wrath of Man is not here at all.
Six Guy Ritchie movies to stream in the US right now
The rule was simple. If a pick needed a second bill, it did not make it. Six titles, streaming in the US tonight, zero rentals.
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Henry Cavill and a crew of sanctioned maniacs blowing up Nazi supply ships, based on an operation that actually happened. His newest movie, it rips, and on Tubi it costs you nothing. Two hours, no rental, no add-on channel, and the best-looking thing on this list.
The Gentlemen
Theo James inherits an estate and the massive weed operation under it. Season one is your homework before September 3, and it goes down easy. Eight episodes at about 51 minutes, all on Netflix, and Ritchie created this one himself rather than handing it off.
MobLand
Tom Hardy fixes problems for a London crime family while Helen Mirren runs the whole thing from an armchair. Season one is on Paramount+, right where season two lands September 18. Ten episodes to clear first, and Pierce Brosnan is having more fun than anyone.
The Gentlemen
The movie that became the show. Matthew McConaughey cashing out, Hugh Grant narrating like he is getting paid per adjective. Watch it first and the series hits harder. One hour 53 minutes on Netflix, which makes it the cheapest homework on this list.
Guy Ritchie's The Covenant
Jake Gyllenhaal in Afghanistan, zero wisecracks, zero slow motion. The most serious movie Ritchie has made and probably the best one nobody watched. Two hours and three minutes on Hulu, and the pick for a night the household wants weight instead of banter.
Revolver
Honorable mention
Free on Tubi, and genuinely bizarre. A con man walks out of prison into a chess metaphor nobody can control, least of all the movie. Go in curious and you will have a great time. Jason Statham, Ray Liotta, and André 3000, which tells you something.
Every pick, and where it fits in the Ritchie run
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
His 2024 war picture, two hours, and the most straightforwardly enjoyable thing he has made in years. Henry Cavill leads a unit of Churchill's Special Operations Executive sent behind enemy lines to sink Nazi supply ships, with Eiza González, Alan Ritchson, Henry Golding, and Cary Elwes filling out the crew. It is based on true events, and it puts Ian Fleming in the room, which is either a historical footnote or the best gift a screenwriter ever got. For a household it is the safest yes here: loud, fast, and nobody needs to be in a mood for it.
Zero homework. It stands alone, and at two hours it is one sitting. The only decision is where to open it. Tubi has it free with ads. JustWatch also lists it on a Lionsgate add-on channel through Amazon, a second bill for the same movie, so ignore that one. If your household has drifted into paying for channels inside channels, this is the cleanest argument for auditing that list. Optional as homework, essential as proof the free tier is not a junk drawer.
The Gentlemen (the series)
Ritchie created the 2024 Netflix series himself, which is not a given for a director lending his name to television. Theo James plays Eddie Horniman, who inherits a dukedom and finds an enormous weed operation running under the family estate. Kaya Scodelario is the operator he cannot get rid of, with Daniel Ings, Joely Richardson, and Vinnie Jones around them. It is the register of the movies stretched to eight hours, and it holds up better than that stretch usually does. Season two lands September 3, the one deadline on this list.
Season one is eight episodes at about 51 minutes, so just under seven hours on Netflix. Essential if you want season two to land properly, and it moves fast enough for a long weekend. The 2020 movie is not required first, though it sharpens the world, and it sits on the same subscription. The order that works is movie, then series, then MobLand. All eight episodes drop at once on September 3, so there is no weekly schedule to plan, just an evening to protect.
MobLand
Ronan Bennett created this one and Ritchie set it running: a 2025 Paramount+ crime drama about two London families going to war. Tom Hardy plays the fixer who keeps the Harrigans out of prison, Pierce Brosnan is the patriarch, and Helen Mirren is the mother nobody should cross. Paddy Considine, Joanne Froggatt, and Lara Pulver fill the rest of the house. It is the most straight-faced thing here, closer to a family saga than a caper, and Brosnan playing a monster is why you stay past episode three.
Season one is ten episodes on Paramount+, and this is the one place on the list where catching up is essential rather than optional, because season two opens on the aftermath of it. Season two starts Friday, September 18, ten more episodes weekly, with Johnny Flynn and Ophelia Lovibond joining. Ten episodes across three weeks is the pace that gets you current. If the household has room for one Ritchie show, take The Gentlemen for fun and this for the argument after.
The Gentlemen (the 2020 movie)
The 2020 movie, one hour 53 minutes, and the hinge of his late career. Matthew McConaughey is an American who built a marijuana empire under English soil and now wants out, which triggers every scheme in the county. Charlie Hunnam is his fixer and Michelle Dockery his wife, with Jeremy Strong and Colin Farrell circling the deal. After a decade of studio work this was Ritchie back in the register he invented, at one hour 53 minutes with no fat on it, and it worked well enough that Netflix built a series on top of it.
Watch it before the series rather than after. Both live on Netflix, so it costs one app and one evening, and the show reads better once you know the world it borrowed from. It is optional in the strict sense, because the series explains itself, and it is still the difference between following season two and enjoying it. Two hours here plus seven for season one gets a household to September 3 armed. With one night before then, spend it here.
Guy Ritchie's The Covenant
His 2023 Afghanistan picture, two hours and three minutes, written and directed by Ritchie with none of the usual furniture. No freeze frames, no chapter cards, no wisecracks. Jake Gyllenhaal is a sergeant whose life is saved by his interpreter, played by Dar Salim, and who goes back for the man and his family after the promised visas never arrive. It is the least Ritchie-shaped thing on his shelf and the best argued. It went by almost unnoticed in theaters, which reflects badly on everyone except the people who saw it.
Nothing to watch first, and nothing to watch after. It is a standalone on Hulu at just over two hours, and the only planning it needs is a household that has agreed on the weight of the evening. Do not put it on straight after The Gentlemen and expect the same room. Optional, because it connects to nothing else here. Essential in the sense that counts, because it is the best movie on this list and the one still sitting with you on Monday.
Revolver
The 2005 one, and the reason a lot of people stopped trusting him for a while. Jason Statham plays a gambler who walks out of prison into a scheme he cannot map, with Ray Liotta shouting, André 3000 in the margins, and Mark Strong doing quiet menace. It runs one hour 51 minutes and spends much of that arguing with itself about chess, ego, and the nature of a con. It does not work. It is also the most interesting failure in his catalog, which is why it takes the honorable mention.
There is no homework and no sequence here: this one arrives from nowhere and belongs nowhere. Tubi has it free with ads, the correct price for an experiment. Save it for after the Gentlemen run, when the room is loose and willing to be confused on purpose. Do not open a movie night with it, and do not put it in front of somebody who has never seen a Ritchie movie. Optional, and the only pick where being annoyed by the end is a legitimate outcome.
Why did Lock, Stock land in America as the British Pulp Fiction?
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels cost about £800,000 and took $28.4 million worldwide, per The Numbers. America met it as the British answer to Pulp Fiction, and that read was half right. Ritchie kept the interlocking plots and the motormouth dialogue, then swapped the diner cool for something scrappier and a lot more working class: guys in bad jackets who owe money to worse people, shot in freeze-frames with the names stamped on screen. The BFI credits it with reviving the British gangster movie, then notes most of the imitators were unwatchable.
It built careers out of nothing, too. Jason Statham got his first movie role off a street market stall, per MentalFloss. Vinnie Jones was a professional soccer player with no acting behind him, per FilmInk. Then Snatch, which is the part that looks strange from Hollywood's side: one of the biggest movie stars in America takes a role in a British crime comedy, cannot get the accent to sit, and the night before shooting everyone agrees the fix is to make him unintelligible on purpose, per SlashFilm. Brad Pitt's Mickey became the most quoted thing in a movie that made $83.6 million on a $10 million budget.
Spotting game: Ritchie put himself on screen exactly twice, as Man Reading Newspaper in Snatch and the Inn Owner in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, both uncredited, per IMDb.
Then it went sideways. Swept Away took five Razzies in 2002, Worst Director included, and the Rotten Tomatoes consensus on Revolver settled on incoherent misfire. Most directors do not come back from that pair. He rebuilt at studio scale instead: Sherlock Holmes did $524 million in 2009, and Aladdin cleared $1.054 billion in 2019, his biggest ever, per Box Office Mojo.
September is when he takes over your TV
The Gentlemen season two lands on Netflix on Thursday, September 3, all eight episodes at once. No weekly wait, no dodging the group chat until Sunday. Netflix renewed it for a third season before season two even aired, which is a streamer betting on itself in public.
MobLand season two follows on Friday, September 18 on Paramount+, ten episodes weekly through the finale on November 20, according to Paramount+. Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan, and Helen Mirren all back. Ronan Bennett created it for Paramount+; Ritchie directed the opener and set the tone.
- The Gentlemen season two: Thursday, September 3, Netflix, all eight episodes at once.
- MobLand season two: Friday, September 18, Paramount+, ten weekly episodes through November 20.
- Starting cold? The 2020 movie, then the series, then MobLand. Both Gentlemen are on Netflix, so that is one app and one long weekend.
Two minutes, one match, Labor Day handled
Four apps, six titles, and a Friday still turns into a 45-minute scroll and a Real Housewives rerun nobody will admit to picking. The best movie apps for couples breakdown covers why deciding together beats taking turns, and what to watch tonight in the US is the short version.
Agree on the shape of the night before anyone opens an app. Revolver and The Covenant are both Ritchie and could not be further apart, so say which mood you are in first.
Swipe all six separately, see what you both said yes to, hit play. Two minutes, one match, nobody sitting through somebody else's pick on their phone. That is the honest list of Guy Ritchie movies to stream in the US right now, rentals excluded, with a new season landing next Thursday. MatchWatch is free to use. Available in New Zealand, Australia, the UK, and the United States.