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 a 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.
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.
- 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.
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.
- Stream Hidden Figures on Peacock
- Rent or buy Hidden Figures on Amazon
- Buy Hidden Figures on Blu-ray on Amazon
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.
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.
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.
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.
