Scene of the last supper in the movie 'The Greatest Story Ever Told'

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5 Easter Movies You Can Stream for Free in 2025

Save your cash for chocolate bunnies and stream these Easter movies for free.

by Megan Elliott

Published on April 19, 2025

3 min read

‘The Gospel According to St. Matthew’

There’s no shortage of cinematic depictions of Jesus Christ. But Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1965 Italian neorealist film The Gospel According to St. Matthew is widely regarded as one of the best interpretations of the millennia-old story, though Pasolini himself was a non-believer. Filmed on location in Italy with a cast of non-professional actors, the movie closely follows the text of the gospel and presents Jesus as a radical who challenged the ideas of the society in which he lived.

The Gospel According to St. Matthew is streaming on Xumo Play, Tubi, and for free on Prime Video.

‘The Greatest Story Ever Told’

The Greatest Story Ever Told is a Biblical epic in classic old Hollywood style. With a runtime of more than three hours, this 1965 film follows Jesus from his birth through the resurrection. Max von Sydow plays Jesus, with Charlton Heston as John the Baptist, José Ferrer as Herod Antipas, and Sidney Poitier as Simon of Cyrene, with cameos from a who’s who of famous actors, including John Wayne and Angela Lansbury.

The Greatest Story Ever Told is streaming on Xumo Play, Pluto TV, Tubu, The Roku Channel, and for free on Prime Video.

‘On a Wing and Prayer’

Dennis Quaid, Heather Graham, and Jesse Metcalfe star in this faith-based film about a man who is having a crisis of faith. When the pilot of the private plane he and his family are traveling on dies mid-flight, he must step up to save his family on Easter Sunday.

On a Wing and a Prayer is streaming for free on Tubi.

‘Easter Under Wraps’

A woman (Fiona Gubelmann) goes undercover at her family’s chocolate factory in an attempt to discover why the company’s sales are flagging in the Hallmark Channel romance Easter Under Wraps. There, she meet the head chocolatier, Bryan (Brendan Penny), who has some ideas about how to save the business.

Easter Under Wraps is streaming on Hoopla. a free streaming service available through many public libraries. Another Hallmark Easter move, An Easter Bloom, is streaming on Roku Channel.

‘Here Comes Peter Cottontail’

When the Easter Bunny decides it’s time to retire, he taps Peter Cottontail as his successor in Rankin/Bass’s stop-motion animated special from 1971, which features the voices of Danny Kaye, Vincent Price, and Casey Kasem. Unfortunately, the nefarious January Q. Irontail wants to seize the Easter Bunny role for his own cruel purposes.

Here Comes Peter Cottontail is streaming on Tubi.

Out-of-the-box Easter movie picks

Looking for some less-conventional Easter entertainment? Free streaming services are loaded with odd and out-there picks, including B-horror movies involving killer rabbits (Beaster Day: Here Comes Peter Cottonhell and Easter Bloody Easter, both on Tubi) flicks about canines who manage to save the holiday (The Dog Who Saved Easter on Roku and An Easter Bunny Puppy on Tubi), and a Christian-themed rip off of Pixar’s Finding Nemo (Finding Jesus on Tubi and Xumo Play.) Fans of old-school Vegas-style showmanship can grab their glittery capes and hit play on Liberace’s Easter Special on Tubi, while classic comedy enthusiasts will find the 1979 satire Monty Python’s Life of Brian on Tubi, Pluto TV, and The Roku Channel.