Where Can You Watch The Favourite (2018)? Check Streaming, Rental, Purchase, and Legal Free Options

"The Favourite" (2018) streams on Disney+ in the UK, France, Italy, and Germany, but it has no subscription-streaming home in the United States. US viewers can still watch it legally through digital rental or purchase on platforms like Apple TV and Amazon Prime Video, or through a library's free streaming benefit. The film, a Fox Searchlight (now Searchlight Pictures) release starring Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, and Rachel Weisz, runs about two hours and is confirmed across regional listings on JustWatch's UK page. Where and how you can watch it depends heavily on which country you're in, so the options below are split by region and by price.

Can You Stream The Favourite With a Subscription?
How Do You Rent or Buy The Favourite in the US?
Is There a Free, Legal Way to Watch It in the US?
What's the Cheapest Legal Way to Watch It Right Now?
Frequently Asked Questions

Can You Stream The Favourite With a Subscription?

If you're in the UK, France, Italy, or Germany, the answer is yes. JustWatch lists Disney+ as the current subscription-streaming home for "The Favourite" in all four markets, a result consistent with Disney's ownership of the 20th Century/Searchlight film library in those territories, according to JustWatch's regional pages covering the UK, France, Italy, and Germany. If you already subscribe to Disney+ in one of those countries, the film is included at no extra cost. In the United States, there is no such option.

The streaming tracker unSUB confirms the title is not currently available on any US subscription service, and no aggregator search turned up a listing on Disney+, Hulu, Peacock, or Netflix in the US, according to unSUB's tracker. That gap is notable because Disney+ carries the film elsewhere; the US rights situation for this title simply hasn't followed the same pattern. If you're traveling or using a VPN, the country-by-country difference matters: a Disney+ account registered in the UK will show the film, while a US-registered account will not. Checking your account's home region before assuming a title is unavailable is worth doing.

How Do You Rent or Buy The Favourite in the US?

Since no subscription service carries "The Favourite" in the US, renting or buying it digitally is the most direct legal route. Apple's own listing page confirms the film is sold there as a digital rental or purchase, according to Apple TV's movie page. Amazon offers the same arrangement: its Prime Video detail page lists the film as rentable or purchasable rather than included with a Prime membership, according to Amazon's Prime Video listing.

Amazon's standard rental terms apply here as they do for most titles: once you rent, you have 30 days to start watching and 48 hours to finish once you press play, per Amazon's Prime Video page. Apple TV purchases, by contrast, are yours to keep and rewatch without a time limit, though a rental there typically carries similar playback windows to Amazon's. A few practical steps make this easier:.

Check Apple TV or Amazon Prime Video first, since both confirm current availability for this title.
Compare rental versus purchase price before buying outright if you only plan to watch once.
Try Vudu/Fandango at Home as an additional storefront, since VOD catalogs can vary slightly between providers.

Is There a Free, Legal Way to Watch It in the US?

No ad-supported, fully free streaming service currently carries "The Favourite" in the US. A search across aggregators found no listing on Tubi, Freevee, or Pluto TV. The only "free with ads" result anywhere was a Russian-region listing on Kinopoisk/More TV, which does not apply to viewers outside Russia, according to JustWatch's Russia page.

The most realistic free option for US viewers is a public library's streaming benefit, such as Kanopy. Libraries describe Kanopy as free to use with a valid library card and no separate subscription charge, though most libraries cap the number of streaming credits a cardholder gets each month, according to reporting from the Free Library of Philadelphia. Whether "The Favourite" specifically appears in your library's Kanopy catalog wasn't confirmed in available listings, so checking your own library's search tool directly is the only way to know. Hoopla, another common library streaming service, works on a similar free-with-a-library-card model and is worth checking alongside Kanopy if your library offers it.

What's the Cheapest Legal Way to Watch It Right Now?

Because the film has no US subscription-streaming home, the lowest-cost legal option is typically a digital rental, usually priced at a few dollars, from Apple TV, Amazon, or a comparable storefront. That beats a purchase price if you only intend to watch the film once. If your library carries "The Favourite" on Kanopy or Hoopla, that option costs nothing beyond your existing library card, making it the cheapest route when it's available.

Since library catalogs rotate titles in and out, searching your library's app directly is more reliable than assuming the film is or isn't there. Streaming and rental catalogs change without notice, and aggregator pages like JustWatch don't display an update date, according to JustWatch's listing. Before planning around any single result above, confirm current availability directly on Apple TV, Amazon, or your library's streaming app, since a listing can shift between the time it's indexed and the time you go to watch.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is The Favourite on Netflix or Hulu in the US?

No. Search results found no US listing for the film on Netflix, Hulu, Peacock, or Disney+, according to unSUB's streaming tracker.

Why is The Favourite on Disney+ in Europe but not the US?

JustWatch's regional listings show it streaming on Disney+ in the UK, France, Italy, and Germany, consistent with Disney's ownership of the Searchlight catalog there, while no equivalent US listing appears on any aggregator checked.

How long do I have to watch a rented copy from Amazon?

Amazon's standard terms give you 30 days to start the rental and 48 hours to finish once you begin watching, per Amazon's Prime Video page for the title.