Tom Hardy's Gritty R-Rated Gangster Thriller Officially Rises From The Dead On Streaming

Published Sep 28, 2026, 8:26 AM EDT

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Tom Hardy continues his streaming dominance with a gangster movie that has just come back from the dead at an interesting time in the actor's career. Hardy's list of movies and TV shows includes quite a few gritty crime thrillers, which makes sense, given the actor's imposing nature and Hardy's penchant for playing frightening villains. Throughout his career, that has included characters like the iconic DC villain Bane in Christopher Nolan's final Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises, as well as Alfie Solomons in Peaky Blinders, and many other similar roles. That said, Hardy has not always given life to villains.

What does tend to work in general for the actor is playing more morally grey characters in action-packed and/or gritty stories. In recent years, that has led to a few streaming hits for the star. As Marvel's Eddie Brock in Sony's Spider-Man Universe, Hardy has seen multiple Venom movies trend on streaming over the last few years, with Venom: The Last Dance doing so recently on Disney+ in the United States. Havoc was also a hit on Netflix, and so on. Now, it is time for The Bikeriders to experience that streaming success, as it has been resurrected on HBO Max internationally.

Tom Hardy's The Bikeriders Rides To Global Streaming Success

According to data from FlixPatrol, Hardy's The Bikeriders stands as the 6th most-watched movie on HBO Max worldwide, at the time of writing. The gangster drama is not available to watch on the streaming service in the United States. Rather than stream it on HBO Max, The Bikeriders is currently available nationwide only on the usual VOD platforms, like Amazon and the Apple TV Store, to buy or rent, as per JustWatch. The Bikeriders' new global streaming success comes after the 2024 movie grossed only $36.3 million on a reported budget of $40 million, becoming a box office bomb for Hardy.

At that budget, the gangster movie needed to finish between $80 million and $100 million to break even. As it finds streaming redemption two years later, The Bikeriders leaves behind movies like Julia Roberts' My Best Friends Wedding, Paul Mescal's Hamnet, Tom Cruise's The Last Samurai, and Jennifer Lawrence's Winter's Bone on HBO Max's global chart. The Bikeriders managed to accomplish that with a star-studded cast, including Austin Butler, Jodie Comer, Norman Reedus, Michael Shannon, Boyd Holbrook, Mike Faist, and more. Right now, Supergirl is HBO Max's most popular movie worldwide. The Bikeriders is trending on HBO Max in 14 countries (via FlixPatrol).

Hardy Has Another Crime Thriller Currently Dominating Streaming

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The Bikeriders' streaming resurgence comes at the perfect time for Hardy, as the actor has another gangster-like role right now finding success on streaming. That would be MobLand, the 3rd most-watched TV show on Paramount+ in the United States right now. In the crime thriller series, Hardy gives life to the mob fixer Harry Da Souza, who works for the Harrigan crime family and its heads, Pierce Brosnan's Conrad Harrigan and Helen Mirren's Maeve Harrigan. MobLand season 2 is currently airing new episodes, so it should trend for quite some time, which could boost The Bikeriders' HBO Max performance worldwide.