With HBO Max content now streaming exclusively on JioHotstar in India, viewers can dive into a carefully chosen slate that goes beyond obvious hits. The platform’s June picks range from the iconic crime saga The Wire and tech satire Silicon Valley to the unsettling Beware the Slenderman and the inspiring biopic Temple Grandin, offering a rich mix of drama, comedy and documentary.
HBO's biggest shows and films have finally found a permanent address on Indian OTT. JioHotstar and Warner Bros. Discovery expanded their partnership in April 2026, making JioHotstar the exclusive destination for HBO Max in India.
That means everything from prestige dramas to blockbuster films from HBO is now under one app. So, you can catch popular shows including Succession, Euphoria, The White Lotus alongside new releases like House of Dragon Season 3, and the upcoming Harry Potter series due to release in late 2026.
With the Esquire India recommendation below, we've gone through the catalogue so you don't have to. This isn't a list of the usual suspects — we're going beyond the obvious picks to surface the HBO shows and movies genuinely worth your time this June.
An independent science fiction horror film directed in 1958, Attack of The 50 Foot Woman is a story of revenge. When a wealthy, emotionally distraught heiress encounters a gigantic alien in the desert, she has the close encounter that follows into her mysteriously grows to a height of fifty feet. Seeking revenge on her philandering husband and his scheming mistress, she breaks out of her restraints and goes on a destructive, vengeful rampage.
Based on the true story of renowned animal scientist, professor and a prominent autism advocate Mary Temple Grandin, the film directed by Mick Jackson depicts how the advocate overcomes the limitations imposed on her by her condition and becomes an expert in the field of animal husbandry.
Beware the Slenderman is a 2016 American documentary film directed by Irene Taylor Brodsky about the Slender Man stabbing. The documentary recalls the mythos of a faceless, digital-age bogeyman known as Slenderman created on the Internet. His influence is felt in the real world when two 12-year-old girls lured their friend into the woods for a brutal murder.
When an elderly woman named Mary Gilbert (Maggie Smith) shows up looking for answers to events set in motion by her past experiences at the old house, Joe (the caretaker of a large mansion) decides to let her in—and is taken on a journey through the house and the secrets that it holds. David Walliams co-stars in this intriguing drama.
The quirky sitcom follows the struggle of Richard Hendricks, a Silicon Valley engineer trying to build his own company called Pied Piper, while the five other programmers struggle to make their mark in Silicon Valley.
A documentary Indian Point looks at nuclear power by going inside the core activities at an aging nuclear plant and posing the simple question: is this safe?
In the city of Baltimore, Detective James McNulty and his team investigate crimes and try their best to solve the bridge that exists between the drug kingpins and the law enforcement agencies after a murder exposes the reach of Baltimore's drug empire. A procedural cop drama, The Wire starring Dominic West and Idris Alba is an award winning series spanning over five seasons.
Sheltered suburbanite and stand up comic Pete finds himself without a home when he finds his wife in compromising situation. With an ambition to be a big-city comic, he has to pick up his life that's crashing. Spanning over three seasons, Crashing is a quirky mockumentary.
An addictive tale about two middle-aged men and a woman in a love triangle, DTF St. Louis uses suburban male friendship as a Trojan horse to that depict radical male vulnerability after one dies. The highly-acclaimed miniseries weaponises dark humour to explore the unexpressed platonic intimacy.
Vice Principals is a 2- season sitcom about an overprotective father's ambition to become the vice principal, however he needs to compete with a more popular vice principals to win the race. Starring Walton Goggins and Danny McBride, the HBO original sitcom relies on dark humour