The 21 Best Movies on Apple TV+ Right Now (July 2024)

When it comes to originals, Netflix and Amazon person the deepest libraries of prestige movies. But ever since CODA won the Best Picture Oscar, it’s go wide that immoderate of the champion movies are connected Apple TV+.

As with immoderate streaming service, not each movie connected the roster is simply a winner, but from the Billie Eilish documentary to Sundance darlings, Apple’s streaming work is gathering up a beardown catalog to tally alongside its increasing slate of beloved TV shows.

Below are WIRED’s picks for flicks you should prioritize successful your queue. Once you’re done, hop implicit to our database of the best movies connected Netflix and the best movies connected Disney+. If you’re feeling a small much episodic, our usher for the best shows connected Amazon mightiness beryllium conscionable the ticket.

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Fancy Dance

Set connected the Seneca-Cayuga preservation successful Oklahoma, Fancy Dance follows the travel of Jax (Killers of the Flower Moon’s Lily Gladstone), a pistillate who has been caring for her niece Roki ever since her sister, Roki’s mother, went missing. After the authorities deem Jax unfit to attraction for her niece, Roki is sent to unrecorded with her grandfather. Looking for answers, Jax takes Roki connected the roadworthy to effort to find her parent and ends up trying to flight the aforesaid authorities, who aren’t putting the aforesaid effort into uncovering her missing sister arsenic they are successful trying to find her. An introspection of beingness connected colonized land, Fancy Dance is besides a thoughtful look astatine protecting community.

Blade Runner 2049

Before Denis Villeneuve was directing Dune movies and agelong earlier Ryan Gosling was Just Ken, they teamed up with Harrison Ford to marque a sequel to Ridley Scott’s sci-fi epic Blade Runner. Blade Runner 2049 picks up 3 decades aft Ford’s Rick Deckard was near bruised and confused successful Los Angeles. Perhaps not arsenic mind-blowing arsenic Scott’s 1982 film—but with acold less director’s cuts—2049 is stylish and moody with an all-star formed that includes Ana de Armas, Robin Wright, Dave Bautista, and Mackenzie Davis. A existent show to behold.

Argylle

Like a fewer things connected Apple streaming services, this movie has a weird transportation to Taylor Swift—but dissimilar galore of those things, this transportation has been debunked. In the film, Bryce Dallas Howard plays Elly Conway, a spy novelist whose stories extremity up becoming a small excessively real. Because her quality carries a feline successful a backpack, similar Swift, determination were rumors the vocalist was progressive successful penning the script, rumors that Howard dispelled successful a late-night interview. Is Argylle worthy your clip contempt the deficiency of Swift involvement? Reviews are mixed, but if you are portion of the campy that wants to spot Henry Cavill beryllium a Bond-like hero, this is your shot.

The World’s a Little Blurry

By now, thousands of popular euphony fans cognize the Billie Eilish monomyth: Young, somewhat punk, somewhat goth teen starts making songs successful her brother’s bedroom, puts them online, and becomes 1 of the biggest stars successful the world. It’s a large story, but that’s lone astir a 4th of the communicative of Eilish’s ascent to superstar status. The World’s a Little Blurry fills successful (some of) the blanks. Director R. J. Cutler got astonishing entree for this film, which chronicles everything from Eilish’s songwriting process with her member Finneas to her frank speech astir her Tourette’s. It’s the benignant of euphony documentary that redefines the euphony documentary.

Girls State

Do you retrieve the 2020 documentary Boys State, astir a radical of young men successful Texas who be a summertime programme wherever the are challenged to signifier their ain government? Girls State is similar—it adjacent comes from the aforesaid filmmaking squad of Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine—but it follows a radical of radical who person ne'er seen idiosyncratic of their sex clasp the bureau of US president. It's besides acceptable successful Missouri, not Texas. Expect each the aforesaid chaotic ambition and hearbreak—and much than a fewer beingness lessons learned.

Napoleon

OK, truthful Napoleon didn’t precisely get critics’ pens flying, but sometimes you’re conscionable successful the temper for a big, prestige-y Ridley Scott humanities drama, you know? This 1 stars Joaquin Phoenix arsenic the rubric character, pursuing his quest to conquer, well, arsenic overmuch arsenic helium perchance can. Rather than being a sprint to the Battle of Waterloo, however, this pic gives attraction to the French emperor’s emotionally rocky narration with his woman Joséphine de Beauharnais (Vanessa Kirby). What happens erstwhile a antheral tin conquer astir of Europe but not his ain feelings? Watch and find out.

Killers of the Flower Moon

Martin Scorsese’s epic movie is based connected David Grann’s 2017 publication astir a subordinate of the Osage Nation, Mollie Burkhart, who sought to get to the bottommost of the deaths successful her family. Set successful 1920s Oklahoma, a clip erstwhile galore Osage were being killed for the wealth made from lipid connected their land, Scorsese’s movie follows the narration betwixt Mollie (played by Lily Gladstone, who won a Golden Globe for her performance) and Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio) and what happens erstwhile the FBI comes to analyse the Osage deaths. When WIRED named it 1 of 2023’s champion movies, we called it “a feel-bad masterpiece,” and we basal by that.

Fingernails

Can exertion find whether you've recovered The One? Probably not, but successful the latest from writer-director Christos Nikou, an institute tally by Duncan (Luke Wilson) claims that it has recovered the look for existent emotion anyway—and Anna (Jessie Buckley) wants to fig retired if it's real. The institute, you see, has determined that Anna and her fellow Ryan (Jeremy Allen White) are a match, but has doubts. While moving astatine the institute, though, she meets Amir (Riz Ahmed) and finds idiosyncratic who really mightiness beryllium her match.

Flora and Son

Remember Sing Street, that charming indie astir a kid successful Dublin who starts a set arsenic an flight from his analyzable location life? What astir Once, that charming indie astir a brace that spends a week successful Dublin penning songs astir their love? If you enjoyed either of those—or if they conscionable sound similar thing you mightiness enjoy—let america suggest Flora and Son, a charming indie astir a parent successful Dublin trying to link with her lad done song. Like Sing Street and Once, Flora and Son comes from manager John Carney and has each of his signature moves, positive thing else: Eve Hewson, who plays the movie's titular mom. She's a force, and she hits each of her instrumentalist notes perfectly. Makes sense; she's Bono's daughter.

Stephen Curry: Underrated

Golden State Warriors constituent defender Stephen Curry mightiness beryllium 1 of the astir beloved players successful American basketball—and helium is decidedly 1 of the champion players, if not the champion player, successful the league. He has been named the NBA's Most Valuable Player doubly and has won 4 title rings. He besides has much vocation three-pointers than anyone successful the league. But successful the precocious aughts, helium was a kid astatine a tiny school, Davidson College, conscionable trying to unrecorded up to the imaginable his coaches saw successful him. Underrated, directed by Peter Nicks (Homeroom), chronicles that journey, showing however Curry bested the predictions of his ain NBA draught (many said helium didn't person the size indispensable for the league) to go 1 of the top to ever play the game. For hoops fans, it's a must-watch.

Beastie Boys Story

One of the pioneering groups successful hip-hop, the Beastie Boys person a communicative similar nary other. For this “live documentary,” filmmaker Spike Jonze filmed Mike Diamond (Mike D) and Adam Horovitz (Ad-Rock) arsenic they told a assemblage astatine Brooklyn’s Kings Theater astir their emergence to stardom. Complete with aged footage, photos, and stories from the group’s decades-long career, the doc captures conscionable however influential the Beasties person been since they started playing euphony unneurotic arsenic kids successful New York City successful the precocious ’70s and aboriginal ’80s. It besides features immoderate fantastic memories of their 3rd member, Adam “MCA” Yauch, who died successful 2012 pursuing a conflict with cancer.

CODA

This is the 1 that enactment Apple TV+ connected the map. The movie’s rubric is an acronym for “child of deaf adults.” It’s the communicative of Ruby, the lone proceeding idiosyncratic successful a household that includes 2 deaf parents and 1 deaf sibling. When Ruby discovers a emotion of music, she's forced to reconcile her ain aspirations with those of her family, who tally a tiny sportfishing concern and often request her to assistance communicate. Warm and gripping, CODA is the benignant of movie that volition person you cheering and crying astatine the aforesaid time.

Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie

In 1985, Michael J. Fox was 1 of Hollywood’s biggest names arsenic the prima of a deed TV amusement (Family Ties) and the year’s highest-grossing movie (Back to the Future). Just a fewer years later, astatine the property of 29, Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. In Still, Oscar-winning documentarian Davis Guggenheim offers a poignant representation of Fox’s idiosyncratic and nonrecreational beingness and his travel from teen idol to advocator for a cure.

Swan Song

Mahershala Ali stars alongside, well, Mahershala Ali successful this romantic-sci-fi-drama. Yes, it’s each of those things. Cameron (Ali) is simply a loving hubby (to Naomie Harris) and begetter who, aft learning helium has a terminal illness, indispensable determine conscionable however acold he’ll spell to support his household from having to cognize the truth, oregon woody with the devastating aftermath.

Sharper

Sharper is 1 of those movies wherever the little you cognize astir it going in, the better. Just cognize that nary 1 is what they look oregon who they accidental they are successful this neo-noir starring Julianne Moore, Sebastian Stan, Justice Smith, and John Lithgow. This twisty small thriller flew mostly nether the radar erstwhile it was released successful theaters for a half-second successful aboriginal 2023.

Cha Cha Real Smooth

“Sundance deed starring Dakota Johnson”s are astir a dime a dozen, but this one, astir a young bar/bat mitzvah party-starter is the, ahem, existent deal. It besides proves that Cooper Raiff—who writes, directs, and stars successful the movie—is 1 to support your oculus on.

The Tragedy of Macbeth

Yes, astir radical already cognize the communicative of Macbeth—Scottish lord with an oculus toward ruling his country—but not everyone has seen it done the eyes of manager Joel Coen. Shot wholly successful achromatic and achromatic and starring Denzel Washington arsenic Macbeth and Frances McDormand arsenic his almighty wife, the movie was nominated for 3 Oscars and brought a precise caller twist onto a classical Shakespearean tale.

Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues

Above each else, Louis Armstrong is known arsenic 1 of the astir celebrated jazz musicians of each time. But helium was besides a fig successful the conflict for equality successful America—albeit a analyzable one. As manager Sacha Jenkins illustrates successful this documentary, portion Armstrong broke radical barriers successful amusement helium besides faced accusations that helium didn’t basal up arsenic overmuch for civilian rights arsenic different performers of his era. Jenkins got entree to scores of photographs, clippings, and adjacent recordings Armstrong made of his ain conversations for this documentary, and that entree provides a overmuch fuller representation of the legendary instrumentalist than the satellite has ever had.

Tetris

One of the astir fashionable video games of each time, Tetris was a improvement for Nintendo Game Boy owners successful the 1980s. But Tetris (the movie) is the communicative of the radical who made the crippled and brought it from the then-Soviet Union to the remainder of the world. Part humanities dramedy, portion espionage flick, the movie doesn’t ever deed its marks, but if you’ve ne'er heard the communicative of how Tetris got retired from down the Iron Curtain, it’s worthy a watch.

Causeway

Causeway kind of came and went erstwhile it was released successful 2022, but that’s besides the benignant of movie it is. Focused connected a worker (Jennifer Lawrence) who returns location aft suffering a encephalon wounded successful Afghanistan, the movie from manager Lila Neugebauer is astir trauma and however radical thin connected each different to get done it. A worthy ticker for the times erstwhile you person your ain worldly to enactment through.

Sidney

Sidney Poitier died successful 2022, the aforesaid twelvemonth Apple TV+ released this documentary looking astatine the actor’s long-running career—In the Heat of the Night, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner—and interaction connected American civilization and politics. With interviews ranging from Spike Lee and Morgan Freeman to Harry Belafonte, the movie goes beyond his clip successful Hollywood, starting with his upbringing successful the Bahamas and ending with his monolithic interaction connected the civilian rights question and elsewhere.