The 25 Best Movies on Apple TV+ Right Now (May 2025)

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

As pinch immoderate streaming service, not each movie connected nan roster is simply a winner, but from the Billie Eilish documentary to Sundance darlings, Apple’s streaming work is building 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 complete to our database of the best movies connected Netflix and the best movies connected Disney+. If you’re emotion a small much episodic, our guideline for the best shows connected Amazon mightiness beryllium conscionable nan ticket.

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Deaf President Now!

Billed arsenic “the top civilian authorities infinitesimal astir group person ne'er heard of,” Deaf President Now! chronicles an eight-day standoff connected nan field of a deaf assemblage successful Washington, DC, successful 1988. At nan time, Gallaudet University’s committee of trustees had named a proceeding president complete a brace of qualified deaf candidates. In response, nan students staged a week-plus of protests, walkouts, rallies, and boycotts. Eventually nan proceeding president resigned and deaf dean I. King Jordan was named president. This documentary from Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim chronicles nan students’ efforts utilizing photography and sound creation meant to immerse nan assemblage successful nan deaf experience. The movie played astatine nan Sundance Film Festival earlier this twelvemonth and comes to Apple TV+ connected May 16.

Number One connected nan Call Sheet

For anyone who doesn’t know, “number 1 connected nan telephone sheet” conscionable intends “the star”—the astir captious performer successful immoderate production. It’s a position that has eluded Black actors for generations. In this two-part documentary, immoderate of Hollywood’s astir well-known stars talk astir their clip trying to get to that coveted spot. Angela Bassett, Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Jamie Foxx, Michael B. Jordan—Number One connected nan Call Sheet’s ain telephone expanse is stacked pinch legendary performers telling nan stories of really they sewage to nan top, and what it intends to beryllium there.

Blitz

Written and directed by Oscar-winner Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave), Blitz shows World War II done nan eyes of a 9-year-old boy named George (Elliott Heffernan). Sent by his mother Rita (Saoirse Ronan) to nan information of nan English countryside, George escapes successful an effort to beryllium reunited pinch his mom and grandfather successful East London. What ensues is George’s harrowing quest to beryllium reunited pinch his mom, but this is simply a McQueen film, truthful that’s only portion of nan story.

The Gorge

When nan feline who made Doctor Strange and Sinister decides to make a scary movie starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Sigourney Weaver, and Miles Teller, you beryllium it to yourself to cheque it out. Taylor-Joy and Teller play subject operatives tasked pinch guarding a freaky gorge successful nan wilderness. They’re stuck connected other sides, but nan menacing something heavy successful nan chasm brings them together successful a quest to survive.

Fly Me to nan Moon

So, you cognize that conspiracy mentation astir Stanley Kubrick faking nan Apollo 11 satellite landing? If you don’t, you really should spell down a Wikipedia rabbit spread connected that one. When you’re done, watch this Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatum drama astir a trading whiz (Johansson) who gets hired to movie a mocked-up type of Neil Armstrong’s celebrated elephantine leap for mankind connected nan disconnected chance nan ngo didn’t spell arsenic planned. This 1 has been connected Apple TV+ for a while now and is still 1 of nan service's astir celebrated films currently. Probably pinch bully reason. It's chaotic stuff, but nary little chaotic than looking for clues to Kubrick’s concealed engagement pinch NASA successful The Shining.

The Last of nan Sea Women

On nan seashore of South Korea's Jeju Island, women norm nan sea. They're called haenyeo, and for hundreds of years they person gone diving to harvest seafood. Sue Kim's caller documentary follows these women—often referred to arsenic real-life mermaids—as they struggle to support their measurement of life successful nan look of societal and biology changes. Emboldened by a caller procreation that wants to amplify haenyeo connected societal media, they whitethorn find a way aft all. Produced by Malala Yousafzai, it's a travel into cross-generational unity and nan worth of tradition.

Wolfs

If you heard thing astir Wolfs, it astir apt wasn't astir its plot. Stars George Clooney and Brad Pitt were successful nan news a batch astir its 2024 release, but mostly because of their salaries and their goofing disconnected successful Venice. But if you want to cognize what Wolfs is about, nan short type is that Clooney and Pitt play nan benignant of guys who make problems spell away, and erstwhile they're some called successful for nan aforesaid job, they get to bicker pinch each different astir who is losing their separator more. Might beryllium ray connected substance, but it's still a beautiful bully time. The movie hits theaters connected September 20, and lands connected Apple TV+ a week later.

The World’s a Little Blurry

When it primitively came retired successful 2021, The World's a Little Blurry proved to beryllium an unprecedented look into nan life of popular phenom Billie Eilish arsenic nan then-teenager recorded her debut LP When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? Director R. J. Cutler sewage astonishing entree for nan film, which chronicles everything from Eilish’s songwriting process pinch her relative Finneas to her frank talk astir her Tourette’s. It besides was only a mini section of nan singer's life. Now that she's won aggregate Grammys and Oscars, started singing astir eating girls for lunch, and performed astatine nan Olympics Closing Ceremony, watching Blurry feels for illustration opening a clip capsule—in each nan champion ways. It’s nan benignant of euphony documentary that redefines nan euphony documentary.

The Velvet Underground

You whitethorn deliberation that head Todd Haynes only makes aggravated dramas for illustration Carol and May December, but for this movie he went heavy into nan creation segment successful New York City successful nan 1960s to unearth what happened erstwhile nan Velvet Underground exploded a batch of people’s ideas of music. Piecing together caller interviews pinch archive footage and moreover aged Andy Warhol films, it captures a infinitesimal successful euphony history that changed things forever.

Fancy Dance

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

Girls State

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

Napoleon

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

Killers of nan Flower Moon

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

Fingernails

Can exertion find whether you've recovered The One? Probably not, but successful nan latest from writer-director Christos Nikou, an institute tally by Duncan (Luke Wilson) claims that it has recovered nan look for existent emotion anyway—and Anna (Jessie Buckley) wants to fig retired if it's real. The institute, you see, has wished that Anna and her fellow Ryan (Jeremy Allen White) are a match, but has doubts. While moving astatine nan institute, though, she meets Amir (Riz Ahmed) and finds personification 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 for illustration thing you mightiness enjoy—let america propose Flora and Son, a charming indie astir a mother successful Dublin trying to link pinch her boy done song. Like Sing Street and Once, Flora and Son comes from head John Carney and has each of his signature moves, positive thing else: Eve Hewson, who plays nan movie's titular mom. She's a force, and she hits each of her musician notes perfectly. Makes sense; she's Bono's daughter.

Stephen Curry: Underrated

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

CODA

This is nan 1 that put Apple TV+ connected nan map. The movie’s title is an acronym for “child of deaf adults.” It’s nan communicative of Ruby, nan only proceeding personification successful a family that includes 2 deaf parents and 1 deaf sibling. When Ruby discovers a emotion of music, she's forced to reconcile her ain aspirations pinch those of her family, who tally a mini sportfishing business and often request her to thief communicate. Warm and gripping, CODA is nan benignant of movie that will person you cheering and crying astatine nan aforesaid time.

Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie

In 1985, Michael J. Fox was 1 of Hollywood’s biggest names arsenic nan prima of a deed TV show (Family Ties) and nan year’s highest-grossing movie (Back to nan Future). Just a fewer years later, astatine nan property of 29, Fox was diagnosed pinch Parkinson’s disease. In Still, Oscar-winning documentarian Davis Guggenheim offers a poignant image of Fox’s individual and master life 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 he has a terminal illness, must determine conscionable really acold he’ll spell to protect his family from having to cognize nan truth, aliases woody pinch nan devastating aftermath.

Sharper

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

Cha Cha Real Smooth

“Sundance deed starring Dakota Johnson”s are almost 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 nan movie—is 1 to support your oculus on.

The Tragedy of Macbeth

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

Tetris

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

Causeway

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

Sidney

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