Best movies on Apple TV Plus to watch this month

Published On

April 12, 2024

Best movies on Apple TV Plus

Apple’s venture into streaming TV has resulted in the production of top notch Apple Original Films, giving film buffs dozens of must-see movies, including the Academy Award Best Picture winner CODA and Academy Award-nominated feature The Tragedy of Macbeth.

Working with the biggest names in entertainment, Apple has also some of cinema’s biggest films; Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon starring Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio, Ridley Scott’s Napoleon starring Joaquin Phoenix, and Matthew Vaughn’s Argylle starring Henry Cavill are just some of the titles now streaming on Apple TV+.

Apple TV+ has no third-party content, relying on its dozens of originals to entertain its subscribers. Taking the “quality over quantity” approach, the streaming service has distinguished itself as the home of major shows and films in terms of production value and the Hollywood names they collaborate with to take on their projects.

It helps that Apple offers the service free for three months (previously one year) to those with eligible Apple devices purchase, ensuring that their original productions reach more than enough audiences to spread the word that their TV and movie highlights are also a contender.

Since 2019, Apple TV Plus has released noteworthy Apple Original Films, including The Banker starring Samuel L. Jackson and Anthony Mackie, Greyhound starring Tom Hanks, Swan Song led by Mahershala Ali, and the well-liked comedy Cha Cha Real Smooth starring Dakota Johnson. Zac Efron and Russell Crowe also headline the comedy drama The Greatest Beer Run Ever.

Apple TV+ also has a number of music documentaries; Bruce Springsteen’s Letter To You, Beastie Boys Story (featuring Mike D and Ad-Rock himself), and Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry are just some to enjoy. Meanwhile, other documentaries like The Elephant Queen, Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds, and Boys State have also been commended by critics and viewers alike.

Looking to stream the best movies on Apple TV Plus? Check out this month’s selection.

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Killers of the Flower Moon

Killers of the Flower Moon

Starring frequent Scorsese collaborators Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio, and Lily Gladstone in her first leading role, Killers of the Flower Moon revolves around the serial murder of members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation.

  • Running Time: 206 mins
  • Genre: Western, Crime drama
  • Director: Martin Scorsese
  • Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons
  • IMDB: 7.6/10

Argylle

Argylle

Argylle the movie follows spy novelist Elly Conway (Dallas Howard) who barely leaves her home but writes the most exhilarating espionage stories with sassy one-liners. When the events in her books begin transpiring for real, she’s suddenly catapulted into the very real but very secret world of spies. 

  • Running Time: 139 mins
  • Genre: Spy thriller, comedy
  • Director: Matthew Vaughn
  • Stars: Henry Cavill, Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Rockwell
  • IMDB: 5.7/10

Napoleon

Napoleon movie

Napoleon is an epic historical film chronicles the rise and fall of the notorious French leader and explores his marriage with his first wife Empress Joséphine, played by Vanessa Kirby. 

  • Running Time: 157 mins
  • Genre: Historical action
  • Director: Ridley Scott
  • Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby, Rupert Everett
  • IMDB: 6.4/10

The Bloody Hundredth

The Bloody Hundredth

Tom Hanks narrates Apple TV+’s new documentary film, The Bloody Hundredth, telling the real stories of the brave Airmen that inspired the series Masters of the Air.

  • Running Time: 62 mins
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Directors: Mark Herzog, Laurent Bouzereau
  • Stars: Tom Hanks
  • IMDB: 7.6/10

The Family Plan

The Family Plan

In Apple’s new original film The Family Plan, Mark Wahlberg plays a devoted husband and father of three while rocking his job as a car salesman. In truth, decades ago he was an elite government assassin tasked with neutralising some of the world’s most dangerous threats.

  • Running Time: 119 mins
  • Genre: Action, Comedy
  • Director: Simon Cellan Jones
  • Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Michelle Monaghan, Zoe Colletti, Van Crosby
  • IMDB: 6.3/10

Fingernails

Fingernails

A groundbreaking new technology allows people to test if they’ve truly found the one, and using this Anna and Ryan have been proven to be the right partners. It’s just Anna is not quite sure yet. Her hesitation only deepens when she meets Amir.

  • Running Time: 113 mins
  • Genre: Sci-Fi, Romance
  • Director: Christos Nikou
  • Stars: Jessie Buckley, Riz Ahmed, Jeremy Allen White, Luke Wilson
  • IMDB: 5.9/10

The Pigeon Tunnel

From prolific documentary filmmaker Errol Morris comes the intriguing docufilm The Pigeon Tunnel, which follows the life of John le Carré, author of many espionage novels. A real spy in the 1950s and 1960s, he worked for both the MI5 and the MI6.

  • Running Time: 94 mins
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Director: Errol Morris
  • Stars: John le Carré
  • IMDB: 7.8/10

Flora and Son

Flora and Son

Flora is a single mother who constantly argues with his son and laments about his need for a new hobby to keep him out of trouble. One day, she finds a guitar at a dumpster, unexpectedly changing their lives in a way she never saw coming.

  • Running Time: 97 mins
  • Genre: Comedy-drama, Musical
  • Director: John Carney
  • Stars: Eve Hewson, Jack Reynor, Orén Kinlan, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
  • IMDB: 7.4/10

The Beanie Bubble

The Beanie Bubble

Based on the book The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute, The Beanie Bubble portrays the success and popularity of Beanie Babies.

  • Running Time: 110 mins
  • Genre: Comedy-drama
  • Directors: Kristin Gore, Damian Kulash Jr.
  • Stars: Zach Galifianakis, Elizabeth Banks, Sarah Snook, Geraldine Viswanathan
  • IMDB: 8.1/10

Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie

Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie

The documentary follows the personal life of actor Michael J. Fox, his rise to stardom, and his struggle with Parkinson’s disease, which was diagnosed when he was in his 30s. Directed by Davis Guggenheim, best known for his work in An Inconvenient Truth, the movie combines archival footage and scripted elements as Fox himself recounts events.

  • Running Time: 95 mins
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Director: Davis Guggenheim
  • Stars: Michael J. Fox
  • IMDB: 8.1/10

Tetris

Tetris

Tetris stars Taron Egerton as Dutch video game designer Henk Rogers, who, after discovering Tetris in 1988, risks everything in order to travel to the Soviet Union to meet the game’s creator Alexey Pajitnov. They join forces with one goal: bring Tetris to the masses.

  • Running Time: 118 mins
  • Genre: Biographical thriller
  • Director: Jon S. Baird
  • Stars: Taron Egerton, Nikita Efremov, Sofia Lebedeva, Anthony Boyle
  • IMDB: 7.4/10

CODA

CODA

CODA is a coming of age story that follows Ruby Rossi, the titular child of deaf adults (CODA) and the only hearing member of her family. As she strives to make her own dream of being a singer happen, she also does her best to help keep her family’s fishing business afloat. It became the first movie distributed by a streaming service to win Best Picture at the 94th Academy Awards.

  • Running Time: 111 mins
  • Genre: Drama
  • Director: Sian Heder
  • Stars: Emilia Jones, Eugenio Derbez, Troy Kotsur, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo
  • IMDB: 8/10

The Tragedy of Macbeth

The Tragedy of Macbeth

In Joel Coen’s retelling of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Denzel Washington plays a Scottish lord, who, after encountering three witches, becomes convinced that he will be the next King of Scotland. With his ambitious wife on his side, he will do everything and anything to secure power. But at what cost?

  • Running Time: 105 mins
  • Genre: Historical drama
  • Director: Joel Coen
  • Stars: Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Bertie Carvel, Alex Hassell
  • IMDB: 7.1/10

Wolfwalkers

Wolfwalkers

One of 2020’s best animated movies, Wolfwalkers follows a young apprentice hunter, Robyn, and her father as they set off for Ireland. They are tasked to hunt the last pack of wolves during a time when the animals are seen as demonic creatures. Their lives are changed forever after she meets a free-spirited native girl who introduces her to the world of the Wolfwalers.

  • Running Time: 103 mins
  • Genre: Animation, Fantasy
  • Directors: Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart
  • Stars: Honor Kneafsey, Eva Whittaker, Sean Bean, Simon McBurney
  • IMDB: 8/10

Sharper

Sharper

Julianne Moore, Sebastian Stan, and others play a high-stakes con game in this new crime thriller. At the centre of the film is a con artist targeting Manhattan’s wealthiest.

  • Running Time: 116 mins
  • Genre: Crime thriller
  • Director: Benjamin Caron
  • Stars: Julianne Moore, Sebastian Stan, Justice Smith, Briana Middleton
  • IMDB: 6.7/10

Causeway

Causeway

In Causeway, Jennifer Lawrence plays a former U.S. soldier attempting to return to her normal life after a traumatic brain injury. A war movie that focuses on a soldier’s debilitating internal fears and struggles, the heartfelt film was a critical success with Lawrence’s performance, alongside co-star Brian Tyree Henry, singled out as extraordinary.

  • Running Time: 92 mins
  • Genre: Drama
  • Director: Lila Neugebauer
  • Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Brian Tyree Henry, Linda Emond, Jayne Houdyshell
  • IMDB: 6.6/10

The Elephant Queen

The Elephant Queen

Taking inspiration from well-known nature docos like Planet Earth, The Elephant Queen follows a Kenyan elephant herd as they search for a new home, traversing a harsh African landscape with its awe-inspiring wildlife. Leading the arduous journey is Athena, the herd’s majestic matriarch.

  • Running Time: 96 mins
  • Genre: Nature documentary
  • Directors: Victoria Stone, Mark Deeble
  • Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor
  • IMDB: 7.8/10

On the Rocks

On the Rocks

Bill Murray and Rashida Jones play father and daughter in this comedy drama by Sofia Coppola. Jones plays a young mother who reconnects with her playboy father over her suspicions that her husband may be having an affair. Believing that it’s man’s nature to cheat, her father only aggravates her speculations. To find answers, the father and daughter tandem embark on a spying adventure, tackling ageing and marriage in the process.

  • Running Time: 96 mins
  • Genre: Comedy drama
  • Directors: Sofia Coppola
  • Stars: Bill Murray, Rashida Jones, Marlon Wayans
  • IMDB: 6.4/10

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