Streaming services are making more and more of their own content, so it’s no surprise that Tim Cook’s new bet is on Apple TV+ original movies. From shows like “The Morning Show” and “My Mind and Me” to movies like “Emancipation,” which stars Will Smith and is about slavery, their catalog is full of great original titles.
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Here are the 10 best original movies on Apple TV+, which every movie fan should watch. The Rotten Tomatoes critics platform, which groups all the reviews of movies and series into a global rating, was used as a starting point for this list.
10 Best Original Movies on Apple TV+
1. The Banker (2020)
This Apple TV+ Original Movie is based on real events and tells the story of two businessmen, Bernard Garrett (Anthony Mackie) and Joe Morris, who changed the way business was done (Samuel L. Jackson). In 1960s America, they come up with a bold and risky plan to fight against the racist establishment so that African-Americans have the same chance as everyone else to achieve the American dream. Together with Bernard’s wife, Eunice (Nia Long), they turn white working-class Matt Steiner (Nicholas Hoult) into the wealthy and privileged face of their growing real estate and financial empire, while Bernard and Joe pose as a caretaker and driver. But the government knows that his plan is working and threatens to stop it.
2. The Swan Song (2021)
When Cameron (Mahershala Ali), a husband and father, is told he has a disease that will kill him, his doctor (Glenn Close) suggests an alternative to save his family from pain. The movie looks at how far we are willing to go and what we would give up to make the lives of the people we care about better. Oscar winner Benjamin Cleary is writing the script and directing the movie, and Naomie Harris, who has been in James Bond movies, is playing the main female character.
3. Greyhound (2020)
This movie is about another important part of World War II. It was based on the Battle of the Atlantic, which happened in the first few months of the United States’ alliance with Great Britain and the allied forces. Tom Hanks plays a Navy veteran who, on his first mission as a U.S. captain during World War II, must protect a convoy of 37 ships carrying thousands of soldiers and much-needed supplies across the dangerous North Atlantic. While crossing the so-called “Black Pit,” the captain and his escort must stay alive for five days without air support, fight Nazi submarines, and protect the fleet and crew.
4. Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022)
Andrew, who just graduated from college and is still not sure what he wants to do with his life, is stuck at home with his family in New Jersey. But if there’s one thing that should be on his resume (which doesn’t exist), it would be that he knows how to throw a good party. This gets him the perfect job as a performer at bars and bat mitzvahs for the classmates of his younger brother. Andrew finally finds the future he wants when he makes friends with his mother Domino and her daughter Lola, even though it may not be his own.
5. Causeway (2022)
After Lynsey, an American soldier (played by Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence), gets a brain injury while serving in Afghanistan, she has to go home to New Orleans. But it’s getting harder and harder for her to go back to her normal life, especially since she keeps having painful memories of her. It’s a sensitive and exhausting psychogram of a woman who has been hurt by life.
6. Hala (2019)
This cross-cultural coming-of-age drama was produced by Jada Pinkett Smith and was an Official Selection at both the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival: In her last year of high school, 17-year-old Hala (Geraldine Viswanathan) finds it hard to balance her traditional Muslim upbringing with her life as a suburban teen. Hala must face a secret that could destroy her family in order to find out who she is.
7. On the Rocks (2020)
In real life, Laura (Rashida Jones), a young mother from New York, is happily married. But when her husband Dean (Marlon Wayans) and her new coworker start working overtime together, she gets suspicious. She goes to her charming and impulsive father, Felix (Bill Murray), for help, and he insists on looking into the situation. All of a sudden, the two crazy people go on a nighttime tour of New York that takes them to the coolest parties and bars in the city. Sofia Coppola’s playful and brilliant love letter to America’s seaside metropolis challenges the way we usually think about relationships and shows how we always find ourselves in our busy modern lives.
8. The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)
William Shakespeare’s famous tragedy about murder, madness, ambition and furious cunning is turned into a bold, unforgiving black-and-white film by Joel Coen. Denzel Washington plays the main character, Macbeth, and Frances McDormand plays his wife, Lady Macbeth, who is a cunning schemer.
9. CODA (2021)
CODA stands for “child of deaf adults,” and Ruby, 17, is the only person in her Massachusetts fishing family who can hear. This funny family drama is a remake of a French-language hit from 2014. Unlike the original, director Sian Heder chose hard-of-hearing actors to play the main deaf characters. These actors were able to make a film that is both funny and very sympathetic. This got them three Oscars, one of which was for Best Picture.
10 . Wolfwalkers (2020)
This imaginative and modern fairy tale from the Irish animation studio Cartoon Saloon is fun for everyone, not just kids. In a time of superstition and magic, young Robyn travels to Ireland with her father to kill the last pack of wolves in that country. On her trip into the forbidden land outside the city, she meets the free-spirited Mebh, whose mysterious tribe is said to be able to turn into wolves at night. As they look for Mebh’s missing mother, Robyn learns a secret that pulls her even deeper into the enchanted world of shapeshifting werewolves. And by doing that, she risks becoming the thing her father is destined to destroy.
