Is the movie The Reader available on Netflix, Disney+, Prime or Apple TV+?
The Reader (2008) is a quietly devastating adaptation of Bernhard Schlink’s novel, a story of love, unreadable secrets and the moral trials that follow. Follow Michael Berg as a teenager and later a lawyer, and Hanna Schmitz — whose illiteracy and hidden past surface in a courtroom that forces memory and guilt into the open. The film earned five Academy Award nominations and won the Oscar for Best Actress for Kate Winslet’s performance. In this article we check where you can watch those closed pages come alive today — whether on Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video or Apple TV+.
Synopsis
Michael Berg, now a German lawyer, is haunted by a clandestine relationship he had as a teenager with an older woman, Hanna. Years after she inexplicably vanished, she reappears as a defendant in a postwar trial for her role as a concentration camp guard near the end of the conflict. Michael alone recognizes that Hanna is illiterate and realizes she may be concealing this secret at the cost of her liberty.
Watch on which platform The Reader
Updated on 12/03/2026Netflix
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Disney+
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Apple TV+
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