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Best movies — drame on Apple TV+ : our Top 20

At Stream Tracker, we’ve put together a concise selection of the best drama films currently available on Apple TV+. We chose titles for their storytelling, performances and direction, and verified their availability on the platform so you don’t have to. This list is meant to help you find thoughtful, well-made dramas—whether you’re after intense character studies or quieter, emotionally resonant stories. We update the page regularly to reflect changes in the Apple TV+ catalogue.

Updated on 02/08/2026

#01
The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight

2008 · Christopher Nolan

Batman pushes his campaign against Gotham’s underworld to the next level, joining forces with Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent to systematically break apart the last criminal networks. Their cooperation brings hope for a safer city, but a cunning new antagonist who calls himself the Joker sparks a spiral of violence and anarchy that threatens to overwhelm them all.

With Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Aaron Eckhart, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Morgan Freeman

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#02
Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump

1994 · Robert Zemeckis

A man of limited intelligence finds himself swept into landmark moments of history, repeatedly achieving far more than anyone expects and leaving a trail of remarkable accomplishments. Despite the fame and the extraordinary life he builds, the woman he truly loves remains just out of reach.

With Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field, Mykelti Williamson, Michael Conner Humphreys and Hanna Hall

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#03
Fight Club
Fight Club

1999 · David Fincher

A volatile insomniac and a smooth-talking soap seller channel repressed masculine rage into a brutal, cathartic form of therapy. The movement snowballs into clandestine fighting rings in towns everywhere, until an eccentric disrupts the group and triggers an uncontrollable slide toward chaos and ruin.

With Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf, Jared Leto, Zach Grenier and Holt McCallany

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#04
Schindler's List
Schindler's List

1993 · Steven Spielberg

During the Second World War, industrialist Oskar Schindler risks everything to defy the Nazi regime, using his factories and connections to employ, protect, and ultimately save more than a thousand Jewish people from deportation and death.

With Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagall, Embeth Davidtz and Malgorzata Gebel

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#05
Saving Private Ryan
Saving Private Ryan

1998 · Steven Spielberg

As Allied forces sweep onto the beaches of Normandy, three brothers are killed in combat and a fourth is left stranded behind enemy lines. Captain John Miller, a U.S. Army Ranger, leads a seven-man squad on a dangerous incursion into German-held territory to find the young soldier and bring him home.

With Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Matt Damon, Barry Pepper, Adam Goldberg and Vin Diesel

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#06
The Green Mile
The Green Mile

1999 · Frank Darabont

On death row in a Southern penitentiary, a towering, soft-spoken inmate named John Coffey harbors a baffling ability to lift illness and suffering from others. When Paul Edgecomb, the cell block’s chief guard, witnesses Coffey’s restorative gift, he becomes obsessed with preventing the condemned man’s execution. Battling institutional forces and his own uncertainty, Edgecomb mounts a desperate attempt to save a man whose power challenges everything they thought they knew.

With Tom Hanks, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt, Michael Clarke Duncan, James Cromwell, Michael Jeter and Graham Greene

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#07
Django Unchained
Django Unchained

2012 · Quentin Tarantino

A newly freed man teams up with a German bounty hunter to confront a cruel Mississippi plantation owner and rescue the wife he’s been forced to leave behind.

With Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Walton Goggins and Dennis Christopher

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#08
The Usual Suspects
The Usual Suspects

1995 · Bryan Singer

Seated beneath the harsh glare of interrogation lights in Los Angeles, Verbal Kint tells federal agents a gripping tale: he insists that the legendary criminal Keyser Söze is real and engineered a multimillion-dollar heist that drew in him and four accomplices, culminating in a catastrophic explosion at San Pedro harbor that left almost no one alive. Through a mix of calculated detail and a portrait of a cold, seemingly omnipotent mastermind, Verbal seduces his interrogators into believing a story of manipulation and brutality that borders on the supernatural.

With Gabriel Byrne, Stephen Baldwin, Kevin Spacey, Chazz Palminteri, Kevin Pollak, Pete Postlethwaite and Suzy Amis

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#09
The Lion King
The Lion King

1994 · Roger Allers

A young lion heir, raised by his protective father Mufasa and longing to one day rule the Pride Lands, faces a sinister scheme from his power-hungry uncle Scar. After betrayal triggers a devastating loss, the prince goes into exile, must wrestle with his past, and ultimately summons the strength to return, reclaim his legacy, and restore harmony to his kingdom.

With Matthew Broderick, James Earl Jones, Jeremy Irons, Rowan Atkinson, Moira Kelly, Whoopi Goldberg and Cheech Marin

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#10
Parasite
Parasite

2019 · Bong Joon-ho

All unemployed, Ki-taek’s family becomes obsessed with the affluent, glamorous Park household as their best chance at survival — until an unexpected incident draws them into a perilous entanglement.

With Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-shik, Park So-dam, Lee Jung-eun and Jang Hye-jin

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#11
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

2007 · Julie Taymor

A chance reunion with Gwen Stacy propels Brooklyn’s young Spider-Man into the Multiverse, where he encounters the Spider Society — a coalition of spider-powered heroes tasked with defending reality itself. When the group fractures over how to confront a dangerous new threat, Miles finds himself opposed to his fellow Spiders and must strike out on his own to protect the people he loves.

With Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson, Dana Fuchs, Martin Luther McCoy, T.V. Carpio and Spencer Liff

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#12
Your Name.
Your Name.

2016 · Makoto Shinkai

Two high-school students who've never met, Mitsuha and Taki, live separate lives until one night they begin inexplicably swapping bodies. Mitsuha wakes up inhabiting Taki’s everyday existence while he finds himself living hers, and the strange exchange keeps occurring at unpredictable times, forcing them to coordinate, leave messages, and rearrange their routines to accommodate each other's world.

With Ryunosuke Kamiki, Mone Kamishiraishi, Ryo Narita, Aoi Yuki, Nobunaga Shimazaki, Kaito Ishikawa and Kanon Tani

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#13
Joker
Joker

2019 · Todd Phillips

In 1980s Gotham City, a struggling stand-up comedian crushed by rejection and isolation spirals into madness, shedding his former life to become a calculating, unhinged criminal whose theatrical violence and anarchic schemes plunge the city into fear.

With Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy, Brett Cullen, Shea Whigham and Bill Camp

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#14
Green Book
Green Book

2018 · Peter Farrelly

In 1962, Tony Lip, a streetwise bouncer, is hired to chauffeur celebrated pianist Don Shirley on a concert tour through the segregated Deep South. As they travel under the shadow of Jim Crow and rely on the Negro Motorist Green Book to find safe lodging and services, the two men confront prejudice, danger, and their own assumptions, forging an unexpected bond.

With Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini, Sebastian Maniscalco, Dimiter D. Marinov, Mike Hatton and P.J. Byrne

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#15
Braveheart
Braveheart

1995 · Mel Gibson

After his childhood sweetheart and new wife Murron is brutally killed, Scottish warrior William Wallace retaliates by ambushing and killing a detachment of the local English lord’s soldiers — an act that sparks a village uprising which soon grows into a nationwide rebellion against English rule.

With Mel Gibson, Catherine McCormack, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan, Angus Macfadyen, Brendan Gleeson and James Robinson

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#16
Dead Poets Society
Dead Poets Society

1989 · Peter Weir

In a time-honored New England boarding school clinging to tradition, an ardent English teacher sparks his students’ curiosity, urging them to defy convention and savor each day’s possibilities — a stance that earns the stern headmaster’s fierce disapproval.

With Robin Williams, Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard, Gale Hansen, Josh Charles, Dylan Kussman and Allelon Ruggiero

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#17
The Sixth Sense
The Sixth Sense

1999 · M. Night Shyamalan

After a sudden tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe begins working with nine-year-old Cole Sear, a withdrawn boy who is hiding a disturbing secret.

With Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams, Donnie Wahlberg, Mischa Barton and Trevor Morgan

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#18
A Beautiful Mind
A Beautiful Mind

2001 · Ron Howard

A gifted but socially awkward mathematician rises rapidly after a groundbreaking theoretical breakthrough, poised for worldwide recognition. Recruited into covert cryptographic work, he is pulled into a web of secrecy and conspiracy that blurs the boundaries between truth and paranoia. As his brilliant mind unravels, he must endure a harrowing personal descent and a painful struggle to reclaim his identity and make sense of the life he once thought he controlled.

With Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Paul Bettany, Christopher Plummer, Josh Lucas and Adam Goldberg

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#19
Top Gun: Maverick
Top Gun: Maverick

2022 · Joseph Kosinski

More than thirty years into a storied career as one of the Navy’s premier pilots — and after repeatedly avoiding the promotions that would have kept him on the ground — Pete “Maverick” Mitchell is called on to train a select group of TOP GUN graduates for a high-risk, highly specialized operation, unlike any mission the current generation of aviators has ever been asked to undertake.

With Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Ed Harris and Val Kilmer

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#20
The Help
The Help

2011 · Tate Taylor

Aibileen Clark, a middle-aged African American housekeeper who has spent her life caring for white children, is grieving the recent loss of her only son; Minny Jackson, another African American domestic worker, regularly finds herself at odds with employers even as her family struggles financially and desperately needs steady work; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan, a young white college graduate who returns to her hometown, is unsettled to learn that the maid who helped raise her has suddenly disappeared. Their individual stories converge, revealing a Jackson, Mississippi society that depends on "the help" while rigid racial divisions keep them emotionally and socially distant.

With Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jessica Chastain, Anna Camp and Ahna O'Reilly

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Best movies Apple TV+ by genre

This concludes our selection of the best drama films currently available on Apple TV+. We chose titles that reflect the range of dramatic storytelling on the platform and hope the list helps you find something worth watching. If you want more options, explore our other genre-based selections for Apple TV+ — we update them regularly to reflect new arrivals and removals.