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

1927 · Cecil B. DeMille

Using one of Hollywood’s largest budgets of the late 1920s, Cecil B. DeMille staged a sweeping silent-era portrayal of Jesus’ life and Passion that plays out like a monumental religious pageant. Anchored by intertitles drawn from Scripture, populated by thousands of extras and staged with the director’s trademark flair for massive sets and theatrical visuals, the film fuses strict devotional intent with show-stopping cinematic spectacle. Simultaneously solemn and breathtaking, it aims to move the heart as much as to awe the eye.

With H.B. Warner, Dorothy Cumming, Ernest Torrence, Joseph Schildkraut, James Neill, Joseph Striker and Robert Edeson

2006 · Pedro Almodóvar

A successful professional whose private life is unravelling—isolated, estranged from her father, and stalked by an obsessive ex—Joanna Mills begins experiencing violent, haunting visions of a woman’s murder and soon suspects she may be the killer’s next prey. Refusing to be passive, she follows the images to the small town where the victim lived, determined to uncover the truth and outrun the threat, only to find that some secrets refuse to stay buried.

With Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo, Yohana Cobo, Chus Lampreave and Antonio de la Torre

2005 · Andrew Niccol

Yuri Orlov crisscrosses the globe peddling weapons, moving through some of the most brutal war zones while trying to stay ahead of a dogged Interpol investigator, ruthless competitors, and clients who count notorious dictators among their ranks. As his business draws him deeper into violence and betrayal, he ultimately must confront the moral fallout of the life he's built.

With Nicolas Cage, Bridget Moynahan, Jared Leto, Ethan Hawke, Eamonn Walker, Ian Holm and Sammi Rotibi

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

1991 · Jonathan Demme

A promising trainee at the FBI Academy, Clarice Starling is chosen by her superior, Jack Crawford, to question the incarcerated Dr. Hannibal Lecter — a brilliant psychiatrist infamous for his violent psychopathy and serving life for multiple murders and acts of cannibalism. Crawford believes Lecter may possess crucial leads on an active investigation, and he suspects that Clarice’s youth and composure might be exactly what it takes to penetrate the doctor’s guarded mind. Tasked with drawing out the reluctant genius, she must navigate a dangerous psychological game to extract the information needed.

With Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine, Anthony Heald, Brooke Smith and Diane Baker

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

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

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

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

2024 · Barry Jenkins

Alone and adrift, young Mufasa encounters Taka, a compassionate lion destined to inherit a noble lineage. Their chance meeting sparks a sweeping odyssey as a ragtag band of misfits sets out to discover and claim their destinies.

With Aaron Pierre, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Tiffany Boone, Kagiso Lediga, Preston Nyman, Mads Mikkelsen and Thandiwe Newton

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

1997 · Gus Van Sant

Will Hunting, a stubborn working-class prodigy whose brilliance is undermined by self-destructive behavior, keeps getting into trouble with the law. Facing the last chance to change course, he must open up to a psychology professor whose insight and patience may be the only things that can reach him.

With Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Affleck, Stellan Skarsgård, Minnie Driver, Casey Affleck and Cole Hauser

1957 · Sidney Lumet

Both sides having presented their cases, the jurors withdraw to the deliberation room to decide whether a young Spanish-American is guilty of killing his father. What begins as an apparently clear-cut decision quickly transforms into a tense, revealing examination of each juror's biases, assumptions about the accused and the evidence, and the simmering conflicts that rise between them.

With Martin Balsam, John Fiedler, Lee J. Cobb, E.G. Marshall, Jack Klugman, Edward Binns and Jack Warden

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

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

2004 · Michel Gondry

When Joel learns that his girlfriend has had him surgically removed from her memory, he decides to submit to the same erasure. As their history blurs and the images of her slip away, an unexpected, stubborn love remains—and with each vanished scene he confronts the terrifying possibility that it may already be too late to undo what he's done.

With Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood, Tom Wilkinson and Jane Adams

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

2001 · John Stockwell

A struggling Latino student at Pacific Palisades High falls deeply for a troubled girl from the nearby affluent neighborhood, pulling him into a world of wealth and turmoil that challenges both their limits.

With Kirsten Dunst, Jay Hernandez, Bruce Davison, Herman Osorio, Miguel Castro, Tommy De La Cruz and Rolando Molina

1984 · Miloš Forman

Antonio Salieri, a strict and highly disciplined Italian composer, is overtaken by envy and bitterness toward the hedonistic, astonishingly gifted young Salzburg-born composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

With F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Roy Dotrice, Simon Callow, Christine Ebersole and Jeffrey Jones

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