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

2025 · Steve Windels

Over four formative years, Julie, a young woman caught between turbulent romances and an uncertain professional path, is forced to reassess her ambitions and face an unvarnished truth about who she really is.

With Klaus Teigel, Benedetto Tumminello, Axel Poike, Gina Rutkewitz, Oliver Stojanovic, Theodor Grusdat and Angelika Brinkmann

1972 · Živko Nikolić

Against the fading echoes of its epic past, Zivko Nikolic paints a Montenegrin village in the wake of legend, exposing a stark present inhabited by the poor, the marginalized, and people with intellectual disabilities—lives neglected and left out of the grand heroic narratives.

1990 · Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Dominique Pinon guides the audience through a playful succession of intimate vignettes—sometimes tender, sometimes absurd—each revealing a particular pleasure or pet peeve that shapes his outlook.

With Dominique Pinon

2011 · Gary Rydstrom

The hapless Griswold family embarks on another ill-fated road trip that quickly unravels into a series of comic misadventures amid the neon lights, bustling casinos, and lavish entertainment of Las Vegas.

With Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Don Rickles, Estelle Harris, Wallace Shawn and John Ratzenberger

2013 · Matt Inns

Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin, and Renan Ozturk, three elite American climbers, embark on a high-stakes, adrenaline-fueled quest to complete an ascent long thought impossible, testing their skills, resilience, and the bonds between them amid extreme danger.

With Steven Woller and Maggie Watts

1992 · Jan Švankmajer

An unlikely heir to a Mexican fast-food empire sets off to hunt for the next culinary phenomenon and lands in a sunbaked New Mexico town where gastronomes travel from far and wide to savor the bold, uncompromising dishes of a spirited, fiercely independent local chef.

With Ludvík Sváb, Bedřich Glaser, Jan Kraus, Pavel Marek, Josef Fiala and Karel Hamr

2005 · Géza M. Tóth

A ghostlike cell of elite bank thieves pulls off a string of deadly heists with no forensic trail, drawing the attention of a self-destructive FBI agent who hunts them with a reckless intensity. As he pushes deeper into their world, his investigation exposes a hidden motive behind the killings—one that turns the case from a manhunt into a dangerous unraveling of a larger, more sinister plot.

With Ákos Ambrus, Imre Madácsi and Attila Pacsay

2025 · Julio Rionaldo

A retired footballer living in Brittany brings together his old teammates to train a group of local fishermen and enter them in a series of matches, hoping the winnings will raise the funds needed to save the fleet and protect the community’s jobs.

With Tania Syakira and Isabella Meyer

2014 · Nick Lines

Convinced that Santa is responsible for her ruined life, a heartbroken former sex worker abducts him to exact revenge, only to have the ordeal turn into an unexpected path to healing and a surprising new sense of purpose.