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

2008 · Pablo Orlowsky

When a series of coordinated attacks shakes cities around the globe, a diverse team of intelligence officers, a battle-worn field operative, and a reluctant whistleblower are thrown together to track down the shadowy network behind them. Chasing leads from crowded metropolises to remote safe houses, they confront political interference, fractured alliances, and the moral cost of combating an enemy that thrives on chaos — forcing each to question how much they will sacrifice to prevent the next strike.

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.

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

2020 · Ricardo Alves Jr.

Vitória, a factory worker who has had enough of the mistreatment, sets out to find someone who will finally listen to the women on the production floor. Filmed in collaboration with employees of a rural textile mill in Minas Gerais, the film follows her quiet but determined campaign to build solidarity, confront management and give voice to everyday injustices. Intimate and urgent, it bears witness to what happens to vulnerable communities as rapid political shifts weaken social protections.

2002 · Miguel Ángel Vivas

After his mother dies suddenly, ten-year-old Nemo is sent to live with his maternal uncle and his family. Though his new relatives are polite and welcoming, Nemo’s twelve-year-old cousin Iván delights in teasing him, spinning dark tales about a Bogeyman who will come for him if he misbehaves. At first Nemo shrugs off the warnings, convinced Iván is only trying to scare him with made-up stories.

With Alberto Jiménez, Fernando Tielve, Íñigo Garcés, Junio Valverde and Isabel Gálvez

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

2010 · Rupert Friend

A young couple's private life is quietly unsettled when their downstairs neighbor, Steve, begins dropping in every day—pointing out small household faults, offering unsolicited fixes and insisting they sit for tea. What begins as neighborly concern soon feels intrusive and oddly rehearsed, and as the visits intensify the couple must decide whether Steve's attention masks a hidden purpose or whether their growing unease is driven by their own fears.

With Colin Firth, Keira Knightley and Tom Mison

2014 · Eric Kissack

Across land and sky, unexplained phenomena endure, and each year new, astonishing discoveries add weight to accounts of monstrous lake-dwellers, elusive wild men, and roaming werewolves.

With Kate Micucci, Brace Harris, Jeff Lewis, Felicia Day, Mark Fischbach, Jordan Black and Brea Grant

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

1950 · Joseph Barbera

Tom, a cowboy-boot-wearing feline at a Texas dude ranch, interrupts his usual sparring with his tiny rival Jerry to try and woo a visiting lovely cat by using the mouse as part of his showy courtship — but Jerry quickly turns the tables and gives Tom a well-deserved comeuppance.

With Phil Harris

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

2006 ·