Best movies on Apple TV+ (Canada) : our Top 20

2022 · Laurent Zeitoun

In 1920s New York, amid smoky skylines and crowded tenements, a resourceful sixteen-year-old finds herself drawn into the dangerous world of firefighter crews. As a string of devastating blazes sweeps the city and the official response falters, she must defy expectations, master the brutal craft of firefighting, and rally unlikely allies. Her fight to stop the infernos becomes a battle for the soul of the city—and a coming-of-age journey that forces her to become the hero her neighbors desperately need.

With Olivia Cooke, Kenneth Branagh, William Shatner, Laurie Holden, Kevin Dennis, Ryan W. Garcia and Mara Junot

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

1982 ·

A remote Antarctic research station becomes a nightmare when its crew realizes an extraterrestrial predator is stalking them—one that perfects the appearance and behavior of those it slays, turning colleagues into indistinguishable threats and plunging the survivors into paranoia as they struggle to survive.

With Kurt Russell, Keith David, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter, David Clennon, Richard Dysart and Charles Hallahan

2015 · Tom McCarthy

Based on true events, Boston Globe reporters expose a widespread pattern of child sexual abuse and systematic concealment by leaders of the local Catholic archdiocese, igniting a scandal that reverberates throughout the global Church.

With Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery, Stanley Tucci and Brian d'Arcy James

2015 · Lenny Abrahamson

After seven years confined to a cramped, sealed room, a mother and her young son are finally freed, thrusting the child into the vast, unfamiliar world beyond the walls for the first time.

With Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, Joan Allen, William H. Macy, Sean Bridgers, Tom McCamus and Amanda Brugel

1985 · Paul Donovan

Three people — two men and a woman — orbit the Earth in a satellite armed with a nuclear warhead. When World War III erupts, the craft eventually re-enters and crashes months later. They survive the impact, but one man is killed by desperate survivors and the other is taken prisoner. The woman remains at the wreckage, only to be soon captured by a brutal gang of punk marauders who have seized control in the aftermath.

With Lenore Zann, Maury Chaykin, Kate Lynch, Kevin King, John Walsch, Tim Choate and Jeff Pustil

2008 · Stephan Elliott

A young Englishman brings his glamorous American bride home to meet his parents, and her bold, modern charm upends their prim, old‑fashioned reserve.

With Jessica Biel, Ben Barnes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Colin Firth, Kimberley Nixon, Katherine Parkinson and Kris Marshall

2005 · Ang Lee

Against the wide, conservative plains of 1960s Wyoming, two men forge a deep romantic and physical bond that endures for decades. As each marries and becomes a father, their secret connection tests loyalties, upends expectations, and reshapes the families they try to uphold.

With Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams, Anne Hathaway, Randy Quaid, Linda Cardellini and Anna Faris

2006 · Paul McGuigan

Thrown into the crossfire of a bitter rivalry between the city’s most powerful crime lords by a case of mistaken identity, Slevin finds himself constantly monitored and hunted. With a notorious assassin closing in, he must stay one step ahead and devise a daring plan to survive and escape the deadly situation.

With Josh Hartnett, Morgan Freeman, Ben Kingsley, Lucy Liu, Bruce Willis, Stanley Tucci and Mykelti Williamson

2000 · Mary Harron

A successful, well-heeled investment banker in New York projects a flawless public image while secretly harboring a psychopathic alternate personality; as his detached, increasingly irrational impulses grow bolder and more gratuitous, he conceals the mounting danger from colleagues and friends.

With Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, Josh Lucas, Samantha Mathis, Matt Ross and Bill Sage

1998 · Terrence Malick

A band of soldiers from an Army rifle company known as "C‑for‑Charlie" is tested to its limits on Guadalcanal, undergoing physical and emotional transformations as the campaign grinds on. Their voyage begins with an eerily easy landing, but soon gives way to relentless, brutal engagements that strip away illusions and force each man to confront fear, loss, and what it means to endure. Through confusion, comradeship, and sacrifice, they are remade by war — and the story closes with the quiet, hard-won departure of the handful who survive.

With Sean Penn, Jim Caviezel, Adrien Brody, Ben Chaplin, Elias Koteas, John Cusack and Woody Harrelson

2007 · David Cronenberg

A Russian teenager in London dies giving birth, and the diary she leaves behind contains clues that point to her baby possibly being the result of a rape tied to a violent Russian mob family, setting off a dangerous search for the truth.

With Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Sinéad Cusack, Donald Sumpter and Jerzy Skolimowski

2010 · Eli Craig

A group of college students on a camping trip near a remote West Virginia cabin become convinced that the two reclusive locals living there are behind a string of killings. As unexplained deaths begin to pile up, suspicion fractures the group and fear gives way to a violent hunger for payback. What started as a weekend escape spirals into a chaotic hunt for revenge, where panic, rumor and bloodshed blur the line between truth and terror.

With Alan Tudyk, Tyler Labine, Katrina Bowden, Philip Granger, Jesse Moss, Bill Baksa and Christie Laing

2004 · Matthew Hastings

Luke and Roger are college roommates bent on losing their virginity before graduation, but when Luke witnesses a bizarre late-night event, he begins to suspect that the women wandering campus may not be entirely human.

With Kim Poirier, Stefanie von Pfetten, Elias Toufexis, Meghan Ory, Ennis Esmer, Krista Morin and Marc Trottier

2020 · Jonah Malak

At the bottom of Boesmansgat, a 283-meter sinkhole, longtime dive partners Don and Dave complete a record-setting plunge—then, just as they begin to surface, Dave, fresh from breaking a world record, spots a corpse drifting in the gloom. Compelled to know whose life ended in the depths, they ignore protocol and descend again, plunging into a tense, dangerous recovery that forces them to confront the unforgiving silence of the abyss and the secrets it hides.

With Don Shirley, David Shaw, Ann Shaw and Gordon Hiles

2016 · David Yates

Raised in the jungle by a devoted ape named Kala, Tarzan has always believed the forest and its creatures are his true family. His world is upended when he saves Jane Porter during a scientific expedition and realizes he is one of the humans she belongs to. Torn between the wild life that shaped him and the human society calling to his origins, he must decide where his loyalties and identity truly lie.

With Alexander Skarsgård, Christoph Waltz, Samuel L. Jackson, Margot Robbie, Djimon Hounsou, Jim Broadbent and Casper Crump

2006 · John Curran

A British physician stationed in a remote Chinese village struggles to contain a cholera epidemic while enduring the isolation of a loveless marriage, his wife's infidelity deepening his sense of helplessness.

With Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, Liev Schreiber, Diana Rigg, Toby Jones, Anthony Wong and Juliet Howland

1999 · Richard Ciupka

A Montreal police detective travels to rural Arkansas to unravel the truth behind his brother’s murder, forcing him into a close-knit community’s secrets and a confrontation with his own past.

With Luc Picard, Julien Poulin, Michel Goyette, Serge Houde, Lorne Brass, Linda Singer and Donovan Reiter

2005 · Bennett Miller

When acclaimed writer Truman Capote is sent by The New Yorker to investigate a brutal family murder in rural Kansas, he becomes increasingly entangled with the case, forming fraught bonds with witnesses and suspects alike. Driven to transform the facts into a new kind of narrative journalism, Capote pushes the boundaries between reporting and storytelling, confronting ethical dilemmas and personal obsession. The film traces his intense creative process and the emotional cost of crafting a landmark work of nonfiction.

With Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins Jr., Bruce Greenwood, Bob Balaban, Mark Pellegrino and Marshall Bell

2010 · Michael Greenspan

He regains consciousness in a mangled car at the bottom of a sheer cliff, unable to recall his name or how he got there. As he struggles to make sense of the wreck, a police scanner crackles to life with breaking news of a violent bank robbery — and when the announcer names one of the suspects, he looks into the rear seat and finds the dead body matching that name. Now trapped between amnesia and evidence that links him to a crime, he must piece together the truth before the authorities arrive.

With Adrien Brody, Caroline Dhavernas, Ryan Robbins, Adrian Holmes, Adrian G. Griffiths, Lloyd Adams and Mark McConchie