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

2007 · Marc Forster

After years living in California, Amir returns to Afghanistan to help his childhood friend Hassan when Hassan’s son falls into serious danger.

With Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada, Atossa Leoni, Khalid Abdalla, Elham Ehsas, Homayoun Ershadi, Saïd Taghmaoui and Mustafa Haidari

2019 · Quentin Tarantino

Rick Dalton, a television actor whose star is dimming, struggles to adapt as the entertainment world reinvents itself; his steadfast stuntman and friend, Cliff Booth, stays by his side through the uncertainty. Next door lives Sharon Tate, a young model-turned-actress on the ascent, recently married to acclaimed Polish director Roman Polanski — a bright, glamorous presence that contrasts with Dalton’s anxious fight to remain relevant.

With Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Emile Hirsch, Margaret Qualley, Timothy Olyphant and Julia Butters

1987 · Bernardo Bertolucci

Pu Yi's life is traced from exalted beginnings—born into imperial privilege and installed as China's final sovereign within the seclusion of the Forbidden City, adored by a vast nation—to the abrupt end of his rule and a descent into moral decay and self-indulgence. The film follows his exploitation by Japanese occupiers and, after years of upheaval, his eventual reduction to an anonymous existence as an ordinary laborer under the People's Republic.

With John Lone, Peter O'Toole, Joan Chen, Vivian Wu, Dennis Dun, Ruocheng Ying and Victor Wong

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

2008 ·

In 208 A.D., as the Han Dynasty teeters on the brink, the calculating Prime Minister Cao convinces the capricious emperor that only a sweeping campaign against the western state of Xu and the southern principality of Eastern Wu can reunify the realm. Armies mobilize on an unprecedented scale, and, with survival at stake, bitter rivals Xu and Eastern Wu set aside their enmity to form a tenuous and unlikely alliance against Cao’s drive for domination.

With Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhang Feng Yi, Chang Chen, Zhao Wei, Hu Jun and Shidô Nakamura

2011 · Ron Fricke

Captured on 70mm over nearly five years and filmed across twenty-five countries on five continents, Samsara presents a visual odyssey through consecrated sites, regions marked by catastrophe, vast industrial landscapes, and the planet’s most awe-inspiring natural scenes.

With Ni Made Megahadi Pratiwi, Puti Sri Candra Dewi, Putu Dinda Pratika, Marcos Luna, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Olivier De Sagazan and Ladyboys of Cascade Bar

2019 · Marielle Heller

A jaded, award-winning reporter reluctantly accepts an Esquire assignment to profile the beloved television figure Fred Rogers. Exposed to Rogers's quiet compassion and steady moral clarity, the journalist's hardened outlook begins to crack, compelling him to confront his past and reevaluate his priorities.

With Matthew Rhys, Tom Hanks, Chris Cooper, Susan Kelechi Watson, Maryann Plunkett, Enrico Colantoni and Wendy Makkena

2012 · Tom Tykwer

Six entwined narratives stretch from the 19th century to a distant, post-apocalyptic future, mapping how individual choices echo across time and link strangers in unexpected ways. Adventure, mystery and romance thread through the episodes as one soul is carried from assassin to unlikely hero, and a single act of mercy sends waves through generations that eventually help spark a revolution centuries hence. Adapted from David Mitchell’s acclaimed novel and directed by Tom Tykwer together with the Wachowskis.

With Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess, Bae Doona and Ben Whishaw

2016 · Jennifer Yuh Nelson

Visiting a hidden panda community with his father, Po must gather an unlikely, makeshift army to defend all of China when a sinister spirit rises to threaten the land.

With Jack Black, Bryan Cranston, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, J.K. Simmons, Jackie Chan and Seth Rogen

2022 · Robert Eggers

On the eve of his transition into adulthood, a young prince watches his world collapse when a treacherous uncle slays his father and abducts his mother. Cast into exile, he spends the next twenty years forged into a fierce Viking warrior, returning to the frozen north with a single purpose: rescue his mother, confront the usurper, and avenge his father's murder.

With Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang, Ethan Hawke, Anya Taylor-Joy, Willem Dafoe and Gustav Lindh

2016 · Gary Ross

In 1863, Mississippi farmer Newt Knight, serving as a Confederate battlefield medic but morally opposed to slavery, prefers caring for the wounded over fighting. After his nephew falls in battle, he returns home to Jones County to protect his family, only to be branded a deserter and hunted. Forced into the bayous, he finds shelter with a community of escaped enslaved people, and—joining forces with them and other dissenting local farmers—he leads a ragged insurgency that upends the existing order and alters the course of their region’s history.

With Matthew McConaughey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mahershala Ali, Keri Russell, Jacob Lofland, Sean Bridgers and Brad Carter

2010 · Chao-Bin Su

In Imperial China, elite assassin Zeng Jing unexpectedly comes into possession of the relics of a revered Buddhist monk—objects whispered to hold a lost, supernatural force. Determined to restore them to their consecrated tomb, she embarks on a dangerous journey that puts her squarely in the sights of a merciless guild of killers bent on claiming the relics and the power they conceal. With enemies closing in, Zeng must rely on her deadly skills and a growing moral resolve to protect the monk’s legacy and survive.

With Michelle Yeoh, Jung Woo-sung, Wang Xueqi, Barbie Hsu, Shawn Yue, Kelly Lin and Guo Xiaodong

2015 · Camille Delamarre

Once a Special Forces operative, Frank Martin now makes his living moving goods and people for whoever can pay—strictly business, never asking questions. His routine job turns dangerous when he discovers his latest "package" is actually a living, bound woman. Lai has been gagged and trafficked toward France by a sleazy American fixer; Frank breaks his own rules to try to free her, while a relentless French detective begins unraveling Martin’s clandestine operation, forcing him into a desperate fight to save her and himself.

With Ed Skrein, Ray Stevenson, Loan Chabanol, Gabriella Wright, Tatiana Pajković, Wenxia Yu and Radivoje Bukvić

2022 · George Miller

On a lone research trip to Istanbul, a reclusive scholar unearths an ancient, ornately sealed bottle and releases a djinn who offers her three wishes. Too wary and indecisive to ask for anything, she finds herself paralyzed by doubt; in response, the djinn begins to spin vivid tales from his centuries of existence, hoping his stories will kindle a wish within her.

With Tilda Swinton, Idris Elba, Erdil Yaşaroğlu, Ece Yüksel, Zerrin Tekindor, Sabrina Elba and Seyithan Özdemir

2018 · Travis Knight

In 1987, Bumblebee, on the run, takes shelter among the scrap at a small California beach town junkyard. Charlie, almost eighteen and searching for her place in the world, discovers the wounded, battle-scarred machine. When she nurses him back to functioning, she soon realizes he’s far more than a simple yellow Volkswagen.

With Dylan O'Brien, Hailee Steinfeld, John Cena, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., John Ortiz, Stephen Schneider and Jason Ian Drucker

2018 · Ruben Fleischer

Eddie Brock, a disgraced investigative reporter trying to resurrect his career after a public scandal, finds his life overturned when he unexpectedly merges with Venom, a savage and extraordinarily powerful alien symbiote. As he struggles to control these volatile abilities, he must use them to stop a covert organization determined to obtain a symbiote of their own and unleash it on the world.

With Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, Riz Ahmed, Scott Haze, Reid Scott, Jenny Slate and Melora Walters

2016 · Duncan Jones

Azeroth’s tranquil societies teeter on the verge of war when a fearsome horde of orc warriors—desperate refugees from a dying homeland—arrive bent on claiming new lands. A suddenly opened rift links the two worlds and sets them on a collision course: one army faces obliteration while an entire people risks extinction. From opposite sides, two champions are drawn into a decisive confrontation that will determine the survival of their loved ones, their cultures, and the world they call home.

With Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Ben Foster, Dominic Cooper, Ben Schnetzer, Toby Kebbell and Robert Kazinsky

2005 · Doug Liman

A married couple fighting to salvage their relationship discovers that both secretly work as contract killers, and their newest assignments unexpectedly put them on opposite sides of a mission to eliminate one another.

With Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Vince Vaughn, Adam Brody, Kerry Washington, Keith David and Chris Weitz

2007 · Wong Kar-wai

Reeling from a painful breakup, Elizabeth leaves behind her friends and familiar life to chase a dream across the country. She funds her journey with a string of short-lived waitress jobs in diners and cafés, drifting between towns. Along the way she encounters a procession of lonely, searching people whose longings and wounds run deeper than hers, and through their stories and struggles she begins to see her own pain more clearly and find a path toward understanding and healing.

With Norah Jones, Jude Law, David Strathairn, Rachel Weisz, Natalie Portman, Cat Power and Frankie Faison

2008 · Roger Spottiswoode

In 1937 China, a young British reporter and a fearless Australian nurse team up to guide a group of orphaned children through the dangers of the Japanese-occupied countryside, risking their lives to bring them to safety and a fresh start.

With Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Chow Yun-fat, Michelle Yeoh, Matthew Walker, Anastasia Kolpakova and Shane Briant