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

2011 · Andrew Lau

Fang Zhen Dong, a night patrol officer in Beijing, crosses paths one evening with Li Pei Ru, a Hong Kong real-estate agent who, flushed and tipsy after a karaoke session at a KTV, stumbles into his watchful presence. Ambitious and intent on carving out a fortune in the sprawling, cosmopolitan capital, Li finds her plans complicated by the city's moral and emotional entanglements and becomes involved in a secret relationship with a married man. As their lives collide, both are forced to face the costs of desire, compromise and survival in a place that promises opportunity but exacts a price.

With Liu Ye, Anthony Wong, Shu Qi, Liang Tian, Feng Danying, Sa Rina and Zhang Songwen

2023 · Michael Mann

In the summer of 1957, former racing champion Enzo Ferrari faces a personal and professional collapse as the company he and his wife Laura forged from nothing a decade before teeters on the verge of bankruptcy. Their stormy marriage is tested further by the pain of mourning one son and the uneasy acceptance of another.

With Adam Driver, Penélope Cruz, Shailene Woodley, Patrick Dempsey, Jack O'Connell, Gabriel Leone and Giuseppe Festinese

2017 · Rupert Sanders

By 2029, ubiquitous networks and implanted cybernetics have erased the boundary between human thought and digital systems — and with that fusion comes a new threat: minds that can be remotely hijacked. A shadowy figure known only as "The Puppetmaster" begins exploiting that weakness to manipulate political events by seizing control of key individuals. To stop the unseen hand reshaping society, Section 9 — an elite squad of law enforcers augmented with cutting-edge cybernetics — is deployed to trace the hacker, expose the conspiracy, and confront the ethical cost of defending a world in which free will can be commandeered.

With Scarlett Johansson, Takeshi Kitano, Michael Pitt, Pilou Asbæk, Chin Han, Juliette Binoche and Peter Ferdinando

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

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

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

2024 · Soi Cheang

In 1980s Hong Kong, displaced teenager Chan Lok-kwun, a refugee from the mainland, survives by taking part in brutal underground fights within the lawless sprawl of the Kowloon Walled City. After being betrayed by crime boss Mr. Big while trying to obtain a forged identity, Chan steals a shipment of drugs and takes refuge in the Walled City, where he encounters Cyclone, a formidable yet unexpectedly compassionate underworld leader who offers him protection.

With Aaron Kwok, Louis Koo, Richie Jen, Kenny Wong Tak-Ban, Sammo Hung, Philip Ng and Raymond Lam

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

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

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

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

2009 · Teddy Chan

During a 1905 visit to Hong Kong, revolutionary Sun Yat-sen gathers with Tongmenghui comrades to plot the overthrow of the Qing dynasty. When they learn assassins have been dispatched to eliminate him, his supporters rally a handpicked band of protectors to guard him and disrupt the murder plot.

With Donnie Yen, Wang Xueqi, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Nicholas Tse, Hu Jun, Eric Tsang and Chris Lee

2014 · David Ayer

In 1944, amid the chaos of the Eastern Front, a small band of Soviet soldiers breaks free from German captivity by commandeering a battered, half-ruined T-34. Their desperate race through hostile territory becomes a crucible of raw courage, brutal combat, and an unshakable love — a harrowing story where extraordinary acts and improbable miracles shape their fate.

With Brad Pitt, Logan Lerman, Michael Peña, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Bernthal, Jim Parrack and Brad William Henke

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

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

2022 · Tang Qiaojia

After his wife's death, seasoned bodyguard Lung Wei travels abroad seeking specialists to help his daughter, but instead he’s drawn into a new life evaluating immersive virtual-reality systems as a tester.

With Louis Fan Siu-Wong, Jiang Yiyi, Wang Zhipeng, Song Ziqiao, Liu Weizhou, Tang Hu and Diego Dati

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

2013 ·

When a revered elder of the Gong family arrives in southern China hunting for a suitable successor, the tranquil life of Wing Chun master Ip Man is suddenly disturbed. He crosses paths with Gong Er, who forces him into a confrontation aimed at reclaiming her family's honor. In the aftermath of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Ip Man relocates to Hong Kong and struggles to make ends meet while protecting his family. At the same time, Gong Er abandons peace and pursues a path of vengeance after Ma San murders her father.

With Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Zhang Ziyi, Chang Chen, Zhao Benshan, Xiao Shenyang, Song Hye-kyo and Wang Qingxiang