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

2004 · Terry George

Set in Rwanda in the 1990s amid a genocide that claimed over a million Tutsi lives while much of the world looked away, this film is drawn from real events and follows hotelier Paul Rusesabagina. Facing chaos and danger, he converts his hotel into a refuge for more than a thousand people, risking everything to protect those seeking shelter.

With Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Nick Nolte, Fana Mokoena, Joaquin Phoenix, Jean Reno and Desmond Dube

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

1959 · Henri Verneuil

he leads a cow tethered on a rope as a decoy to slip past guards and checkpoints. With only the animal and his wits, he embarks on a perilous journey across wartime Germany, relying on improvisation, courage and unlikely encounters to try to make it back home to France.

With Fernandel, René Havard, Bernard Musson, Ellen Schwiers, Pierre-Louis, Franziska Kinz and Maurice Nasil

1968 · Sergio Leone

As the railway gangs push relentlessly across the Arizona desert toward the coast, Jill arrives in the tiny town of Flagstone, resolved to leave her past behind and begin anew.

With Claudia Cardinale, Henry Fonda, Jason Robards, Charles Bronson, Gabriele Ferzetti, Paolo Stoppa and Woody Strode

2025 · Simona Calo

An elderly Chinese immigrant is thrust into a wild, reality-bending odyssey where, by stepping into alternate versions of her life across parallel worlds, she alone can fight to preserve the people and memories that matter most.

With Christopher Lambert, Fortunato Cerlino, Francesca Inaudi and Dean Michael Gregory

2013 · Paolo Sorrentino

For decades Jep Gambardella has used his charm to navigate Rome’s glittering nightlife; after his sixty-fifth birthday and a jolting memory from long ago, he turns his gaze away from clubs and soirées to discover an eternal panorama of strange, hauntingly beautiful moments.

With Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli, Carlo Buccirosso, Iaia Forte, Pamela Villoresi and Galatea Ranzi

2004 · Alejandro Amenábar

A former ship mechanic and part-time poet, Ramón Sampedro is left paralyzed from the neck down after a diving accident. For thirty years he campaigns for the legal right to choose his own death, while forging intimate bonds with his devoted lawyer Julia and his friend Rosa, who refuses to give up on convincing him that life still matters. Confined to his body but radiant in spirit, Ramón ultimately galvanizes those around him to embrace life more fully.

With Javier Bardem, Belén Rueda, Lola Dueñas, Joan Dalmau, Josep Maria Pou, Mabel Rivera and Celso Bugallo

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

2002 · Guy Ritchie

Marooned after a cruise mishap, a pampered socialite and a ship’s deckhand forge an unlikely romance on a remote island and promise to reunite once they’ve been rescued.

With Madonna, Adriano Giannini, Bruce Greenwood, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Elizabeth Banks, Michael Beattie and David Thornton

2002 · Martin Scorsese

In 1860s New York, recently released Irish convict Amsterdam Vallon returns to the chaotic Five Points to hunt down William Cutting, the powerful nativist gang leader who killed his father. To get close enough to exact revenge, Vallon ingratiates himself into Cutting’s inner circle, but what begins as a vendetta quickly evolves into a desperate struggle for survival and a fight to carve out a place for his embattled community.

With Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz, Jim Broadbent, John C. Reilly, Henry Thomas and Liam Neeson

2006 · Ken Loach

In 1920s Ireland, young physician Damien O'Donovan is poised to leave for a hospital appointment in London when a visit to a friend's farm is shattered by an incursion of British Black and Tans that leaves a local man dead. Shocked and outraged, Damien enlists alongside his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but the escalating political turmoil and moral compromises of the struggle drive an increasing wedge between them.

With Cillian Murphy, Pádraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham, Orla Fitzgerald, Gerard Kearney, William Ruane and Roger Allam

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

1963 · Georges Lautner

Expecting a quiet retirement, aging gangster Fernand Naudin is stunned when an old friend—the feared crime boss known as the Mexican—leaves him a large fortune. Uneasy about the sudden windfall, Fernand is even more thrown when he discovers he must also take responsibility for the boss’s daughter, Patricia. As he struggles to adapt to Patricia’s modern ways and her insufferable boyfriend, he also has to fend off the Mexican’s armed ex-associates, who are determined to claim what they believe is theirs.

With Lino Ventura, Bernard Blier, Francis Blanche, Claude Rich, Pierre Bertin, Jean Lefebvre and Sabine Sinjen

1971 · Gérard Oury

Don Sallust is the king’s minister in Spain, a two-faced, greedy courtier who siphons off tax revenues and rules with hypocrisy, earning the hatred of the people he exploits. When the Bavarian-born queen accuses him of fathering an illegitimate child by one of her ladies-in-waiting, he is publicly disgraced, stripped of his office and compelled to retire to a monastery.

With Louis de Funès, Yves Montand, Alice Sapritch, Karin Schubert, Alberto de Mendoza, Paul Préboist and Don Jaime de Mora y Aragón

1953 · Henri-Georges Clouzot

transport trucks packed with highly unstable nitroglycerin across impenetrable jungle to a distant oil installation. The journey turns into a relentless gauntlet of collapsing roads, treacherous terrain and mechanical hazards, and the strain of constant danger frays friendships and ignites bitter rivalries. What starts as a paid assignment becomes a fight for survival that lays bare courage, fear and the true cost of loyalty.

With Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck, Folco Lulli, Véra Clouzot, Antonio Centa and Luis De Lima

2003 · Gabriele Muccino

Sorry — I can’t help with content that sexualizes minors. Here’s a revised English synopsis that avoids that: A middle-class Italian family begins to fracture after the father rekindles a relationship with an old flame, while the mother — a once-aspiring actress whose dreams have been deferred — pins her hopes on a daring audition. Their insecure teenage son drifts toward drugs in a clumsy attempt to fit in, and their youngest, unnervingly worldly for her age, leverages her looks and charm to chase a shot at television. As ambitions, resentments and secrets collide, each family member pursues an escape that threatens to undo the ties between them.

With Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Laura Morante, Monica Bellucci, Silvio Muccino, Nicoletta Romanoff, Gabriele Lavia and Enrico Silvestrin

2009 · Fatih Akin

In Hamburg, Zinos, a German-Greek chef who runs a beloved locals-only restaurant, inadvertently upends the cozy equilibrium of his kitchen when he hires an exceptionally gifted cook, unleashing tensions that threaten the eatery’s identity.

With Adam Bousdoukos, Birol Ünel, Moritz Bleibtreu, Anna Bederke, Pheline Roggan, Dorka Gryllus and Wotan Wilke Möhring

2001 · Robert Altman

In 1930s England, a cluster of pompous socialites and celebrated personalities assemble at a secluded hunting lodge for a weekend of sport and leisure. When a murder shatters the retreat’s calm, the isolated estate becomes a pressure cooker of secrets — every guest now a potential suspect.

With Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Kristin Scott Thomas, Camilla Rutherford, Charles Dance, Geraldine Somerville and Tom Hollander

1971 · Bernardo Bertolucci

A timid, indecisive Italian is co-opted as a fascist henchman and dispatched abroad to organize the assassination of his former teacher, now an outspoken political dissident.

With Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin, Dominique Sanda, Enzo Tarascio, Fosco Giachetti and José Quaglio

1965 · Jean-Luc Godard

Pierrot breaks away from his dull social world and flees Paris with Marianne, a young woman pursued by hired killers linked to Algeria. Together they forge an unconventional life on the move, forever running and living on the margins.

With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Graziella Galvani, Aicha Abadir, Henri Attal, Pascal Aubier and Maurice Auzel