Top 10 Apple Original Films Worth Streaming in 2027

CODA is the Apple Original film we would hand to anyone who asks where to start. Writer-director Siân Heder remade the 2014 French-Belgian film La Famille Bélier in English, setting it in Gloucester, Massachusetts, where a hearing teenager, played by Emilia Jones, is the only hearing person in her deaf family and must weigh her love of singing against her family's fishing business. Deaf actors play the deaf roles: Troy Kotsur, Marlee Matlin and Daniel Durant. About 40% of the script is in American Sign Language, and Jones learned ASL and voice for nine months before filming. It cost $10 million to make. After its January 28, 2021 Sundance premiere, where it won the U.S. Grand Jury Prize, the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award and a Special Jury Ensemble Cast Award, Apple bought worldwide rights for a festival-record $25 million. It reached Apple TV+ on August 13, 2021. Then came the awards run. At the 94th Academy Awards it won all 3 of its nominations: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor for Kotsur, and Best Adapted Screenplay for Heder. Kotsur was the first male deaf actor to win an Academy Award, and the cast won the SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. Critics scored it 94% on Rotten Tomatoes from 295 reviews. It is a warm, well-acted family drama that runs 1 hr 51 min, and the Apple page rates it PG-13.

Killers of the Flower Moon is the most ambitious film Apple has put on its service. Martin Scorsese directed it from a screenplay by Eric Roth and himself, based on David Grann's 2017 nonfiction book about the murders of Osage people in 1920 Oklahoma. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Ernest Burkhart, Robert De Niro plays William King Hale and Lily Gladstone plays Mollie Burkhart, with Jesse Plemons in support. Rodrigo Prieto shot it, Thelma Schoonmaker edited it, and the score by Robbie Robertson was his final completed work; he died in August 2023. The production worked closely with the Osage community: about 200 Osage people were consulted, and Osage actors were cast in at least 40 roles. Filming ran from April 19, 2021 to October 1, 2021 in Osage County and Washington County, Oklahoma, on a budget of $200-215 million. It premiered at Cannes on May 20, 2023, opened in the U.S. on October 20, 2023, and reached Apple TV+ on January 12, 2024. It grossed $158.8 million worldwide and was reported as a box-office failure, but critics loved it: 93% on Rotten Tomatoes from 473 reviews and 89/100 on Metacritic. It earned 10 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director, and won none, though Gladstone won the Golden Globe for Best Actress - Drama and the SAG Award, and was the first Indigenous American actress nominated for an Oscar. At 3 hr 26 min, plan an evening for it.

The Tragedy of Macbeth is the film on this list that most rewards close watching. Joel Coen wrote and directed it, his first film without Ethan Coen, and produced it with Frances McDormand and Robert Graf. Denzel Washington plays Macbeth and McDormand plays Lady Macbeth, with Kathryn Hunter, Corey Hawkins, Brendan Gleeson, Harry Melling, Bertie Carvel and Moses Ingram around them. It is shot in black and white at a 1.37:1 aspect ratio, entirely on sound stages, with cinematography by Bruno Delbonnel and a score by Carter Burwell. The look draws on German Expressionism, and the sets feel like dream architecture rather than a castle. Filming began in Los Angeles on February 7, 2020, halted on March 26, 2020 and resumed on July 23, 2020, wrapping on July 31, 2020. It premiered at the New York Film Festival on September 24, 2021, opened in theaters through A24 on December 25, 2021 and reached Apple TV+ on January 14, 2022. It scored 93% on Rotten Tomatoes from 281 reviews and 87/100 on Metacritic, and earned 3 Oscar nominations: Best Actor for Washington, Best Cinematography and Best Production Design. The Apple page also lists a 13-minute featurette, Crafting The Tragedy of Macbeth. At 1 hr 45 min and rated R, it is a stark, stylish and demanding pick.

Boys State is the best documentary on Apple TV, and one of the most watchable films about American politics. Directors Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine followed about 1,000 teenage boys at Texas Boys State in Austin as they were split into the Nationalist and Federalist parties and built a mock government from scratch. The film follows Ben Feinstein, Robert MacDougall, Steven Garza, René Otero and Eddy Proietti Conti, who is elected governor. It plays like a thriller, with campaign strategy, dirty tricks and an impeachment motion. It premiered at Sundance on January 24, 2020 and won the U.S. Documentary Competition Grand Jury Prize. A24 and Apple bought the rights for about $12 million, and it reached Apple TV+ on August 14, 2020. Critics gave it 94% on Rotten Tomatoes from 144 reviews and 84/100 on Metacritic. Its awards list is long: the 2021 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special, the Critics Choice awards for Best Political Documentary and Most Compelling Living Subject for Garza, a SXSW Louis Black Lone Star Award special jury recognition, the Cinema Eye Honors Audience Choice award and a National Board of Review Top Five Documentaries spot. The same directors later made a companion film, Girls State, about the 2022 Girls State program in Missouri. The Apple page lists it at 1 hr 49 min and PG-13.

F1 The Movie is the big blockbuster on this list, and the one that most justifies a good television. Joseph Kosinski directed it, Ehren Kruger wrote it and Brad Pitt plays Sonny Hayes, a veteran driver who returns to help a struggling team and mentor a rookie played by Damson Idris. Kerry Condon, Javier Bardem and Tobias Menzies are in the cast, and real drivers including Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen and Lando Norris appear as themselves. Hamilton is also a producer, alongside Jerry Bruckheimer, Kosinski, Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Chad Oman. The crew filmed during Grand Prix weekends of the 2023 and 2024 seasons, starting at Silverstone in July 2023, with FIA collaboration, which is why the racing looks so real. Hans Zimmer composed the score with Steve Mazzaro. It opened in U.S. theaters on June 27, 2025, with Apple and Warner Bros. Pictures sharing distribution: Warner handled theatrical, home media and VOD while Apple handled streaming. It reached Apple TV streaming on December 12, 2025. It took in $634.1 million worldwide, making it the highest-grossing auto racing film and the highest-grossing Apple film, on a reported budget of $200-300 million. Critics gave it 82% on Rotten Tomatoes from 368 reviews and 68/100 on Metacritic, and it earned 4 nominations at the 98th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and won Best Sound. A sequel was greenlit in February 2026. It runs 2 hr 35 min and is rated PG-13.

Causeway is the quiet, human-sized drama on this list. Lila Neugebauer directed it from a script credited to Ottessa Moshfegh, Luke Goebel and Elizabeth Sanders. Jennifer Lawrence plays Lynsey, a soldier who returns to New Orleans after a traumatic injury, and Brian Tyree Henry plays James Aucoin, a local mechanic whose friendship slowly changes her. Linda Emond and Stephen McKinley Henderson round out the cast. Lawrence also produced it through her company, Excellent Cadaver, and the cinematography is by Diego García with music by Alex Somers. It premiered at the 47th Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2022, opened in limited U.S. theaters through A24 on October 28, 2022 and reached Apple TV+ on November 4, 2022. Critics gave it 85% on Rotten Tomatoes from 168 reviews and 66/100 on Metacritic, and the strongest praise went to Lawrence and Henry. Henry earned an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the 95th Academy Awards and won the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor, while Neugebauer won Best First Feature at the Rome Film Festival. Its story is small and slow by design, and it asks you to sit with two people talking. The Apple page lists it at 1 hr 34 min and R.

Blitz is Steve McQueen's World War II film, seen through the eyes of a child. He wrote and directed it. Nine-year-old George, played by Elliott Heffernan in his film debut, is a mixed-race boy evacuated from London who escapes an evacuation train and tries to get back to his mother, Rita, played by Saoirse Ronan. Along the way he meets Jack, played by Harris Dickinson, and the cast includes Stephen Graham, Kathy Burke, Paul Weller and Benjamin Clementine. Yorick Le Saux shot it and Hans Zimmer wrote the score. Principal photography began in London in November 2022, with Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden as a base. It opened the BFI London Film Festival on October 9, 2024 at the Royal Festival Hall, played in selected cinemas on November 1, 2024 and reached Apple TV+ on November 22, 2024. Critics gave it 81% on Rotten Tomatoes from 180 reviews and 71/100 on Metacritic. It earned BAFTA nominations for Best Costume Design, Best Sound and Outstanding British Film, and Ronan won British/Irish Performer of the Year from the London Film Critics' Circle while Heffernan won Best Youth Performance from the Washington D.C. critics. The Apple page lists it at 2 hr and PG-13. It is the best of the newer period films here, with strong craft, though it works as a journey rather than a tight plot.

Tetris is the fastest-moving film on this list, a business thriller about who gets to sell one of the most famous video games in history. Jon S. Baird directed it from a script by Noah Pink. Taron Egerton plays Henk Rogers, who chases handheld rights to Tetris from the 1988 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas into the Soviet Union, where he meets creator Alexey Pajitnov, played by Nikita Efremov. Toby Jones, Anthony Boyle and Roger Allam play the rivals in the story. It cost $80 million, with filming that began in December 2020 in Glasgow and wrapped in early March 2021, using Aberdeen for Soviet locations. Lorne Balfe wrote the score and Alwin Küchler shot it. It premiered at SXSW on March 15, 2023 and reached Apple TV+ on March 31, 2023. Critics gave it 82% on Rotten Tomatoes from 190 reviews and 61/100 on Metacritic. Be careful about history: Rogers has said that a lot of what is in the movie never happened. The car chase was invented, though Nintendo did bundle Tetris with the Game Boy, and Nintendo offered $5 million to ELORG for console and handheld rights, which ELORG accepted. A 2023 lawsuit claiming the film copied the book The Tetris Effect was later rejected by the court. The Apple page lists it at 1 hr 57 min and R.

Cha Cha Real Smooth is the warm and awkward coming-of-age film on this list. Cooper Raiff wrote and directed it and stars as a recent college graduate in New Jersey who takes a job as a party starter at bar and bat mitzvahs, where he befriends a young mother, played by Dakota Johnson, and her teenage daughter, played by Vanessa Burghardt. Leslie Mann, Raúl Castillo, Brad Garrett and Evan Assante are in the cast, and Johnson also produced it. Este Haim and Chris Stracey wrote the music. It was filmed in Pittsburgh, with principal photography beginning on August 12, 2021. It premiered at Sundance on January 23, 2022 and won the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award, and Apple bought the rights for $15 million, beating Netflix, Sony Pictures and Amazon Studios. It opened in limited theaters and on Apple TV+ on June 17, 2022. Critics gave it 85% on Rotten Tomatoes from 218 reviews and 69/100 on Metacritic, though not every critic agreed, and one New York Times review panned it. It is small, charming and a bit shaggy, and it works best if you meet it halfway. The Apple page lists it at 1 hr 48 min and R.

Greyhound is the shortest film on this list and the most focused. Tom Hanks wrote the screenplay from C. S. Forester's 1955 novel The Good Shepherd, and plays Commander Ernest Krause, in his first wartime command. The setting is February 1942: convoy HX-25 of 37 merchant and troop ships crosses the Atlantic, and Krause's destroyer, the USS Keeling, call sign Greyhound, has to protect it from U-boats. Aaron Schneider directed it, Shelly Johnson shot it and Blake Neely wrote the music. Stephen Graham, Elisabeth Shue, Rob Morgan and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo are in the cast. It cost $50.3 million. It was meant for theaters through Sony, but in May 2020 Apple TV+ acquired it for about $70 million, and it arrived on July 10, 2020, which Apple said was its biggest debut weekend. Critics gave it 79% on Rotten Tomatoes from 228 reviews and 64/100 on Metacritic. It earned an Oscar nomination for Best Sound at the 93rd Academy Awards and BAFTA nominations for Best Special Visual Effects and Best Sound. It is not a film about character, and some critics wanted more of it. But at 1 hr 31 min and rated PG-13, it is a tense, sound-driven watch. A sequel, Greyhound 2, began filming in Sydney in early January 2026.