The 8 best movies to watch on Disney+

Decidedly, Disney+ has managed to find a special place in our hearts across all streaming platforms. And for good reason: In addition to its excellent series, Disney+ delivers quite exceptional films, of which here is a hand-picked selection to enchant your movie nights!

The most feminist: Nomadland by Chloe Zhao

Alert masterpiece and great director.

The film was awarded with three Oscars : the one of Best film, best director and best actress. An historic palmares, especially when we know that Chloé Zhao, who signs her third feature film here, is one of the only three women to win a directing Oscar since the ceremony was first held in 1929.

The movie is a true master class Of female gauzewhich refers to a director’s ability to to immerse ourselves in the life of a character, to make us experience his emotions, his thoughts, his sensations. It is worn by the immense actress Frances McDormand. Play one factory Girl hit the road in a van set up in tow economic collapse of the working-class Nevada town where he lived. Adopt a life of nomadic of modern times, thus breaks with the standards of today’s society. Of real nomads they embody Fern’s companions and mentors and accompany him in his discovery of the vast expanses of the American West.

The most psychological: The Beach by Danny Boyle

With The beachLeonardo DiCaprio signs one of his most disturbing and powerful roles of his career. It is to say if it is necessary to see it!

In this film released just a year later titanicthe talent of the actor is illustrated in a real descent into helldirected by director Danny Boyle, who filmed the ravages of drugs in Trainspotting in 1996. Another peculiarity of the film is that it is directed by a international castespecially composed of French Virginia Ledoyen, Guillaume Canet or Tilda Swinton.

This thriller flirts with psychotic and psychedelic delirium follows the journey of Richard, a young American, lover of new sensations. The latter chose Asia as a favorite terrain, in the hope of experiencing strong and exhilarating adventures there. In a seedy Bangkok hotel shunned by tourists, she meets a French couple, Françoise and Etienne. In the night, a hallucinated man bursts into his room and summons a secret island, a paradise beachwhere a small free community lives…

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The most classic: Brazil by Terry Gilliam

One of Disney+’s greatest qualities is bringing the nuggets together recent classic cinema and feature films.

The platform gives us access to one of the greatest dystopian sci-fi filmsregarded by many as an absolute masterpiece, visionary delirium at the crossroads of genres ranging from comedy to horror.

Performed by Terry Gilliam set in 1985, the film follows the character of Sam Lowry, a bureaucrat living in a retrofuturistic world totalitarian. She settles for her job and her quiet little life as she escapes in a dream to a world populated by romantic heroes. His contented but solitary existence is complicated by the brutal arrest of one Archibald Buttle, due to an administrative error. He seeks to correct this injustice and he must he struggles against a tightly controlled system that increasingly sees him as a dissident.

The most cult: The devil wears Prada by David Frankel

We know you’ve already seen it (thousand times). But don’t include The devil wears Prada in a selection of the best movies on Disney+ it would be criminal and we don’t want to go to jail.

For the lucky ones who still have everything to discover about this masterpiece of the seventh art worn by the immense Meryl Streep and the lovely Anne Hathawayhere is the mouse: as soon as he graduated, Andrea arrives at New York and collects the work dream. But as an assistant to the tyrannical editor-in-chief of a prestigious fashion magazinewill quickly find out what the word “hell” means…

Some aspects of the film have terribly badly aged. We especially think of the character played by Simon Baker, powerful publisher and above all stalker hardened who, he, he really deserves jail timeoa cult of the most oppressive standards of beautynot to mention sad rivalry between young women be well seen by patroness of traumatic methods… We are aware of this, but The devil wears Prada it still has its place on our guilty pleasures list!

Most Romantic: Away from the madding crowd by Thomas Vinterberg

Whether to find out brilliant actorsdecorations of beautiful English countryside Where is it a story that melts your heart, reasons to watch Away from the madding crowd they are numerous.

Terribly romantic, sensual and sensitive, the film is above all the portrait of a resolutely independent woman, carried by a great actress.. We find there all the qualities that make us love Reasons and feelings or Pride and Prejudicewith the difference that Vinterberg’s film takes more account of the question of power dynamics between women and men.

What is it about ? In the English countryside of the Victorian era, a young heiress, Bathsheba Everdeene has to manage the farm bequeathed by her uncle. A free woman, she wants to look after herself alone and without a husband, something not everyone likes, starting with her workers. Bathsheba will only marry once he is in love with her. No matter, she is being courted by three men, Pastor Gabriel Oake, wealthy neighbor Mr Boldwood and Sergeant Troy.

Most Impressive: The Last King of Scotland by Kevin McDonald

We you highly recommended The last king of Scotlanda biopic that intersects with elements of fiction and unlike any other. Terrifying, charming, charismatic and completely unpredictable, Whitaker Forest book there a surprising interpretation which earned him several awards when the film was released in 2007. Among them, we can mention Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Actor.

In the story, Nicholas Garrigan (James McAvoy) plays a young Scottish doctor who arrives Uganda where it meets the new leader of the country, Idi Amin Dada. Fascinated by Scottish history and culture, Amin Dada finds the young man likeable and he proposes that he become his personal doctor. Seduced by the charisma of the Head of State, the young doctor joins the presidential circle. Bombarded confidant of the dictatortrapped in the heart of the The homicidal megalomania of Amin DadaGarrigan becomes his unwilling accomplice of one of the most terrifying African regimes of the 20th century.

The funniest : RRRrrrr!!! by Alain Chabat

As often before a program by or with Alain Chabat, get ready to die laughing.

Released in 2004, the director’s third film of the classics of the genre, Didier And Asterix and Obelix: Cleopatra mission full of cult lines and jokes as absurd as they are hilarious. Absolutely perfect if you are looking for something to cheer you up or a movie to watch with family or friends!

The film takes us back 37,000 years ago, when two neighboring tribes lived in peace… one step away. While the Clean Hair Tribe spent quiet days keeping the secret of the shampoo formula to themselves, the Dirty Hair Tribe complained. His boss has decided to send a spy to steal the recipe. But a much more serious event would upset the life of Clean Hair: for the first time in the history of humanity, a crime had just been committed. How to find its author? The time of mammoths and hairdressers begins the first police investigation in history.

The most regal: La Favorite de Yorgos Lanthimos

For several years, the Greek director Yórgos Lánthimos has been regularly awarded at festivals for his films, characterized by their taste for cynicism, cruelty and psychological knots. We can mention the terrible Canine, The lobster or Slaying of the Sacred Deer (which we highly recommend, as long as you have a strong heart).

In 2019, the director tried something new: the period film. Of course, the sets and costumes are just another way for the director to explore his usual obsessions the cruelty, irony and violence of the balance of power between his characters. The Favorite is worn by a brilliant trio of actresses, Olivia Colmann (Oscar winner for Best Actress) Rachel Weisz And Emma Stone. Another peculiarity: it is shot in fish eye, which introduces both monstrosity, humor and modernity in this story set in the eighteenth century.

In fact, the film takes place at a time when England and France are at war. However, in court, the fashion is for duck racing and pineapple tasting. Queen Anne, in frail health and unstable temper, occupies the throne while her friend Lady Sarah rules the country in her stead. When a new servant, Abigail Hill, arrives at court, Lady Sarah takes her under her wing, thinking she might be an ally. As the political stakes of war engulf Sarah, Meanwhile, Abigail manages to gain the Queen’s trust and becomes her new confidante. This budding friendship offers the young woman the opportunity to realize her ambitions, and she won’t let any man, woman, politician or even a rabbit get in her way..

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