Apple TV+ is running a promotion right now. Anyone can watch films and TV series on the streaming service completely free on January 4 and 5, even in Russia.
In honor of this, we decided to collect 7 top options especially for you. There are a variety of genres here, with interest everywhere.
Let’s go!
1. Palmer (2020)
Genre: drama
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.2 (Kinopoisk), 7.4 (IMDb)
Country: USA
Director: Fisher Stevens
Cast: Justin Timberlake, Ryder Allen, Alisha Wainwright, Juno Temple, June Squibb
About what: After being released from prison, former high school football star Eddie Palmer returns to his hometown.
The guy hopes to improve his life, but he faces problems in the past and unexpectedly becomes a mentor to a boy whose mother left him.
Where to watch: Apple TV+
2. Napoleon (2023)
Genre: biography, military, drama, history
Audience rating: ⭐️ 6.2 (Kinopoisk), 6.4 (IMDb)
Country: USA, UK
Director: Ridley Scott
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby, Tahar Rahim, Rupert Everett, Mark Bonnar
About what: The story of Bonaparte’s difficult path to power through the prism of his volatile relationship with his lifelong love, Josephine.
Where to watch: Apple TV+ (the director’s cut is better, it can be found here, but without Russian dubbing)
3. Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
Genre: drama, crime, history
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.2 (Kinopoisk), 7.6 (IMDb)
Country: USA
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons, Tantu Cardinal
About what: Shortly after the world war, Ernest Burkhart, who served as a cook in France, arrives in Oklahoma, where there is a large reservation of the Osage Indians, who suddenly became rich due to oil discovered on their land. His uncle William Hale, nicknamed the King, lives there, a friend of the Indians and a great man. The king convinces Ernesta to woo Molly Kyle, a young woman from a wealthy Indian family.
The idea was that the land rights of this family would eventually pass to Burkhart (read to Hale), and for this all Molly’s mother, her sisters and herself had to die.
Where to watch: Apple TV+
4. Dark Matter (2024)
Genre: fantasy, thriller, drama
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.7 (Kinopoisk), 7.7 (IMDb)
Country: USA
Director: Jacob Verbruggen, Roxanne Dawson, Logan George
Cast: Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Connelly, Alice Braga, Jimmi Simpson, Dayo Okeniyi
About what: Physicist Jason Dessen from Chicago finds himself in an alternate version of his life. To return to his family, he will have to go through a series of parallel realities and an alternative tradition of himself.
Where to watch: Apple TV+
5. Lords of the Air (2024)
Genre: military, action, history
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.6 (Kinopoisk), 7.8 (IMDb)
Country: USA
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga, Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck
Cast: Callum Turner, Anthony Boyle, Austin Butler, Darragh Cowley, Matt Gavan
About what: Airmen from the 100th Bomb Group – a brotherhood united by courage, loss and victory – risk their lives on the fronts of World War II.
Where to watch: Apple TV+
6. Discovery (2023)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CZlJ5RMUSc
Genre: fantasy, drama, thriller
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.8 (Kinopoisk), 8.1 (IMDb)
Country: USA
Director: Burt, Adam Bernstein, Morten Tyldum
Cast: Rebecca Ferguson, Common, Harriet Walter, Tim Robbins, Shane McRae
About what: In the near future, 10 thousand survivors live in a huge bunker 144 floors deep. People believe that the world is dead, external air currents and emissions to the surface are deadly.
They receive all the information using giant screens that display images from an external camera. Day after day, looking at the lifeless gray landscape, the inhabitants meekly obey the established rules, the main one of which is to never leave the bunker.
Where to watch: Apple TV+
7. The Past (2024)
Genre: thriller, drama
Audience rating: ⭐️ 6.0 (Kinopoisk), 6.1 (IMDb)
Country: USA
Director: Jet Wilkinson, Emmanuel Osei-Koufour Jr., David Petrarca
Cast: Billy Crystal, Jacobi Jupe, Maria Dizzia, Ava Lalezarzadeh, Rosie Perez
About what: Widowed child psychologist Eli is dealing with a new patient – a boy, Noah, who seems to have been involved with his wife, who committed suicide.
Where to watch: Apple TV+
And here are some more interesting selections with films, if nothing is selected:
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Source: Iphones RU
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