Stand-up comedy legend Billy Crystal stars with Judy Light in Apple TVs Before. The character-driven psychological thriller is about Eli, played by Crystal, a dysfunctional child psychiatrist, which is not a shocker. Psychiatrists are crazy and commit crimes; they’re nuts.
Apple TV’s Before is a 10-episode series following Eli, who recently lost his wife, Lynn, played by Judy Light.
Eli encounters a troubled young boy who seems to have a haunting connection with Eli’s past with some horrendous secret past.
Directed by Steve McQueen, Blitz follows George’s epic journey, played by Elliott Heffernan. He’s a 9-year-old World War II London boy whose mother Rita, played by Saoirse Ronan, sends him to safety in the English countryside.
George, defiant and determined to return home to his mom and his grandfather Gerald, played by Paul Weller, in East London, embarks on an adventure, only to find himself in immense peril. At the same time, a distraught Rita searches for her missing son.
Apple TV says that Where’s Wanda? is their first Geman-language series. It’s a dark comedy that follows Dedo and Carlotta Klatt as they desperately try to locate their missing 17-year-old daughter, Wanda.
Wanda disappeared months ago without a trace. The police fail to find her, and the family takes matters into their own hands. They obtain surveillance devices with the help of their tech-savvy son, Ole.
They even disguise themselves as employees of an electrical company so that they can bug their neighborhood and half their suburb. They want to find out what goes on behind closed doors. None of their neighbors are who they pretend to be.
Sue Kim directed the documentary The Last of the Sea Women. It tells the story of an extraordinary band of feisty grandmother warriors who wage a spirited battle against vast oceanic threats.
Often called real-life mermaids, the haenyeo divers of South Korea’s Jeju Island are renowned for centuries of diving to the ocean floor — without oxygen — to harvest seafood for their livelihood. Today, with most haenyeo in their 60s, 70s and 80s, their traditions and way of life are in imminent danger.
But these fierce, funny, hardworking women refuse to give an inch, aided by a younger generation’s fight to revive their ancestral lifestyle through social media. Peering into what drives haenyeo young and old, this moving documentary zeroes in on their tight-knit friendships, savvy independence and infectious sense of empowerment.
The story unfolds into an uplifting tale of women taking on world powers to protect their beloved ocean and inspire a new generation.
Napoleon: The Director’s Cut stars Joaquin Phoenix as the French emperor and military leader. The film is a fresh and personal look at Napoleon’s origins and swift, ruthless climb to the emperor, viewed through the prism of his addictive and often volatile relationship with his wife and one true love, Josephine, played by Vanessa Kirby.
The director’s cut delves deeper into Josephine’s origin story and features more extravagant costumes, new larger-than-life sets, and the previously unreleased Battle of Marengo scene.
The audience is also given more details about Napoleon’s demise, from his attempted assassination to his failed invasion of Russia.
High fashion meets high stakes in this behind-the-curtain look at how an iconic fashion house is thrown into scandal and reinvention by a viral video featuring star designer Vincent Ledu, played by Lambert Wilson, leaving his family’s iconic and legendary haute couture house, LEDU, hanging by a thread.
Perle Foster, played by Amira Casar, Vincent’s former muse still in his shadow, collaborates with visionary next-generation designer Paloma Castel, played by Zita Hanrotto, to save, evolve and renew the century-old Maison LEDU. Taking advantage of Vincent’s demise, Diane Rovel, played by Carole Bouquet, the ruthless CEO of the powerful Rovel luxury group, launches an offensive to acquire what she sees as her most important prize: Maison LEDU. To achieve her goal, anything is fair game, as this is more than acquiring just another brand — it’s about revenge.
Inspired by the award-winning documentary of the same name, “Midnight Family” follows Marigaby Tamayo, an ambitious and gifted medical student by day.
She spends her nights saving lives aboard her family’s privately owned ambulance in sprawling, contrasted, and fascinating Mexico City.
Along with her father, Ramón, and her siblings, Marcus and Julito, Marigaby serves a population of millions by tackling extreme medical emergencies to make a living.
Slow Horses is a darkly humorous espionage drama that follows a dysfunctional team of British intelligence agents who serve in a dumping ground department of MI5 known un-affectionately as Slough House. Season four opens with a bombing that detonates personal secrets, rocking the already unstable foundations of Slough House.
Gary Oldman stars as Jackson Lamb, the brilliant but misanthropic leader of the spies. The spies end up in Slough House due to their career-ending mistakes, as they frequently find themselves blundering around the smoke and mirrors of the espionage world.
The returning ensemble cast includes Kristin Scott Thomas, Jack Lowden, Saskia Reeves, Rosalind Eleazar, Christopher Chung, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Kadiff Kirwan and Jonathan Pryce.
Disclaimer is a gripping psychological thriller with seven chapters starring Academy Award winners Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline.
Written and directed by five-time Academy Award winner Alfonso Cuarón, it is based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Renée Knight. Acclaimed journalist Catherine Ravenscroft, played by Blanchett, built her reputation by revealing the misdeeds and transgressions of others. When she receives a novel from an unknown author, she is horrified to realize she is now the main character in a story that exposes her darkest secrets.
As Catherine races to uncover the writer’s true identity, she is forced to confront her past before it destroys her life and her relationships with her husband Robert, played by Sacha Baron Cohen, and their son Nicholas, played by Kodi Smit-McPhee.
The ensemble cast includes Lesley Manville, Louis Partridge, Leila George and Hoyeon, and features Indira Varma as the narrator.
Based on Carl Hiaasen’s New York Times bestselling novel and enduring favorite, Bad Monkey, the series makes its global debut on Apple TV+. In the series, Vince Vaughn portrays Andrew Yancy, a character who got bounced from the Miami Police Department and now works as a Keys health inspector.
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But after stumbling upon a case that begins with a human arm fished up by tourists, he realizes that if he can prove murder, he’ll be back in the police force. He must get past a trove of Floridian oddballs and one bad monkey.
