The Best Movies on MUBI

Made for movie buffs, MUBI offers an evolving selection of independent films with a global outlook. Take a cinematic voyage with our personal picks, which showcase the visionary works of female auteurs, cult classics, hidden gems from the festival circuit, and groundbreaking 3D films that take you even deeper into immersive stories on Apple Vision Pro.

All great cinema draws you into the screen, but you can take that immersion to another dimension—literally—with MUBI on Apple Vision Pro. Experience 3D films as they were meant to be seen: in true, full-color 3D. Highlights include Takashi Miike’s brutal Edo-period drama Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai, with the added treat of hearing maestro composer Ryuichi Sakamoto’s score in Spatial Audio, and Pina, Wim Wenders’ breathtaking ode to German dance choreographer Pina Bausch.

This collection widens your perspective with films by female auteurs who traverse genres. Director Coralie Fargeat’s darkly satirical The Substance looks at toxic beauty standards, while Andrea Arnold’s Bird is a coming-of-age tale about a resilient young girl in the English countryside who finds beauty in the broken, thanks to an unlikely, free-spirited confidant.

These films chronicle love affairs from electrifying beginnings to the most bitter of breakups. Two lonely souls stumble into love in Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki’s deadpan and unexpectedly funny rom-com Fallen Leaves, while 45 Years paints a piercing portrait of a married couple (played by Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay) whose 45th anniversary is upended by a letter from the past.

Couldn’t make it to Cannes? Many of the festival’s celebrated films are streaming on MUBI, including I Am Not a Witch, which explores superstition, power, and patriarchy through one girl’s lens. You’ll also find a trove of selections from Sundance, the SXSW Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, and many others.

Misunderstood upon their release, these idiosyncratic flicks found a second life over time. Check out Tarsem Singh’s visually arresting The Fall and Ed Wood Jr.’s disastrously entertaining Plan 9 From Outer Space.

Dip into directors’ lesser-known, early-career experiments for a glimpse at the origins of their signature styles. Years before captivating audiences with Spirited Away, legendary Japanese filmmaker and Studio Ghibli cofounder Hayao Miyazaki directed Yuki’s Sun. Or stream Sophia Coppola’s 14-minute directorial debut Lick the Star.

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