Apple TV+ has added more than 50 licensed movies included in the price of the subscription service — the first time the tech giant’s streamer has included a significant collection of back-catalog content from third-party studios.
Until now, Apple TV+’s lineup has almost entirely comprised original series, movies and specials commissioned for the platform (as well as a smattering of live MLB games). Now it has added a bouquet of older film favorites to the mix, including popular and award-winning movies like “Titanic,” “300,” “Argo,” “Black Hawk Down,” “The Bodyguard,” “Jurassic World,” “Gravity,” “Fast & Furious 6,” “Kill Bill” Volume 1 and 2, “Star Trek Into Darkness,” “The Wolf of Wall Street,” “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” “Mad Max: Fury Road,” the original 2004 “Mean Girls” and “Zoolander.”
The movies are listed in a new section on the service labeled “Great Movies on Apple TV+” — however, the service notes, these are available for a “limited time.” Many of the titles are set to roll off later in March, with some available through the end of April. So it’s not entirely clear if Apple TV+ will be adding a rotation of licensed films going forward or if this is a one-off subscriber acquisition/retention initiative. (An Apple rep did not respond to a request for more info.)
Apple TV+ launched in November 2019, originally priced at just $4.99 per month in the U.S. The company hiked the price for new and existing subscribers in October 2022 to $6.99 per month, then raised it a year later to $9.99 per month.
Clearly, a collection of licensed movies will only enhance the value of Apple TV+. It’s worth noting that Netflix grew to its current colossal scale on the back of third-party programming, and even as it has invested more into originals it continues to offer a healthy bucket of licensed content (as do other top streaming platforms).
The addition of the licensed titles to Apple TV+ was spotted by podcaster Sigmund Judge of MacStories’ “Magic Rays of Light.”
Here’s the list of movies Apple TV+ can stream as part of their subscription — at least for now:
- 21 Jump Street
- 300
- The Accountant
- American Sniper
- Argo
- Bad Boys
- Black Hawk Down
- The Bodyguard
- Captain Phillips
- Catch Me If You Can
- Con Air
- Draft Day
- Edge of Tomorrow
- Failure to Launch
- Fast & Furious 6
- Fast Five
- Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
- Fight Club
- Good Burger
- Gravity
- Horrible Bosses
- How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
- The Hurt Locker
- I Am Legend
- Jurassic World
- Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
- Kill Bill: Volume 1
- Kill Bill: Volume 2
- Knocked Up
- Mad Max: Fury Road
- Mean Girls (2004)
- Men in Black
- Minority Report
- No Strings Attached
- The Prestige
- The Proposal
- Old School
- Saving Private Ryan
- Spider-Man
- Spider-Man 2
- Star Trek
- Star Trek Beyond
- Star Trek Into Darkness
- Titanic
- Training Day
- Troy
- Two Weeks Notice
- The Wolf of Wall Street
- Wyatt Earp
- Zodiac
- Zombieland
- Zoolander
