Max: what are the 10 best films on the streaming platform?

This article is updated regularly with the best of Max’s basic offering, as well as the latest editorial favorites. This month this one is Mad Max : Fury Road.

Haunted by a dark past, Mad Max believes that the best way to survive is to stay alone. However, he finds himself taken on board by a band which travels the desert aboard a military vehicle piloted by Empress Furiosa. They flee the Citadel where the terrible Immortan Joe is rampant, who has had an irreplaceable object stolen. Enraged, this warlord sends his men to ruthlessly hunt down the rebels…

Fourth film in the cult saga created by George Miller (inaugurated in 1979), Mad Max: Fury Road is a dizzying opera and a real visual slap in the face. A public and critical success upon its release in 2015, it established itself as one of the blockbusters the most innovative of the 21st century, enhanced by Charlize Theron at her peak and Tom Hardy as a silent hero. An angry gesture of cinema, to be seen without moderation.

During the summer of 1965, while her husband and two children were away for a few days, Francesca saw a rickety van arrive. Robert Kincaid, a photographer in his sixties, got out and asked him for directions to the Roseman Bridge. Rather than explaining it to him, Francesca decides to show him the way…

Before signing films like Mystic River et Million Dollar BabyClint Eastwood directed and starred in this drama opposite Meryl Streep. On the road to Madison is a heartbreaking love story between two characters who experience a brief but passionate relationship. Eastwood and Streep are both phenomenal in this film, which draws all its strength from their chemistry. Praised for being able to stage a moving romance with grace, On the road to Madison will not leave you indifferent. Oh no!

Jack Torrance, caretaker of a hotel closed in winter, his wife and his son Danny are preparing to experience long months of solitude. Danny, who has a gift as a medium, the “Shining”, is frightened by the idea of ​​inhabiting this place, a theater marked by terrible past events.

Stanley Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssey, Full Metal Jacket, Eyes Wide Shut) appropriates Stephen King with this chilling film which did not quite please the master of horror, while he offers an intense and no less terrifying reading of his best-selling novel. Shining is a horror film as horrific as it is dramatic, carried by a Jack Nicholson of formidable intensity. The feature film explores the darkness of the human soul and the weight of family responsibility, while looking into the mechanisms of fear. An unmissable work that will undoubtedly give you a cold sweat.

During a game of Jumanji, a very old game, young Alan is propelled before the eyes of his childhood friend, Sarah, into a strange country. He will only be able to escape when another player takes over the game and frees him on a roll of the dice. 26 years later, he returns to the real world through the throw of two other young players.

Directed by Joe Johnston (Rocketeer, Captain America), Jumanji is a cult gem from the 1990s. An ode to adventure and imagination, rich in twists and turns and which has beautifully survived the test of time. It is also and above all one of the great films of Robin Williams’ career (Will Hunting), who carries the feature film with his unique charisma and energy. A classic that will make you want to play a little board game with your family.

Barely released from prison, Danny Ocean has only one idea in mind: to organize the heist of the century by robbing the three largest casinos in Las Vegas. To do this, he brings together a team of thugs specialized in fields as varied as explosives, computers, bluffing, etc.

Remake the The Unknown of Las Vegas (Lewis Milestone, 1960), Ocean’s Eleven remains one of the best heist films to date. Director Steven Soderbergh (Erin Brockovich, Traffic) skillfully spreads his hand and plays his best cards, while surprising the spectator with two-three aces hidden in his sleeve. An elegant, jazzy and highly entertaining film, carried by one of the tastiest casts in cinema: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia…

It’s not at all the day for Jean-Pierre, a sports agent mired in his own problems, to look after Didier, a friend’s labrador, for a week. The next day, an extraordinary discovery will lead him into the most mind-blowing adventure, where his worst nightmare may well be the chance of his life.

Between schoolboy comedy, sports film and science fiction, Didier is a candy that can be enjoyed without moderation. For his first production, Alain Chabat appears as a dog-man with improbable facial expressions, alongside a grumpy Jean-Pierre Bacri. It’s zany, tender, generous… In short, one of the best French comedies of the 1990s.

A sheriff arrests the brother of the most powerful man in the region. His only allies are a drunken deputy, a lame old man, a young gun virtuoso, a poker player and a Mexican hotelier, and against him is an army of killers.

Rio Bravo by Howard Hawks is a film of formidable effectiveness, with a gallery of exciting and tragic characters played by a golden cast (John Wayne, Dean Martin, Angie Dickinson). You will be hooked by an iconic plot, later taken up in the films 3:10 to Yuma (1957), Wasp nest (2002), or even Assault de John Carpenter (1976).

Young Hogarth Hugues has just saved an enormous robot that fell from the sky. But how can we keep the existence of a 15m giant a secret? This mission becomes even more complicated when a government agent who is a little too curious arrives in town.

In 1999, when 3D animation was about to flood Hollywood, director Brad Bird (The Incredibles, Ratatouille) offers us an underrated marvel with The Iron Giant. An improbable friendship in the middle of the Cold War, where comedy alternates with poetry and jubilant moments of bravery, all the better to leave you with tears in your eyes at the end. A great film about childhood, for adults and children.

In a village in Provence, Jean Cadoret, a hunchback from the city, settles on the land he inherited with the dream of cultivating his land there. But Ugolin has his sights set on it and wants to grow carnations there. Helped by old Uncle Papet, he will push Jean and his family to abandon their land…

French cinema is capable of delivering superb frescoes, and the diptych Jean de Florette / Manon of the sources by Claude Berry is the perfect example. This adaptation of the work of Marcel Pagnol makes the sublime Haute-Provence the scene of a drama where the secrets and dreams of men intertwine in a story resembling a Greek tragedy. Two films as fine in their writing as they are ambitious in their form, and with a cast mixing generations: Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart. A real Godfather French style.

Luke Jackson is not one to easily tame. So when he finds himself in prison, he doesn’t intend to let anything be dictated to him. But from escapes to captures, Luke will have to fight with all his strength against a prison team that intends to break him.

Pure product of America in the 1960s, Cold Hand Luke is a timeless classic which perfectly crystallizes the thirst for freedom of its time. A prison film which hides a tender heart beneath its gruff trappings, and speaks of fraternity, buried trauma and non-conformism. A great bittersweet film, like the Winner or from Bonny et Clydewhich lets us appreciate the immense Paul Newman in one of his most beautiful roles.