Canal+: our top 10 of the best films to watch in streaming in April 2025

The French encrypted channel is well supplied on the movies side, with more than 2,200 titles available on its MyCanal streaming platform. But sometimes too many choices kills the choice!

To help you browse this generous offer, Digital So offers you its selection of the 10 best films to see in April 2025 on Canal+ and its MyCanal service. Follow the leader !

What are the best films to see on Canal+ and MyCanal in April 2025?

Border Line

Projecting to start a new life in the United States, Diego and Elena leave Barcelona for New York. But when they arrived at the airport, the border police arrested them to subject them to interrogation. First trivial, agents' questions are becoming more and more intimidating. Diego and Elena are then won by the feeling that a trap closes on them …

In a short period of barely 77 minutes, Damn Line Built an closed, precise and incisive camera by telling the journey of a couple against the American administration. A ballet with a simple device in appearance, but which will be able to grab you all along, leaving you as distraught as its protagonists. A Kafkai nugget not to be missed.

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The wild robot

The incredible epic of a robot – the Rozzum Unit 7134 alias “Roz” – which after sinking on a desert island must learn to adapt to a hostile environment by gradually establishing relations with animals on the island. She ends up adopting the little one of a goose, an idiot, who finds himself an orphan.

Based on the novel by Peter Brown, this animated film from the DreamWorks studio directed by Chris Sanders (Dragons,, Lilo and Stitch) is a real nugget. A story of maternal love and family recomposed with stunning aesthetics, which carries through its mastered narration and its heart big like that. One of the best films of 2024, which will put tears in your eyes and a smile on his lips.

Available from April 11.

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Emilia Pérez

A talented lawyer, Rita Moro Castro keeps faith in her profession, although she works in a large cabinet all acquired by the cause of the criminals he defends. One day, Manitas del Monte, formidable Mexican cartel chief, the approach. He needs her to help him permanently withdraw from drug trafficking and especially to change sex; A gender transition from which he secretly dreams since his youth. Rita accepts.

Just winner of seven Césars and two Oscars, Jacques Audiard's film (A prophet) carried by Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz and Edgar Ramírez is a strong cinema proposal between musical and drama. If he will not appeal to everyone, the film should challenge the moviegoers and the curious people who missed it when it was released in theaters.

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Civil War

In the near future where the United States is on the verge of collapse and where on-board journalists run to tell the greatest story of their lives: the end of America as we know it.

Director Alex Garland (Ex machina) sign with Civil War A Revelation Now Contemporary version, sublimating an feverish America in the midst of Trump era, where image and information are more essential than ever. A visually stunning film in the cast of talents (Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny), and which presses where it hurts.

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Count of Monte-Cristo

Victim of a plot, the young Edmond Dantès was arrested on the day of his wedding for a crime he did not commit. After fourteen years of detention at the castle of If, he managed to escape. Having become immensely rich, he returned under the identity of the Count of Monte-Cristo to take revenge on the three men who betrayed him.

Pierre Niney (Black box,, Yves Saint Laurent) is brilliant in the features of Edmond Dantes in this grandiose and ambitious adaptation of the classic of Alexandre Dumas. From sets to costumes through a neat writing and the excellent game of each of the actors involved in the film, this count of Monte-Cristo is a success on the whole line. To see (or review) without delay.

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The teacher room

While a series of flights takes place in the teacher room, Carla Nowak conducts the investigation in the college where she teaches. Very quickly, the whole establishment was shaken by its discoveries.

This film, representative of Germany to the Oscars, is a poignant psychological drama in the delicate place of the school and teachers in our time. Social networks, intergenerational divorce, feedback of news, questioning of methods … The director ̇lker çatak brews with intelligence a multitude of subjects with his tone without concession, and leaves us shaken in our seat. A brilliant film, superbly interpreted.

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Vice-versa 2

Freshly graduated, Riley is now a teenager, which is not without triggering a major upheaval within the headquarters who have to face something unexpected: the arrival of new emotions! Joy, sadness, anger, fear and disgust – which have long worked successfully – do not know how to react when Anxiety arrives. And it seems that she is not the only one …

Ten years after the release of the first film, this Vice-versa 2 is a new success of the Pixar studio. The film nicely develops its concept and becomes exciting new ideas and characters. Less fun and more cerebral than the original, he certainly leaves a little impression of “deja-vu”, but he does not fail to take us as the first part had brilliantly done.

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Dune: second part

Paul Atreids unites with Chani and Fremen to lead the revolt against the Harkonnen family and those who destroyed his family. Haunted by dark premonitions, he is confronted with the greatest of dilemmas: choosing between the love of his life and the destiny of the universe.

Generous and ambitious suite, Dune: second part is the hoped -for technical and artistic success. A stunning spectacle and a real feast for the senses, which stands out as one of the best films of the year, and one of the great science fiction works of the last decade.

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Twisters

Former tornado hunter, Kate is still traumatized by her confrontation with a tornado when she was a student. From now on, she prefers to study the behavior of storms safely from New York. But when her friend Javi asks her to test a new tornado detector, she agrees to return to the heart of the action. She then meets the charming and reckless Tyler Owens, famous for her tornado hunting videos posted on social networks. While the storm season reaches its climax, tornadoes of unprecedented magnitude put their lives in danger.

Continuation of the 1996 film, Twisters assumes its role as nostalgic roller coaster and delivers an exhilarating and successful experience. If this suite does not avoid the same narrative flaws as the original film, it offers a generous spectacle for the retinines, endowed with surprisingly successful characters, a charming cast (Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell in mind) and a little delightful nineties.

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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning

Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most perilous mission: to track down a terrible new weapon before it falls into bad hands and threatens all humanity.

In turn roller coaster of adrenaline and ambitious and labyrinthine spying thriller, Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning succeeds in his bet by nailing us at the seat thanks to breathtaking sequences and at his breathless pace. If the film is less controlled than its predecessor, it remains a new mission accomplished for Tom Cruise.

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