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

Launched in June 2024 in France, the Max streaming platform by Warner Bros. Discovery quickly presented solid arguments, including a catalog of nearly 900 films. A beautiful offer in which it is not always easy to find happiness.

Numériques helps you get out in this imposing offer, and has selected for you the 10 best films to see in April 2025 on the Max streaming service. Follow the leader !

What are the best films to see on Max in April 2025?

Hot fuzz

In London, policeman Nicholas Angel is the best of his team. So good that he puts his colleagues pass for simple peacekeepers. The chief of the brigade therefore decides to “promote” him in the small village of Sandford, where nothing happens. Alongside the local police officer Danny Butterman, who dreams of becoming Mel Gibson, Nicholas settles some contraventions without much interest. A series of strange crimes will put it back in action …

After Shaun of the Deadthe director Edgar Wright tackles the pastiche of the action film, with this little SO British touch that we love so much. We find in Hot fuzz The irresistible duo Simon Pegg/Nick Frost, for a detective film combining inquiry, conspiracy, Gags and Gunfights, in intelligence and respect of gender.

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Parasite

The entire Ki-Taek family is unemployed and is very interested in the lifestyle of the wealthy Park family. One day, their son managed to be recommended to give private English lessons among the Park. This is the beginning of an uncontrollable gear, which no one will really come out unscathed.

Signed by Bong Joon-Ho (Memories of Murder,, Okja), one of the best active directors, this social thriller is both a family drama, a corrosive criticism of our society, a painting of the class struggle, and much more. Parasite is a film of a rare thematic richness, which seizes by its brilliant writing and its inspired realization so as not to let go. Quite simply one of the great films of the 21st century, winner of the Palme d'Or and four Oscars.

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Mad Max: Fury Road

Haunted by a heavy past, Mad Max believes that the best way to survive is to be alone. However, he finds himself embedded by a strip that runs through the desert aboard a military vehicle piloted by Empress Furiosa. They flee the citadel where the terrible Immortan Joe, who was stolen, raged an irreplaceable object. Rangeed, this warlord sends his men to track down the rebels ruthlessly …

Fourth film of the cult saga created by George Miller (inaugurated in 1979), Mad Max: Fury Road is a stunning opera and a real visual slap. Public success and criticism when it was released in 2015, it has established itself as one of the most innovative blockbusters of the 21st century, sublimated by a Charlize Theron at its summit and a Tom Hardy as a mutical hero. A raging cinema gesture, to be seen without moderation.

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On the road to Madison

During the summer of 1965, when her husband and two children were absent for a few days, Francesca saw a bringebalante van arriving. Robert Kincaid, a sixty -something photographer, descends and asks him for the Pont de Roseman. Rather than explaining it to him, Francesca decides to show him the way …

On the road to Madison* is a heartbreaking love story between two characters who live a brief, but passionate relationship. Eastwood and Streep are both phenomenal in this film, which precisely draws its entire strength from their alchemy. Acclaimed for having been able to stage a moving romance with grace, On the road to Madison will not leave you insensitive.

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Didier

It is not at all the day for Jean-Pierre, agent of athletes entangled in his problems, to keep Didier, the labrador of a friend, for a week. The next day, an extraordinary discovery will lead him into the most incredible adventures, where his worst nightmare may well be the chance of his life.

Between Comédie Chevache, Sports and Science Fiction film, Didier is a candy who sees himself without moderation. For his first achievement, Alain Chabat stages himself as an improbable mimic man, alongside Jean-Pierre Bacri Grincheux at will. It's wacky, tender, generous … In short, one of the best French comedies in the 1990s.

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Jumanji

During a game of Jumanji, a very old game, the young Alan was propelled before the eyes of his childhood friend, Sarah, in a strange country. He will only be able to escape it when another player will resume the game and release it on a stroke of dice. 26 years later, he finds the real world by the shot of two other young players.

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

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Ocean's Eleven

Barely out of prison, Danny Ocean has only one idea in mind: organizing the break of the century by robbing the three largest casinos in Las Vegas. For this, he brings together a team of thugs specializing in fields as varied as explosives, computer science, bluff, etc.

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

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Jean de Florette / Manon

In a village of Provence, Jean Cadoret, a hunchback from the city, moved to the field of which he inherited with the dream of cultivating his land there. But Ugolin has views of it and wants to grow eyelets. Helped by the old uncle Papet, he will push Jean and his family to abandon their land …

French cinema is able to deliver superb frescoes, and the diptych Jean de Florette / Manon of the sources of Claude Berry is the perfect example. This adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's work makes the sublime Haute-Provence the theater of a drama where the secrets and dreams of men are intertwined in a story with the appearance of a Greek tragedy. Two films as fine in their writing as ambitious in their form, and endowed a casting mixing generations: Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart. A real Godfather French.

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Shining

Jack Torrance, guardian of a hotel closed in winter, his wife and his son Danny are preparing to live long months of loneliness. Danny, who has a medium gift, “shining”, is frightened at the idea of ​​living in this place, theater marked by terrible past events.

Stanley Kubrick appropriates Stephen King with this freezing film which did not quite like the master of horror, while he offers an intense and not less terrifying reading of his Best Seller novel. Shining is a horrifying and dramatic terror film, carried by a formidable intensity jack. The feature film explores the darkness of the human soul and the weight of family responsibility, while leaning over the mechanisms of fear. An essential work that will no doubt give you cold sweats.

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The iron giant

The young Hogarth Hugues has just saved a huge robot fallen from the sky. But how can we keep secret the existence of a 15 m giant? This mission is even more complicated when a slightly too curious government agent arrives in town.

In 1999, when 3D animation is preparing to flood Hollywood, director Brad Bird (Les Indestructibles, Ratatouille) offered us a misestimed wonder with the iron giant. An improbable friendship in the middle of the cold war, where the comic alternates with poetry and the moments of jubilant bravery, to better leave you tears in your eyes at the end. A great film on childhood, for adults and little ones.

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