Here Are 18 Of The Best Movies On Disney+ Star

Here Are 18 Of The Best Movies On Disney+ Star
Eoin Harrington
By Eoin Harrington
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Disney+ have quietly been adding more and more incredible films to their "Star" streaming service, and we've decided to go through the selection and pick out some of the best movies for you to watch, to speed up your viewing choices.

Star is included with your Disney+ subscription and includes films and series from different studios like Hulu, Fox, FX, and Searchlight.

We've gone through the selection of movies available on Irish Disney+ through the Star section and picked out the best ones - choose wisely!

The best movies on Disney+ Star

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Year: 2014

Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori, Saoirse Ronan, Willem Dafoe

Plot:

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A writer encounters the owner of an ageing high-class hotel, who tells him of his early years serving as a lobby boy in the hotel's glorious years under an exceptional concierge.

Rating: 92% (Rotten Tomatoes)

Nomadland

Year: 2020

Cast: Frances McDormand, David Strathairn, Linda May

Plot:

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A woman in her sixties, after losing everything in the Great Recession, embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.

Rating: 94% (Rotten Tomatoes)

Moulin Rouge!

Year: 2001

Cast: Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo, Jim Broadbent

Plot:

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A jukebox musical in which a young English poet falls in love with the star of the Moulin Rouge in Paris.

Rating: 76% (Rotten Tomatoes)

Borat

Year: 2006

Cast: Sacha Baron Cohen, Ken Davitian, Luenell

Plot:

Kazakh TV talking head Borat is dispatched to the United States to report on the greatest country in the world. With a documentary crew in tow, Borat becomes more interested in locating and marrying Pamela Anderson.

Rating: 91% (Rotten Tomatoes)

(500) Days Of Summer

Year: 2009

Cast: Zooey Deschanel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Geoffrey Arend, Chloe Grace-Moretz

Plot:

An offbeat romantic comedy about a woman who doesn't believe true love exists, and the young man who falls for her.

Rating: 85% (Rotten Tomatoes)

Amélie

Year: 2001

Cast: Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kosovitz, Rufus

Plot:

Amélie is an innocent and naive girl in Paris with her own sense of justice. She decides to help those around her and, along the way, discovers love.

Rating: 89%

Good Morning Vietnam

Year: 1987

Cast: Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker, Tom T. Tran

Plot:

In 1965, an unorthodox and irreverent DJ named Adrian Cronauer begins to shake up things when he is assigned to the U.S. Armed Services radio station in Vietnam.

Rating: 90%

Unbreakable

Year: 2000

Cast: Bruce Willis, Samuel L Jackson, Robin Wright

Plot:

A security guard is the only survivor of a horrific train crash, and starts to suspect he may have supernatural abilities.

Rating: 70% (Rotten Tomatoes)

Bad Times At The El Royale

Year: 2018

Cast: Jeff Bridges, Cynthia Erivo, Dakota Johnson, Chris Hemsworth

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Plot:

Early 1970s. Four strangers check in at the El Royale Hotel. The hotel is deserted, staffed by a single desk clerk. Some of the new guests' reasons for being there are less than innocent and some are not who they appear to be.

Rating: 74% (Rotten Tomatoes)

Le Mans '66

Year: 2019

Cast: Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Jon Bernthal

Plot:

American car designer Carroll Shelby and driver Ken Miles battle corporate interference and the laws of physics to build a revolutionary race car for Ford in order to defeat Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1966.

Rating: 92%

Kingsman: The Secret Service

Year: 2014

Cast: Colin Firth, Taron Egerton, Michael Caine, Samuel L Jackson

Plot:

A spy organisation recruits a promising street kid into the agency's training program, while a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.

Rating: 75% (Rotten Tomatoes)

The French Connection

Year: 1975

Cast: Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey

Plot:

A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection.

Rating: 98% (Rotten Tomatoes)

Taken

Year: 2008

Cast: Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen

Plot:

A retired CIA agent travels across Europe and relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter, who has been kidnapped while on a trip to Paris.

Rating: 59% (Rotten Tomatoes)

Logan

Year: 2017

Cast: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart,

Plot:

In a future where mutants are nearly extinct, an elderly and weary Logan leads a quiet life. But when Laura, a mutant child pursued by scientists, comes to him for help, he must get her to safety.

Rating: 94% (Rotten Tomatoes)

The French Dispatch

Year: 2021

Cast: Benicio del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton

Plot:

A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional twentieth century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in "The French Dispatch Magazine".

Rating: 75% (Rotten Tomatoes)

Bohemian Rhapsody

Year: 2018

Cast: Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee

Plot:

The story of the legendary British rock band Queen and lead singer Freddie Mercury, leading up to their famous performance at Live Aid (1985).

Rating: 60% (Rotten Tomatoes)

Speed

Year: 1994

Cast: Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock

Plot:

A young police officer must prevent a bomb exploding aboard a city bus by keeping its speed above 50 mph.

Rating: 94% (Rotten Tomatoes)

Tigerland

Year: 2000

Cast: Colin Farrell, Matthew Davis, Clifton Collins Jr

Plot:

A group of recruits go through Advanced Infantry Training at Fort Polk, Louisiana's infamous Tigerland, last stop before Vietnam for tens of thousands of young men in 1971.

Rating: 77% (Rotten Tomatoes)

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