The 50 Best TV Shows and Movies to Watch on Disney+ Right Now

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Of all the companies to enter the streaming wars, Disney has significant advantages with Disney+. It can draw from a deep vault of its own animated and live-action movies and from popular shows on its own cable networks — as well as from company properties like Marvel, Pixar, National Geographic and Star Wars. And that’s not counting the platform’s slate of original TV shows and movies.

That’s a lot of material: Nearly 500 films and 7,500 TV episodes at the time of its debut. Below is our guide to the 50 best titles on Disney+, arranged in reverse chronological order with an eye toward variety. As the service continues to build its catalog, this list will change, too. (Note: Streaming services sometimes change their libraries without notice; we’ll do our best to keep up.)

Here are our lists of the best movies and TV shows on Netflix, the best of both on Hulu and the best movies on Max and Amazon Prime Video.

‘Goosebumps: The Vanishing’ (2025)

Having brought R.L. Stine’s popular kid-horror series to the big screen with Jack Black in the 2015 “Goosebumps” and to Disney+ with an anthology in 2023, Rob Letterman knows how to play the younger set like a piano, startling them with the occasional jump-scare while bringing them back with the comforts of broad comedy and friendship. For “Goosebumps: The Vanishing,” a second season with no connection to the first, Letterman gets a major comic boost from David Schwimmer, whose role as a passionate botanist and overprotective single father makes him sympathetic, high-strung and vulnerable to “Flubber”-like physical comedy. Though the episodes are often self-contained, the larger plot concerns twin teenagers (Jayden Bartels and Sam McCarthy) who live with their father (Schwimmer) in Brooklyn and stumble upon the supernatural mystery of missing teenagers from decades earlier.