5 films and series to watch in France on Disney + in February 2024

The end of the animated series Star Wars: The Bad Batch and the remake of the cult Shōgun.

Black Cake – series- February 7

Series in eight episodes, adapted from the novel by Charmaine Wilkerson, this drama begins at the end of the 1960s: “A runaway bride named Covey disappears into the surf off the coast of Jamaica. Fifty years later, in California, Eleanor Bennett, a widow in her sixties, loses her battle with cancer, leaving her two children a USB stick that contains stories of his journey from the Caribbean to America. These new elements call into question everything they thought they knew about the origin of their family.”

Suncoast – film – February 9

Laura Linney and Woody Harrelson are in the cast of this coming of age drama from Searchlight Pictures, with young Nico Parker revealed in The Last of Us. “Doris is a teenager whose brother has just been placed in a specialized establishment by their mother Kristin, a very determined woman. There, Doris forms an unlikely friendship with Paul, an eccentric activist…“

Atlantaseason 4 – series – February 14

After its broadcast on OCS in France, the latest season of Donald Glover’s rap series is coming to Disney Plus. Unavoidable.

Star Wars: The Bad Batchseason 3 – series – February 21

The cloned troopers are back for season 3 which will be their last mission. This time the task promises to be colossal for our heroes since young Omega, a clone child who had joined the Bad Batch, was captured by the Empire’s henchmen. The renegades will have no choice but to attempt a suicide mission to rescue her.

Shōgun – series – February 27

A remake of the 1980s classic by Richard Chamberlain, this new adaptation of James Clavell’s best-seller should honor all the complexity of a tense political climate between Japan’s most influential clans. Ten episodes to convey the tension suffered by the English commander John Blackthorne (Cosmos Jarvis), since his shipwreck on the beach of a fishing village. The latter could have a decisive role in the outcome of the death struggle between Lord Yoshii Toranaga (Hiroyuki Sanada) and the enemies of the Council of Regents.