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Best Shows and Movies on Disney+ Right Now, Ranked by IQ Score

Disney+ pairs Star Wars / Marvel franchise tentpoles with Pixar's animated canon and the Disney back catalog. The TVI-rated titles currently on Disney+, ranked.

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Bluey is the highest-scoring title on Disney+ in the current TVI snapshot, with a TVI Score of 184/200.

Availability checked against the US subscription provider feed on June 15, 2026. Streaming catalogs move; each title page carries the canonical score and rationale.

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Disney+ is a franchise-anchored platform: the Star Wars universe, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Pixar's animated canon, and Disney's family-content back catalog. The TVI rubric reads the platform by the same standards as everything else, without genre adjustment, era adjustment, or franchise weight. Some titles score surprisingly high; others score honestly modest.

Anchor picks: Andor (154) sits at the top of the Star Wars universe, a labor-organizing-as-rebellion procedural with structural seriousness that the broader franchise rarely matches. Spirited Away (184) is the Studio Ghibli high-water mark. The Pixar canon (Inside Out, Up, WALL-E) anchors the family-content tier with genuine craft.

How this list is built: A title appears here only if it is in the TVI database with a published IQ Score and the current provider feed places it on Disney+ in the US.

20 titles · ranked by IQ Score

  1. 1
    Bluey poster, IQ Score 184/200, Masterclass tier

    Bluey

    Masterclass SEL 46/50 animation, comedy, children

    Australian animated series where imaginative play becomes a vehicle for sophisticated emotional intelligence and family dynamics.

    184/200
  2. 2
    Dopesick poster, IQ Score 174/200, Masterclass tier

    Dopesick

    Masterclass drama

    A pharmaceutical company's deception drives an opioid crisis in rural Appalachia. Educational about pharmaceutical malfeasance and addiction. Cognitive engagement from the interconnected timelines. Entertainment from the…

    174/200
  3. 3
    Avatar poster, IQ Score 173/200, Masterclass tier

    Avatar

    Masterclass animation, fantasy, action

    James Cameron's 2009 film set on Pandora, where a human paraplegic soldier inhabits a Na'vi avatar body and joins an indigenous resistance against the RDA mining corporation. Cognitive engagement from the worldbuilding,…

    173/200
  4. 4
    Inside Out poster, IQ Score 164/200, Masterclass tier

    Inside Out

    Masterclass SEL 48/50 animation, family, comedy

    Anthropomorphizes emotions as distinct agents competing for control, teaching emotional complexity through visualization while grounding growth in grief acceptance.

    164/200
  5. 5
    The Bear poster, IQ Score 163/200, Masterclass tier

    The Bear

    Masterclass comedy, drama

    Christopher Storer's FX/Hulu series follows Carmy Berzatto, a fine-dining chef who inherits his late brother's Chicago Italian beef stand and tries to drag it toward Michelin. The kitchen scenes are choreographed in unbr…

    163/200
  6. 6
    The Lion King poster, IQ Score 162/200, Masterclass tier

    The Lion King

    Masterclass SEL 48/50 animation, family, drama

    Hamlet adapted for children: anointed son, fratricidal uncle, ghost-father, return for the reckoning. Stages a complete healing arc (anointing, rupture, repression, recognition, integration, return) with more clinical ac…

    162/200
  7. 7
    Zootopia poster, IQ Score 159/200, Stimulating tier

    Zootopia

    Stimulating SEL 38/50 animation, adventure, comedy

    Disney's 2016 anthropomorphic-mammal city sustains a sustained allegory about racial profiling, predator-prey biology repurposed as policy, and a Stop-and-Frisk-adjacent missing-mammals case. The animation does the heavy…

    159/200
  8. 8
    Free Solo poster, IQ Score 159/200, Stimulating tier

    Free Solo

    Stimulating documentary, sports

    Alex Honnold's free solo climb of El Capitan documented by National Geographic. Exceptional craft, technically one of the most difficult documentary films ever made. Educational about risk psychology, training methodolog…

    159/200
  9. 9
    Gravity Falls poster, IQ Score 158/200, Stimulating tier

    Gravity Falls

    Stimulating SEL 30/50 animation, mystery, comedy

    Dense mystery-adventure with cryptographic puzzles, serialized mythology, and genuine narrative complexity rare in children' animation.

    158/200
  10. 10
    Soul poster, IQ Score 158/200, Stimulating tier

    Soul

    Stimulating animation, adventure, comedy

    Pete Docter's Pixar feature is the studio's most direct engagement with jazz musicianship and vocational meaning. The afterlife-as-bureaucracy conceit doubles as theological inquiry into what 'purpose' actually means; th…

    158/200
  11. 11
    The Empire Strikes Back poster, IQ Score 157/200, Stimulating tier

    The Empire Strikes Back

    Stimulating action, adventure, fantasy

    The rebels are hunted by the empire. Educational about mythology and loss. Cognitive engagement from the sequel's boldness. Entertainment from the space opera.

    157/200
  12. 12
    Ratatouille poster, IQ Score 156/200, Stimulating tier

    Ratatouille

    Stimulating SEL 28/50 animation, adventure, comedy

    Brad Bird's Pixar film about a rat with a refined palate working in a Paris kitchen. The Anton Ego review monologue is one of the most considered defenses of criticism ever rendered in animation. Treats artistic ambition…

    156/200
  13. 13
    Bear in the Big Blue House poster, IQ Score 156/200, Stimulating tier

    Bear in the Big Blue House

    Stimulating SEL 44/50 live-action, educational, children

    Jim Henson Company production featuring a bear who guides preschoolers through daily life. Each episode addresses a specific theme with songs, problem-solving, and the beloved goodbye ritual with Luna the Moon. Cognitive…

    156/200
  14. 14
    The Sound of Music poster, IQ Score 156/200, Stimulating tier

    The Sound of Music

    Stimulating musical, drama, family

    Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical about a governess in pre-Anschluss Austria. Educational value from the historical context and one of the greatest musical theater scores ever committed to film. Cognitive demands from th…

    156/200
  15. 15
    Isle of Dogs poster, IQ Score 156/200, Stimulating tier

    Isle of Dogs

    Stimulating animation, adventure, stop-motion

    Wes Anderson's 2018 stop-motion film set in a dystopian near-future Japan where all dogs have been banished to a garbage island. The visual-development work (Anderson's second collaboration with Fantastic Mr. Fox's anima…

    156/200
  16. 16
    WALL-E poster, IQ Score 155/200, Stimulating tier

    WALL-E

    Stimulating SEL 28/50 animation, family, sci-fi

    A robot garbage collector forms a relationship with another robot. Educational about environmental collapse and automation. Cognitive engagement from the visual storytelling with minimal dialogue. Entertainment from the…

    155/200
  17. 17
    Andor poster, IQ Score 154/200, Stimulating tier

    Andor

    Stimulating sci-fi, action, drama

    A man is drawn into an intelligence network for the Rebel Alliance. Educational about espionage and radicalization. Cognitive engagement from the political complexity. Entertainment from the spy thriller elements.

    154/200
  18. 18
    Black Panther poster, IQ Score 154/200, Stimulating tier

    Black Panther

    Stimulating action, adventure, sci-fi

    A king returns home to reclaim his throne and his nation. Educational about power and legacy. Cognitive engagement from the political depth. Entertainment from the superhero action.

    154/200
  19. 19
    Turning Red poster, IQ Score 154/200, Stimulating tier

    Turning Red

    Stimulating SEL 40/50 animation, comedy, family

    Centers adolescent female transformation and cultural identity through panda shapeshifting metaphor, examining intergenerational mother-daughter expectations.

    154/200
  20. 20
    Encanto poster, IQ Score 153/200, Stimulating tier

    Encanto

    Stimulating SEL 40/50 animation, adventure, comedy

    Lin-Manuel Miranda scores the Madrigals, a Colombian family whose magic blossomed from grief and whose miracle is now cracking from the pressure of perfection. Stephanie Beatriz's Mirabel is the un-gifted one, which the…

    153/200
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