Year-End Lists

The Film Stage: Top 50 Films of 2024

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2018 • 2017]

1. I Saw the TV Glow
   Jane Schoenbrun
2. The Beast
   Bertrand Bonello
3. The Brutalist
   Brady Corbet
4. Anora
   Sean Baker
5. Nickel Boys
   RaMell Ross
6. Close Your Eyes
   Víctor Erice
7. All We Imagine as Light
   Payal Kapadia
8. No Other Land
   Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
9. Hard Truths
   Mike Leigh
10. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
    Radu Jude
11. Juror #2
    Clint Eastwood
12. Evil Does Not Exist
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
13. Challengers
    Luca Guadagnino
14. Here
    Robert Zemeckis
15. It's Not Me
    Leos Carax
16. Youth (Hard Times)
    Wang Bing
16. Youth (Homecoming)
    Wang Bing
17. The Human Surge 3
    Eduardo Williams
18. Dune: Part Two
    Denis Villeneuve
19. Red Rooms
    Pascal Plante
20. A Different Man
    Aaron Schimberg
21. Hit Man
    Richard Linklater
22. Chime
    Kiyoshi Kurosawa
23. Last Summer
    Catherine Breillat
24. Janet Planet
    Annie Baker
25. The Wild Robot
    Chris Sanders
26. Dahomey
    Mati Diop
27. Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1
    Kevin Costner
28. Megalopolis
    Francis Ford Coppola
29. Aggro Dr1ft
    Harmony Korine
30. Coma
    Bertrand Bonello
31. The Room Next Door
    Pedro Almodóvar
32. Nosferatu
    Robert Eggers
33. The Substance
    Coralie Fargeat
34. A Traveler's Needs
    Hong Sang-soo
35. Here
    Bas Devos
36. Babygirl
    Halina Reijn
37. Grand Tour
    Miguel Gomes
38. Trap
    M. Night Shyamalan
39. Queer
    Luca Guadagnino
40. Samsara
    Lois Patiño
41. Eureka
    Lisandro Alonso
42. Bird
    Andrea Arnold
43. Civil War
    Alex Garland
44. A Real Pain
    Jesse Eisenberg
45. Vermiglio
    Maura Delpero
46. Matt and Mara
    Kazik Radwanski
47. Gift
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
48. Between the Temples
    Nathan Silver
49. Memoir of a Snail
    Adam Elliot
50. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
    George Miller