Year-End Lists

The Guardian: The 50 Best Movies of 2024, drawn from films released this year in the US and posted alongside a similar list based on UK releases

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2017 • 2015]

1. The Brutalist
   Brady Corbet
2. Nickel Boys
   RaMell Ross
3. All We Imagine as Light
   Payal Kapadia
4. Anora
   Sean Baker
5. Hard Truths
   Mike Leigh
6. The Seed of the Sacred Fig
   Mohammad Rasoulof
7. Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
   Johan Grimonprez
8. I Saw the TV Glow
   Jane Schoenbrun
9. A Real Pain
   Jesse Eisenberg
10. Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
    Phạm Thiên Ân
11. A Complete Unknown
    James Mangold
12. The Commandant's Shadow
    Daniela Völker
13. Sleep
    Jason Yu
14. Crossing
    Levan Akin
15. Conclave
    Edward Berger
16. September 5
    Tim Fehlbaum
17. Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara
    Marco Bellocchio
18. Green Border
    Agnieszka Holland
19. Rose's War
    Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor
20. Dahomey
    Mati Diop
21. Small Things like These
    Tim Mielants
22. The Goldman Case
    Cédric Kahn
23. The Outrun
    Nora Fingscheidt
24. The Girl with the Needle
    Magnus von Horn
25. Black Box Diaries
    Shiori Itō
26. Disco Boy
    Giacomo Abbruzzese
27. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
    Radu Jude
28. We Live in Time
    John Crowley
29. Christmas Eve in Miller's Point
    Tyler Thomas Taormina
30. Flow
    Gints Zilbalodis
31. Queer
    Luca Guadagnino
32. Good One
    India Donaldson
33. Hoard
    Luna Carmoon
34. The Settlers
    Felipe Gálvez Haberle
35. Close Your Eyes
    Víctor Erice
36. Omen
    Baloji
37. Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry
    Elene Naveriani
38. The Dead Don't Hurt
    Viggo Mortensen
39. Maria
    Pablo Larraín
40. No Other Land
    Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
41. Hundreds of Beavers
    Mike Cheslik
42. Hollywoodgate
    Ibrahim Nash’at
43. Wicked
    Jon M. Chu
44. Evil Does Not Exist
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
45. Exhibiting Forgiveness
    Titus Kaphar
46. Emilia Pérez
    Jacques Audiard
47. The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed
    Joanna Arnow
48. Love Lies Bleeding
    Rose Glass
49. Heretic
    Scott Beck and Bryan Woods
50. How to Have Sex
    Molly Manning Walker