# The best movies of 2024

The films released in 2024 that appear most often in critics' year-end round-ups (Rolling Stone en Español, Ara, Tomatazos) and at the awards, with room for the best Spanish cinema of the year.

- 19 votes · 20 items
- Mar 12, 2025 · Covadonga Cortés
- https://even.best/en/l/34/the-best-movies-of-2024

## Top 20

1. **Challengers** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Luca Guadagnino. A love triangle between tennis players with Zendaya, Josh O'Connor and Mike Faist.
2. **Anora** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Sean Baker. Palme d'Or at Cannes and five Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actress for Mikey Madison.
3. **Dune: Part Two** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Denis Villeneuve completes his adaptation of Frank Herbert's novel; Oscars for Best Sound and Visual Effects.
4. **The Substance** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Coralie Fargeat. Body horror with Demi Moore about the obsession with youth; Best Screenplay at Cannes.
5. **The Room Next Door** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Pedro Almodóvar. His first feature in English, with Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore; Golden Lion in Venice.
6. **The Seed of the Sacred Fig** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Mohammad Rasoulof. Shot in secret in Iran during the 2022 protests; Special Jury Prize at Cannes.
7. **The Brutalist** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Brady Corbet. Three and a half hours about a Hungarian architect who survived the Holocaust; Best Actor Oscar for Adrien Brody.
8. **I'm Still Here** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Walter Salles. Fernanda Torres as Eunice Paiva during the Brazilian dictatorship; Brazil's first International Feature Oscar.
9. **Nickel Boys** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — RaMell Ross adapts Colson Whitehead, shot in first person through the eyes of its protagonists.
10. **Inside Out 2** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Pixar returns to Riley's mind with new emotions like Anxiety; the highest-grossing film of 2024.
11. **Flow** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Gints Zilbalodis. A dialogue-free Latvian film about a cat in a flooded world; Oscar for Best Animated Feature.
12. **Conclave** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Edward Berger. Vatican thriller with Ralph Fiennes about the election of a pope; Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.
13. **The Wild Robot** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Chris Sanders (DreamWorks). A robot stranded on an island learns to raise an orphaned gosling.
14. **All We Imagine as Light** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Payal Kapadia. Two nurses in Mumbai; Grand Prix at Cannes.
15. **A Real Pain** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin as cousins touring Poland; Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Culkin.
16. **The 47** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Marcel Barrena. The true story of Manolo Vital and Barcelona's number 47 bus; Goya for Best Film.
17. **Undercover** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Arantxa Echevarría. A policewoman undercover in ETA in the 1990s; Goya for Best Film, shared with The 47.
18. **Perfect Days** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Wim Wenders. A Tokyo public toilet cleaner; it reached Spanish cinemas in January 2024.
19. **Saturn Return** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Isaki Lacuesta and Pol Rodríguez. A loose fiction about Los Planetas in 1990s Granada; Golden Biznaga in Málaga.
20. **Memoir of a Snail** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Adam Elliot. Australian stop-motion about a woman separated from her twin brother; Annecy 2024.

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