The best movies of 2024
The top 3 according to 19 votes from people: Challengers · Anora · Dune: Part Two. (Updated Mar 23, 2025.)
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.
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Top 20
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1
Challengers
Luca Guadagnino. A love triangle between tennis players with Zendaya, Josh O'Connor and Mike Faist.
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Anora
Sean Baker. Palme d'Or at Cannes and five Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actress for Mikey Madison.
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3
Dune: Part Two
Denis Villeneuve completes his adaptation of Frank Herbert's novel; Oscars for Best Sound and Visual Effects.
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4
The Substance
Coralie Fargeat. Body horror with Demi Moore about the obsession with youth; Best Screenplay at Cannes.
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5
The Room Next Door
Pedro Almodóvar. His first feature in English, with Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore; Golden Lion in Venice.
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6
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Mohammad Rasoulof. Shot in secret in Iran during the 2022 protests; Special Jury Prize at Cannes.
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7
The Brutalist
Brady Corbet. Three and a half hours about a Hungarian architect who survived the Holocaust; Best Actor Oscar for Adrien Brody.
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8
I'm Still Here
Walter Salles. Fernanda Torres as Eunice Paiva during the Brazilian dictatorship; Brazil's first International Feature Oscar.
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9
Nickel Boys
RaMell Ross adapts Colson Whitehead, shot in first person through the eyes of its protagonists.
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10
Inside Out 2
Pixar returns to Riley's mind with new emotions like Anxiety; the highest-grossing film of 2024.
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11
Flow
Gints Zilbalodis. A dialogue-free Latvian film about a cat in a flooded world; Oscar for Best Animated Feature.
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12
Conclave
Edward Berger. Vatican thriller with Ralph Fiennes about the election of a pope; Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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13
The Wild Robot
Chris Sanders (DreamWorks). A robot stranded on an island learns to raise an orphaned gosling.
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14
All We Imagine as Light
Payal Kapadia. Two nurses in Mumbai; Grand Prix at Cannes.
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15
A Real Pain
Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin as cousins touring Poland; Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Culkin.
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16
The 47
Marcel Barrena. The true story of Manolo Vital and Barcelona's number 47 bus; Goya for Best Film.
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17
Undercover
Arantxa Echevarría. A policewoman undercover in ETA in the 1990s; Goya for Best Film, shared with The 47.
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18
Perfect Days
Wim Wenders. A Tokyo public toilet cleaner; it reached Spanish cinemas in January 2024.
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19
Saturn Return
Isaki Lacuesta and Pol Rodríguez. A loose fiction about Los Planetas in 1990s Granada; Golden Biznaga in Málaga.
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20
Memoir of a Snail
Adam Elliot. Australian stop-motion about a woman separated from her twin brother; Annecy 2024.
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Comments (1)
Anora primera y luego arrasó en los Óscar, buen ojo.