# The best movies of 2016

Manchester by the Sea, Julieta, Elle, Toni Erdmann and My Life as a Courgette: the 2016 films rated highest by the press on AlloCiné.

- 11 votes · 14 items
- Mar 3, 2026 · episode94
- https://even.best/en/l/4366/the-best-movies-of-2016

## Top 14

1. **The Lost City of Z** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — James Gray. Explorer Percy Fawcett in the Amazon.
2. **Manchester by the Sea** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Kenneth Lonergan. Grief and a return home; the press's number one.
3. **Julieta** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Pedro Almodóvar. A mother and the daughter who left her, from Alice Munro.
4. **La La Land** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Damien Chazelle. A musical in Los Angeles.
5. **Elle** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Paul Verhoeven. Isabelle Huppert as an assaulted businesswoman who refuses to be a victim.
6. **Aquarius** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Kleber Mendonça Filho. Sônia Braga refuses to leave her flat in Recife.
7. **The Red Turtle** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Michael Dudok de Wit. A castaway on an island, without a word.
8. **The Reconquest** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Jonás Trueba. Two former lovers meet again one night in Madrid.
9. **In This Corner of the World** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Sunao Katabuchi. A young woman near Hiroshima during the war.
10. **My Life as a Courgette** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Claude Barras. A boy in a children's home, in stop-motion.
11. **Homeland: Iraq Year Zero** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Abbas Fahdel. An Iraqi family's life before and after the 2003 invasion.
12. **Louise by the Shore** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Jean-François Laguionie. An old woman alone in a deserted seaside resort.
13. **Long Way North** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Rémi Chayé. A young Russian aristocrat heads for the North Pole.
14. **Toni Erdmann** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Maren Ade. A prankster father and his consultant daughter.

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