The best movies of 2016
The top 3 according to 11 votes from people: The Lost City of Z · Manchester by the Sea · Julieta. (Updated Mar 3, 2026.)
Manchester by the Sea, Julieta, Elle, Toni Erdmann and My Life as a Courgette: the 2016 films rated highest by the press on AlloCiné.
Automatically translated (original in Français). See the original
Top 14
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The Lost City of Z
James Gray. Explorer Percy Fawcett in the Amazon.
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2
Manchester by the Sea
Kenneth Lonergan. Grief and a return home; the press's number one.
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3
Julieta
Pedro Almodóvar. A mother and the daughter who left her, from Alice Munro.
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4
La La Land
Damien Chazelle. A musical in Los Angeles.
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5
Elle
Paul Verhoeven. Isabelle Huppert as an assaulted businesswoman who refuses to be a victim.
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6
Aquarius
Kleber Mendonça Filho. Sônia Braga refuses to leave her flat in Recife.
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7
The Red Turtle
Michael Dudok de Wit. A castaway on an island, without a word.
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8
The Reconquest
Jonás Trueba. Two former lovers meet again one night in Madrid.
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9
In This Corner of the World
Sunao Katabuchi. A young woman near Hiroshima during the war.
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10
My Life as a Courgette
Claude Barras. A boy in a children's home, in stop-motion.
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Homeland: Iraq Year Zero
Abbas Fahdel. An Iraqi family's life before and after the 2003 invasion.
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12
Louise by the Shore
Jean-François Laguionie. An old woman alone in a deserted seaside resort.
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13
Long Way North
Rémi Chayé. A young Russian aristocrat heads for the North Pole.
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14
Toni Erdmann
Maren Ade. A prankster father and his consultant daughter.
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Comments (1)
Ma vie de Courgette m'a fait pleurer comme un enfant. Ravie de la voir dans le top