The High 20 Movies of 2024, Re-ranked

As we do yearly right here at Flickchart, we lately revealed our High 20 Movies of 2025. However as our lists are determined by the combination rankings of all of our customers, they’re continually evolving and altering, as any listing we publish right here on our weblog is just “correct” on the time of its publication.

A yr’s value of latest person rankings could make a giant distinction, and as such, it’s time to take one other have a look at our High 20 Movies of 2024. You’ll be able to see the listing as we revealed it final yr right here, however what we current right here is the listing because it stands RIGHT NOW. A number of the modifications might shock you – or not – however these are the present Finest Movies of 2024.

Directed by Oz Perkins
Present International Rank: #5,080
Final Yr’s Rank: #14
Final Yr’s International Rank: #5,646

Author/director Osgood Perkins as been prolific of late, releasing each The Monkey and Keeper in 2025, each starring one-time She-Hulk, Emmy-winner Tatiana Maslany. Neither was as heralded as Longlegs. Perkins is at the moment in post-production on a 3rd movie with Maslany, The Younger Folks, which he has written and directed. The solid additionally consists of the likes of Nicole Kidman, Nico Parker, Heather Graham and Johnny Knoxville.

Maika Monroe appeared in three movies in 2025: In Chilly Mild, 100 Nights of Hero and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle. She’s going to subsequent seem in Reminders of Him, and can star in They Observe, the long-awaited sequel to her 2014 breakout hit, It Follows, from unique author/director David Robert Mitchell.

In 2026, Nicolas Cage will star because the title character within the movie Madden, from American Hustle director David O. Russell. He may even carry his character, Spider-Man Noir, from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse into reside motion on the small display, when he stars in Spider-Noir for MGM+.

Directed by James Mangold
Present International Rank: #4,886
NEW to the High 20

8 Oscar nominations – together with Finest Image, Finest Director and three performing nominations – helped propel James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic onto our High 20 listing, after not even showing within the High 40 final yr, as a late-year launch. In line with IMDb, Mangold has many tasks in growth, however is at the moment in manufacturing on Juliet, a romantic drama from the novel of the identical title by Anne Fortier.

Timothée Chalamet has simply made Oscar historical past, turning into the youngest man to be nominated for the Finest Actor Academy Award 3 times, together with his position in Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme.

Edward Norton will subsequent seem reverse Seth Rogen and Penélope Cruz in The Invite, from Booksmart director Olivia Wilde. Monica Barbaro starred in a second season of Netflix’s Fubar, reverse Arnold Schwarzenegger, in 2025, and might subsequent be seen within the movies Crime 101 and One Evening Solely.

Directed by David Leitch
Present International Rank: #4,334
Final Yr’s Rank: #10
Final Yr’s International Rank: #4,131

David Leitch is one other director with a bunch of tasks on the go, however his subsequent movie is the crime thriller The right way to Rob a Financial institution, at the moment in post-production. It boasts a solid together with Nicholas Hoult, Zoë Kravitz, Christian Slater, Anna Sawai and John C. Reilly.

Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt are every a part of a few of 2026’s most anticipated releases. Gosling will star in Venture Hail Mary, primarily based on the novel by The Martian creator Andy Weir and directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. Blunt stars in Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day, and can reunite with Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and director David Frankel for The Satan Wears Prada 2.

Directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods
Present International Rank: #4,193
NEW to the High 20

Scott Beck and Bryan Woods are reuniting with director John Krasinski to put in writing A Quiet Place Half III, at the moment in pre-production.

Sophie Thatcher bolstered her scream-queen cred together with her starring position in Companion, at the moment on Flickchart’s High 20 listing of 2025. She additionally starred within the third season of Yellowjackets, and her subsequent movies would be the comedy Peaches from author/director Jenny Suen, and the thriller Her Non-public Hell, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn.

Chloe East appeared in three movies in 2025: Atropia, Going Locations and A Large Daring Stunning Journey. She will be able to subsequent be seen in On the Sea, a drama starring Amy Adams and directed by Kornél Mundruczó (Items of a Girl).

Hugh Grant starred in Bridget Jones: Mad Concerning the Boy in 2025, however no phrase on his subsequent movie but.

Directed by Jesse Eisenberg
Present International Rank: #4,027
NEW to the High 20

A Actual Ache‘s recognition was propelled by its Finest Supporting Actor Oscar win for Kieran Culkin. Culkin will subsequent play Caesar Flickerman in The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping, the position originated by Stanley Tucci within the unique movies.

After showing within the threequel Now You See Me: Now You Don’t, Jesse Eisenberg is creating, writing and directing the tv collection Bream Provides Me Hiccups, primarily based on his personal ebook of brief tales.

Directed by Gints Zilbalodis
Present International Rank: #3,874
NEW to the High 20

Movement had not but even made the Flickchart High 40 by the tip of final yr, however after beating the likes of The Wild Robotic and Inside Out 2 to grow to be the very first unbiased movie to win the Oscar for Finest Animated Characteristic, this animated movie, which eschews dialogue and was created totally utilizing the open-source software program Blender, has rocketed up the charts. Author/producer/director Gints Zilbalodis and author/producer Matīss Kaža turned the very first Latvians to ever win an Academy Award, however there’s no phrase simply but on their subsequent mission.

Directed by Brady Corbet
Present International Rank: #3,751
NEW to the High 20

The Brutalist was nominated for 10 Oscars, successful Finest Rating and Cinematography, and making Adrien Brody a two-time Finest Actor Oscar winner with solely two profession nominations. (His first was for The Pianist.) Brody has starred in The Emperor, the ultimate movie from New Zealand director Lee Tamahori, who handed away in 2025. The movie is listed as being in post-production on IMDb, with no set launch date simply but.

Felicity Jones starred in Oh. What. Enjoyable., 100 Nights of Hero and present Finest Image nominee Prepare Goals in 2025, whereas Man Pearce appeared in Killing Religion and The Girl in Cabin 10. There’s no phrase but on Brady Corbet’s subsequent potential directorial mission.

Directed by Fede Alvarez
Present International Rank: #3,534
Final Yr’s Rank: #9
Final Yr’s International Rank: #4,124

The Alien franchise made its technique to the small display in 2025 with Hulu’s Alien: Earth, from Fargo creator Noah Hawley. It additionally acquired formally joined to the Predator franchise when Elle Fanning portrayed a pair of Weyland-Yutani synthetics in Predator: Badlands. Fede Alvarez and Rodo Sayagues have written a sequel to Alien: Romulus, however Alvarez is opting to not return as director. As soon as a brand new director is discovered, the movie will little doubt enter manufacturing quickly, with Cailee Spaeny and David Jonsson anticipated to return.

Directed by Alex Garland
Present International Rank: #3,481
Final Yr’s Rank: #8
Final Yr’s International Rank: #3,901

Alien: Romulus and Civil Warfare, each starring Cailee Spaeny, had been back-to-back on final yr’s listing as nicely, only a bit greater. In 2025, she starred in Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Lifeless Man: A Knives Out Thriller, and can seem in season two of Netflix’s Beef in April.

Kirsten Dunst starred reverse Channing Tatum in Derek Cianfrance’s Roofman, and might subsequent be seen in Forest and Sky’s Canine Dies. Wagner Moura starred within the AppleTV+ miniseries Dope Thief, and The Secret Agent, which is at the moment nominated for 4 Oscars: Finest Casting, Finest Worldwide Characteristic Movie, Finest Image and Finest Actor for Moura. (It received Finest Non-English Characteristic Movie and Finest Actor – Drama on the Golden Globes.) Moura will subsequent seem reverse Alicia Vikander in The Final Day, from author/director Rachel Rose.

Alex Garland had a busy 2025. He co-wrote and directed Warfare with former Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza. Then, as a author, he reunited with director Danny Boyle for 28 Years Later. One other sequel, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, directed by Nia DaCosta, is at the moment in theaters, and 28 Years Later: Half III (no subtitle but) is on the way in which. For his subsequent movie as director, Garland is tackling an adaptation of the 2022 motion RPG Elden Ring, which is able to star Cailee Spaeny.

Directed by Jon M. Chu
Present International Rank: #3,181
Final Yr’s Rank: #7
Final Yr’s International Rank: #3,756

The sequel, Depraved: For Good, which adapts the second half of the stage play, has carried out equally nicely on the field workplace, whereas taking part in rather less nicely with critics. After Depraved scored 10 Oscar nominations final yr, the sequel was shut out of this yr’s Academy Awards.

Grande will subsequent seem within the latest season of American Horror Story, after which in Focker-in-Legislation, the subsequent movie within the Meet the Dad and mom franchise. Erivo has a number of tasks in numerous levels of growth, together with Youngsters of Blood and Bone, reverse Idris Elba, from The Previous Guard director Gina Prince-Bythewood. Jon M. Chu is connected to direct and function government producer alongside Battlestar Galactica‘s Ronald D. Moore on a Swiss Household Robinson collection for Disney+.

Directed by Kelsey Mann
Present International Rank: #2,922
Final Yr’s Rank: #4
Final Yr’s International Rank: #2,770

It misplaced the Finest Animated Characteristic Oscar to Movement, and is among the films on this listing to have a noticeable (although minor) drop within the rankings since final yr, however this sequel from Pixar Animation Studios was the highest-grossing movie of 2024. Nevertheless, the studio’s unique mission for 2025, Elio, underperformed, although it has garnered an Oscar nomination for Finest Animated Characteristic. Pixar’s subsequent tasks are a mixture of originals and sequels, with Hoppers arriving in March, then Toy Story 5, from WALL-E and Discovering Nemo director Andrew Stanton, in June, and Gatto in March of 2027. Incredibles 3 and Coco 2 are additionally on the docket to assist pay the payments till and until audiences wish to go see unique Pixar characteristic movies once more.

Directed by Luca Guadagnino
Present International Rank: #2,628
Final Yr’s Rank: #5
Final Yr’s International Rank: #3,123

Challengers was one of many largest snubs eventually yr’s Oscars, however it nonetheless fares nicely with Flickchart’s customers. Director Luca Guadagnino reveals no indicators of slowing down. He additionally launched Queer, starring Daniel Craig, in 2024, and After the Hunt, starring Julia Roberts, in 2025. His subsequent movie is Synthetic, a have a look at Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI. The stacked solid consists of Andrew Garfield as Altman, A Full Unknown‘s Monica Barbaro, Cooper Hoffman, Jason Schwartzman and Mark Rylance.

2026 is the yr of Zendaya. Season three of Euphoria premieres in April. Then she could be seen in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, Marvel’s Spider-Man: Model New Day, Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Half Three, and Kristoffer Borgli’s The Drama, reverse Robert Pattinson.

Josh O’Connor’s star is massively on the rise, as he took the lead reverse Daniel Craig in Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Lifeless Man: A Knives Out Thriller in 2025, and is starring in Joel Coen’s Jack of Spades and Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day in 2026. Mike Faist can subsequent be seen reverse Florence Pugh within the Netflix miniseries East of Eden, a brand new adaptation by Zoe Kazan of the 1952 novel written by John Steinbeck.

Directed by Robert Eggers
Present International Rank: #2,487
Final Yr’s Rank: #17
Final Yr’s International Rank: #6,488

A December launch in 2024, Nosferatu rocketed rapidly up the chart to make our High 20 listing earlier than we revealed final yr, and it continues to rise. The following movie from Robert Eggers will see him tackling one other traditional monster, as he unleashes Werwulf on Christmas Day. The solid consists of Nosferatu‘s Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Lily-Rose Depp and Willem Dafoe, and The Witch‘s Ralph Ineson. After that, Eggers is incongruously creating a brand new adaptation of A Christmas Carol, and a sequel to Jim Henson’s Labyrinth, of all issues.

Directed by Edward Berger
Present International Rank: #2,441
Final Yr’s Rank: #15
Final Yr’s International Rank: #5,669

Director Edward Berger launched Ballad of a Small Participant, starring Colin Farrell and Tilda Swinton, in 2025. Subsequent up is The Riders, at the moment in pre-production and anticipated to star Brad Pitt.

Ralph Fiennes obtained his third Oscar nomination for Conclave, 28 years after he was final nominated for The English Affected person. It’s an award he nonetheless, inconceivably, has not received. 2025 noticed him seem in The Choral for director Nicholas Hytner, and 28 Years Later for Danny Boyle. He’s at the moment in theaters in 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, and can star later this yr in The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping, the place he takes on the position of President Snow, performed by Donald Sutherland within the unique movies.

This yr, Stanley Tucci could be seen within the second season of Amazon Prime’s Citadel, and reverse Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway in The Satan Wears Prada 2. John Lithgow made appearances in Dexter: Resurrection and can subsequent deal with the position of Professor Albus Dumbledore in HBOMax’s upcoming Harry Potter collection.

Directed by Chris Sanders
Present International Rank: #1,994
Final Yr’s Rank: #11
Final Yr’s International Rank: #4,206

DreamWorks launched Canine Man, The Dangerous Guys 2 and Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Film in 2025, however the studio’s massive hit was the remake of The right way to Prepare Your Dragon. So, clearly, they’re remaking its sequel for 2027, and even getting Cate Blanchett to reprise her position in reside motion. Will it out-perform Shrek 5, at the moment slated to return out inside the identical month? Subsequent up for the studio is a extra unique mission, Forgotten Island, in September.

Chris Sanders is at work on the script for Lilo & Sew 2, the sequel to final yr’s live-action remake of his unique 2002 animated movie.

Directed by Coralie Fargeat
Present International Rank: #1,966
Final Yr’s Rank: #6
Final Yr’s International Rank: #3,375

Recent off her first-ever Oscar nomination, Demi Moore is at the moment starring reverse Billy Bob Thornton within the second season of the Paramount+ collection Landman. Her subsequent movie can be a sci-fi titled Unusual Arrivals, from director Roger Ross Williams, through which she is going to star reverse Colman Domingo.

Margaret Qualley is a scorching commodity proper now, with appearances in Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon, Ethan Coen’s Honey Don’t! and Blissful Gilmore 2 in 2025. This yr, she’s starring in John Patton Ford’s The right way to Make a Killing, with Glen Powell and Ed Harris, and Ridley Scott’s The Canine Stars, reverse Jacob Elordi, Josh Brolin and Man Pearce.

There isn’t a phrase but on author/director Coralie Fargeat’s subsequent mission.

Directed by Shawn Levy
Present International Rank: #1,918
Final Yr’s Rank: #3
Final Yr’s International Rank: #1,924

Hugh Jackman has now discovered to “by no means say by no means once more” relating to Wolverine. Will he seem in Avengers: Doomsday? Within the meantime, Music Sung Blue was launched on Christmas Day, through which he stars reverse Kate Hudson. (The musical biopic a few Neil Diamond cowl act has scored a Finest Actress Oscar nomination for Hudson.) And this yr Jackman’s taking over the title position in The Loss of life of Robin Hood, from Pig and A Quiet Place: Day One director Michael Sarnoski.

Ryan Reynolds has a variety of tasks in numerous levels of growth, however subsequent up can be Mayday, a few reconnaissance pilot trying to outlive and evade seize after crash-landing in Soviet territory, from Sport Evening and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves administrators John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein.

Director Shawn Levy simply completed his contributions to the ultimate season of Netflix’s Stranger Issues, and he’s now at the moment in post-production on Star Wars: Starfighter, starring Ryan Gosling. This latest journey in a galaxy far, far-off is hitting theaters in 2027.

Directed by George Miller
Present International Rank: #1,797
Final Yr’s Rank: #2
Final Yr’s International Rank: #1,836

This prequel to Mad Max: Fury Street carried out under expectations on the field workplace, throwing the way forward for Mad Max: The Wasteland, George Miller’s potential SEQUEL to Fury Street, into query.

In the meantime, Anya Taylor-Pleasure is starring reverse Timothy Olyphant in Fortunate, an AppleTV+ restricted collection primarily based on the novel by Marissa Stapley. She’s reprising her voice position of Princess Peach in The Tremendous Mario Galaxy Film, and can seem in Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Half Three.

Chris Hemsworth is at the moment in manufacturing on Subversion, a naval motion film from director Patrick Vollrath additionally starring Lily James and Michael Peña. He’s starring reverse Mark Ruffalo and Halle Berry in Crime 101 this yr. And, oh yeah, he’s coming again as Thor in a bit film you’ll have heard of, referred to as Avengers: Doomsday.

Directed by Sean Baker
Present International Rank: #1,708
Final Yr’s Rank: #12
Final Yr’s International Rank: #5,478

Sean Baker turned the primary individual since Walt Disney in 1954 to win 4 Academy Awards in the identical yr. In contrast to Disney, Baker acquired all of his Oscars for a similar film, taking Finest Image, Director, Screenplay and Modifying for Anora. There’s no phrase on his subsequent directorial mission but, however he co-wrote Left-Handed Woman with director Shih-Ching Tsou, which was launched on Netflix in November 2025.

Mikey Madison is a scorching commodity following her Oscar win, although she’s being picky, making no movie appearances in 2025. Subsequent up, she’ll star reverse Jeremy Robust, Jeremy Allen White, Betty Gilpin and Wunmi Mosaku in The Social Reckoning, author/director Aaron Sorkin’s follow-up to The Social Community.

Directed by Denis Villeneuve
Present International Rank: #510
Final Yr’s Rank: #1
Final Yr’s International Rank: #537

The second half of Denis Villeneuve’s wildly profitable adaptation of Frank Herbert’s traditional sci-fi novel dominated the 2024 Flickchart all yr, following its launch in March, so it’s no shock to see it nonetheless perched on high. Villeneuve is prepping to launch Dune: Half Three – adapting Herbert’s novel Dune: Messiah – on December 18. This implies it’s at the moment slated to launch on the identical day as Marvel’s Avenges: Doomsday, promising a large battle on the field workplace, until Warner Bros. or Marvel backs down.

Villeneueve is completed with Dune after ending this trilogy. Subsequent up, he’s been tapped to direct the primary James Bond movie for Amazon, since they acquired the rights to the character final yr. The hunt is at the moment on for a brand new Bond actor.

We’ve mentioned the present domination of Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya. Rebecca Ferguson has a packed 2026, with Mercy, reverse Chris Pratt, already launched, and season two of AppleTV+’s Silo, Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man, and The Magic Faraway Tree all coming earlier than Dune: Half Three.

Javier Bardem is taking over the position of Max Cady – performed by Robert Mitchum in 1962, and Robert De Niro in Martin Scorsese’s 1991 remake – in a TV collection adaptation of Cape Concern, which may even star Amy Adams and Patrick Wilson. He’ll additionally star in El ser querido, from director Rodrigo Sorogoyen.

Josh Brolin had a busy 2025 with Weapons, Wake Up Lifeless Man: A Knives Out Thriller and Edgar Wright’s The Operating Man. Earlier than Dune: Half Three, search for him in Ridley Scott’s The Canine Stars and Brian Duffield’s Whalefall, a few scuba diver who’s swallowed by a large sperm whale and should escape earlier than he runs out of air.

These films appeared on our High 20 listing final yr. Apart from one notable drop, they’ve all risen a bit within the international rankings, however have simply been surpassed by different (notably Oscar-winning) movies.

Directed by Wes Ball
Was: #13
Now: #21
Present International Rank: #5,232
Final Yr’s International Rank: #5,532

Directed by Rose Glass
Was: #19
Now: #22
Present International Rank: #5,875
Final Yr’s International Rank: #7,608

Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett
Was: #18
Now: #23
Present International Rank: #6,050
Final Yr’s International Rank: #7,478

Directed by Lee Isaac Chung
Was: #20
Now: #28
Present International Rank: #7,212
Final Yr’s International Rank: #7,839

Directed by Tim Burton
Was: #16
Now: #35
Present International Rank: #7,977
Final Yr’s International Rank: #6,440

Rounding out the listing, listed below are the remainder of Flickchart’s present High 40 for 2024:

21. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (directed by Wes Ball)
22. Love Lies Bleeding (directed by Rose Glass)
23. Abigail (directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett)
24. Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (directed by Merlin Crossingham and Nick Park)
25. Transformers One (directed by Josh Cooley)
26. I Noticed the TV Glow (directed by Jane Schoenbrun)
27. Nickel Boys (directed by RaMell Ross)
28. Twisters (directed by Lee Isaac Chung)
29. I’m Nonetheless Right here (directed by Walter Salles)
30. The Lifetime of Chuck (directed by Mike Flanagan)
31. Saturday Evening (directed by Jason Reitman)
32. Friendship (directed by Andrew DeYoung)
33. A Completely different Man (directed by Aaron Schimberg)
34. Gladiator II (directed by Ridley Scott)
35. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (directed by Tim Burton)
36. Juror #2 (directed by Clint Eastwood)
37. Insurgent Ridge (directed by Jeremy Saulnier)
38. Sorts of Kindness (directed by Yorgos Lanthimos)
39. My Previous Ass (directed by Megan Park)
40. A Quiet Place: Day One (directed by Michael Sarnoski)