The 10 Best Arthouse Movies of 2024, Ranked

The Substance, Anora, and Strange Darling are among the best arthouse movies of 2024.

January 7, 2025 · 1 min · 67 words · Marvin Decker

It all comes together to create one of the darkest, most violent, and overallbest movies of 2024.

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Strange Darling

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Kyle Gallner holding a rifle and frowning in the woods in a red plaid shirt

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Grace, Percy, and Gilbert at a theme park in Memoir of a Snail.

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Emma Stone as Emily, smiling and sitting in a cafe in a still from ‘Kinds of Kindness’

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Vera Drew smokes a cigarette in Joker make-up in The People’s Joker

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The People’s Joker Movie Poster Showing Parody Characters of Joker, Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, and Catwoman

Kieran Culkin as Benji and Jessie Eisenberg as David in A Real Pain, looking at a landmark together

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A worried Justice Smith (left) looks at a stunned Brigette Lundy-Paine (right) in I Saw the TV Glow.

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Renate Reinsve as Ingrid Vold and Sebastian Stan as Edward Lemuel sitting on a sofa in discussion in A Different Man

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Mikey Madison as Ani and Mark Eydelshteyn as Ivan celebrating their wedding in Vegas in Anora.

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Adrien Brody as László Tóth sitting under a tree and writing in a book in The Brutalist.

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Elisabeth Sparkle, played by actor Demi Moore, stares at herself in the mirror in The Substance.

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Strange Darling

The Substance