UPDATE: Added films from Greg Araki, Jonah Hill, Anton Corbijn, Boots Riley, Ira Sachs, Gore Verbinski, and more.
Can we call 2024 a “weak” year for movies? That’s what you’ll be reading a lot about in upcoming year-end think pieces, and maybe that’s a fair assessment, but I will say that there have still been plenty of great films released this year, so much so that it’s becoming a real pain to narrow down my 2024 ten best list (which I’ll hopefully be publishing during the first week of December).
Yes, the strikes are over. The Pandemic is long gone. Productions are in full swing, and there’s an innumerable amount of talented filmmaker that have shot, or are just about to shoot, their next films, with an eye towards 2025 release.
Since January, I’ve been tracking films for this anticipated 2025 list. I do this every year, and given the modus operandi of this site, the focus is on the director. If an interesting filmmaker has a new film coming up then it’s on the list.
I’ll continue to update this post throughout November/December, and if there’s stuff missing, which I’m sure there is, then please mention it in the comments section below. I currently have 93 films listed.
Die My Love (Lynne Ramsay)
Judy (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu)
Alpha (Julia Ducournau)
Mother Brother Sister Mother (Jim Jarmusch)
The Phoenician Scheme (Wes Anderson)
Bugonia (Yorgos Lanthimos)
Nouvelle Vague (Richard Linklater)
The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)
No Other Choice (Park Chan-wook)
Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro)
The Way of the Wind (Terrence Malick)
Jay Kelly (Noah Baumbach)
Untitled White House Thriller (Kathryn Bigelow)
Jupiter (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
Highest 2 Lowest (Spike Lee)
The Bookie & The Bruiser (S. Craig Zahler)
The Battle of Baktan Cross (Paul Thomas Anderson)
The Cry of the Guards (Claire Denis)
Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier)
Caught Stealing (Darren Aronofsky)
Marty Supreme (Josh Safdie)
The Smashing Machine (Benny Safdie)
Drowning: The Rescue of Flight 421 (Paul Greengrass)
After the Hunt (Luca Guadagnino)
Eddington (Ari Aster)
Black Bag (Steven Soderberg)
Mickey 17 (Bong Joon-ho)
Mother Mary (David Lowery)
Roofman (Derek Cianfrance)
Flowervale Street (David Robert Mitchell)
Blue Moon (Richard Linklater)
Hamnet (Chloe Zhao)
The Bride! (Maggie Gylenhaal)
Play Dirty (Shane Black)
Flesh of the Gods (Panos Cosmatos)
Mission: Impossible (Christopher McQuarrie)
The Ballad of a Small Player (Edward Berger)
F1 (Joseph Kosinski)
Warfare (Alex Garland)
28 Years Later (Danny Boyle)
Onslaught (Adam Wingard)
Ella McCay (James L. Brooks)
The Materialists (Celine Song)
Where to Land (Hal Hartley)
The Running Man (Edgar Wright)
Untitled Slave Comedy (Trey Parker and Matt Stone)
Honey Don’t (Ethan Coen)
Havoc (Gareth Evans)
Knives Out 3 (Rian Johnson)
Rivals of the Amziah King (Andrew Patterson)
The Drama (Kristofer Borgli)
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (Kogonada)
Avatar: Fire and Ash (James Cameron)
Superman (James Gunn)
Huntington (John Patton Ford)
The Monkey (Oz Perkins)
Deliver Me From Nowhere (Scott Cooper)
Wolf Man (Leigh Whannell)
Badlands (Dan Trachtenberg)
Fuze (David Mackenzie)
Michael (Antoine Fuqua)
The Lost Bus (Paul Greengrass)
Hurry Up Tomorrow (Trey Edward Shults)
The Actor (Duke Johnson)
Golden (Michel Gondry)
Jurassic World: Rebirth (Gareth Edwards)
The History of Sound (Oliver Hermanus)
Klara and the Sun (Taika Waititi)
At the Sea (Kornél Mundruczó)
I Want Your Sex (Greg Araki)
Outcome (Jonah Hill)
Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning (Christopher McQuarrie)
Switzerland (Anton Corbijn)
Sinners (Ryan Coogler)
Famous (Jody Hill)
Growth (Armando Iannucci)
The Naked Gun (Akiva Schaffer)
Ann Lee (Mona Fastvold)
I Love Boosters (Boots Riley)
Pete Hujar’s Day (Ira Sachs)
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die (Gore Verbinski)
Sontag (Kirsten Johnston)
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The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendoca Filho)
In the Hands of Dante (Julian Schnabel)
Miroirs No. 3 (Christian Petzold)
Young Mother (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
Chocobar (Lucrecia Martel)
Orphan (Laszlo Nemes)
Dreams (Michel Franco)
Mektoub: Canto Duo (Abdellatif Kechiche)
Resurrection (Bi Gan)
Butterfly Jam (Kantemir Balagov)
Yes! (Nadav Lapid)
Red Rocks (Bruno Dumont)
Disappearance (Kiril Serebrenikkov)
Untitled sci-fi (Arthur Harrari)
Wake of Umbra (Carlos Reygadas)
Non Compos Mentis (Paul Schrader)
Hope (Na Hong-jin)
On Land and Sea (Hylmur Pálmason)
Untitled (Jia Zhangke)
Rosebushpruning (Karim Aïnouz)
Eagles of the Relublic (Tarik Saleh)
The Magnificent Life of Sylvain Pagnol (Sylvain Chomet)
Tu ne fear point d’image (Kaouther BenHania)
Sacrifice (Roman Gavras)
Une Affaire (Arnaud Desplechin)
After (Oliver Laxe)
Enzo (Robin Campillo)
L’interet D’Adam (Laura Wandel)
Vie Privee (Rebecca Zlotowski)
The Wave (Sebastien Lelio)
Silent Friend (Ildiko Enyedi)
Duse (Pietro Marcello)
Sacrifice (Roman Gavras)
Stitches (Alice Wincour)
Romería (Carla Simon)
El Ser Querido (Rodrigo Sorogoyen)
Franz (Agnieszka Holland)
Dry Leaf (Alexandre Koberidze)
Occupation (Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi)
A Pale View of Hills (Koji Fukada)
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