With another year of excellent cinema coming to a close, we are bringing some of our favourite films of 2024 back to the big screen. From Belfast to Italy to Arrakis, our picks take us across the known Universe as well as the cinematic landscape - from the biggest of blockbusters to local, low key indies. It's always hard to pick favourites but here are a few that we just had to revisit.
Oscar winner Cillian Murphy delivers a stunning performance as devoted father Bill Furlong in this film based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Claire Keegan. While working as a coal merchant to support his family, he discovers…
Director: Tim Mielants
Genre: Drama,Historical
Release Date: 01-Nov-2024
Director Wim Wenders return to fiction filmmaking is a deeply moving and poetic reflection on finding beauty in the everyday world around us. Hirayama seems utterly content with his simple life as a cleaner of toilets in Tokyo. Outside of…
Director: Wim Wenders
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 09-Feb-2024
Adam, a screenwriter, lives a lonely existence in a plush, modern apartment in London. He might be the only occupant, until one evening he catches the eye of a mysterious new neighbour. To say more would reveal some of the…
Director: Andrew Haigh
Genre: Drama,Fantasy
Release Date: 26-Jan-2024
Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled...
Director: Sean Baker
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 01-Nov-2024
A fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself...
Director: Coralie Fargeat
Genre: Drama,Horror
Release Date: 20-Sep-2024
Tashi, a tennis player-turned-coach, has taken her husband, Art, and transformed him from a mediocre player into a world-famous Grand Slam champion. To jolt him out of his recent losing streak, she makes him play a “Challenger” event — close…
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Genre: Drama,Romance
Release Date: 15-Sep-2023
A wild and beautiful firecracker of a film, Yorgos Lanthimos’ period sci-fi is all we have come to expect from this singular filmmaker – and more…When a young woman in Victorian England meets a tragic end, little did she know…
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Genre: Romance,Sci-Fi
Release Date: 08-Sep-2023
The Zone of Interest - director Jonathan Glazer’s first film since 2013’s Under the Skin - is a deeply unsettling, masterfully directed cinematic study of the banality of evil. In the grounds of Auschwitz, commandant Rudolf Höss and his family…
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Genre: Drama,Historical
Release Date: 02-Feb-2024
Everyone has their own Chimera, something they try to achieve but never manage to find. For the band of tombaroli, thieves of ancient grave goods and archaeological wonders, the Chimera means redemption from work and the dream of easy wealth.…
Director: Alice Rohrwacher
Genre: Drama,Romance
Release Date: 10-May-2024
Paul Atreides unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a warpath of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the known universe, he endeavors to…
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Genre: Action,Fantasy
Release Date: 01-Mar-2024
Based on the origin story of the riotous and ground-breaking Irish-language rap trio KNEECAP, the film stars Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap and DJ Próvaí in their acting debuts alongside Academy Award Nominee Michael Fassbender. Set in West Belfast in 2019,…
Director: Rich Peppiatt
Genre: Comedy,Drama
Release Date: 23-Aug-2024
