Cannes Film Festival 2024 Film Guide

1. The Second Act (2024)

80 min | Comedy | Completed

Florence wants to introduce David, the man she's madly in love with, to her father. But David isn't attracted to her and wants to throw her into the arms of his friend Willy. The characters meet in a restaurant in the middle of nowhere.

Director: Quentin Dupieux | Stars: Léa Seydoux, Louis Garrel, Vincent Lindon, Raphaël Quenard

2. La belle de Gaza (2024)

76 min | Documentary | Completed

Follows Palestinian trans people fleeing Gaza for Tel Aviv to live openly. Their perilous journey between these worlds offers insight into their struggle for self-affirmation amid conflict and oppression.

Director: Yolande Zauberman | Star: Talleen Abu Hanna

3. Learn (2024)

Documentary | Completed

A documentary that unveils the profound impact of teachers' devotion to their students. Witness their daily triumphs and struggles as they inspire young minds with unwavering dedication.

Director: Claire Simon

4. The Invasion (II) (2024)

Documentary | Completed

Sergei Loznitsa questions the consequences of the invasion of one country by another.

Director: Sergei Loznitsa

5. Ernest Cole: Lost and Found (2024)

Documentary | Completed

Follows Ernest Cole's journey as the first Black freelance photographer in apartheid South Africa.

Director: Raoul Peck | Star: LaKeith Stanfield

6. An Ordinary Case (2024)

Drama | Completed

A man is accused of murdering his wife. His lawyer must defend him against all odds, and especially against himself.

Director: Daniel Auteuil | Stars: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Daniel Auteuil, Isabelle Candelier, Suliane Brahim

7. Miséricorde (2024)

102 min | Comedy, Drama | Completed

Returning to Saint-Martial for his late boss's funeral, Jérémie's stay with widow Martine becomes entangled in a disappearance, a threatening neighbor, and an abbot's shady intentions.

Director: Alain Guiraudie | Stars: Catherine Frot, Félix Kysyl, Jean-Baptiste Durand, Jacques Develay

8. C'est pas moi (2024)

Biography, Drama | Completed

A self-portrait of the director and his oeuvre, revisiting in free-form more than 40 years of the author's filmography.

Director: Leos Carax | Stars: Leos Carax, Denis Lavant, Nastya Golubeva Carax, Ekaterina Yuspina

9. Everybody Loves Touda (2024)

102 min | Drama | Completed

Touda is a Sheikha, a traditional Moroccan singer. Performing in the bars of her provincial town under the gaze of men, she plans to leave for the lights of Casablanca, to gain recognition and ensure a better future for her son.

Director: Nabil Ayouch | Stars: Nisrin Erradi, Abdellatif Chaouqi, Jalila Talemsi, Lahcen Razzougui

10. The Marching Band (2024)

103 min | Comedy | Completed

Acclaimed conductor Thibaut has leukemia and needs a bone marrow donor. Learning he was adopted, he finds an older brother, a musician and factory worker. Their reunion sparks a fraternal, musical journey amidst the town's factory closure.

Director: Emmanuel Courcol | Stars: Benjamin Lavernhe, Pierre Lottin, Ludmila Mikaël, Sarah Suco

11. Rendez-vous avec Pol Pot (2024)

90 min | Drama | Completed

Three French journalists travel to Cambodia in 1978 after receiving an invitation from the Khmer Rouge regime, embarking on a perilous adventure.

Director: Rithy Panh | Stars: Irène Jacob, Grégoire Colin, Cyril Gueï

12. Le roman de Jim (2024)

101 min | Comedy, Drama | Completed

A family living in the Jura mountains who are torn apart following the return of the son's biological father.

Directors: Arnaud Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu | Stars: Karim Leklou, Laetitia Dosch, Sara Giraudeau, Bertrand Belin

13. Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (2024)

126 min | Action, Thriller | Completed

Follows troubled youth Chan Lok-kwun as he accidentally enters the Walled City, discovers the order amidst its chaos, and learns important life lessons along the way.

Director: Soi Cheang | Stars: Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Louis Koo, Philip Ng, Raymond Lam

14. I, the Executioner (2024)

Completed

Follows detective Seo Do-cheol and the Violent Crimes Investigation Division as they face a crisis.

Director: Seung Wan Ryoo | Star: Hwang Jung-min

15. The Surfer (2024)

Thriller | Completed

When a man returns to his beach side hometown in Australia, he is humiliated in front of his teenage son by a local group of surfers who claim ownership over the secluded beach of his childhood.

Director: Lorcan Finnegan | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Julian McMahon, Nicholas Cassim, Miranda Tapsell

16. The Balconettes (2024)

Comedy, Fantasy | Completed

Three women in a Marseille apartment gets stuck in a heat wave. They find themselves trapped in a terrifying affair and longing for freedom.

Director: Noémie Merlant | Stars: Souheila Yacoub, Noémie Merlant, Hannil Ghilas, Annie Mercier

17. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)

R | 148 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | Completed

The origin story of renegade warrior Furiosa before her encounter and teamup with Mad Max.

Director: George Miller | Stars: Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, Charlee Fraser, Angus Sampson

18. Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 (2024)

R | Drama, Western | Completed

Chronicles a multi-faceted, 15-year span of pre-and post-Civil War expansion and settlement of the American west.

Director: Kevin Costner | Stars: Dale Dickey, Jena Malone, Kevin Costner, Sienna Miller

19. She's Got No Name (2024)

Drama | Completed

A bizarre case caused thousands of waves. There are different opinions on the truth. When the whole story of the case was gradually restored like pieces of a puzzle, people realized that the truth was not that important anymore.

Director: Peter Ho-Sun Chan | Stars: Ziyi Zhang, Mi Yang, Zanilia Zhao, Xian Li

20. Rumours (2024)

Comedy | Completed

The leaders of seven wealthy democracies get lost in the woods while drafting a statement on a global crisis, facing danger as they attempt to find their way out.

Directors: Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson, Guy Maddin | Stars: Alicia Vikander, Cate Blanchett, Takehiro Hira, Charles Dance

21. Norah (2023)

94 min | Drama

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Set in Saudi Arabia in the 90's, "Norah" is a deeply moving story about two soulmates who find each other and discover the driving creative forces within themselves.

Director: Tawfik Alzaidi | Stars: Yagoub Alfarhan, Maria Bahrawi, Abdullah Al-Sadhan, Aixa Kay

Votes: 19

22. The Shameless (2024)

114 min | Crime, Drama | Completed

After killing a cop in a Delhi brothel, Renuka takes refuge in a northern India community of sex workers. There, she begins a forbidden romance with the 17-year-old Devika. Against all odds, they try to forge their path to freedom.

Director: Konstantin Bojanov | Stars: Tanmay Dhanania, Auroshikha Dey, Mita Vashisht, Rohit Kokate

23. Le royaume (2024)

Completed

Lesia, a teenager, is taken by a man to a villa where her fugitive father and his men are hiding. A war erupts, leading to death and a chase where father and daughter bond.

Director: Julien Colonna | Stars: Andrea Cossu, Ghjuvanna Benedetti, Anthony Morganti, Saveriu Santucci

24. Vingt Dieux (2024)

90 min | Comedy, Drama | Completed

Totone's carefree teenage life of drinking and dancing takes a turn when he must provide for his 7-year-old sister. Seeking income, he channels his energy into producing an award-winning comté cheese to claim a competition prize.

Director: Louise Courvoisier | Stars: Maïwene Barthelemy, Dimitri Baudry, Mathis Bernard, Clément Favreau

25. Dog on Trial (2024)

83 min | Comedy | Completed

Avril, a young lawyer specializing in animal defense, goes to great lengths to save her client, a repeat-offender dog, from capital punishment. This dog helps Avril accept her own human complexity.

Director: Laetitia Dosch | Stars: Laetitia Dosch, Anabela Moreira, Anne Dorval, François Damiens

26. Black Dog (2024)

Drama | Completed

Released from jail, Lang returns to his hometown in Northwest China. As part of a dog patrol tasked with clearing stray dogs before the 2008 Olympics, he bonds with a black stray. The two lonely souls embark on a new journey together.

Director: Hu Guan | Stars: Zhangke Jia, Eddie Peng, Yi Zhang, Liya Tong

27. The Village Next to Paradise (2024)

132 min | Drama | Completed

A newly formed family confronts challenges while pursuing individual goals and facing the intricacies of modern life, relying on love, trust, and resilience to guide them.

Director: Mo Harawe | Stars: Canab Axmed Ibraahin, Ahmed Mohamoud Salleban, Axmen Cali Faarax

28. September Says (2024)

100 min | Completed

When September is suspended from their school, her sister July begins to assert her own independence. Tension in the family builds on holiday Ireland as a series of surreal encounters test the them all to their limit.

Director: Ariane Labed | Stars: Mia Tharia, Pascale Kann, Rakhee Thakrar, Barry John Kinsella

29. L'histoire de Souleymane (2024)

93 min | Completed

A Paris food delivery cyclist and asylum seeker named Souleymane has two days to prepare his story for a make-or-break interview to secure legal residency.

Director: Boris Lojkine | Stars: Nina Meurisse, Abou Sangare, Yaya Diallo, Ghislain Mahan

30. The Damned (I) (2024)

89 min | History | Completed

In the winter of 1862, during the Civil War, the U.S. Army sends a volunteer company to patrol the uncharted Western territories.

Director: Roberto Minervini | Stars: Jeremiah Knupp, René W. Solomon, Cuyler Ballenger, Noah Carlson

31. On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024)

Drama | Completed

A comedy-drama exploring human relationships in Zambia and Guinea.

Director: Rungano Nyoni

32. My Sunshine (2024)

100 min | Drama, Sport | Completed

Two young skaters, polar opposites in personality, team up to train for a figure skating duo, their growing bond blurring the lines between partners and more as winter unfolds.

Director: Hiroshi Okuyama | Stars: Sôsuke Ikematsu, Ryûya Wakaba, Maho Yamada, Keitatsu Koshiyama

33. Santosh (2024)

Thriller | Completed

Newly widowed Santosh inherits her husband's job as a police constable in the rural badlands of Northern India. When a girl's body is found, she's pulled into the investigation under the wing of charismatic feminist inspector Sharma.

Director: Sandhya Suri | Stars: Shahana Goswami, Sanjay Bishnoi, Sunita Rajwar, Kushal Dubey

34. Viet and Nam (2024)

129 min | Drama

In the underground coal mines, Nam and Viet, young miners, face danger and darkness. One prepares to leave for a new life, but they must find Nam's father's remains, a soldier lost in a faraway forest, retracing the past through memories.

Director: Minh Quy Truong

35. Armand (2024)

100 min | Drama | Completed

Armand a 6-year-old boy is accused of crossing boundaries against his best friend at elementary school.

Director: Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel | Stars: Renate Reinsve, Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Øystein Røger, Karen Chika Gjølmesli

36. The Apprentice (2024)

Biography, Drama, History | Completed

The story of how a young Donald Trump started his real estate business in 1970s and 80s New York with the helping hand of infamous lawyer Roy Cohn.

Director: Ali Abbasi | Stars: Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong, Maria Bakalova, Martin Donovan

37. Motel Destino (2024)

112 min | Thriller | Completed

Love between a young man who lives against a system that wants him dead and a woman who resists the attacks of patriarchy against her own life.

Director: Karim Aïnouz | Stars: Fábio Assunção, Nataly Rocha, Iago Xavier

38. Bird (2024)

Drama | Completed

Bailey lives with his brother Hunter and his father Bug, who raises them alone in a squat in northern Kent. Bug doesn't have much time to devote to them. Bailey looks for attention and adventure elsewhere.

Director: Andrea Arnold | Stars: Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski, James Nelson-Joyce, Jasmine Jobson

39. Emilia Perez (2024)

Comedy, Crime, Musical | Completed

Mexico, today. Lawyer Rita receives an unexpected offer. She has to help a feared cartel boss retire from his business and disappear forever by becoming the woman he's always dreamed of being.

Director: Jacques Audiard | Stars: Zoe Saldana, Selena Gomez, Edgar Ramírez, Mark Ivanir

40. Anora (2024)

Drama | Completed

Anora is a comedy about a sex worker shot in New York City and Las Vegas.

Director: Sean Baker | Stars: Mikey Madison, Yura Borisov, Ivy Wolk, Darya Ekamasova

41. Megalopolis (2024)

Drama, Sci-Fi | Completed

An architect wants to rebuild New York City as a utopia following a devastating disaster.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf

42. The Shrouds (2024)

119 min | Horror, Thriller | Completed

Karsh, an innovative businessman and grieving widower, builds a device to connect with the dead inside a burial shroud.

Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Guy Pearce, Sandrine Holt

43. The Substance (2024)

Drama, Horror | Completed

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Director: Coralie Fargeat | Stars: Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid, Demi Moore, Hugo Diego Garcia

44. Grand Tour (2024)

128 min | Drama | Completed

Edward, civil servant, flees fiancee Molly on their wedding day in Rangoon, 1917. His travels replace panic with melancholy. Molly, set on marriage, amused by his escape, trails him across Asia.

Director: Miguel Gomes | Stars: Jani Zhao, Lang Khê Tran, Gonçalo Waddington, Teresa Madruga

45. Marcello Mio (2024)

120 min | Comedy

Chiara is an actress and daughter of Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve. One summer, she decides to live like her father. She dresses, speaks, and breathes like him with such conviction that others start calling her "Marcello".

Director: Christophe Honoré | Stars: Benjamin Biolay, Wilfried Capet, Catherine Deneuve, Nicole Garcia

46. Caught by the Tides (2024)

Drama | Announced

A Chinese woman lives to herself in silence, celebrating the prosperous Belle Epoque with songs and dance.

Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Tao Zhao, You Zhou, Xu Changchu, Zhubin Li

47. All We Imagine as Light (2024)

Drama | Completed

In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha's routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend.

Director: Payal Kapadia | Stars: Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya Kadam, Hridhu Haroon

48. Kinds of Kindness (2024)

Comedy, Drama | Completed

A man seeks to break free from his predetermined path, a cop questions his wife's demeanor after her return from a supposed drowning and a woman's quest to locate an extraordinary individual prophesied to become a renowned spiritual guide.

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos | Stars: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley

49. Beating Hearts (2024)

Comedy, Drama, Musical | Completed

Follows an improbable relationship between two people. A girl from an upper-middle-class family and a boy from a modest background fall in love but drift apart; he eventually becomes a criminal and spends 12 years in prison.

Director: Gilles Lellouche | Stars: Adèle Exarchopoulos, François Civil, Raphaël Quenard, Élodie Bouchez

50. Wild Diamond (2024)

Drama | Completed

Liane, 19, lives with her mother and sister in Fréjus in the south of France. Consumed by aspirations of beauty and stardom, she auditions for a reality show called "Miracle Island."

Director: Agathe Riedinger | Stars: Malou Khebizi, Idir Azougli, Andréa Bescond, Ashley Romano

51. Oh Canada (2024)

91 min | Drama | Completed

Leonard Fife, one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam, shares all his secrets to de-mythologize his mythologized life.

Director: Paul Schrader | Stars: Uma Thurman, Jacob Elordi, Richard Gere, Michael Imperioli

52. Limonov: The Ballad of Eddie (2024)

Biography, Drama, History | Completed

The outrageous story of Eduard Limonov, the radical Soviet poet who became a bum in New York, a sensation in France, and a political antihero in Russia.

Director: Kirill Serebrennikov | Stars: Ben Whishaw, Masha Mashkova, Tomas Arana, Sandrine Bonnaire

53. Parthenope (2024)

Drama, Fantasy | Completed

Partenope is a woman who bears the name of her city. Is she a siren or a myth?

Director: Paolo Sorrentino | Stars: Gary Oldman, Stefania Sandrelli, Luisa Ranieri, Francesca Romana Bergamo

54. The Girl with the Needle (2024)

115 min | Drama | Completed

Copenhagen 1919: A young worker finds herself unemployed and pregnant. She meets Dagmar, who runs an underground adoption agency. A strong connection grows but her world shatters when she stumbles on the shocking truth behind her work.

Director: Magnus von Horn | Stars: Vic Carmen Sonne, Trine Dyrholm, Besir Zeciri, Ava Knox Martin

55. The Most Precious of Cargoes (2024)

81 min | Animation, Drama | Completed

During World War II a French Jewish family is deported to Auschwitz. On the train to the death camp, in a desperate gesture, the father throws one of his twins out into the snow, where he's discovered by a childless Polish couple.

Director: Michel Hazanavicius | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Grégory Gadebois, Denis Podalydès, Dominique Blanc

56. The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024)

Completed

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Director: Mohammad Rasoulof

57. Three Kilometres to the End of the World (2024)

Drama, Thriller | Completed

Set in a conservative Danube Delta community, a gay teenager's journey of self-discovery clashes with the traditional values upheld by his parents and neighbors.

Director: Emanuel Parvu | Stars: Laura Vasiliu, Bogdan Dumitrache, Adrian Titieni, Valeriu Andriuta

58. Lula (2024)

Documentary | Completed

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Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Janja Silva

59. Filmlovers! (2024)

88 min | Drama | Completed

Celebrating movie theaters' magic, a film enthusiast follows the footsteps of Paul Dédalus. Memories, fiction, and discoveries intertwine in a torrential flow of cinematic imagery.

Director: Arnaud Desplechin | Stars: Milo Machado-Graner, Mathieu Amalric, Françoise Lebrun, Micha Lescot

60. An Unfinished Film (2024)

105 min | Drama | Completed

In January 2020, a film crew reunites near Wuhan, China, to resume a long-halted project. They face unexpected challenges as COVID lockdowns begin.

Director: Ye Lou | Stars: Hao Qin, Xuan Huang, Songwen Zhang, Xi Qi

61. Nasty (2024)

103 min | Documentary

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1972 was a turning point in Ilie Nastase's career: winning US Open, reaching Wimbledon and Davis Cup finals. It portrays his victories, controversies, rebellious persona challenging tennis norms, and his influence as a tennis rebel icon.

Directors: Tudor Giurgiu, Cristian Pascariu, Tudor D. Popescu | Stars: Ilie Nastase, Ion Tiriac, Jimmy Connors, Stan Smith

Votes: 143

62. When the Light Breaks (2024)

Drama | Completed

Una grapples with grief while harboring a secret, unable to fully express her emotions, as she navigates challenging events swirling around her.

Director: Rúnar Rúnarsson | Stars: Elín Hall, Katla Njálsdóttir, Mikael Kaaber, Ágúst Wigum

63. Niki (2024)

Biography | Completed

Follows Saint-Phalle while she is modeling and striving to be an actor. She's married and has a daughter who is two years old. They left the United States during the harsh McCarthy era and travel to France, where they briefly feel elated.

Director: Céline Sallette | Stars: Charlotte Le Bon, John Robinson, Damien Bonnard, Judith Chemla

64. Flow (II) (2024)

Animation, Adventure, Fantasy | Completed

A cat wakes up in a flooded world and tries to overcome his fear of water.

Director: Gints Zilbalodis

65. Maria (2024)

Biography, Drama | Completed

Maria Schneider's rise to fame after "Last Tango in Paris" and its controversial production's impact on her life and career.

Director: Jessica Palud | Stars: Hugo Becker, Marie Gillain, Yvan Attal, Anamaria Vartolomei

66. Vivre, mourir, renaître (2024)

109 min | Drama | Completed

A potential love triangle between Emma, Sammy, and Cyril is shattered by the emergence of the AIDS crisis. Expecting the worst, each character's destiny takes an unexpected path.

Director: Gaël Morel | Stars: Amanda Lear, Victor Belmondo, Théo Christine, Stéphane Rideau

67. The Count of Monte-Cristo (2024)

173 min | Action, Adventure, Drama | Completed

A new adaptation of the famous novel by Alexandre Dumas.

Directors: Alexandre de La Patellière, Matthieu Delaporte | Stars: Pierre Niney, Pierfrancesco Favino, Anaïs Demoustier, Anamaria Vartolomei