Favourite Films of 2021

This is a list of all the new films I enjoyed in 2021.
Some films originally premiered earlier at festivals but only became available this year.

★★★★★ Favourite / Masterpiece

★★★★½ Exceptional

★★★★ Great

★★★½ Very Good

★★★ Good

★★½ Flawed but Worthy




Herr Bachmann und seine Klasse – (Mr. Bachmann and His Class)
★★★★½
dir. Maria Speth
Documentary
[Germany, 2021]




Futura
★★★★
dir. Francesco Munzi, Pietro Marcello, Alice Rohrwacher
Documentary
[Italy, 2021]





The Velvet Underground
★★★★
dir. Todd Haynes
Documentary
[USA, 2021]





დასაწყისი – (Beginning)
★★★½
dir. Déa Kulumbegashvili
Drama
[France / Georgia, 2020]




Dune: Part One
★★★½
dir. Denis Villeneuve
Epic Science Fiction
[USA, 2021]




No Time to Die
★★★½
dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga
Spy
[UK / USA, 2021]




Le Sommet des Dieux (The Summit of the Gods)
★★★½
dir. Patrick Imbert
Animated Drama
[France / Luxembourg, 2021]




A Cop Movie
★★★½
dir. Alonso Ruizpalacios
Docudrama
[Mexico, 2021]





The Father
★★★½
dir. Florian Zeller
Drama
[France / UK, 2020]





Атлантида – (Atlantis)
★★★½
dir. Valentyn Vasyanovych
Dystopian Post-Apocalyptic
[Ukraine, 2019]





Notturno
★★★½
dir. Gianfranco Rosi
Documentary
[Italy / France / Germany, 2020]




Last and First Men
★★★½
dir. Jóhann Jóhannsson
Science Fiction
[Iceland, 2020]




Found
★★★½
dir. Amanda Lipitz
Documentary
[USA / China, 2021]





Yermo
★★★½
dir. Everardo González
Documentary
[Mexico, 2020]





Shiva Baby
★★★½
dir. Emma Seligman
Comedy
[USA, 2020]





Schwesterlein – (My Little Sister)
★★★
dir. Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond
Drama
[Switzerland, 2020]




Procession
★★★
dir. Robert Greene
Documentary
[USA, 2021]




Pray Away
★★★
dir. Kristine Stolakis
Documentary
[USA, 2021]





Gunda
★★★
dir. Viktor Kossakovsky
Documentary
[USA / Norway, 2020]





The Disciple
★★★
dir. Chaitanya Tamhane
Drama
[India, 2020]





Undine
★★★
dir. Christian Petzold
[Germany, 2020]




These Lists might also be of interest:

Favourite Films of 2022

Favourite Films of 2020