Best of 2021

Angelika Anywhere Wrapped! Watch the year’s most popular titles in this collection of 2021’s best.

First-time feature director Lance Oppenheim cracks the manicured facade of a Central Florida retirement community.
Some Kind of Heaven
  • 2020
Lili Horvát's sophomore work. "A delicious psychological noir. Intoxicating" (Variety)
Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period of Time
  • 2020
Viggo Mortensen's directorial debut is "a beautifully controlled drama about age, memory and forgiveness" (The Wrap)
Falling
  • 2020
Anna Kerrigan's tale of rescue, redemption and family betrayal. A father goes on the run with his transgender son in an attempt to liberate him.
Cowboys
  • 2020
Oscar winner from director Thomas Vinterberg, featuring a career-best performance by Mads Mikkelsen. Fun, moving, life-affirming & thought-provoking.
Another Round
  • 2020
Ripe with all the drama of a Jane Austen novel, Isaac Cherem delivers an intimate, insightful, moving tale of a woman torn between family and love
Leona
  • 2018
Dominic Cooke's true-to-life spy thriller starring Benedict Cumberbatch as a businessman who attempts to defuse the Cuban Missile Crisis
The Courier
  • 2021
The latest deranged delight by French absurdist Quentin Dupieux "will have you howling in your seat" (Collider)
Keep an Eye Out
  • 2018
"Quietly groundbreaking. Entirely unique and uniquely vital," raves Variety. A love story from director Filippo Meneghetti.
Two of Us
  • 2019
Katrine Philp's SXSW Grand Jury Award winner delivers an enlightening look at a grief counseling center for children who have lost their parents
Beautiful Something Left Behind
  • 2020
Director Elizabeth Lo’s award-winning film is a critical observation of human civilization through the unfamiliar gaze of dogs.
Stray
  • 2020
Christina Rosendahl's film follows one man who puts everything on the line, set on the backdrop of 1940 Denmark
The Good Traitor
  • 2020
Director Eytan Fox crafts "a visually seductive love letter to Tel Aviv" (Hollywood Reporter) starring Tony Award winner John Benjamin Hickey
Sublet
  • 2021
Michelle Pfeiffer delivers "a role for which she will be remembered" (Variety) in the latest work from Director Azazel Jacobs (THE LOVERS)
French Exit
  • 2021
"A scrumptious cinematic journey" (Variety) with unprecedented access to the elusive truffle hunters, from filmmakers Michael Dweck & Gregory Kershaw
The Truffle Hunters
  • 2020
Maryam Touzani's feature debut was Morocco's entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards
Adam
  • 2019
Director Andreas Koefoed tells the inside story behind the Salvator Mundi, a painting claimed to be a long-lost masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci.
The Lost Leonardo
  • 2021
A timely political allegory against a jaw-dropping natural landscape, aided by a brainy, tenacious anti-heroine.
The County
  • 2019
Suzanne Lindon's directorial debut is "a portrait of first love which is fresh, honest and engaging" (Screen Daily)
Spring Blossom
  • 2021
“One of the most finely tuned and richly achieved of [Philippe] Garrel’s recent works. Beautiful." (Screen Daily)
The Salt of Tears
  • 2020
Oscar winning director Moran Neville delivers an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at the life and legacy of Anthony Bourdain.
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
  • 2021
From Juan José Campanella. It’s SUNSET BOULEVARD meets THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL, with a Latin twist.
The Weasels’ Tale
  • 2020