Year-End Lists

Simon Abrams: My Favorite Films of 2020

[see also 2019 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015]

1. Son of the White Mare (1981)
   Marcell Jankovics
2. Vitalina Varela
   Pedro Costa
3. Raining in the Mountain (1979)
   King Hu
4. I Wish I Knew (2010)
   Jia Zhang-ke
5. The Wild Goose Lake
   Diao Yinan
6. Time
   Garrett Bradley
7. Jallikattu
   Lijo Jose Pellissery
8. Assassins
   Ryan White
9. Spark (2013)
   Hu Jie
10. On the Rocks
    Sofia Coppola
11. I Was at Home, But
    Angela Schanelec
12. The Twentieth Century
    Matthew Rankin
13. The 11th Green
    Christopher Munch
14. World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime
    Don Hertzfeldt
15. Marona's Fantastic Tale
    Anca Damian
16. Gretel & Hansel
    Oz Perkins
17. The Traitor
    Marco Bellocchio
18. To the Ends of the Earth
    Kiyoshi Kurosawa
19. The Wolf House
    Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña
20. Da 5 Bloods
    Spike Lee
21. The Personal History of David Copperfield
    Armando Iannucci
22. Kajillionaire
    Miranda July
23. The Cordillera of Dreams
    Patricio Guzmán
24. Circus of Books
    Rachel Mason
25. Circumstantial Pleasures
    Lewis Klahr
26. Heimat Is a Space in Time
    Thomas Heise
27. Jinpa
    Pema Tseden
28. A White, White Day
    Hlynur Pálmason
29. Tommaso
    Abel Ferrara
30. Graves Without a Name
    Rithy Panh
31. Dick Johnson Is Dead
    Kirsten Johnson
32. La Llorona
    Jayro Bustamante
33. First Cow
    Kelly Reichardt
34. Capital in the Twenty-First Century
    Justin Pemberton
35. Fourteen
    Dan Sallitt
36. Luxor
    Zeina Durra
37. A Girl Missing
    Kôji Fukada
38. Possessor
    Brandon Cronenberg
39. The Juniper Tree (1990)
    Nietzchka Keene
40. Zappa
    Alex Winter
41. City Hall
    Frederick Wiseman
42. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
    Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross
43. Joan of Arc
    Bruno Dumont
44. VHYes
    Jack Henry Robbins
45. The Vast of Night
    Andrew Patterson
46. Premature
    Rashaad Ernesto Green
47. Nomadland
    Chloé Zhao
48. Bacurau
    Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
49. Bill & Ted Face the Music
    Dean Parisot
50. True History of the Kelly Gang
    Justin Kurzel
51. Ghost Stories
    Karan Johar, Dibakar Banerjee, Zoya Akhtar, and Anurag Kashyap
52. Young Ahmed
    Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
53. Color Out of Space
    Richard Stanley
54. Lost Girls
    Liz Garbus
55. Darbar
    A. R. Murugadoss
56. #Alive
    Cho Il-hyung
57. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
    Charlie Kaufman
58. The Grudge
    Nicolas Pesce
59. We Are Little Zombies
    Makoto Nagahisa
60. Let Him Go
    Thomas Bezucha
61. Relic
    Natalie Erika James

This list contributes to:

• Top 50 Films of 2020 Filmmaker Magazine · Village Voice Film Poll