A24 & NEON Curations

Explore our curated catalog of 20 defining A24 and NEON releases. From tactile psychological horror and modern moral grit to high-concept arthouse architecture.

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Parasite (Gisaengchung, NEON, 2019)

  • Director: Bong Joon-ho

  • The Pitch: An impoverished family infiltrates an affluent household layer by layer until a subterranean secret shatters the dynamic.

  • Why It’s Essential: Masterclass in spatial hierarchy, tonal pivot from dark comedy to home-invasion thriller, and class architecture.

Hereditary (A24, 2018)

  • Director: Ari Aster

  • The Pitch: A grieving family unravels generational occult inheritance after a roadside family tragedy.

  • Why It’s Essential: Miniature model crafting mirroring familial entrapment, paired with Toni Collette’s raw grief-shriek performance.

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Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu, NEON, 2019)

  • Director: Céline Sciamma

  • The Pitch: A female painter in 18th-century Brittany is commissioned to paint a wedding portrait of a reluctant bride-to-be without her knowledge.

  • Why It’s Essential: The male gaze dismantled; intimacy built through observation, shared silence, and artistic collaboration.

Uncut Gems (A24, 2019)

  • Director: Benny & Josh Safdie

  • The Pitch: A manic Diamond District jeweler juggles high-stakes debt, a rare black opal gamble, and a collapsing personal ecosystem.

  • Why It’s Essential: Operates like a panic arrest compressed into 135 minutes through overlapping wall-to-wall dialogue and sonic chaos.

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Anatomy of a Fall (Anatomie d'une chute, NEON, 2023)

  • Director: Justine Triet

  • The Pitch: A German writer is put on trial for her husband’s fatal fall from their remote chalet, turning domestic privacy into legal combat.

  • Why It’s Essential: Interrogates linguistic nuance, marital friction, and the impossibility of objective domestic truth.

The Lighthouse (A24, 2019)

  • Director: Robert Eggers

  • The Pitch: Two lighthouse keepers descend into isolation-induced madness, maritime myth, and flatulence-laced psychological warfare on a rocky island.

  • Why It’s Essential: Orthochromatic 35mm stock, 1.19:1 box ratio, and Melvillean maritime claustrophobia.

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Palm Springs (NEON, 2020)

  • Director: Max Barbakow

  • The Pitch: Two wedding guests trapped in a multi-year time loop at a desert resort navigate nihilism, romance, and existential boredom.

  • Why It’s Essential: Updates the loop template with millennial emotional burnout, sharp comedic chemistry, and fatalistic warmth.

Past Lives (A24, 2023)

  • Director: Celine Song

  • The Pitch: Two childhood sweethearts from Seoul are reunited decades later in New York as adults facing alternate life choices (In-Yun).

  • Why It’s Essential: Quiet emotional maturity, immigrant displacement melancholy, and graceful acceptance of paths not taken.

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Titane (NEON, 2021)

  • Director: Julia Ducournau

  • The Pitch: A female car-crash survivor with a titanium plate in her skull embarks on a bizarre, violent Odyssey involving identity morphing and a grieving firefighter.

  • Why It’s Essential: Body-horror provocation crashing headfirst into tender, unorthodox surrogate father-daughter empathy.

Moonlight (A24, 2016)

  • Director: Barry Jenkins

  • The Pitch: Three defining chapters in the life of a young Black man growing up queer in Miami, navigating hyper-masculinity and tenderness.

  • Why It’s Essential: Luminous cyan/gold digital palette, tactile sea-water baptism imagery, and radical empathy.

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Triangle of Sadness (NEON, 2022)

  • Director: Ruben Östlund

  • The Pitch: Fashion model influencers and ultra-wealthy passengers survive a luxury yacht shipwreck, only for island social hierarchies to invert.

  • Why It’s Essential: Tactile gross-out satire weaponizing nausea against luxury capitalism.

Ex Machina (A24, 2014)

  • Director: Alex Garland

  • The Pitch: Programmer wins a week at a secluded tech CEO mountain compound to administer a Turing test on an android.

  • Why It’s Essential: Chamber-piece power dynamics, AI gaslighting, and architectural minimalist isolation.

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The Worst Person in the World (Verdens verste menneske, NEON, 2021)

  • Director: Joachim Trier

  • The Pitch: A restless millennial woman in Oslo drifts through romantic partners, career confusion, and time-frozen existential pauses across 12 chapters.

  • Why It’s Essential: Freezes time literally to capture romantic acceleration; deeply human messy quarter-life blueprint.

Midsommar (A24, 2019)

  • Director: Ari Aster

  • The Pitch: Grieving American grad students visit a sunlit Swedish midsummer pagan commune that turns blood-ritualistic.

  • Why It’s Essential: Daylight folk horror subverting shadows for blinding sun-bleached terror and cult gaslighting.

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Pig (NEON, 2021)

  • Director: Michael Sarnoski

  • The Pitch: A hermit truffle-hunter living in the Oregon wilderness tracks down his kidnapped prized foraging pig in Portland’s underground culinary scene.

  • Why It’s Essential: Subverts John Wick revenge tropes into a quiet, bruised meditation on grief, food memory, and letting go.

The Witch (A24, 2015)

  • Director: Robert Eggers

  • The Pitch: A puritan family cast out to a New England forest edge in 1630 faces dark occult corruption of their livestock and children.

  • Why It’s Essential: Period-accurate Middle English vernacular, atmospheric fog, and patriarchal paranoia.

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First Cow (A24, 2019)

  • Director: Kelly Reichardt

  • The Pitch: A quiet cook and a Chinese immigrant entrepreneur poach milk from a wealthy landowner’s prize cow to bake oily biscuits in 1820s Oregon.

  • Why It’s Essential: Radical anti-capitalist gentleness, mud-and-moss tactile texture, and frontier friendship.

Anora (NEON, 2024)

  • Director: Sean Baker

  • The Pitch: An Uzbek-American sex worker in Brooklyn marries the impulsive son of a Russian oligarch, triggering a chaotic family intervention.

  • Why It’s Essential: High-octane emotional whiplash shifting from fairy-tale rush to bruising, grounded socioeconomic reality.

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The Zone of Interest (A24, 2023)

  • Director: Jonathan Glazer

  • The Pitch: Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig build a dream domestic garden right next to the camp wall.

  • Why It’s Essential: Radical acoustic horror; genocide rendered as ambient background noise while domestic banality thrives.

Longlegs (NEON, 2024)

  • Director: Osgood Perkins

  • The Pitch: An intuitive FBI rookie tracks an occult-obsessed serial killer tied to a personal childhood shadow.

  • Why It’s Essential: Negative-space dread, archival 90s federal procedural dread, and unhinged Nicolas Cage sonic distortion.

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Everything Everywhere All at Once (A24, 2022)

  • Director: Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert

  • The Pitch: A stressed Chinese-American laundromat owner is sucked into a multi-versal crisis to save existence alongside her estranged family.

  • Why It’s Essential: Maximalist kitchen-sink multiverse kineticism grounded in generational mother-daughter reconciliation (googly eyes).

Aftersun (A24, 2022)

  • Director: Charlotte Wells

  • The Pitch: A young woman reflects on a holiday she took with her father at a Turkish resort twenty years prior through mini-DV footage and memory gaps.

  • Why It’s Essential: Devastating elliptical emotional architecture; reading depression and looming absence through holiday sun glare.

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Marty Supreme (A24, 2025/2026)

  • Director: Josh Safdie

  • The Pitch: A high-velocity dive into the hyper-competitive, eccentric subculture of professional table tennis in mid-century America.

  • Why It’s Essential: Safdie-brand tactile hyperfixation applied to niche athletic obsession and hustle culture.

Sentimental Value (NEON, 2025/2026)

  • Director: Joachim Trier

  • The Pitch: Two estranged sisters in Oslo grapple with the return of their charismatic, erratic stage/film director father offering a script starring them.

  • Why It’s Essential: Sharp Scandinavian emotional autopsies exploring artistic legacy, ego, and familial inheritance.

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No Other Choice (NEON, 2025/2026)

  • Director: Park Chan-wook (referencia de thriller de alta tensión moral)

  • The Pitch: A desperate corporate survivor driven to extreme ethical compromises in a hyper-optimized urban jungle.

  • Why It’s Essential: Surgical cruelty, symmetrical framing, and systemic pressure cookers.

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