It’s been quite a year for Kino Film Collection! In fact, it was our first year ever, and we want to thank you for being part of it. We hope you’ve been able to discover and enjoy some international, classic, documentary, and indie gems on our service that you haven’t been able to find anywhere else. But there were a few titles that you seemed to really enjoy. In the spirit of Spotify Wrapped and other end-of-year lists, we’ve created our own recap of the top-streamed titles on Kino Film Collection. We love learning which films speak to you most and promise we’ll use it to help curate future titles to give you more of what you want.
What were you watching in 2024? Here are some insights we gleaned from your top-viewed titles:
- You love your iconic directors. Bernardo Bertolucci, Andrei Tarkovsky, Jean-Luc Godard, Patricia Rozema, Yorgos Lanthimos, and Ken Loach were some of the filmmakers that landed at the top.
- You enjoy a diverse range of genres. Dramas, documentaries, romance, Westerns, dark comedies—you love it all! We’ll continue to curate a wide array of genres for you to enjoy in 2025.
- You love every decade of film. Along with the mix of genres, a wide range of decades were also represented. Our top-streamed titles span a whopping 58 years, from 1965 to 2023.
- You went all over the world. Look at you, you little globe-trotter. You let Kino Film Collection take you to France, Italy, Sweden, Greece, China, Vietnam, Tunisia, Canada, and more. We pride ourselves on seeking out the most unforgettable stories from around the world, so expect to go even more places in 2025.
So what exactly were these titles we keep alluding to? Without further ado, here are the titles you streamed the most in 2024 on Kino Film Collection...
The Conformist: Restored Edition
Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci (1970, Italy)
Drama, Thriller
Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Bernardo Bertolucci's masterpiece is a political drama set in Mussolini's Italy starring Jean-Louis Trintignant as a man who joins the fascists in an attempt to fit in. Newly restored from the original camera negative by Cineteca di Bologna in collaboration with Minerva Pictures under the supervision of Fondazione Bernardo Bertolucci.
Here’s what fans have said about the film:
“Now this is what a beautiful film looks like....It was so beautiful I just wanted to jump through the screen. Whether it is the period Italian fashions, the old cars or the chic interiors enhanced by some otherworldly cinematography, the entire film felt like a cool breeze flowing in on a warm day or that perfectly brisk weather that comes immediately before a rain. So refreshing and invigorating.”
CJ Probst on Letterboxd
“One of the most visually hypnotic films I've ever seen. Bernardo Bertolucci's stunning early-1970s classic looks absolutely beautiful nearly forty years later.…A truly remarkable movie.”
evanston_dad on IMDb
“Too-good-to-be-true first time viewing.”
ScreeningNotes on Letterboxd
Nostalghia
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky (1983, Russia, Italy)
Drama
In Andrei Tarkovsky’s first film made outside of the USSR, a Russian intellectual conducting research in Italy becomes overwhelmed by a melancholic longing for home. Winner of three awards at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival, his late masterpiece is a mystical and mysterious collision of East and West, shot with the tactile beauty that only Tarkovsky can provide.
Here’s what fans have said about the film:
“Incredible, astounding, mind-blowing, poetic, masterful, hypnotic, spellbinding. Words are not enough. This is one of Tarkovsky's masterpieces.”
raphael g on Rotten Tomatoes
“Andrei Tarkovsky's "Nostalghia" is about as perfect as a film can get.”
Anonymous user on Rotten Tomatoes
“At 1a.m., it all made sense….It's a work of immense beauty and transcends normal movie viewing practices. Try it one day and put it on late at night, with a glass of beer. You'll see what I mean.”
sgtslut on IMDb
The Old Oak
Directed by Ken Loach (2023, UK)
Drama
Ken Loach’s deeply moving final film explores loss, fear, and the difficulty of finding hope. When a group of Syrian refugees moves to a once thriving mining village in northern England, prejudice fuels a rift between the community and its newest inhabitants. But an unlikely friendship between the owner of the local pub and a young Syrian woman offers new possibilities for the divided village.
Here’s what fans have said about the film:
“Sometimes you just need to cry in the cinema surrounded by old people on a friday afternoon.”
laura on Letterboxd
“I am one of the projectionists in the local small town cinema with only two or three shows per week. The end titles of a film is not only for crediting all people involved in the production, it is also a time to reflect and contemplate on what you experienced when watching the movie, and you can measure how touched people were by how long they stay during the end titles. When The Old Oak was the movie for the evening not a single one in the audience got up from their seats until the last line in the credits had passed, the screen had faded to black and the curtains closed. That is a mark of a very touching movie!”
konrad-296-152616 on IMDb
“Sometimes a film can change your viewpoint. Superb stuff.”
DM on Rotten Tomatoes
France
Directed by Bruno Dumont (2021, France)
Dark Comedy
Léa Seydoux brilliantly holds the center of Bruno Dumont’s Cannes Palme d'Or nominated film, which starts out as a satire of contemporary news media before steadily spiraling out into something richer and darker. Set in contemporary Paris, France follows a journalist who's high-profile world is turned upside down after she injures a delivery man in a traffic accident.
Here’s what fans have said about the film:
“I wasn't going to review this because it felt like there was too much to say, but weeks later I'm still ranting and raving about–yeah–my fav of the year.”
Actress Hari Nef (Barbie, The Idol) on Letterboxd
“This is a beautifully cynical portrait of the media — the knife's edge between the truth and what sells in the news — and its very human costs. Léa Seydoux's complex character is at once paper thin and has bottomless depth.”
t g on Rotten Tomatoes
“Bruno Dumont…achieves a remarkable and disconcerting mixture of tones and registers to recount the crisis of a diva of French television journalism. The proposal also works thanks to the empathy produced by Léa Seydoux who eats up the screen with her beauty and a formidable performance.”
danybur on IMDb
Close to Vermeer
Directed by Suzanne Raes (2023, Netherlands)
Documentary
Go behind the scenes of the largest Vermeer exhibition ever, mounted in early 2023 at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Capturing the imagination of the art world, the retrospective was nothing short of an historic event. Suzanne Raes’s film follows curators, conservators, collectors, and experts in their joint mission to shine a new light on the elusive Dutch Master.
Here’s what fans have said about the film:
“Close To Vermeer offers a mesmerizing exploration of art, history, and intrigue. The meticulous attention to detail, combined with superb performances, brings the enigmatic world of Vermeer to life. A visually stunning and intellectually stimulating cinematic experience. Bravo!”
Onini C on Rotten Tomatoes
“Enchanting. In a void of digital and AI nonsense, a world where bananas with a daub of paint are considered 'art' and where Great Masters are now extinct, this is a breath of fresh air.”
joanna d on Rotten Tomatoes
“Exceptional film that brings science and emotion together.”
Barbara on Rotten Tomatoes
Dogtooth
Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos (2009, Greece)
Dark Comedy, Drama
Graceful, enigmatic, and often frightening, Dogtooth is an ingenious dark comedy and biting social satire that won the Prix Un Certain Regard at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, propelling director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite) to the forefront of contemporary cinema's most ambitious filmmakers.
Here’s what fans have said about the film:
“I want what yorgos lanthimos was on when he made this movie.”
sofia on Letterboxd
“Disturbing, darkly funny, and totally unpredictable, 'Dogtooth' is an excellent jet-black deadpan satire."
Anonymous user on Rotten Tomatoes
“I'll start by saying: This is the best film I've ever seen! I think if you summon up Seidl, Haneke, Korine and Trier the result is Lanthimos. I'm speechless. Suddenly I remember why films like this has to be made….It's finest art. And I laughed loudly, and my heart [was] beating so fast….I love this film so much it hurts. I have no more words.”
Sfjelkegard on IMDb
Alphaville
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard (1965, France)
Film Noir, Sci-Fi
Influential director Jean-Luc Godard’s irreverent journey to the mysterious Alphaville remains one of the least conventional films of all time. American secret agent Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) is sent to the distant space city where he must find a missing person and kill the inventor of fascist computer Alpha 60. Anna Karina and Akim Tamiroff co-star in this cockeyed science-fiction.
Here’s what fans have said about the film:
“Poetic dialogue. Trench coats and dark rooms. This is Godard's noir. The guy makes cool films without breaking a sweat, creates characters as cool as him in the blink of an eye. There is no cool like Godard cool. It's in his blood. He oozes 350 coolness per second. Ask him how did he make it and he would probably blow cigarette smoke to your face.”
YI JIAN on Letterboxd
"Alphaville is an ultra spooky, but very relevant sci-fi thriller that should be in the ranks of 'Brazil' or 'Metropolis.' Highly recommended."
Anonymous user on Rotten Tomatoes
“Moody, enigmatic and surreal, 'Alphaville' has the signature of it's visionary director all around. There aren't many films around which merges SciFi and philosophy like this one.”
Anonymous user on Rotten Tomatoes
Long Day’s Journey Into Night
Directed by Bi Gan (2019, China)
Neo-Noir, Drama
Considered China's biggest arthouse hit of all time, Bi Gan's noir-tinged stunner follows a lost soul on a quest to find a missing woman from his past. Following leads across Guizhou province, he crosses paths with a series of colorful characters. When the search leads him to a dingy movie theater, the film launches into an hour-long shot that plunges its protagonist into a labyrinthine cityscape.
Here’s what fans have said about the film:
“Dropping the title card 75 minutes into your film then continuing the rest of the film in 3D with one single take for an hour might just be the biggest power move in all of cinema. Masterpiece, obviously.”
James Healey on Letterboxd
“It's a vanishingly rare occurrence to see something on the screen and be unable to wrap your head around how it was achieved. But in 'Long Day's Journey Into Night'... some kind of sorcery is at work, and yet, you may carry the echoes of this indefinable masterpiece long after you've awakened from it.”
Anonymous user on Rotten Tomatoes
“The most beautifully dreamy cinematography you'll ever see.”
Anonymous user on Rotten Tomatoes
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Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
Directed by Pham Thien An (2023, Vietnam)
Drama
Winner of the prestigious Camera d’Or for best first film at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, the enthralling Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell from Vietnamese filmmaker Pham Thien An is a reverie on faith, loss, and nature expressed with uncommon invention and depth that follows a thirty something man after he leaves Saigon for a trip back to his rural hometown following a family tragedy.
Here’s what fans have said about the film:
“What a haunting film of concrete and water, of ghosts and magic tricks, of loss and discovery. A joy to see Vietnam given such beautiful cinematic treatment.”
Sam Bou on Letterboxd
“So gorgeous & patient in its contemplation of faith & loss.”
L F on Rotten Tomatoes
“It's just so wonderful I would love to meet the filmmakers and shake hand with all of them :)”
Hoang3584 on IMDb
The Sacrifice
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky (1986, Sweden)
Drama
Winner of four awards at the Cannes Film Festival and the winner of Best Foreign Language Film at the BAFTA's, famed Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky's final masterpiece is a haunting vision of a world threatened with nuclear annihilation. Made as he was dying of cancer, The Sacrifice is his personal statement and a profoundly moving tragedy steeped in unforgettable imagery and emotion.
Here’s what fans have said about the film:
“Its excellent performances, stunning cinematography, well-crafted production, religious and mystical allegories, stylish filmmaking, impressive visuals and complex themes make it a powerful and rewarding watch, and a fitting farewell for the legendary Andrei Tarkovsky.”
lucca b on Rotten Tomatoes
“What a film, what a great tribute to Ingmar Bergman and what a grand finale for Tarkovsky. A real masterpiece!”
Anonymous user on Rotten Tomatoes
“This is the best movie I have seen so far. I watch it again about once or twice a year, like a ritual or an annual holiday I would be taking into levels of consciousness where the mind is not really required.”
maeva on IMDb
Last of the Dogmen
Directed by Tab Murphy (1995, USA)
Western
Tom Berenger stars as a bounty hunter hired to track down three escaped convicts in the Oxbow region of the Rockies in this beautifully photographed western filled with romance, adventure, and folklore. After finding a strange arrow shaft, he takes it to anthropologist Lillian Sloan (Barbara Hershey) and together they set off in search of the mysterious Cheyenne Dog Soldiers tribe.
Here’s what fans have said about the film:
“My childhood greatly benefited seeing this wonderful adventure. It will always be one of my most favorite movies ever.”
Anonymous user on Rotten Tomatoes
“I've seen this at least 8 times, and every time I see it, I end up in tears — something about this story touches me deeply. If you connect with Native American culture and appreciate a simple, communal way of life that has meaning, this move will grab your heart.“
Anonymous user on Rotten Tomatoes
“The best movie nobody ever heard of!”
dthor623 on IMDb
Four Daughters
Directed by Kaouther Ben Hania (2023, Tunisia, France, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus)
Documentary
One of the year's most acclaimed releases, this riveting documentary by two-time Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania (The Man Who Sold His Skin) uses an audacious formal conceit to tell the story of Olfa Hamrouni and her four daughters. Attempting to answer the question of how and why the Tunisian woman’s two eldest were radicalized, Ben Hania reveals a complex history. We watch as the family relives key events in their lives with help from professional actors standing in for the missing girls. Winner of the Best Documentary award at the Cannes Film Festival, Best Documentary Feature at the Gotham Awards, and Best Writing at the IDA Documentary Awards.
Here’s what fans have said about the film:
“A most remarkable and moving film. The story of this family would be interesting enough, but the way the film has been structured is unlike anything I have seen before. Beautifully photographed, exquisitely acted and bravely re-lived. I was totally engrossed and it was a rare window into a world previously closed to me. That laughter, songs and joy can coexist with such trauma is a testament to the human spirit. Bravo to all involved in this production.”
Laurie F on Rotten Tomatoes
“It's an incredible film (documentary) with heart-wrenching, funny and highly nuanced performances….By the end of the film, I was left with a funny feeling in my stomach, and its a rare feeling for all I believe. I hope it comes out on a platform soon so that it reaches the right kind of audience and gets the appreciation it deserves.The filmmaker, the actors, and lastly Olfa and her daughters — they all have my heart.”
GrimSage1123 on IMDb
We heard you loud and clear, GrimSage1123!
“(nathan fielder voice) Olfa needed to move past her trauma. So I hired two actresses to portray her estranged daughters and had her and her other two daughters reenact everything they’d gone through.”
ronan on Letterboxd
When Night Is Falling
Directed by Patricia Rozema (1995, Canada)
Drama, LGBTQIA+
In Patricia Rozema’s lesbian love story, Camille, a professor at a Protestant college meets Petra, a wry and flamboyant performer in a modern Felliniesque circus troupe, and is inexplicably drawn. Camille pursues this sensual, dream-like woman, throwing her whole conservative life, not to mention her engagement to a respected minister, into disarray.
Here’s what fans have said about the film:
“Excellent love story/drama. Takes your heart right from the start and does not let go, even in the end, you want more! Excellently written, excellent actors, excellent directing….Absolutely breathtaking and flawlessly performed. Loved the dog! A must see for all you drama fans who love love stories!”
Anonymous user on Rotten Tomatoes
“I liked this movie very much. Emotional and full of love. Remind me of me n my wife. The love part.”
Anonymous user on Rotten Tomatoes
“A gorgeous, sensual delight. This is one of the most beautiful movies I have ever seen."
junecatpower on IMDb
The Ballad of Little Jo
Directed by Maggie Greenwald (1993, USA)
Western
In this gorgeously crafted film inspired by a true story, acclaimed writer-director Maggie Greenwald adds a modern twist to the classic western. Suzy Amis stars as Josephine, a society girl who disguises herself as a boy after leaving her home in disgrace. As Little Jo, she confronts all the dangers of the Wild West and risks everything by falling in love with the man who discovers her secret.
Here’s what fans have said about the film:
“This is one the best little westerns most people have probably never heard of.”
Anonymous user on Rotten Tomatoes
“Director Greenwald lets her story flow beautifully in its own calm pace; she makes Jo's expressive face the very core of this remarkable film - that's where all starts and, finally, ends. Film's gorgeous landscapes and panorama may take your breath away as well, but it's really the director's ability to understand Jo Monaghan's incredible life story that makes The Ballad of Little Jo such a magnificent experience.”
Outi on IMDb
“The greatest movie I’ve ever seen! Believe it or not, I saw it 6 times in 2 days!
Virginian on IMDb
The Sorrow and the Pity
Directed by Marcel Ophüls (1969, France, Switzerland, West Germany)
Documentary
From its first release at an underground theater in Paris, this account of France's occupation under Nazi regime has been acclaimed as one of the most moving and influential films ever made. Director Marcel Ophüls interviewed the residents of Clermont-Ferrand who remembered the occupation, as well as government officials, writers, farmers, artists, and German veterans. Here, in their own words, is the story of how ordinary citizens and leaders alike behaved under military siege.
Here’s what fans have said about the film:
“If you believe that humans are social creatures with some innate desire to put aside differences when faced with a common enemy, then prepare to question yourself A LOT.”
Jon Roberts on Letterboxd
“THE SORROW AND THE PITY is a staggering account of the French town of Clermont-Ferrand under Nazi occupation, and those who dealt with it- particularly the Jewish residents and those who knew them. This will probably go down as one of the greatest documentaries ever made.”
Anonymous user on Rotten Tomatoes
“This was us then and could be us again. No other ' message ' in the documentary appeared more dreadful than that. I applaud it for its investigation of who we are as human beings, perhaps forever caught on the eternal wheel of forgetting what being truly inhuman looks like. I challenge every country to show this film regularly on television to show us the horror and the pity of who we are and what we can become.”
jromanbaker on IMDb