Biggest A24 Movies Of All Time Ranked

A24 is American indie film label specialising in the unpredictable.

Although best-known for financing and distributing horror classics like Hereditary, Midsommar, and The Witch, A24 has grown into a cultural juggernaut that's impossible to pin down.

One year it'll earn acclaim for a stop-motion animated mockumentary film about an anthropomorphic seashell (Marcel the Shell with Shoes On), the next it'll bag a Best Picture Oscar for an action film set across infinite realities (Everything Everywhere All at Once).

Below are the ten biggest A24 movies ever released in terms of global box office. It speaks to A24's increasing influence seven of them were released in the last five years. Just outside the top ten are films with slightly less success but similar levels of legacy: The Iron Claw, Ex Machina, Room, The Witch.

• Everything Everywhere All At Once - $111,419,433
• Civil War - $106,547,052
• Talk To Me - $92,181,818
• Hereditary - $80,942,650
• Lady Bird - $80,120,944
• Moonlight - $64,895,106
• The Whale - $54,044,481
• Uncut Gems - $50,023,780
• Midsommar - $46,721,621
• Past Lives - $42,913,181

Everything Everywhere All At Once stars Michelle Yeoh A24

Everything Everywhere All At Once

An absurdist sci-fi action adventure starring Michelle Yeoh as Evelyn Quan Wang, a Chinese-American immigrant who has two problems on her to-do list: a powerful being who wants to destroy the multiverse, and taxes.

Rotten Tomatoes rating: 94%

Alex Garland writes and directs Civil War A24

Civil War

Director/writer Alex Garland's dystopian thriller has unnerving relevance to contemporary Western politics. It tracks a team of war journalists as they set out from New York City to Washington, D.C in efforts to brave the ongoing civil war and land an interview with the despotic president before he's violently removed from power.

Rotten Tomatoes rating: 81%

Talk To Me was the horror smash of 2023 A24

Talk To Me

The directorial debuts of brothers Danny and Michael Philippou sees a group of teenagers discovering an embalmed, severed hand with a weird power: it can let them speak to the dead. The power comes at a cost, however, and it doesn't like being trifled with.

Rotten Tomatoes rating: 94%

Hereditary is considered one of the scariest movies of all time by many. A24

Hereditary

For many it's the scariest film of all time, with one scene involving a speeding car and a lamppost difficult to forget. In 2018 it was the highest-grossing A24 film ever released, and centres its gaze on a grieving family who seem cursed to attract death and destruction after the loss of their grandmother.

Rotten Tomatoes rating: 90%

Saoirse Ronan stars as Lady Bird. A24

Lady Bird

The highest-rated film on this list is the fifth highest earner. A coming-of-age comedy drama written and directed by Barbie's Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird takes place from 2002-2003 and follows a high school senior's (Saoirse Ronan) turbulent relationship with her mother (Laurie Metcalf).

Rotten Tomatoes rating: 99%

Moonlight is the lowest-budget film to win the Best Picture Oscar. A24

Moonlight

Moonlight is only one of two films on this list that won the Best Picture Oscar, along with Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actor for Mahershala Ali. Releasing in 2016, it's also the oldest film in the top ten. It follows three stages in the life of a man facing abuse for his homosexuality.

Rotten Tomatoes rating: 98%

The Whale casts Brendan Fraser as an obese man. A24

The Whale

Brendan Fraser stars as a morbidly obese English teacher who's desperately trying to rekindle the relationship he once had with his teenage daughter before he abandoned her eight years earlier. The lowest-rated film here proved divisive with critics, but audiences flocked to see Fraser revive his screen career.

Rotten Tomatoes rating: 64%

Uncut Gems might be Adam Sandler's finest hour. A24

Uncut Gems

For many it's the best performance of Adam Sandler's long career. Directed by Josh and Benny Safdie, Sandler plays Howard Ratner, a Jewish-American jeweller who can't stop gambling - even if it means putting his family at the mercy of lethal loan sharks.

Rotten Tomatoes rating: 91%

Midsommar was inspired by real events in Ari Aster's life. A24

Midsommar

Florence Pugh and Jack Reynor star as an American couple who, during a holiday in Sweden, find themselves embroiled in a violent cult where each ritual is more terrible than the last. Originally pitched as a straightforward slasher, writer/director Ari Aster changed the story to focus on a painful breakup after being involved in one during production.

Rotten Tomatoes rating: 83%

Past Lives takes place over a 24-year time span. A24

Past Lives

Nominated for Best Picture at the 2024 Oscars, Past Lives follows two childhood friends whose lives intertwine over 24 years. Inspired by real events from writer/director Celine Song's life, we first meet the two protagonists as classmates in 2000 Seoul, then see the pair contemplate their relationship as their lives bring them together and apart over the next two decades.

Rotten Tomatoes rating: 95%