Luca Guadagnino has crafted some of the most sensuous and visually stunning films of his generation, spanning sun-drenched romance to visceral horror. Which is his greatest work?
1Call Me by Your NameGuadagnino's 2017 coming-of-age romance set in sun-drenched Italy earned an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay and made Timothée Chalamet a star.1000pts
2ChallengersThe 2024 tennis love-triangle thriller starring Zendaya is a kinetic, exhilarating portrait of obsession, rivalry, and desire that showcased Guadagnino at his most playful.378pts
3Bones and AllGuadagnino's 2022 road-trip cannibal romance starring Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell is a tender, unsettling meditation on love and belonging on the American margins.378pts
4A Bigger SplashThe 2015 sun-soaked thriller on a Sicilian island, starring Ralph Fiennes in an irresistible performance, shows Guadagnino at his most sensual and casually dangerous.378pts
5I Am LoveGuadagnino's 2009 breakthrough feature stars Tilda Swinton as a Russian-born matriarch in a wealthy Milan family whose life is upended by a secret love affair.378pts
6QueerGuadagnino's 2024 adaptation of William S. Burroughs' novella stars Daniel Craig as an American expat in Mexico City consumed by obsession — intimate and hallucinatory.285pts
7SuspiriaHis 2018 re-imagining of Dario Argento's horror classic is a deeply political, viscerally disturbing arthouse horror film set in Cold War Berlin.176pts
8The ProtagonistsGuadagnino's 1999 feature debut stars Tilda Swinton as part of a film crew in London reconstructing a real murder, blurring documentary and fiction.
9Melissa P.His 2005 adaptation of Melissa Panarello's bestselling memoir follows a Sicilian teenager's sexual awakening and became a sizeable box-office hit in Italy.
10After the HuntThe 2025 campus drama stars Julia Roberts as a Yale philosophy professor caught between a student, played by Ayo Edebiri, and an accused colleague, played by Andrew Garfield.
