What is the best Neon film?

By YPB Team

From foreign-language Oscar winners and multiple Palme d'Or champions to cult genre films and intimate indie dramas, Neon has built one of modern cinema's most distinctive libraries. Which is the standout?

Past Lives (2023)

Celine Song's achingly restrained debut following two childhood sweethearts across 24 years between Seoul and New York, a film that earns its emotional devastation through quiet accumulation.

1000pts

The Substance (2024)

Coralie Fargeat's Cannes Best Screenplay winner — a has-been celebrity uses a black-market drug to generate a younger version of herself — visceral, satirical, and impossible to forget.

846pts

Emilia Pérez (2024)

Jacques Audiard's Spanish-language musical crime film about a Mexican cartel boss who transitions to live as a woman, winner of the Jury Prize and Best Actress at Cannes 2024.

494pts

The Worst Person in the World (2021)

Joachim Trier's Oslo-set romantic character study following a young woman across four years of relationships and self-reinvention, one of the most honest and warm films about modern adulthood.

494pts

Triangle of Sadness (2022)

Ruben Östlund's Palme d'Or winning black comedy about celebrity influencers stranded on a deserted island after their luxury yacht sinks, a savage skewering of the ultra-wealthy.

384pts

Parasite (2019)

Bong Joon-ho's Oscar and Palme d'Or winning black comedy thriller about class warfare between two families — Neon's star acquisition and the first non-English Best Picture winner.

231pts

I, Tonya (2017)

Craig Gillespie's darkly comedic docudrama about figure skater Tonya Harding and the 1994 attack on Nancy Kerrigan, with Margot Robbie's career-making performance and a propulsive soundtrack.

231pts

Titane (2021)

Julia Ducournau's Palme d'Or-winning body-horror provocation about a serial killer with a titanium plate in her skull who disguises herself as a missing boy — transgressive, aching, and unlike anything else.

1pts

Anora (2024)

Sean Baker's Palme d'Or winner about a young Brooklyn sex worker who impulsively marries the playboy son of a Russian oligarch — electric, chaotic, and deeply humanist.

1pts

Longlegs (2024)

Oz Perkins's creepy FBI-serial-killer thriller starring Nicolas Cage as a glam-rock Satanic murderer communicating through coded messages, a genuinely unnerving invocation of dread.

1pts

Possessor (2020)

Brandon Cronenberg's ice-cold sci-fi horror about a corporate assassin who hijacks bodies — Neon's boundary-pushing genre counterpart to its arthouse fare.

1pts

Infinity Pool (2023)

Brandon Cronenberg's psychedelic horror satire about a wealthy tourist on a fictional island who discovers the local justice system allows the rich to clone themselves and watch their copies executed.

1pts

Monster (2023)

Hirokazu Kore-eda's Cannes Best Screenplay winner told from three perspectives — parent, teacher, child — about a mystery whose truth reshapes every scene we've already watched.