A24 has established itself in recent years as one of the most original production companies. And although the films it produces span all genres – horror, documentary, comedy and beyond – the entertainment house has become synonymous with a certain aesthetic.
The company has attracted singular filmmakers like Sofia Coppola, Ari Aster, Yorgos Lanthimos and Barry Jenkins, who have helped define the company’s creative philosophy to the point where it’s often easy to recognize a film as an A24 production. And his films aren’t just underground hits. Many of them, like Minari, The Zone of Interest, and Everything Everywhere All at Once, have also won Academy Awards.
Although HBO Max is the top destination to stream the most A24 movies, you can find some of its best movies on several free streaming services such as Awning, TubiPluto TV and Plex. This May, watch acclaimed films like The Farewell, which earned Awkwafina a Golden Globe for her lead performance, the horror-comedy Bodies Bodies Bodies and the Oscar-nominated Past Lives, and many more, all of which have recently arrived on these services.
Here are some of our favorite A24 hits that you can watch now without spending a cent.
2022’s Bodies Bodies Bodies is a hilarious dark comedy that stars a slew of talent, including Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, Myha’la, Chase Sui Wonders, Rachel Sennott and Pete Davidson. Taking place primarily over the course of one night, a group of friends gather at one of their homes for shelter during an impending storm. They decide to play a mafia-style board game where one of the guests pretends to kill another, and the others must find out who the murderer is. But when one of them ends up with his throat slit, everyone panics and, well, the bodies, bodies, bodies start piling up for real.
Comedian Awkwafina won a Golden Globe for her role in the major 2019 comedy-drama The Farewell. She plays a young Chinese-American woman, Billi, whose family learns that her grandmother, Nai Nai, is dying of cancer. They decide to hide Nai Nai’s diagnosis from her and instead choose to have a big wedding for Billi’s cousin without inviting Billi, fearing that she will tell her grandmother that she is dying. But Billi cancels the wedding so she can spend more time with Nai Nai, knowing their time together is limited.
Celine Song’s directorial debut, Past Lives, stars Greta Lee and Teo Yoo as childhood friends Nora and Hae Sung, who met as young children in Seoul, South Korea. The film explores their relationship over two decades as they separate after Nora moves to the United States, then reconnect as adults. When the two reunite, Nora, now married, feels close to Hae Sung, and together they wonder what would have happened if she hadn’t moved away as a child.
Sofia Coppola directed the 2023 biopic Priscilla, which tells the story of a young Priscilla Presley, who was a teenager when she met her future husband, Elvis Presley. Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi play the couple in this Golden Globe-nominated film.
Ari Aster directed this surreal black comedy about a man named Beau (Joaquin Phoenix) who goes to his mother’s house for her funeral, believing she is dead. The journey is a fever dream of unexpected detours, and when he arrives, he learns that his mother (played by Patti LuPone) wasn’t actually dead. In fact, she spies on him during his strange journey. Parker Posey, Nathan Lane, Amy Ryan and Zoe Lister-Jones also appear.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus may be best known for her comedic talents, but in the 2023 fantasy drama Tuesday, she makes a major departure. She plays a mother, Zora, desperate to keep her terminally ill daughter, Tuesday (Lola Pettigrew), alive. After meeting Death, who visits their family in the form of a giant macaw, Zora attempts to stop the bird from taking her daughter from this life. As she attempts to destroy him, unexpected consequences arise until Zora finally realizes that you can’t stop Death.
Set in western Massachusetts in the 1990s, Janet Planet is the story of a young girl, Lacy (Zoe Ziegler), who grows up with her single mother, Janet (Julianne Nicholson). The critically acclaimed film is available now on Kanopy, Pluto, Plex and Tubi.