Kanopy’s 2024 most-streamed list includes recent award-winners, critically acclaimed independents, and classics — a cross section of Kanopy’s library of more than 30,000 films, documentaries, and TV series — all available to stream instantly with your Bloomfield Township Public Library card. If you’re new to Kanopy, view the guide to get started now or stop by the Adult and Teen Services desk.
Feature Films
The top three movies on Kanopy’s 2024 most-streamed list are Oscar-nominees Past Lives (2023) and Anatomy of a Fall (2023) and the critically acclaimed indie favorite Jules (2023) starring Ben Kingsley. Rounding out the top five are You Hurt My Feelings (2023), Nicole Holofcener’s sharply observed comedy with Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Tobias Menzies, and Golda (2023), with Helen Mirren as Golda Meir; the film won the 2024 Cinema for Peace award.
Rounding out the top ten are thrillers Dial M for Murder (1954), a Hitchcock classic starring Grace Kelly and Ray Milland, and Possession (1981) with Sam Neill and Isabelle Adjani; the Australian horror instant-classic Talk to Me (2022); and two rom-coms — Sometimes I Think About Dying (2023) and She Came to Me (2023), both film festival favorites.
Also among 2024’s most-watched narrative films are the absurdist Sasquatch Sunset (2024), a Sundance pick featuring Riley Keough and Jessie Eisenberg, and 2023’s One Life starring Anthony Hopkins as the young London stockbroker who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued more than six hundred children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.
World Cinema
Kanopy’s top-streamed films from around the globe include Wim Wender’s highly acclaimed Perfect Days (2023, Japanese), a poetic reflection on finding beauty in the everyday world; Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara (2023, Italian and Hebrew), the story of a seven year-old boy who is taken from his Jewish family to be raised Catholic in 1850s Italy; and Golden Years (2022, French and German), portraying two pensioners’ journeys of self-discovery. Stream these and all world cinema with or without English subtitles.
Documentaries
If you’re curious-minded, explore Kanopy’s broad collection of documentaries including 2024 most-watched titles like…
Merchant Ivory (2024), the definitive tribute to the filmmaking partnership of James Ivory and Ismail Merchant, anchored by interviews with Ivory and forty-one close collaborators
Lynch/Oz (2022), a reinterpretation of The Wizard of Oz by way of filmmaker David Lynch, delivering new appreciations of both.
Daytime Revolution (2024), an in-depth look at the one week in February 1972 when John Lennon and Yoko Ono co-hosted the iconic Mike Douglas Show, then the most popular show on daytime television with an audience of 40 million viewers a week. Their version was a radical take on the traditional format, incorporating handpicked guests, candid Q&A sessions with a transfixed audience, conversations about current issues, conceptual art events, and one-of-a-kind musical performances.
TV Series
Head to Kanopy to binge-watch top BBC and Masterpiece series like Father Brown, Blackshore, The Forsyte Saga, and Beyond Paradise; the History Channel’s Abraham Lincoln, a three-episode mini series; and the popular Italian series Detective Montalbano.
Browse all of 2024’s most-watched film narratives, world cinema, TV series, and documentaries.
Happy viewing!
