Audience
75.3
Critics
93.5
Award
93.1
🏆CANNES 2025
Movies recognized by major awards & festivals, 2021–2026
Compare crime films lasting 120 minutes or less, drawn from Oscar Best Picture and BAFTA Best Film nominees and Cannes, Venice and Berlin competition selections in 2021–2026. Ranked by audience ratings, critics’ scores and award recognition.
2021–2026 refers to ceremony and festival years, not necessarily release dates. 26 films in this collection.
| # | Movie | Watch | Year | Total ~ | Audience | Critics | Award Score | Recognition | Genre | Runtime |
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| 1 | IW Jafar Panahi · Iran; France; Luxembourg | 2025 | 95.1 | 75.3 | 93.5 | 93.1 | 🏆CANNES 2025 | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 103 min | |
| 2 | PY Emerald Fennell · United States; United Kingdom | 2020 | 93.1 | 76.6 | 78.9 | 89.3 | ●BAFTA 2021●OSCAR 2021 | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 113 min | |
| 3 | J Beth de Araújo · United States | 2026 | 90.3~ | 82.5 | 89.7 | 70.0 | ●BERLIN 2026 | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 114 min | |
| 4 | WH Martin McDonagh · United Kingdom; United States; Chile | 2026 | 90.1~ | 83.4 | 84.3 | 70.8 | ●VENICE 2026 | Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 118 min | |
| 5 | TP Sergey Loznitsa · France; Germany; Romania; Latvia; Netherlands; Lithuania | 2025 | 89.5 | 72.6 | 89.4 | 71.6 | ●CANNES 2025 | Biography, Crime, Drama | 118 min | |
| 6 | RO Natalia López · Mexico; Argentina; United States | 2022 | 89.4 | 63.6 | 77.3 | 80.6 | ◆BERLIN 2022 | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 118 min | |
| 7 | N Justin Kurzel · Australia; Germany | 2021 | 89.2 | 73.2 | 85.4 | 71.6 | ●CANNES 2021 | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 112 min | |
| 8 | PT James Gray · United States | 2026 | 88.8~ | 73.5 | 81.3 | 71.6 | ●CANNES 2026 | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 115 min | |
| 9 | TA Jean-Pierre Dardenne; Luc Dardenne · Belgium; France | 2022 | 88.8 | 72.7 | 82.2 | 71.6 | ●CANNES 2022 | Crime, Drama | 88 min | |
| 10 | C1 Dominik Moll · France | 2025 | 88.8 | 73.8 | 80.7 | 71.6 | ●CANNES 2025 | Crime, Drama | 116 min | |
| 11 | AC Alonso Ruizpalacios · Mexico | 2021 | 88.7 | 73.9 | 82.7 | 70.0 | ●BERLIN 2021 | Action, Crime, Documentary | 107 min | |
| 12 | HS Ali Abbasi · Germany; Denmark; France; Sweden | 2022 | 88.3 | 75.5 | 73.0 | 71.6 | ●CANNES 2022 | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 118 min | |
| 13 | TO Justin Kurzel · Canada; United States; United Kingdom | 2024 | 88.3 | 70.1 | 81.6 | 70.8 | ●VENICE 2024 | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 116 min | |
| 14 | TK David Fincher · United States | 2023 | 87.9 | 69.7 | 78.4 | 70.8 | ●VENICE 2023 | Action, Adventure, Crime | 118 min | |
| 15 | TM Kelly Reichardt · United Kingdom; United States | 2025 | 87.9 | 63.6 | 84.0 | 71.6 | ●CANNES 2025 | Crime, Drama | 110 min | |
| 16 | TC Paul Schrader · United States | 2021 | 87.8 | 65.4 | 82.5 | 70.8 | ●VENICE 2021 | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 111 min | |
| 17 | TP Wes Anderson · United States; Germany | 2025 | 87.7 | 69.0 | 74.6 | 71.6 | ●CANNES 2025 | Action, Comedy, Crime | 101 min | |
| 18 | L Ivan Sen · Australia | 2023 | 87.6 | 64.9 | 83.1 | 70.0 | ●BERLIN 2023 | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 108 min | |
| 19 | KT Luis Ortega · Argentina; Mexico; Spain; Denmark; United States | 2024 | 87.3 | 68.6 | 73.0 | 70.8 | ●VENICE 2024 | Crime, Drama, Sport | 96 min | |
| 20 | S Gustav Möller · Denmark; Sweden | 2024 | 87.0~ | 68.3 | 72.3 | 70.0 | ●BERLIN 2024 | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 100 min | |
| 21 | D Luc Besson · France | 2023 | 86.5 | 75.9 | 53.7 | 70.8 | ●VENICE 2023 | Action, Crime, Drama | 115 min | |
| 22 | TB Léa Mysius · France | 2026 | 86.2 | 67.2 | 60.2 | 71.6 | ●CANNES 2026 | Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 114 min | |
| 23 | E Pietro Castellitto · Italy | 2023 | 86.0~ | 64.4 | 64.2 | 70.8 | ●VENICE 2023 | Crime, Drama | 115 min | |
| 24 | RK Andreas Dresen · Germany | 2022 | 85.0~ | 68.5 | 48.9 | 70.0 | ●BERLIN 2022 | Biography, Comedy, Crime | 119 min | |
| 25 | FD Sean Penn · United States | 2021 | 84.9 | 60.8 | 54.8 | 71.6 | ●CANNES 2021 | Crime, Drama | 109 min | |
| 26 | TT Christoph Hochhäusler · Germany | 2023 | 82.0~ | 60.9 | 26.4 | 70.0 | ●BERLIN 2023 | Crime, Drama, Romance | 120 min |
This collection contains 26 crime films with an Oscar Best Picture or BAFTA Best Film nomination, or Cannes, Venice or Berlin main competition selection, including winners during 2021–2026. Every film runs for 120 minutes or less. The shortest is 88 minutes and the longest is 120 minutes. The Crime label comes from the catalogue genres; a film can belong to more than one genre.
It Was Just an Accident leads this Total Score ranking with 95.1. Wild Horse Nine has one of the highest Audience scores in the selection (83.4). It Was Just an Accident has one of the highest known Critics scores (93.5). Comparing these separate scores can help you choose between the films.
Jafar Panahi · 2025 · 103 min
Audience 75.3 · Critics 93.5 · Total 95.1
Cannes 2025: Palme d'Or
Emerald Fennell · 2020 · 113 min
Audience 76.6 · Critics 78.9 · Total 93.1
BAFTA 2021: Nominee (Best Film)
Oscar 2021: Nominee (Best Picture)
Beth de Araújo · 2026 · 114 min
Audience 82.5 · Critics 89.7 · Total 90.3 (provisional)
Berlin 2026: Main Competition
Total combines 40% audience ratings, 30% critic ratings and 30% original award points, with a bonus for recognition by additional institutions. Scores shown to one decimal place can be tied while their unrounded ranking differs. A Critics score marked ~ is estimated from the catalogue median; its Total is provisional. Recognition years refer to ceremonies and festival editions, not necessarily release dates.