Audience
77.1
Critics
95.3
Award
96.6
🏆BAFTA 2026🏆OSCAR 2026
Movies recognized by major awards & festivals, 2021–2026
Thrillers with an Oscar Best Picture or BAFTA Best Film nomination, or Cannes, Venice or Berlin main competition selection, including winners in 2021–2026. Only films with a known Critics Score of 85+ are included, ordered by Critics Score.
2021–2026 refers to ceremony and festival years, not necessarily release dates. 9 films in this collection.
| # | Movie | Watch | Year | Total ~ | Audience | Critics | Award Score | Recognition | Genre | Runtime |
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| 1 | OB Paul Thomas Anderson · United States | 2025 | 96.3 | 77.1 | 95.3 | 96.6 | 🏆BAFTA 2026🏆OSCAR 2026 | Comedy, Crime, Thriller | 161 min | |
| 2 | TS Kleber Mendonça Filho · Brazil; France; Mexico; Germany; Netherlands | 2025 | 93.8 | 74.8 | 93.5 | 87.6 | ●CANNES 2025●OSCAR 2026 | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 161 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 | S Ryan Coogler · United States | 2025 | 94.0 | 77.5 | 88.5 | 89.3 | ●BAFTA 2026●OSCAR 2026 | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 137 min | |
| 5 | TS Mohammad Rasoulof · Germany; Iran; France | 2024 | 90.0 | 77.5 | 88.5 | 71.6 | ●CANNES 2024 | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 167 min | |
| 6 | CV Alexey Chupov; Natasha Merkulova · Russia; Estonia; France | 2021 | 89.3 | 73.5 | 87.9 | 70.8 | ●VENICE 2021 | Drama, Thriller | 126 min | |
| 7 | N Justin Kurzel · Australia; Germany | 2021 | 89.2 | 73.2 | 85.4 | 71.6 | ●CANNES 2021 | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 112 min | |
| 8 | TE Joanna Hogg · United Kingdom; United States | 2022 | 87.8 | 63.6 | 85.4 | 70.8 | ●VENICE 2022 | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 96 min | |
| 9 | M Hirokazu Koreeda · Japan | 2023 | 90.1 | 80.8 | 85.2 | 71.6 | ●CANNES 2023 | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 127 min |
This collection contains 9 thrillers with an Oscar Best Picture or BAFTA Best Film nomination, or Cannes, Venice or Berlin main competition selection, including winners during 2021–2026. The Thriller label comes from the catalogue genres; a film can belong to more than one genre. Every film has a known Critics Score of at least 85. Missing critics’ ratings are excluded. Critics Score combines ratings from trusted sources; it is not an individual Rotten Tomatoes percentage or Metacritic score.
One Battle After Another leads this Critics Score ranking with 95.3. Josephine has one of the highest Audience scores in the selection (82.5). One Battle After Another has one of the highest known Critics scores (95.3). Comparing these separate scores can help you choose between the films.
Paul Thomas Anderson · 2025 · 161 min
Audience 77.1 · Critics 95.3 · Total 96.3
BAFTA 2026: Winner (Best Film)
Oscar 2026: Winner (Best Picture)
Kleber Mendonça Filho · 2025 · 161 min
Audience 74.8 · Critics 93.5 · Total 93.8
Cannes 2025: Main Competition
Oscar 2026: Nominee (Best Picture)
Beth de Araújo · 2026 · 114 min
Audience 82.5 · Critics 89.7 · Total 90.3 (provisional)
Berlin 2026: Main Competition
Films are ordered by their known Critics Score. The 85-point minimum is applied before ranking. 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.