The 15 Best Annapurna Pictures Films

Daring auteur dramas, biting satires, and awards-season heavyweights define one studio's fearless, risk-taking run. Which is the standout? Cast your vote!

1

Her

Spike Jonze's 2013 romance about a lonely man who falls in love with an AI operating system.

1000pts

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2

Foxcatcher

Bennett Miller's 2014 true-crime drama about wrestlers and eccentric heir John du Pont.

756pts

3

Zero Dark Thirty

Kathryn Bigelow's 2012 thriller dramatizing the decade-long hunt for Osama bin Laden.

665pts

4

American Hustle

David O. Russell's 2013 con-artist caper inspired by the Abscam sting operation.

665pts

5

Vice

Adam McKay's 2018 biographical satire of US Vice President Dick Cheney.

596pts

6

Phantom Thread

Paul Thomas Anderson's 2017 portrait of an obsessive 1950s London couturier.

596pts

7

The Sisters Brothers

Jacques Audiard's 2018 offbeat Western following two assassin brothers in Gold Rush Oregon.

596pts

8

20th Century Women

Mike Mills' 2016 drama about a mother raising her teenage son in late-1970s Santa Barbara.

423pts

9

Booksmart

Olivia Wilde's 2019 coming-of-age comedy about two overachievers' wild graduation night.

423pts

10

Detroit

Kathryn Bigelow's 2017 drama reconstructing the 1967 Algiers Motel incident.

310pts

11

Spring Breakers

Harmony Korine's 2012 neon-soaked tale of college girls spiraling into crime in Florida.

310pts

12

Killing Them Softly

Andrew Dominik's 2012 crime drama with Brad Pitt as an enforcer hunting card-game robbers.

310pts

13

Sorry to Bother You

Boots Riley's 2018 surreal satire about a Black telemarketer and his 'white voice'.

172pts

14

The Master

Paul Thomas Anderson's 2012 drama about a drifter drawn into a charismatic new movement.

172pts

15

If Beale Street Could Talk

Barry Jenkins' 2018 adaptation of James Baldwin's novel about love and injustice in Harlem.

172pts