
Cannes 2026 Movies Ranked by Tomatometer
It’s that time of the year, when the world visits the Promenade de la Croisette to watch some of the best films from around the world at the Cannes Film Festival.
This year, legendary South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook leads a jury that includes Chloé Zhao, Stellan Skarsgård, Ruth Negga, and Demi Moore, and together, they will judge films from such auteurs as Ryusuke Hamaguchi (All of a Sudden), Pawel Pawlikowski (Fatherland), and James Gray (Paper Tiger). To learn more about what’s playing at the festival and what we anticipate will make the biggest splash, check out our picks for what will be the most talked about films of Cannes 2026.
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For our list below, we’re ranking every movie premiering at the film festival that has enough reviews for a Tomatometer score. Be sure to check back every day of the festival to see which films have been added. — Bryce Marrero
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Synopsis: After years of slapdash sequels and waning fandom, the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is handed over to an enthusiastic young director (Hannah Einbinder, Hacks) for… View Full Synopsis
Starring: Gillian Anderson, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Patrick Fischler, Hannah Einbinder
Directed By: Jane Schoenbrun, Daniel Bekerman
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Starring: Tao Okamoto, Virginie Efira, Kyozo Nagatsuka, Jean-Charles Clichet
Directed By: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
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Synopsis: A washed-up underground party promoter’s life takes an unexpected turn when he is forced to care for a son he never knew he had.
Starring: Jordan Firstman, Cara Delevingne, Diego Calva, Reggie Absolom
Directed By: Jordan Firstman, Jordan Firstman
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Starring: Ana Dumitrașcu, Mélanie Thierry, Vincent Macaigne, Marie Rivière
Directed By: Radu Jude
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Synopsis: Misael works alone with his axe, cutting down trees in the woods. An unexpected responsibility upends his life, and the logic of his days fades… View Full Synopsis
Starring: Misael Saavedra, Catalina Saavedra, Adrián Fondari, Alcides Fink
Directed By: Lisandro Alonso
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Synopsis: Sarah leaves her exciting life as an activist and artist in 90s San Francisco to return to the small, conservative hometown she fled when Alzheimer’s… View Full Synopsis
Starring: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Abbi Jacobson, Bryan Cranston, Beanie Feldstein
Directed By: Leah Nelson
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Starring: Sophie Okonedo, Ayo Edebiri, David Oyelowo, India Amarteifio
Directed By: Arie Esiri, Chuko Esiri
94%
Synopsis: In late 1980s New York, a theater artist living with AIDS takes on one possibly last great role.
Starring: Rami Malek, Rebecca Hall, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Tom Sturridge
Directed By: Ira Sachs
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Starring: Iris Lebedeva, Dmitriy Mazurov, Boris Koudrine, Yuriy Zavalnyouk
Directed By: Andrey Zvyagintsev
95%
Starring: Hanns Zischler, Sandra Hüller, August Diehl, Anna Madeley
Directed By: Paweł Pawlikowski
94%
Synopsis: In a border town in southeastern Bulgaria, a woman becomes involved in an illegal trade to help out a man with whom she shares a… View Full Synopsis
Starring: Yana Radeva, Syuleyman Alilov Letifov, Stoicho Kostadinov, Nikolay Shekerdjiev
Directed By: Valeska Grisebach
93%
Synopsis: When Lord Murashige Araki rises up against the tyrannical Nobunaga Oda, he finds himself besieged within the walls of his own castle. Isolated, he is… View Full Synopsis
Starring: Masahiro Motoki, Masaki Suda, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Munetaka Aoki
Directed By: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
94%
Synopsis: Childhood friends; Patrick, Shiv, Rian, Oli, and Conor played together, skipped school together and dreamt of the lives they would have one day. Now they’re… View Full Synopsis
Starring: Anthony Boyle, Joe Cole, Jay Lycurgo, Daryl McCormack
Directed By: Clio Barnard
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Synopsis: Chile, 1992. Staying with her grandparents at a remote hotel near an Andean ski resort, Inés (9) befriends Hanna (15), a German skier. When Hanna… View Full Synopsis
Starring: Maya O'Rourke, Saskia Rosendahl, Maia Domagala, Jakub Gierszał
Directed By: Manuela Martelli
92%
Starring: Boyd Holbrook, Kenneth Branagh, Hiam Abbass
Directed By: Reed Van Dyk
91%
Synopsis: The young soldier Pierre wants to prove himself on the battlefield during the First World War. Behind the frontlines, he meets Francis, who is asked… View Full Synopsis
Starring: Emmanuel Macchia, Valentin Campagne
Directed By: Lukas Dhont
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Synopsis: Yoriko, an artist living in rural Nagi, is haunted by a former love affair she cannot bear to mourn. When Yuri, a recently separated architect,… View Full Synopsis
Starring: Takako Matsu, Shizuka Ishibashi, Kenichi Matsuyama, Waku Kawaguchi
Directed By: Koji Fukada
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Synopsis: Gabrielle, 55, gives herself to her work, body and soul. As a surgeon and head of the hospital department, she is constantly on the move,… View Full Synopsis
Starring: Léa Drucker, Mélanie Thierry, Charles Berling, Laurent Capelluto
Directed By: Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet
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Starring: Bárbara Lennie, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Victoria Luengo
Directed By: Pedro Almodóvar, Esther García
86%
Synopsis: LA BOLA NEGRA tells the story of three men whose lives are intimately connected through desire, pain and inheritance, across three different eras — 1932,…
Starring: Guitarricadelafuente, Miguel Bernardeau, Penélope Cruz, Glenn Close
Directed By: Javier Ambrossi, Javier Calvo
88%
Synopsis: The Gheorghius, a devout Romanian Norwegian couple, resettle in a village set in a distant fjord where they become close to their neighbors, the Halbergs…. View Full Synopsis
Starring: Sebastian Stan, Renate Reinsve, Giulia Nahmany, Ingvild Lien
Directed By: Cristian Mungiu, Tudor Reu
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Synopsis: The acclaimed film director Esteban Martínez is a legend both for his films and for his past marked by violence and excess. For his new… View Full Synopsis
Starring: Javier Bardem, Victoria Luengo, Raúl Arévalo, Marina Foïs
Directed By: Rodrigo Sorogoyen
82%
Synopsis: Two brothers pursue the American Dream but get entangled in a dangerous Russian mafia scheme that terrorizes their family.
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Miles Teller, Adam Driver, Michael Alix
Directed By: James Gray, Lee Broda, Jeff Rice, Riccardo Maddalosso
84%
Synopsis: September 1940. Henri Marre arrives alone in Vichy as the authoritarian regime settles in. Broke, estranged from his family, and carrying copies of his self-published… View Full Synopsis
Starring: Swann Arlaud, Sandrine Blancke, Mathieu Perotto, Harpo Guit
Directed By: Emmanuel Marre
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Starring: Andy Garcia, Vicky Krieps, Brendan Fraser, Rosemarie DeWitt
Directed By: Andy Garcia
82%
Starring: Hwang Jung-min, Jo In-sung, Jung Ho-yeon, Taylor Russell
Directed By: Na Hong-jin
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Synopsis: Lucila leaves Mexico with her younger brother to reunite with their mother in Madrid, who had left a few years earlier to chase a better… View Full Synopsis
Starring: Anna Díaz, Adriana Paz, Luisa Huertas, Guillermo Rios
Directed By: Diego Luna
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Synopsis: Set in Victorian England, Victorian Psycho sees an eccentric governess arrive at a remote gothic manor, where strange happenings stir suspicion that she’s not what… View Full Synopsis
Starring: Maika Monroe, Jason Isaacs, Thomasin McKenzie, Ruth Wilson
Directed By: Zachary Wigon
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Starring: Gilles Lellouche, Lars Eidinger, Louise Bourgoin, Marcin Czarnik
Directed By: László Nemes
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Starring: Woody Harrelson, Kristen Stewart, Charlotte Le Bon, Tim Heidecker
Directed By: Quentin Dupieux
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Synopsis: David Zimmerman, almost 40, is a photographer but no one knows it. When friends drag him to a wild party, he spots a woman in… View Full Synopsis
Starring: Léa Seydoux, Niels Schneider, Valérie Dréville, Lilith Grasmug
Directed By: Arthur Harari
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Synopsis: Horror master Yeon Sang-ho (Train to Busan) directs a new Korean zombie thriller starring Gianna Jun and Koo Kyo-hwan. Professor Se-jeong (Jun) is thrust into… View Full Synopsis
Starring: Jun Ji-hyun, Koo Kyo-hwan, Ji Chang-wook, Kim Sin-rok
Directed By: Yeon Sang-ho
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Synopsis: Paris, 1928. A young painter in vogue, Antoine Balestro, has been unable to paint since his wife died, to the despair of his gallery owner,… View Full Synopsis
Starring: Pio Marmaï, Anaïs Demoustier, Gilles Lellouche, Vimala Pons
Directed By: Pierre Salvadori
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Synopsis: JOHN LENNON: THE LAST INTERVIEW captures an extraordinary and intimate moment in music history — the final in-depth conversation John Lennon ever gave. On December… View Full Synopsis
Directed By: Steven Soderbergh, Michael Sugar, David Hillman, Nancy Saslow
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Synopsis: A renowned pianist who, after relocating with her family to the countryside, uncovers a life-shattering truth that forces her to confront the complexities of love,… View Full Synopsis
Starring: Léa Seydoux, Jella Haase, Laurence Rupp, Malo Blanchet
Directed By: Marie Kreutzer
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Synopsis: Thomas, Nora and their teenage daughter Ida live on remote marshland. Social contact is limited, as they only have one neighbor, Cristina, an Italian painter…. View Full Synopsis
Starring: Hafsia Herzi, Benoît Magimel, Bastien Bouillon, Monica Bellucci
Directed By: Léa Mysius
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Synopsis: In the near future, Otone and Kensuke, a grieving couple who have lost their son, take into their lives a humanoid identical to their late… View Full Synopsis
Starring: Haruka Ayase, Daigo, Rimu Kuwaki, Nana Seino
Directed By: Hirokazu Koreeda, Hiroki Wakamatsu, Tom Yoda, Minami Ichikawa
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Synopsis: Set in the golden age of aviation, a young airplane enthusiast, Jeff (played by newcomer Clark Shotwell), and his mother (Kelly Eviston-Quinnett) set off on… View Full Synopsis
Starring: Clark Shotwell, Kelly B. Eviston, Ella Bleu Travolta, Olga Hoffmann
Directed By: John Travolta
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Starring: Adèle Exarchopoulos, Sara Giraudeau, Sarajeanne Drillaud, Anne Suarez
Directed By: Jeanne Herry
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Synopsis: 16-year-old Pyteh splits his time between the wrestling mat and his family’s struggling Circassian diner in Newark. A single impulsive decision by his hustling father… View Full Synopsis
Starring: Barry Keoghan, Riley Keough, Harry Melling
Directed By: Kantemir Balagov
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Synopsis: A group of actresses is gathering at a posh hotel where they’re set to make a Barbarella-like movie. A heinous killer known as Leather Man… View Full Synopsis
Starring: Diego Calva, Aoi Yamada, Shiori Kutsuna, Hidetoshi Nishijima
Directed By: Nicolas Winding Refn, Magnus Nordenhof Jønck, Takuma Takasaki, Kim Willming
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Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira, Pierre Niney, Vincent Cassel
Directed By: Asghar Farhadi

