# The best Robert Altman films

Overlapping dialogue, sprawling casts and a Palme d'Or: Altman's best films from M\*A\*S\*H to A Prairie Home Companion, ordered from Gold Derby and MovieWeb's rankings.

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- Feb 22, 2025 · matilda_reelfan
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## Top 13

1. **Nashville (1975)** (31 · ▲33 ▼2) — Twenty-four characters around a country-music weekend and a political rally.
2. **M\*A\*S\*H (1970)** (27 · ▲27 ▼0) — Army surgeons in Korea; Palme d'Or at Cannes.
3. **McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)** (23 · ▲23 ▼0) — Warren Beatty and Julie Christie in a snowbound anti-western.
4. **Short Cuts (1993)** (20 · ▲25 ▼5) — Raymond Carver stories woven across Los Angeles; Golden Lion in Venice.
5. **Gosford Park (2001)** (17 · ▲19 ▼2) — Upstairs-downstairs murder mystery; Oscar for Julian Fellowes's screenplay.
6. **The Player (1992)** (16 · ▲21 ▼5) — Tim Robbins in a Hollywood satire; best director at Cannes.
7. **Thieves Like Us (1974)** (15 · ▲18 ▼3) — Depression-era bank robbers in Mississippi.
8. **The Long Goodbye (1973)** (13 · ▲16 ▼3) — Elliott Gould as a shambling Philip Marlowe.
9. **3 Women (1977)** (13 · ▲15 ▼2) — Shelley Duvall and Sissy Spacek in a dreamlike desert drama.
10. **Secret Honor (1984)** (12 · ▲15 ▼3) — Philip Baker Hall alone on screen as Richard Nixon.
11. **Brewster McCloud (1970)** (11 · ▲11 ▼0) — A boy who wants to fly inside the Houston Astrodome.
12. **A Prairie Home Companion (2006)** (7 · ▲10 ▼3) — The last night of a radio show; his final film.
13. **California Split (1974)** (4 · ▲12 ▼8) — George Segal and Elliott Gould as compulsive gamblers.

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