# Kathryn Bigelow's films, ranked

From vampires and surfing bank robbers to Iraq and Detroit: Bigelow's films from The Loveless to Detroit, ordered from TheWrap and Metacritic.

- 126 votes · 10 items
- Oct 8, 2025 · N. Clark
- https://even.best/en/l/3227/kathryn-bigelow-s-films-ranked

## Top 10

1. **Zero Dark Thirty (2012)** (17 · ▲18 ▼1) — Jessica Chastain on the hunt for Bin Laden.
2. **The Hurt Locker (2008)** (14 · ▲15 ▼1) — A bomb-disposal team in Iraq; Best Picture and the first Best Director Oscar for a woman.
3. **Near Dark (1987)** (12 · ▲15 ▼3) — A vampire western; her first solo feature.
4. **Strange Days (1995)** (10 · ▲13 ▼3) — Ralph Fiennes deals in recorded memories on the eve of 2000.
5. **Point Break (1991)** (8 · ▲10 ▼2) — Keanu Reeves undercover among Patrick Swayze's surfer bank robbers.
6. **Blue Steel (1990)** (8 · ▲8 ▼0) — Jamie Lee Curtis as a rookie cop stalked by a killer.
7. **Detroit (2017)** (6 · ▲8 ▼2) — The Algiers Motel incident during the 1967 riots.
8. **The Loveless (1982)** (6 · ▲7 ▼1) — A young Willem Dafoe leads a biker gang; co-directed with Monty Montgomery.
9. **K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)** (5 · ▲9 ▼4) — Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson aboard a Soviet nuclear submarine.
10. **The Weight of Water (2000)** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — Two murders a century apart, with Sean Penn and Catherine McCormack.

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