GREAT CINEMAMASTER LIST
Menu

The Essential 713, made interactive

Find your next
great film.

Search 713 spoiler-free recommendations from 1916 to 2026. Filter by the night you want—not the list you’re supposed to finish.

Direct film viewShowing master rank #236 on its own—not above the ranking.
Refine this collection

Your canon

Back up / restore my film dataLoading your progress…Saved only in this browser
Artwork
DirectorAll directors

Most represented · 6+ films

More recurring directors · 3–5 films54
All directors · surname A–Z438
ActorAll actors

Most represented actors

Big Three membership
Major award winners

1 selected film

Master Rank balances Greatness, Engagement, and Ease. Sort by Greatness for the artistic-canon view.

Director:
Cast:
View Headhunters film page
Original poster artwork · Great Cinema Master List

Spoiler-free premise

Corporate recruiter and art thief Roger Brown targets a valuable painting owned by former mercenary and executive candidate Clas Greve.

Read expanded premiseLonger, still spoiler-free

Oslo headhunter Roger Brown finances an expensive lifestyle by stealing art from job candidates. He targets Clas Greve, a former mercenary who owns a missing Rubens and seeks an executive position, but the theft turns Roger from manipulator into quarry.

Why it belongs

Morten Tyldum makes a polished confidence game savagely physical, deploying status anxiety, reversals, and Norwegian landscape to keep changing the hunter.

Read expanded why it belongsThe fuller editorial case

Glass offices, designer homes, tracking technology, rural roads, and escalating bodily indignity strip Roger's cultivated control layer by layer. Aksel Hennie's anxious adaptability keeps the thriller nasty, comic, and propulsive.

Major award wins

No verified wins in this six-institution crosswalk.

Awards are reference metadata only · zero points in 40/40/20

Institutional reference ranks

Sight & Sound—IMDb Top 250—AFI 100—
Reference metadata only · not part of the 40/40/20 score

Great Cinema Master List scores

Greatness8.0
Engagement9.5
Ease9.5

English · R
Narrative Feature
Mood: Tense & Absorbing