01 Two hitmen, a boxer, and a gangster's wife weave through a nonlinear crime saga in Los Angeles.
23 Best Ensemble Cast Movies of All Time
By Vlad Zakh · August 6, 2026
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Juggling a dozen storylines at once is harder than it looks, and the films that actually pull it off, whether through overlapping timelines, a shared crime, or one very packed holiday season, make the rest of the genre look easy by comparison.
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02 A remake that somehow out-tenses its own already-tense source material.
03 A sprawling ensemble of Los Angeles lives, loosely adapted from Raymond Carver's short stories.
04 Twenty-four characters converge around a political rally set against Nashville's country music scene.
05 One holdout juror slowly convinces eleven others to reconsider a murder verdict they'd already decided.
06 Four witnesses recount the same crime with four completely irreconcilable versions of events.
07 A dysfunctional family of former prodigies reunites when their estranged father fakes an illness.
08 A dysfunctional family road-trips a young girl to a beauty pageant she barely wants to attend.
09 A wealthy family becomes a murder mystery's suspect list, and Marta is the one person who can't lie.
10 Con artists and a rogue FBI agent get tangled in a sting that spirals past anyone's control.
11 Sprawling, strange, and one of the most ambitious ensemble dramas of the decade.
12 A dozen Los Angeles lives intersect through race, prejudice, and one bad day after another.
13 The war on drugs told from three intersecting perspectives, each compromised in its own way.
14 An ensemble rise-and-fall story that made a porn-industry setting feel almost tender.
15 College friends reunite for a funeral and spend the weekend confronting who they've each become.
16 The Avengers attempt a time heist to undo a universe-altering snap.
17 Earth's mightiest heroes assemble for the first time to stop an alien invasion.
18 A crew of con artists plans an elaborate simultaneous heist of three Las Vegas casinos.
19 Ten overlapping London love stories converge in the weeks before Christmas.
20 A newly single father is mentored in dating by a serial womanizer, with unexpected romantic tangles all around.
21 Several overlapping Baltimore relationships all struggle with the same brutal dating truths.
22 An ensemble cast's lives converge in Times Square during the countdown to midnight.
23 A dozen intersecting Los Angeles couples navigate one chaotic Valentine's Day.
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