Christopher Nolan’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
Christopher Nolan has 16 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 7 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Memento.
Recurring themes

Pray Away
2021
Documentary

I Am Not Your Negro
2017
Documentary

The Edge of Democracy
2019
Documentary

The Fog of War
2003
Documentary · TV Movie

Chasing Coral
2017
Documentary

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward
2011
Documentary

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
2022
Documentary

Nuremberg
2025
History · Drama

Interstellar
2014 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 1%Hulu · Included

The Dark Knight
2008 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 1%Max · Included

The Dark Knight Rises
2012 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 1%Max · Included

Memento
2000 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 1%Netflix · Included

Batman Begins
2005 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 3%Max · Included

To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb
2023 · Movie · Actor
Top 18%Peacock · Included

The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
Dir. Christopher Nolan · With Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Michael Caine

Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.
Dir. Christopher Nolan · With Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ken Watanabe

Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as the Joker.
Dir. Christopher Nolan · With Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart

Following the death of District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman assumes responsibility for Dent's crimes to protect the late attorney's reputation and is subsequently hunted by the Gotham City Police Department. Eight years later, Batman encounters the mysterious Selina Kyle and the villainous Bane, a new terrorist leader who overwhelms Gotham's finest. The Dark Knight resurfaces to protect a city that has branded him an enemy.
Dir. Christopher Nolan · With Christian Bale, Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy

A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.
Dir. Christopher Nolan · With Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine

Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, however, is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of short-term memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard cannot remember what happened fifteen minutes ago, where he's going, or why.
Dir. Christopher Nolan · With Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
Dir. Christopher Nolan · With Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon

Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that plagues his home, Gotham City. Unable to work within the system, he instead creates a new identity, a symbol of fear for the criminal underworld - The Batman.
Dir. Christopher Nolan · With Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson

The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.
Dir. Christopher Nolan · With Fionn Whitehead, Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance

Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.
Dir. Christopher Nolan · With John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki

Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
Dir. Christopher Nolan · With Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank
A look behind the lens of Christopher Nolan's space epic.
Dir. Dan Storey · With Alex Zane, Michael Caine, Jessica Chastain

as Self - Writer / Director, "Oppenheimer"
Peacock · Included+1
Explore how one man's relentless drive and invention of the atomic bomb changed the nature of war forever, led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and unleashed mass hysteria.
Dir. Christopher Cassel · With J. Robert Oppenheimer, Ellen Bradbury Reid, Christopher Nolan
There's something in his apartment. A man looking for an insect-like thing devolves into a bout of insanity as his subconscious mind begins to strangle his waking one.
Dir. Christopher Nolan · With Jeremy Theobald
A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.
Dir. Zack Snyder · With Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon

Bill, an idle, unemployed aspiring writer, walks the crowded streets of London following randomly chosen strangers, a seemingly innocent entertainment that becomes dangerous when he crosses paths with a mysterious character.
Dir. Christopher Nolan · With Jeremy Theobald, Alex Haw, Lucy Russell