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Florence Pugh · Filmography Ranked

Best Florence Pugh Films, Ranked by IQ Score

One decade, and already among contemporary cinema's most-disciplined leading actresses. Ranked.

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Florence Pugh's filmography since Lady Macbeth (2016) is the most-disciplined recent-emerging-leading-actress catalog. Best Supporting Oscar nomination (Little Women 2019). Career-defining work in Midsommar, the canonical mid-2010s emergence text.

Anchor picks: Midsommar (2019, Aster). Little Women (2019, Gerwig). Lady Macbeth (2016, her breakthrough). Oppenheimer (2023, Nolan).

7 titles · ranked by IQ Score

Ranked by IQ Score. None of the 7 titles on this list has yet been re-verified under the current standard; all carry legacy scores, published before August 2026 under our earlier workflow, and are queued for re-verification, children's catalog first. Each title page states its class. About score classes → · Verification status →

  1. 1
    Oppenheimer poster, IQ Score 188/200, Masterclass tier

    Oppenheimer

    Masterclass historical, biography, drama

    The physicist Robert Oppenheimer leads the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb, then faces political persecution during the McCarthy era. Educational value from the physics, the historical context, and the moral…

    188/200
  2. 2
    Little Women poster, IQ Score 164/200, Masterclass tier

    Little Women

    Masterclass drama, period, romance

    Greta Gerwig's 2019 Louisa May Alcott adaptation, anchored by Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh, Emma Watson, Eliza Scanlen, Timothée Chalamet, and Laura Dern. The structural commitment to non-linear timeline (the film interw…

    164/200
  3. 3
    Lady Macbeth poster, IQ Score 161/200, Masterclass tier

    Lady Macbeth

    Masterclass drama, period

    William Oldroyd's 2016 directorial debut anchored by Florence Pugh in her breakthrough role as a young 19th-century English bride trapped in a loveless marriage. The structural commitment to letting Katherine's growing m…

    161/200
  4. 4
    Midsommar poster, IQ Score 157/200, Stimulating tier

    Midsommar

    Stimulating drama, horror, mystery

    Constructs daylight horror where the threat emerges from anthropological research into insular folk ritual, requiring viewers to evaluate cultural context versus recognizable danger while processing visual complexity.

    157/200
  5. 5
    A Good Person poster, IQ Score 156/200, Stimulating tier

    A Good Person

    Stimulating drama

    Zach Braff's 2023 drama anchored by Florence Pugh and Morgan Freeman about a young woman recovering from a car accident that killed her future sister-in-law. The structural commitment to letting addiction-and-grief-cogni…

    156/200
  6. 6
    Don't Worry Darling poster, IQ Score 150/200, Stimulating tier

    Don't Worry Darling

    Stimulating thriller, drama, sci-fi

    Olivia Wilde's 2022 sci-fi-thriller anchored by Florence Pugh as a 1950s-suburban-housewife discovering the simulation underlying her perfect community. The structural commitment to Wilde's debut directorial vision was o…

    150/200
  7. 7
    We Live in Time poster, IQ Score 138/200, Stimulating tier

    We Live in Time

    Stimulating drama, romance

    John Crowley's nonlinear weepie pairs Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh across a decade-plus relationship interrupted by cancer. Clean performances anchor a structure that sometimes courts preciousness. Honest enough abo…

    138/200
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Questions about this ranking

What is the best Florence Pugh film?

By IQ Score on TV Intelligentsia, Midsommar (Aster, 2019) and Little Women (Gerwig, 2019) anchor the catalog. Lady Macbeth (2016), Oppenheimer (2023), and We Live in Time (2024) round out the canonical entries.

How many Oscars has Pugh been nominated for?

One, Best Supporting Actress for Little Women (2019). She's expected to receive more nominations as her catalog matures.

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