10 Perfect Double Features to Watch With One Battle After Another

Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel Vineland, became one of 2025’s most celebrated films. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Teyana Taylor and more in Oscar-nominated roles, the darkly comic thriller follows a washed-up former revolutionary on a chaotic quest to save his daughter from a corrupt military officer.

The film has enjoyed a strong awards season, winning three Critics' Choice Awards, four Golden Globes, six BAFTAs and earning 13 Academy Award nominations. If you want to revisit the movie as part of a double feature, several pairings highlight its tone and influences.

The Big Lebowski, the Coen brothers’ cult crime comedy starring Jeff Bridges, shares an oddball, laidback protagonist that echoes Leonardo DiCaprio’s turn in One Battle After Another. Paul Thomas Anderson’s own Inherent Vice, another Pynchon adaptation, offers a similarly dark, stoner-noir sensibility and a large ensemble led by Joaquin Phoenix.

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