KLM Movies April 2026: 10 Best Films Ranked by Critics

KLM Movies April 2026: The 10 Best Films to Watch, Ranked

KLM's April 2026 film catalog runs to approximately 366 titles — 30 more than March. This article cuts it to the 10 best, ranked by combined critic score: Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer averaged with Metacritic score. Every film listed is available across KLM's long-haul fleet this month. The ranking has shifted slightly from March: The Incredibles replaces The Wild Robot at #6, and The Lord of the Rings' Return of the King drops out of the top 10 as stronger-scoring films enter the catalog.

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→ Browse the full KLM April 2026 catalog with live critic scores — inflight.guide

How We Rank KLM's Inflight Films

Every film is given a combined critic score by averaging its Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer percentage with its Metacritic score (treating both as percentages). Only films confirmed in KLM's April 2026 IFE catalog are included. For the full interactive catalog with genre filters and runtime sorting, use inflight.guide.

The 10 Best KLM Movies in April 2026

1. Toy Story (1995) — 97.5%

Genre: Animation / Family | Runtime: 1h 21m | RT Score: 100% | Metacritic: 95/100

Pixar's debut has held the top position across the full KLM catalog for multiple months — and it earns it. At 81 minutes, it's the most time-efficient top-rated film available, and the premise (what if your toys had feelings about being played with?) remains one of cinema's genuinely great conceits. Tom Hanks as Woody, Tim Allen as Buzz, a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score. Nothing complicated here.

2. Gravity (2013) — 96%

Genre: Drama / Sci-Fi | Runtime: 1h 31m | RT Score: 96% | Metacritic: 96/100

The dual 96% score across both major indices makes this one of the most unanimously acclaimed films in any KLM monthly catalog. Alfonso Cuarón's 91-minute survival film follows Sandra Bullock's astronaut through an orbital catastrophe with almost no dialogue, no rescue plan, and no soundtrack that doesn't feel like physics. It's rare that "watch this at altitude" is literal advice — but the experience of being suspended above the Earth maps onto this film in ways that viewing it on a sofa simply doesn't.

3. One Battle After Another (2025) — 95%

Genre: Mystery & Thriller / Comedy | Runtime: 2h 41m | RT Score: 95% | Metacritic: 95/100 | Director: Paul Thomas Anderson

Paul Thomas Anderson's 2025 film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a former radical in paranoid off-grid isolation whose daughter vanishes and whose nemesis resurfaces. Critics describe it as his most entertaining film yet without sacrificing any of the thematic seriousness that defines his filmography from There Will Be Blood to Phantom Thread. At 2h 41m and a 95/95 score, it remains the most unambiguously acclaimed new film in the April catalog. A long transatlantic route is exactly the right setting.

3. Toy Story 3 (2010) — 95%

Genre: Animation / Family | Runtime: 1h 43m | RT Score: 98% | Metacritic: 92/100

The third act of the Toy Story trilogy is a film about mortality, loyalty, and the terror of being forgotten — wrapped in primary colours and technically classified as a children's movie. At altitude, where mild hypoxia lowers inhibitions around emotional response, the final sequence hits with disproportionate force. Pack headphones, not tissues. You'll need the headphones regardless; the tissues won't save you.

5. Finding Nemo (2003) — 94.5%

Genre: Animation / Family | Runtime: 1h 40m | RT Score: 99% | Metacritic: 90/100

99% on Rotten Tomatoes — the second-highest RT score in the April catalog after Toy Story 2. Pixar's undersea Pacific odyssey holds up visually on a modern IFE screen and structurally as a father-and-son road movie that happens to take place at depth. Albert Brooks and Ellen DeGeneres have never shared a physical space, yet their comedic chemistry across 100 minutes is one of the most effective double acts in Pixar's filmography. Flying with children? This is the uncomplicated first choice.

6. The Incredibles (2004) — 93.5% ★ NEW IN APRIL

Genre: Animation / Action | Runtime: 2h | RT Score: 97% | Metacritic: 90/100

The Incredibles is April's strongest new addition to the catalog. Pixar's superhero family film holds 97% on Rotten Tomatoes and an exceptional 90/100 on Metacritic — marks it shares with Finding Nemo and Toy Story 3. What distinguishes it from most superhero films in the catalog is tone: it's genuinely satirical about the genre it occupies, genuinely funny, and structured as a marriage drama as much as an action film. Brad Bird's screenplay doesn't condescend to children and doesn't bore adults. At two hours it fits neatly into the post-meal IFE window on any medium-haul long-haul route. Arguably Pixar's most re-watchable film for adults travelling with children.

7. Dunkirk (2017) — 93%

Genre: War / Drama | Runtime: 1h 46m | RT Score: 92% | Metacritic: 94/100

Christopher Nolan's three-timeline war film functions less like a conventional narrative and more like a sustained anxiety response — deliberate pacing, near-zero dialogue, Hans Zimmer's soundtrack operating at the edge of tolerable tension. It's one of the very few war films that improves on an IFE screen because the enclosed, inescapable conditions of watching it in a seat mirror the film's own claustrophobic logic. At 106 minutes, it's unusually efficient for the scope of what it achieves.

8. Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) — 92.5%

Genre: Biography / Comedy-Drama | Runtime: 1h 46m | RT Score: 98% | Metacritic: 87/100

Melissa McCarthy's career-best performance as Lee Israel — a struggling biographer who begins forging literary letters and selling them to collectors — sits at 98% on Rotten Tomatoes. Richard E. Grant matches her completely as her dissolute friend Jack. This is a small, precise film with no spectacle and no conventional dramatic arc, which makes it exactly the kind of film passengers discover at altitude and recommend to everyone when they land.

9. The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) — 91.5%

Genre: Drama / Dark Comedy | Runtime: 1h 54m | RT Score: 96% | Metacritic: 87/100

Martin McDonagh's film about a friendship that ends abruptly and without adequate explanation on a small Irish island is best watched alone, with headphones, on a solo long-haul crossing. Colin Farrell wants to know why his closest friend has stopped speaking to him. The explanation, when it comes, is both entirely reasonable and completely unacceptable. One of the stranger, more singular films to receive universal critical acclaim in recent years.

10. Alien (1979) — 90.5%

Genre: Sci-Fi / Horror | Runtime: 1h 57m | RT Score: 98% | Metacritic: 83/100

47 years old and not remotely dated. Ridley Scott's original holds 98% on Rotten Tomatoes — joint highest RT score of any film in the April catalog — because its practical effects, HR Giger's xenomorph design, and its deliberate, methodical pacing are more effective than almost anything the genre has produced since. It is, genuinely, one of the correct films to see for the first time at altitude, when you have no option but to stay in the seat.

April's Special Feature: The Music Biopic Cluster

April 2026 brings an unusually large music biopic and musical section to the KLM catalog — ten titles in one month, covering Bob Dylan (A Complete Unknown), Robbie Williams (Better Man), Freddie Mercury (Bohemian Rhapsody), Johnny Cash (Walk the Line), Elvis Presley (Elvis), Amy Winehouse (Back to Black), Bruce Springsteen (Blinded by the Light context), and the stage-to-screen musicals Wicked, Hairspray, and In the Heights. This is the most comprehensive music film selection available on any European carrier's IFE system in a single month. For a full breakdown ranked by combined critic score, see the dedicated KLM Music Biopics & Musicals article.

Full April 2026 KLM Film Rankings (Top 20)

Rank Title Year Genre RT Score Metacritic Combined
1 Toy Story 1995 Animation 100% 95 97.5%
2 Gravity 2013 Drama/Sci-Fi 96% 96 96%
3 One Battle After Another 2025 Thriller/Comedy 95% 95 95%
3 Toy Story 3 2010 Animation 98% 92 95%
5 Finding Nemo 2003 Animation 99% 90 94.5%
5 Toy Story 2 1999 Animation 100% 88 94%
6 The Incredibles 2004 Animation/Action 97% 90 93.5%
7 Dunkirk 2017 War/Drama 92% 94 93%
8 Can You Ever Forgive Me? 2018 Comedy-Drama 98% 87 92.5%
9 Banshees of Inisherin 2022 Dark Comedy 96% 87 91.5%
10 Alien 1979 Sci-Fi/Horror 98% 83 90.5%
10 A Real Pain 2024 Comedy-Drama 96% 85 90.5%
10 Sinners 2025 Drama/Horror 97% 84 90.5%
13 Judas and the Black Messiah 2021 Drama 96% 84 90%
13 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 2017 Drama 92% 88 90%
13 Coco 2017 Animation 97% 83 90%
13 The Grand Budapest Hotel 2014 Comedy 92% 88 90%
17 Bullitt 1968 Action/Thriller 95% 84 89.5%
17 The Shape of Water 2017 Drama/Fantasy 92% 87 89.5%
17 The Holdovers 2023 Comedy-Drama 96% 83 89.5%

→ See all ~366 films and filter by genre on inflight.guide

New This Month

The April 2026 additions that most change the shape of the catalog:

What to Watch If You Want...

A long film to fill a transatlantic flight: One Battle After Another at 2h 41m — or pair The Incredibles with Incredibles 2 for a complete Pixar superhero double feature (roughly 3h 50m).

Something light and short: Toy Story at 81 minutes — holds up completely, safe to fall asleep during without missing anything you'll regret.

A critically acclaimed title you may have missed: Can You Ever Forgive Me? — 98% RT, 106 minutes, widely underseen despite near-universal critical praise.

Best for watching with kids: Finding Nemo or The Incredibles — both age 4+, both hold adult attention equally, both score above 93%.

The new music film selection: Start with A Complete Unknown (79% combined but anchored by a Timothée Chalamet performance that critics praised highly) or Hairspray (86% combined, the highest-rated in the cluster).

Frequently Asked Questions

Does KLM update its movies every month? Yes. KLM refreshes its inflight entertainment catalog at the start of each month. New titles are added and older titles rotate out. The April 2026 catalog adds approximately 30 films compared to March. For up-to-date availability, check inflight.guide or KLM's own entertainment portal at entertainment.klm.com.

Can I see what movies are on KLM before my flight? Yes — visit inflight.guide to browse the current catalog with critic scores and genre filters, or check entertainment.klm.com for KLM's official listing. Both show current IFE content before you board.

Do all KLM flights have the same movies? The film catalog is the same across cabin classes on long-haul widebody aircraft — Economy, Premium Comfort, and World Business Class all access the same ~366-title library. Short-haul European flights operated by KLM Cityhopper (A321neo, E195-E2) do not have seat-back screens. The films in this article are only available on KLM's long-haul international routes.

What's new in April 2026 compared to March? April's major additions include The Incredibles (2004), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), The Shape of Water (2017), Ford v Ferrari (2019), Dune: Part Two (2024), Blade Runner 2049 (2017), Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), and a full music biopic cluster of 10 titles. The full April catalog runs to approximately 366 films — around 30 more than March's 335.

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