The Exemplary Films Rankings
Discover cinema's greatest achievements through data-driven authority
Ranked films
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Two parallel stories are told. In the first, a group of research scientists from a variety of backgr...
American Graffiti
It's the proverbial end of the summer 1962 in a small southern California town. It's the evening bef...
Badlands
An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town, and her older greaser boyfriend, embark on a ki...
A Woman Under the Influence
Although wife and mother Mabel is loved by her husband Nick, her mental illness places a strain on t...
Barry Lyndon
An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position i...
Mean Streets
Mean Streets
Alien
In the distant future, the commercial spaceship "Nostromo" crew is on its way home when the crew pic...