The Exemplary Films Rankings
Discover cinema's greatest achievements through data-driven authority
Ranked films
Raging Bull
When Jake LaMotta steps into a boxing ring and obliterates his opponent, he's a prizefighter. But wh...
8½
Guido seeks peace after his success but faces pressure from past collaborators. As he struggles with...
The Wizard of Oz
When a tornado rips through Kansas, Dorothy Gale and her dog, Toto, are whisked away in their house ...
Parasite
The Kims - mother and father Chung-sook and Ki-taek, and their young adult offspring, son Ki-woo and...
Annie Hall
Alvy Singer, a forty year old twice divorced, neurotic, intellectual Jewish New York City stand-up c...
Roma
A year in the life of an upper-middle-class family's maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s.
The Silence of the Lambs
F.B.I. trainee Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) works hard to advance her career, while trying to hid...
Doctor Zhivago
During the Russian Revolution, Dr. Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif) is a young doctor who has been raised ...
Titanic
84 years later, a 100 year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story to her granddaughter ...
The Sound of Music
In 1930's Austria, a young woman named Maria (Dame Julie Andrews) is failing miserably in her attemp...
City Lights
A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind girl. Her family is in financial trouble. The tramp's o...
The Third Man
An out of work pulp fiction novelist, Holly Martins, arrives in a post war Vienna divided into secto...
Chinatown
In 1937 Los Angeles, private investigator Jake 'J.J.' Gittes specializes in cheating-spouse cases. H...
Jaws
It's a hot summer on Amity Island, a small community whose main business is its beaches. When new Sh...
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Fred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin, both down on their luck in Tampico, Mexico in 1925, meet up with a gri...
Taxi Driver
Travis Bickle is an ex-Marine and Vietnam War veteran living in New York City. As he suffers from in...
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The beautiful and kindhearted princess Snow White charms every creature in the kingdom except one - ...
12 Angry Men
The defense and the prosecution have rested, and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if ...
The Deer Hunter
Michael, Steven, and Nick are three best friends who enjoy going deer hunting quite often. They get ...
The Maltese Falcon
Spade and Archer is the name of a San Francisco detective agency. That's for Sam Spade and Miles Arc...
Dr. Strangelove
Dr. Strangelove
Local criminal entrepreneur, known as Doc, is given a job by a local crime boss to collect some mone...
The Dark Knight
Set within a year after the events of Batman Begins (2005), Batman, Lieutenant James Gordon, and new...
Goodfellas
Henry Hill recounts his life in the mob, from his teenage years to his eventual downfall. Immersed i...
Ben-Hur
Judah Ben-Hur lives as a rich Jewish prince and merchant in Jerusalem at the beginning of the 1st ce...