The Exemplary Films Rankings
Discover cinema's greatest achievements through data-driven authority
Ranked films
Gate of Hell
A samurai pursues a married lady-in-waiting.
Ugetsu
A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteen...
Grease
Good girl Sandy Olsson and greaser Danny Zuko fell in love over the summer. When they unexpectedly d...
Rebel Without a Cause
Jim Stark is the new kid in town. He has been in trouble elsewhere; that's why his family has had to...
American Beauty
After his death sometime in his 43rd year, suburbanite Lester Burnham tells of the last few weeks of...
All the President's Men
"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate...
Thunderball
James Bond heads to the Bahamas to recover two nuclear warheads stolen by S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Agent Emili...
Miracle in Milan
An open-hearted, unrelentingly energetic orphan struggles to make the best of his life on the street...
Pickpocket
Michel passes the time by picking pockets, careful to never be caught despite being watched by the p...
Vera Drake
Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain--a conf...
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Over ten years have passed since the first machine called The Terminator tried to kill Sarah Connor ...
Interstellar
In the near future around the American Midwest, Cooper, an ex-science engineer and pilot, is tied to...
Tootsie
Michael Dorsey is an unemployed actor with an impossible reputation. In order to find work and fund ...
Yi Yi
Portrait of a middle-class family in Taipei. A man in his forties, his teenage daughter and his eigh...
A Beautiful Mind
Mathematician John Nash rises to prominence at Princeton with his groundbreaking theories in game th...
Stagecoach
A simple stagecoach trip is complicated by the fact that Geronimo is on the warpath in the area. The...
City of God
Brazil, 1960s, City of God. The Tender Trio robs motels and gas trucks. Younger kids watch and learn...
Laura
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating.
The Red Shoes
A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina.
The Return
In the Russian wilderness, two brothers face a range of new, conflicting emotions when their father ...
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Two parallel stories are told. In the first, a group of research scientists from a variety of backgr...
Nosferatu
A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with ...
Chicago
Murderesses Velma Kelly (Catherine Zeta-Jones) (a chanteuse and tease who killed her husband and sis...
Green Book
In 1962, tough bouncer Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga searches for work while his nightclub is closed f...