The Exemplary Films Rankings
Discover cinema's greatest achievements through data-driven authority
Ranked films
Moonlight
Three time periods - young adolescence, mid-teen and young adult - in the life of black-American Chi...
The Sting
Johnny Hooker, a small time grifter, unknowingly steals from Doyle Lonnegan, a big time crime boss, ...
The Graduate
Benjamin Braddock returns home to California after successfully completing college. He gets a hero's...
Man with a Movie Camera
A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzl...
Mulholland Drive
After a car wreck on Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a Hollywood-hopeful search f...
The Grapes of Wrath
The Joad clan, introduced to the world in John Steinbeck's iconic novel, is looking for a better lif...
Unforgiven
After escaping death by the skin of her teeth, the horribly disfigured prostitute, Delilah Fitzgeral...
L'Avventura
A woman disappears during a Mediterranean boating trip. During the search, her lover and her best fr...
It's a Wonderful Life
George Bailey has spent his entire life giving of himself to the people of Bedford Falls. He has alw...
The Shawshank Redemption
Chronicles the experiences of a formerly successful banker as a prisoner in the gloomy jailhouse of ...
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The year is 1936. An archeology professor named Indiana Jones is venturing in the jungles of South A...
North by Northwest
Madison Avenue advertising man Roger Thornhill is thrust into the world of spies when he is mistaken...
The French Connection
William Friedkin's gritty police drama portrays two tough New York City cops trying to intercept a h...
Mad Max: Fury Road
In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a woman rebels against a tyrannical ruler in search for her homelan...
Avatar
When his brother is killed in a robbery, paraplegic Marine Jake Sully decides to take his place in a...
Amadeus
Antonio Salieri believes that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's music is divine and miraculous. He wishes he...
Rear Window
Professional photographer L.B. "Jeff" Jefferies breaks his leg while getting an action shot at an au...
The Ten Commandments
To escape the edict of Egypt's Pharaoh Rameses I (Ian Keith), condemning all newborn Hebrew males, t...
Boyhood
The life of Mason, from early childhood to his arrival at college.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
An ancient Ring thought lost for centuries has been found, and through a strange twist of fate has b...
Rules of the Game
A bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich and their poor servants meet up...
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
During the American Civil War, three men set off to find $200,000.00 in buried gold coins. Tuco and ...
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed on a lark by the spine...
Rocky
Rocky Balboa is a struggling boxer trying to make the big time, working as a debt collector for a pi...