The Exemplary Films Rankings
Discover cinema's greatest achievements through data-driven authority
Ranked films
Breathless
A small-time crook, hunted by the authorities for a car theft and the murder of a police officer, at...
To Kill a Mockingbird
Small-town Alabama, 1932. Atticus Finch (played by Gregory Peck) is a lawyer and a widower. He has t...
Rashomon
Three parties and a witness have four versions of a rape/murder in ninth-century Japan.
Platoon
Chris Taylor is a young, naive American who gives up college and volunteers for combat in Vietnam. U...
Fantasia
Disney animators set pictures to Western classical music as Leopold Stokowski conducts the Philadelp...
Amour
Georges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daug...
Se7en
Short student film.
Late Spring
Several people try to talk 27-year-old Noriko into marrying, but all she wants is to keep on caring ...
The Shape of Water
From master storyteller Guillermo del Toro comes THE SHAPE OF WATER, an otherworldly fable set again...
The Bridge on the River Kwai
During WW II, allied POWs in a Japanese internment camp are ordered to build a bridge to accommodate...
Au Hasard Balthazar
The story of a mistreated donkey and the people around him. A study on saintliness and a sister piec...
The African Queen
September 1914, news reaches the colony German Eastern Africa that Germany is at war, so Reverend Sa...
Persona
A nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personae are melding together.
The Philadelphia Story
Philadelphia socialites Tracy Lord and C.K. Dexter Haven married impulsively, with their marriage an...
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Scavenger girl Rey leaves her junkyard home to fulfill her destiny of escorting a robot around the g...
Mirror
A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments ...
The Matrix
Thomas A. Anderson is a man living two lives. By day he is an average computer programmer and by nig...
Call Me by Your Name
In the summer of 1983, 17-year-old Elio is spending the days with his family at their villa in Lomba...
Kramer vs. Kramer
Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take th...
Ordinary People
Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad...
Le Mépris
A film trailer directed by Jean-Luc Godard for his own classic picture "Le Mépris" (1963). The voic...
The Piano
In the mid-19th century a mute woman is sent to New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized...
Chariots of Fire
It's the post-World War I era. Britons Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell are both naturally gifted fa...
Sideways
Two men reaching middle age with not much to show but disappointment embark on a week-long road trip...