🏆 The Exemplary Films Rankings
Discover cinema's greatest achievements through data-driven authority
Ranked films
Gandhi
In 1893, Mohandas K. Gandhi is thrown off a South African train for being an Indian and traveling in...
Joker
Arthur Fleck, a party clown and a failed stand-up comedian, leads an impoverished life with his aili...
Barton Fink
A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the he...
Avengers: Endgame
After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War (2018), the universe is in ruins due to the e...
Terms of Endearment
Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's marri...
Brokeback Mountain
Two shepherds fall for each other, but their relationship becomes complicated when they both get mar...
High Noon
On the day he gets married and hangs up his badge, Marshal Will Kane is told that a man he sent to p...
Toy Story
A cowboy doll is profoundly jealous when a new spaceman action figure supplants him as the top toy i...
Ordet
Follows the lives of the Borgen family, as they deal with inner conflict, as well as religious confl...
Being John Malkovich
A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of movie star John Malkovich.
Her
Told from the female perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they onc...
Paris, Texas
Travis Henderson, an aimless drifter who has been missing for four years, wanders out of the desert ...
L.A. Confidential
As corruption grows in 1950s Los Angeles, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sl...
In the Mood for Love
Two neighbors form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses. Howeve...
Midnight Cowboy
Texas greenhorn Joe Buck arrives in New York City for the first time. Preening himself as a real "hu...
Out of Africa
Follows the life of Karen Blixen, who establishes a plantation in Africa. Her life is complicated by...
The Conversation
A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the coupl...
From Afar
Armando, a 50 year man, seeks young men in Caracas and pays them just for company. One day he meets ...
The Gold Rush
A lone prospector ventures into Alaska looking for gold. He gets mixed up with some burly characters...
Melancholia
Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens...
The Last Emperor
This sweeping account of the life of Pu-Yi, the last emperor of China, follows the leader's tumultuo...
MASH
Saving Private Ryan
Opening with the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, members of the 2nd Ranger Battalion und...
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
Sam and Jonathan, a pair of hapless novelty salesmen, embark on a tour of the human condition in rea...