The Exemplary Films Rankings
Discover cinema's greatest achievements through data-driven authority
Ranked films
Rain Man
Charles Sanford "Charlie" Babbit is a self-centered Los Angeles-based automobile dealer/hustler/book...
West Side Story
West Side Story is the award-winning adaptation of the classic romantic tragedy "Romeo and Juliet". ...
Social Network
As Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Fac...
Blow-Up
A fashion photographer unknowingly captures a death on film after following two lovers in a park.
Driving Miss Daisy
An elderly Jewish widow living in Atlanta can no longer drive. Her son insists she allow him to hire...
Sacro GRA
For nearly two years of exploring the "Great Ring Road's" almost 70km of looping highway, Gianfranco...
The 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...
King Kong
Carl Denham needs to finish his movie and has the perfect location; Skull Island. But he still needs...
Andrei Rublev
The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.
My Fair Lady
Pompous phonetics Professor Henry Higgins (Sir Rex Harrison) is so sure of his abilities that he tak...
101 Dalmatians
After a wild chase in the bustling streets of London, struggling computer game author Roger (Jeff Da...
The Birth of a Nation
Two brothers, Phil and Ted Stoneman, visit their friends in Piedmont, South Carolina: the family Cam...
Hurt Locker
During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squa...
Faust
A despairing scholar sells his soul to Satan in exchange for one night with a beautiful young woman.
The Empire Strikes Back
After the Empire overpowers the Rebel Alliance, Luke Skywalker begins training with Jedi Master Yoda...
A Clockwork Orange
Protagonist Alex DeLarge is an "ultraviolent" youth in futuristic Britain. As with all luck, his eve...
Stalker
A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.
Gladiator
Maximus is a powerful Roman general, loved by the people and the aging Emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Bef...
Wall-E
A robot who is responsible for cleaning a waste-covered Earth meets another robot and falls in love ...
Somewhere
After withdrawing to the Chateau Marmont, a passionless Hollywood actor reexamines his life when his...
La Dolce Vita
A series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering tabloid journalist living in Rome...
There Will Be Blood
A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector i...
Lebanon
During the First Lebanon War in 1982, a lone tank and a paratroopers platoon are dispatched to searc...
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Butch and Sundance are the two leaders of the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang. Butch is all ideas, Sundance is...