Defining Genre
THE CRIME
ASPHALT AND CONSEQUENCE
Where the city becomes a character. Heists, hits, and the long quiet stretches between the violence.
Peak 2010s
12,574
Films Catalogued
65.7
Avg Master Score
6.2
Avg IMDb
2010s
Peak Decade
TAKASHI MIIKE
Top Director
Of which 116 earned Oscar nominations or wins
The Defining Three
ESSENTIAL VIEWING
Top-ranked by master score. If you only saw three films from this decade, these are the three.
No.01
MS95.1
SIDNEY LUMET|1957
12 ANGRY MEN
“It explodes like 12 sticks of dynamite!”
No.02
MS93.4
FRITZ LANG|1931
M
“Who is the murderer?”
No.03
MS93.4
MARTIN SCORSESE|1976
TAXI DRIVER
“On every street in every city in this country, there's a nobody who dreams of being somebody. He's a lonely forgotten man desperate to prove that he's alive.”
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Master Score
Awards
Showing 50 of 12574
01
12 Angry Men
1957 · Sidney Lumet
95.1
02M
1931 · Fritz Lang
93.4
03Taxi Driver
1976 · Martin Scorsese
93.4
04On the Waterfront
1954 · Elia Kazan · 8 Oscars
93.1
05The Godfather
1972 · Francis Ford Coppola · 3 Oscars
93.0
06The Big Sleep
1946 · Howard Hawks
92.9
07Trainspotting
1996 · Danny Boyle
92.8
08The Sting
1973 · George Roy Hill · 7 Oscars
92.8
09The Man from Nowhere
2010 · Lee Jeong-beom
92.7
10The 400 Blows
1959 · François Truffaut
92.4
11Slumdog Millionaire
2008 · Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan · 8 Oscars
92.4
12A Clockwork Orange
1971 · Stanley Kubrick
92.3
13Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
2008 · Kurt Kuenne
92.3
14The Godfather Part II
1974 · Francis Ford Coppola · 6 Oscars
92.3
15The Silence of the Lambs
1991 · Jonathan Demme · 5 Oscars
92.0
16Memories of Murder
2003 · Bong Joon Ho
92.0
17Se7en
1995 · David Fincher
91.9
18Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
1998 · Guy Ritchie
91.6
19Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949 · Robert Hamer
91.3
20Diabolique
1955 · Henri-Georges Clouzot
91.3
21Enter the Dragon
1973 · Robert Clouse
91.3
22Boyz n the Hood
1991 · John Singleton
91.1
23The Roundup
2022 · Lee Sang-yong
91.0
24Better Days
2019 · Derek Tsang
90.9
25The Killing
1956 · Stanley Kubrick
90.8
26Sardar Udham
2021 · Shoojit Sircar
90.7
27The Young and the Damned
1950 · Luis Buñuel
90.7
28Fruitvale Station
2013 · Ryan Coogler
90.6
29Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
1996 · Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky
90.5
30Sound of Freedom
2023 · Alejandro Monteverde
90.4
31Chungking Express
1994 · Wong Kar-Wai
90.4
32Drishyam
2013 · Jeethu Joseph
90.4
33The Night of the Hunter
1955 · Charles Laughton
90.3
34The Killer
1989 · John Woo
90.3
35In the Heat of the Night
1967 · Norman Jewison · 5 Oscars
90.3
36Catch Me If You Can
2002 · Steven Spielberg
90.3
37Silenced
2011 · Hwang Dong-hyuk
90.2
38The Big Heat
1953 · Fritz Lang
90.1
39Exit Through the Gift Shop
2010 · Banksy
90.1
40The French Connection
1971 · William Friedkin · 5 Oscars
90.1
413-Iron
2004 · Kim Ki-duk
89.9
42The Thin Blue Line
1988 · Errol Morris
89.8
43Badlands
1973 · Terrence Malick
89.8
44Le cercle rouge
1970 · Jean-Pierre Melville
89.8
45Out of the Past
1947 · Jacques Tourneur
89.7
46What's Up, Doc?
1972 · Peter Bogdanovich
89.7
47Once Were Warriors
1994 · Lee Tamahori
89.7
48Bad Genius
2017 · Baz Poonpiriya
89.7
49Police Story
1985 · Jackie Chan
89.6
50I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
1932 · Mervyn LeRoy
89.6
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Step Back
COMEDY
THE SETUP, THE CUT
The genre that earns its laughs and forgives its lulls. The form Hollywood will never stop trying to perfect.
Step Forward
DOCUMENTARY
THE REAL, EDITED
The form that earns its truth in the cutting room. Where a camera, a subject, and an editor's nerve become an argument.