Defining Genre
THE DRAMA
THE LONG FORM
The genre that holds the others up. Where a glance can hit harder than a gun and a closing shot can rearrange a decade.
Peak 2010s
43,836
Films Catalogued
66.3
Avg Master Score
6.3
Avg IMDb
2010s
Peak Decade
MICHAEL CURTIZ
Top Director
Of which 808 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
MS95.9
SERGIO LEONE|1966
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY
“For three men the Civil War wasn't hell. It was practice.”
No.02
MS95.3
ALFRED HITCHCOCK|1960
PSYCHO
“A new and altogether different screen excitement!”
No.03
MS95.2
ALFRED HITCHCOCK|1954
REAR WINDOW
“It only takes one witness to spoil the perfect crime.”
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Master Score
Awards
Showing 50 of 43836
01
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
1966 · Sergio Leone
95.9
02Psycho
1960 · Alfred Hitchcock
95.3
03Rear Window
1954 · Alfred Hitchcock
95.2
0412 Angry Men
1957 · Sidney Lumet
95.1
05Schindler's List
1993 · Steven Spielberg · 7 Oscars
94.6
06Harakiri
1962 · Masaki Kobayashi
94.5
07T
The Kid
1921 · Charles Chaplin
94.3
08Seven Samurai
1954 · Akira Kurosawa
94.3
09Your Name.
2016 · Makoto Shinkai
93.9
10Gone with the Wind
1939 · Victor Fleming · 10 Oscars
93.8
11The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003 · Peter Jackson · 11 Oscars
93.8
12The Intouchables
2011 · Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano
93.5
13M
1931 · Fritz Lang
93.4
14A Fistful of Dollars
1964 · Sergio Leone
93.4
15Taxi Driver
1976 · Martin Scorsese
93.4
16One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975 · Milos Forman · 5 Oscars
93.2
17On the Waterfront
1954 · Elia Kazan · 8 Oscars
93.1
18The Godfather
1972 · Francis Ford Coppola · 3 Oscars
93.0
19The Big Sleep
1946 · Howard Hawks
92.9
20Shatak
2026 · Aashish Mall
92.8
21Trainspotting
1996 · Danny Boyle
92.8
22The Sting
1973 · George Roy Hill · 7 Oscars
92.8
23Like Stars on Earth
2007 · Aamir Khan
92.8
24Raise the Red Lantern
1991 · Yimou Zhang
92.7
25The Man from Nowhere
2010 · Lee Jeong-beom
92.7
26The Breakfast Club
1985 · John Hughes
92.7
27The Wages of Fear
1953 · Henri-Georges Clouzot
92.6
28The Rescue
2021 · Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
92.5
29Stalker
1979 · Andrei Tarkovsky
92.5
30Tokyo Story
1953 · Yasujirô Ozu
92.4
31The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957 · David Lean · 7 Oscars
92.4
32Attack on Titan the Movie: The Last Attack
2024 · Yûichirô Hayashi
92.4
33The 400 Blows
1959 · François Truffaut
92.4
34The Best of Youth
2003 · Marco Tullio Giordana
92.4
35Slumdog Millionaire
2008 · Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan · 8 Oscars
92.4
36The Godfather Part II
1974 · Francis Ford Coppola · 6 Oscars
92.3
37Dangal
2016 · Nitesh Tiwari
92.2
38The Best Years of Our Lives
1946 · William Wyler · 8 Oscars
92.2
39For a Few Dollars More
1965 · Sergio Leone
92.2
40Sanjuro
1962 · Akira Kurosawa
92.2
41Wild Strawberries
1957 · Ingmar Bergman
92.1
42Woman in the Dunes
1964 · Hiroshi Teshigahara
92.0
43Come and See
1985 · Elem Klimov
92.0
44The Silence of the Lambs
1991 · Jonathan Demme · 5 Oscars
92.0
45Sansho the Bailiff
1954 · Kenji Mizoguchi
92.0
46Memories of Murder
2003 · Bong Joon Ho
92.0
47Ben-Hur
1959 · William Wyler · 11 Oscars
92.0
48Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
1995 · Aditya Chopra
92.0
49The Sixth Sense
1999 · M. Night Shyamalan
91.9
50Se7en
1995 · David Fincher
91.9
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