Defining Genre
THE HISTORY
RECREATED, REFRAMED
The films that rebuild a century and ask it to mean something. Where production design becomes argument and a uniform becomes a flag.
Peak 2010s
4,143
Films Catalogued
69.1
Avg Master Score
6.8
Avg IMDb
2010s
Peak Decade
ANDRZEJ WAJDA
Top Director
Of which 165 won at least one Oscar
The Defining Three
ESSENTIAL VIEWING
Top-ranked by master score. If you only saw three films from this decade, these are the three.
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4,143/4,143 films
Master Score
Awards
Showing 60 of 4,143
01
Schindler's List
1993 · Steven Spielberg · 7 Oscars
94.6
02Harakiri
1962 · Masaki Kobayashi
94.5
03Shatak
2026 · Aashish Mall
92.8
04Shoah
1985 · Claude Lanzmann
92.5
05The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957 · David Lean · 7 Oscars
92.4
06The Best of Youth
2003 · Marco Tullio Giordana
92.4
07Ben-Hur
1959 · William Wyler · 11 Oscars
92.0
08The Passion of Joan of Arc
1928 · Carl Theodor Dreyer
91.8
09Temple Grandin
2010 · Mick Jackson
91.8
10Pather Panchali
1955 · Satyajit Ray
91.6
11The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
2016 · Ron Howard
91.6
12Won't You Be My Neighbor?
2018 · Morgan Neville
91.5
13Throne of Blood
1957 · Akira Kurosawa
91.4
14Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021 · Questlove, Hal Tulchin
91.3
15The Grand Illusion
1937 · Jean Renoir · 1 nom
90.9
16Tosun Pasha
1976 · Kartal Tibet
90.8
17Sardar Udham
2021 · Shoojit Sircar
90.7
18Oppenheimer
2023 · Christopher Nolan · 7 Oscars
90.5
19Saving Private Ryan
1998 · Steven Spielberg · 5 Oscars
90.5
20Apollo 11
2019 · Todd Douglas Miller
90.4
21The King's Speech
2010 · Tom Hooper · 4 Oscars
90.3
22The Message
1976 · Moustapha Akkad
90.2
23Day of Wrath
1943 · Carl Theodor Dreyer
90.0
24Amadeus
1984 · Milos Forman · 8 Oscars
89.9
25Downfall
2004 · Oliver Hirschbiegel · 1 nom
89.7
26The Leopard
1963 · Luchino Visconti · 1 nom
89.7
27Roger & Me
1989 · Michael Moore
89.6
28Hidden Figures
2016 · Theodore Melfi · 3 noms
89.6
29Patton
1970 · Franklin J. Schaffner · 7 Oscars
89.5
30Straight Outta Compton
2015 · F. Gary Gray · 1 nom
89.5
31Battleship Potemkin
1925 · Sergei Eisenstein
89.4
32Lawrence of Arabia
1962 · David Lean · 7 Oscars
89.4
33A Taxi Driver
2017 · Hun Jang
89.4
34Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969 · George Roy Hill · 4 Oscars
89.3
35Downton Abbey
2019 · Michael Engler
89.2
36Love and Death
1975 · Woody Allen
89.1
37The Kashmir Files
2022 · Vivek Agnihotri
89.1
38The Foster Brothers
1976 · Ertem Egilmez
89.0
39LA 92
2017 · Daniel Lindsay, T.J. Martin
89.0
40Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War
2004 · Kang Je-kyu
88.8
41Ranapati Shivray Swari Agra
2026 · Digpal Lanjekar
88.7
42The Square
2013 · Jehane Noujaim · 1 nom
88.7
43The Farthest
2017 · Emer Reynolds
88.5
4412 Years a Slave
2013 · Steve McQueen · 3 Oscars
88.5
45The Little Foxes
1941 · William Wyler · 9 noms
88.5
46Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
2022 · Anthony Fabian · 1 nom
88.5
47Mastaney
2023 · Sharan Art
88.4
48The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
1961 · Masaki Kobayashi
88.4
49The Salt of the Earth
2014 · Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Wim Wenders · 1 nom
88.3
50Captain Blood
1935 · Michael Curtiz · 5 noms
88.3
51The Corporation
2003 · Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott
88.2
52Border
1997 · J.P. Dutta
88.2
53Green Book
2018 · Peter Farrelly · 3 Oscars
88.2
54All the President's Men
1976 · Alan J. Pakula · 4 Oscars
88.2
55For All Mankind
1989 · Al Reinert · 1 nom
88.1
56Bloody Sunday
2002 · Paul Greengrass
88.1
57Shakespeare in Love
1998 · John Madden · 7 Oscars
88.0
58Masquerade
2012 · Choo Chang-min
88.0
59Rang De Basanti
2006 · Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
88.0
60Saban, Son of Saban
1977 · Ertem Egilmez
88.0
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