Defining Genre

Peak 2010s

THE ROMANCE

TWO PEOPLE, ONE FRAME

The oldest brief in the form. Where every lighting choice asks whether they'll kiss and every cut decides the answer.

Peak 2010s

16,475

Films Catalogued

65.9

Avg Master Score

6.3

Avg IMDb

2010s

Peak Decade

TERRY INGRAM

Top Director

Of which 381 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.

“Separated by distance, connected by fate.”

“The greatest romance of all time!”

“The man lived by the jungle law of the docks!”

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2016 · Makoto Shinkai

93.9

Gone with the Wind

1939 · Victor Fleming · 10 Oscars

93.8

On the Waterfront

1954 · Elia Kazan · 8 Oscars

93.1

Raise the Red Lantern

1991 · Yimou Zhang

92.7

Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc

2025 · Tatsuya Yoshihara

92.5

The Best of Youth

2003 · Marco Tullio Giordana

92.4

Slumdog Millionaire

2008 · Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan · 8 Oscars

92.4

The Best Years of Our Lives

1946 · William Wyler · 8 Oscars

92.2

Wild Strawberries

1957 · Ingmar Bergman

92.1

Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge

1946 · Alfred Hitchcock

91.7

Safety Last!

1923 · Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor

1925 · King Vidor, George W. Hill

91.3

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

1964 · Jacques Demy

91.3

Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara

2011 · Zoya Akhtar

91.3

The Shop Around the Corner

1940 · Ernst Lubitsch

91.1

Forrest Gump

1994 · Robert Zemeckis · 6 Oscars

A Woman Under the Influence

1974 · John Cassavetes

It Happened One Night

1934 · Frank Capra · 5 Oscars

90.6

The Sound of Music

1965 · Robert Wise · 5 Oscars

90.6

The Big Sick

2017 · Michael Showalter

90.5

The Apartment

1960 · Billy Wilder · 5 Oscars

1928 · Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton

90.3

Sairat

2016 · Nagraj Manjule

90.2

Cinderella

1950 · Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske

A Silent Voice: The Movie

2016 · Naoko Yamada

90.0

The Wrestler

2008 · Darren Aronofsky

2019 · Makoto Shinkai

The Fault in Our Stars

1973 · Terrence Malick

89.8

Casablanca

1942 · Michael Curtiz · 3 Oscars

89.8

Cabaret

1972 · Bob Fosse · 8 Oscars

89.8

What's Up, Doc?

1972 · Peter Bogdanovich

89.7

Before Sunset

2004 · Richard Linklater

89.7

La La Land

2016 · Damien Chazelle · 6 Oscars

2006 · Rajkumar Hirani

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