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Peak 2010s

THE TV MOVIE

A GENRE IN CINEMA
Every film catalogued, ranked by master score across a hundred years of the form.
Peak 2010s
4,789
Films Catalogued
64.5
Avg Master Score
6.0
Avg IMDb
2010s
Peak Decade
TERRY INGRAM
Top Director
Of which 3 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
MS89.5
BILL MELENDEZ|1965
A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS

“That's what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown!”

No.02
MS89.0
REBECCA SUGAR, JOSEPH D. JOHNSTON, KAT MORRIS|2019
STEVEN UNIVERSE: THE MOVIE

“The true kinda love.”

No.03
MS88.8
WERNER HERZOG|1992
LESSONS OF DARKNESS
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A Charlie Brown Christmas
1965 · Bill Melendez
89.5
02
Steven Universe: The Movie
2019 · Rebecca Sugar, Joseph D. Johnston, Kat Morris
89.0
03
Lessons of Darkness
1992 · Werner Herzog
88.8
04
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
1964 · Larry Roemer
88.6
05
Conspiracy
2001 · Frank Pierson
87.9
06
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
1966 · Bill Melendez
87.8
07
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Ask Yolu
2006 · Çagatay Tosun
87.2
08
And the Band Played On
1993 · Roger Spottiswoode
86.7
09
61*
2001 · Billy Crystal
86.3
10
Something the Lord Made
2004 · Joseph Sargent
86.1
11
Pirates of Silicon Valley
1999 · Martyn Burke
86.1
12
R
Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway
2008 · Michael John Warren
86.0
13
E
Edvard Munch
1974 · Peter Watkins
85.9
14
4
4 Little Girls
1997 · Spike Lee
85.7
15
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
2006 · Stanley Nelson
85.7
16
Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
1970 · Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr.
85.6
17
Prayers for Bobby
2009 · Russell Mulcahy
85.6
18
Saraband
2003 · Ingmar Bergman
85.2
19
Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension
2011 · Robert Hughes, Dan Povenmire, Jay Lender
85.1
20
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
1988 · Richard Boden
84.7
21
A Christmas Carol
1984 · Clive Donner
84.7
22
South Park: Joining the Panderverse
2023 · Trey Parker
84.3
23
Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey
2018 · Jim Donovan
84.3
24
The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!
1976 · Eldar Ryazanov
84.2
25
The Ron Clark Story
2006 · Randa Haines
83.9
26
Boys
2014 · Mischa Kamp
83.9
27
S
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
1982 · Terry Hughes
83.7
28
S
Samurai Jack: The Premiere Movie
2001 · Genndy Tartakovsky
83.6
29
An Inspector Calls
2015 · Aisling Walsh
83.6
30
Wit
2001 · Mike Nichols
83.5
31
Fail Safe
2000 · Stephen Frears, Martin Pasetta
83.5
32
Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm
1999 · Robert B. Weide
83.5
33
All the Way
2016 · Jay Roach
83.5
34
Prescription: Murder
1968 · Richard Irving
83.5
35
Stuart: A Life Backwards
2007 · David Attwood
83.5
36
Uprising
2001 · Jon Avnet
83.4
37
Battlestar Galactica: Razor
2007 · Félix Enríquez Alcalá
83.3
38
Death of a Salesman
1985 · Volker Schlöndorff
83.3
39
Horatio Hornblower: The Duel
1998 · Andrew Grieve
83.2
40
The Sunset Limited
2011 · Tommy Lee Jones
83.1
41
The Batman Superman Movie: World's Finest
1997 · Toshihiko Masuda
83.0
42
You Don't Know Jack
2010 · Barry Levinson
83.0
43
Uncle Frank
2020 · Alan Ball
83.0
44
The Year Without a Santa Claus
1974 · Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr.
82.9
45
L
Louis Theroux: The Settlers
2025 · Joshua Baker
82.8
46
Grey Gardens
2009 · Michael Sucsy
82.6
47
Persuasion
2007 · Adrian Shergold
82.5
48
T
The Very Same Munchhausen
1980 · Mark Zakharov
82.5
49
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
2018 · David Slade
82.4
50
South Park: Post COVID
2021 · Trey Parker
82.4
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