The Best Movie In Every Genre on Letterboxd

There are solely 19 movie genres.

(At the least in line with Letterboxd.)

The over 1.13 million motion pictures in the fabulous and fabulously nerdy film database and social media app will be sorted by style. Letterboxd acknowledges 19 totally different ones: Motion, journey, animation, comedy, crime, documentary, drama, household, fantasy, historical past, horror, music, thriller, romance, sci-fi, thriller, TV film, conflict, and western.

Inside every style you type the titles in line with your particular person ranking, by general recognition, or by the common ranking from all customers — which supplies you the top-rated movie in line with Letterboxd in all 19 totally different genres. Notice that it’s additionally doable to type a number of genres directly. So if you wish to know what’s the top-rated motion musical, for instance, you are able to do that. (The reply, by the best way, is The Blues Brothers.)

However I’m getting forward of myself. At this time we’re simply going to seek out out the only finest film (or at the least the highest-rated film) in every of the 19 particular person Letterboxd genres. As you’ll see, some motion pictures seem a number of instances; one seems three instances. That’s as a result of some motion pictures exist inside a number of genres — like The Blues Brothers, which is an motion film and a musical. I may have excluded beforehand talked about motion pictures within the curiosity of getting a broader vary of titles, however I made a decision that may simply be fudging the reality. Higher to offer an correct reflection of the movies that Letterboxd customers maintain most expensive in all of their 19 totally different genres. And right here they’re…

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