Top Rated "1920s" Titles

RankRatingTitleVotes
1.9.0Four Walls (1928)183
2.8.9Brown of Harvard (1926)803
3.8.7Twelve Miles Out (1927)307
4.8.6West Point (1927/II)952
5.8.5The Merry Widow (1925)883
6.8.5Tol'able David (1921)731
7.8.5Sadie Thompson (1928)898
8.8.5The Big Parade (1925)2,338
9.8.5Little Old New York (1923)543
10.8.4The Wind (1928)2,222
11.8.4The Patsy (1928)944
12.8.4When Knighthood Was in Flower (1922)570
13.8.4Desert Nights (1929)644
14.8.4Show People (1928)1,383
15.8.4Metropolis (1927)34,713
16.8.4Fine Manners (1926)471
17.8.4The Patent Leather Kid (1927)252
18.8.4Janice Meredith (1924)444
19.8.4Manhandled (1924)525
20.8.4Zaza (1923)456
21.8.4Ella Cinders (1926)471
22.8.4The Cardboard Lover (1928)472
23.8.4The Trespasser (1929)533
24.8.4The Love of Sunya (1927)499
25.8.4The Fair Co-Ed (1927)397
26.8.4Beauty's Worth (1922)415
27.8.4Bardelys the Magnificent (1926)374
28.8.4Sherlock Jr. (1924)6,057
29.8.4The General (1926)17,625
30.8.3Safety Last! (1923)5,017
31.8.3Zander the Great (1925)397
32.8.3Stage Struck (1925)460
33.8.3Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)9,802
34.8.3The Red Mill (1927)680
35.8.3Spring Fever (1927)475
36.8.3The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)1,249
37.8.3The Extra Girl (1923)515
38.8.3The Kid (1921)11,557
39.8.3The Gold Rush (1925)18,385
40.8.3The Cameraman (1928)3,182
41.8.2Lilac Time (1928)419
42.8.2Across to Singapore (1928)434
43.8.2Way Down East (1920)1,692
44.8.2Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)3,058
45.8.2Beverly of Graustark (1926)235
46.8.2Something to Think About (1920)403
47.8.2Orphans of the Storm (1921)1,488
48.8.2Marianne (1929/I)721
49.8.2The Circle (1925)140
50.8.2Why Change Your Wife? (1920)668

The formula for calculating the Top Rated 50 Titles gives a true Bayesian estimate:

 weighted rating (WR) = (v ÷ (v+m)) × R + (m ÷ (v+m)) × C 
where:
  • R = average for the movie (mean) = (Rating)
  • v = number of votes for the movie = (votes)
  • m = minimum votes required to be listed in the Top 50 (currently 100)
  • C = the mean vote across the whole report (currently 6.8)

for the Top 50, only votes from regular voters are considered.