Top Rated "1920s" Titles

RankRatingTitleVotes
1.8.9Brown of Harvard (1926)805
2.8.7Four Walls (1928)185
3.8.5Twelve Miles Out (1927)310
4.8.5West Point (1927/II)954
5.8.5The Merry Widow (1925)884
6.8.5Sadie Thompson (1928)898
7.8.5The Big Parade (1925)2,350
8.8.5Little Old New York (1923)543
9.8.5Tol'able David (1921)733
10.8.4The Wind (1928)2,243
11.8.4When Knighthood Was in Flower (1922)570
12.8.4The Patsy (1928)953
13.8.4Show People (1928)1,385
14.8.4Desert Nights (1929)645
15.8.4Metropolis (1927)34,968
16.8.4Janice Meredith (1924)445
17.8.4Fine Manners (1926)471
18.8.4The Patent Leather Kid (1927)252
19.8.4Zaza (1923)456
20.8.4Manhandled (1924)525
21.8.4The Cardboard Lover (1928)472
22.8.4The Love of Sunya (1927)499
23.8.4The Trespasser (1929)533
24.8.4The Fair Co-Ed (1927)398
25.8.4Beauty's Worth (1922)415
26.8.4Sherlock Jr. (1924)6,106
27.8.4Bardelys the Magnificent (1926)376
28.8.3The General (1926)17,744
29.8.3Safety Last! (1923)5,051
30.8.3Ella Cinders (1926)472
31.8.3Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)9,897
32.8.3Zander the Great (1925)398
33.8.3Stage Struck (1925)460
34.8.3The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)1,259
35.8.3The Red Mill (1927)682
36.8.3The Kid (1921)11,682
37.8.3The Gold Rush (1925)18,515
38.8.2Lilac Time (1928)421
39.8.2The Cameraman (1928)3,199
40.8.2Beverly of Graustark (1926)235
41.8.2Spring Fever (1927)477
42.8.2Way Down East (1920)1,702
43.8.2Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)3,073
44.8.2Something to Think About (1920)403
45.8.2Across to Singapore (1928)435
46.8.2Orphans of the Storm (1921)1,497
47.8.2The Smart Set (1928)579
48.8.2Lights of Old Broadway (1925)248
49.8.2Why Change Your Wife? (1920)670
50.8.2Marianne (1929/I)723

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.