Top Rated "1920s" Titles

RankRatingTitleVotes
1.8.9Brown of Harvard (1926)807
2.8.5Four Walls (1928)187
3.8.5West Point (1927/II)955
4.8.5The Merry Widow (1925)885
5.8.5The Big Parade (1925)2,353
6.8.5Sadie Thompson (1928)899
7.8.4The Wind (1928)2,249
8.8.4Little Old New York (1923)544
9.8.4Tol'able David (1921)736
10.8.4The Patsy (1928)955
11.8.4Show People (1928)1,386
12.8.4Metropolis (1927)35,011
13.8.4Twelve Miles Out (1927)312
14.8.4When Knighthood Was in Flower (1922)571
15.8.4Desert Nights (1929)646
16.8.4The Patent Leather Kid (1927)253
17.8.4Sherlock Jr. (1924)6,113
18.8.4Janice Meredith (1924)446
19.8.4Fine Manners (1926)472
20.8.4Manhandled (1924)526
21.8.4The Trespasser (1929)534
22.8.4Zaza (1923)457
23.8.4The Love of Sunya (1927)500
24.8.4The Cardboard Lover (1928)473
25.8.3The General (1926)17,771
26.8.3Beauty's Worth (1922)416
27.8.3The Fair Co-Ed (1927)399
28.8.3Safety Last! (1923)5,057
29.8.3Bardelys the Magnificent (1926)377
30.8.3Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)9,914
31.8.3Ella Cinders (1926)473
32.8.3Stage Struck (1925)461
33.8.3Zander the Great (1925)399
34.8.3The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)1,260
35.8.3The Red Mill (1927)683
36.8.3The Kid (1921)11,709
37.8.3The Gold Rush (1925)18,532
38.8.2The Cameraman (1928)3,204
39.8.2Lilac Time (1928)422
40.8.2Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)3,076
41.8.2Way Down East (1920)1,706
42.8.2Spring Fever (1927)478
43.8.2Orphans of the Storm (1921)1,498
44.8.2Across to Singapore (1928)436
45.8.2Something to Think About (1920)404
46.8.2Beverly of Graustark (1926)236
47.8.2The Smart Set (1928)580
48.8.2Tell It to the Marines (1926)802
49.8.2Queen Kelly (1929)1,174
50.8.1Marianne (1929/I)725

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.