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James Mason Movies Ranked: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
James Mason appears in the billed cast of 32 films in our catalog, from 1943 to 1982. Top of the list is North by Northwest ('1959), at 8.2 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.1. Biggest split between audiences and critics: The Boys from Brazil, 7.0 on IMDb against 40 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North by Northwest '1959 | Thriller | 8.2 | 97% | 98 | 8.0 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 2 | Odd Man Out '1947 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.6 | 100% | 87 | 7.3 | Carol Reed |
| 3 | Lolita '1962 | Drama / Comedy / Romance | 7.5 | 89% | 79 | 7.3 | Stanley Kubrick |
| 4 | 5 Fingers '1952 | Thriller / Drama | 7.6 | 100% | - | 7.5 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| 5 | A Star Is Born '1954 | Drama / Musical / Romance | 7.5 | 98% | 89 | 7.1 | George Cukor |
| 6 | The Verdict '1982 | Drama | 7.7 | 88% | 77 | 7.5 | Sidney Lumet |
| 7 | Bigger Than Life '1956 | Drama | 7.4 | 91% | - | 7.2 | Nicholas Ray |
| 8 | Cross of Iron '1977 | Drama / Action / War | 7.4 | 71% | 64 | 7.1 | Sam Peckinpah |
| 9 | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea '1954 | Sci-Fi / Fantasy | 7.2 | 91% | 83 | 7.1 | Richard Fleischer |
| 10 | The Tell-Tale Heart '1953 | Animation / Horror / Crime | 7.5 | - | - | 7.2 | Ted Parmelee |
| 11 | Julius Caesar '1953 | Drama | 7.2 | 97% | - | 7.1 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| 12 | The Last of Sheila '1973 | Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller | 7.2 | 90% | - | 7.0 | Herbert Ross |
| 13 | The Reckless Moment '1949 | Drama / Thriller / Crime | 7.1 | - | - | 6.7 | Max Ophüls |
| 14 | The Prisoner of Zenda '1952 | - | 6.9 | - | - | 6.9 | Richard Thorpe |
| 15 | Madame Bovary '1949 | Drama / Romance | 7.0 | - | 66 | 6.8 | Vincente Minnelli |
| 16 | Caught '1949 | Drama / Romance / Thriller | 7.0 | 100% | - | 6.6 | Max Ophüls |
| 17 | The Man Between '1953 | Thriller | 7.0 | - | - | 7.2 | Carol Reed |
| 18 | Pandora and the Flying Dutchman '1951 | Romance / Drama / Fantasy | 6.9 | 67% | 81 | 6.8 | Albert Lewin |
| 19 | The Blue Max '1966 | War / Action / Drama | 7.1 | 100% | - | 6.8 | John Guillermin |
| 20 | The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel '1951 | Action / Drama / War | 6.9 | 83% | - | 6.7 | Henry Hathaway |
| 21 | The Seventh Veil '1945 | Musical / Drama | 6.7 | - | - | 6.6 | Compton Bennett |
| 22 | Journey to the Center of the Earth '1959 | Fantasy | 7.0 | 84% | - | 6.9 | Henry Levin |
| 23 | Evil Under the Sun '1982 | Thriller / Crime / Mystery / Drama | 7.1 | 86% | 61 | 6.9 | Guy Hamilton |
| 24 | The Deadly Affair '1967 | Thriller / Mystery / Drama | 6.7 | - | - | 6.3 | Sidney Lumet |
| 25 | The Boys from Brazil '1978 | Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi | 7.0 | 72% | 40 | 6.7 | Franklin J. Schaffner |
| 26 | The Desert Rats '1953 | War / Action | 6.7 | 100% | - | 6.3 | Robert Wise |
| 27 | Murder by Decree '1979 | Crime / Mystery / Thriller | 6.8 | 81% | 68 | 6.3 | Bob Clark |
| 28 | The Fall of the Roman Empire '1964 | Drama / War | 6.7 | 56% | - | 6.5 | Anthony Mann |
| 29 | The Man in Grey '1943 | Drama / Romance | 6.5 | - | - | 6.1 | Leslie Arliss |
| 30 | Heaven Can Wait '1978 | Fantasy / Comedy / Romance / Drama | 6.9 | 82% | 72 | 6.7 | Buck Henry |
| 31 | Mandingo '1975 | Romance / Drama | 6.5 | 25% | - | 6.6 | Richard Fleischer |
| 32 | Prince Valiant '1954 | Action / Romance | 6.2 | - | - | 6.1 | Henry Hathaway |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.