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Karl Malden Movies Ranked: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
Karl Malden appears in the billed cast of 19 films in our catalog, from 1950 to 1979. Top of the list is On the Waterfront ('1954), at 8.1 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.1. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Meteor, 5.1 on IMDb against 27 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On the Waterfront '1954 | Crime / Drama / Romance | 8.1 | 99% | 91 | 7.8 | Elia Kazan |
| 2 | A Streetcar Named Desire '1951 | Drama / Thriller | 7.9 | 97% | 97 | 7.6 | Elia Kazan |
| 3 | Patton '1970 | War / Drama | 7.9 | 92% | 86 | 7.4 | Franklin J. Schaffner |
| 4 | Birdman of Alcatraz '1962 | Drama / Crime | 7.8 | 88% | 76 | 7.5 | John Frankenheimer |
| 5 | The Gunfighter '1950 | Western | 7.7 | 93% | 94 | 7.4 | Henry King |
| 6 | Where the Sidewalk Ends '1950 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.5 | 100% | - | 7.2 | Otto Preminger |
| 7 | Pollyanna '1960 | Comedy / Drama | 7.4 | 85% | 66 | 7.0 | David Swift |
| 8 | How the West Was Won '1962 | Western | 7.1 | 85% | 56 | 7.0 | Henry Hathaway |
| 9 | I Confess '1953 | Drama / Thriller / Crime | 7.2 | 84% | 68 | 7.1 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 10 | Dead Ringer '1964 | Crime / Drama / Horror | 7.3 | 100% | 66 | 6.9 | Paul Henreid |
| 11 | The Cincinnati Kid '1965 | Drama | 7.2 | 86% | 67 | 7.0 | Norman Jewison |
| 12 | Baby Doll '1956 | Drama | 7.2 | 83% | 83 | 7.0 | Elia Kazan |
| 13 | One-Eyed Jacks '1961 | Western / Drama | 7.1 | 67% | - | 6.7 | Marlon Brando |
| 14 | The Hanging Tree '1959 | Western | 7.1 | 89% | - | 6.7 | Delmer Daves |
| 15 | Nevada Smith '1966 | Western | 6.9 | 50% | - | 6.7 | Henry Hathaway |
| 16 | Cheyenne Autumn '1964 | Western | 6.7 | 60% | - | 6.7 | John Ford |
| 17 | The Cat o' Nine Tails '1971 | Horror / Mystery / Thriller | 6.6 | 81% | 63 | 6.7 | Dario Argento |
| 18 | Billion Dollar Brain '1967 | Thriller | 5.9 | 50% | - | 5.6 | Ken Russell |
| 19 | Meteor '1979 | Sci-Fi / Thriller / Action | 5.1 | 5% | 27 | 5.2 | Ronald Neame |
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.