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Sidney Poitier Movies Ranked: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
Sidney Poitier appears in the billed cast of 13 films in our catalog, from 1950 to 1997. Top of the list is In the Heat of the Night ('1967), at 7.9 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.4. Biggest split between audiences and critics: The Jackal, 6.4 on IMDb against 36 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In the Heat of the Night '1967 | Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller | 7.9 | 96% | 76 | 7.7 | Norman Jewison |
| 2 | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner '1967 | Drama / Romance | 7.8 | 71% | 63 | 7.6 | Stanley Kramer |
| 3 | A Raisin in the Sun '1961 | Drama / Romance | 8.0 | 91% | 87 | 7.7 | Daniel Petrie |
| 4 | A Patch of Blue '1965 | Drama / Romance | 8.0 | 89% | 73 | 7.6 | Guy Green |
| 5 | To Sir, with Love '1967 | Drama | 7.6 | 90% | 55 | 7.4 | James Clavell |
| 6 | The Defiant Ones '1958 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.5 | 90% | 69 | 7.2 | Stanley Kramer |
| 7 | No Way Out '1950 | Drama / Crime / Thriller | 7.4 | 85% | - | 6.9 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| 8 | Lilies of the Field '1963 | Comedy / Drama | 7.5 | 92% | 61 | 7.2 | Ralph Nelson |
| 9 | The Bedford Incident '1965 | Action / Drama / Thriller / War | 7.3 | 87% | - | 7.0 | James B. Harris |
| 10 | Edge of the City '1957 | Drama / Crime / Romance | 7.2 | - | - | 7.1 | Martin Ritt |
| 11 | Sneakers '1992 | Comedy / Crime / Drama | 7.1 | 80% | 65 | 6.9 | Phil Alden Robinson |
| 12 | Duel at Diablo '1966 | Western | 6.5 | - | - | 6.4 | Ralph Nelson |
| 13 | The Jackal '1997 | Action / Crime / Thriller | 6.4 | 24% | 36 | 6.4 | Michael Caton-Jones |
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.