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Best Movies of 1926, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
39 films from 1926 are in our catalog; the 39 best are ranked below. Top of the list is The General ('1926), at 8.1 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 6.9.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The General '1926 | Comedy / War / Romance | 8.1 | 92% | - | 7.9 | Clyde Bruckman |
| 2 | Faust '1926 | Fantasy / Drama / Horror | 8.1 | 91% | - | 7.9 | F. W. Murnau |
| 3 | The Adventures of Prince Achmed '1926 | Animation / Fantasy / Romance | 7.8 | 100% | - | 7.5 | Lotte Reiniger |
| 4 | Ménilmontant '1926 | Drama | 7.8 | - | - | 7.4 | Dimitri Kirsanoff |
| 5 | Flesh and the Devil '1926 | Drama / Romance | 7.6 | 94% | - | 7.2 | Clarence Brown |
| 6 | For Heaven's Sake '1926 | Comedy / Action | 7.5 | - | - | 6.9 | Sam Taylor |
| 7 | By the Law '1926 | Drama | 7.6 | - | - | 6.6 | Lev Kuleshov |
| 8 | Mother '1926 | Drama | 7.4 | - | - | 7.1 | Vsevolod Pudovkin |
| 9 | 3 Bad Men '1926 | Romance / Western | 7.5 | - | - | 6.9 | John Ford |
| 10 | A Page of Madness '1926 | Horror / Drama | 7.3 | - | - | 7.3 | Teinosuke Kinugasa |
| 11 | Sparrows '1926 | Drama | 7.3 | - | - | 7.0 | William Beaudine |
| 12 | Tartuffe '1926 | Drama / Comedy | 7.1 | 88% | - | 7.2 | F. W. Murnau |
| 13 | A Sixth Part of the World '1926 | Documentary | 7.2 | - | - | 6.7 | Dziga Vertov |
| 14 | So This Is Paris '1926 | Comedy | 7.1 | - | - | 6.4 | Ernst Lubitsch |
| 15 | Mighty Like a Moose '1926 | Comedy / Romance | 7.1 | - | - | 6.8 | Leo McCarey |
| 16 | Battling Butler '1926 | Comedy / Romance | 7.0 | 85% | - | 6.7 | Buster Keaton |
| 17 | The Black Pirate '1926 | Drama / Action | 7.0 | 100% | - | 6.7 | Albert Parker |
| 18 | Ella Cinders '1926 | Romance / Comedy | 7.0 | - | - | 7.1 | Alfred E. Green |
| 19 | The Student of Prague '1926 | Horror / Drama | 6.9 | - | - | 6.6 | Henrik Galeen |
| 20 | The Winning of Barbara Worth '1926 | Drama / Romance / Western | 6.9 | - | - | 6.5 | Henry King |
| 21 | The Temptress '1926 | Romance / Drama | 6.9 | - | - | 6.7 | Fred Niblo |
| 22 | Emak-Bakia '1926 | Documentary | 6.9 | - | - | 6.8 | Man Ray |
| 23 | Moana '1926 | Documentary | 6.8 | 87% | - | 6.7 | Robert Flaherty |
| 24 | Secrets of a Soul '1926 | Drama | 6.8 | - | - | 6.3 | G.W. Pabst |
| 25 | Egged On '1926 | Fantasy / Comedy / Sci-Fi / Animation | 6.6 | - | - | 6.3 | Charles R. Bowers |
| 26 | The Overcoat '1926 | Drama | 6.6 | - | - | 5.1 | Grigori Kozintsev |
| 27 | The Magician '1926 | Drama / Horror / Fantasy | 6.7 | - | - | 6.1 | Rex Ingram |
| 28 | The Blackbird '1926 | Crime / Drama / Romance | 6.7 | - | - | 6.4 | Tod Browning |
| 29 | The Bride of Glomdal '1926 | Drama / Romance | 6.6 | - | - | 6.7 | Carl Theodor Dreyer |
| 30 | The Holy Mountain '1926 | Drama | 6.6 | - | - | 6.5 | Arnold Fanck |
| 31 | Nana '1926 | Drama / Romance | 6.6 | - | - | 6.7 | Jean Renoir |
| 32 | The Strong Man '1926 | Comedy / Romance | 6.6 | - | - | 6.2 | Frank Capra |
| 33 | Fig Leaves '1926 | Comedy | 6.1 | - | - | 5.9 | Howard Hawks |
| 34 | The Bat '1926 | Comedy / Mystery / Thriller / Horror | 6.5 | - | - | 6.5 | Roland West |
| 35 | The Son of the Sheik '1926 | Action / Drama / Romance | 6.6 | 80% | - | 6.1 | George Fitzmaurice |
| 36 | Film Study '1926 | Animation | 6.4 | - | - | 5.8 | Hans Richter |
| 37 | Five Minutes of Pure Cinema '1926 | Drama | 5.8 | - | - | 6.2 | Henri Chomette |
| 38 | 45 Minutes from Hollywood '1926 | Comedy | 5.4 | - | - | 5.3 | Fred Guiol |
| 39 | Anemic Cinema '1926 | Drama | 6.0 | - | - | 6.2 | Marcel Duchamp |
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.
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