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Best Movies of 1927, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
48 films from 1927 are in our catalog; the 48 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Metropolis ('1927), at 8.2 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 6.9. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Metropolis, 8.2 on IMDb against 98 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Metropolis '1927 | Drama / Sci-Fi | 8.2 | 97% | 98 | 8.1 | Fritz Lang |
| 2 | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans '1927 | Drama / Romance | 8.1 | 98% | 95 | 7.8 | F. W. Murnau |
| 3 | Napoleon '1927 | Drama / War | 8.2 | 87% | - | 7.9 | Abel Gance |
| 4 | The Unknown '1927 | Thriller / Romance / Horror | 7.7 | 100% | - | 7.5 | Tod Browning |
| 5 | Wings '1927 | Drama / Action / War / Romance | 7.5 | 94% | 78 | 7.2 | William A. Wellman |
| 6 | The Kid Brother '1927 | Comedy / Drama | 7.6 | 92% | - | 6.9 | Ted Wilde |
| 7 | Berlin: Symphony of a Great City '1927 | Documentary | 7.6 | 86% | - | 7.5 | Walter Ruttmann |
| 8 | 7th Heaven '1927 | Drama / Romance | 7.5 | 100% | - | 7.3 | Frank Borzage |
| 9 | Underworld '1927 | Drama / Crime / Romance | 7.5 | 90% | - | 7.1 | Josef von Sternberg |
| 10 | The Scarlet Letter '1927 | Drama | 7.6 | - | - | 7.1 | Victor Sjöström |
| 11 | The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog '1927 | Crime / Thriller / Mystery | 7.3 | 96% | 82 | 7.2 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 12 | The King of Kings '1927 | Drama | 7.3 | 73% | - | 6.4 | Cecil B. DeMille |
| 13 | The End of St. Petersburg '1927 | Drama | 7.3 | 75% | - | 6.7 | Vsevolod Pudovkin |
| 14 | It '1927 | Comedy / Romance | 7.2 | 88% | - | 6.9 | Clarence G. Badger |
| 15 | Bed and Sofa '1927 | Comedy / Drama | 7.3 | - | - | 6.3 | Abram Room |
| 16 | The Cat and the Canary '1927 | Comedy / Horror / Mystery | 7.1 | 94% | - | 6.9 | Paul Leni |
| 17 | Chicago '1927 | Comedy / Drama / Crime | 7.3 | - | - | 5.9 | Frank Urson |
| 18 | The Love of Jeanne Ney '1927 | Drama | 7.2 | - | - | 7.2 | G.W. Pabst |
| 19 | The Battle of the Century '1927 | Comedy | 7.1 | - | - | 6.9 | Clyde Bruckman |
| 20 | The Girl with the Hat Box '1927 | Comedy | 7.1 | - | - | 6.4 | Boris Barnet |
| 21 | College '1927 | Drama / Comedy / Romance | 6.9 | 92% | - | 6.7 | James W. Horne |
| 22 | The Peasant Women of Ryazan '1927 | Drama | 7.0 | - | - | 6.5 | Olga Preobrazhenskaya |
| 23 | Love '1927 | Drama / Romance | 6.9 | - | - | 5.7 | Edmund Goulding |
| 24 | Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness '1927 | Documentary / Drama | 6.9 | 94% | - | 6.7 | Ernest B. Schoedsack |
| 25 | The Three-Sided Mirror '1927 | Drama / Romance | 6.9 | - | - | 6.6 | Jean Epstein |
| 26 | The Second 100 Years '1927 | Comedy | 6.8 | - | - | 6.2 | Fred Guiol |
| 27 | Sailors, Beware! '1927 | Comedy | 6.7 | - | - | 6.9 | Hal Roach |
| 28 | Two Arabian Knights '1927 | Comedy | 6.7 | - | - | 5.8 | Lewis Milestone |
| 29 | Do Detectives Think? '1927 | Comedy | 6.7 | - | - | 6.4 | Fred Guiol |
| 30 | Children of Divorce '1927 | Romance / Drama | 6.5 | - | - | 6.0 | Frank Lloyd |
| 31 | Putting Pants on Philip '1927 | Comedy | 6.6 | - | - | 6.3 | Clyde Bruckman |
| 32 | London After Midnight '1927 | Horror / Mystery | 6.6 | 75% | - | 6.6 | Tod Browning |
| 33 | The Ocean Hop '1927 | Comedy / Animation | 6.0 | - | - | 6.2 | Walt Disney |
| 34 | Duck Soup '1927 | Comedy | 6.5 | - | - | 6.4 | Fred Guiol |
| 35 | The Mechanical Cow '1927 | Comedy / Animation | 6.1 | - | - | 5.5 | Walt Disney |
| 36 | Trolley Troubles '1927 | Animation / Comedy | 6.4 | - | - | 6.4 | Walt Disney |
| 37 | Great Guns '1927 | Animation / Comedy / War | 6.0 | - | - | 5.9 | Walt Disney |
| 38 | Oh, Teacher! '1927 | Animation | 5.9 | - | - | 5.2 | Walt Disney |
| 39 | Love 'Em and Weep '1927 | Comedy | 6.3 | - | - | 5.7 | Fred Guiol |
| 40 | Sugar Daddies '1927 | Comedy | 6.2 | - | - | 6.0 | Fred Guiol |
| 41 | All Wet '1927 | Animation / Comedy | 6.1 | - | - | 6.1 | Walt Disney |
| 42 | With Love and Hisses '1927 | Comedy | 6.2 | - | - | 6.1 | Fred Guiol |
| 43 | Why Girls Love Sailors '1927 | Comedy | 6.0 | - | - | 5.5 | Fred Guiol |
| 44 | Call of the Cuckoo '1927 | Comedy | 5.9 | - | - | 5.8 | Clyde Bruckman |
| 45 | Charleston Parade '1927 | Sci-Fi | 5.9 | - | - | 6.0 | Jean Renoir |
| 46 | The Jazz Singer '1927 | Drama / Musical | 6.4 | 77% | 66 | 6.1 | Alan Crosland |
| 47 | The Ring '1927 | Drama / Romance | 6.1 | 90% | - | 5.9 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 48 | Downhill '1927 | Drama | 6.0 | 83% | 66 | 5.7 | Alfred Hitchcock |
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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