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Sidney Lumet Movies Ranked: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
Sidney Lumet directed 18 films in our catalog, from 1957 to 1989. Top of the list is 12 Angry Men ('1957), at 9.0 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.3. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Deathtrap, 7.0 on IMDb against 54 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 Angry Men '1957 | Drama | 9.0 | 100% | 97 | 8.6 | Sidney Lumet |
| 2 | Dog Day Afternoon '1975 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 8.0 | 94% | 86 | 7.9 | Sidney Lumet |
| 3 | Network '1976 | Drama | 8.0 | 90% | 83 | 7.8 | Sidney Lumet |
| 4 | Fail Safe '1964 | Thriller / Drama / War | 8.0 | 93% | 75 | 7.8 | Sidney Lumet |
| 5 | Serpico '1973 | Crime / Drama | 7.7 | 93% | 83 | 7.5 | Sidney Lumet |
| 6 | The Hill '1965 | Drama / War | 7.8 | 75% | 81 | 7.5 | Sidney Lumet |
| 7 | The Verdict '1982 | Drama | 7.7 | 88% | 77 | 7.5 | Sidney Lumet |
| 8 | The Pawnbroker '1965 | Drama | 7.6 | 88% | 69 | 7.1 | Sidney Lumet |
| 9 | Murder on the Orient Express '1974 | Drama / Thriller / Mystery | 7.2 | 89% | 62 | 7.1 | Sidney Lumet |
| 10 | The Fugitive Kind '1960 | Romance / Drama | 7.0 | 56% | - | 6.9 | Sidney Lumet |
| 11 | Running on Empty '1988 | Drama / Romance / Crime | 7.6 | 81% | 67 | 7.4 | Sidney Lumet |
| 12 | The Offence '1973 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 6.8 | 73% | 70 | 6.8 | Sidney Lumet |
| 13 | Equus '1977 | Drama / Mystery / Thriller | 7.1 | 70% | - | 7.0 | Sidney Lumet |
| 14 | Deathtrap '1982 | Comedy / Crime / Drama | 7.0 | 75% | 54 | 6.7 | Sidney Lumet |
| 15 | The Deadly Affair '1967 | Thriller / Mystery / Drama | 6.7 | - | - | 6.3 | Sidney Lumet |
| 16 | The Anderson Tapes '1971 | Crime / Thriller / Action | 6.4 | 75% | 61 | 6.1 | Sidney Lumet |
| 17 | Family Business '1989 | Crime / Drama / Comedy | 5.8 | 35% | 54 | 5.7 | Sidney Lumet |
| 18 | The Wiz '1978 | Fantasy | 5.7 | 38% | 53 | 6.2 | Sidney Lumet |
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.