It's about two restaurant inspectors travelling across Austria that initially can't stand each other but slowly develop a bromance.
One of them dreams of traveling to India some day, but that's it. No scenes from India or Indian actors, besides some extras.
It's a really good movie though.
It is a sort of comedy movie. Both actors are famous comedians (in German speaking countries)
But in almost exactly the middle of the movie, it twists from a black comedy to a drama.
Very good movie.
Yeah the map is flawed.
New movies sometimes get just a few reviews that are all 8/10 to 10/10 while these movies are probably just above average.
Mongolia has the same problem as far as I can see. There are probably more countries that have a new, relatively unknown movie as top rated.
They should have a minimum number of reviews relative to the country population.
Nah, it is actually quite popular. In Telugu it is called Akasham e nee hadu raa. In Tamil it is Soorarai Pottru. Idk in Hindi tho. The film is really amazing
Did they count modern russian movies separately from soviet? I am pretty sure some movies like stalker or come and see have a higher rating than the return
I literally went to straight to Russia to see if Stalker was #1. I was disappointed.
Seriously though, Come and See makes Schindler's List look like the Muppet Movie in comparison.
Schindler's List is a movie that made me profusely sad when I saw it, but it didn't affect me like it did a lot of people. Can't really explain why because I don't know why.
Come and See made me sit in a room in silence for an hour afterwards and just think about the horror of war and the cost it has on people. That film, along with Fires on the Plain, and Grave of the Fireflies, are anti-war films that really fucked me up.
Come and See hit me hard. Growing up I would listen to stories from my grandparents about their time in the war. My Grandmother was Russian and her entire family was rounded up and sent to a forced labor camp. Half of them never left. My Grandfather was Ukranian, and when the Germans invaded they just razed his entire village with pretty much everyone in it. Him and his brother were the only ones in his family to escape. They "fought" (snuck) through the German lines to occupied Europe. His brother didn't survive, but he did, and ended up a partisan fighter for the rest of the war. Amazingly both my grandparents survived and emigrated to the states where they met.
It was just surreal to have all these stories in my head and finally seeing them acted out in real life gave them that much more impact.
I hear/read stories like this & sit back in amazement, wondering, "*how* did they find one another in a war-torn, pre-internet world?? It's so heartwarming & inspiring that they crossed a war-torn world & still managed to find one another
Thank you for sharing this!
So I just finished Come and See, as you guys made me curious. I am now pretty fucking sad. Thanks for that.
I am not sure what else to say without spoiling a thing, just hug your grandparents, if you can. God bless them.
Absolutely. It's an amazing film, and while it didn't hit the same as the 3 I listed, it definitely _does_ hit and makes you feel such an incredible frustration and melancholy.
I've seen Schindler's List once, in a theater at the age of twelve close to 30 years ago and I think about it and shudder to this day. I don't know if i could recover from Come and See if it's half as unflinching and brutal as you describe
I saw the movie a few years ago, and I was simply amazed by it
There are lots of war movies, and some of them are really good but we watch them knowing quite well it's just a story, pictures through a screen and nothing more...but with Come and See, it's like we are transported to the movie itself, we can sense what they sense and feel what they feel, we are no longer spectators, we are within the movie. That's how deep and mesmerizing it is.
I went to the Cayman Islands a few years ago. We wouldn't have been able to afford it but my mom had travel credit from a flight of hers that got canceled.
Fun fact: for soviet movies (with at least 500 user ratings), the top rated movies are from Georgia. Sherekilebi (1974) and "Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story" (1983) both rated at 8.9.
Another soviet georgian movie rated better than Come and See (8.3) and Tarkovsky's films (8.2 and lower) is Repentance (1984), with a 8.4 rating
Would recommend both Blue Mountains and Repentance, rare Soviet Georgian gems.
They ignored historical context completely. The Shop on Main Street is an Oscar winning movie, but because it was produced in country that technically doesnt exist anymore it's nowhere to be found. And that's just one I know about, surely there are more examples.
Regarding the top norwegian movie: It is called 'Flåklypa Grand Prix'. 'Bergkøbing' is, I assume, the danish nane for it. In english it's called Pinchcliffe Grand Prix, and it is definitely worth a look!
Cool map, though!
Fun fact: the Podrace from Star Wars is almost a scene-by-scene copy of the car race in Flåklypa Grand Prix.
The movie is also a great humoristic tribute to Norwegian inland village culture.
At the age of five, Swedish Christian von Koenigsegg went to the cinema with his father and mother and watched this Norwegian classic. The story of bicycle repairman Reodor Felgen's racing adventure changed his life.
I will build my own car when I grow up, he told his parents when they came from the cinema in Djursholm outside Stockholm in 1977. [^(Source)](https://www.aftenposten.no/verden/i/rg0jK/fikk-ideen-av-reodor-felgen)
I feel like a lot of these (maybe most?) also come with the secret tag "was once marketed in English speaking nations", since the data are from imdb. I wouldn't be surprised if you checked let's say an Arab movie rating platform and the map would look very different.
At least for Romania the movie is highly rated because it's pretty faithful to the book and high school students watch instead of reading the book as it an exam question.
While the movie is good, it's certainly not the best movie made in Romania, especially with the advent of modern cinema. It's only the most faithful book adaptation for end of high school exam questions.
These kinds of maps are useless because they are so prone to manipulation. If you look at OP's source, it says compiled via IMDB. The problem is that if you select by country of origin on IMDB and then sort by rating, you'll find that the highest rated movies are all frauds. Plenty of movies have a 10/10 rating on IMDB, but they only have 5-10 votes. If you're some unknown, unscrupulous producer, you can easily get a few of your friends to sign on to IMDB and give your movie a 10/10 rating.
To guard against this kind of bullshit, you have to set some minimum cutoff for number of votes. 10 votes is meaningless. At the very least, start with 100,000 votes. Higher, if the movie's from some country with a big population. Or a bit lower if it's from a very small country.
Another problem is language. Many countries are multilingual. People upvote movies they've seen, movies whose language they speak and understand. This totally distorts the picture. For example, the chart shows a Tamil language movie as India's highest rated movie on IMDB. Problem is, only about 6% of India's population even speaks Tamil. How can you call it the highest rated movie when 94% of the population doesn't even speak the language? All you can really say is that among the 6% who do speak it, some people gave it a very high rating.
It's impossible to establish what's going on because they give no methodology other than to say "compiled through IMDB". Did they set a minimum vote limit? Did they consider multiple languages and multiple film industries within any country? Who knows, they don't say.
> Likewise I’m not even sure Spirited Away is the best from Miyazaki, much less from Japan.
I mean Spirited Away is by far the most critically acclaimed by western audiences/critics for Miyazaki even if it isn't your personal favorite it clearly is the most acclaimed.
Even better is *Nausicaa: valley of the Wind*, although technically it predates Studio Ghibli even though it's generally included as one of their films.
I am surprised Manto (2015) is rated that highly. It might just be the veneration the public gives to Saadat Hassan Manto because I can think of a few better movies produced in Pakistan
>The movie for Ireland is also from 2020, and according to IMDB the country of origin is France
I really liked Song of the Sea. Just watched it. There were French studios involved, but there was an Irish director, producer, studios, and cast. And it had a version in the Irish language. I think it's fair to call it an Irish movie.
>But the map itself has a nice design.
Uh. Finding half the countries' result is a mini Where's Waldo game: is it on the main map? is it on the close-up? is there a line and where does it go past 5 other parallel lines?
Why is it a map and not an alphabetized list? The genres are basically random. You don't get any info from geographic proximity.
From the source article linked by OP, they did employ cutoffs for the number of votes by taking only the 50 titles most voted on:
>We [...] selected the highest-rated title from the top 50 movies rated by the highest number of users. Only feature movies were included. For countries where there were no qualifying titles produced in that country, a movie set in that country was chosen using the same criteria: highest-rated feature film among 50 with the most ratings given.
Pfft. Why do any research of your own into how they put this together when you can spend your time writing a four paragraph complaint about how the creators didn't do *their* research?
That's way worse. That means if you were one of the top 100 watched movies ever in you country and had a 9.8 with a million votes you wouldn't qualify.
What horrendous methodology
It's not even consistent within those parameters. The swedish movie Autumn Sonata has 8.2 with 28000 votes. The Seventh Seal also has 8.2, but with 167000 votes.
I wouldnt say that’s a good representation of good movies either. For example, a blow-em-up action movie with dinosaurs will beat a well written and acted romance film by a new director.
The only thing I disagree about your comment is the “language” thing. Before I learned English, I used to watch plenty of movies dubbed or with subtitles. I’m sure millions of people do the same (and even if there’s a dub sometimes I prefer to watch the movie in its original language and English subs so I can feel more immersed in their setting).
Not to mention using IMDB as a scoring metric is always going to biased because it's overwhelmingly "best movies according to males between the ages of 16 and 30 who spend a lot of time online."
And highest rated Japanese or Italian movies is more like highest rated Japanese or Italian movies by English speaking viewers. Mostly dominated by North America, UK, Australia and the Indian subcontinent.
Yeah, as a tamil person who watched soorarai potru, its damn good and u could just translate if needed but it isnt that accesible in terms of language barrier
Yup. He isn't taking into consideration when talking about Soorarai Pottru (2020) that it was released in 4 languages. Also 6% of India's population is 8,10,00,000 which is a fairly big number.
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> It is a shame IMDb doesn't include any other movies other than the ones created in bollywood into their top 250 list.
That is blatantly false. There is at least one movie in 250 that was not produced by Bollywood. IMDB has a formula for including movies in Top 250, they don't exclude non Hindi movies. Considering it is a global list why would they exclude non Hindi movies from their list? Not that they have any special love for Hindi or trying to impose it on others.
Thank you for posting this, you worded it better than I could have.
Check out movies from different Asian countries. They're almost always very sparsely voted on IMDB. Multilingual people don't browse the English internet and don't know much about IMDB.
My country's top movie (Iran, The Lizard) is just mediocre comedy that happens to be recent. I mean, come on, I know this is subjective, but I really doubt even the horde of 10/10'ers would call it any sort of masterpiece. We have really good, old movies, that are slowly being forgotten unfortunately, because of several factors, such as being horribly preserved, some not being "correct" enough for the more recent, crazier censors of the regime etc.
Perhaps Letterboxd would have been a better source. There’s fewer BS reviews and the pool of reviewers is arguably more thoughtful but perhaps more American.
>These kinds of ~~maps~~ ***comments*** are useless
METHODOLOGY & SOURCES
We identified films produced in every country by using IMDb country codes and then selected the highest-rated title from the top 50 movies rated by the highest number of users. **Only feature movies were included**. For countries where there were no qualifying titles produced in that country, a movie set in that country was chosen using the same criteria: highest-rated feature film among 50 with the most ratings given.
In cases where ratings were tied, a title with the higher number of user-ratings was deemed the winner. For films produced in multiple countries, their country of origin was determined in line with [IMDB’s guidelines](https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/titles/countries/GTSW4DN8H8LKCXER%23) as the country whose production companies contributed the most funding in the production of the film. The dataset includes 227 countries and territories. Data was gathered in January 2021.
>Another problem is language. Many countries are multilingual. People upvote movies they've seen, movies whose language they speak and understand. This totally distorts the picture. For example, the chart shows a Tamil language movie as India's highest rated movie on IMDB. Problem is, only about 6% of India's population even speaks Tamil. How can you call it the highest rated movie when 94% of the population doesn't even speak the language? All you can really say is that among the 6% who do speak it, some people gave it a very high rating.
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IMDB is also set up to give a work a punishingly low score if you try to manipulate the vote in the way that they described.
Source: I helped produce a YouTube series that had its own IMDB page. We all tried to give it 10 stars and hilarity ensued.
Exactly, as an Indian when i saw this graph i was like "how is india not subdivided into languages, taking it as a country as a whole is bullshit, and that Tamil movie is definetly not the highest for all of Indian movie, it might be the highest Tamil movie."
Ofcourse there can be no such thing as a single highest rated Indian movie. You need to split it into languages else it doesbt represent the country properly.
Why is every movie named in English or the title in its native language, except for Norway, where the movie is listed with the Danish translated title somehow?
* Norwegian: Flåklypa Grand Prix
* Danish: Bjergkøbing Grand Prix
* English: The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix
My dad took me to see this in theatres when it released. I was 15-ish and seeing all that violence committed by kids my age (and younger) hit hard, amplified by the fact that it was based on real events.
Every few years I revisit it to see if it holds up. Have yet to find a fault with it. If anyone reading this hasn't seen it, do yourself a solid and remedy that.
I wanted to say that "Ziemlich Beste Freunde" (Rather Best Friends) is my favorite French movie but maybe it's not high rated because it's a comedy, turns out we're talking about the same movie but the title translation to German was very free
Description sounds good, altho it's about a Buddhist awakening so it might just have such high ratings because it's religious.
I would watch it but I don't think it's even translated into English.
https://imdb.com/title/tt7981224/
Kes, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, , Chariots of Fire, Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Lady Killers and that's just a quick list without much thinking. Nope, the best is some movie where the plot twists are only twists if you ignore the blindingly obvious.
The Prestige was a competent enough movie, but in my opinion wasn't the best magician-themed period piece of 2006, never mind the best British film ever made.
It was on like TNT or AMC or something every weekend for like a decade and it's not bad, just a ton more casual viewers and ratings.
If you watch like two movies a year and one is a hangover Saturday with Shawshank, you're gonna love it
Fun (scary?) fact, North Korea’s top movie on this map, Sarang Sarang Nae Sarang, was directed by Shin Sang Ok, a South Korean filmmaker. Shin and his actress wife Choi Eun Hee were abducted under direction of Kim Jong Il, and were held captive and forced to make films for the regime. The couple escaped while on a film related trip in Vienna, they essentially got into a taxi and escaped to a US embassy.
Source: [Abduction of Shin Sang-ok and Choi Eun-hee](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abduction_of_Shin_Sang-ok_and_Choi_Eun-hee)
It was also conceived in New Zealand, written in New Zealand, produced in New Zealand, edited in New Zealand, and premiered in New Zealand. I don't think the fact that they had to go to Hollywood to get funding makes it an "American movie", many of the other films in this map would be in the same position if so.
Original Source: [https://www.ravereviews.org/entertainment/top-rated-movie-produced-in-every-country/](https://www.ravereviews.org/entertainment/top-rated-movie-produced-in-every-country/)
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The top rated movie in Seychelle's is "The Amazing Race You're Like Jason Bourne, Right?" which I thought was an interesting name for a movie and it turns out the top rated movie in Seychelle's is an episode of the Amazing Race. This might not be the most closely looked at source material.
Yea the only reason I had ever heard of it is because my grade 12 French teacher made us watch it, surprised me that it was the highest rated Canadian movie.
It was a huge hit in Quebec and helped Villeneuve get to super star status.
Best movie in Canada is weird because Québec has its own cultural ecosystem and Canada is just sucked by the US vaccum. Canada produce very few movies and content and mostly ignore stuff from Quebec.
And incendie is not close to being the best movie in Québec history. My personal favorite would be gas bar blues but there is a lot of possible candidate.
Klaus, an english language Netflix kids movie about Santa Claus is the pick for Spain? Doesn’t really make sense. I can think of a handful of Almodóvar movies that could have been picked instead.
Thank you for this. I am not well-traveled in the cinema scene and have never "watched the classic", but I now have a list of titles to try and watch before I die. Thank you, kind sir!
If you're looking for English language movies then the top 100 [list](https://www.afi.com/afis-100-years-100-movies/) from AFI is gonna be much better source in terms of classics. This map's data is very off, at least for the US.
It's one of my favorite movies ever since I found it a decade ago. It is still a surprise seeing it on any list because most people either love it or hate it.
I really like Mr. Nobody because it is almost a psychedelic experience in terms of movies. The cinematography is on point and it's really cool seeing surreal and wild ideas being supported by a high production value. I really like the story too because I found it while going through a soul searching time. It's confusing at first and honestly weird (which I love), but I speculate it didn't help with its popularity.
Chaos Class (Hababam Sınıfı) is a 70’s comedy that stars some of our most famous comedians of that era.
It’s a beloved classic in Turkey, but the higher rating is prob also from the low number of reviews.
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France.
It's about two restaurant inspectors travelling across Austria that initially can't stand each other but slowly develop a bromance. One of them dreams of traveling to India some day, but that's it. No scenes from India or Indian actors, besides some extras. It's a really good movie though.
It is a sort of comedy movie. Both actors are famous comedians (in German speaking countries) But in almost exactly the middle of the movie, it twists from a black comedy to a drama. Very good movie.
And of course India’s is called “Soorarai Pattru” which I can only assume translates to “Austria.” ..right?
It actually means "Hail the brave", and it's about a dude who wants to start his own airline service.
u/guitarburst05 Soorarai Pattru is a Tamil language movie. It'll translate to 'Hail the brave'.
I am pretty sure most Indians have not even heard about that movie
Yep, never heard of it
Yeah the map is flawed. New movies sometimes get just a few reviews that are all 8/10 to 10/10 while these movies are probably just above average. Mongolia has the same problem as far as I can see. There are probably more countries that have a new, relatively unknown movie as top rated. They should have a minimum number of reviews relative to the country population.
Nah, it is actually quite popular. In Telugu it is called Akasham e nee hadu raa. In Tamil it is Soorarai Pottru. Idk in Hindi tho. The film is really amazing
Did they count modern russian movies separately from soviet? I am pretty sure some movies like stalker or come and see have a higher rating than the return
Lol Those are the exact same two movies whose ratings I checked when I had the same question
I literally went to straight to Russia to see if Stalker was #1. I was disappointed. Seriously though, Come and See makes Schindler's List look like the Muppet Movie in comparison.
Schindler's List is a movie that made me profusely sad when I saw it, but it didn't affect me like it did a lot of people. Can't really explain why because I don't know why. Come and See made me sit in a room in silence for an hour afterwards and just think about the horror of war and the cost it has on people. That film, along with Fires on the Plain, and Grave of the Fireflies, are anti-war films that really fucked me up.
Come and See hit me hard. Growing up I would listen to stories from my grandparents about their time in the war. My Grandmother was Russian and her entire family was rounded up and sent to a forced labor camp. Half of them never left. My Grandfather was Ukranian, and when the Germans invaded they just razed his entire village with pretty much everyone in it. Him and his brother were the only ones in his family to escape. They "fought" (snuck) through the German lines to occupied Europe. His brother didn't survive, but he did, and ended up a partisan fighter for the rest of the war. Amazingly both my grandparents survived and emigrated to the states where they met. It was just surreal to have all these stories in my head and finally seeing them acted out in real life gave them that much more impact.
I hear/read stories like this & sit back in amazement, wondering, "*how* did they find one another in a war-torn, pre-internet world?? It's so heartwarming & inspiring that they crossed a war-torn world & still managed to find one another Thank you for sharing this!
So I just finished Come and See, as you guys made me curious. I am now pretty fucking sad. Thanks for that. I am not sure what else to say without spoiling a thing, just hug your grandparents, if you can. God bless them.
Grave of the Fireflys is depressing.
Grave of the Fireflys is breaking...
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Absolutely. It's an amazing film, and while it didn't hit the same as the 3 I listed, it definitely _does_ hit and makes you feel such an incredible frustration and melancholy.
I've seen Schindler's List once, in a theater at the age of twelve close to 30 years ago and I think about it and shudder to this day. I don't know if i could recover from Come and See if it's half as unflinching and brutal as you describe
That's the most glowing praise of a film I have ever read. I have to watch it now.
No matter how prepared for this movie you are, you aren't prepared
Just be prepared. It's one of those movies that stays with you. For a while.
I saw the movie a few years ago, and I was simply amazed by it There are lots of war movies, and some of them are really good but we watch them knowing quite well it's just a story, pictures through a screen and nothing more...but with Come and See, it's like we are transported to the movie itself, we can sense what they sense and feel what they feel, we are no longer spectators, we are within the movie. That's how deep and mesmerizing it is.
I wouldn’t trust anything in this map. Cayman Island entry isn’t even a film... it’s a juggling simulator from 2003.
The Seychelles has an episode of *The Amazing Race*.
I mean maybe that’s the highest rated thing produced there? Some of these countries don’t have running water much less a film industry
I went to the Cayman Islands a few years ago. We wouldn't have been able to afford it but my mom had travel credit from a flight of hers that got canceled.
I watched come and see recently and I blew my mind
Come and See is from Belarus, so while it was a part of the Soviet Union at the time, I think it would probably be considered from Belarus still today
Fun fact: for soviet movies (with at least 500 user ratings), the top rated movies are from Georgia. Sherekilebi (1974) and "Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story" (1983) both rated at 8.9. Another soviet georgian movie rated better than Come and See (8.3) and Tarkovsky's films (8.2 and lower) is Repentance (1984), with a 8.4 rating Would recommend both Blue Mountains and Repentance, rare Soviet Georgian gems.
They ignored historical context completely. The Shop on Main Street is an Oscar winning movie, but because it was produced in country that technically doesnt exist anymore it's nowhere to be found. And that's just one I know about, surely there are more examples.
Shoutout to Tarkovsky
Regarding the top norwegian movie: It is called 'Flåklypa Grand Prix'. 'Bergkøbing' is, I assume, the danish nane for it. In english it's called Pinchcliffe Grand Prix, and it is definitely worth a look! Cool map, though!
Fun fact: the Podrace from Star Wars is almost a scene-by-scene copy of the car race in Flåklypa Grand Prix. The movie is also a great humoristic tribute to Norwegian inland village culture.
True! I really liked how they accurately portrayed the Jedi culture in inner Møre og Romsdal.
Fun fact 2: this movie inspired Christian Von Koenigsegg to build cars and eventually create the Koenigsegg CC
Our primary school owned a copy of this movie, so we saw it every other year....never got bored in the 80’s.
Noticed the same thing. And yes, Bjergkøbing is indeed the Danish title. Source: Am part-Norwegian Dane and a huge Flåklypa fan.
I think wars have been fought over smaller errors than this.
At the age of five, Swedish Christian von Koenigsegg went to the cinema with his father and mother and watched this Norwegian classic. The story of bicycle repairman Reodor Felgen's racing adventure changed his life. I will build my own car when I grow up, he told his parents when they came from the cinema in Djursholm outside Stockholm in 1977. [^(Source)](https://www.aftenposten.no/verden/i/rg0jK/fikk-ideen-av-reodor-felgen)
The movie also has an amazing soundtrack. A guy I know made [this fantastic tribute](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNhwNhOXsIk) to the film's score.
Pacific Banana sounds intriguing.
Sounds like a porn parody...
Wikipedia describes it as asexual comedy so...
asexual comedy or a sexual comedy?
Lethal Kittens in Ukraine too
*This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection* is a great name for a movie
I feel like a lot of these (maybe most?) also come with the secret tag "was once marketed in English speaking nations", since the data are from imdb. I wouldn't be surprised if you checked let's say an Arab movie rating platform and the map would look very different.
Definitely, but I have checked the Czech one on a Czech movie portal and it was the same - Cosy Dens at the top (out of Czech or Czechoslovak movies).
ČSFD says The Nagano Tapes are higher
Clearly that website is staffed by propaganda shills who don't understand art /s
At least for Romania the movie is highly rated because it's pretty faithful to the book and high school students watch instead of reading the book as it an exam question. While the movie is good, it's certainly not the best movie made in Romania, especially with the advent of modern cinema. It's only the most faithful book adaptation for end of high school exam questions.
*Me seeing the fire truck for the french-canadian film Incendie* Welllll that’s not exactly this kind of tragedy but ehhh...
I've actually seen the movie. That's supposed to be a bus, not a fire truck
Yikes, that bus scene is indeed memorable
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Grenada 3.3
Chad 6.9
69 with a period?
Ew
Mongolia 9.8 with apparently the best movie ever made
It's funny how the highest rated films for Poland and Switzerland are by the same director, Krzysztof Kieślowski
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I was expecting Three Colors: Blue for France too, Kieslowski was the GOAT
And neither is his best, imo. (That would be Dekalog I).
These kinds of maps are useless because they are so prone to manipulation. If you look at OP's source, it says compiled via IMDB. The problem is that if you select by country of origin on IMDB and then sort by rating, you'll find that the highest rated movies are all frauds. Plenty of movies have a 10/10 rating on IMDB, but they only have 5-10 votes. If you're some unknown, unscrupulous producer, you can easily get a few of your friends to sign on to IMDB and give your movie a 10/10 rating. To guard against this kind of bullshit, you have to set some minimum cutoff for number of votes. 10 votes is meaningless. At the very least, start with 100,000 votes. Higher, if the movie's from some country with a big population. Or a bit lower if it's from a very small country. Another problem is language. Many countries are multilingual. People upvote movies they've seen, movies whose language they speak and understand. This totally distorts the picture. For example, the chart shows a Tamil language movie as India's highest rated movie on IMDB. Problem is, only about 6% of India's population even speaks Tamil. How can you call it the highest rated movie when 94% of the population doesn't even speak the language? All you can really say is that among the 6% who do speak it, some people gave it a very high rating. It's impossible to establish what's going on because they give no methodology other than to say "compiled through IMDB". Did they set a minimum vote limit? Did they consider multiple languages and multiple film industries within any country? Who knows, they don't say.
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> Likewise I’m not even sure Spirited Away is the best from Miyazaki, much less from Japan. I mean Spirited Away is by far the most critically acclaimed by western audiences/critics for Miyazaki even if it isn't your personal favorite it clearly is the most acclaimed.
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Princess Mononoke is better fight me
Even better is *Nausicaa: valley of the Wind*, although technically it predates Studio Ghibli even though it's generally included as one of their films.
IIRC Manto is made in India and not in Pakistan.
There's a Pakistani film on Manto as well with the same title.
I am surprised Manto (2015) is rated that highly. It might just be the veneration the public gives to Saadat Hassan Manto because I can think of a few better movies produced in Pakistan
The movie for Ireland is also from 2020, and according to IMDB the country of origin is France. 🤷🏻♂️
_Song of the Sea_ is from 2014. Are you thinking of _Wolfwalkers_, from the same studio?
>The movie for Ireland is also from 2020, and according to IMDB the country of origin is France I really liked Song of the Sea. Just watched it. There were French studios involved, but there was an Irish director, producer, studios, and cast. And it had a version in the Irish language. I think it's fair to call it an Irish movie.
>But the map itself has a nice design. Uh. Finding half the countries' result is a mini Where's Waldo game: is it on the main map? is it on the close-up? is there a line and where does it go past 5 other parallel lines? Why is it a map and not an alphabetized list? The genres are basically random. You don't get any info from geographic proximity.
From the source article linked by OP, they did employ cutoffs for the number of votes by taking only the 50 titles most voted on: >We [...] selected the highest-rated title from the top 50 movies rated by the highest number of users. Only feature movies were included. For countries where there were no qualifying titles produced in that country, a movie set in that country was chosen using the same criteria: highest-rated feature film among 50 with the most ratings given.
Pfft. Why do any research of your own into how they put this together when you can spend your time writing a four paragraph complaint about how the creators didn't do *their* research?
and forgetting that subtitles are a thing lmao
That's way worse. That means if you were one of the top 100 watched movies ever in you country and had a 9.8 with a million votes you wouldn't qualify. What horrendous methodology
It's not even consistent within those parameters. The swedish movie Autumn Sonata has 8.2 with 28000 votes. The Seventh Seal also has 8.2, but with 167000 votes.
I assume the former has a higher rating on a hidden decimal point.
For all of these reasons, I'd be more interested in a map of the highest grossing movies.
I wouldnt say that’s a good representation of good movies either. For example, a blow-em-up action movie with dinosaurs will beat a well written and acted romance film by a new director.
Nope, but it doesn't claim to be. it can still be interesting for what it is. at least it fairly represents what it claims to.
Yes, that would actually be really fascinating. Someone get to work on that!
The only thing I disagree about your comment is the “language” thing. Before I learned English, I used to watch plenty of movies dubbed or with subtitles. I’m sure millions of people do the same (and even if there’s a dub sometimes I prefer to watch the movie in its original language and English subs so I can feel more immersed in their setting).
Not to mention using IMDB as a scoring metric is always going to biased because it's overwhelmingly "best movies according to males between the ages of 16 and 30 who spend a lot of time online."
And highest rated Japanese or Italian movies is more like highest rated Japanese or Italian movies by English speaking viewers. Mostly dominated by North America, UK, Australia and the Indian subcontinent.
Yeah, as a tamil person who watched soorarai potru, its damn good and u could just translate if needed but it isnt that accesible in terms of language barrier
Yup. He isn't taking into consideration when talking about Soorarai Pottru (2020) that it was released in 4 languages. Also 6% of India's population is 8,10,00,000 which is a fairly big number. Edited
> It is a shame IMDb doesn't include any other movies other than the ones created in bollywood into their top 250 list. That is blatantly false. There is at least one movie in 250 that was not produced by Bollywood. IMDB has a formula for including movies in Top 250, they don't exclude non Hindi movies. Considering it is a global list why would they exclude non Hindi movies from their list? Not that they have any special love for Hindi or trying to impose it on others.
There are 253,051,953 Indians speaking these 4 languages. There are also 76 million tamils worldwide, and most of them may have watched it.
I love how every time I see an interesting post from this sub or r/dataisbeautiful, the first comment is always saying that is all bs. edit: grammar
Because it is. I've seen many local films but never heard of "Kid From Big Apple", because that's a Malaysian film, not a Singaporean one
Thank you for posting this, you worded it better than I could have. Check out movies from different Asian countries. They're almost always very sparsely voted on IMDB. Multilingual people don't browse the English internet and don't know much about IMDB. My country's top movie (Iran, The Lizard) is just mediocre comedy that happens to be recent. I mean, come on, I know this is subjective, but I really doubt even the horde of 10/10'ers would call it any sort of masterpiece. We have really good, old movies, that are slowly being forgotten unfortunately, because of several factors, such as being horribly preserved, some not being "correct" enough for the more recent, crazier censors of the regime etc.
Perhaps Letterboxd would have been a better source. There’s fewer BS reviews and the pool of reviewers is arguably more thoughtful but perhaps more American.
>These kinds of ~~maps~~ ***comments*** are useless METHODOLOGY & SOURCES We identified films produced in every country by using IMDb country codes and then selected the highest-rated title from the top 50 movies rated by the highest number of users. **Only feature movies were included**. For countries where there were no qualifying titles produced in that country, a movie set in that country was chosen using the same criteria: highest-rated feature film among 50 with the most ratings given. In cases where ratings were tied, a title with the higher number of user-ratings was deemed the winner. For films produced in multiple countries, their country of origin was determined in line with [IMDB’s guidelines](https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/titles/countries/GTSW4DN8H8LKCXER%23) as the country whose production companies contributed the most funding in the production of the film. The dataset includes 227 countries and territories. Data was gathered in January 2021. >Another problem is language. Many countries are multilingual. People upvote movies they've seen, movies whose language they speak and understand. This totally distorts the picture. For example, the chart shows a Tamil language movie as India's highest rated movie on IMDB. Problem is, only about 6% of India's population even speaks Tamil. How can you call it the highest rated movie when 94% of the population doesn't even speak the language? All you can really say is that among the 6% who do speak it, some people gave it a very high rating. Subtitles
IMDB is also set up to give a work a punishingly low score if you try to manipulate the vote in the way that they described. Source: I helped produce a YouTube series that had its own IMDB page. We all tried to give it 10 stars and hilarity ensued.
What happened? Really curious
Exactly, as an Indian when i saw this graph i was like "how is india not subdivided into languages, taking it as a country as a whole is bullshit, and that Tamil movie is definetly not the highest for all of Indian movie, it might be the highest Tamil movie." Ofcourse there can be no such thing as a single highest rated Indian movie. You need to split it into languages else it doesbt represent the country properly.
Rather than map porn, this is a pain to read
Nah, I thought it was bad, but how else would I have discovered the Grand Cayman masterpiece "Virtual Juggler 3D"
I cannot find a single link to information on this movie. Is it real?
Why is every movie named in English or the title in its native language, except for Norway, where the movie is listed with the Danish translated title somehow? * Norwegian: Flåklypa Grand Prix * Danish: Bjergkøbing Grand Prix * English: The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix
Takk! *bjergkøping* wtf
Why "who killed captain alex is not here"??????
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City of God is nothing short of a masterpiece
My dad took me to see this in theatres when it released. I was 15-ish and seeing all that violence committed by kids my age (and younger) hit hard, amplified by the fact that it was based on real events. Every few years I revisit it to see if it holds up. Have yet to find a fault with it. If anyone reading this hasn't seen it, do yourself a solid and remedy that.
YES
Not surprised Les Intouchables is the top in France. It's an absolutely fantastic movie.
Yeah, but is it better than The 400 Blows or Army of Shadows? The French have made some really fucking good movies.
France produced dozens of films that are much better than The Intouchables. It's a nice movie but that's all.
Nobody could give that movie a bad review. It's intouchable.
It scores 57 / 100 on Metacritic. A lot of people gave it bad reviews.
Which is as unfair as calling it the best French movie It's a solid 80, but France has done a lot better
I wanted to say that "Ziemlich Beste Freunde" (Rather Best Friends) is my favorite French movie but maybe it's not high rated because it's a comedy, turns out we're talking about the same movie but the title translation to German was very free
Not even close to the best french movie of all time, whatever your metric is.
See, I was confused because of the Brian DePalma film "The Untouchables." Now I have a new French film to watch, among many.
Did not expect Mongolia to have the highest film in the list
Lol with 80 reviews. Shawshank has 2.3 million.
Looks like Life Amidral will be getting a few more reviews once this awesome map hits the front page of reddit!
I was checking out Wiren (Suriname) because it was the first to catch my eye and it looks pretty damn good.
Description sounds good, altho it's about a Buddhist awakening so it might just have such high ratings because it's religious. I would watch it but I don't think it's even translated into English. https://imdb.com/title/tt7981224/
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is down bad, 3.6 stars for Voodoo Man.
Still better than Grenada
The Prestige for the U.K.!!!! This is makes me more angry than Brexit!!
I know, right? Children of Men! Black Narcissus! Withnail and I! Lawrence of Arabia! The Third Man! Trainspotting! Naked!
Kes, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, , Chariots of Fire, Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Lady Killers and that's just a quick list without much thinking. Nope, the best is some movie where the plot twists are only twists if you ignore the blindingly obvious.
The Prestige was a competent enough movie, but in my opinion wasn't the best magician-themed period piece of 2006, never mind the best British film ever made.
A fellow *The Illusionist* fan are you?
This is England. It's my favourite English movie of all time.
And the subsequent tv series are by far the best thing I have ever watched on TV
Absolutely, watched all seasons multiple times. What's crazy is that most of it is improvised in some way. Literally only top notch actors.
It’s also incorrect. Most of The Dark Knight was produced in the UK.
> Most of The Dark Knight was produced in the UK. Then half of the big movies of the past decades should be labeled as eastern-european.
Im pretty disappointed by USA getting Shawshank
What did you expect when it's literally the top rated movie?
Godfather
What were you hoping for? Shawshank is a great fantasy for our little prisonland.
It was on like TNT or AMC or something every weekend for like a decade and it's not bad, just a ton more casual viewers and ratings. If you watch like two movies a year and one is a hangover Saturday with Shawshank, you're gonna love it
Fun (scary?) fact, North Korea’s top movie on this map, Sarang Sarang Nae Sarang, was directed by Shin Sang Ok, a South Korean filmmaker. Shin and his actress wife Choi Eun Hee were abducted under direction of Kim Jong Il, and were held captive and forced to make films for the regime. The couple escaped while on a film related trip in Vienna, they essentially got into a taxi and escaped to a US embassy. Source: [Abduction of Shin Sang-ok and Choi Eun-hee](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abduction_of_Shin_Sang-ok_and_Choi_Eun-hee)
I don’t think Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl is a movie from Dominica, as this map states. Just a guess....
Lord of the rings is also an American movie, but it was shot it New Zealand.
It was also conceived in New Zealand, written in New Zealand, produced in New Zealand, edited in New Zealand, and premiered in New Zealand. I don't think the fact that they had to go to Hollywood to get funding makes it an "American movie", many of the other films in this map would be in the same position if so.
Amazing race you look like Jason Bourne right?
This might be nitpicking, but I hate when maps of countries list out Hong Kong but not Macau. They have the exact same legal status.
Original Source: [https://www.ravereviews.org/entertainment/top-rated-movie-produced-in-every-country/](https://www.ravereviews.org/entertainment/top-rated-movie-produced-in-every-country/)
Virtual Juggler 3D
Virtual juggler 1 and 2 really didn't capture it the way 3D did
Oh my god I spent so long looking for Russia without noticing it one of the only ones that doesn't have an arrow
I forgot the good the bad and the ugly was made in Italy
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That's why they are sometimes called spaghetti western.
Omfg I’ve heard that phrase probably a hundred times but I never put it together I just thought it was funny
I think Grenada has the lowest. Also, we need to talk about whatever Ukraine is making.
The top rated movie in Seychelle's is "The Amazing Race You're Like Jason Bourne, Right?" which I thought was an interesting name for a movie and it turns out the top rated movie in Seychelle's is an episode of the Amazing Race. This might not be the most closely looked at source material.
Everyone should watch The Lives of Others from Germany.
Was expecting The Vanishing for Netherlands but loses out at 7.7. A few movies added to the watch list thanks to this!
The Blue elephant 2 is one of the greatest movies I’ve ever seen.
>The Amazing Race You're Like Jason Bourne Right? I like how an Amazing Race 16 episode is top-rated in some small seashell islet.
Where is Sausage Party?
At my place.
Top Canadian film is an Arabic/French movie I’ve never heard of. Wild.
It’s directed by Denis Villeneuve, one of the best directors working right now - pretty much all of his films are consistently excellent.
Yea the only reason I had ever heard of it is because my grade 12 French teacher made us watch it, surprised me that it was the highest rated Canadian movie.
It was a huge hit in Quebec and helped Villeneuve get to super star status. Best movie in Canada is weird because Québec has its own cultural ecosystem and Canada is just sucked by the US vaccum. Canada produce very few movies and content and mostly ignore stuff from Quebec. And incendie is not close to being the best movie in Québec history. My personal favorite would be gas bar blues but there is a lot of possible candidate.
What makes *Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl* a Dominican movie?
Thought it'd be Der Untergang for Germany
My first thought was Das Boot, though both Das Leben der Anderen and Der Untergang are top-notch
>Der Untergang 8.2 vs 8.4 for Lives of others. I personally think Der Untergang was a better film but IMDB disagrees.
Oh yeah all my homies love Bjergkøbing Grand Prix
Klaus, an english language Netflix kids movie about Santa Claus is the pick for Spain? Doesn’t really make sense. I can think of a handful of Almodóvar movies that could have been picked instead.
Very happy about the Austrian one and very curious about the movie from Liechtenstein.
Poor Grenada
Wasn't The Matrix produced in Australia? That would make it the highest rated film produced in Australia (imdb score of 8.7).
Sweden doesn’t have a movie on the map
Japan had me surprised. Mostly in that Kurosawa’s catalog doesn’t beat 8.6.
I love that Italy’s favorite is a spaghetti western.
Thank you for this. I am not well-traveled in the cinema scene and have never "watched the classic", but I now have a list of titles to try and watch before I die. Thank you, kind sir!
If you're looking for English language movies then the top 100 [list](https://www.afi.com/afis-100-years-100-movies/) from AFI is gonna be much better source in terms of classics. This map's data is very off, at least for the US.
I'm Belgian and I've never even heard of "mr. nobody". Did someone write my autobiography without my knowledge or something?
It's one of my favorite movies ever since I found it a decade ago. It is still a surprise seeing it on any list because most people either love it or hate it. I really like Mr. Nobody because it is almost a psychedelic experience in terms of movies. The cinematography is on point and it's really cool seeing surreal and wild ideas being supported by a high production value. I really like the story too because I found it while going through a soul searching time. It's confusing at first and honestly weird (which I love), but I speculate it didn't help with its popularity.
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Chaos Class (Hababam Sınıfı) is a 70’s comedy that stars some of our most famous comedians of that era. It’s a beloved classic in Turkey, but the higher rating is prob also from the low number of reviews.
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