(News of The South) – If there is anything the last few years have shown us, it is that cinematic excellence has no borders! From Shawshank Redemption to Fight club, some of the world’s most iconic films have been adored globally. This left Amberscript.com intrigued to uncover which films fare best across the world, so they analysed some of the best films spanning 130 countries and seven decades.
Results: What are the highest rated movies produced by each country?
When it comes to our favourite films, many would be surprised to find out that the countries producing these films are different from what we anticipated. Amberscript found that there are a whopping 18,200 monthly searches for film production companies and their location. So utilising The Internet Movie Database (IMDB), Amberscript.com are finally able to reveal the highest rated film from each country!
Amberscript.com discovered that The Dark Knight is the highest rated film produced in the UK, with a rating of 9 stars. Interestingly, China’s highest rated movie is Green Book which was produced in 2018 and is a biography film!
Taking Mexico’s highest rated film with 8.2 stars is Pan’s Labyrinth! This is a modern-day fairy-tale that was set in rural Spain and produced in 2006.
Surprising findings can also be seen in Germany where the highest rated film is Fight Club (8.8 stars). Despite the film being set in Delaware in America, Germany is listed as the film’s country of origin.
Highest Rated Movies Worldwide:
Taking the lead as the highest rated movie on the list is the 1994 classic, The Shawshank Redemption. Hailing from the United States of America, this blockbuster holds a whopping 9.2 stars!
Following in second and third place is the Bangladeshi hit Mirror Game (9.1 stars) and Kosovan drama Zana (9.1 stars). These international hits beat other popular titles favoured in the West such as: The Dark Knight (9 stars), The Lord of The Rings: Return of The Ring (8.9) and The Good The Bad The Ugly (8.8).
Despite only coming out last year, Parasite managed to climb its way to the top of South Korea’s list of films securing a well-deserved 8.6 stars.
Japan’s highest rated film Seven Samurai (8.6) just goes to show that some films only get better with age as this classic was released an impressive 64 years ago (1956)!
Lowest Rated Movies Worldwide:
Despite many of the films listed winning major awards, the lower rated films among the list were found to mainly be from Africa; showing that there is still an area of film that many are yet to discover and enjoy. Amongst the countries with the lowest rated films include:
Angola’s lowest rated movie is Wrongs Cops (6 stars.
Nigeria’s lowest rated movie is Half of A Yellow Sun (6.1)
Democratic Republic of Congo’s lowest rated movie is Viva Riva! (6.2)
Being nominated for an award at the Cannes Film Festival and winning the Russian National Movie Awards wasn’t enough to stop Liechtenstein produced film Paris Je T’aime being among the lowest rated film on the list with just 7.2 stars.
The same can be found for Luxembourg’s short film Mr Hublot (7.2) which won the Academy Awards, 3D Creative Arts Awards and American Short Film Awards in 2014.
What is the world’s favourite film genre?
Film Genre Number of highest rated films in this genre
1. Drama 48
2. Comedy 19
3. Biography 15
4. Action 14
5. Adventure 10
When looking at Amberscript.com’s findings, it’s clear to see that the world’s favourite film genre is drama with 48 of the highest rated films falling into this category. Some of our favourites from this genre were: Capernaum (8.4), The Secret in Their Eyes (8.2) and The Seventh Seal (8.2).
Following behind as the world’s second favourite genres is comedy (19) with some of our favourites being 3 Idiots (8.4), When I Grow Up, I’ll Be A Kangaroo (8.4) and Black Cat, White Cat (8.1).
Our third favourite film genre is biography, with 15 of the highest rated films being of this genre. The Pianist tops the list as our favourite biography film with 8.5 stars, followed by Lion of the Desert (8.4) and Downfall (8.2).
Universally, Western, fantasy and romance seem to be our least favourite film genres, with only one film from each of these genres ranking as the highest rated across the 130 countries analysed.
Which year were the best films produced in?
Ambersecript.com discovered that we are slowly steering away from the classics as 97 out of 130 of the highest rated movies have been produced within the last two decades.
With platforms such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu giving us newly released films at the touch of a button, it’s no surprise that classic films are being forgotten about. 56 of the highest rated movies were released in the last decade, 41 were released between 2000 and 2010 and just 33 were produced between the 50s and the 90s.
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