There are only 19 film genres.
(At least according to Letterboxd.)
The over 1.13 million movies in the fabulous and fabulously nerdy movie database and social media app can be sorted by genre. Letterboxd recognizes 19 different ones: Action, adventure, animation, comedy, crime, documentary, drama, family, fantasy, history, horror, music, mystery, romance, sci-fi, thriller, TV movie, war, and western.
Within each genre you sort the titles according to your individual rating, by overall popularity, or by the average rating from all users — which gives you the top-rated film according to Letterboxd in all 19 different genres. Note that it’s also possible to sort multiple genres at once. So if you want to know what’s the top-rated action musical, for example, you can do that. (The answer, by the way, is The Blues Brothers.)
But I’m getting ahead of myself. Today we’re just going to find out the single best movie (or at least the highest-rated movie) in each of the 19 individual Letterboxd genres. As you’ll see, some movies appear multiple times; one appears three times. That’s because some movies exist within multiple genres — like The Blues Brothers, which is an action movie and a musical. I could have excluded previously mentioned movies in the interest of getting a broader range of titles, but I decided that would just be fudging the truth. Better to give an accurate reflection of the films that Letterboxd users hold most dear in all of their 19 different genres. And here they are…
The Most Popular Movie In Every Genre on Letterboxd
Letterboxd’s database contains 19 different genres from action to comedy to mystery to war. Here are the top-rated films in every single one.
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