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LMT: A Deep Dive
Edit 1: More ARKQ buying today (~50k shares). Thank you everyone for the positive feedback and discussion!
Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF) or TL;DR for the non-military types:
LMT is a good target if you want to literally go to the moon, and my PT is $690.26 in two years (more than 2x from current levels). Justification and some possible trade ideas are listed below, just CTRL-F “Trade Ideas”. I hope you guys enjoy this work and would appreciate any discussion or feedback. I hope to catch you in the comments.
Team,
We interrupt today’s regularly scheduled short squeeze coverage to discuss a traditionally boring stock, LMT (Lockheed Martin), with significant upside potential. To be clear, this is NOT a short squeeze target like many reddit posts are keying on. I hope that this piece sparks discussion, but if you are just looking for short squeeze content, all I have to say is BUY, HOLD, and GODSPEED.
The source of inspiration for me writing this piece is threefold; first, retail investors are winning, and I believe that we will continue to win if we continue to identify opportunities in the market. In my view, the stock market has always been a place for the public to shine a light on areas of innovation that real Americans are excited about and proud to be a part of. Online communities have stolen the loudspeaker from hedge fund managers and returned it to decentralized online democracies that quickly and proudly shift their weight behind ideas they believe in. In GME’s case, it was a blatant smear campaign to destroy a struggling business. I think that we should continue this campaign by identifying opportunities in the market and running with them. It may sound overly idealistic, but if reddit can take on the hedge funds, I non-ironically believe that we can quite literally take good companies researching space technology to the moon. I think LMT may be one of several stocks to help get us there.
Second, a video where the Secretary of State of Massachusetts argues that internet boards are full of a bunch of unsophisticated, thoughtless traders really ticked me off. This piece is designed to show that ‘the little guy’ is ready to get into the weeds, understand business plans, and outpace analysts that think companies like Tesla are overvalued by comparing them to Toyota. That is a big reason that I settled on an old, large, slow growth company to do a deep-dive on, and try my best to show some of the abysmal predictive analysis major ‘research firms’ do on even some of the most heavily covered stocks. LMT is making moves, and the suits on wall street are 10 steps behind. At the time of writing this piece, Analyst Estimates range from 330-460 (what an insane range).
Third, and most importantly, I am in the US military, and I think that it is fun to go deep into the financials of the defense sector. I think that it helps me understand the long-term growth plans of the DoD, and I think that I attack these deep-dives with a perspective that a lot of these finance-from-day-one cats do not understand. Even if no one ever looks at this work, I think that taking the time to write pieces like this makes me a better Soldier, and I will continue to do it in my spare time when I am feeling inspired. I wrote a piece on Raytheon Technologies (Ticker: RTX) 6 months ago, and I think it was well-received. I was most convicted about RTX in the defense sector, but I have since shifted to believing LMT is the leader in the defense space. I am long both, though. If this inspires anyone else to do similar research on other companies, or sparks discussion in the community, that is just a bonus. Special shout-out to the folks that read more than just the TL;DR, but if you do just read the TL;DR, I love you too!
Now let us get into it:
Leadership I generally like to invest in companies that are led by people that seem to have integrity. Jim Taiclet took the reins at LMT in June of last year. While on active duty, he served as a C-141B Starlifter pilot (a retired LMT Aircraft). After getting out he went to work for the American Tower Corporation (Ticker: AMT). His first day at American Tower was September 10, 2001. The following day, AMT lost 13 employees in the World Trade Center attack. He stayed with the company, despite it being decimated by market uncertainty in the wake of 9/11. He was appointed CEO of the very same company in 2004. Over a 16 year tenure as CEO of AMT the company market cap 20x’d. He left his position as CEO of AMT in March of last year, and the stock stagnated since his departure, currently trading at roughly the same market cap as to when he left.
Jim Taiclet was also appointed to be the chairman of the board this week, replacing the previous CEO. Why is it relevant that the CEO came from a massive telecommunications company?
Rightfully, Taiclet’s focus for LMT is bringing military technology into the modern era. He wants LMT to be a first mover in the military 5G space, military application of AI space, the… space space, and the hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV) space. These areas are revolutionary for the boomer defense sector. We will discuss this in more detail later when we cover the company’s P/E multiple and why it is absolute nonsense.
It is not a surprise to me that they brought Taiclet on during the pandemic. He led AMT through adversity before, and LMT’s positioning during the pandemic is tremendous relative to the rest of the sector, thanks in large part to some strong strategic moves and good investments by current and past leadership. I think that Taiclet is the right CEO for the job.
In addition to the new CEO, the new Secretary of Defense, Secretary Lloyd Austin, has strong ties to the defense sector. He was formerly a board member for RTX. He is absolutely above reproach, and a true leader of character, but I bring this up not to suggest that he will inappropriately serve in the best interest of defense contractors, but to suggest that he speaks the language of these companies effectively. I do not anticipate that the current administration poses as significant of a risk to the defense sector as many analysts seem to believe. This will be expanded in the headwinds section below.
SPACE Cathie Wood and the ARK Invest team brought a lot of attention to the space sector when the ARKX, The ARK Space Exploration ETF, Form N-1A was officially filed through the SEC. More recently, ARK Invest published their Big Ideas 2021 Annual Report and dedicated an entire 7-page chapter to Orbital Aerospace, a new disruptive innovation platform that the ARK Team is investigating. This may have helped energize wall street to re-look their portfolios and their investments in space technology, but it was certainly not the first catalyst that pushed the defense industry in the direction of winning the
new space race.
In June 2018, then President Trump announced at the annual National Space Council that “it is not enough to merely have an American presence in space, we must have American dominance in space. So important. Therefore, I am hereby directing the Department of Defense (DoD) and Pentagon to immediately begin the process necessary to establish a Space Force as the sixth branch of the Armed Forces". Historically, Department of Defense space assets were under the control of the Air Force. By creating a separate branch of service for the United States Space Force (USSF), the DoD would allocate a Chairman of Space Operations on the Joint Chiefs of Staff and clearly define the budget for space operations dedicated directly to the USSF. At present, this budget is funneled from the USAF’s budget. The process was formalized in December of 2019, and the DoD has appropriated ~$15B to the USSF in their first full year of existence according to the FY21 budget.
Among the 77 spacecraft that are controlled by the USSF, 29 of them are Lockheed Martin GPS satellites, 6 of them are Lockheed Martin Space-Based Infrared Systems (SBIRS), and LMT had a hand in creating and/or manufacturing for several of the other USSF efforts. The Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared Missile Warning Satellites (also known as Next-Gen OPIR) were contracted out to both Northrup Grumman (Ticker: NOC) and LMT. LMT’s contract is currently set at $4.9B, NOC’s contract is set at $2.37B.
Tangentially related to the discussion of space is the discussion of hypersonic glide vehicles (HGVs). HGVs have exoatmospheric and atmospheric implications, but I think that their technology is extremely important to driving margins down for both space exploration and terrestrial point-to-point travel. LMT is leading the charge for military HGV research. They hold contracts with the Navy, Air Force, and Army to develop HGVs and hypersonic precision fires. The priority for HGV technology accelerated significantly when Russia launched their Avangard HGV in December of 2019. Improving the technology for HGVs is a critical next-step in maintaining US hegemony, but also maintaining leadership in both terrestrial and exoatmospheric travel.
LARGE SCALE COMBAT OPERATIONS (LSCO) The DoD transitioning to Large-Scale Combat Operations (LSCO) as the military’s strategic focus. This is a move away from an emphasis on Counter-Insurgency operations. LSCO requires effective multi-domain operations (MDO), which means effective and integrated strategies regarding land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. To have effective MDO, the DoD is seeking systems that both expand capabilities against peer threats and increase the ability to track enemy units and communicate internally. This requires a modernizing military strategy that relies heavily on air, missile, and sensor modernization. Put simply, the DoD has decided to start preparing for peer or near-peer adversaries (China, Russia, Iran, North Korea) rather than insurgencies. For this reason, I believe that increased Chinese and Russian tensions are, unfortunate as it may be, a boon to the defense industry. This is particularly true in the missiles/fires and space industry, as peer-to-peer conflicts are won by leveraging technological advantages.
There are too many projects to cover in detail, but some important military technologies that LMT is focusing on to support LSCO include directed energy weapons (lasers) to address enemy drone technology, machine learning / artificial intelligence (most applications fall under LMT’s classified budget, but it is easy to imagine the applications of AI in a military context), and 5G to increase battlefield connectivity. These projects are all nested within the DoD’s LSCO strategy, and position LMT as the leader in emergent military tech. NOC is the other major contractor making a heavy push in the modernization direction, but winners win, and I think a better CEO, balance sheet, and larger market cap make LMT the clear winner for aiding the DoD in a transition toward LSCO.
SECTOR COMPARISON (BACKLOG) The discussion of LSCO transitions well into the discussion of defense contractor backlogs. Massive defense contracts are not filled overnight, so examining order backlogs is a relatively reliable way to gauge the interest of the DoD in a defense contractor’s existing or emerging products. For my sector comparison, I am using the top 6 holdings of the iShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF (Ticker: ITA). I hate this ETF, and ETFs like it (DFEN) because of their massively outsized exposure to aerospace, and undersized allocation to companies like LMT. LMT is only 18% smaller than Boeing (Ticker: BA) but is only 30.4% of the exposure of BA (18.46% of the fund is BA, only 5.62% of the fund is LMT). Funds of this category are just BA / RTX hacks. I suggest building your own pie on a site like M1 Finance (although they are implicated in the trade restriction BS… please be advised of that… hoping other brokerages that are above board will offer similar UIs like the pie design… just wanted to be clear there) if you are interested in the defense sector.
The top 6 holdings of ITA are:
Boeing Company (Ticker: BA, MKT CAP $110B) at 18.46%
Raytheon Technologies (Ticker: RTX, MKT CAP $101B) at 17.84%
Lockheed Martin (Ticker: LMT, MKT CAP $90B) at 5.62%
General Dynamics Corporation (Ticker: GD, MKT CAP $42B) 4.78%
Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (Ticker: TDY, MKT CAP $13B) at 4.74%
Northrop Grumman Corporation (Ticker: NOC, MKT CAP $48B) at 4.64%
As a brief aside, please look at the breakdowns of ETFs before buying them. The fact that ITA has more exposure to TDY than NOC and L3Harris is wild. Make sector ETFs balanced how you want them to be balanced and it will be more engaging, and you will likely outperform. I digress.
Backlogs for defense companies can easily be pulled from their quarterly reports. Here are the current backlogs in the same order as before, followed by a percentage of their backlog to their current market cap. All numbers are pulled from January earning reports unless otherwise noted with an * because they are still pending.
Boeing Company backlog (Commercial: $282B, Defense: $61B, Foreign Military Sales (FMS, categorized by BA as ‘Global’): 21B, Total Backlog 364B): BA’s backlog to market cap is a ratio of 3.32, which is strong, but most of that backlog comes from the commercial, not the defense side. Airlines have been getting decimated, I am personally not interested in having much of my backlog exposed to commercial pressures when trying to invest in a defense play. Without commercial exposure, their defense only backlog ratio is .748. This is extremely low. I understand that this does not do BA justice, but I am keying in on defense exposure, and I am left thoroughly unsatisfied by that ratio. Also, we have seen several canceled contracts already on the commercial side.
Raytheon Technologies backlog (Defense backlog for all 4 subdivisions: 67.3B): Raytheon only published a defense backlog in this quarter’s report. That is further evidence to me that the commercial aerospace side of the house is getting hammered. They have a relatively week backlog to market cap as well, putting them at a ratio of .664, worse off than the BA defense backlog.
Lockheed Martin backlog (Total Backlog: $147B): This backlog blows our first two defense backlogs out of the water with a current market cap to backlog ratio of 1.63.
General Dynamics Corporation backlog (Total Backlog: $89.5B, $11.6B is primarily business jets, but it is difficult to determine how much of their aerospace business is commercial): Solid 2.13 ratio, still great 1.85 if you do not consider their aerospace business. The curveball here for me is that GD published a consolidated operating profit of $4.1B including commercial aerospace, whereas LMT published a consolidated operating profit of $9.1B. This makes the LMT ratio of profit/market cap slightly in favor of LMT without accounting for the GD commercial aerospace exposure. This research surprised me; I may like GD more than I originally assumed I would. Still prefer LMT.
Teledyne Technologies Incorporated backlog (Found in the earnings transcript, $1.7B): This stock is not quite in the same league as the other major contractors. This is an odd curveball that a lot of the defense ETFs seem to have too much exposure to. They have a weak backlog, but they are a smaller growing company. I am not interested in this at all. It has a backlog ratio of .129.
Northrop Grumman Corporation backlog ($81B): Strong numbers here. I see NOC and LMT as the two front-runners in the defense sector. I like LMT more because I like their exposure to AI, 5G, and HGVs more than NOC, but I think this is a great alternative to LMT if you like the defense sector. Has a ratio of 1.69, slightly edging out LMT on this metric. LMT edges out NOC on margins by ~.9%, though, which has significant implications when considering the depth of the LMT backlog.
The winners here are LMT, GD, and NOC. BA is attractive if you think anyone will have enough money to buy new planes. BA and RTX are both getting hammered by commercial aerospace exposure right now and are much more positioned as recovery plays. That said, LMT and NOC both make money now, and will regardless of the impact of the pandemic. LMT is growing at a slightly faster rate than NOC. Both are profit machines, but I like LMT’s product portfolio and leadership a lot more.
FREE CASH FLOW Despite the pandemic, LMT had the free cash flow to be able to pay a $2.60 per share dividend. This maintains their ~3% yearly dividend rate. They had a free cash flow of $6.4B. They spent $3.9 of that in share repurchases and dividend payouts. That leaves 40% of that cash to continue to strengthen one of the most stalwart balance sheets outside of big tech on the street. Having this free cash flow allowed them to purchase Aerojet Rocketdyne for $4.4B in December. They seem flexible and willing to expand and take advantage of their relative position during the pandemic. This is a stock that has little downside risk and significant upside potential. It is always reassuring to me to know that at the end of the day, a company is using its profit to continue to grow.
HEADWINDS New Administration – This is more of an unknown than a headwind. The Obama Administration was not light on military spending, and the newly appointed SecDef is unlikely to shy away from modernizing the force. Military defense budgets may get lost in the political shuffle, but nothing right now suggests that defense budgets are on the chopping block.
Macroeconomic pressure – The markets are tumultuous in the wake of GME. Hedgies are shaking in their boots, and scared money weighed on markets the past week. If scared money continues to exert pressure on the broader equity markets, all boomer stocks are likely weighed down by slumping markets.
Non-meme Status – The stocks that are impervious to macroeconomic pressures in the above paragraph are the stonks that we, the people, have decided to support. From GME to IPOE, there is a slew of stonks that are watching and laughing from the green zone as the broader markets slip deeper into the red zone. Unless sentiment about LMT changes, I see no evidence that LMT will remain unaffected by a broader economic downturn (despite showing growth YoY during a pandemic).
TAILWINDS Aerojet Rocketdyne to the Moon – Cathie Wood opened up a $39mil position in LMT a few weeks ago, and this was near the announcement of ARKX. The big ideas 2021 article focuses heavily on satellite technology, deep learning, and HGVs. I think that the AR acquisition suggests that vertical integration is a priority for LMT. They even fielded a question in their earnings call about whether they were concerned about being perceived as a monopoly. Their answer was spot on—the USFG and DoD have a vested interest in the success of defense companies. Why would they discourage a defense contractor from vertical integration to optimize margins?
International Tensions – SolarWinds has escalated US-Russia tensions. President Biden wants to look tough on China. LSCO is a DoD-wide priority.
5G.Mil – We still do not have a lot of fidelity on what this looks like, but the military would benefit in a lot of ways if we had world-wide access to the rapid transfer of encrypted data. Many units still rely on Vietnam-era technology signal technology with abysmal data rates. There are a lot of implications if the code can be cracked to win a DoD 5G contract.
TRADE IDEAS Price Target: LMT is currently at a P/E of ~14. Verizon has roughly the same. LMT’s 5-year P/E ratio average is ~17. NOC is currently at a P/E of ~20. TSLA has a P/E Ratio of 1339 (disappointingly not 1337). P/E is a useless metric because no one seems to care about it. My point is that LMT makes a lot of money, and other companies that are valued at much higher multiples do not make any money at all. LMT’s P/E ratio is that of a boomer stock that has no growth potential. LMT’s P/E is exactly in line with the Aerospace and Defense Industry P/E ratio standard. LMT’s new CEO is pushing the industry in a new direction. I will arbitrarily choose a P/E ratio of 30, because it is half of the software industry average, and it is a nice round number. Plus, stock values are speculative and nonsense anyway.
Share price today: $321.82
Share price based on LMT average 5-year P/E: $384.08 (I see this as a short term PT, reversion to the mean)
Share price with a P/E of 30: $690.26
Buy and Hold: Simple. Doesn’t take much thought. Come back in a year or two and be happy with your tendies (and a few dividends to boot).
LEAPS Call Debit Spread (Based on last trade prices): Buy $375 C 20 JAN 23 for $26.5, Sell $450 C 20 JAN 23 for $12. Total Cost $14.5 for a spread width of $75. Max gain 517% per spread. Higher risk strategy.
LEAPS: Buy $500 C 20 JAN 23 for $7.20. Very high-risk strat. If the price target is hit within two years, these would be in the money $183 per contract for a gain of 2500%. This is the casino strat.
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Who killed notorious 1940s gangster Benjamin ‘Bugsy’ Siegel, the father of modern Las Vegas? Was it another mob boss? The lover of his best friend's wife? One of the men he was embezzling money from? His Mafia spy girlfriend? His own bosses? The possibilities are endless—and puzzling.
(Note: be warned, kind of long background info here, but I think it’s needed) As far as interesting lives, few can beat
Benjamin ‘Bugsy’ Siegel. Born February 28, 1906 in Brooklyn, New York, Siegel came from a poor Jewish family. Before he was even twenty, he’d established a profitable protection racket and a lengthy rap sheet, including armed robbery, rape, and murder. Siegel had connections—he was childhood friends with Al Capone and familiar with many of the well known New York City mobsters of the day—and he also had a taste for violence. Soon, he’d established a small mob specializing in hits for the numerous bootleg gangs of the time with
Meyer Lansky, a fellow mobster. His violence and short temper led some to say he was “crazy as a bedbug,” giving him his famous nickname ‘Bugsy,’ which he even more famously despised.
Siegel was making money, which he was happy to flaunt, but he wanted more. He carried out several hits for
Charles “Lucky” Luciano, and eventually formed Murder Inc. with his associates, establishing himself as a skilled hitman for the National Crime Syndicate, an organization of mob families. But Siegel was already making enemies, and several assassination attempts were made on his life, some of which came very close to being successful. So, it was time to move out west.
In California, Siegel helped establish gambling rackets, drug trade routes, and prostitution rings. His star was rising outside of the Underworld too, and in addition to the numerous politicians and police on his payroll, he befriended stars like Cary Grant and Clark Gable. Incredibly, while in Italy with a socialite in 1938, he met Hermann Goering and Joseph Goebbels, whom he immediately disliked and offered to kill. The offer was declined by his lady friend. Yet Siegel was not always looked upon fondly by the upper echelons of Hollywood; he borrowed exorbitantly from celebrities, knowing he would never be asked to pay it back, and began to develop extensive plans to extort movie studios. After several trials and acquittals for failed and successful hits, it was time to leave California.
Siegel’s next stop was Las Vegas where, in 1945, he purchased and developed the
Flamingo Hotel & Casino, the first luxury hotel on the Vegas strip. As you might imagine, that was expensive, and over the course of its construction, costs were equivalent to over $61 million in today’s money each year. Siegel’s checks were bouncing, and many of the locals felt threatened by him. Mob bosses were beginning to lose patience with Siegel too, and he was refusing to report on business, claiming he was running the California Syndicate himself. For now, they left him alone—he'd been valuable in the past, after all.
The Flamingo Hotel was a dismal failure, and people—very powerful people—were starting to get tired of waiting for the promised money to materialize. By 1947, it was gradually turning around—with the help of Meyer Lansky, now in Vegas—but for most, it was too little too late.
Death: On June 20, 1947, Siegel was gunned down in the Beverly Hills home of his sometimes-girlfriend Virginia Hill. He was 41. Somewhat suspiciously, Hill had taken an unscheduled flight to Paris the day (or by some sources, week) before. As Siegel sat reading the newspaper with associate Allen Smiley, an unknown assailant fired with a .30 caliber military M1 carbine through the window, striking Siegel many times (
NSFW). Two shots hit his head, with one passing through his right cheek and the other his nose. Though he was not hit directly through the eye (
NSFW), a bullet-in-the-eye death became a popular trope in Mafia media, including in
the Godfather, where a character based on Siegel is murdered in the same manner.
The death was covered extensively in the media, which portrayed Vegas as a bastion of sin and mafia activity. As early as the day after Siegel’s death (or, as some sources have it, during Siegel’s death), however, more personal things were changing: Lansky walked into the Flamingo and took over operations.
Theories: The mob is famously tight-lipped, and Siegel’s death was no exception. Despite the extensive speculation, no precise motive has ever been confirmed. There was a massive police investigation, but in a case like this, that doesn’t mean much, nor does the media coverage. The media in particular salivated over the potential for splashy crime stories, and the circumstances of this case have been complicated by contemporary coverage. Several days after Siegel’s death, for example, one newspaper ran the headline “BUGSY'S BLONDE EX-WIFE GIVES CLUES TO HIS KILLERS,” while another read “BUGSY'S EX NO AID IN HUNT.” As far as the most popular theories:
A Mob hit: A mob hit seems like the most obvious cause, and it's a theory that’s been popularized by several novels and the 1991 movie
Bugsy. It would certainly make sense; it was the mob’s money Siegel had been spending wildly on his unsuccessful hotel after all, and he’d been growing uncooperative. Of the proposed hitmen, the most often mentioned are
Frankie Carbo (Ralph Natale, former Philadelphia boss and Mob squealer, claimed Carbo as the true killer) and Eddie Cannizarro, both Syndicate hitmen. But even here, there are several proposed reasons for the hit. As some have it, mob money from the Flamingo’s funding was going missing and Siegel was skimming off the already meager profits. Skimming could have been forgiven,
if the Flamingo was a success. It was not. After a meeting of the Syndicate’s “Board of Directors,” it was allegedly decided that Siegel would die, with Lansky reluctantly agreeing. Others believe that a hit might have been ordered whether Siegel was skimming or not; the Flamingo was simply too expensive. As one historian put it, “Bugsy was a dreamer. And he was dreaming with other people’s money.”
Yet many have also argued against this theory. According to one of Siegel’s emissaries in Vegas, for example, no one would have dared to order a hit on Siegel. He and Lansky were close until the end of their lives, and Lansky would never have agreed to it. And if Lansky would not agree, then Charles “Lucky” Luciano, who was “the head of everything,” would never have agreed either. And as others have argued, the method of execution (
NSFW) didn’t match with typical mob methods; firing a weapon from outside a house increased the risk of missing as well as the risk of being seen. The preferred method was a clean shot to the back of the head. According to some, the oft-referenced money problems of the Flamingo also wasn’t an issue. At the time, Lansky was paying back any investor who wanted out, and the gradual uptick in its profits was quickening by the day. Personally, I don’t think the financial uptick invalidates the theory. If the hotel was starting to make more money, then that might be all the more reason to get rid of the difficult-to-manage Siegel and take over.
Wire Business: At the time of his death, Siegel was embroiled in a dispute with
Jack Dragna, dubbed the Capone of Los Angeles. Siegel and Dragna had had an uneasy partnership in previous years, but Dragna, far less powerful than Siegel and the New York gangs, resented the income and respect Siegel commanded. This came to a head when a racing wire service (a way of cheating on bets) between the two of them soured. Siegel wanted control for himself, and ordered Dragna to turn it over or be killed, to which Dragna agreed. After Siegel’s death, control was returned to Dragna. He had a motive, but his story would only have been one among many for a man as ruthless as Siegel, which, in a way, complicates things further—there’s a real possibility that the culprit in Siegel’s murder was someone never even considered. His list of enemies was long, varied, and probably mostly unknown. Yet another man who had reason to want Siegel dead, for example, was his bodyguard and muscle
Mickey Cohen. A Cleveland gangster, Cohen was given control of the Syndicate’s West Coast gambling operations. If Siegel still lived, he would never have gotten it. Interestingly, he, like Al Capone before him, was eventually felled by tax evasion.
Virginia and/or brother: The same emissary of Siegel who shot down the mob hit theory believed that Virginia Hill’s brother had carried out the murder. The brother, a marine stationed at Camp Pendleton named Bob or Bill, had seen Siegel and Virginia fighting outside the Flamingo as well as the bruises Siegel had left on her and threatened to kill him. Another of Virginia’s brothers, Chuck, was also at the Beverly Hills house when Siegel was murdered.
Virginia herself has also been the subject of suspicion. Nicknamed the “Queen of the Mob,” Hill worked, among other powerful jobs, as a cash courier, laundering money and stolen goods as well as blackmailing high-ranking men through sexual liaisons. Her relationship with Siegel was tempestuous at best, and she may have been embezzling from the Flamingo. She’s also been accused of two-timing with rival mob operations, though this is unconfirmed. Eventually fleeing to Europe permanently, Hill died of an overdose in 1966, though some have alleged that she was actually murdered after she, completely broke, attempted to leverage her intimate knowledge of the Mob.
Rival Mobs: Unfortunately, I can’t find much concrete information about this theory
(note: story of my life researching these posts haha), but some believe that rival mob operatives wanted Siegel gone. He was a powerful—and very public—figure, which made him something of an obvious target in the cut-throat world of Mafia politics.
Moe Sedway: This is a relatively new theory, emerging after Robbie Sedway was interviewed for LA Magazine after his mother’s death. Here, he alleged that Siegel’s murder was ordered by his mother
Bee, the wife of powerful mobster—and childhood friend of Siegel’s—
Moe Sedway. According to Bee, who wrote and scrapped a book proposal called
Bugsy's Little Lunatic (Siegel’s nickname for her), Siegel had threatened her husband, who was the Flamingo’s numbers man, and therefore watching Siegel—who, remember, had been accused of skimming—closely. So Bee contacted Mathew “Moose” Pandza, a truck driver whom Bee married after Moe’s death. Moose, the perfect killer, since he had no connection to the Mob, then shot Siegel to death. The problem with this theory, however, is that Bee is the only source; as she herself said, anyone who could contradict her was dead. She also squandered most of the fortune left to her by Moe over the course of her life, and died almost penniless.
All of the above: Some believe that almost all the suspects were involved. Usually, it goes something like this: “Virginia supplied the location and received some reward. Cohen knew Bugsy's schedule for the evening, but happened to not be watching him that night…Dragna ordered the hit, with the approval of Lansky and Luciano.” It’s unlikely, but it certainly has its believers, if only for the convenience of it.
Final Thoughts & Questions: This case is interesting to me because of the sheer number of suspects. In the end, a mob hit seems the simplest and most likely explanation. But there were so many people with means, motive, and opportunity. So:
- Why was Siegel killed and who killed him? The Syndicate, rival mobs, Virginia Hall, her brother, Mickey Cohen, Jack Dragna, Mathew Pandza (as ordered by Moe and/or Bee Sedway), several of the suspects, or someone else entirely?
Sources: https://www.lamag.com/longform/mobster-murder-moll-secret/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/lasvegas-bugsy/ https://themobmuseum.org/blog/killed-benjamin-bugsy-siegel/ https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Bugsy_Siegel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugsy_Siegel https://themobmuseum.org/blog/virginia-hill-queen-of-the-mob-was-no-ones-pushove To many, Siegel’s legacy exceeds his mob connections, and in some ways, even his death; without him, many believe, there would be no Vegas. So if you take anything away from this write-up, let it be this: The Blue Man group’s Vegas residency is Bugsy Siegel’s fault.
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Playboy going public: Porn, Gambling, and Cannabis
NEW INFO 5 Results from share redemption are posted. Less than .2% redeemed. Very bullish as investors are showing extreme confidence in the future of PLBY.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/playboy-mountain-crest-acquisition-corp-120000721.html NEW INFO 4 Definitive Agreement to purchase 100% of Lovers brand stores announced 2/1.
https://www.streetinsider.com/Corporate+News/Playboy+%28MCAC%29+Confirms+Deal+to+Acquire+Lovers/17892359.html NEW INFO 3 I bought more on the dip today. 5081 total. Price rose AH to $12.38 (2.15%)
NEW INFO 2 Here is the full webinar.
https://icrinc.zoom.us/rec/play/9GWKdmOYumjWfZuufW3QXpe_FW_g--qeNbg6PnTjTMbnNTgLmCbWjeRFpQga1iPc-elpGap8dnDv8Zww.yD7DjUwuPmapeEdP?continueMode=true&tk=lEYc4F_FkKlgsmCIs6w0gtGHT2kbgVGbUju3cIRBSjk.DQIAAAAV8NK49xZWdldRM2xNSFNQcTBmcE00UzM3bXh3AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA&uuid=WN_GKWqbHkeSyuWetJmLFkj4g&_x_zm_rtaid=kR45-uuqRE-L65AxLjpbQw.1611967079119.2c054e3d3f8d8e63339273d9175939ed&_x_zm_rhtaid=866 NEW INFO 1 Live merger webinar with PLBY and MCAC on Friday January 29, 2021 at 12:00 NOON EST link below
https://mcacquisition.com/investor-relations/press-release-details/2021/Playboy-Enterprises-Inc.-and-Mountain-Crest-Acquisition-Corp-Participate-in-SPACInsider-ICR-Webinar-on-January-29th-at-12pm-ET/default.aspx Playboy going public: Porn, Gambling, and Cannabis !!!WARNING READING AHEAD!!! TL;DR at the end. It will take some time to sort through all the links and read/watch everything, but you should.
In the next couple weeks, Mountain Crest Acquisition Corp is taking Playboy public. The existing ticker MCAC will become PLBY. Special purpose acquisition companies have taken private companies public in recent months with great success. I believe this will be no exception. Notably, Playboy is profitable and has skyrocketing revenue going into a transformational growth phase.
Porn - First and foremost, let's talk about porn. I know what you guys are thinking. “Porno mags are dead. Why would I want to invest in something like that? I can get porn for free online.” Guess what? You are absolutely right. And that’s exactly why Playboy doesn’t do that anymore. That’s right, they eliminated their print division. And yet they somehow STILL make money from porn that people (see: boomers) pay for on their website through PlayboyTV, Playboy Plus, and iPlayboy. Here’s the thing: Playboy has international, multi-generational name recognition from porn. They have content available in 180 countries. It will be the only publicly traded adult entertainment (porn) company. But that is not where this company is going. It will help support them along the way. You can see every Playboy magazine through iPlayboy if you’re interested. NSFW links below:
https://www.playboy.com/ https://www.playboytv.com/ https://www.playboyplus.com/ https://www.iplayboy.com/ Gambling - Some of you might recognize the Playboy brand from gambling trips to places like Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Cancun, London or Macau. They’ve been in the gambling biz for decades through their casinos, clubs, and licensed gaming products. They see the writing on the wall. COVID is accelerating the transition to digital, application based GAMBLING. That’s right. What we are doing on Robinhood with risky options is gambling, and the only reason regulators might give a shit anymore is because we are making too much money. There may be some restrictions put in place, but gambling from your phone on your couch is not going anywhere. More and more states are allowing things like Draftkings, poker, state ‘lottery” apps, hell - even political betting. Michigan and Virginia just ok’d gambling apps. They won’t be the last. This is all from your couch and any 18 year old with a cracked iphone can access it. Wouldn’t it be cool if Playboy was going to do something like that? They’re already working on it. As per CEO Ben Kohn who we will get to later, “...the company’s casino-style digital gaming products with Scientific Games and Microgaming continue to see significant global growth.” Honestly, I stopped researching Scientific Games' sports betting segment when I saw the word ‘omni-channel’. That told me all I needed to know about it’s success.
“Our SG Sports™ platform is an enhanced, omni-channel solution for online, self-service and retail fixed odds sports betting – from soccer to tennis, basketball, football, baseball, hockey, motor sports, racing and more.”
https://www.scientificgames.com/ https://www.microgaming.co.uk/ “This latter segment has become increasingly enticing for Playboy, and it said last week that it is considering new tie-ups that could include gaming operators like PointsBet and 888Holdings.”
https://calvinayre.com/2020/10/05/business/playboys-gaming-ops-could-get-a-boost-from-spac-purchase/ As per their SEC filing:
“Significant consumer engagement and spend with Playboy-branded gaming properties around the world, including with leading partners such as Microgaming, Scientific Games, and Caesar’s Entertainment, steers our investment in digital gaming, sports betting and other digital offerings to further support our commercial strategy to expand consumer spend with minimal marginal cost, and gain consumer data to inform go-to-market plans across categories.”
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgadata/1803914/000110465921005986/tm2034213-12_defm14a.htm#tMDAA1 They are expanding into more areas of gaming/gambling, working with international players in the digital gaming/gambling arena, and a Playboy sportsbook is on the horizon.
https://www.playboy.com/read/the-pleasure-of-playing-with-yourself-mobile-gaming-in-the-covid-era Cannabis - If you’ve ever read through a Playboy magazine, you know they’ve had a positive relationship with cannabis for many years. As of September 2020, Playboy has made a major shift into the cannabis space. Too good to be true you say? Check their website. Playboy currently sells a range of CBD products. This is a good sign. Federal hemp products, which these most likely are, can be mailed across state lines and most importantly for a company like Playboy, can operate through a traditional banking institution. CBD products are usually the first step towards the cannabis space for large companies. Playboy didn’t make these products themselves meaning they are working with a processor in the cannabis industry. Another good sign for future expansion. What else do they have for sale? Pipes, grinders, ashtrays, rolling trays, joint holders. Hmm. Ok. So it looks like they want to sell some shit. They probably don’t have an active interest in cannabis right? Think again:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/javierhasse/2020/09/24/playboy-gets-serious-about-cannabis-law-reform-advocacy-with-new-partnership-grants/?sh=62f044a65cea “Taking yet another step into the cannabis space, Playboy will be announcing later on Thursday (September, 2020) that it is launching a cannabis law reform and advocacy campaign in partnership with National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), Last Prisoner Project, Marijuana Policy Project, the Veterans Cannabis Project, and the Eaze Momentum Program.”
“According to information procured exclusively, the three-pronged campaign will focus on calling for federal legalization. The program also includes the creation of a mentorship plan, through which the Playboy Foundation will support entrepreneurs from groups that are underrepresented in the industry.” Remember that CEO Kohn from earlier? He wrote this recently:
https://medium.com/naked-open-letters-from-playboy/congress-must-pass-the-more-act-c867c35239ae Seems like he really wants weed to be legal? Hmm wonder why? The writing's on the wall my friends. Playboy wants into the cannabis industry, they are making steps towards this end, and we have favorable conditions for legislative progress.
Don’t think branding your own cannabis line is profitable or worthwhile? Tell me why these 41 celebrity millionaires and billionaires are dummies. I’ll wait.
https://www.celebstoner.com/news/celebstoner-news/2019/07/12/top-celebrity-cannabis-brands/ Confirmation: I hear you. “This all seems pretty speculative. It would be wildly profitable if they pull this shift off. But how do we really know?” Watch this whole video:
https://finance.yahoo.com/video/playboy-ceo-telling-story-female-154907068.html Man - this interview just gets my juices flowing. And highlights one of my favorite reasons for this play. They have so many different business avenues from which a catalyst could appear. I think paying attention, holding shares, and options on these staggered announcements over the next year is the way I am going to go about it. "There's definitely been a shift to direct-to-consumer," he (Kohn) said. "About 50 percent of our revenue today is direct-to-consumer, and that will continue to grow going forward.” “Kohn touted Playboy's portfolio of both digital and consumer products, with casino-style gaming, in particular, serving a crucial role under the company's new business model. Playboy also has its sights on the emerging cannabis market, from CBD products to marijuana products geared toward sexual health and pleasure.” "If THC does become legal in the United States, we have developed certain strains to enhance your sex life that we will launch," Kohn said.
https://cheddar.com/media/playboy-goes-public-health-gaming-lifestyle-focus Oh? The CEO actually said it? Ok then. “We have developed certain strains…” They’re already working with growers on strains and genetics? Ok. There are several legal cannabis markets for those products right now, international and stateside. I expect Playboy licensed hemp and THC pre-rolls by EOY. Something like this:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/842996758/10-playboy-pre-roll-tubes-limited?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=pre+roll+playboy&ref=sr_gallery-1-2&organic_search_click=1 Maintaining cannabis operations can be costly and a regulatory headache. Playboy’s licensing strategy allows them to pick successful, established partners and sidestep traditional barriers to entry. You know what I like about these new markets? They’re expanding. Worldwide. And they are going to be a bigger deal than they already are with or without Playboy. Who thinks weed and gambling are going away? Too many people like that stuff. These are easy markets. And Playboy is early enough to carve out their spot in each. Fuck it, read this too:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimosman/2020/10/20/playboy-could-be-the-king-of-spacs-here-are-three-picks/?sh=2e13dcaa3e05 Numbers: You want numbers? I got numbers. As per the company’s most recent SEC filing:
“For the year ended December 31, 2019, and the nine months ended September 30, 2020, Playboy’s historical consolidated revenue was $78.1 million and $101.3 million, respectively, historical consolidated net income (loss) was $(23.6) million and $(4.8) million, respectively, and Adjusted EBITDA was $13.1 million and $21.8 million, respectively.”
“In the nine months ended September 30, 2020, Playboy’s Licensing segment contributed $44.2 million in revenue and $31.1 million in net income.”
“In the ninth months ended September 30, 2020, Playboy’s Direct-to-Consumer segment contributed $40.2 million in revenue and net income of $0.1 million.”
“In the nine months ended September 30, 2020, Playboy’s Digital Subscriptions and Content segment contributed $15.4 million in revenue and net income of $7.4 million.”
They are profitable across all three of their current business segments.
“Playboy’s return to the public markets presents a transformed, streamlined and high-growth business. The Company has over $400 million in cash flows contracted through 2029, sexual wellness products available for sale online and in over 10,000 major retail stores in the US, and a growing variety of clothing and branded lifestyle and digital gaming products.”
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgadata/1803914/000110465921005986/tm2034213-12_defm14a.htm#tSHCF Growth: Playboy has massive growth in China and massive growth potential in India. “In China, where Playboy has spent more than 25 years building its business, our licensees have an enormous footprint of nearly 2,500 brick and mortar stores and 1,000 ecommerce stores selling high quality, Playboy-branded men’s casual wear, shoes/footwear, sleepwear, swimwear, formal suits, leather & non-leather goods, sweaters, active wear, and accessories. We have achieved significant growth in China licensing revenues over the past several years in partnership with strong licensees and high-quality manufacturers, and we are planning for increased growth through updates to our men’s fashion lines and expansion into adjacent categories in men’s skincare and grooming, sexual wellness, and women’s fashion, a category where recent launches have been well received.” The men’s market in China is about the same size as the entire population of the United States and European Union combined. Playboy is a leading brand in this market. They are expanding into the women’s market too. Did you know CBD toothpaste is huge in China? China loves CBD products and has hemp fields that dwarf those in the US. If Playboy expands their CBD line China it will be huge. Did you know the gambling money in Macau absolutely puts Las Vegas to shame? Technically, it's illegal on the mainland, but in reality, there is a lot of gambling going on in China.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/javierhasse/2020/10/19/magic-johnson-and-uncle-buds-cbd-brand-enter-china-via-tmall-partnership/?sh=271776ca411e “In India, Playboy today has a presence through select apparel licensees and hospitality establishments. Consumer research suggests significant growth opportunities in the territory with Playboy’s brand and categories of focus.” “Playboy Enterprises has announced the expansion of its global consumer products business into India as part of a partnership with Jay Jay Iconic Brands, a leading fashion and lifestyle Company in India.” “The Indian market today is dominated by consumers under the age of 35, who represent more than 65 percent of the country’s total population and are driving India’s significant online shopping growth. The Playboy brand’s core values of playfulness and exploration resonate strongly with the expressed desires of today’s younger millennial consumers. For us, Playboy was the perfect fit.” “The Playboy international portfolio has been flourishing for more than 25 years in several South Asian markets such as China and Japan. In particular, it has strategically targeted the millennial and gen-Z audiences across categories such as apparel, footwear, home textiles, eyewear and watches.”
https://www.licenseglobal.com/industry-news/playboy-expands-global-footprint-india It looks like they gave COVID the heisman in terms of net damage sustained: “Although Playboy has not suffered any material adverse consequences to date from the COVID-19 pandemic, the business has been impacted both negatively and positively. The remote working and stay-at-home orders resulted in the closure of the London Playboy Club and retail stores of Playboy’s licensees, decreasing licensing revenues in the second quarter, as well as causing supply chain disruption and less efficient product development thereby slowing the launch of new products. However, these negative impacts were offset by an increase in Yandy’s direct-to-consumer sales, which have benefited in part from overall increases in online retail sales so far during the pandemic.” Looks like the positives are long term (Yandy acquisition) and the negatives are temporary (stay-at-home orders).
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgadata/1803914/000110465921006093/tm213766-1_defa14a.htm This speaks to their ability to maintain a financially solvent company throughout the transition phase to the aforementioned areas. They’d say some fancy shit like “expanded business model to encompass four key revenue streams: Sexual Wellness, Style & Apparel, Gaming & Lifestyle, and Beauty & Grooming.” I hear “we’re just biding our time with these trinkets until those dollar dollar bill y’all markets are fully up and running.” But the truth is these existing revenue streams are profitable, scalable, and rapidly expanding Playboy’s e-commerce segment around the world.
"Even in the face of COVID this year, we've been able to grow EBITDA over 100 percent and revenue over 68 percent, and I expect that to accelerate going into 2021," he said. “Playboy is accelerating its growth in company-owned and branded consumer products in attractive and expanding markets in which it has a proven history of brand affinity and consumer spend.”
Also in the SEC filing, the
Time Frame:
“As we detailed in the definitive proxy statement, the SPAC stockholder meeting to vote on the transaction has been set for February 9th, and, subject to stockholder approval and satisfaction of the other closing conditions, we expect to complete the merger and begin trading on NASDAQ under ticker PLBY shortly thereafter,” concluded Kohn.
The Players: Suhail “The Whale” Rizvi (HMFIC), Ben “The Bridge” Kohn (CEO), “lil” Suying Liu & “Big” Dong Liu (Young-gun China gang). I encourage you to look these folks up. The real OG here is Suhail Rizvi. He’s from India originally and Chairman of the Board for the new PLBY company. He was an early investor in Twitter, Square, Facebook and others. His firm, Rizvi Traverse, currently invests in Instacart, Pinterest, Snapchat, Playboy, and SpaceX. Maybe you’ve heard of them. “Rizvi, who owns a sprawling three-home compound in Greenwich, Connecticut, and a 1.65-acre estate in Palm Beach, Florida, near Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg, moved to Iowa Falls when he was five. His father was a professor of psychology at Iowa. Along with his older brother Ashraf, a hedge fund manager, Rizvi graduated from Wharton business school.” “Suhail Rizvi: the 47-year-old 'unsocial' social media baron: When Twitter goes public in the coming weeks (2013), one of the biggest winners will be a 47-year-old financier who guards his secrecy so zealously that he employs a person to take down his Wikipedia entry and scrub his photos from the internet. In IPO, Twitter seeks to be 'anti-FB'” “Prince Alwaleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia looks like a big Twitter winner. So do the moneyed clients of Jamie Dimon. But as you’ve-got-to-be-joking wealth washed over Twitter on Thursday — a company that didn’t exist eight years ago was worth $31.7 billion after its first day on the stock market — the non-boldface name of the moment is Suhail R. Rizvi. Mr. Rizvi, 47, runs a private investment company that is the largest outside investor in Twitter with a 15.6 percent stake worth $3.8 billion at the end of trading on Thursday (November, 2013). Using a web of connections in the tech industry and in finance, as well as a hearty dose of good timing, he brought many prominent names in at the ground floor, including the Saudi prince and some of JPMorgan’s wealthiest clients.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/08/technology/at-twitter-working-behind-the-scenes-toward-a-billion-dollar-payday.html Y’all like that Arab money? How about a dude that can call up Saudi Princes and convince them to spend? Funniest shit about I read about him: “Rizvi was able to buy only $100 million in Facebook shortly before its IPO, thus limiting his returns, according to people with knowledge of the matter.” Poor guy :(
He should be fine with the 16 million PLBY shares he's going to have though :)
Shuhail also has experience in the entertainment industry. He’s invested in companies like SESAC, ICM, and Summit Entertainment. He’s got Hollywood connections to blast this stuff post-merger. And he’s at least partially responsible for that whole Twilight thing. I’m team Edward btw.
I really like what Suhail has done so far. He’s lurked in the shadows while Kohn is consolidating the company, trimming the fat, making Playboy profitable, and aiming the ship at modern growing markets.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-ipo-rizvi-insight/insight-little-known-hollywood-investor-poised-to-score-with-twitter-ipo-idUSBRE9920VW20131003 Ben “The Bridge” Kohn is an interesting guy. He’s the connection between Rizvi Traverse and Playboy. He’s both CEO of Playboy and was previously Managing Partner at Rizvi Traverse. Ben seems to be the voice of the Playboy-Rizvi partnership, which makes sense with Suhail’s privacy concerns. Kohn said this:
“Today is a very big day for all of us at Playboy and for all our partners globally. I stepped into the CEO role at Playboy in 2017 because I saw the biggest opportunity of my career. Playboy is a brand and platform that could not be replicated today. It has massive global reach, with more than $3B of global consumer spend and products sold in over 180 countries. Our mission – to create a culture where all people can pursue pleasure – is rooted in our 67-year history and creates a clear focus for our business and role we play in people’s lives, providing them with the products, services and experiences that create a lifestyle of pleasure. We are taking this step into the public markets because the committed capital will enable us to accelerate our product development and go-to-market strategies and to more rapidly build our direct to consumer capabilities,” said Ben Kohn, CEO of Playboy.
“Playboy today is a highly profitable commerce business with a total addressable market projected in the trillions of dollars,” Mr. Kohn continued, “We are actively selling into the Sexual Wellness consumer category, projected to be approximately $400 billion in size by 2024, where our recently launched intimacy products have rolled out to more than 10,000 stores at major US retailers in the United States. Combined with our owned & operated ecommerce Sexual Wellness initiatives, the category will contribute more than 40% of our revenue this year. In our Apparel and Beauty categories, our collaborations with high-end fashion brands including Missguided and PacSun are projected to achieve over $50M in retail sales across the US and UK this year, our leading men’s apparel lines in China expanded to nearly 2500 brick and mortar stores and almost 1000 digital stores, and our new men’s and women’s fragrance line recently launched in Europe. In Gaming, our casino-style digital gaming products with Scientific Games and Microgaming continue to see significant global growth. Our product strategy is informed by years of consumer data as we actively expand from a purely licensing model into owning and operating key high-growth product lines focused on driving profitability and consumer lifetime value. We are thrilled about the future of Playboy. Our foundation has been set to drive further growth and margin, and with the committed capital from this transaction and our more than $180M in NOLs, we will take advantage of the opportunity in front of us, building to our goal of $100M of adjusted EBITDA in 2025.”
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201001005404/en/Playboy-to-Become-a-Public-Company Also, according to their Form 4s, “Big” Dong Liu and “lil” Suying Liu just loaded up with shares last week. These guys are brothers and seem like the Chinese market connection. They are only 32 & 35 years old. I don’t even know what that means, but it's provocative.
https://www.secform4.com/insider-trading/1832415.htm https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mountain-crest-acquisition-corp-ii-002600994.html Y’all like that China money?
“Mr. Liu has been the Chief Financial Officer of Dongguan Zhishang Photoelectric Technology Co., Ltd., a regional designer, manufacturer and distributor of LED lights serving commercial customers throughout Southern China since November 2016, at which time he led a syndicate of investments into the firm. Mr. Liu has since overseen the financials of Dongguan Zhishang as well as provided strategic guidance to its board of directors, advising on operational efficiency and cash flow performance. From March 2010 to October 2016, Mr. Liu was the Head of Finance at Feidiao Electrical Group Co., Ltd., a leading Chinese manufacturer of electrical outlets headquartered in Shanghai and with businesses in the greater China region as well as Europe.”
Dr. Suying Liu, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Mountain Crest Acquisition Corp., commented, “Playboy is a unique and compelling investment opportunity, with one of the world’s largest and most recognized brands, its proven consumer affinity and spend, and its enormous future growth potential in its four product segments and new and existing geographic regions. I am thrilled to be partnering with Ben and his exceptional team to bring his vision to fruition.”
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201001005404/en/Playboy-to-Become-a-Public-Company These guys are good. They have a proven track record of success across multiple industries. Connections and money run deep with all of these guys. I don’t think they’re in the game to lose.
I was going to write a couple more paragraphs about why you should have a look at this but really the best thing you can do is read this SEC filing from a couple days ago. It explains the situation in far better detail. Specifically, look to page 137 and read through their strategy. Also, look at their ownership percentages and compensation plans including the stock options and their prices. The financials look great, revenue is up 90% Q3, and it looks like a bright future.
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgadata/1803914/000110465921005986/tm2034213-12_defm14a.htm#tSHCF I’m hesitant to attach this because his position seems short term, but I’m going to with a warning because he does hit on some good points (two are below his link) and he’s got a sizable position in this thing (500k+ on margin, I think). I don’t know this guy but he did look at the same publicly available info and make roughly the same prediction, albeit without the in depth gambling or cannabis mention. You can also search reddit for ‘MCAC’ and very few relevant results come up and none of them even come close to really looking at this thing.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gOvAd6lebs452hFlWWbxVjQ3VMsjGBkbJeXRwDwIJfM/edit?usp=sharing “Also, before you people start making claims that Playboy is a “boomer” company, STOP RIGHT THERE. This is not a good argument. Simply put. The only thing that matters is Playboy’s name recognition, not their archaic business model which doesn’t even exist anymore as they have completely repurposed their business.”
“Imagine not buying $MCAC at a 400M valuation lol. Streetwear department is worth 1B alone imo.”
Considering the ridiculous Chinese growth as a lifestyle brand, he’s not wrong.
Current Cultural Significance and Meme Value: A year ago I wouldn’t have included this section but the events from the last several weeks (even going back to tsla) have proven that a company’s ability to meme and/or gain social network popularity can have an effect. Tik-tok, Snapchat, Twitch, Reddit, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter. They all have Playboy stuff on them. Kids in middle and highschool know what Playboy is but will likely never see or touch one of the magazines in person. They’ll have a Playboy hoodie though. Crazy huh? A lot like GME, PLBY would hugely benefit from meme-value stock interest to drive engagement towards their new business model while also building strategic coffers. This interest may not directly and/or significantly move the stock price but can generate significant interest from larger players who will.
Bull Case: The year is 2025. Playboy is now the world leader pleasure brand. They began by offering Playboy licensed gaming products, including gambling products, direct to consumers through existing names. By 2022, demand has skyrocketed and Playboy has designed and released their own gambling platforms. In 2025, they are also a leading cannabis brand in the United States and Canada with proprietary strains and products geared towards sexual wellness. Cannabis was legalized in the US in 2023 when President Biden got glaucoma but had success with cannabis treatment. He personally pushes for cannabis legalization as he steps out of office after his first term. Playboy has also grown their brand in China and India to multi-billion per year markets. The stock goes up from 11ish to 100ish and everyone makes big gains buying somewhere along the way.
Bear Case: The United States does a complete 180 on marijuana and gambling. President Biden overdoses on marijuana in the Lincoln bedroom when his FDs go tits up and he loses a ton of money in his sports book app after the Fighting Blue Hens narrowly lose the National Championship to Bama. Playboy is unable to expand their cannabis and gambling brands but still does well with their worldwide lifestyle brand. They gain and lose some interest in China and India but the markets are too large to ignore them completely. The stock goes up from 11ish to 13ish and everyone makes 15-20% gains.
TL;DR: Successful technology/e-commerce investment firm took over Playboy to turn it into a porn, online gambling/gaming, sports book, cannabis company, worldwide lifestyle brand that promotes sexual wellness, vetern access, women-ownership, minority-ownership, and “pleasure for all”. Does a successful online team reinventing an antiquated physical copy giant sound familiar? No options yet, shares only for now. $11.38 per share at time of writing. My guess? $20 by the end of February. $50 by EOY. This is not financial advice. I am not qualified to give financial advice. I’m just sayin’ I would personally use a Playboy sports book app while smoking a Playboy strain specific joint and it would be cool if they did that. Do your own research. You’d probably want to start here:
WARNING - POTENTIALLY NSFW - SEXY MODELS AHEAD - no actual nudity though https://s26.q4cdn.com/895475556/files/doc_presentations/Playboy-Craig-Hallum-Conference-Investor-Presentation-11_17_20-compressed.pdf Or here:
https://www.mcacquisition.com/investor-relations/default.aspx Jimmy Chill: “Get into any SPAC at $10 or $11 and you are going to make money.”
STL;DR: Buy MCAC. MCAC > PLBY couple weeks. Rocketship. Moon.
Position: 5000 shares. I will buy short, medium, and long-dated calls once available.
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My 2021 Portfolio
Albeit a week late, I want to share my 2021 portfolio for documentation purposes and for whoever is interested. I aimed to balance risk in this portfolio with some growth names and legacy plays. Down to brass tacks, I am putting my money in the highest quality companies (in my view) across a diverse set of industries I find attractive. Some of these names are overvalued in the short term. However, I have realized I am not in the business of beating Wall Street’s pricing, but would rather hold high-quality companies that I believe will grow faster that the market in the long term. In other words, I am totally fine paying a short-term premium for growth and quality. Below is a summary of the portfolio and big picture reasoning behind each investment. I'm definitely open to any feedback.
Company | Ticker | Entry Price | Exposure |
ARK Genomic Revolution ETF | ARKG | $93.26 | 6.60% |
CrowdStrike | CRWD | $211.82 | 11.78% |
Disney | DIS | $181.18 | 10.53% |
Enphase Energy | ENPH | $175.47 | 7.98% |
Evolution Gaming Group | EVVTY | $101.02 | 12.77% |
Facebook | FB | $273.16 | 11.05% |
Redfin | RDFN | $68.63 | 10.41% |
Teladoc | TDOC | $199.96 | 9.60% |
Sea Ltd | SE | $199.05 | 14.09% |
Waste Connections | WCN | $102.57 | 5.19% |
ARK Genomic Revolution ETF (BATS: ARKG) - Invests in companies advancing genomics. The companies held in ARKG may develop, produce or enable: CRISPR, Targeted Therapeutics, Bioinformatics, Molecular Diagnostics, Stem Cells, Agricultural Biology.
- Innovative industry. Since 2003 the cost to sequence a human genome has dropped from nearly $3bn to less than $1,000. ARK believes that as costs continue to drop, genomic sequencing will become a standard of care in oncology. It will introduce more science into healthcare decision making, enable personalized medicine, and accelerate drug discovery. ARK estimates that genomic sequencing revenues will grow 43% at an annual rate, from $3.5bn last year to $21bn in 2024.
- Cathie Wood. She’s a beast stock picker. Out of all the ETFs she runs, her closest competitor trailed by 60%. Her worst ETF still doubled investors' money. Her strategy is to make investments into companies that she considers incredibly transformational and she has seen success doing it.
CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) - Cybersecurity technology company that provides endpoint security, threat intelligence, and cyber attack response services.
- Best in class technology. Remember about a week ago a bunch of Russian hackers breached SolarWinds? The same hackers also tried to hack CrowdSrike at the same time but were unsuccessful. I’ve wandered on to a bunch of cybersecurity forums, and the general consensus is CrowdStrike has developed the best cybersecurity solution by miles. CRWD is the undisputed leader in cybersecurity.
- “Pick-and-shovel” investment into the world’s increasing digitization. Even in the absence of COVID, cybersecurity remains a key component of the world’s increasing digitization as cyberthreats have been an ongoing issue from the onset of the internet. In the last decade we have seen a bunch of hacks where companies have exposed sensitive customer information. It seems companies are just starting to realize the importance of cybersecurity.
Disney (NYSE: DIS) - Worldwide entertainment company that you all are probably familiar with.
- Reopening trade. In 2019, parks generated 45% of total operating income for DIS. Full reopening and attendance in parks will be slow, but certainly benefit DIS when it happens. The company has been executing on several other segments in the meantime (i.e. streaming). It has proved competitive, increasing the margin of safety if parks take longer to reopen.
- Fast-growing streaming division. DIS has proved agile as it successfully launched a streaming service, Disney+, that has already gained 86mn+ subscribers which was the company’s original 5 year target. This is promising as it shows management can adapt to rapidly changing technology trends.
Enphase Energy (NASDAQ: ENPH) - Designs and manufactures software-driven home energy solutions that span solar generation, home energy storage and web-based monitoring and control.
- Shift to clean energy; ENPH emerging as market leader. Going into 2021, sentiments towards solar have been at an all time high. This trend is expected to continue, especially after the Georgia run-off results. Solar firms are expected to benefit from extended tax incentives on both the consumer and producer ends.
- Technological advantage. ENPH has developed the industry leading solution and is rapidly taking market share from its primary competitor, SolarEdge. Pricing reflects this, but it's expected to continue. Among key competitors, Enphase has been one of the lowest cost producers. Its low-cost structure is a major contributing factor to its improving margins.
Evolution Gaming Group (OTC: EVVTY) - Swedish company that develops, produces, markets and licenses integrated B2B live casino solutions for gaming operators.
- Early mover advantage. Evolution’s lack of competition enables it to rapidly grow in new markets and create a loyal customer base, with high switching costs. The company has effectively grown EBITA margins from 41.6% in 1Q18 to 64.8% in 3Q20. Margin expansion is expected to continue.
- Massive untapped markets. Europe is estimated to be around $2.5bn (EVVTY has 50% market share), Asian market is ~15x the size of Europe (150% YoY growth for EVVTY in Asia). North America’s market is ~$210mn, a 42% increase YoY, with NJ and PA the only states currently operating (NY looks promising). Management thinks the US will be the largest in the long-term.
- Undetected from Wall Street. Evolution has almost no analyst coverage in the US and very minimal coverage in Europe, presenting opportunity for additional growth as institutional money managers recognize this opportunity and draw attention to the stock. Additionally, Evolution has a founder-led management team that is highly aligned with shareholders (mgmt owns over 30% of the stock).
Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) - Enables people to connect through devices. It’s products include Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp and Oculus.
- Zuck. It’s not a question of who is the next Jobs/Bezos/Gates/Zuck, because Zuck is super young. He has a history of being able to execute: IG acquisition / transition from desktop to mobile / denying multiple acquisition opportunities in his twenties.
- Undervalued. FB is the cheapest among the FAANG stocks, yet has some of the highest growth rates. This is mainly because of its continuous political scandals. With Trump out of office, I think FB has a chance to stay out of trouble and start to realize higher multiples. The antitrust lawsuit is not a threat imo, it is actually an opportunity. If the govt forces FB to break up, we would get shares in the spin-offs, which would be valued at a higher multiple than FB. For example, if Instagram spun off from FB and traded at the same multiple as SNAP, Instagram’s market cap would be larger than FB’s.
Redfin Corporation (NASDAQ: RDFN) - Provides residential real estate brokerage services.
- Digitization of Real Estate (i.e. “iBuying”). Technology in RE is moving from being informational to transactional. Redfin’s iBuying service is dubbed “RedfinNow.” The service basically buys homes from sellers looking for a quick and convenient sale (close deals within 10-30 days). This segment isn’t profitable yet as it is just getting started, but promising as the management adapts to technology trends.
- Inter-US Migration and housing outlook. People are moving out of the cities because of COVID / trying to avoid taxes / etc. which increases demand for Redfin’s services. With interest rates extremely low (and no expectation for them to increase), homebuying demand should continue to grow.
- RDFN most attractively valued compared to Z and OPEN, with the most upside potential given its market cap ~$7bn. Some are predicting RDFN might start offering rental services as well. RDFN has the best LT margin potential.
Teladoc Health (NYSE: TDOC) - Provides virtual healthcare services on a B2B basis to its clients and provides services to consumers directly and through channel partners.
- Competitive positioning in industry ripe for disruption. Healthcare is a huge market yet to be significantly disrupted. COVID has accelerated this disruption. Providers who were once opposed to telemedicine now realize its benefits and several regulatory changes are promising for telemedicines growth potential. Medicare and other government-sponsored coverage is expected to include telemedicine benefits, increasing TDOC’s TAM.
- Livongo acquisition. From the consumer POV, this will increase access to healthcare at a lower cost. Teladoc will have access to a larger amount of data it can interpret to refine its services and monetization strategies.
Sea Ltd (NYSE: SE) - Digital entertainment, electronic commerce, and digital financial services. The Company operates three business segments: Garena, Shopee, and SeaMonkey. The Company’s digital entertainment business, Garena, is a global game developer and publisher with a presence in Southeast Asia, Taiwan, and Latin America. Garena provides access to mobile and personal computer online games. Shopee provides users with a shopping environment that is supported by integrated payment, logistics, fulfillment, and other value-added services. SeaMonkey business is a digital financial services provider. SeaMonkey offers e-wallet services, payment processing, credit related digital financial offerings, and other financial products.
- Diversified consumer internet company with market-leading position. Sea caters to Southeast Asia and Taiwan, providing its online gaming, e-commerce, and payment platforms. Shopee has overtaken competitors, it is widening its market share lead. ESports is a rapidly growing market (15.7% YoY to $1.1bn in 2020) and Sea is outpacing market growth.
- Pay for quality. The best companies keep going up for years in a row, and I think Sea is in the early stages of being classified as such a company. It’s worth $100bn but has effectively proved its ability to identify opportunities and expand business lines.
- Still early stages of developing its consumer banking business, so we get the security of a bigger, established company with upside for an additional, lucrative business line such as fintech.
Waste Connections Inc. (NYSE: WCN) - Waste services company that provides non-hazardous waste collection, transfer, disposal and recycling services.
- Recession resilient; re-opening trade. The waste management industry is recession resilient, it will always be around.
- Non-hazardous waste collection. With a progressive government likely to push climate initiatives, recycling and non-hazardous waste collection are likely to benefit on the back end.
- WCN has a large moat; there isn’t much of a competitive threat the way the industry operates. Management’s strategy is to generally only spend what FCF is available. This enables the company to make acquisitions while handling its debt load. Great for stable growth.
P.S. I have two other accounts - one with about 40 growth stocks and another with about 10 big names / ETFs. However, this portfolio has the largest allocation for 2021. My first time trying a more concentrated approach.
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26 Capital Corp (ADERU) is a new at-NAV SPAC with world-leading online gambling expertise - worth a bet
EDIT - one week after i posted this, Britain's most successful hedge fund manager Michael Platt has taken a 6.5% stake
tl;dr At-NAV new SPAC with world-leading expertise in online gambling. Worth a bet on potential to be next DKNG on the hype train +++++++
Hi all - have had a lot of great tips from this sub. Hopefully this pays some of you back. I have been watching and researching this since 23 December when it first filed S1, awaiting the units to be listed - they are available today trading as ADERU Positions - 500 units @ 10.42 to start. Will be monitoring and building position below $15, especially if attention starts to build ahead of units and warrants splitting and shares coming available to Robinhood. (My other SPAC positions are OPEN, IPO-E-F, PSTH, FUSE, PIPP, ACTC, CCIV and DMYD, 100 to 1000 shares each mostly around NAV and numerous warrants and options around these.) As ever, this is not investment advice and do your own research +++++++
26 Capital Acquisition Corp or ADER is a 240m SPAC with usual terms - 10$ units, 1/2 warrants. Seeking a merger in "gaming and gaming technology, branded consumer, lodging and entertainment, and Internet commerce sectors".
I think this is highly worth a play on the online gambling hype if you can get in at near NAV, based entirely on the
management which is unbeatable in its knowledge of the gambling industry CEO Jason Ader has held director level positions at Las Vegas Sands Corp. ($42bn one of biggest casino groups in world), IGT (£3.72bn multinational gambling firm specialised in software and slot machines) and Playtech (£1.4bn multinational gambling software firm)
Before starting his own fund in 2013 he was regularly ranked Wall Street's top analyst on the gambling and leisure sector
His fund,
Spring Owl Capital, is a small activist fund focused on gambling and leisure. They are probably most famous for ousting the CEO of Viacom in 2016 and a
crusade against Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer in 2015.
Ader knows the gambling - and online gambling - industry inside out. He drove bWin to a £1.1bn takeover by gambling giant GVC (now Entain) in 2016, and has been driving similar change and demands for improvement at board level at Playtech
The fund mostly manages money for a select group of wealthy families, which
could be a positive sign for the SPAC (although I don't know how much skin in the SPAC the fund has, if any)
Here is a video of Ader from November talking about how he's excited about SPACs.
He talks about how he has been advising certain States about legalising sports betting and how to maximise value and liquidity by linking up with European companies in the space (Playtech e.g.??). Ader is extremely bullish on US legalising online casino and more sports betting options, accelerated by need for revenue because of pandemic
Rafi Ashkenazi One of the most highly respected names in the online gambling world, including COO and CEO positions at major online gambling firms such as Playtech and Stars Group (a world leader in online poker and casino). At Stars he led the $4.7bn takeover of Sky Betting to create the world's largest publicly listed online betting firm in 2018. Most recently he led the £10bn merger between Flutter (biggest gambling company in world by revenue, market cap £26bn), and Stars Group (Ader also involved). Also has connections into the booming Israel tech space which is interesting
Joseph Kaminkow Special Advisor to the Chief Product Officer at Aristocrat, a leading gambling software provider and games publisher, previously Vice President of Game Design at Zynga Inc. This guy is a
former video game / pinball designer who is credited with revolutionising the slots industry after moving into gambling software from video games in 1999. Regarded as a "legend" and "hall of famer" in this niche. At Zynga he designed so-called 'social casino games' which don't involve real-money gambling but are otherwise basically gambling apps (revenue from microtransactions etc). 130 patents on gambling/gaming design inventions
Greg Lyss This is a very interesting but extremely low profile person. He was Bill Ackman a.k.a SPACman's right hand man at Gotham Capital.
Ackman respected him so much that when Ackman set up a personal hedge fund to invest the Ackman family's money, he put Lyss in charge of it. To repeat -
Bill Ackman thinks this guy is such a good investor and trustworthy that he put him in charge of investing his family's money. Don't know anything more about him, but I like this association with Ackman, which suggests to me some integrity around management of this SPAC, especially as the gambling world can be very murky.
The other member of the team is the CFO of SpringOwl with 20+ years' hedge fund experience and not notable (although clearly competent)
Thesis / potential targets Based on the above experience and many public comments by Ader over the past year, I would be very surprised if ADER is not looking to merge with an online gambling technology provider / existing online betting website / social casino app / possibly a supporting technology provider
They are activist inventors, and specifically say in the IPO prospectus that they could look for businesses that can benefit from turnaround or are not being run well. I speculate that their deep knowledge of the European / global online gambling industry means they have a target in mind that they think would benefit from their expertise and US liberalisation of gambling legislation.
1) Ader believes the listing of UK-listed gambling companies in US is immediately big in terms of market cap because of the premium on online gambling stocks in US.
He has pitched DraftKings to takeover Playtech and
called on Playtech to spin off non-core business. This makes me wonder if he would
spin off some element of Playtech to list in US to cash in on gambling hype.
This might be
Finalto.com / TradeTech which is an online financial platform owned by Playtech.
Playtech has been trying to sell this for 200 - 240m since August so it fits. This company provides liquidity and trading to brokerages and runs markets.com a trading site. I wouldn't be that excited although apparently the business has been booming during COVID and there could be a decent pop just on fintech hype.
2) This could be a 'picks and shovel' type data/B2B betting software play a la DMYD, or something like e.g. Israel based CRM software
Optimove which works with some of biggest online gambling cos and has links to Ashkenazi. This would be interesting but probably not a huge pop
3) Possibly - given Ader's links to Sands -
an online gambling tie-up with one of the big Vegas casinos who are desperate to get into the online betting space (see MGM's attempt to buy Entain for $8bn last week). Interestingly, Sands' owner Sheldon Adelson, previously a major opponent of online betting, has just died. Ader predicted a few months ago that Sands would be moving in this direction.
“There’s no stopping online gaming,” Ader said [before Adelson's death]. “(Las Vegas Sands’) initiatives to stop online gaming, at this stage, are largely historic. There hasn’t been a lot of spending recently to do that, especially post-pandemic.”
“I think the company will see the value created by DraftKings and FanDuel and Penn (National) Gaming and others. They’re not foolish,” Ader added. source
4) Ader is very confident that Macau will legalise online gambling in next year or two. Sands is big in Macau, the biggest gambling market in the world.
A SaaS-type product positioned to capitalise on Asian gambling would be MASSIVE - at present however, China's attitude to gambling and local regulations mean this is unlikely
5) I also wonder if they might try to take legitimate one of the offshore bookmakers with big customer databases and brand recognition but which have been grey-area/illegal under US gaming legislation. For example,
Five Dimes recently announced a settlement with the FBI to attempt to transition into newly legalised US markets. This might have the most hype potential
Potential upside This is entirely a play on management experience and the meme factor / hype around online gambling in the US. I think if they pick a good target - which given their experience and connections seems likely - and get the right publicity and attention from retail investors looking for the next DKNG this could easily 3x and maybe 5-6x if on DKNG-type hype levels.
There is currently little spotlight on this and it is a good time to get in at NAV
Potential Downside - Ader has been vocal that he thinks US online betting is overvalued and in a bubble - why is he starting his own SPAC in the space then? Does he just want to cash in while the hype is at all-time high or does he have a legitimate business goal?
- If he just wants to dump a part of Playtech which he does not like onto retail investors, this is a bad deal.
- Other targets could be e.g. hotel industry or other leisure sector which would be zero sexiness to retail. Given Ashkenazi and Kaminkow's background this seems unlikely though
- Usual SPAC caveats apply about potential difficulty finding a target, locking up your money for unspecified period of time, and the fact I may have completely misread the potential and my above thesis might be totally wrong
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Golden Nugget Online Gaming Reports Record 2020 Revenue
Golden Nugget has been flying under the radar in my opinion. Between Tilman Fertitta's sports connections owning the Houston Rockets and gaming connections with multiple casinos, I think this one has huge potential!
Total Revenue of between $90.0 and 91.0 million compared to $55.4 million in 2019, an increase of approximately 63%,
Gross Gaming Revenue[1] of between $101.0 and $102.0 million, compared to $60.9 million during the same period in 2019, an increase of approximately 67%, and
Operating Income of between $23.0 and $24.0 million (between $28.0 and $29.0 million before approximately $4.0 to $5.0 million in costs related to the business combination with Landcadia Holdings II, Inc.), compared to $17.6 in 2019, an increase of approximately 38% (or approximately 62% before business combination costs).
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/golden-nugget-online-gaming-reports-record-2020-revenue-sees-strong-momentum-in-michigan-strengthens-leadership-team-301223714.html submitted by Jgam81 to investing [link] [comments]
These are the statistical top 500 movies of all time, according to 23 different websites
Hey everyone, great to be back again. Some of you might remember a similar title from a post I made back in April, where I made a
list of the top 250 movies with 13 sources, or a
preview of this list I made last month.
I want to emphasize that this is
NOT an official ranking nor my personal ranking; it is just a statistical and, personally, interesting look at 500 amazing movies. These rankings reflect the opinions of thousands of critics and millions of people around the world. And I am glad that this list is able to cover a wide range of genres, decades, and countries. So before I get bombarded with "Why isn't X on here?" or "How is X above Y?" comments, I wanted to clear that up.
I sourced my data from Sight & Sound (both critic and director lists), TSPDT, iCheckMovies,
11 domestic websites (Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, IMDb, Letterboxd, TMDb, Trakt, Blu-Ray, MovieLens, RateYourMusic, Criticker, and Critics Choice), and
9 international audience sites (FilmAffinity, Douban, Naver, MUBI, Filmweb, Kinopoisk, CSFD, Moviemeter, and Senscritique). This balance of domestic/international ratings made the list more well-rounded and internationally representative (sites from Spain, China, Korea, Poland, Russia, Czech Republic, Netherlands, and France).
As for my algorithm, I weighted websites according to both their Alexa ranking and their number of votes compared to other sites. For example, since
The Godfather has hundreds of thousands of votes on Letterboxd but only a couple thousand on Metacritic, Letterboxd would be weighted more heavily. After obtaining the weighted averages, I then added the movie's iCheckMovies' favs/checks ratio and TSPDT ranking, if applicable. Regarding TSPDT, I included the top 2000 movies; as an example of my calculations,
Rear Window's ranking of #41 would add (2000-41)/2000=0.9795 points to its weighted average. I removed movies that had <7-8K votes on IMDb, as these mostly had low ratings and numbers of votes across different sites as well. For both Sight & Sound lists, I added between 0.5 and 1 point to a movie's score based on its ranking, which I thought was an adequate reflection of how difficult it is to be included on these lists. As examples, a #21 movie would have 0.9 points added while a #63 would have 0.69 points.
So without further ado, the statistical top 500 movies ever made. I separated the scores into overall, critics, domestic, and international columns to make comparisons easier. This list on
Letterboxd.
Ranking | Title | Overall Score | Critics | Domestic | International | Year | Director |
1 | The Godfather | 93.89 | 97.73 | 90.50 | 89.36 | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola |
2 | The Godfather: Part II | 91.93 | 93.30 | 89.04 | 88.06 | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola |
3 | Seven Samurai | 91.05 | 97.38 | 87.63 | 85.90 | 1954 | Akira Kurosawa |
4 | 12 Angry Men | 90.45 | 95.45 | 88.74 | 88.62 | 1957 | Sidney Lumet |
5 | City Lights | 89.94 | 96.75 | 85.67 | 85.93 | 1931 | Charlie Chaplin |
6 | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | 89.45 | 91.20 | 87.81 | 86.59 | 1966 | Sergio Leone |
7 | The Shawshank Redemption | 89.41 | 82.95 | 89.49 | 89.18 | 1994 | Frank Darabont |
8 | Psycho | 89.29 | 95.23 | 85.70 | 85.01 | 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock |
9 | Modern Times | 89.28 | 95.55 | 85.21 | 85.37 | 1936 | Charlie Chaplin |
10 | Schindler's List | 89.08 | 93.80 | 87.22 | 87.29 | 1993 | Steven Spielberg |
11 | Pulp Fiction | 88.85 | 92.60 | 87.69 | 86.42 | 1994 | Quentin Tarantino |
12 | Rear Window | 88.63 | 97.65 | 85.40 | 83.33 | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock |
13 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | 88.55 | 87.38 | 86.28 | 86.97 | 1975 | Miloš Forman |
14 | Apocalypse Now | 88.54 | 93.85 | 85.24 | 83.48 | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola |
15 | Tokyo Story | 88.49 | 98.30 | 85.16 | 83.76 | 1953 | Yasujirō Ozu |
16 | Spirited Away | 88.34 | 93.78 | 86.80 | 85.91 | 2001 | Hayao Miyazaki |
17 | GoodFellas | 88.03 | 91.48 | 87.00 | 84.03 | 1990 | Martin Scorsese |
18 | Vertigo | 88.02 | 95.60 | 84.05 | 82.76 | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock |
19 | Singin' in the Rain | 88.01 | 97.65 | 83.95 | 83.13 | 1952 | Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen |
20 | Sunset Boulevard | 88.00 | 95.45 | 85.44 | 84.22 | 1950 | Billy Wilder |
21 | Citizen Kane | 87.83 | 99.03 | 83.06 | 82.22 | 1941 | Orson Welles |
22 | Harakiri | 87.79 | 85.83 | 88.00 | 86.29 | 1962 | Masaki Kobayashi |
23 | Rashomon | 87.74 | 96.55 | 83.52 | 82.73 | 1950 | Akira Kurosawa |
24 | Once Upon a Time in the West | 87.71 | 86.65 | 85.48 | 84.62 | 1968 | Sergio Leone |
25 | Fanny and Alexander | 87.54 | 97.30 | 83.15 | 83.00 | 1982 | Ingmar Bergman |
26 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 87.40 | 92.59 | 86.06 | 85.38 | 2003 | Peter Jackson |
27 | Andrei Rublev | 87.39 | 91.90 | 83.80 | 83.94 | 1966 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
28 | The Passion of Joan of Arc | 87.39 | 94.65 | 83.88 | 83.57 | 1928 | Carl Theodor Dreyer |
29 | Sherlock Jr. | 87.36 | 96.45 | 83.64 | 85.60 | 1924 | Buster Keaton |
30 | Bicycle Thieves | 87.35 | 94.70 | 83.91 | 83.46 | 1948 | Vittorio De Sica |
31 | Casablanca | 87.35 | 98.00 | 85.25 | 82.62 | 1942 | Michael Curtiz |
32 | Some Like It Hot | 87.28 | 95.30 | 82.11 | 83.73 | 1959 | Billy Wilder |
33 | Persona | 87.22 | 88.20 | 84.28 | 83.07 | 1966 | Ingmar Bergman |
34 | Children of Paradise | 87.21 | 95.33 | 84.81 | 83.27 | 1945 | Marcel Carné |
35 | Taxi Driver | 87.14 | 93.88 | 83.60 | 82.06 | 1976 | Martin Scorsese |
36 | The Dark Knight | 87.08 | 88.81 | 86.96 | 84.80 | 2008 | Christopher Nolan |
37 | Metropolis | 87.03 | 96.00 | 82.92 | 84.01 | 1927 | Fritz Lang |
38 | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | 87.02 | 93.95 | 82.23 | 84.02 | 1927 | F. W. Murnau |
39 | Stalker | 87.02 | 92.30 | 83.86 | 83.29 | 1979 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
40 | Pather Panchali | 86.96 | 94.35 | 84.40 | 82.80 | 1955 | Satyajit Ray |
41 | Lawrence of Arabia | 86.95 | 97.65 | 83.76 | 81.49 | 1962 | David Lean |
42 | M | 86.91 | 96.20 | 84.34 | 82.92 | 1931 | Fritz Lang |
43 | Ordet | 86.82 | 98.10 | 83.08 | 82.55 | 1955 | Carl Theodor Dreyer |
44 | It's a Wonderful Life | 86.77 | 90.45 | 85.17 | 84.90 | 1946 | Frank Capra |
45 | Satantango | 86.76 | 90.45 | 84.58 | 84.21 | 1994 | Béla Tarr |
46 | Parasite | 86.72 | 96.34 | 86.55 | 83.15 | 2019 | Bong Joon-ho |
47 | The 400 Blows | 86.70 | 96.70 | 83.14 | 82.60 | 1959 | François Truffaut |
48 | Ikiru | 86.56 | 93.80 | 85.48 | 84.29 | 1952 | Akira Kurosawa |
49 | Mirror | 86.50 | 95.60 | 82.75 | 82.34 | 1975 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
50 | Come and See | 86.50 | 90.50 | 85.22 | 83.13 | 1985 | Elem Klimov |
51 | The Apartment | 86.48 | 92.00 | 84.09 | 82.99 | 1960 | Billy Wilder |
52 | The General | 86.45 | 91.45 | 82.59 | 83.87 | 1926 | Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman |
53 | Grave of the Fireflies | 86.43 | 95.13 | 85.85 | 82.97 | 1988 | Isao Takahata |
54 | Le Trou | 86.41 | 89.95 | 85.46 | 85.14 | 1960 | Jacques Becker |
55 | The Battle of Algiers | 86.37 | 95.40 | 82.64 | 81.24 | 1966 | Gillo Pontecorvo |
56 | A Man Escaped | 86.34 | 96.50 | 83.67 | 82.03 | 1956 | Robert Bresson |
57 | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | 86.34 | 95.85 | 84.37 | 83.03 | 1964 | Stanley Kubrick |
58 | Paths of Glory | 86.25 | 92.30 | 84.97 | 84.48 | 1957 | Stanley Kubrick |
59 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | 86.24 | 88.75 | 85.61 | 84.31 | 2001 | Peter Jackson |
60 | All About Eve | 86.23 | 96.95 | 83.69 | 83.20 | 1950 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
61 | Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back | 86.21 | 86.93 | 87.05 | 83.29 | 1980 | Irvin Kershner |
62 | High and Low | 86.16 | 86.55 | 86.08 | 84.26 | 1963 | Akira Kurosawa |
63 | The Great Dictator | 86.15 | 91.10 | 84.25 | 85.03 | 1940 | Charlie Chaplin |
64 | The Silence of the Lambs | 86.12 | 88.68 | 85.29 | 84.17 | 1991 | Jonathan Demme |
65 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 86.06 | 88.35 | 82.93 | 81.54 | 1968 | Stanley Kubrick |
66 | North by Northwest | 86.03 | 96.38 | 83.17 | 81.74 | 1959 | Alfred Hitchcock |
67 | Double Indemnity | 85.91 | 94.38 | 83.84 | 83.12 | 1944 | Billy Wilder |
68 | Ugetsu | 85.91 | 97.25 | 82.69 | 81.91 | 1953 | Kenji Mizoguchi |
69 | Woman in the Dunes | 85.91 | 93.95 | 84.71 | 83.77 | 1964 | Hiroshi Teshigahara |
70 | Sansho the Bailiff | 85.88 | 95.50 | 84.24 | 82.21 | 1954 | Kenji Mizoguchi |
71 | Once Upon a Time in America | 85.87 | 86.10 | 83.84 | 85.53 | 1984 | Sergio Leone |
72 | City of God | 85.86 | 84.08 | 86.39 | 84.00 | 2002 | Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund |
73 | Late Spring | 85.81 | 94.75 | 83.74 | 82.27 | 1949 | Yasujirō Ozu |
74 | Barry Lyndon | 85.80 | 87.95 | 82.44 | 82.30 | 1975 | Stanley Kubrick |
75 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | 85.78 | 88.78 | 85.00 | 84.29 | 2002 | Peter Jackson |
76 | Raging Bull | 85.77 | 90.48 | 82.01 | 81.80 | 1980 | Martin Scorsese |
77 | Chinatown | 85.72 | 94.08 | 83.32 | 80.69 | 1974 | Roman Polanski |
78 | Alien | 85.69 | 91.73 | 84.76 | 82.62 | 1979 | Ridley Scott |
79 | Ran | 85.68 | 94.70 | 83.93 | 82.52 | 1985 | Akira Kurosawa |
80 | The Seventh Seal | 85.67 | 92.10 | 83.52 | 82.13 | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman |
81 | The Kid | 85.61 | 92.85 | 82.91 | 84.94 | 1921 | Charlie Chaplin |
82 | Wild Strawberries | 85.51 | 90.05 | 83.38 | 82.24 | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman |
83 | A Brighter Summer Day | 85.50 | 93.38 | 84.07 | 81.01 | 1991 | Edward Yang |
84 | 8½ | 85.48 | 91.20 | 82.59 | 81.09 | 1963 | Federico Fellini |
85 | The Pianist | 85.38 | 88.69 | 83.31 | 84.80 | 2002 | Roman Polanski |
86 | The World of Apu | 85.38 | 93.20 | 84.38 | 83.09 | 1959 | Satyajit Ray |
87 | La Dolce Vita | 85.37 | 94.38 | 81.40 | 80.48 | 1960 | Federico Fellini |
88 | Star Wars | 85.33 | 90.03 | 85.22 | 81.92 | 1977 | George Lucas |
89 | The Best of Youth | 85.31 | 88.78 | 85.31 | 83.64 | 2003 | Marco Tullio Giordana |
90 | The Gold Rush | 85.29 | 94.55 | 81.93 | 83.59 | 1925 | Charlie Chaplin |
91 | The Third Man | 85.26 | 96.50 | 82.91 | 80.21 | 1949 | Carol Reed |
92 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | 85.20 | 96.68 | 82.77 | 81.81 | 1948 | John Huston |
93 | I Am Cuba | 85.18 | 93.60 | 82.00 | 83.44 | 1964 | Mikhail Kalatozov |
94 | The Lives of Others | 85.14 | 89.03 | 84.12 | 82.73 | 2006 | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck |
95 | Witness for the Prosecution | 85.13 | 92.65 | 83.67 | 84.99 | 1957 | Billy Wilder |
96 | Touch of Evil | 85.11 | 95.70 | 81.36 | 79.65 | 1958 | Orson Welles |
97 | WALL-E | 85.10 | 92.09 | 82.82 | 82.64 | 2008 | Andrew Stanton |
98 | Scenes from a Marriage | 85.02 | 86.85 | 84.80 | 83.06 | 1974 | Ingmar Bergman |
99 | To Be or Not to Be | 84.99 | 89.58 | 82.52 | 83.39 | 1942 | Ernst Lubitsch |
100 | A Separation | 84.92 | 94.24 | 83.34 | 80.90 | 2011 | Asghar Farhadi |
101 | The Night of the Hunter | 84.91 | 96.93 | 81.17 | 79.06 | 1955 | Charles Laughton |
102 | Three Colors: Red | 84.87 | 96.78 | 83.32 | 80.78 | 1994 | Krzysztof Kieślowski |
103 | Yojimbo | 84.87 | 91.55 | 83.85 | 82.99 | 1961 | Akira Kurosawa |
104 | Back to the Future | 84.85 | 89.38 | 84.47 | 81.94 | 1985 | Robert Zemeckis |
105 | My Neighbor Totoro | 84.84 | 87.53 | 83.44 | 83.17 | 1988 | Hayao Miyazaki |
106 | In the Mood for Love | 84.84 | 83.87 | 82.55 | 81.20 | 2000 | Wong Kar-wai |
107 | Princess Mononoke | 84.83 | 81.18 | 85.02 | 84.24 | 1999 | Hayao Miyazaki |
108 | Saving Private Ryan | 84.82 | 90.35 | 83.94 | 82.50 | 1998 | Steven Spielberg |
109 | Cinema Paradiso | 84.78 | 82.30 | 84.73 | 83.43 | 1988 | Giuseppe Tornatore |
110 | La Jetée | 84.75 | 89.25 | 83.27 | 81.80 | 1962 | Chris Marker |
111 | The Wages of Fear | 84.71 | 94.60 | 82.99 | 82.80 | 1953 | Henri-Georges Clouzot |
112 | Das Boot | 84.68 | 90.13 | 83.62 | 82.71 | 1981 | Wolfgang Petersen |
113 | Fight Club | 84.65 | 71.18 | 86.39 | 84.95 | 1999 | David Fincher |
114 | Nights of Cabiria | 84.64 | 92.25 | 82.72 | 83.13 | 1957 | Federico Fellini |
115 | La Strada | 84.61 | 92.60 | 80.79 | 82.78 | 1954 | Federico Fellini |
116 | Amadeus | 84.53 | 89.55 | 82.88 | 82.59 | 1984 | Miloš Forman |
117 | Forrest Gump | 84.50 | 76.90 | 83.06 | 86.12 | 1994 | Robert Zemeckis |
118 | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse | 84.49 | 90.41 | 85.03 | 81.69 | 2018 | Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Bob Persichetti |
119 | The Lion King | 84.45 | 88.28 | 77.22 | 84.09 | 1994 | Rob Minkoff, Roger Allers |
120 | Inception | 84.43 | 82.07 | 84.18 | 84.17 | 2010 | Christopher Nolan |
121 | Whiplash | 84.42 | 89.53 | 84.87 | 81.96 | 2014 | Damien Chazelle |
122 | The Shop Around the Corner | 84.40 | 94.43 | 80.85 | 82.37 | 1940 | Ernst Lubitsch |
123 | Rififi | 84.38 | 92.00 | 83.03 | 81.58 | 1955 | Jules Dassin |
124 | Umberto D. | 84.38 | 92.63 | 82.20 | 81.75 | 1952 | Vittorio De Sica |
125 | Army of Shadows | 84.37 | 95.30 | 82.98 | 80.50 | 1969 | Jean-Pierre Melville |
126 | Blade Runner | 84.34 | 85.85 | 82.57 | 80.29 | 1982 | Ridley Scott |
127 | Samurai Rebellion | 84.33 | 89.05 | 82.85 | 83.84 | 1967 | Masaki Kobayashi |
128 | Close-Up | 84.31 | 85.70 | 81.99 | 80.69 | 1990 | Abbas Kiarostami |
129 | The Circus | 84.29 | 90.35 | 81.69 | 83.14 | 1928 | Charlie Chaplin |
130 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | 84.19 | 89.33 | 84.31 | 80.57 | 1981 | Steven Spielberg |
131 | Grand Illusion | 84.18 | 95.35 | 81.85 | 79.78 | 1937 | Jean Renoir |
132 | A Clockwork Orange | 84.18 | 82.78 | 82.37 | 82.51 | 1971 | Stanley Kubrick |
133 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | 84.07 | 89.37 | 83.36 | 80.57 | 2004 | Michel Gondry |
134 | A Woman Under the Influence | 84.01 | 87.40 | 82.51 | 80.40 | 1974 | John Cassavetes |
135 | The Cranes Are Flying | 84.00 | 89.30 | 82.76 | 82.40 | 1957 | Mikhail Kalatozov |
136 | Yi Yi | 83.91 | 91.25 | 82.48 | 79.64 | 2000 | Edward Yang |
137 | To Kill a Mockingbird | 83.91 | 89.13 | 81.98 | 82.20 | 1962 | Robert Mulligan |
138 | The Matrix | 83.90 | 77.78 | 84.54 | 83.06 | 1999 | Wachowski Sisters |
139 | The Sting | 83.90 | 85.73 | 82.71 | 83.36 | 1973 | George Roy Hill |
140 | The Mother and the Whore | 83.87 | 94.55 | 81.24 | 79.82 | 1973 | Jean Eustache |
141 | Se7en | 83.86 | 72.15 | 84.91 | 84.48 | 1995 | David Fincher |
142 | Early Summer | 83.85 | 94.45 | 82.19 | 82.01 | 1951 | Yasujirō Ozu |
143 | Werckmeister Harmonies | 83.80 | 91.73 | 80.89 | 81.93 | 2000 | Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky |
144 | Coco | 83.80 | 86.21 | 82.73 | 83.66 | 2017 | Adrian Molina, Lee Unkrich |
145 | Toy Story | 83.76 | 95.03 | 82.30 | 80.15 | 1995 | John Lasseter |
146 | It Happened One Night | 83.76 | 90.83 | 81.46 | 81.76 | 1934 | Frank Capra |
147 | Reservoir Dogs | 83.74 | 84.68 | 83.12 | 81.99 | 1992 | Quentin Tarantino |
148 | Unforgiven | 83.73 | 88.55 | 82.24 | 81.59 | 1992 | Clint Eastwood |
149 | The Deer Hunter | 83.73 | 87.68 | 80.57 | 82.06 | 1978 | Michael Cimino |
150 | The Young and the Damned | 83.72 | 87.10 | 82.58 | 80.82 | 1950 | Luis Buñuel |
151 | The Best Years of Our Lives | 83.68 | 92.63 | 81.19 | 81.20 | 1946 | William Wyler |
152 | The Leopard | 83.66 | 97.30 | 79.56 | 79.57 | 1963 | Luchino Visconti |
153 | Time of the Gypsies | 83.65 | 86.05 | 83.31 | 82.29 | 1988 | Emir Kusturica |
154 | Ali: Fear Eats the Soul | 83.61 | 96.70 | 80.51 | 79.97 | 1974 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
155 | Raise the Red Lantern | 83.57 | 90.25 | 82.37 | 81.81 | 1991 | Zhang Yimou |
156 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | 83.57 | 82.00 | 84.11 | 81.83 | 1991 | James Cameron |
157 | The Shining | 83.55 | 75.35 | 84.08 | 81.80 | 1980 | Stanley Kubrick |
158 | Viridiana | 83.54 | 92.95 | 80.68 | 80.81 | 1961 | Luis Buñuel |
159 | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | 83.52 | 93.59 | 83.08 | 80.02 | 2019 | Céline Sciamma |
160 | Greed | 83.51 | 97.05 | 80.65 | 80.64 | 1924 | Erich von Stroheim |
161 | Gone with the Wind | 83.48 | 92.90 | 80.01 | 81.68 | 1939 | Victor Fleming |
162 | There Will Be Blood | 83.48 | 89.65 | 81.91 | 79.02 | 2007 | Paul Thomas Anderson |
163 | L.A. Confidential | 83.46 | 91.63 | 82.08 | 80.81 | 1997 | Curtis Hanson |
164 | Paris, Texas | 83.46 | 83.95 | 82.89 | 81.66 | 1984 | Wim Wenders |
165 | Throne of Blood | 83.45 | 91.30 | 82.18 | 81.49 | 1957 | Akira Kurosawa |
166 | Toy Story 3 | 83.43 | 93.55 | 81.61 | 80.32 | 2010 | Lee Unkrich |
167 | Memento | 83.43 | 85.20 | 83.78 | 80.76 | 2000 | Christopher Nolan |
168 | On the Waterfront | 83.37 | 93.00 | 82.23 | 79.52 | 1954 | Elia Kazan |
169 | Trip to the Moon | 83.37 | 94.70 | 79.96 | 82.83 | 1902 | Georges Méliès |
170 | The Rules of the Game | 83.33 | 96.55 | 80.45 | 78.02 | 1939 | Jean Renoir |
171 | Red Beard | 83.32 | 74.15 | 83.41 | 83.27 | 1965 | Akira Kurosawa |
172 | The Grapes of Wrath | 83.32 | 95.45 | 80.42 | 80.34 | 1940 | John Ford |
173 | Au Hasard Balthazar | 83.29 | 98.08 | 77.93 | 77.54 | 1966 | Robert Bresson |
174 | Autumn Sonata | 83.29 | 84.85 | 83.09 | 82.66 | 1978 | Ingmar Bergman |
175 | Annie Hall | 83.28 | 93.18 | 80.58 | 80.58 | 1977 | Woody Allen |
176 | The Conformist | 83.27 | 96.68 | 79.92 | 78.58 | 1970 | Bernardo Bertolucci |
177 | Rocco and His Brothers | 83.24 | 84.73 | 81.95 | 81.68 | 1960 | Luchino Visconti |
178 | Dersu Uzala | 83.23 | 74.75 | 82.35 | 83.37 | 1975 | Akira Kurosawa |
179 | Cool Hand Luke | 83.21 | 93.05 | 82.22 | 79.83 | 1967 | Stuart Rosenberg |
180 | Monty Python and the Holy Grail | 83.18 | 91.98 | 82.96 | 79.30 | 1975 | Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones |
181 | Le Samouraï | 83.18 | 92.35 | 82.45 | 79.40 | 1967 | Jean-Pierre Melville |
182 | Aliens | 83.18 | 88.73 | 83.29 | 79.61 | 1986 | James Cameron |
183 | PlayTime | 83.16 | 93.50 | 80.22 | 78.80 | 1967 | Jacques Tati |
184 | The Bridge on the River Kwai | 83.14 | 90.58 | 81.93 | 80.24 | 1957 | David Lean |
185 | The Red Shoes | 83.13 | 93.15 | 82.82 | 79.96 | 1948 | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |
186 | American Beauty | 83.10 | 87.15 | 81.93 | 81.13 | 1999 | Sam Mendes |
187 | To Live | 83.10 | 84.00 | 82.16 | 82.46 | 1994 | Zhang Yimou |
188 | Battleship Potemkin | 83.10 | 95.85 | 77.81 | 80.41 | 1925 | Sergei Eisenstein |
189 | Day of Wrath | 83.09 | 93.40 | 81.07 | 81.29 | 1943 | Carl Theodor Dreyer |
190 | All Quiet on the Western Front | 83.07 | 92.85 | 80.05 | 81.48 | 1930 | Lewis Milestone |
191 | It's Such a Beautiful Day | 83.07 | 91.25 | 83.62 | 79.77 | 2012 | Don Hertzfeldt |
192 | Full Metal Jacket | 83.06 | 81.53 | 82.21 | 82.54 | 1987 | Stanley Kubrick |
193 | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | 83.05 | 96.40 | 79.84 | 81.83 | 1920 | Robert Wiene |
194 | Kes | 83.03 | 97.80 | 79.59 | 80.55 | 1969 | Ken Loach |
195 | The Usual Suspects | 83.02 | 80.23 | 84.08 | 81.48 | 1995 | Bryan Singer |
196 | The Cameraman | 83.00 | 93.90 | 80.77 | 81.57 | 1928 | Edward Segdwick, Buster Keaton |
197 | Aparajito | 83.00 | 90.90 | 81.81 | 81.20 | 1956 | Satyajit Ray |
198 | The Elephant Man | 83.00 | 83.00 | 82.10 | 81.87 | 1980 | David Lynch |
199 | Rebecca | 82.98 | 90.08 | 81.08 | 80.93 | 1940 | Alfred Hitchcock |
200 | Make Way for Tomorrow | 82.97 | 95.80 | 81.72 | 80.14 | 1937 | Leo McCarey |
201 | The Great Escape | 82.97 | 87.68 | 82.29 | 80.66 | 1963 | John Sturges |
202 | Your Name | 82.97 | 84.55 | 84.07 | 81.29 | 2016 | Makoto Shinkai |
203 | Limelight | 82.92 | 88.00 | 79.85 | 83.02 | 1952 | Charlie Chaplin |
204 | Breathless | 82.92 | 91.95 | 78.88 | 79.10 | 1960 | Jean-Luc Godard |
205 | Underground | 82.91 | 80.75 | 81.26 | 82.64 | 1995 | Emir Kusturica |
206 | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | 82.88 | 91.90 | 81.08 | 79.53 | 1962 | John Ford |
207 | Aguirre: The Wrath of God | 82.87 | 94.55 | 80.46 | 78.62 | 1972 | Werner Herzog |
208 | Oldboy | 82.86 | 78.98 | 84.00 | 81.27 | 2003 | Park Chan-wook |
209 | Up | 82.84 | 90.28 | 81.32 | 80.86 | 2009 | Pete Docter |
210 | Anatomy of a Murder | 82.84 | 94.00 | 80.57 | 80.02 | 1959 | Otto Preminger |
211 | The Wild Bunch | 82.84 | 90.35 | 79.45 | 80.12 | 1969 | Sam Peckinpah |
212 | The Hunt | 82.75 | 82.08 | 82.79 | 82.62 | 2012 | Thomas Vinterberg |
213 | Il Sorpasso | 82.74 | 95.75 | 82.84 | 79.57 | 1962 | Dino Risi |
214 | The Last Laugh | 82.74 | 95.25 | 79.47 | 81.61 | 1924 | F. W. Murnau |
215 | A Streetcar Named Desire | 82.73 | 94.60 | 79.89 | 80.26 | 1951 | Elia Kazan |
216 | Life Is Beautiful | 82.73 | 68.45 | 83.60 | 85.57 | 1997 | Roberto Benigni |
217 | A Short Film About Love | 82.71 | 87.10 | 81.90 | 81.89 | 1988 | Krzysztof Kieślowski |
218 | The Shop on Main Street | 82.71 | 94.45 | 82.15 | 80.43 | 1965 | Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos |
219 | Rio Bravo | 82.71 | 92.10 | 80.46 | 79.80 | 1959 | Howard Hawks |
220 | Roman Holiday | 82.70 | 84.55 | 80.74 | 82.42 | 1953 | William Wyler |
221 | Ivan's Childhood | 82.69 | 94.80 | 81.25 | 80.37 | 1962 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
222 | The Exterminating Angel | 82.68 | 91.10 | 81.66 | 80.17 | 1962 | Luis Buñuel |
223 | Trainspotting | 82.68 | 85.20 | 81.57 | 81.21 | 1996 | Danny Boyle |
224 | The Last Picture Show | 82.67 | 94.15 | 79.90 | 79.56 | 1971 | Peter Bogdanovich |
225 | The Truman Show | 82.64 | 89.63 | 79.70 | 82.15 | 1998 | Peter Weir |
226 | Memories of Murder | 82.64 | 82.88 | 82.68 | 80.94 | 2003 | Bong Joon-ho |
227 | Faust | 82.62 | 89.70 | 80.23 | 81.94 | 1926 | F. W. Murnau |
228 | Sans Soleil | 82.62 | 83.90 | 79.45 | 80.51 | 1983 | Chris Marker |
229 | Song of the Sea | 82.57 | 87.63 | 80.59 | 82.23 | 2014 | Tomm Moore |
230 | Léon: The Professional | 82.55 | 67.38 | 84.05 | 84.07 | 1994 | Luc Besson |
231 | Fargo | 82.54 | 87.45 | 82.36 | 79.19 | 1996 | Coen Brothers |
232 | Solaris | 82.54 | 89.95 | 80.91 | 79.69 | 1972 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
233 | Sweet Smell of Success | 82.52 | 96.53 | 80.81 | 77.62 | 1957 | Alexander Mackendrick |
234 | For a Few Dollars More | 82.52 | 79.28 | 82.38 | 83.15 | 1965 | Sergio Leone |
235 | White Heat | 82.51 | 90.65 | 80.77 | 81.24 | 1949 | Raoul Walsh |
236 | Brief Encounter | 82.50 | 88.35 | 80.81 | 81.03 | 1945 | David Lean |
237 | Wings of Desire | 82.49 | 85.70 | 81.30 | 80.42 | 1987 | Wim Wenders |
238 | Diabolique | 82.47 | 90.70 | 81.27 | 80.73 | 1955 | Henri-Georges Clouzot |
239 | An Autumn Afternoon | 82.45 | 91.95 | 81.68 | 79.85 | 1962 | Yasujirō Ozu |
240 | The Tale of the Princess Kaguya | 82.44 | 90.63 | 81.16 | 80.43 | 2013 | Isao Takahata |
241 | Amarcord | 82.41 | 85.95 | 79.26 | 80.73 | 1973 | Federico Fellini |
242 | Heat | 82.40 | 79.08 | 82.03 | 81.73 | 1995 | Michael Mann |
243 | L'Atalante | 82.40 | 95.60 | 78.32 | 78.10 | 1934 | Jean Vigo |
244 | Django Unchained | 82.39 | 83.44 | 82.23 | 81.94 | 2012 | Quentin Tarantino |
245 | Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels | 82.38 | 95.50 | 78.73 | 79.69 | 1975 | Chantal Akerman |
246 | Kind Hearts and Coronets | 82.38 | 95.60 | 80.80 | 79.72 | 1949 | Robert Hamer |
247 | Dog Day Afternoon | 82.37 | 88.40 | 81.11 | 79.80 | 1975 | Sidney Lumet |
248 | Forbidden Games | 82.37 | 93.75 | 80.36 | 80.99 | 1952 | René Clément |
249 | The Crowd | 82.35 | 93.35 | 79.21 | 81.23 | 1928 | King Vidor |
250 | Notorious | 82.35 | 96.78 | 79.96 | 78.21 | 1946 | Alfred Hitchcock |
251 | Mary and Max | 82.35 | 88.05 | 80.95 | 82.42 | 2009 | Adam Elliot |
252 | Persepolis | 82.34 | 88.95 | 80.09 | 80.77 | 2007 | Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud |
253 | Howl's Moving Castle | 82.33 | 78.71 | 82.63 | 83.10 | 2004 | Hayao Miyazaki |
254 | Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind | 82.33 | 85.10 | 81.54 | 82.03 | 1984 | Hayao Miyazaki |
255 | Safety Last! | 82.33 | 92.25 | 80.95 | 81.10 | 1923 | Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor |
256 | Rosemary's Baby | 82.32 | 94.78 | 79.99 | 78.69 | 1968 | Roman Polanski |
257 | L'Avventura | 82.32 | 92.10 | 79.08 | 78.03 | 1960 | Michelangelo Antonioni |
258 | The Searchers | 82.32 | 93.90 | 78.16 | 76.66 | 1956 | John Ford |
259 | La Haine | 82.30 | 90.60 | 82.38 | 79.56 | 1995 | Mathieu Kassovitz |
260 | Three Colors: Blue | 82.30 | 88.28 | 81.55 | 79.23 | 1993 | Krzysztof Kieślowski |
261 | Chungking Express | 82.30 | 79.95 | 82.29 | 80.73 | 1994 | Wong Kar-wai |
262 | Inside Out | 82.29 | 93.66 | 80.27 | 79.85 | 2015 | Pete Docter |
263 | Where is the Friend's Home? | 82.28 | 89.25 | 81.22 | 80.21 | 1987 | Abbas Kiarostami |
264 | Cries and Whispers | 82.27 | 85.45 | 81.02 | 80.80 | 1972 | Ingmar Bergman |
265 | Napoleon | 82.22 | 93.25 | 81.89 | 78.99 | 1927 | Abel Gance |
266 | Paper Moon | 82.19 | 83.08 | 81.37 | 81.29 | 1973 | Peter Bogdanovich |
267 | The Spirit of the Beehive | 82.17 | 89.83 | 79.31 | 78.91 | 1973 | Víctor Erice |
268 | A Special Day | 82.16 | 90.20 | 81.11 | 81.25 | 1977 | Ettore Scola |
269 | Nostalghia | 82.15 | 83.00 | 80.91 | 81.23 | 1983 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
270 | Network | 82.13 | 85.45 | 82.36 | 79.08 | 1976 | Sidney Lumet |
271 | L'Eclisse | 82.11 | 84.70 | 79.78 | 78.81 | 1962 | Michelangelo Antonioni |
272 | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | 82.09 | 80.83 | 81.78 | 81.15 | 1939 | Frank Capra |
273 | Sanjuro | 82.09 | 91.90 | 81.67 | 80.85 | 1962 | Akira Kurosawa |
274 | Badlands | 82.06 | 93.38 | 79.77 | 77.21 | 1973 | Terrence Malick |
275 | Vivre Sa Vie | 82.06 | 85.20 | 80.12 | 79.83 | 1962 | Jean-Luc Godard |
276 | Nobody Knows | 82.06 | 87.18 | 81.12 | 81.15 | 2004 | Hirokazu Koreeda |
277 | No Country for Old Men | 82.05 | 90.68 | 80.56 | 78.47 | 2007 | Coen Brothers |
278 | Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring | 82.05 | 86.05 | 80.76 | 80.62 | 2003 | Kim Ki-duk |
279 | La Notte | 82.04 | 78.35 | 81.45 | 81.11 | 1961 | Michelangelo Antonioni |
280 | The Celebration | 82.04 | 84.23 | 81.34 | 80.08 | 1998 | Thomas Vinterberg |
281 | In the Name of the Father | 82.04 | 84.90 | 81.14 | 81.85 | 1993 | Jim Sheridan |
282 | I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang | 82.02 | 89.55 | 80.18 | 81.56 | 1932 | Mervyn LeRoy |
283 | Shoplifters | 82.01 | 92.39 | 80.60 | 79.31 | 2018 | Hirokazu Koreeda |
284 | Finding Nemo | 82.01 | 92.60 | 80.13 | 78.76 | 2003 | Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich |
285 | Z | 81.98 | 87.55 | 82.21 | 79.59 | 1969 | Costa-Gavras |
286 | The Phantom Carriage | 81.96 | 95.00 | 80.01 | 80.32 | 1921 | Victor Sjöström |
287 | Manhattan | 81.95 | 86.23 | 80.50 | 79.81 | 1979 | Woody Allen |
288 | Rome, Open City | 81.94 | 95.40 | 80.45 | 79.27 | 1945 | Robert Rossellini |
289 | Children of Heaven | 81.93 | 80.15 | 81.24 | 82.01 | 1997 | Majid Majidi |
290 | The Green Mile | 81.92 | 71.93 | 82.95 | 84.38 | 1999 | Frank Darabont |
291 | The Iron Giant | 81.91 | 86.61 | 80.88 | 79.95 | 1999 | Brad Bird |
292 | The Sacrifice | 81.90 | 80.30 | 80.47 | 81.37 | 1986 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
293 | The Philadelphia Story | 81.90 | 94.95 | 79.79 | 77.86 | 1940 | George Cukor |
294 | The Twilight Samurai | 81.90 | 86.10 | 81.07 | 81.13 | 2002 | Yôji Yamada |
295 | Before Sunset | 81.88 | 87.79 | 81.42 | 78.41 | 2004 | Richard Linklater |
296 | Before Sunrise | 81.86 | 84.40 | 82.24 | 79.44 | 1995 | Richard Linklater |
297 | Castle in the Sky | 81.85 | 81.63 | 81.49 | 82.06 | 1986 | Hayao Miyazaki |
298 | The Departed | 81.84 | 86.92 | 82.82 | 79.04 | 2006 | Martin Scorsese |
299 | Brazil | 81.83 | 90.23 | 80.61 | 78.37 | 1985 | Terry Gilliam |
300 | Incendies | 81.81 | 83.85 | 81.88 | 80.74 | 2011 | Denis Villenueve |
301 | The Maltese Falcon | 81.81 | 95.65 | 80.24 | 77.28 | 1941 | John Huston |
302 | The Wizard of Oz | 81.77 | 98.03 | 79.38 | 77.17 | 1939 | Victor Fleming |
303 | Le Cercle Rouge | 81.76 | 90.03 | 80.81 | 78.54 | 1970 | Jean-Pierre Melville |
304 | Monsieur Verdoux | 81.76 | 89.80 | 78.55 | 81.34 | 1947 | Charlie Chaplin |
305 | The Return | 81.72 | 84.85 | 80.02 | 80.96 | 2003 | Andrey Zvyagintsev |
306 | Secrets & Lies | 81.71 | 90.73 | 80.29 | 78.66 | 1996 | Mike Leigh |
307 | The Hidden Fortress | 81.70 | 91.25 | 80.79 | 80.72 | 1958 | Akira Kurosawa |
308 | Pan's Labyrinth | 81.69 | 92.59 | 81.60 | 76.08 | 2006 | Guillermo del Toro |
309 | Amélie | 81.69 | 79.64 | 81.96 | 80.27 | 2004 | Jean-Pierre Jeunet |
310 | Ben-Hur | 81.67 | 86.93 | 79.86 | 80.22 | 1959 | William Wyler |
311 | Fitzcarraldo | 81.67 | 75.80 | 81.06 | 81.21 | 1982 | Werner Herzog |
312 | American History X | 81.63 | 70.13 | 83.58 | 83.00 | 1998 | Tony Kaye |
313 | Ace in the Hole | 81.62 | 79.10 | 80.88 | 81.36 | 1951 | Billy Wilder |
314 | Capernaum | 81.62 | 81.83 | 80.52 | 82.18 | 2018 | Nadine Labaki |
315 | Still Walking | 81.61 | 90.30 | 80.92 | 79.48 | 2008 | Hirokazu Koreeda |
316 | All About My Mother | 81.61 | 88.77 | 79.56 | 78.80 | 1999 | Pedro Almodóvar |
317 | The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie | 81.60 | 92.28 | 78.82 | 78.83 | 1972 | Luis Buñuel |
318 | Platoon | 81.60 | 88.70 | 79.52 | 80.45 | 1986 | Oliver Stone |
319 | Farewell My Concubine | 81.60 | 80.50 | 80.49 | 81.04 | 1993 | Chen Kaige |
320 | Letter from an Unknown Woman | 81.59 | 93.10 | 79.84 | 79.31 | 1948 | Max Ophüls |
321 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | 81.58 | 87.64 | 80.72 | 79.19 | 2014 | Wes Anderson |
322 | The Virgin Spring | 81.58 | 82.45 | 80.70 | 80.66 | 1960 | Ingmar Bergman |
323 | The Red Balloon | 81.57 | 90.20 | 79.93 | 80.30 | 1956 | Albert Lamorisse |
324 | Stagecoach | 81.57 | 94.58 | 77.69 | 78.94 | 1939 | John Ford |
325 | Mulholland Drive | 81.56 | 80.61 | 79.60 | 77.87 | 2001 | David Lynch |
326 | A Matter of Life and Death | 81.49 | 92.60 | 81.91 | 76.27 | 1946 | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |
327 | High Noon | 81.48 | 90.58 | 79.27 | 78.94 | 1952 | Fred Zinnemann |
328 | Orpheus | 81.48 | 96.20 | 79.88 | 78.90 | 1950 | Jean Cocteau |
329 | Life of Brian | 81.47 | 82.98 | 80.78 | 79.81 | 1979 | Terry Jones |
330 | Casino | 81.46 | 74.23 | 81.54 | 81.75 | 1995 | Martin Scorsese |
331 | Kagemusha | 81.44 | 82.93 | 80.01 | 80.43 | 1980 | Akira Kurosawa |
332 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | 81.43 | 76.08 | 80.53 | 81.85 | 1969 | George Roy Hill |
333 | In a Lonely Place | 81.43 | 92.45 | 80.42 | 78.77 | 1950 | Nicholas Ray |
334 | Scarface | 81.43 | 71.30 | 81.97 | 82.18 | 1983 | Brian De Palma |
335 | A Short Film About Killing | 81.42 | 87.35 | 79.89 | 80.38 | 1988 | Krzysztof Kieślowski |
336 | Beauty and the Beast | 81.41 | 92.05 | 79.28 | 78.32 | 1946 | Jean Cocteau |
337 | The Hustler | 81.39 | 92.45 | 80.43 | 78.97 | 1961 | Robert Rossen |
338 | Cléo from 5 to 7 | 81.38 | 91.65 | 80.03 | 79.11 | 1962 | Agnès Varda |
339 | Fireworks | 81.37 | 90.15 | 80.01 | 79.63 | 1997 | Takeshi Kitano |
340 | Room | 81.36 | 88.41 | 80.43 | 79.48 | 2015 | Lenny Abrahamson |
341 | Mad Max: Fury Road | 81.35 | 90.39 | 79.76 | 77.80 | 2015 | George Miller |
342 | Steamboat Bill, Jr. | 81.32 | 95.75 | 79.30 | 79.23 | 1928 | Charles Reisner, Buster Keaton |
343 | Judgment at Nuremberg | 81.31 | 71.58 | 82.24 | 83.03 | 1961 | Stanley Kramer |
344 | The Straight Story | 81.30 | 87.15 | 79.64 | 79.88 | 1999 | David Lynch |
345 | Meshes of the Afternoon | 81.29 | 96.25 | 77.91 | 79.99 | 1943 | Maya Deren, Alexandr Hackenschmied |
346 | Alice in the Cities | 81.28 | 86.70 | 79.60 | 80.20 | 1974 | Wim Wenders |
347 | Akira | 81.28 | 80.90 | 81.12 | 79.98 | 1988 | Katsuhiro Otomo |
348 | Good Will Hunting | 81.27 | 79.38 | 81.97 | 81.05 | 1997 | Gus Van Sant |
349 | The Miracle Worker | 81.25 | 85.15 | 78.88 | 81.55 | 1962 | Arthur Penn |
350 | Talk to Her | 81.25 | 87.48 | 79.33 | 78.71 | 2002 | Pedro Almodóvar |
351 | The Graduate | 81.24 | 85.58 | 78.91 | 79.97 | 1967 | Mike Nichols |
352 | Beauty and the Beast | 81.22 | 92.28 | 79.20 | 78.77 | 1991 | Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise |
353 | The Heiress | 81.19 | 94.45 | 80.20 | 79.76 | 1949 | William Wyler |
354 | Fantasia | 81.18 | 93.03 | 76.76 | 79.95 | 1940 | Samuel Armstrong, James Algar |
355 | Au Revoir les Enfants | 81.18 | 94.25 | 80.14 | 78.92 | 1987 | Louis Malle |
356 | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | 81.18 | 88.62 | 79.36 | 79.90 | 2017 | Martin McDonagh |
357 | Inglourious Basterds | 81.17 | 79.05 | 81.06 | 80.51 | 2009 | Quentin Tarantino |
358 | Elevator to the Gallows | 81.16 | 90.45 | 79.31 | 78.56 | 1958 | Louis Malle |
359 | Gladiator | 81.16 | 75.39 | 81.69 | 81.52 | 2000 | Ridley Scott |
360 | Through a Glass Darkly | 81.15 | 93.60 | 81.11 | 78.86 | 1961 | Ingmar Bergman |
361 | Million Dollar Baby | 81.15 | 87.41 | 77.43 | 80.72 | 2004 | Clint Eastwood |
362 | Days of Heaven | 81.15 | 90.75 | 80.19 | 77.08 | 1978 | Terrence Malick |
363 | Do the Right Thing | 81.15 | 90.78 | 80.26 | 77.04 | 1989 | Spike Lee |
364 | Out of the Past | 81.14 | 91.40 | 80.73 | 77.92 | 1947 | Jacques Tourneur |
365 | Strangers on a Train | 81.11 | 93.30 | 80.01 | 78.68 | 1951 | Alfred Hitchcock |
366 | Blue Velvet | 81.11 | 83.48 | 78.98 | 77.09 | 1986 | David Lynch |
367 | That Obscure Object of Desire | 81.09 | 89.40 | 79.59 | 78.11 | 1977 | Luis Buñuel |
368 | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | 81.08 | 80.23 | 80.74 | 80.75 | 1962 | Robert Aldrich |
369 | My Night at Maud's | 81.07 | 88.15 | 79.51 | 79.42 | 1969 | Éric Rohmer |
370 | The Earrings of Madame de… | 81.07 | 92.15 | 80.36 | 77.05 | 1953 | Max Ophüls |
371 | The Conversation | 81.04 | 89.23 | 80.03 | 77.44 | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola |
372 | The Killing | 81.03 | 91.50 | 79.51 | 79.21 | 1956 | Stanley Kubrick |
373 | The Servant | 81.03 | 87.83 | 79.45 | 78.57 | 1963 | Joseph Losey |
374 | The Intouchables | 81.03 | 67.15 | 82.13 | 84.70 | 2011 | Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano |
375 | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | 81.01 | 94.15 | 81.57 | 75.44 | 1943 | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |
376 | Jaws | 81.01 | 90.98 | 79.91 | 75.70 | 1975 | Steven Spielberg |
377 | Winter Light | 81.01 | 73.55 | 81.51 | 79.95 | 1963 | Ingmar Bergman |
378 | Love Exposure | 81.01 | 80.88 | 82.23 | 79.55 | 2008 | Sion Sono |
379 | Hiroshima Mon Amour | 81.00 | 92.95 | 80.13 | 77.99 | 1959 | Alain Resnais |
380 | Day for Night | 80.98 | 92.55 | 80.21 | 78.27 | 1973 | François Truffaut |
381 | Ratatouille | 80.97 | 92.73 | 78.72 | 78.68 | 2007 | Brad Bird |
382 | Ghost in the Shell | 80.97 | 81.43 | 79.98 | 81.15 | 1995 | Mamoru Oshii |
383 | Germany Year Zero | 80.95 | 92.00 | 77.80 | 80.03 | 1948 | Roberto Rossellini |
384 | Spotlight | 80.93 | 93.00 | 79.75 | 77.55 | 2015 | Tom McCarthy |
385 | Die Hard | 80.93 | 79.58 | 81.11 | 79.43 | 1988 | John McTiernan |
386 | Laura | 80.93 | 93.80 | 79.70 | 78.47 | 1944 | Otto Preminger |
387 | Sleuth | 80.93 | 89.95 | 79.16 | 80.87 | 1972 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
388 | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | 80.92 | 88.64 | 79.69 | 77.84 | 2007 | Julian Schnabel |
389 | The Handmaiden | 80.92 | 85.99 | 82.55 | 77.41 | 2016 | Park Chan-wook |
390 | Stand by Me | 80.90 | 80.20 | 81.28 | 79.54 | 1986 | Rob Reiner |
391 | Wolf Children | 80.90 | 80.15 | 80.40 | 81.27 | 2012 | Mamoru Hosoda |
392 | Marriage Story | 80.88 | 92.86 | 79.40 | 77.75 | 2019 | Noam Baumbach |
393 | Shoeshine | 80.87 | 93.75 | 79.02 | 79.38 | 1946 | Vittorio De Sica |
394 | Freaks | 80.85 | 84.70 | 77.66 | 80.31 | 1932 | Tod Browning |
395 | Nosferatu | 80.85 | 93.75 | 78.29 | 79.14 | 1922 | F. W. Murnau |
396 | Dial M for Murder | 80.84 | 77.60 | 81.17 | 81.31 | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock |
397 | Amour | 80.81 | 90.90 | 77.74 | 78.19 | 2012 | Michael Haneke |
398 | 12 Years a Slave | 80.80 | 94.00 | 79.74 | 76.94 | 2013 | Steve McQueen |
399 | The Nightmare Before Christmas | 80.77 | 85.38 | 79.26 | 79.69 | 1993 | Henry Selick |
400 | Cabaret | 80.77 | 84.68 | 77.34 | 80.69 | 1972 | Bob Fosse |
401 | Central Station | 80.77 | 83.28 | 80.91 | 78.52 | 1998 | Walter Salles |
402 | Landscape in the Mist | 80.74 | 71.35 | 80.76 | 80.28 | 1988 | Theo Angelopoulos |
403 | 1917 | 80.73 | 84.37 | 80.65 | 79.33 | 2019 | Sam Mendes |
404 | Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages | 80.71 | 93.98 | 75.69 | 78.01 | 1916 | D. W. Griffith |
405 | Call Me by Your Name | 80.71 | 91.25 | 79.43 | 77.87 | 2017 | Luca Guadagnino |
406 | Midnight Cowboy | 80.71 | 82.98 | 79.10 | 79.50 | 1969 | John Schlesinger |
407 | Shadow of a Doubt | 80.70 | 94.38 | 79.31 | 76.04 | 1943 | Alfred Hitchcock |
408 | Interstellar | 80.70 | 74.16 | 81.30 | 82.25 | 2014 | Christopher Nolan |
409 | Hannah and Her Sisters | 80.69 | 88.95 | 79.15 | 77.98 | 1986 | Woody Allen |
410 | Monsters, Inc. | 80.68 | 85.29 | 79.37 | 80.08 | 2001 | Pete Docter, David Silverman |
411 | The Testament of Dr. Mabuse | 80.65 | 85.85 | 79.40 | 79.38 | 1933 | Fritz Lang |
412 | Downfall | 80.64 | 83.53 | 81.54 | 78.55 | 2004 | Oliver Hirschbiegel |
413 | Being There | 80.64 | 87.30 | 79.42 | 78.06 | 1979 | Hal Ashby |
414 | The Killer | 80.63 | 92.60 | 79.27 | 78.66 | 1989 | John Woo |
415 | My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown | 80.63 | 93.23 | 78.13 | 79.15 | 1989 | Jim Sheridan |
416 | Jean de Florette | 80.60 | 88.40 | 80.18 | 79.69 | 1986 | Claude Berri |
417 | The Big Lebowski | 80.57 | 74.80 | 82.28 | 78.57 | 1998 | Coen Brothers |
418 | The King's Speech | 80.57 | 90.86 | 78.50 | 78.59 | 2010 | Tom Hooper |
419 | Whisper of the Heart | 80.55 | 79.98 | 80.80 | 80.31 | 1995 | Yoshifumi Kondō |
420 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | 80.54 | 93.08 | 77.22 | 77.82 | 1982 | Steven Spielberg |
421 | Infernal Affairs | 80.54 | 79.83 | 79.92 | 80.22 | 2002 | Andrew Lau, Alan Mak |
422 | The Prestige | 80.54 | 72.22 | 82.71 | 81.38 | 2006 | Christopher Nolan |
423 | Our Hospitality | 80.54 | 92.85 | 77.72 | 79.58 | 1923 | Buster Keaton, John G. Blystone |
424 | Zootopia | 80.53 | 85.22 | 78.84 | 80.18 | 2016 | Byron Howard, Rich Moore |
425 | Toy Story 2 | 80.49 | 92.59 | 78.51 | 77.05 | 1999 | John Lasseter, Ash Brannon, Lee Unkrich |
426 | Klaus | 80.48 | 75.00 | 81.07 | 81.41 | 2019 | Sergio Pablos |
427 | The Big Sleep | 80.45 | 92.10 | 79.74 | 77.58 | 1946 | Howard Hawks |
428 | Ford v Ferrari | 80.45 | 83.94 | 79.37 | 80.01 | 2019 | James Mangold |
429 | Dead Poets Society | 80.44 | 78.70 | 79.43 | 80.75 | 1989 | Peter Weir |
430 | The Terminator | 80.43 | 89.08 | 78.26 | 78.13 | 1984 | James Cameron |
431 | Naked | 80.43 | 84.48 | 80.39 | 77.34 | 1993 | Mike Leigh |
432 | Dangal | 80.41 | 83.00 | 79.68 | 80.56 | 2016 | Nitesh Tiwari |
433 | Kwaidan | 80.40 | 81.80 | 79.75 | 79.42 | 1964 | Masaki Kobayashi |
434 | The Man Who Would Be King | 80.40 | 90.55 | 78.24 | 77.79 | 1975 | John Huston |
435 | Wild Tales | 80.38 | 82.57 | 80.48 | 79.22 | 2014 | Damián Szifron |
436 | Groundhog Day | 80.38 | 80.08 | 79.31 | 79.35 | 1993 | Harold Ramis |
437 | Catch Me If You Can | 80.38 | 83.44 | 78.74 | 80.57 | 2002 | Steven Spielberg |
438 | I Vitelloni | 80.36 | 90.28 | 77.64 | 78.06 | 1953 | Federico Fellini |
439 | The Big Heat | 80.35 | 92.90 | 79.27 | 77.87 | 1953 | Fritz Lang |
440 | The Double Life of Véronique | 80.35 | 82.63 | 80.19 | 77.87 | 1991 | Krzysztof Kieślowski |
441 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | 80.35 | 82.58 | 80.19 | 78.43 | 1966 | Mike Nichols |
442 | Requiem for a Dream | 80.33 | 71.39 | 81.39 | 80.93 | 2000 | Darren Aronofsky |
443 | Rope | 80.33 | 79.20 | 80.31 | 79.30 | 1948 | Alfred Hitchcock |
444 | Love and Death | 80.33 | 89.83 | 77.55 | 78.50 | 1975 | Woody Allen |
445 | The Remains of the Day | 80.29 | 86.88 | 78.75 | 78.80 | 1993 | James Ivory |
446 | Jules and Jim | 80.28 | 93.70 | 78.30 | 77.94 | 1962 | François Truffaut |
447 | The Gospel According to Matthew | 80.28 | 88.30 | 76.50 | 78.52 | 1964 | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
448 | How to Train Your Dragon | 80.27 | 81.97 | 79.45 | 80.24 | 2010 | Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois |
449 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | 80.27 | 88.50 | 78.81 | 78.53 | 2011 | David Yates |
450 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | 80.26 | 87.05 | 79.46 | 79.79 | 1958 | Richard Brooks |
451 | The French Connection | 80.26 | 93.35 | 78.04 | 76.89 | 1971 | William Friedkin |
452 | Opening Night | 80.25 | 78.05 | 80.50 | 79.25 | 1977 | John Cassavetes |
453 | Hotel Rwanda | 80.24 | 84.54 | 79.34 | 79.40 | 2004 | Terry George |
454 | 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days | 80.22 | 92.51 | 77.76 | 76.22 | 2007 | Cristian Mungiu |
455 | Tampopo | 80.22 | 92.40 | 81.20 | 77.01 | 1985 | Juzo Itami |
456 | Scarface | 80.22 | 93.50 | 76.43 | 79.55 | 1932 | Howard Hawks, Howard Hughes |
457 | The Face of Another | 80.21 | 87.50 | 79.61 | 79.34 | 1966 | Hiroshi Teshigahara |
458 | The Roaring Twenties | 80.21 | 86.20 | 77.79 | 80.68 | 1939 | Raoul Walsh |
459 | Pickpocket | 80.20 | 93.80 | 76.41 | 76.47 | 1959 | Robert Bresson |
460 | Kiki's Delivery Service | 80.20 | 85.45 | 79.87 | 78.84 | 1989 | Hayao Miyazaki |
461 | A Prophet | 80.19 | 89.61 | 79.53 | 76.14 | 2009 | Jacques Audiard |
462 | Zelig | 80.19 | 90.00 | 76.50 | 80.29 | 1983 | Woody Allen |
463 | Trouble in Paradise | 80.18 | 88.20 | 79.35 | 77.62 | 1932 | Ernst Lubitsch |
464 | Gran Torino | 80.17 | 76.27 | 78.57 | 82.36 | 2008 | Clint Eastwood |
465 | Last Year at Marienbad | 80.16 | 88.25 | 78.29 | 77.37 | 1961 | Alain Resnais |
466 | All the President's Men | 80.15 | 85.95 | 80.48 | 76.46 | 1976 | Alan J. Pakula |
467 | Breaking the Waves | 80.15 | 79.85 | 78.46 | 79.55 | 1996 | Lars von Trier |
468 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | 80.14 | 74.28 | 81.44 | 80.57 | 1989 | Steven Spielberg |
469 | Divorce Italian Style | 80.12 | 91.00 | 79.28 | 78.26 | 1961 | Pietro Germi |
470 | Edward Scissorhands | 80.12 | 78.65 | 78.09 | 80.73 | 1990 | Tim Burton |
471 | The Thing | 80.12 | 67.98 | 82.60 | 79.34 | 1982 | John Carpenter |
472 | Perfect Blue | 80.11 | 74.05 | 80.91 | 80.09 | 1997 | Satoshi Kon |
473 | Down by Law | 80.10 | 79.03 | 78.98 | 79.61 | 1986 | Jim Jarmusch |
474 | Bringing Up Baby | 80.10 | 90.75 | 78.25 | 76.45 | 1938 | Howard Hawks |
475 | The Phantom of Liberty | 80.09 | 85.10 | 78.89 | 78.66 | 1974 | Luis Buñuel |
476 | Bonnie and Clyde | 80.07 | 85.38 | 78.16 | 78.23 | 1967 | Arthur Penn |
477 | The Incredibles | 80.07 | 89.69 | 79.77 | 75.78 | 2004 | Brad Bird |
478 | Rocky | 80.04 | 79.73 | 79.17 | 79.29 | 1976 | John G. Avildsen |
479 | His Girl Friday | 80.03 | 94.15 | 79.24 | 76.72 | 1940 | Howard Hawks |
480 | Mommy | 80.03 | 80.79 | 80.39 | 79.13 | 2014 | Xavier Dolan |
481 | Mon Oncle | 80.03 | 88.00 | 78.03 | 78.76 | 1958 | Jacques Tati |
482 | My Fair Lady | 79.99 | 91.85 | 77.53 | 78.00 | 1964 | George Cukor |
483 | Charade | 79.98 | 85.55 | 79.37 | 78.72 | 1963 | Stanley Donen |
484 | Stalag 17 | 79.95 | 87.13 | 79.62 | 77.79 | 1953 | Billy Wilder |
485 | Boyhood | 79.95 | 97.08 | 76.08 | 75.95 | 2014 | Richard Linklater |
486 | The Secret in Their Eyes | 79.95 | 82.49 | 81.27 | 77.67 | 2009 | Juan José Campanella |
487 | Ninotchka | 79.95 | 90.15 | 77.99 | 78.50 | 1939 | Ernst Lubitsch |
488 | Pierrot le Fou | 79.94 | 81.75 | 77.84 | 76.65 | 1965 | Jean-Luc Godard |
489 | The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser | 79.94 | 89.10 | 78.30 | 78.27 | 1974 | Werner Herzog |
490 | Stroszek | 79.94 | 88.40 | 79.50 | 77.77 | 1977 | Werner Herzog |
491 | A Hard Day's Night | 79.93 | 93.73 | 76.82 | 77.08 | 1964 | Richard Lester |
492 | Onibaba | 79.90 | 74.75 | 79.42 | 79.96 | 1964 | Kaneto Shindo |
493 | Repulsion | 79.85 | 92.68 | 77.29 | 76.57 | 1965 | Roman Polanski |
494 | Like Stars on Earth | 79.85 | 80.50 | 79.54 | 79.86 | 2007 | Aamir Khan, Amole Gupte |
495 | Duck Soup | 79.84 | 92.33 | 79.01 | 74.92 | 1933 | Leo McCarey |
496 | Carlito's Way | 79.83 | 70.28 | 79.16 | 82.01 | 1993 | Brian De Palma |
497 | Nashville | 79.82 | 93.23 | 76.89 | 74.92 | 1975 | Robert Altman |
498 | The Triplets of Belleville | 79.82 | 88.97 | 76.57 | 78.66 | 2003 | Sylvain Chomet |
499 | Dr. Mabuse the Gambler | 79.81 | 85.10 | 76.88 | 79.98 | 1922 | Fritz Lang |
500 | Gone Girl | 79.79 | 83.03 | 79.32 | 78.87 | 2014 | David Fincher |
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