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Wings of Desire

1987 · directed by Wim Wenders · 128 min · PG-13
24,491 feet · Prominence
658th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw38

Lifetime worldwide gross $4m, re-releases included; about $10m in 2026 money.

Rank6,964 of 11,051In 1987102 of 162

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise87

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics87 baseAwards0 signal → +0 lift

No award rows on file, usually missing data rather than missing honours. Wikidata is thin for older and non-English films.

How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since. This film is near critically unanimous and barely registers on awards, so there is little headroom for awards to claim. The score is the critics' verdict, nearly untouched.

Legacy62

Judged directly: Canonical, endlessly homaged, remade in Hollywood.

Verdict62 of 100IMDb7.9 from 83kWikipedia19k views a monthAge39 years

On the listsCriterion CollectionSight & Soundevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 509 of 4,039 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 38 praise 87 legacy 62averages 62, placing it at24,491 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

Whose apex this is

▲ Curt Bois

In these careers — elevation for this film

Bruno Ganz19,347 ftPeter Falk18,830 ftSolveig Dommartin18,407 ftOtto Sander18,315 ftCurt Bois17,983 ft