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Wings of Desire

1987
24,196 feet · Prominence
733rd of 15,261 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw38

$4m worldwide in 1987 — $10m in today's money.

As released$4mIn 2026 money$10mRank5,882 of 8,589In 198790 of 130

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

Critics 87, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 87.

Critics87 → 44Awards0 → 0

No award rows on file. The awards pass reads Wikidata, which is thin for older and non-English films, so an empty ledger is usually missing data rather than an absence of honours.

How Praise works

Half critics, half a tiered award record where Picture and Directing carry most of the weight. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since. This film is near critically unanimous and barely registers on awards, so the awards half halves it — which penalises it for the Academy's rules rather than its quality.

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 · 460 of 3,430 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, which places it at24,196 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.

In these careers — elevation for this film

No scored career runs through this film yet. The people-side engine currently covers 108careers, and this film’s cast sits outside them.