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Stranger Than Paradise

1984 · directed by Jim Jarmusch · 90 min
24,154 feet · Prominence
803rd of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw36

Lifetime worldwide gross $2m, re-releases included; about $8m in 2026 money.

Rank7,334 of 11,051In 198499 of 112

How Draw works

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

Praise93

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics93 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.

Legacy55

Judged directly: Founding text of American independent cinema.

Verdict55 of 100IMDb7.4 from 43kWikipedia8k views a monthAge42 years

On the listsNational Film RegistryCriterion Collectionevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 809 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 36 praise 93 legacy 55averages 61, placing it at24,154 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

▲ Cecillia Stark▲ Eszter Balint

In these careers — elevation for this film

John Lurie18,872 ftRichard Edson18,412 ftEszter Balint18,300 ftCecillia Stark17,822 ft