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Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

1976 · directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini · 117 min
23,375 feet · Prominence
1,189th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw38

Lifetime worldwide gross $2m, re-releases included; about $10m in 2026 money.

Rank6,950 of 11,051In 197642 of 48

How Draw works

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

Praise71

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics71 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.

Legacy58

Judged directly: Benchmark for extreme, transgressive cinema.

Verdict58 of 100IMDb5.8 from 72kWikipedia102k views a monthAge50 years

On the listsCriterion CollectionSight & Soundevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 705 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 71 legacy 58averages 56, placing it at23,375 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

Paolo Bonacelli18,211 ft