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Le Samouraï

1967 · directed by Jean-Pierre Melville · 105 min
25,330 feet · Prominence
401st of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw29

Lifetime worldwide gross $0m, re-releases included; about $2m in 2026 money.

Rank8,730 of 11,051In 196736 of 38

How Draw works

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

Praise91

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics91 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.

Legacy74

Judged directly: Criterion touchstone, hugely influential hitman archetype.

Verdict74 of 100IMDb8 from 63kWikipedia17k views a monthAge59 years

On the listsCriterion Collectionevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 221 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 29 praise 91 legacy 74averages 65, placing it at25,330 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

▲ Alain Delon▲ Cathy Rosier

In these careers — elevation for this film

Alain Delon19,021 ftNathalie Delon17,971 ftFrançois Périer17,967 ftCathy Rosier17,892 ft