Stanley Kubrick - All His Movies Ranked and Rated

Stanley Kubrick – All His Movies Ranked and Rated

Short Bio:

Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and photographer. Widely considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, his films, almost all of which are adaptations of novels or short stories, cover a wide range of genres and are noted for their innovative cinematography, dark humor, realistic attention to detail and extensive set designs.

A demanding perfectionist, Kubrick assumed control over most aspects of the filmmaking process, from direction and writing to editing, and took painstaking care with researching his films and staging scenes, working in close coordination with his actors, crew, and other collaborators. He often asked for several dozen retakes of the same shot in a movie, which resulted in many conflicts with his casts. Despite the resulting notoriety among actors, many of Kubrick’s films broke new ground in cinematography. The scientific realism and innovative special effects of the science fiction epic 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) were without precedent in the history of cinema, and the film earned him his only personal Oscar, for Best Visual Effects. Steven Spielberg has referred to the film as his generation’s “big bang”; it is regarded as one of the greatest films ever made.

We collected all of Stanley Kubrick’s public votes on IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Letterboxd, and using a data-driven approach, ranked and rated all his films. Here are the results.

NUMBER OF QUALIFYING MOVIES:

CAREER AVERAGE SCORE:

7.93

TOTAL WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE:

$ 689,666,608

TOTAL BUDGETS COMBINED:

$ 144,870,000

TOTAL PROFIT OR LOSS:

$ 544,796,608

Return on Every $1 Spent:

x 4.60

13 – Fear and Desire (1953)

Trapped… 4 desperate men and a strange half-animal girl!

4.60 /10

War | Drama

Directed by: Stanley Kubrick

Top Billed Cast:

SYNOPSIS:

After their airplane crashes behind enemy lines, four soldiers must survive and try to find a way back to their battalion. However, when they come across a local peasant girl the horrors of war quickly become apparent.

WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE GROSS:

PRODUCTION BUDGET:

PROFIT OR (LOSS):

PROFIT RETURN (OR LOSS IF FIGURE IS UNDER 1):

$ –

X –

12 – Killer’s Kiss (1955)

Her Soft Mouth Was The Road To Sin-Smeared Violence!

6.18 /10

Crime | Drama | Thriller

Directed by: Stanley Kubrick

Top Billed Cast:

SYNOPSIS:

The film revolves around Davey Gordon, a 29 year old welterweight New York boxer in the end of his career, and his relationship with a dancer and her violent employer.

WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE GROSS:

PRODUCTION BUDGET:

PROFIT OR (LOSS):

PROFIT RETURN (OR LOSS IF FIGURE IS UNDER 1):

$ –

X –

11 – Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

Cruise. Kidman. Kubrick.

7.60 /10

Drama | Thriller | Mystery

Directed by: Stanley Kubrick

Top Billed Cast:

SYNOPSIS:

After Dr. Bill Harford’s wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings — and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.

WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE GROSS:

PRODUCTION BUDGET:

PROFIT OR (LOSS):

PROFIT RETURN (OR LOSS IF FIGURE IS UNDER 1):

$ 162,242,684

$65,000,000

$ 97,242,684

X 2.50

10 – Lolita (1962)

How did they ever make a movie of …

7.65 /10

Crime | Drama | Romance

Directed by: Stanley Kubrick

Top Billed Cast:

SYNOPSIS:

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman’s teenaged daughter.

WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE GROSS:

PRODUCTION BUDGET:

PROFIT OR (LOSS):

PROFIT RETURN (OR LOSS IF FIGURE IS UNDER 1):

$ 9,200,000

$2,000,000

$ 7,200,000

X 4.60

9 – Spartacus (1960)

They trained him to kill for their pleasure … but they trained him a little too well

8.02 /10

History | War | Drama | Adventure

Directed by: Stanley Kubrick

Top Billed Cast:

SYNOPSIS:

The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners and leads the other slaves in rebellion. As the rebels move from town to town, their numbers swell as escaped slaves join their ranks. Under the leadership of Spartacus, they make their way to southern Italy, where they will cross the sea and return to their homes.

WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE GROSS:

PRODUCTION BUDGET:

PROFIT OR (LOSS):

PROFIT RETURN (OR LOSS IF FIGURE IS UNDER 1):

$ 60,000,000

$12,000,000

$ 48,000,000

X 5

8 – The Killing (1956)

In All Its Fury and Violence…

8.35 /10

Crime | Drama | Thriller

Directed by: Stanley Kubrick

Top Billed Cast:

SYNOPSIS:

Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.

WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE GROSS:

PRODUCTION BUDGET:

PROFIT OR (LOSS):

PROFIT RETURN (OR LOSS IF FIGURE IS UNDER 1):

$ –

X –

7 – 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

The Ultimate Trip.

8.60 /10

Science Fiction | Mystery | Adventure

Directed by: Stanley Kubrick

Top Billed Cast:

SYNOPSIS:

Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world’s most advanced super computer.

WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE GROSS:

PRODUCTION BUDGET:

PROFIT OR (LOSS):

PROFIT RETURN (OR LOSS IF FIGURE IS UNDER 1):

$ 146,000,000

$ 10,500,000

$ 135,500,000

X 13.90

6 – A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Being the adventures of a young man whose principal interests are rape, ultra-violence and Beethoven.

8.63 /10

Science Fiction | Drama

Directed by: Stanley Kubrick

Top Billed Cast:

SYNOPSIS:

In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure that’ll rob him of all personal agency. In a time when conscience is a commodity, can Alex change his tune?

WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE GROSS:

PRODUCTION BUDGET:

PROFIT OR (LOSS):

PROFIT RETURN (OR LOSS IF FIGURE IS UNDER 1):

$ 114,000,000

$ 2,200,000

$ 111,800,000

X 51.82

5 – Barry Lyndon (1975)

At long last Redmond Barry became a gentleman—and that was his tragedy.

8.63 /10

Drama | Romance | War

Directed by: Stanley Kubrick

Top Billed Cast:

SYNOPSIS:

An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond Barry into the noble Barry Lyndon.

WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE GROSS:

PRODUCTION BUDGET:

PROFIT OR (LOSS):

PROFIT RETURN (OR LOSS IF FIGURE IS UNDER 1):

$20,200,000

$ 1,150,000

$ 19,050,000

X 17.57

4 – Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Vietnam can kill me, but it can’t make me care.

8.40 /10

War | Drama

Directed by: Stanley Kubrick

Top Billed Cast:

SYNOPSIS:

Stanley Kubrick’s take on the Vietnam War follows smart-aleck Private Davis (Matthew Modine), quickly christened “Joker” by his foul-mouthed drill sergeant (R. Lee Ermey), and pudgy Private Lawrence (Vincent D’Onofrio), nicknamed “Gomer Pyle,” as they endure the rigors of basic training. Though Pyle takes a frightening detour, Joker graduates to the Marine Corps and is sent to Vietnam as a journalist, covering — and eventually participating in — the bloody Battle of Hué.

WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE GROSS:

PRODUCTION BUDGET:

PROFIT OR (LOSS):

PROFIT RETURN (OR LOSS IF FIGURE IS UNDER 1):

$ 120,000,000

$ 30,000,000

$ 90,000,000

X 4

3 – The Shining (1980)

He came as the caretaker, but this hotel had its own guardians – who’d been there a long time

8.75 /10

Horror | Thriller

Directed by: Stanley Kubrick

Top Billed Cast:

SYNOPSIS:

Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren’t prepared for the madness that lurks within.

WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE GROSS:

PRODUCTION BUDGET:

PROFIT OR (LOSS):

PROFIT RETURN (OR LOSS IF FIGURE IS UNDER 1):

$ 47,299,460

$ 19,000,000

$ 28,299,460

X 2.49

2 – Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

The hot-line suspense comedy.

8.76 /10

Drama | Comedy | War

Directed by: Stanley Kubrick

Top Billed Cast:

SYNOPSIS:

After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop the nuclear strike.

WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE GROSS:

PRODUCTION BUDGET:

PROFIT OR (LOSS):

PROFIT RETURN (OR LOSS IF FIGURE IS UNDER 1):

$ 9,523,464

$ 1,800,000

$ 7,723,464

X 5.29

1 – Paths of Glory (1957)

It explodes in the no-man’s land no picture ever dared cross before!

8.86 /10

Drama | War

Directed by: Stanley Kubrick

Top Billed Cast:

SYNOPSIS:

During World War I, commanding officer General Broulard (Adolphe Menjou) orders his subordinate, General Mireau (George Macready), to attack a German trench position, offering a promotion as an incentive. Though the mission is foolhardy to the point of suicide, Mireau commands his own subordinate, Colonel Dax (Kirk Douglas), to plan the attack. When it ends in disaster, General Mireau demands the court-martial of three random soldiers in order to save face.

WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE GROSS:

PRODUCTION BUDGET:

PROFIT OR (LOSS):

PROFIT RETURN (OR LOSS IF FIGURE IS UNDER 1):

$ 1,200,000

$ 900,000

$ 300,000

X 1.33