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Metropolis
MEANRANK
86/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #86
- IMDb #154
- Google retired #2186
- Rotten Tomatoes #159
- Metacritic #20
- Letterboxd #175
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #181
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #428
- Metacritic Critics #27
- Metacritic Audience #100
- Criticker #118
- Douban #69
- Kinopoisk #183
- AlloCiné #243
- Trakt #360
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 73, highest is Metacritic critics on 98. Critics average 98, everyone else 84.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →In a vast, futuristic city, society is divided into two classes: the wealthy planners who live in luxury high above and the workers who toil underground operating the machines that power the city. The son of the city's master becomes infatuated with a prophetic worker and begins to see the vast inequality, threatening the city's rigid order.
Details
- Director
- Fritz Lang
- Writers
- Fritz Lang, Thea von Harbou
- Based on
- Metropolis by Thea von Harbou
- Studio
- UFA
- Released
- 10 January 1927
- Country
- Germany
- Language
- German, None
- Runtime
- 153 min
- Rated
- NR
- Budget
- $5.3M
- Box office
- $1.4M
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Cast
Full cast (25) →Awards
7 wins & 6 nominations total