The Great Movie Experiment

Jodie Foster

6 Movies in the Top 1000

Rank Title For Against Haven't Seen Aggregate
14 The Silence of the Lambs 533 134 73 79%
146 Taxi Driver 379 205 123 64%
362 Maverick 294 264 215 52%
525 Panic Room 245 316 172 43%
537 Contact 242 301 186 44%
795 Flightplan 182 284 288 39%

5 Movies in Up & Coming

Rank Title Up Down Score
156 Bugsy Malone Vote Up for Bugsy Malone  Vote Down for Bugsy Malone  1
250 Nell Vote Up for Nell  Vote Down for Nell  1
355 Anna and the King Vote Up for Anna and the King  Vote Down for Anna and the King  0
376 Dangerous Lives Of Altar Boys Vote Up for Dangerous Lives Of Altar Boys  Vote Down for Dangerous Lives Of Altar Boys  0
1092 Sommersby Vote Up for Sommersby  Vote Down for Sommersby  -3

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The rankings of the Top 1000 Movies are based on thousands of users voting in The Great Movie Experiment to compile a list of the best movies of all time. Each vote is a head-to-head pairing of two movies... simply choosing "which movie is better?" many many times.

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Top Ranked Jodie Foster Movies

The Silence of the Lambs Ranked 14 in the Top 1000

The Silence of the Lambs In this pulse-pounding adaptation of Thomas J. Harris's novel, FBI trainee Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) ventures into a maximum-security asylum to pick the diseased brain of Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), a psychiatrist turned homicidal cannibal. Starling needs clues to help her capture a ser ...
Taxi Driver Ranked 146 in the Top 1000

Taxi Driver Mentally unstable Vietnam vet Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) drives a nocturnal cab through the sleaziest streets of pregentrified New York City and befriends a child hooker (Jodie Foster). Along the way, the morally righteous Bickle slowly loses his mind, turning into a well-armed, homicidal vigila ...
Maverick Ranked 362 in the Top 1000

Maverick Yes, it's an old TV show transformed into a movie. But it has a script by William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid), was directed by Richard Donner (Lethal Weapon) and stars Jodie Foster, James Garner and Mel Gibson as gamblin' man Bret Maverick (a role Garner originated on the tube). Gid ...