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Cinema Paradiso (1988) poster
1988
global pct
94.5

Film · 1988 · Films · 1980s

Cinema Paradiso

Scored from 486 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

94.5%
Global percentile
vs. all 52,376 ranked titles
94.3%
In-cohort percentile
Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
99.8%
AI-adjusted percentile
486 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A middle-aged man returns to his small hometown in Sicily to reconnect with his past, particularly his childhood friendship with Alfredo, the projectionist at the local cinema. The film interweaves memories of their bond during the boy's formative years with the man's present-day reflections, exploring themes of cinema, friendship, and the passage of time.

Giuseppe Tornatore directed Cinema Paradiso, a drama and romance film from 1988. Its listed language is Italian. It was made in Italy. It is rated PG. The runtime is 122 minutes. It stars Salvatore Cascio, Marco Leonardi and Philippe Noiret.

486 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 523 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 3,938 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them.

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Is Cinema Paradiso (1988) worth watching?

Cohort
Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers
486

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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