Film · 1981 · Films · 1980s
Das Boot
Scored from 436 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).
Summary
A German U-boat (U-96) embarks on a perilous patrol mission during World War II. The film follows the captain and crew as they navigate combat with Allied naval forces, technical failures, and the psychological strain of submarine warfare. Tensions rise as the mission grows increasingly dangerous and casualties mount among the crew.
Das Boot is a 1981 war, drama and thriller film directed by Wolfgang Petersen. Its certificate is R. Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer and Klaus Wennemann head the billed cast. It plays in German. It runs 2h 29m. Its country of origin is listed as Germany.
3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 436 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 462 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Das Boot lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 1980s (3,141 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 436.
Cohort: Films · 1980s
