Film · 1965 · Films · 1960s
Guide
Scored from 39 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Summary
Vijay Anand's Hindi adaptation of R. K. Narayan's novel stars Dev Anand as Raju, a fast-talking tour guide in Udaipur who takes on the archaeologist Marco and his wife Rosie (Waheeda Rehman) as clients. Rosie comes from a family of hereditary temple dancers and is stranded in a cold marriage; Raju urges her to leave Marco and return to dance, and under the stage name Nalini she becomes a celebrated performer with Raju as her manager. Success makes him possessive and careless with money, and the partnership that lifted them both starts to turn on itself. The three-hour film carries an S. D. Burman score and extended dance sequences, and later follows Raju far from hotels and bookings.
Released in 1965, Guide is a drama and romance film. Its country of origin is listed as India. The runtime is 141 minutes. Its listed language is Hindi.
Only 39 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 59 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1960s films — 1,929 of them.
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 Guide 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 · 1960s (1,929 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 39.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
