Film · 1960 · Films · 1960s
Le trou
Scored from 73 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Summary
Jacques Becker's final feature is a French prison drama adapted from Jose Giovanni's novel about a real 1947 escape attempt from La Sante prison in Paris. Claude Gaspard, awaiting trial for the attempted murder of his wife, is transferred into a cell with four inmates who are already tunneling through the floor toward the passages beneath the building. They let the newcomer in on the plan, and the film settles into the labor itself: breaking concrete with a bed leg, timing the guards' rounds, improvising a periscope out of a toothbrush and a shard of mirror. The tension comes less from the guards than from whether five men who barely know one another can hold together.
Released in 1960, Le trou is a crime, drama and thriller film. Its country of origin is listed as France. Its certificate is Not Rated. It runs 2h 12m. It plays in French.
Only 73 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 73 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. 1,928 other films from the 1960s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 111 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Le trou 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 73.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
