Is Possession actually good?

Possession sits in the 55.0% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 55.0% of them.

How does Possession compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Possession lands in the 52.2% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Possession's score based on?

228 calibrated reviewers stand behind Possession's score.

1981

global pct

55.0

Film · 1981 · Films · 1980s

Possession

Name: Possession
Genre: Drama, Horror
Released: 1981

Scored from 228 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

55.0%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

52.2%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

67.0%

AI-adjusted percentile

228 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In divided Cold War-era Berlin, a spy returns home to find his wife inexplicably distant and demanding a divorce. As he spirals into jealous obsession and hires a detective to uncover her secret, the investigation reveals something far stranger and more disturbing than an ordinary affair. Andrzej Zulawski's surreal psychological horror chronicles the violent disintegration of a marriage into nightmare.

Possession (1981) is a film IMDb files under the drama and horror genres.

The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 712 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 228 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 231 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.