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The Lives of Others (2006) poster
2006
global pct
97.5

Film · 2006 · Films · 2000s

The Lives of Others

Scored from 493 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

97.5%
Global percentile
vs. all 52,376 ranked titles
98.6%
In-cohort percentile
Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
100%
AI-adjusted percentile
493 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In 1984 East Berlin, a devoted Stasi officer is assigned to conduct round-the-clock surveillance on a celebrated playwright and his actress girlfriend, suspecting them of disloyalty to the socialist state. As he listens in on their lives, art, and quiet acts of resistance, the lonely agent finds his rigid worldview slowly unraveling, forcing him to choose between duty and conscience.

The Lives of Others (2006) is a film IMDb files under the drama, mystery and thriller genres.

7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 8,746 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 493 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 516 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

Is The Lives of Others (2006) worth watching?

Cohort
Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
Calibrated reviewers
493

Cohort: Films · 2000s

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