RankquantRQ
The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) poster
1976
global pct
33.4

Film · 1976 · Films · 1970s

The Man Who Fell to Earth

Scored from 118 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).

33.4%
Global percentile
vs. all 52,376 ranked titles
26.9%
In-cohort percentile
Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles
18.5%
AI-adjusted percentile
118 calibrated reviewers

Summary

An alien (David Bowie) arrives on Earth disguised as a human businessman named Thomas Jerome Newton, seeking to build a spacecraft to ship water back to his drought-stricken home planet. Using advanced technology, he founds a wildly successful corporation, but love, alcohol, and the suspicions of powerful interests gradually erode his mission and his fragile humanity.

The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) is a film IMDb files under the drama and science-fiction genres.

2,405 other films from the 1970s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 118 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 120 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

Is The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) worth watching?

Cohort
Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles
Calibrated reviewers
118

Cohort: Films · 1970s

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