Titanic, Star Wars, The Lion King, Inception, The Godfather: rank iconic movies from best to worst without knowing which one comes next.
Classics and blockbusters
Pick a theme and a ranking size, then start the game. Cards drop one at a time: for each one, you choose a free rank. Once a card is placed, it stays there.
You never know which card is coming next. Put a great card too high and you may have no room for the next one: that’s the whole twist of a blind ranking, also called a blind tier list.
Every game draws at random from these 102 cards. Here is each one, with a short profile and key facts.
Aboard a ship billed as unsinkable, a young aristocrat engaged to a man she doesn't love falls for a penniless artist. A romance caught up in the most famous shipwreck in history.
A young farmer on a desert planet is swept into a small band of rebels' fight against a tyrannical galactic Empire and its fearsome enforcer, Darth Vader.
Young lion cub Simba, heir to the Pride Lands, must face the betrayal of his uncle Scar and find the courage to take his rightful place.
A wealthy quadriplegic aristocrat hires a young man from the projects, fresh out of prison, as his caregiver. Their unlikely friendship turns both of their lives upside down.
A thief who steals secrets from inside people's dreams is given a new job: planting an idea. A dizzying heist across several layers of reality.
The aging patriarch of a powerful New York Mafia family sees his empire threatened. His youngest son, who wanted to stay out of the business, is gradually pulled in.
Two chatty hitmen, a fugitive boxer, a pair of diner robbers and a gangster's wife: several Los Angeles stories intertwine in a fractured narrative.
A simple man with a big heart drifts through the defining moments of American history while staying true to his childhood sweetheart.
A sleepless office worker, tired of consumer life, meets a charismatic soap salesman. Together they start an underground fight club that soon grows into something alarming.
A hacker discovers that the world he thinks is real is only a simulation. Recruited by a band of rebels, he may be the one who can free humanity.
Batman, backed by District Attorney Harvey Dent and Lieutenant Gordon, thinks he can clean up Gotham. Then comes the Joker, an unpredictable criminal who spreads chaos.
On an Earth ravaged by dust storms, a former pilot joins a team of explorers heading through a wormhole in search of a new habitable planet.
The hobbit Frodo inherits a ring of evil power. With a fellowship of companions, he leaves the peaceful Shire to try to destroy it once and for all.
On his eleventh birthday, an orphan mistreated by his aunt and uncle learns he is a wizard and goes off to Hogwarts, the famous school of magic.
Sent back to 1955 in a DeLorean turned time machine, a high schooler disrupts the meeting of his own parents and has to fix the damage.
A billionaire invites scientists to his theme park filled with dinosaurs cloned from DNA. A security failure turns the tour into a nightmare.
At an American beach resort, a great white shark preys on swimmers. The police chief, an oceanographer and a shark hunter set out to track it down at sea.
A little boy finds an alien stranded on Earth and hides him at home. With his brother and sister, he sets out to help him get back home.
The crew of a commercial spaceship answers a distress signal on an unknown planet and unknowingly brings a deadly alien creature on board.
A cyborg from the future must protect young John Connor, the future leader of the human resistance, from a new, nearly indestructible liquid-metal machine.
A writer moves in with his wife and son as caretaker of a remote mountain hotel that is closed for the winter. Isolation and the place itself seem to slowly change him.
A young FBI trainee seeks help from Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant imprisoned psychiatrist and cannibal, to hunt another serial killer who is still at large.
Sentenced to life in prison for a double murder he says he didn't commit, a banker befriends an inmate who can get his hands on anything.
Betrayed by the emperor's son and sold into slavery, a Roman general becomes a gladiator. He fights his way up to the Colosseum with one aim: revenge.
On the lush moon of Pandora, a paraplegic ex-Marine pilots a hybrid body to infiltrate the Na'vi people, whose land a mining company covets.
After Thanos's devastating victory, the surviving Avengers gather one last time to try to undo the disaster that wiped out half of all life in the universe.
On the way to her new home, a young girl is trapped in a world of spirits. To save her parents, who have been turned into pigs, she goes to work in a magical bathhouse.
Moving to the countryside to be closer to their hospitalized mother, two sisters discover strange creatures in the nearby forest, including the big, gentle Totoro.
Woody, a little boy's favorite cowboy doll, sees his place threatened by the arrival of Buzz Lightyear, a space toy convinced he's a real hero.
When his only son is captured by a diver, an anxious clownfish crosses the ocean to find him, helped by Dory, a blue tang with a terrible memory.
A grumpy old balloon salesman ties thousands of balloons to his house to fly to South America, unaware that a young Wilderness Explorer is still on the porch.
In Paris, a rat with an exceptional sense of smell dreams of becoming a chef. He teams up with a clumsy young kitchen worker to cook in secret at a famous restaurant.
A grumpy ogre finds his swamp overrun by fairy-tale creatures. To get it back, he agrees to rescue a princess, with a very talkative donkey in tow.
When her older sister Elsa, who has icy powers, plunges their kingdom into eternal winter, the brave Anna sets off through the mountains to find her.
Bitten by a radioactive spider, teenager Miles Morales finds out he isn't the only Spider-Man: other versions of the hero from parallel universes arrive in New York.
Passionate about music despite his family's ban, young Miguel finds himself in the Land of the Dead during Mexico's Día de Muertos celebration.
A dreamy waitress in a Montmartre café, Amélie decides to secretly bring happiness to the people around her, at the risk of forgetting her own life.
After a night of rioting in the suburbs, three friends kill time over twenty-four hours, one of them having found a policeman's lost gun.
Every week, a Parisian publisher and his friends invite an "idiot" to dinner to mock him. But tonight's guest is about to give him a disastrous evening.
In 1955, secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath is sent to Cairo to investigate a colleague's disappearance. Overconfident, he blunders from one gaffe to the next.
Transferred north as a punishment, a Provençal post office manager expects the worst. He finds a warm region and lovable locals, but can't bring himself to tell his wife.
Thanks to a botched potion, a 12th-century knight and his loyal squire are flung into the 1990s, where they cause panic.
To win a bet against Caesar, Cleopatra must have a palace built in three months. The architect Numerobis calls on his Gaulish friends Asterix, Obelix and Getafix for help.
Childhood friends and lifelong rivals, two freedivers keep pushing their limits, irresistibly drawn to the silent blue depths of the Mediterranean.
A lonely New York hitman takes in his twelve-year-old neighbor after her family is murdered. She asks him to teach her his trade.
In the 23rd century, a New York cab driver has a mysterious young woman fall into his taxi, the key to humanity's survival against a cosmic threat.
At the Cannes Film Festival, a press agent has to promote a horror turkey. When real murders strike the film's crew, she sees it as a publicity windfall.
A poor family in Seoul schemes its way, one by one, into jobs serving a wealthy family in a luxurious architect-designed house.
In Gotham, Arthur Fleck, a failed comedian living with his mother, slowly unravels in a society that ignores and rejects him.
Based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, the film follows a New York stockbroker who builds a fortune on fraud, amid wild excess and easy money.
In the American South two years before the Civil War, a freed slave teams up with a German bounty hunter to rescue his wife from a cruel plantation owner.
From a kid fascinated by gangsters to life as a mobster, Henry Hill recounts decades spent at the heart of the New York Mafia.
A Cuban refugee arriving in Miami, Tony Montana ruthlessly climbs the cocaine trade until he builds an empire as outsized as it is fragile.
A small-time boxer from the working-class streets of Philadelphia, Rocky Balboa is handed an unlikely shot: a fight against the heavyweight champion of the world.
In a post-apocalyptic desert, Max is swept up with Furiosa, a warrior fleeing a tyrant with his wives, in a frenzied chase across the dunes.
Heir to a noble house, young Paul Atreides travels with his family to Arrakis, a hostile desert planet that holds the most precious resource in the universe.
A portrait of physicist Robert Oppenheimer, who led the Manhattan Project during World War II, and of the moral and political fallout of his invention.
In the perfect pink world of Barbieland, a doll starts asking existential questions and sets off with Ken to explore the real world.
A young Black photographer visits his white girlfriend's family for the first time. Behind the warm welcome, the weekend takes a disturbing turn.
In Los Angeles, an aspiring actress and a passionate jazz pianist fall in love while chasing their dreams in a city that crushes many of them.
The morning after a bachelor party in Las Vegas, three friends wake up with no memory of the night, and without the groom.
When the governor's daughter is kidnapped by the cursed crew of the Black Pearl, a young blacksmith teams up with the eccentric Captain Jack Sparrow to save her.
Left for dead on her wedding day, a former assassin wakes from a four-year coma and sets out to take revenge, one by one, on those who betrayed her.
In 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is sent to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis can get their hands on the legendary treasure.
A detective nearing retirement and his young replacement investigate a serial killer who picks his victims according to the seven deadly sins.
In Derry, children are disappearing. A group of misfit kids, the Losers' Club, takes on a terrifying entity that most often appears as a clown.
As Frodo and Sam approach Mount Doom, Aragorn and his companions rally the free peoples for a final battle against Sauron's armies.
Hunted by the Empire, the rebels scatter. Luke goes to train with Jedi Master Yoda, while Han Solo and Princess Leia try to escape Darth Vader.
In the middle of the Civil War, three ruthless men race to find a cache of gold coins buried in a cemetery, even if it means teaming up for a while.
In futuristic England, young Alex and his gang commit violence for fun. After his arrest, he agrees to be a guinea pig for an experimental rehabilitation method.
To avoid prison, a small-time criminal pretends to be insane and is committed. He defies the authority of the unyielding head nurse, Mildred Ratched.
During the Vietnam War, an American captain travels up a river into Cambodia to eliminate a colonel who has gone rogue, holed up deep in the jungle.
An insomniac veteran working as a night-shift cabbie in New York, Travis Bickle watches the city's violence with disgust, until he decides to act himself.
A talented but reckless fighter pilot, Maverick enters the Navy's elite flight school, where he must measure up to the best and learn to master his demons.
In Los Angeles, a wealthy businessman hires a prostitute to accompany him for a week. What was meant to be a simple arrangement turns into a love story.
A New York cop is recruited by a secret agency that monitors aliens living undercover on Earth, alongside a veteran agent with a deadpan wit.
A child psychologist tries to help a terrified little boy who claims to see dead people around him, while trying to piece his own life back together.
In Boston, a young cop goes undercover in the Irish mob while a protégé of the local crime boss rises through the police ranks. Each must unmask the other side's mole.
After the D-Day landings in 1944, a captain and his men cross Normandy to find a paratrooper whose three brothers have been killed in action.
During World War II, a German industrialist and Nazi Party member employs Jewish workers in his factory and ends up risking his fortune to protect them.
An ambitious young jazz drummer joins the studio band of a prestigious conservatory, led by a tyrannical teacher who will stop at nothing to push his students past their limits.
After his father's death, T'Challa returns to Wakanda, a technologically advanced African nation hidden from the world, to become its king. A rival challenges his throne.
With his secret identity exposed, Peter Parker asks Doctor Strange for help. The spell goes wrong and opens the door to visitors from other universes.
Over thirty years after his debut, Maverick, still a test pilot, is called back to train a new generation of elite pilots for a nearly impossible mission.
As Loki arrives to conquer Earth with an alien army, Nick Fury assembles Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hulk, Black Widow and Hawkeye into an unlikely team.
Inside young Riley's head, five emotions run her daily life. When her family moves to San Francisco, Joy and Sadness get lost in the corners of her memory.
A street thief in Agrabah, Aladdin gets hold of a magic lamp housing an exuberant genie ready to grant three wishes, and with them, a chance at Princess Jasmine.
To save her father, young Belle agrees to stay prisoner in the castle of a cursed Beast, where the objects talk and love might change everything.
Struck by a curse, young prince Ashitaka travels west and finds himself in the middle of a war between the spirits of the forest and the humans destroying it.
A Tokyo high schooler and a girl from a mountain village keep waking up in each other's bodies, though they have never met. A mysterious bond connects them.
Gru, a supervillain with outsized ambitions, plans to steal the Moon. To do it, he adopts three orphan girls, who upend all his plans and his heart.
The last working robot on an Earth buried in trash, WALL-E has been compacting garbage for centuries. Meeting EVE, a robot from space, changes everything.
Forced to hide their powers and live ordinary lives, a former superhero and his family spring back into action when a mysterious threat emerges.
In a small California town, a masked killer terrorizes teenagers by phone, playing with the horror-movie rules they know by heart.
In the 1970s, a married pair of paranormal investigators helps a family terrorized by an evil presence in their isolated Rhode Island farmhouse.
When her twelve-year-old daughter shows alarming signs of possession, a desperate actress turns to two Catholic priests to free her from the demon.
The group of vacationers we met at the Club Med resort heads to the ski slopes. Between botched lessons and getting lost in the mountains, the disasters pile up.
In 1942, an orchestra conductor and a house painter end up helping British airmen cross occupied France to reach the free zone.
In Marseille, a speed-obsessed cab driver is forced to help a clumsy cop catch a gang of German bank robbers who drive Mercedes cars.
A bourgeois Catholic couple sees their first three daughters marry men of different religions and backgrounds. All their hopes now rest on the youngest.
In 1949, a musician takes a job as a supervisor at a boarding school for troubled boys. To win them over, he decides to form a choir with his students.
An undercover cop in Los Angeles's street-racing scene investigates truck hijackings and gets close to Dominic Toretto, a charismatic driver.
There is no single answer. Among viewers, The Shawshank Redemption and The Godfather have held the top two spots of the IMDb Top 250 for years. Among critics, Citizen Kane, Vertigo and 2001: A Space Odyssey come up again and again. On BlindTier, your ranking is the one that counts.
A tier list is a ranking in tiers, from best to worst. Tiers are usually lettered: S for the elite, then A, B, C and D.
With a regular tier list maker, you drag pictures into tiers freely. On BlindTier, you pick a theme and a Top 10, 20 or 50, then place the cards one by one without knowing which one comes next. It’s free and needs no sign-up.
A blind ranking is a game where you rank items without seeing the rest of the list. Each item is revealed one at a time and has to get a final spot, so you make every choice without knowing what comes next.
In a tier list, you see every item before sorting them into tiers. In a blind ranking, items are revealed one by one and every spot is final: you have to bet on what’s coming.
Yes. BlindTier is free to play in your browser, on desktop and mobile, with no sign-up.