Rank your watchlist with real poster images. Upload your movies, drag them into tiers, and export the verdict.
Hit ＋ Add items to upload your movies images — they drop straight into the tray.
This movie tier list maker starts empty on purpose: you upload the posters or stills you want to judge, and they land in the tray. Drag each film into one of five default tiers, S down to D, rename a row or add one if you need an F, then export the board as a PNG — or as a vertical video for Shorts and TikTok.
Half the pleasure of ranking films is looking at them, which is why this movie tier list maker runs on real poster art rather than plain text tiles. Upload posters or screenshots of whatever you feel like judging — blockbusters, indie darlings, classics, the guilty pleasures you would not admit to — and sort them by hand. A board built from images ends up looking like the films it is ranking, which text never quite manages.
Everything is processed right in your browser, so nothing is uploaded to a server. Build your all-time movie ranking, set the genuine rewatches against the films you have already forgotten, then export a clean PNG to share. Anyone starting cold can read how to make a tier list first, and what S-tier really means settles the top row when it trips you up.
Use it as a film tier list for any slice you like. Split by genre — a comedy movie tier list, horror, animated movies, superhero movies — or go broad with your all-time favorites. Sequels start their own fights: is a trilogy ever strongest in the middle? You can rank characters or villains instead of whole films, too; stills work as well as posters. For movie night, give everyone the same set of posters and compare boards afterwards. Treat this page as your movie tier list template — box office numbers don't count for anything here.
An S-tier film is one you would hand to somebody with no disclaimer attached and happily sit through again the same week. The bar is meant to hurt a little: if half a dozen titles pile into that row, it has stopped doing any work. The few that survive the cut are your S tier movies. A-tier is great with an asterisk, B and C hold the solid ones you will have forgotten by Thursday, and D is the two hours you would like back. Judge on story, direction, rewatch value or sheer impact — a board that changes its mind about the criteria halfway down is just a list of films.
Critics can't settle the top row either. Sight and Sound's once-a-decade poll put Citizen Kane first five times running, switched to Vertigo in 2012, and in 2022 crowned Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (the full 2022 list is on Wikipedia). So your S tier doesn't have to match anyone's greatest films. Cultural impact, direction and performances are all fair reasons to promote a film, and modern classics can sit beside ones from the 1940s. Just be ready to defend every pick out loud — a top 20 movies of all time board you can't argue for is someone else's list with your name on it.
One studio or franchise makes a tighter board than a random pile, and the arguments get more specific. Pixar is the obvious start — rank it once with the sequels and once without. Studio Ghibli works the same way, DreamWorks hands you Shrek, Kung Fu Panda and How to Train Your Dragon to fight over, and A24 suits anyone whose watchlist leans toward horror and slow-burn indie.
Directors are just as good. A Christopher Nolan board — Memento, The Dark Knight, Inception, Oppenheimer — gets heated mostly over where Tenet lands. Long franchises are the real stress test: eight Harry Potter films, sixty-plus years of James Bond (rank by film, or by actor from Connery to Craig), or Godzilla across Toho and Hollywood.
Seasonal boards are worth rerunning every year: Christmas movies in December, a horror movies ranking in October, zombie movies whenever the mood hits. Or pull the IMDb Top 250 or your Letterboxd diary and count how many really belong in S. A few franchises already have their own boards — Disney movies, Star Wars, Marvel and anime — so use this one for everything else, including a superhero movie tier list that mixes studios.
Browse every ready-made board, or start from a blank one.
Click “Add items” and upload your movie images — they drop into the tray. Drag each into a tier from S to D, then Export PNG.
Nowhere — they stay in your browser. Nothing is uploaded to a server, and your board is saved locally for next time.
Yes. Free forever, no account, and no watermark on the exported PNG.
Rewatch value is the honest test for most people, though story, direction or pure enjoyment work just as well. Whichever you pick, use it on every film: recommend-to-anyone picks up top, regrets down in D.
Absolutely. Upload every entry in a series or a director's catalog, drop them into the tray, and rank them head to head — it is one of the most popular ways to use the board.
On this board, five by default: S, A, B, C and D, top to bottom. S is the short list you'd recommend to anyone and D is the stuff you regret. None of it is locked — open Tiers to rename a row, add an F, or swap the letters for labels like "Masterpiece," "Rewatch" and "Never again." Whatever labels you use, hold every film to the same test, or the rows stop meaning anything.
Films you've actually seen — a tier list only gets interesting when every tile is something you have an opinion on. A good mix crosses decades and genres: a classic like Casablanca, a modern crowd-pleaser like Mad Max: Fury Road, a comedy, something animated, and at least one divisive pick people will fight you over. Fifteen to thirty films fills five tiers without leaving the D row lonely.
It depends entirely on who's voting. Sight and Sound's 2022 critics' poll put Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles at number one, ahead of Vertigo and Citizen Kane, while fan-voted lists such as the IMDb Top 250 look very different. The more honest answer is your own top 20: upload twenty posters, force them into tiers, and see which ones still hold S when they're side by side.
That changes every week, so this page won't pretend to know — box office charts and streaming top-10s turn over constantly. A running board works better: start a 2026 movies tier list, add each new release as you walk out of the cinema, and export a PNG every month or so to keep a record. By December you have a best-of-the-year ranking made entirely of films you actually watched.
Upload only images you have the rights to use. Movie titles and artwork are property of their respective owners; Tier List Maker is an independent tool.