Best Movie Trilogies
a Yourlist ranking · the crowd decides the order
Which trilogy stuck the landing across all three films? Vote up the sagas that earned their legendary status from start to finish.
What counts: Ranked by overall quality and consistency across all three films, cultural impact, and box office success. Box office and rating figures are approximate crowd/critic estimates and rounded for clarity.
Peter Jackson's epic fantasy trilogy remains the gold standard for adaptation and scale.
Release Span: Total Box Office: $2,900,000,000Overall Quality: 9.7/10
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The Dark Knight Trilogy
Christopher Nolan redefined superhero cinema with grounded, operatic crime drama.
Release Span: Total Box Office: $2,400,000,000Overall Quality: 9.3/10
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0The saga that launched blockbuster cinema and a galaxy far, far away.
Release Span: Total Box Office: $1,800,000,000Overall Quality: 9.4/10
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0A crime family epic with two all-time masterpieces carrying the set.
Release Span: Total Box Office: $500,000,000Overall Quality: 9/10
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Time-traveling fun that never loses its charm across three wildly different eras.
Release Span: Total Box Office: $950,000,000Overall Quality: 9/10
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Pixar's emotional rollercoaster about growing up, proven perfect three times over.
Release Span: Total Box Office: $1,900,000,000Overall Quality: 9.2/10
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0Genre-bending sci-fi that changed action filmmaking, even if the sequels split fans.
Release Span: Total Box Office: $1,600,000,000Overall Quality: 8/10
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0Spielberg's swashbuckling adventure series that defined a genre of thrills.
Release Span: Total Box Office: $1,000,000,000Overall Quality: 8.8/10
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0Divisive but visually ambitious, building the mythology behind Vader's fall.
Release Span: Total Box Office: $2,500,000,000Overall Quality: 6.8/10
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0Kinetic spy thrillers that redefined the modern action genre.
Release Span: Total Box Office: $950,000,000Overall Quality: 8.3/10
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0Sam Raimi's heartfelt superhero saga that made web-slinging mainstream.
Release Span: Total Box Office: $2,500,000,000Overall Quality: 7.8/10
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0A new generation's Skywalker saga, ambitious but famously uneven in vision.
Release Span: Total Box Office: $4,500,000,000Overall Quality: 6.2/10
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Richard Linklater's intimate romance unfolding in real time across decades.
Release Span: Total Box Office: $20,000,000Overall Quality: 8.9/10
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0Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood invented the spaghetti western with this iconic set.
Release Span: Total Box Office: $100,000,000Overall Quality: 8.7/10
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0Post-apocalyptic action that built a legendary wasteland mythology.
Release Span: Total Box Office: $150,000,000Overall Quality: 7.8/10
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Edgar Wright's genre-hopping comedy series linked by wit and ice cream.
Release Span: Total Box Office: $180,000,000Overall Quality: 8.2/10
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0Dystopian YA saga that launched a franchise and a genre boom.
Release Span: Total Box Office: $2,200,000,000Overall Quality: 7.3/10
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0Kieślowski's poetic meditation on liberty, equality, and fraternity through cinema.
Release Span: Total Box Office: $10,000,000Overall Quality: 8.8/10
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0A surprisingly soulful sci-fi saga with career-best motion capture work.
Release Span: Total Box Office: $1,700,000,000Overall Quality: 8.5/10
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0Stylish, relentless action filmmaking that revived the genre for a new era.
Release Span: Total Box Office: $580,000,000Overall Quality: 8/10
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