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Sam Raimi

American filmmaker (born 1959)

2.45body-of-work score · ranked #439 of 2631 directors · 8 films in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Born
October 23, 1959 · Royal Oak
Nationality
United States
Work
actor, screenwriter, film director, film producer
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Sam Raimi
Super Festivals from Ft. Lauderdale, USA · CC BY 2.0

Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

  1. 1
    A Simple Plan

    1998 · France / United States / United Kingdom · crime, drama, film-noir

    Sarris's annual top 10 1998 #1 · Ebert's annual top 10 1998 #4 · Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite movies

    0.833 citations
  2. 2
    Spider-Man 2

    2004 · United States · action, thriller, sci-fi

    Ebert's annual top 10 2004 #4 · Empire 500 (2008) #411 · Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite movies

    0.503 citations
  3. 3
    Evil Dead II

    1987 · United States · horror, comedy

    Empire 500 (2008) #49 · Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite movies

    0.382 citations
  4. 4
    Drag Me to Hell

    2009 · United States · horror, comedy

    Film Comment year-end poll 2009 #45

    0.181 citation
  5. 5
    Army of Darkness

    1992 · United States · fantasy, horror, comedy

    Empire 500 (2008) #372

    0.181 citation
  6. 6
    Spider-Man

    2002 · United States · sci-fi, drama, action

    Empire 500 (2008) #437

    0.171 citation
  7. 7
    The Evil Dead

    1981 · United States · horror, drama, fantasy

    Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite movies

    0.111 citation
  8. 8
    The Quick and the Dead

    1995 · United States · western

    Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite movies

    0.111 citation

Complete filmography

All 20 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.