Ranking All Of Director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Movies
“What are Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Best Movies?” We looked at all of Jodorowsky’s directed filmography and ranked them against one another to answer that very question!
We took all of the movies directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky and looked at his Rotten Tomato Critic, Rotten Tomato User, IMDB, and Letterboxd scores, ranking them against one another to see which movies came out on top. The movies are ranked in our list below based on which movies have the highest overall score between all 6 review sites in comparison with all of the other movies by the same director. The process is all very scientific with no flaws at all.
The full ranking chart is also included below the countdown on the bottom of the page. We will update the article if/when a new movie by Alejandro Jodorowsky is released. Although it probably won’t be immediate so the scores on each site have time to settle and aren’t overly influenced by the early, usually much more opinionated, users.
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The Top Film’s Of Alejandro Jodorowsky
10 ) Tusk
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 7
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 8
- IMDB User Review Score: 10
- Letterboxd User Score: 10
An English girl and an Indian elephant, born on the same day, share a common destiny…
9 ) Melodrama Sacramental
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 7
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 10
- IMDB User Review Score: 9
- Letterboxd User Score: 8
The Panic Movement performed theatrical events designed to be shocking, as a response to surrealism becoming petite bourgeoisie and to release destructive energies in search of peace and beauty. One four-hour performance known as Melodrama Sacramentral was staged in May 1965 at the Paris Festival of Free Expression. The “happening” starred Jodorowsky dressed in motorcyclist leather and featured him slitting the throats of two geese, taping two snakes to his chest and having himself stripped and whipped. Other scenes included a staged murder of a rabbi, a crucified chicken, a giant vagina giving birth to Jodorowsky, naked women covered in honey and the throwing of live turtles into the audience.
8 ) The Rainbow Thief
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 7
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 9
- IMDB User Review Score: 8
- Letterboxd User Score: 9
A petty crook, in search of the proverbial pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, hopes to cash in by befriending the heir to a huge fortune.
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7 ) The Severed Heads
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 7
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 7
- IMDB User Review Score: 7
- Letterboxd User Score: 7
A short mime adaptation of a Thomas Mann story about a Parisian urchin who makes her living selling human heads. Lost for nearly 50 years, the movie was found in 2006 by the son of Ruth Michelly and Saul Gilbert when he found it in his mom’s attic in Munich.
6 ) Fando and Lis
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 6
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 6
- IMDB User Review Score: 6
- Letterboxd User Score: 6
Fando and his partially paralyzed lover Lis search for the mythical city of Tar. Based on Jodorowsky’s memories of a play by surrealist Fernando Arrabal.
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4 ) El Topo
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 5
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 3
- IMDB User Review Score: 4
- Letterboxd User Score: 4
El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man. El Topo (the mole) claims to be God, while dressed as a gunfighter in black, riding a horse through a spiritual, mystical landscape strewn with old Western movie, and ancient Eastern religious symbols. Bandits slaughtered a village on his path, so El Topo avenges the massacred, then forcibly takes their leader’s woman Mara as his. El Topo’s surreal way is bloody, sexual and self-reflective, musing of his own demons, as he tries to vanquish those he encounters.
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4 ) The Dance of Reality
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 1
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 5
- IMDB User Review Score: 4
- Letterboxd User Score: 5
“Having broken away from my illusory self, I was desperately seeking a path and a meaning to life.” This phrase perfectly sums up Alejandro Jodorowsky’s biographical project: reconstituting the incredible adventure of his life. Alejandro Jodorowsky was born in 1929 in Tocopilla, a coastal town on edge of the Chilean desert, where this film was shot. It was there where he discovered the fundamentals of reality, as he underwent an unhappy and alienated childhood as part of an uprooted family.
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3 ) Endless Poetry
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 2
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 3
- IMDB User Review Score: 2
- Letterboxd User Score: 3
A portrait of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s young adulthood, set in the 1940s and 50s, in the electric capital city of Santiago. There, he decides to become a poet and is introduced, by destiny, into the foremost bohemian and artistic circle of the time.
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2 ) Santa Sangre
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 3
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 2
- IMDB User Review Score: 2
- Letterboxd User Score: 2
A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers: he saw his father cut off the arms of his mother, a religious fanatic and leader of the heretical church of Santa Sangre (“Holy Blood”), and then commit suicide. Back in the present, he escapes and rejoins his surviving and armless mother.
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1 ) The Holy Mountain
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 4
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 1
- IMDB User Review Score: 1
- Letterboxd User Score: 1
A Mexican master leads a Christ figure and other disciples to a mountain of immortal wise men.
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Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Best Movies
Alejandro Jodorowsky Review Website Filmography Rankings
| Film | RT Critic | RT User | IMDB | Letterboxd | Overal Rank |
| The Holy Mountain | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Santa Sangre | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Endless Poetry | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| El Topo | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| The Dance of Reality | 1 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
| Fando and Lis | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| The Severed Heads | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
| The Rainbow Thief | 7 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 8 |
| Melodrama Sacramental | 7 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 9 |
| Tusk | 7 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
