Comparison of various top lists: the personal favourite lists of four randomly chosen IMDb users; the IMDb Top 100, which is based on the votes of its regular users; two lists compiled by the film experts Roger Ebert and Tim Dirks; the lists of the American and British Film Institutes; and our list deduced from the film citation network.

(left and center) Overlap between the edges in the multiplex film networks, indicating the ratio of shared attributes. (right) Rankings of all films in the given top lists as compared to the ranking based on the film citation network. For each such list, the ranks of all it's films according to the film citation network ranking are summed and divided by the sum of optimal ranks (i.e. for a list of films). The average result for a randomly selected list of 100 films from the data set is (not shown).