Seven
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Core Identity: Seven (Se7en) is a 1995 American neo-noir crime thriller directed by David Fincher and written by Andrew Kevin Walker, starring Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Kevin Spacey Foundational Thesis: Pairing retiring Detective William Somerset (Freeman) with impulsive Detective David Mills (Pitt), the film structures a serial-killer procedural around the seven deadly sins, culminating in an uncompromising climax where the killer (Spacey) engineers Mills's own wrath as the final sin Contemporary Significance: Following Fincher's troubled debut Alien 3 (1992), Seven established him as a premier Hollywood auteur and grossed 11.0x its $30M production budget September–October 1995 (Four-Week #1 Box Office Run): Held #1 at the domestic box office for four consecutive weekends (Sept 22 – Oct 13, 1995), opening to $13,949,807 across 2,441 theaters and finishing with $101,871,174 domestic and $227,999,916 international ($329.87M worldwide) 1996 (Awards Season): Won the MTV Movie Award for Best Picture while receiving limited Academy Award campaign backing from New Line Cinema; earned 1 Oscar nomination (Richard Francis-Bruce for Film Editing) at the 68th Academy Awards January 2025 (30th Anniversary IMAX Re-Release): Re-released in IMAX by Warner Bros. on January 3, 2025 across 200 domestic theaters, adding $915,000 over its opening weekend
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Verified Entity DossierRanked #1 in Top 10 Best Thriller Movies
Best Rank
#1
top 3 in 1 list
Avg Position
#2.5
across 2 lists
Community
#1 Pick
avg #2.5 overall
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“Top 10 Greatest Thriller Films of All Time”
Ranks as high as #1 on some lists — but only #4 here. Fans are divided.
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Climbed to #1 — a narrowly contested win.
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What is Seven's highest community ranking?⌄
Seven is ranked #1 on "Top 10 Best Thriller Movies" — its best placement across 2 lists on top10grid.com.
How many top-10 lists feature Seven?⌄
Seven appears in 2 lists on top10grid.com, spanning categories including FILM.
Is Seven a controversial ranking?⌄
Yes — community opinion on Seven varies widely. It ranks as high as #1 on some lists and as low as #4 on others, a spread of 3 positions, making it one of the more debated picks on top10grid.com.
What the internet says
Structured Facts & Specifications
Verified highlightsEntity ID
film-seven-1995
Canonical Name
Seven (stylized as Se7en)
Ontology Node Type
film
Ontology Subclass
Neo-Noir Crime Thriller / Psychological Thriller
Release & Core Specs
Domestic wide release September 15/22, 1995 (New Line Cinema); 126 minutes; MPA Rated R; Production Budget $30,000,000; Worldwide Gross $329,871,090
Schema.org / Domain Tags
schema:Movie, NeoNoir, PsychologicalThriller, CrimeDrama, NewLineCinema
Digital Footprint & Official Hubs
The Numbers Financial Record (https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Se7en-(1995)), Encyclopaedia Britannica (https://www.britannica.com/topic/Se7en), Rotten Tomatoes (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/seven/cast-and-crew)
