Get Out (2017)

Get Out earned an extraordinary 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar, and grossed $255M on a minuscule $4.5M budget—a 5,667% return that outperforms #7 Roma's 1,000% profit margin. Jordan Peele's debut feature incisively satirizes systemic racism through horror, launching him as a defining director of the decade. Its opening weekend alone generated $33.4M, exceeding the average for $4.5M-budget films by a factor of 100.