A ridgeline plot showing the distribution of IMDb movie ratings by genre, revealing how different categories of film and TV are typically rated by audiences.

A vertical series of bell-curve-like distributions representing different movie genres like Horror, Sci-Fi, and Drama, plotted against an IMDb rating scale of 1 to 10. Horror and Sci-Fi peak lower (around 5-6) while Documentary and News peak higher (around 7-8).

IMDb Movie Ratings by Genre Distribution of ratings for every film marked as a given genre. Note many films have 2+ genres, so will be included in multiple distributions. titles Horror 26.8K Sci-Fi 8.1K Adult 4.7K Thriller 29.4K Action 35.3K Mystery 13.6K Western 5.1K Adventure 20.8K Comedy 82.5K Fantasy 10.6K Crime 29.8K Romance 37.3K Drama 156.3K Family 13.2K Musical 7.1K Animation 6.5K Film-Noir 875 War 6.8K Sport 4.4K History 9.7K Music 9.1K Reality-TV 99 Talk-Show 27 Biography 10.9K Game-Show 3 Documentary 56.4K News 682 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 IMDb rating