How the Movie Franchises bracket works
Rank movie franchises without dragging anything into rows. You get one matchup at a time — Star Wars or Marvel Cinematic Universe? Harry Potter or The Lord of the Rings? — and after 31 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. By the end you have ranked all 32 without ever having to look at more than two at a time.
This bracket runs 5 rounds at the default 32-slot size (Round of 32, Sweet 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship), with every one of the 32 films in the field. Entrants are drawn at random each time, so an early upset in one run may never happen in the next. You can also play it at 8 or 16 slots for a shorter or longer run.
31 picks, 5 rounds
- Round of 3216 matchups
- Sweet 168 matchups
- Elite 84 matchups
- Final Four2 matchups
- Championship1 matchup
Roughly 2-4 minutes start to finish.
All 32 entrants
All 32 entrants are listed below, including Star Wars, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings.
Star Wars
11 films
Marvel Cinematic Universe
33 films
Harry Potter
8 films
The Lord of the Rings
6 films
James Bond
25 films
Fast & Furious
11 films
Jurassic Park / World
6 films
Batman
9 films
Mission: Impossible
8 films
Indiana Jones
5 films
Spider-Man
9 films
X-Men
13 films
Pixar
28 films
DC Extended Universe
15 films
Transformers
7 films
Alien
8 films
Planet of the Apes
10 films
Terminator
6 films
John Wick
4 films
Pirates of the Caribbean
5 films
Toy Story
5 films
The Matrix
4 films
Rocky / Creed
9 films
Mad Max
5 films
Shrek
5 films
The Hunger Games
5 films
Back to the Future
3 films
The Conjuring Universe
8 films
Dune
2 films
Godzilla / MonsterVerse
5 films
Disney Renaissance
10 films
Twilight
5 films
Would rather group them than rank them? Open all 32 in the tier list maker and sort them into S, A, B, C, D and F tiers instead — same entrants, no matchups.
How everyone else ranked them
Aggregated from 19 completed Movie Franchises brackets. Win rate is the share of head-to-head matchups each entrant has won across every play.
- 1
Marvel Cinematic Universe
42W - 14L · won 3 brackets
75%
win rate
- 2
Harry Potter
30W - 13L · won 2 brackets
70%
win rate
- 3
Pirates of the Caribbean
35W - 16L · won 1 bracket
69%
win rate
- 4
The Lord of the Rings
30W - 14L · won 2 brackets
68%
win rate
- 5
Spider-Man
28W - 14L · won 3 brackets
67%
win rate
- 6
Pixar
26W - 14L · won 1 bracket
65%
win rate
- 7
Star Wars
23W - 14L · won 1 bracket
62%
win rate
- 8
Batman
21W - 16L
57%
win rate
- 9
Rocky / Creed
18W - 16L · won 1 bracket
53%
win rate
- 10
X-Men
15W - 15L
50%
win rate
Getting a ranking you actually agree with
- 1Pick the film you would actually rewatch tonight, not the one with the better reputation.
- 2The default run puts all 32 films in the draw. Short on time? Drop to 16 slots — a quicker run over a random 16 of them.
- 3Watch for the film you keep beating reluctantly. That is usually the sign you should undo and reconsider the pick before it.
Movie Franchises bracket FAQ
How many films are in the Movie Franchises bracket?
The pool holds 32 films. A default run puts all of them in the draw and takes 31 picks across 5 rounds: Round of 32, Sweet 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship. Other field sizes are available too — 8, 16, 32 slots.
Which films are included?
Star Wars, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, James Bond, Fast & Furious, Jurassic Park / World, Batman, Mission: Impossible, Indiana Jones, Spider-Man and X-Men, plus 20 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the rank movie franchises take?
About 2-4 minutes — 31 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to a 8-slot bracket. It works the same on a phone as on a desktop, and no login is involved.
How does this compare to a drag-and-drop tier list maker?
Both are here, and the bracket is closer to a tier list than it looks. It ends with a champion, a runner-up and then every other film grouped by the round it went out in — which is exactly a set of tiers, decided by 31 direct comparisons rather than by your first guess at a layout. What it deliberately does not do is claim a precise gap between two films that never met. If you would rather place the films into S through F rows yourself, the tier list maker loads all 32 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
How did everyone else rank these films?
Every completed bracket feeds the Movie Franchises community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 32 entrants takes the title. It updates continuously, so it moves as more people play.
Can I build my own movie franchises bracket?
Use the bracket maker: add your own films, name it, and share the link so other people play the same field. That is the route to take when this pool of 32 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.