The Silence of the Lambs currently dominates Titanic 67–33

Silence of the Lambs leads Titanic. The cell edges the ship.

67% 33%

Based on 12 head-to-head votes across 1 bracket

The Verdict

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Hopkins and Foster across a glass barrier, trading information for intimacy, is one of the most precisely staged relationships in American cinema. Demme shoots their conversations in direct address, each actor looking into the lens, which makes the audience Lecter's co-interrogator whether they want to be or not. Titanic's achievements are physical: Cameron's ship, the tilting deck, the flooding corridors, a disaster staged with the logistical commitment of someone who genuinely wanted to know what it felt like. The narrow lead for Silence of the Lambs suggests that psychological precision has an edge over physical ambition, but Titanic's scale is clearly registering. The smaller film is leading the bigger one, and the gap is real but not decisive.

The Numbers

	The Silence of the Lambs	Titanic
Head-to-Head	67%	33%
Overall Win Rate	52%	42%
Championships	2	17
Budget	$19M	$200M
Box Office	$273M	$2.3B

Where This Matchup Sits

Out of 45 1990s films on the platform, The Silence of the Lambs is in the lower half and Titanic is in the bottom quarter.

Elsewhere on the platform, they have a common problem — The Godfather beats both of them. Whatever else separates these two films, they share that one loss.

Titanic has 17 tournament wins to The Silence of the Lambs's 2, but that championship pedigree isn't translating to the head-to-head. Something about this specific pairing overrides the broader record.

The box office gap is clear: $2.3B for Titanic, $273M for The Silence of the Lambs. But The Silence of the Lambs wins head-to-head despite earning less.