What is Melancholia's IQ Score?

Melancholia has an IQ Score of 164/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient framework, placing it in the Masterclass tier. The score breaks down to 42/50 Cognitive Stimulation, 39/50 Educational Value, and 42/50 Craft & Quality.

Is Melancholia educational?

Melancholia is strong on educational value, 39/50 on TVI's rubric, which covers academic content, emotional intelligence, critical thinking, life skills, and knowledge transfer.

How does TV Intelligentsia calculate IQ Score?

TV Intelligentsia's IQ Score is calculated as round((Cognitive Stimulation × 0.4 + Educational Value × 0.35 + Craft & Quality × 0.25) × 4), scoring titles from 0 to 200 across five tiers: Masterclass (≥160), Stimulating (≥130), Competent (≥100), Passive (≥70), and Numbing (<70). The framework is published at tvintelligentsia.com/methodology/.

Melancholia , IQ Score 164/200

Melancholia has an IQ Score of 164/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Masterclass tier.

By Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH·Updated 2026-06-17·Methodology

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164/ 200

Masterclass

Measurably increases domain knowledge or cognitive capacity

Score Breakdown

Cognitive Stimulation/50

Educational Value/50

Craft & Quality/50

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Why you should trust this score

Scored under Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH

Physician and founding editor. Maintains the adult catalog against the published rubric and reviews the rubric application.

Methodology

Published rubric, v1.2

Formula

round(C × 0.40 + E × 0.35 + Q × 0.25) × 4

Database scale

2,338 titles, version-controlled

TVI Canon

Lars von Trier →

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The TVI Take

Lars von Trier's 2011 Cannes Best Actress (Kirsten Dunst)-winning film about two sisters reckoning with the imminent collision of a rogue planet with Earth. The structural commitment to letting the depression-cognitive register operate as cover for actual end-of-world inquiry, and the canonical opening-credits Wagner-Tristan-and-Isolde montage, is the catalog's most-formally-ambitious late-career work.

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