Basic Instinct

Quality:

Basic Instinct - 1992 film directed by Paul Verhoeven. This film is the 455^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of films and the 97^th most popular film in French Wikipedia. Article “Basic Instinct” in French Wikipedia has 39.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 46 references and 31 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 6.93 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (French) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

French Wikipedia:

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The 4311^th most popular in French Wikipedia.

The 97^th most popular in films in French Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8494^th most popular in all topics.

The 455^th most popular in films.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 9470^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Basic Instinct” was edited by 2 authors in French Wikipedia and written by 17 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Basic Instinct”, its content was written by 187 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 2139 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Basic Instinct is on the 97^th place in local ranking of films in French Wikipedia and on the 455^th place in global ranking of films in all the time.

The article is cited 290 times in French Wikipedia and cited 2580 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #189 in January 2025
• Global: #4629 in January 2025

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #3 in October 2014
• Global: #282 in October 2014

There are 42 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Basic Instinct		79.7135
2	Portuguese (pt) Basic Instinct		61.9027
3	German (de) Basic Instinct		57.5137
4	Vietnamese (vi) Basic Instinct		57.4842
5	Italian (it) Basic Instinct		47.5361
6	Azerbaijani (az) Əsas instinkt		43.253
7	Hungarian (hu) Elemi ösztön		42.2032
8	Hebrew (he) אינסטינקט בסיסי		39.7262
9	French (fr) Basic Instinct		39.2938
10	Russian (ru) Основной инстинкт		37.874

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Basic Instinct		13 936 619
2	French (fr) Basic Instinct		2 945 110
3	Russian (ru) Основной инстинкт		2 907 246
4	German (de) Basic Instinct		2 583 636
5	Italian (it) Basic Instinct		1 725 487
6	Japanese (ja) 氷の微笑		1 621 380
7	Spanish (es) Basic Instinct		1 425 448
8	Persian (fa) غریزه اصلی		801 066
9	Arabic (ar) غريزة أساسية (فلم)		534 703
10	Chinese (zh) 第六感追緝令		421 247

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Basic Instinct		55 691
2	Russian (ru) Основной инстинкт		8 951
3	Japanese (ja) 氷の微笑		4 600
4	German (de) Basic Instinct		4 455
5	French (fr) Basic Instinct		4 449
6	Persian (fa) غریزه اصلی		4 263
7	Italian (it) Basic Instinct		4 051
8	Spanish (es) Basic Instinct		2 363
9	Chinese (zh) 第六感追緝令		2 328
10	Dutch (nl) Basic Instinct		1 391

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Basic Instinct		662
2	French (fr) Basic Instinct		187
3	German (de) Basic Instinct		177
4	Italian (it) Basic Instinct		154
5	Russian (ru) Основной инстинкт		112
6	Spanish (es) Basic Instinct		79
7	Dutch (nl) Basic Instinct		66
8	Japanese (ja) 氷の微笑		62
9	Hungarian (hu) Elemi ösztön		61
10	Hebrew (he) אינסטינקט בסיסי		55

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Basic Instinct		3
2	Turkish (tr) Temel İçgüdü		3
3	French (fr) Basic Instinct		2
4	Arabic (ar) غريزة أساسية (فلم)		1
5	Azerbaijani (az) Əsas instinkt		1
6	German (de) Basic Instinct		1
7	Italian (it) Basic Instinct		1
8	Lithuanian (lt) Esminis instinktas		1
9	Dutch (nl) Basic Instinct		1
10	Polish (pl) Nagi instynkt		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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