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What is this list?

This list of films is ordered w.r.t. the "demanding viewer" grade GR. The higher in the list, the better is what "demaning users" of IMDB think about the film. To augment the grade, the entries in the list are equipped with exhaustive additional information and with links leading to more detailed reviews of the film

What is the grade GR?

The grade GR is a calculated grade; it is not my (or anybody else's) personal opinion, but an "objective grade": a result of certain delicate massage of what IMDB contributors think about the film. While it uses the same units as the IMDB grade (for example, the range is from 1 to 10; higher means better), it is significantly more evenly distributed; most of the time, it is also significantly below the average IMDB grade (although there are many exceptions).

These "delicate considerations" are based on my observations of how IMDB contributors behave, hence the grade GR is an objective measure choosen based on subjective observations (for more details, jump here). Currently, I believe that, for many people around me, this calculated grade is much more helpful for deciding which film to watch than any other system I saw (either "objective", or based on opinions of friends, critics etc).

How to use this list?

Of course, as with any "objective measure", one should not trust the calculated grade GR blindly (especially if the "robustness" is low). This grade (and the relative position of a film in the list below) is just a suggestion; clicking on the film's title (better click with the middle mouse button!) leads to the "most helpful" reviews of the film.

I consider these reviews (which I call "reviews from demanding viewers") to be much more important than the grade GR itself. These reviews have a very good chance to contain intelligent observations about the film. (The way to find these reviews is the keystone which makes this page possible.) Let me repeat: I strongly recommend inspecting all the supplied "additional info" about the film and these reviews before deciding whether to watch a film or not; the grade GR should only help to decide which rows in the table should be inspected first! (For more details, jump here.)

Film's info hidden in the entries in the list:

Grades GR are color-coded for robustness: 0 / 0.5 / 1 / 1.5 / 2 / 2.5 / 3 / 3.5 / 4 / 4.5 / 5 / 5.5 / 6 / 6.5 / 7 / 7.5 / 8 / 8.5 / 9. The lower the robustness, the more probable it is that the grade is a result of a statistical fluke. Robustness above 3.5 is expected to be sufficient for most practical purposes. Grades with robustness below about 0.5 have a very high chance to be affected by statistical flukes.

Most columns in the table have additional information provided when mouse is resting over the field. (This information is summarized when mouse is resting over cells in the header row of the table.) The display (or non-display) of icons can be controlled by changing selection in the browser's menu View/Page Style. The release year is color-coded to denote TV films, TV mini-series, and TV series. The director's name is bluish-tinted if its popup has additional info about other films by this director.

GR Year Genres Title Extra links / Director, etc / «Original title»
9.8 1975 TVTVTV CColor "Fawlty Towers" M TV series 1975-1979
9.8 1998 TVTVTV AnAAdDSfTColor "Cowboy Bebop" P, M «"Kaubôi bibappu: Cowboy Bebop"» TV series
9.7 1969 TVTVTV CMcColor "Monty Python's Flying Circus" P, M TV series 1969-1974
9.6 2003 DoHMcColor Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There Rick McKay, W, P
9.6 1982 TVTVTV AnAdFColor "The Mysterious Cities of Gold" Edouard David, Bernard Deyriès, ++, W, W, M «"Taiyô no ko Esteban"» TV series 1982-1983
9.6 1999 TVTVTV AnCDSfColor "Futurama" M TV series 1999-
9.6 1975 AnAdCFSpColor Pinchcliffe Grand Prix Ivo Caprino, W, ++, M «Flåklypa Grand Prix»
9.5 1962 DBlack and White Harakiri Cr Cr-Ess Masaki Kobayashi, W, W, ++, P, M «Seppuku»
9.5 1995 TVTVTV CColor "Father Ted" P, M TV series 1995-1998
9.5 1997 DColor Eve's Bayou Kasi Lemmons, W, P, M
9.4 1995 DRColor When Night Is Falling Patricia Rozema, W, P, M
9.3 1995 TVTVTV AnADSfTColor "Neon Genesis Evangelion" P, M «"Shin seiki evangerion"» TV series 1995-1996
9.3 1985 TVTV CrDMTColor "Edge of Darkness" P, M TV mini-series
9.3 1971 DColor Anand Hrishikesh Mukherjee, W, W, ++, P, M
9.2 1967 TVTVTV ADMSfColor "The Prisoner" P, M TV series 1967-1968
9.2 1966 TVTVTV AAdCrDTColor "Mission: Impossible" P, M TV series 1966-1973
9.1 1945 DRBlack and White Children of Paradise Cr Cr-Ess Cr-Clip Cr-Ess Marcel Carné, W, P, M «Les enfants du paradis»
9.1 1973 DFanFAdRColor Three Wishes for Cinderella Václav Vorlícek, W, W, P, M «Tri orísky pro Popelku»
9.1 1932 CCrRBlack and White Trouble in Paradise Cr Cr-Ess Cr-Ess Cr-Clip Ernst Lubitsch, W, W, ++, P, M
9.1 1976 CDColor "Hallmark Hall of Fame" Beauty and the Beast Fielder Cook, W, W, P, M
9.0 1997 TVTVTV AdSfFanCColor "Lexx" P, M TV series 1997-2002
9.0 1977 AdDTWBlack and White (archive footage), Color (Eastmancolor), Black and White Soldier of Orange Paul Verhoeven, W, W, ++, P, M «Soldaat van Oranje»
9.0 1985 TV DFColor Anne of Green Gables Kevin Sullivan, W, W, ++, P, M TV
9.0 1986 TVTV DMlMTColor "The Singing Detective" P, M TV mini-series
8.9 1989 TVTV AdDWeColor "Lonesome Dove" P, M TV mini-series
8.9 1927 BDHWBlack and White, Black and White (tinted) (some sequences); Silent Napoleon Abel Gance, W, P, M «Napoléon»
8.9 1998 ACColor Gunda Kanti Shah, W, M
8.8 1981 CrDColor Pixote Hector Babenco, W, W, ++, P, M «Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco»
8.8 1962 TV AnCDFFanMlColor Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol Abe Levitow, W, W, M TV
8.8 1977 TVTV BDHColor "Jesus of Nazareth" W, W, ++, P, M TV mini-series
8.8 1978 AAdDColor The 36th Chamber of Shaolin Chia-Liang Liu, W, P, M «Shao Lin san shi liu fang»
8.8 1995 DHColor Les Misérables Claude Lelouch, W, W, P, M «Les misérables»
8.8 2000 DHBlack and White, Color Hey Ram Kamal Hassan, W, W, P, M
8.8 2000 AnSCFColor For the Birds Ralph Eggleston
8.8 1936 CDMlRBlack and White Show Boat James Whale, W, W, ++, P
8.8 1972 TV CHoSColor (Eastmancolor) The Phone Box Antonio Mercero, W, W, ++, P «La cabina» TV
8.8 1994 CColor Andaz Apna Apna Rajkumar Santoshi, W, ++, P, M
8.7 2004 TVTV DRColor "North & South" P, M TV mini-series
8.7 2006 TVTVTV DoColor "Planet Earth" P, M TV series
8.7 1983 AdDTColor El Norte Cr Cr-Ess Cr-Press Gregory Nava, W, W, P, M
8.7 1984 DoMcColor Stop Making Sense Jonathan Demme, W, W, P, M
8.7 2002 DWBlack and White, Color A Peck on the Cheek Mani Ratnam, W, ++, P, M «Kannathil Muthamittal»
8.7 1995 DColor The Cure Peter Horton, W, P, M
8.6 1983 TVTV DColor "The Thorn Birds" W, P, M TV mini-series
8.6 1976 TVTV DHColor "I, Claudius" M TV mini-series
8.6 1939 CDFanBlack and White On Borrowed Time Harold S. Bucquet, W, W, ++, P, M
8.5 1946 DRWBlack and White The Best Years of Our Lives William Wyler, W, W, P, M
8.5 1995 AnSCCrFColor Wallace and Gromit in A Close Shave Nick Park, W, W, P, M
8.5 1955 DoSHWBlack and White, Color Night and Fog Cr Cr-Ess Cr-Ess Alain Resnais, W, ++, P, M «Nuit et brouillard»
8.5 1972 DFHMlColor (Eastmancolor) 1776 Peter H. Hunt, W, W, ++, P, M
8.5 1995 DRColor Letters of Love Shunji Iwai, W, P, M «Love Letter»
8.5 1988 CDRColor Torch Song Trilogy Paul Bogart, W, P
8.5 1924 DBlack and White; Silent The Last Laugh F.W. Murnau, W, P, M «Der letzte Mann»
8.5 1928 DRBlack and White; Silent The Crowd King Vidor, W, W, ++, P, M
8.5 2010 ACHoMlMRTColor Zombie Beach Mukesh Asopa, W, W, ++, M
8.4 1965 TV AnSCFColor A Charlie Brown Christmas Bill Melendez, W, M TV
8.4 1985 AdFSfColor (Technicolor) Back to the Future Robert Zemeckis, W, W, P, M
8.4 1986 AdDColor (Technicolor) Stand by Me Rob Reiner, W, W, ++, P, M
8.4 1985 CColor Tampopo Jûzô Itami, W, P, M
8.4 1953 DMlRColor (Technicolor) Lili Charles Walters, W, W, P, M
8.4 1975 AdDColor (Sovcolor) Deruzu uzâra Akira Kurosawa, W, W, ++, P, M
8.4 1993 DHColor King of the Hill Steven Soderbergh, W, W, P, M
8.4 1998 CDRSpColor Get Real Simon Shore, W, P, M
8.4 1951 FanDColor (tinted) A Christmas Carol Brian Desmond Hurst, W, W, P, M «Scrooge»
8.4 1928 CRFDBlack and White; Silent The Cameraman Edward Sedgwick, ++, W, W, ++, P
8.4 1997 DColor Bian Lian Tian-Ming Wu, W, P, M
8.3 1981 ADHWColor (Fujicolor) Das Boot Wolfgang Petersen, W, W, ++, P, M
8.3 1990 CDHRColor Cyrano de Bergerac Jean-Paul Rappeneau, W, W, ++, P, M
8.3 1994 DMRColor (Eastmancolor) Three Colors: Red Krzysztof Kieslowski, W, W, P, M «Trois couleurs: Rouge»
8.3 1937 AdDFBlack and White Captains Courageous Victor Fleming, W, W, ++, P, M
8.3 1983 DMcColor Tender Mercies Bruce Beresford, W, P, M
8.3 1993 TV DColor And the Band Played On Roger Spottiswoode, W, W, P, M TV
8.3 1996 DWColor Pretty Village, Pretty Flame Srdjan Dragojevic, W, W, ++, P, M «Lepa sela lepo gore»
8.3 1998 ACrColor Satya Ram Gopal Varma, W, W, ++, P, M
8.3 2000 DoBlack and White Dark Days Marc Singer, P, M
8.3 1971 DRColor (Eastmancolor) Melody Waris Hussein, W, P
8.3 1994 CrTColor A Pure Formality Giuseppe Tornatore, W, P, M «Una pura formalità»
8.3 2001 CDRColor My Sassy Girl Jae-young Kwak, W, W, P, M «Yeopgijeogin geunyeo»
8.3 1928 DWeBlack and White; Silent The Wind Victor Sjöström, W, W, P, M
8.2 1962 BDBlack and White The Miracle Worker Arthur Penn, W, ++, P, M
8.2 1980 AAdFSfColor Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back Irvin Kershner, W, W, ++, P, M
8.2 1982 SAnFFanBlack and White Vincent Tim Burton, W, P, M
8.2 2002 DRColor The Twilight Samurai Yôji Yamada, W, W, ++, P, M «Tasogare Seibei»
8.2 1965 DBlack and White Red Beard Cr Cr-Ess Akira Kurosawa, W, W, ++, P, M «Akahige»
8.2 1962 MlCFRColor (Technicolor) The Music Man Morton DaCosta, W, W, ++, P, M
8.2 1965 DBlack and White Red Beard Cr Cr-Ess Akira Kurosawa, W, W, ++, P, M «Akahige»
8.2 1965 DWBlack and White The Shop on Main Street Cr Cr-Ess Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos, W, ++, P, M «Obchod na korze»
8.2 1977 DoSpColor Pumping Iron George Butler, Robert Fiore, W, W, ++, P, M
8.2 1986 DRColor (Eastmancolor) Manon of the Spring Claude Berri, W, W, ++, P, M «Manon des sources»
8.2 1996 DColor Ponette Jacques Doillon, W, W, P, M
8.2 2004 CrDHColor Black Friday Anurag Kashyap, W, W, ++, P, M
8.2 2007 CDColor Like Stars on Earth Aamir Khan, ++, W, P, M «Taare Zameen Par»
8.2 1923 CRTBlack and White; Silent Safety Last! Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor, W, W, ++, P, M
8.2 1934 CBlack and White It's a Gift Norman Z. McLeod, W, W, ++, P, M
8.2 1970 DColor (Technicolor) The Boys in the Band William Friedkin, W, P
8.1 1926 DFanHoBlack and White; Silent Faust F.W. Murnau, W, W, ++, P, M «Faust - Eine deutsche Volkssage»
8.1 1931 CDRBlack and White; Silent City Lights Charles Chaplin, W, ++, P, M
8.1 1936 CDRBlack and White Modern Times Cr Cr-Ess Cr-Press Cr-Clip Cr-Clip Charles Chaplin, W, P, M
8.1 1953 DTBlack and White Ugetsu Cr Cr-Ess Cr-Ess Kenji Mizoguchi, W, W, ++, P, M «Ugetsu monogatari»
8.1 1954 DBlack and White La Strada Cr Cr-Ess Federico Fellini, W, W, ++, P, M «La strada»
8.1 1956 DWWeColor (as De Luxe) Friendly Persuasion William Wyler, W, ++, P, M
8.1 1956 DTWBlack and White A Man Escaped Robert Bresson, W, W, P «Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut»
8.1 1960 HoMTBlack and White Psycho Alfred Hitchcock, W, W, P, M
8.1 1972 CRColor (Technicolor) What's Up, Doc? Peter Bogdanovich, W, W, ++, P, M
8.1 1985 TV DColor Death of a Salesman Volker Schlöndorff, W, P, M TV
8.1 1999 DFColor The Color of Paradise Majid Majidi, W, P, M «Rang-e khoda»
8.1 1955 DBlack and White Pather Panchali Satyajit Ray, W, W, ++, P, M
8.1 1961 DBlack and White A Raisin in the Sun Daniel Petrie, W, P, M
8.1 1975 ADColor (Metrocolor) Hard Times Walter Hill, W, W, ++, P, M
8.1 1979 AdCCrTAColor (Technicolor) The In-Laws Arthur Hiller, W, P, M
8.1 1987 ACFanRTColor Sien nui yau wan Siu-Tung Ching, W, W, P, M
8.1 1994 CrDTColor Fresh Boaz Yakin, W, P, M
8.1 1994 DWColor To Live Yimou Zhang, W, W, ++, P, M «Huozhe»
8.1 1996 CDRColor Beautiful Thing Hettie Macdonald, W, P, M
8.1 2003 AdAnDCColor Tokyo Godfathers Satoshi Kon, Shôgo Furuya, W, ++, P, M
8.1 1924 AdFFanRBlack and White (tinted); Silent The Thief of Bagdad Raoul Walsh, W, W, ++, P, M
8.1 1935 DHRBlack and White A Tale of Two Cities Jack Conway, ++, W, W, ++, P, M
8.1 1961 DBlack and White Whistle Down the Wind Bryan Forbes, W, W, ++, P, M
8.1 1997 CDRBlack and White, Color Happy Together Kar Wai Wong, W, P, M «Chun gwong cha sit»
8.1 2003 TV DColor Soldier's Girl Frank Pierson, W, P, M TV
8.1 2004 BDColor Machuca Andrés Wood, W, W, ++, P, M
8.1 1982 CDColor Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean Robert Altman, W, P
8.0 1928 BHBlack and White; Silent The Passion of Joan of Arc Cr Cr-News Cr-News Cr-Ess Carl Theodor Dreyer, W, W, P, M «La passion de Jeanne d'Arc»
8.0 1946 DFFanBlack and White It's a Wonderful Life Frank Capra, W, W, ++, P, M
8.0 1966 WeColor (Technicolor) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Sergio Leone, W, W, ++, P, M «Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo»
8.0 1988 AnDWColor (Technicolor) Grave of the Fireflies Isao Takahata, W, W, P, M «Hotaru no haka»
8.0 1956 FFanSColor (Technicolor) The Red Balloon Albert Lamorisse, W, P, M «Le ballon rouge»
8.0 1957 DBlack and White A Face in the Crowd Elia Kazan, W, P, M
8.0 1969 CrDHMTColor (Eastmancolor) Z Cr Cr-News Cr-Ess Cr-Press Cr-Feat Costa-Gavras, W, W, ++, P, M
8.0 1970 DoHMcColor (Technicolor) Woodstock Michael Wadleigh, P
8.0 1973 CDFanMcColor (Eastmancolor) O Lucky Man! Lindsay Anderson, W, P, M
8.0 1978 CrDColor (Technicolor) Blue Collar Paul Schrader, W, W, ++, P, M
8.0 1978 DMcColor (Eastmancolor) Autumn Sonata Cr Cr-News Cr-Clip Cr-Ess Cr-Disp Ingmar Bergman, W, P «Höstsonaten»
8.0 1979 AdCFMlColor (Eastmancolor) The Muppet Movie James Frawley, W, W, P, M
8.0 1984 DoBHColor The Times of Harvey Milk Cr Cr-Video Cr-Ess Cr-Ess Cr-Press Rob Epstein, W, W, ++, P, M
8.0 1985 DColor The Trip to Bountiful Peter Masterson, W, P, M
8.0 1991 DRWColor (Technicolor) Dogfight Nancy Savoca, W, P, M
8.0 1994 DFFanColor The Secret of Roan Inish John Sayles, W, W, P, M
8.0 1997 DColor My Life in Pink Alain Berliner, W, W, P, M «Ma vie en rose»
8.0 1998 TCrDColor The Interview Craig Monahan, W, W, P, M
8.0 1999 DoCrHSpBlack and White, Color One Day in September Kevin Macdonald, P, M
8.0 2006 DoMcColor Neil Young: Heart of Gold Jonathan Demme, P, M
8.0 1976 TV BDColor Sybil Daniel Petrie, W, W, P, M TV
8.0 1993 DRCColor Untamed Heart Tony Bill, W, P, M
8.0 2003 AnAAdFanMcSfColor Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem Kazuhisa Takenôchi, W, W, ++, P, M
8.0 1982 AnAdFFanRColor The Flight of Dragons Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr., W, W, ++, M