Sorted list: Films with "intelligent grades" between 7.2 and 7.4 (robustness between 1.2 and 1.5)

Very basic hints on how to use this list

Probably the most important feature is the links to “the most helpful” reviews of the film (click on the film’s title to jump there);
The list is ordered w.r.t. the “demanding viewer”’s grade GR; the better it is, the higher is the expectation of the “film’s worthyness”.

One may also want to know

(yet more details at the bottom of the page):

Colored grades GR are less statistically reliable than non-colored. More color means less reliability.
Most entries of the table (and all icons) have mouse popups with more details/explanations.
The headers of the table also have mouse popups. They explain what is in the column.
Thumbnails of movie poster’s (on the left) are clickable (moreover, a click on the large version brings the whole poster — if available)
To buy/view via IMDB, click on the title; on the IMDB page, use the links on the left.

GR	Year	Genres	Title	Extra links / Director, etc / «Original title»
7.3	2014	A	The Dead Lands	Toa Fraser, W, C
7.3	2013	ACr	Cold Eyes	Ui-seok Jo, Byung-seo Kim, W, W, ++ «Gam-si-ja-deul»
7.3	2013	DH	Die andere Heimat - Chronik einer Sehnsucht	Edgar Reitz, W, W, C, M
7.3	2013	C	La cage dorée	Ruben Alves, W, W, ++, C
7.3	2013		Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed	David Trueba, W, C «Vivir es fácil con los ojos cerrados»
7.3	2012	AT	7 Boxes	Juan Carlos Maneglia, Tana Schembori, W, W, ++, C, M «7 cajas»
7.3	2012	ACrT	Chorabali	Redoan Rony, W, C, M
7.3	2012	D	Everybody in Our Family	Radu Jude, W, W, C «Toata lumea din familia noastra»
7.3	2011	CD	Sidewalls	Gustavo Taretto, W, C, M «Medianeras»
7.3	2010	CD	Aashayein	Nagesh Kukunoor, W, W, C, M, M
7.3	2010	CD	Hello Lonesome	Adam Reid, W, C, M, M
7.3	2009	DR	Little Black Dress	Bramwell Noah, Dan Noah, W, C, M
7.3	2008	D	Ramchand Pakistani	Mehreen Jabbar, W, W, C, M
7.3	2007	DMT	Into the Arms of Strangers	Chris Harris, W, W, C, M, M
7.3	2006	DR	Love and Honor	Yôji Yamada, W, W, ++, M «Bushi no ichibun»
7.3	2005	R	...Yahaan	Shoojit Sircar, W, ++, C, M, M
7.3	2005	DF	Heidi	Paul Marcus, W, W, C, M
7.3	2005	CD	Tapas	José Corbacho, Juan Cruz, W, W, C, M
7.3	2004	AdCCr	Balas & Bolinhos - O Regresso	Luis Ismael, W, C, M
7.3	2003	D	The Commission	Mark Sobel, W, C, M
7.3	2002	CDR	Leaving Metropolis	Brad Fraser, W, C, M
7.3	2002	CD	Suddenly	Diego Lerman, W, W, ++, C, C, M, M «Tan de repente»
7.3	2002	AAdCDR	The Abduction Club	Stefan Schwartz, W, W, C, M
7.3	2001	D	Blue Spring	Toshiaki Toyoda, W, W, C «Aoi haru»
7.3	2001	D	Don's Plum	R.D. Robb, W, W, ++, C, C, M
7.3	2000	D	The Amati Girls	Anne De Salvo, W, C, M
7.3	1999	BDR	A Love Divided	Syd Macartney, W, W, ++, C, M
7.3	1998	CR	Bu jian bu san	Xiaogang Feng, W, W, C, M
7.3	1998	D	Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa	Govind Nihalani, W, W, ++, C, M
7.3	1996	D	Der Unhold	Volker Schlöndorff, W, W, ++, C, M
7.3	1996	DM	The Disappearance of Finbar	Sue Clayton, W, W, ++, C, M
7.3	1995	DFanR	Don't Die Without Telling Me Where You're Going	Eliseo Subiela, W, C, M «No te mueras sin decirme adónde vas»
7.3	1994	CCr	Holy Matrimony	Leonard Nimoy, W, W, C, M
7.3	1994	C	Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana	Aki Kaurismäki, W, W, C, M «Pidä huivista kiinni, Tatjana»
7.3	1994	CD	Whale Music	Richard J. Lewis, W, W, ++, C, M
7.3	1992	CD	Crossing the Bridge	Mike Binder, W, C, M
7.3	1991	CSf	Nu ji xie ren	Jamie Luk, W, W, C, M, M
7.3	1987	CDR	Boyfriends and Girlfriends	Eric Rohmer, W, C, M «L'ami de mon amie»
7.3	1987	D	Peter Kenna's The Good Wife	Ken Cameron, W, C, M «The Umbrella Woman»
7.3	1984	BDRSp	Champions	John Irvin, W, W, ++, C, M
7.3	1980	AC	Return to the 36th Chamber	Chia-Liang Liu, W, C, M «Shao Lin da peng da shi»
7.3	1979	BD	Meetings with Remarkable Men	Peter Brook, W, W, ++, C, M
7.3	1979	HoT	Star of David: Beauty Hunting	Noribumi Suzuki, W, W «Dabide no hoshi: Bishôjo-gari»
7.3	1976	D	Winstanley	Kevin Brownlow, W, W, ++, C
7.3	1975	D	Return to Macon County	Richard Compton, W, C, M
7.3	1973	AD	Razor 2: The Snare	Yasuzô Masumura, W, W, C, M «Goyôkiba: Kamisori Hanzô jigoku zeme»
7.3	1973	D	The Optimists of Nine Elms	Anthony Simmons, W, W, C, M
7.3	1972	Ho	Night of the Devils	Giorgio Ferroni, W, W, ++, C, M «La notte dei diavoli»
7.3	1971	AAdD	The Horsemen	John Frankenheimer, W, W, C, C, C, M
7.3	1969	DFanHoM	El libro de piedra	Carlos Enrique Taboada, W, C, M
7.3	1968	DAAd	Zatoichi and the Fugitives	Kimiyoshi Yasuda, W, W, C, M «Zatôichi hatashi-jô»
7.3	1964	D	Gate of Flesh	Seijun Suzuki, W, W, C, M «Nikutai no mon»
7.3	1961	D	The Young Doctors	Phil Karlson, W, W, C, M
7.3	1958	CD	Giants and Toys	Yasuzô Masumura, W, W, C, M «Kyojin to gangu»
7.3	1955	D	Good Morning, Miss Dove	Henry Koster, W, W, C, M
7.3	1952	CDMl	The Stooge	Norman Taurog, W, W, ++, C, M
7.3	1952	AdWe	The Wild North	Andrew Marton, W, C, M
7.3	1950	C	The Fuller Brush Girl	Lloyd Bacon, W, C, M
7.3	1949	DMR	Black Magic	Gregory Ratoff, ++, W, W, ++, C, C, C, M
7.3	1944	CMl	Up in Arms	Elliott Nugent, W, W, ++, C, M
7.3	1939	D	The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum	Kenji Mizoguchi, W, W, ++, C, C, M, M «Zangiku monogatari»
7.3	1939	We	Zorro's Fighting Legion	John English, William Witney, W, W, ++, C, M, M, M++
7.3	1938	MlRWe	The Girl of the Golden West	Robert Z. Leonard, W, W, ++, C, M
7.3	1933	D	Blood Money	Rowland Brown, W, W, ++, C, M
7.3	1927	CR	The Red Mill	Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, W, W, ++, C, M
7.3	1926	D	Dancing Mothers	Herbert Brenon, W, W, ++, C
7.3	1924	D	The Enchanted Cottage	John S. Robertson, W, W, ++, C
7.3	1923	DR	Scaramouche	Rex Ingram, W, W, ++, C, M, M, M
7.2	2015		Rape Story	Felix Arno, W
7.2	2014	C	Almost Married	Ben Cookson, W, C
7.2	2014	D	The Sisterhood of Night	Caryn Waechter, W, W, C, M, M
7.2	2013	D	Like a Country Song	Johnny Remo, W, W, C
7.2	2012	DW	The Patience Stone	Atiq Rahimi, W, W, C
7.2	2011	D	Breathing	Karl Markovics, W, C, M «Atmen»
7.2	2009	CM	Dark and Stormy Night	Larry Blamire, W, C, M
7.2	2009	DMc	No One Knows About Persian Cats	Bahman Ghobadi, W, W, ++, C, M, M «Kasi az gorbehaye irani khabar nadareh»
7.2	2008	CrD	Lake City	Hunter Hill, Perry Moore, W, W, C, M
7.2	2007	CD	Conversations with My Gardener	Jean Becker, W, W, ++, C «Dialogue avec mon jardinier»
7.2	2007	CD	Glory to the Filmmaker!	Takeshi Kitano, W, C, M «Kantoku · Banzai!»
7.2	2006	T	Slip	Brian Maris, W, C, M
7.2	2006	D	The Hawk Is Dying	Julian Goldberger, W, W, C, M
7.2	2005	DR	My Girl and I	Yun-su Chong, W «Parang-juuibo»
7.2	2005	D	Shanghai Dreams	Xiaoshuai Wang, W, C, M «Qing hong»
7.2	2004	MlAdCFRD	Erreway: 4 caminos	Ezequiel Crupnicoff, W, W, ++, C, M, M, M
7.2	2004	D	Roma	Adolfo Aristarain, W, W, ++, C
7.2	2004	C	You I Love	Olga Stolpovskaja, Dmitriy Troitskiy, W, W, ++, C, M «Ya lyublyu tebya»
7.2	2003	ADT	The Gun (From 6 to 7:30 p.m.)	Vladimir Alenikov, W, C, M
7.2	2002	R	The Guy in the Grave Next Door	Kjell Sundvall, W, W, C, M «Grabben i graven bredvid»
7.2	2001	HoD	Fausto 5.0	Àlex Ollé, Isidro Ortiz, ++, W, C, M
7.2	2001	DWe	How Harry Became a Tree	Goran Paskaljevic, W, W, ++, C, M
7.2	2001	BDMc	Quitting	Yang Zhang, W, W, C, C «Zuotian»
7.2	2001	D	Riders	Doug Sadler, W, C, M, M, M++
7.2	2000	C	Magicians	James Merendino, W, M
7.2	1999	CDR	I'll Take You There	Adrienne Shelly, W, C, M
7.2	1999	CDR	The Secret Laughter of Women	Peter Schwabach, W, W, C, M
7.2	1998	C	Cuisine américaine	Jean-Yves Pitoun, W, C, M
7.2	1997	BDW	Lucie Aubrac	Claude Berri, W, W, C, M
7.2	1997	D	The Mirror	Jafar Panahi, W, C «Ayneh»
7.2	1996	CD	Good Luck	Richard LaBrie, W, C, M
7.2	1995	CD	Guantanamera	Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Juan Carlos Tabío, W, W, ++, C, M
7.2	1994	ADT	Mohra	Rajiv Rai, W, W, ++, C, M
7.2	1990	AAd	Catman in Lethal Track	Godfrey Ho «U.S. Catman: Lethal Track»
7.2	1990	DC	I Hired a Contract Killer	Aki Kaurismäki, W, ++, C
7.2	1990	ACr	Tiger Cage 2	Woo-ping Yuen, W, W, ++, C, C, C++, M, M «Sai hak chin»
7.2	1989	CHoSf	Meet the Hollowheads	Thomas R. Burman, W, W, ++, C, M
7.2	1988	CD	The Prince of Pennsylvania	Ron Nyswaner, W, C, M
7.2	1986	C	Modern Girls	Jerry Kramer, W, ++, C, M, M
7.2	1985	DMl	Fast Forward	Sidney Poitier, W, W, C, M, M
7.2	1985	DR	Hey Babu Riba	Jovan Acin, W, C, M
7.2	1985	ACrD	Naked Vengeance	Cirio H. Santiago, W, W, C, M
7.2	1980	CR	Hero at Large	Martin Davidson, W, C, M
7.2	1979	CCr	A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square	Ralph Thomas, W, C, M
7.2	1976	CDR	A Slave of Love	Nikita Mikhalkov, W, W, C, M «Raba lyubvi»
7.2	1976	C	The Wing and the Thigh	Claude Zidi, W, W, C, C, M «L'aile ou la cuisse»
7.2	1975	ATD	Peur sur la ville	Henri Verneuil, W, W, ++, C, M
7.2	1975	CrD	Report to the Commissioner	Milton Katselas, W, W, ++, C, M
7.2	1972	D	Henry VIII and His Six Wives	Waris Hussein, W, C, M
7.2	1971	CD	Bleak Moments	Mike Leigh, W, C
7.2	1970	CD	Bed & Board	François Truffaut, W, W, ++, C, M «Domicile conjugal»
7.2	1970	CDR	Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon	Otto Preminger, W, C, M, M
7.2	1967	We	Bandidos	Massimo Dallamano, W, W, ++, C, M
7.2	1966	AdCR	They're a Weird Mob	Michael Powell, W, W, C, M, M
7.2	1965	D	Mudhoney	Russ Meyer, W, W, ++, C, M
7.2	1961	CrD	The Man in the Back Seat	Vernon Sewell, W, W, C, M
7.2	1960	DHW	Hawai Middowei daikaikûsen: Taiheiyô no arashi	Shûe Matsubayashi, Hugo Grimaldi, W, W, C, M
7.2	1957	CDMl	April Love	Henry Levin, W, W, C
7.2	1956	CD	Full of Life	Richard Quine, W, C, M
7.2	1954	DW	Men of the Fighting Lady	Andrew Marton, W, W, ++, C, M
7.2	1949	D	Any Number Can Play	Mervyn LeRoy, W, W, C, M
7.2	1946	WD	The Captive Heart	Basil Dearden, W, W, ++, C, M
7.2	1945	WD	Counter-Attack	Zoltan Korda, W, W, ++, C, M
7.2	1944	CDMc	The Merry Monahans	Charles Lamont, W, W, C, M
7.2	1940	D	The Stars Look Down	Carol Reed, W, W, ++, C, M
7.2	1940	We	Three Men from Texas	Lesley Selander, W, W, C, M
7.2	1939	DMl	Rose of Washington Square	Gregory Ratoff, W, W, ++, C, M
7.2	1939	TW	The Spy in Black	Michael Powell, W, W, ++, C, M «Spy in Black»
7.2	1937	C	Wise Girl	Leigh Jason, W, W, ++, C, M
7.2	1933	DR	Zoo in Budapest	Rowland V. Lee, W, W, ++, C
7.2	1932	D	The Mouthpiece	James Flood, Elliott Nugent, W, W, ++, C
7.2	1927	DR	Love	Edmund Goulding, ++, W, W, ++, C, M, M, M
7.2	1927	AdR	The Gaucho	F. Richard Jones, W, C, M
7.2	1926	C	Kiki	Clarence Brown, W, W, C
7.2	1926	C	Mantrap	Victor Fleming, W, W, ++, C
7.2	1924	DHR	Beau Brummel	Harry Beaumont, W, W, C, M

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 (a lot of it in mouse popups!) 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, visit the main page.)

Review links leading to empty pages (or pages with few review):

these are not always avoidable due to very limited control one has over IMDB display of reviews. If you see this, just switch to the “opposite” view-type (Hate It vs. Love It), and go to the end of the list of reviews.

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 (press Alt to see the menu). The release year is color-coded to denote TV films, TV mini-series, and TV series. A person’s name is bluish-tinted if its popup has additional info about other films by the guy (in the same capacity: director/writer/camera/music); the pale-red number is the best GR-grade they.achieved in this capacity.