Sorted list: Films with "intelligent grades" between 7.2 and 7.4 (robustness between 1.5 and 2.0)

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GR Year Genres Title Extra links / Director, etc / «Original title»
7.3 2015 CColor Naanum Rowdydhaan Vignesh Shivan, W, C, M
7.3 2014 DColor Before I Disappear Shawn Christensen, W, C, M
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7.3 2014 CDColor The Road Within Gren Wells, W, C, M, M
7.3 2014 CCrDColor Trailer Park Boys: Don't Legalize It Mike Clattenburg, W, W, C
7.3 2012 DRColor Architecture 101 Yong-Joo Lee, W, C, M «Geon-chook-hak-gae-ron»
7.3 2012 TColor (35 mm version) Ee Adutha Kaalath Arun Kumar, W, C, M
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7.3 2010 DRColor Good Night Good Morning Sudhish Kamath, W, W, C
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7.3 2010 CFanColor Skeletons Nick Whitfield, W, C, M
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7.3 2009 DColor Rapt Lucas Belvaux, W, C, M
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7.3 2008 BDColor Skin Anthony Fabian, W, W, ++, C, C, C, M
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7.3 2007 DColor Blind Mountain Yang Li, W, C «Mang shan»
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7.3 2006 DRColor Eternal Summer Leste Chen, W, W, C, M «Sheng xia guang nian»
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7.3 2005 CRColor Love, Ludlow Adrienne Weiss, W, C, M, M
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7.3 2005 CDColor The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros Auraeus Solito, W, C, M «Ang pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros»
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7.3 2005 CCrDHColor The President's Last Bang Sang-soo Im, W, C, M «Geuddae geusaramdeul»
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7.3 2004 CDSpColor Avellaneda's Moon Juan José Campanella, W, W, ++, C, M «Luna de Avellaneda»
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7.3 2001 CColor Killer Bud Karl T. Hirsch, W, W, C, M
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7.3 2001 MlDBlack and White, Color Tosca Benoît Jacquot, W, W, ++, C
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7.3 1999 CColor A Wake in Providence Rosario Roveto Jr., W, W, ++, C, M
7.3 1999 CDHRColor Propaganda Sinan Çetin, W, W, C, M
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7.3 1999 CDColor Undercover Angel Bryan Michael Stoller, W, C, M
7.3 1998 TCrColor Random Encounter Douglas Jackson, W, C, M
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7.3 1998 CColor With Friends Like These... Philip Frank Messina, W, C, M
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7.3 1995 CDHRColor Stonewall Nigel Finch, W, W, C, M
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7.3 1993 DRColor Germinal Claude Berri, W, W, ++, C, M
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7.3 1993 CDColor Yankee Zulu Gray Hofmeyr, W, W, ++, C, M, M
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7.3 1990 DHoRTColor Lisa Gary Sherman, W, W, C, M
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7.3 1990 CHoMlColor Rockula Luca Bercovici, W, W, ++, C, M, M
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7.3 1989 ARSfCColor (Technicolor) Ji dong ji xia Clarence Fok Yiu-leung, W, W, C
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7.3 1986 AColor Above the Law Corey Yuen, W, W, C, M «Zhi fa xian feng»
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7.3 1986 CAColor Peking Opera Blues Hark Tsui, W, C, M «Do ma daan»
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7.3 1982 CHoColor Wacko Greydon Clark, W, W, ++, C, M
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7.3 1979 WeColor (Eastmancolor) Eagle's Wing Anthony Harvey, W, W, C, M
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7.3 1979 ACColor Magnificent Butcher Sammo Hung Kam-Bo, Woo-ping Yuen, W, W, C, M «Lin Shi Rong»
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7.3 1979 CColor Real Life Albert Brooks, W, W, ++, C, M
7.3 1977 ADColor Executioners from Shaolin Chia-Liang Liu, W, C, M «Hong Xi Guan»
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7.3 1975 DColor (Orwocolor) The Promised Land Andrzej Wajda, W, W, C, C, C, M «Ziemia obiecana»
7.3 1975 CColor (Eastmancolor) White Collar Blues Luciano Salce, W, W, ++, C, M, M, M «Fantozzi»
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7.3 1973 SfTColor (Technicolor) The Last Days of Man on Earth Robert Fuest, W, W, C, M, M «The Final Programme»
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7.3 1973 ADCrColor The Spook Who Sat by the Door Ivan Dixon, W, W, ++, C, M
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7.3 1972 DHoTColor (Technicolor) You'll Like My Mother Lamont Johnson, W, W, C, C, M
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7.3 1971 CrTHoColor (Eastmancolor) The Night Visitor Laslo Benedek, W, W, C, M
7.3 1970 CrDColor (Eastmancolor) Borsalino Jacques Deray, W, W, ++, C, M
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7.3 1966 DRWBlack and White Red Angel Yasuzô Masumura, W, W, C, M «Akai tenshi»
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7.3 1966 AdWeColor (Technicolor) The Night of the Grizzly Joseph Pevney, W, C, C, M
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7.3 1965 ADBlack and White Sword of the Beast Cr Cr-Ess Cr-Ess Hideo Gosha, W, W, C, M «Kedamono no ken»
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7.3 1963 CrDRBlack and White Any Number Can Win Henri Verneuil, W, W, ++, C, M «Mélodie en sous-sol»
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7.3 1953 BDHRColor (Technicolor) Young Bess George Sidney, W, W, ++, C, M
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7.3 1951 WeBlack and White Little Big Horn Charles Marquis Warren, W, W, C, M
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7.3 1949 BDRSpBlack and White The Stratton Story Sam Wood, W, W, ++, C, M
7.3 1937 DBlack and White Madame X Sam Wood, ++, W, W, C, M
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7.3 1936 CMlFBlack and White Captain January David Butler, W, W, ++, C, M
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7.3 1932 DWBlack and White Wooden Crosses Raymond Bernard, W, W, ++, C, C «Les croix de bois»
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7.3 1926 CBlack and White; Silent Battling Butler Buster Keaton, W, W, ++, C, C, M
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7.3 1924 DRBlack and White; Silent Michael Carl Theodor Dreyer, W, W, ++, C, C, M «Mikaël»
7.3 1922 DBlack and White; Silent Der brennende Acker F.W. Murnau, W, W, ++, C, C, M
7.2 2013 DTColor Bethlehem Yuval Adler, W, W, C, M
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7.2 2012 DColor Back to 1942 Xiaogang Feng, W, C, M «Yi jiu si er»
7.2 2012 DTColor Poklosie Wladyslaw Pasikowski, W, C
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7.2 2012 DColor The Falls Jon Garcia, W, C, M, M
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7.2 2009 DColor A Boy Called Dad Brian Percival, W, C, M, M
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7.2 2007 DFFanColor Christmas Story Juha Wuolijoki, W, W, ++, C, M «Joulutarina»
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7.2 2007 ADColor Fighter Natasha Arthy, W, W, ++, C, M
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7.2 2007 DColor Kings Tom Collins, W, W, C, M
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7.2 2006 CrDTColor Angosto Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo, W, C, M «La noche de los girasoles»
7.2 2005 DRColor April Snow Jin-ho Hur, W, W, ++, C, M «Oechul»
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7.2 2005 FColor Come Away Home Doug McKeon, W, W, ++, C, M
7.2 2004 DTColor Aitraaz Abbas Alibhai Burmawalla, Mastan Alibhai Burmawalla, W, ++, C, M, M, M
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7.2 2004 DColor Red Dust Tom Hooper, W, W, C, M
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7.2 2002 CDColor The Flats Kelly Requa, Tyler Requa, W, W, C, M
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7.2 2001 CRDColor Possible Loves Sandra Werneck, W, W, C, M «Amores Possíveis»
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7.2 2000 DHWBlack and White La commune (Paris, 1871) Peter Watkins, W, W, C
7.2 2000 CCrFanTAColor Monday Hiroyuki Tanaka, W, C, M
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7.2 1999 DFanHoMTColor Sôseiji Shin'ya Tsukamoto, W, W, C, M
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7.2 1998 DColor (Eastmancolor) Praise John Curran, W, C, M, M, M
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7.2 1997 DWColor The Island on Bird Street Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, W, W, ++, C, M
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7.2 1995 CrDColor (Eastmancolor) The Deathmaker Romuald Karmakar, W, W, C «Der Totmacher»
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7.2 1994 CrCDColor Jimmy Hollywood Barry Levinson, W, C, M
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7.2 1988 DFColor On Our Own Lyman Dayton, W, ++, C, M, M
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7.2 1985 BDHColor (Eastmancolor) Colonel Redl István Szabó, W, W, ++, C, M «Oberst Redl»
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7.2 1984 CDColor (Technicolor) The Wild Life Art Linson, W, C, M, M
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7.2 1980 DMcColor Rude Boy Jack Hazan, David Mingay, W, W, C, M, M
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7.2 1980 CDSpColor The Club Bruce Beresford, W, C, M
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7.2 1976 CColor (Technicolor) Drive-In Rod Amateau, W, C
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7.2 1975 CrDColor The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum Cr Cr-Ess Cr-News Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta, W, W, ++, C, M «Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum»
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7.2 1972 FMFanColor (Eastmancolor) The Amazing Mr. Blunden Lionel Jeffries, W, W, C, M
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7.2 1971 CrDColor (Eastmancolor) Just Before Nightfall Claude Chabrol, W, W, C, M «Juste avant la nuit»
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7.2 1970 DAColor (Metrocolor) ...tick... tick... tick... Ralph Nelson, W, C, M
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7.2 1970 DHoMTColor An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe Kenneth Johnson, W, W, ++, M
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7.2 1969 DColor (Eastmancolor) Pigpen Pier Paolo Pasolini, W, C, C, C, M «Porcile»
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7.2 1960 DWBlack and White (archive footage), Black and White Conspiracy of Hearts Ralph Thomas, W, W, ++, C, M
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7.2 1960 CrDRTBlack and White The Big Risk Cr Cr-Ess Cr-Ess Claude Sautet, W, W, ++, C, M «Classe tous risques»
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7.2 1959 AAdColor (Eastmancolor) Tarzan's Greatest Adventure John Guillermin, W, W, ++, C, M
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7.2 1959 FanHoMBlack and White The Black Pit of Dr. M Fernando Méndez, W, C, M «Misterios de ultratumba»
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7.2 1958 DHRWBlack and White A Tale of Two Cities Ralph Thomas, W, W, C, M
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7.2 1958 CColor (Technicolor) Rock-a-Bye Baby Frank Tashlin, W, W, C, M
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7.2 1953 CFMlRColor (Technicolor) By the Light of the Silvery Moon David Butler, W, W, ++, C
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7.2 1953 DFBlack and White White Mane Albert Lamorisse, W, W, ++, C, M «Crin blanc: Le cheval sauvage»
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7.2 1952 DRWBlack and White Breaking the Sound Barrier David Lean, W, C, M «The Sound Barrier»
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7.2 1951 BDRColor (Technicolor) I'd Climb the Highest Mountain Henry King, W, W, ++, C, M
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7.2 1950 CrDRBlack and White Story of a Love Affair Michelangelo Antonioni, W, ++, C, M «Cronaca di un amore»
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7.2 1949 MlRColor (Technicolor) That Midnight Kiss Norman Taurog, W, W, C, M, M
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7.2 1948 CMlRColor (Technicolor) The Emperor Waltz Billy Wilder, W, W, C, M
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7.2 1948 DBlack and White Yoru no onnatachi Kenji Mizoguchi, W, W, C, M
7.2 1946 WeBlack and White Bad Bascomb S. Sylvan Simon, W, W, ++, C, M
7.2 1946 DFColor (Technicolor) Smoky Louis King, W, W, ++, C, M
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7.2 1945 CDBlack and White Roughly Speaking Michael Curtiz, W, ++, C, M
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7.2 1944 DColor (Technicolor) An American Romance King Vidor, W, W, ++, C, M, M
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7.2 1936 CMRTBlack and White The Princess Comes Across William K. Howard, W, W, ++, C, M
7.2 1928 CrDBlack and White Lights of New York Bryan Foy, W, W, C
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7.2 1925 CWeBlack and White; Silent Go West Buster Keaton, W, W, ++, C, C, M
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7.2 1925 DCBlack and White; Silent Little Annie Rooney William Beaudine, W, W, ++, C, C, M, M
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7.2 1922 DRBlack and White (tinted); Silent Down to the Sea in Ships Elmer Clifton, W, C, C, M
7.2 1921 DBlack and White; Silent The Conquering Power Rex Ingram, W, W, C

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.