Sorted list: Films with "intelligent grades" between 7.4 and 7.7 (robustness between 1.2 and 1.5)

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GR Year Genres Title Extra links / Director, etc / «Original title»
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 7.6 2015 DColor Far Too Far Justin Hunt, W, C, M
7.6 2013 TColor (Technicolor) Mumbai Police Roshan Andrews, W, W, M
7.6 2012 CColor Gay Dude Chris Nelson, W, C, M
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 7.6 2011 CDColor Natural Selection Robbie Pickering, W, C, M, M
7.6 2010 DHRColor Madras Town Vijay, W, C, M «Madrasapattinam»
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 7.6 2009 DTColor Absolute Evil - Final Exit Ulli Lommel, W, C, M «Absolute Evil»
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 7.6 2007 DTColor PVC-1 Spiros Stathoulopoulos, W, W, C
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 7.6 2005 DMcBlack and White The Violin Francisco Vargas, W, C, C, M, M «El violin»
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 7.6 2003 CDColor James' Journey to Jerusalem Ra'anan Alexandrowicz, W, W, C, M, M, M «Massa'ot James Be'eretz Hakodesh»
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 7.6 2002 DRColor Swingers Stephan Brenninkmeijer, W, C, M
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 7.6 2001 TColor Tempted Bill Bennett, W, C, M
7.6 1998 DRColor Dance Me to My Song Rolf de Heer, W, W, ++, C, M
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 7.6 1997 RWeColor Gunfighter's Moon Larry Ferguson, W, C, M
7.6 1997 ACCrColor Kiler Juliusz Machulski, W, C, M, M
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 7.6 1990 CHoColor I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle Dirk Campbell, W, W, C, M
7.6 1988 CFSfColor Purple People Eater Linda Shayne, W, C, M
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 7.6 1986 DRColor Violets Are Blue... Jack Fisk, W, C, M
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 7.6 1985 CRColor Breaking All the Rules James Orr, W, W, ++, C, M
7.6 1984 CrDMColor "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" The Naval Treaty Alan Grint, W, W, ++, C, M
7.6 1984 DColor The Stone Boy Christopher Cain, W, C, M
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 7.6 1979 CColor (Fujicolor) That Sinking Feeling Bill Forsyth, W, C, M
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 7.6 1978 ADMlColor Trishul Yash Chopra, W, ++, C, M
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 7.6 1974 DRColor (Technicolor) A Very Natural Thing Christopher Larkin, W, ++, C, M, M, M
7.6 1973 CWeColor Kid Blue James Frawley, W, C, M, M
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 7.6 1973 DRAMlFColor Yaadon Ki Baaraat Nasir Hussain, W, ++, C, M
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 7.6 1972 DRColor (Eastmancolor) César and Rosalie Claude Sautet, W, W, ++, C, M «César et Rosalie»
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 7.6 1970 CrTColor (Eastmancolor) The Crook Claude Lelouch, W, ++, C, M «Le voyou»
7.6 1968 WeColor The Ruthless Four Giorgio Capitani, W, W, C, M «Ognuno per sé»
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 7.6 1965 DMRFColor Waqt Yash Chopra, W, W, C, M
7.6 1964 DAColor The Lively Set Jack Arnold, W, W, ++, C, M
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 7.6 1960 BDHColor (Technicolor) The Trials of Oscar Wilde Ken Hughes, W, W, ++, C, M
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 7.6 1960 FDColor (Technicolor) Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks with a Circus Charles Barton, W, W, ++, C, M, M
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 7.6 1959 DBlack and White Career Joseph Anthony, W, W, ++, C, M
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 7.6 1958 DRWColor (Eastmancolor) A Time to Love and a Time to Die Douglas Sirk, W, W, C, M
7.6 1949 CBlack and White Everybody Does It Edmund Goulding, W, W, ++, C
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 7.6 1948 CMlRColor (Technicolor) Luxury Liner Richard Whorf, W, W, ++, C, M
7.6 1944 CBlack and White Our Hearts Were Young and Gay Lewis Allen, W, W, ++, C, M
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 7.6 1936 DRBlack and White Mayerling Anatole Litvak, W, W, ++, C, C, M, M
7.6 1933 CCrRBlack and White The Little Giant Roy Del Ruth, W, W, C
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 7.6 1931 DBlack and White Anna Christie Jacques Feyder, W, W, ++, C
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 7.6 1930 CDBlack and White Min and Bill George W. Hill, W, W, ++, C
7.6 1928 DRBlack and White; Silent White Shadows in the South Seas W.S. Van Dyke, ++, W, W, ++, C, C, C, M
7.6 1927 DRBlack and White; Silent Captain Salvation John S. Robertson, W, W, ++, C, M
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 7.6 1927 AdDHRBlack and White; Silent The Beloved Rogue Alan Crosland, W, W, ++, C
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 7.5 2015 DColor Woodlawn Andrew Erwin, Jon Erwin, W, W, C, M
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 7.5 2014 BCDRColor Cantinflas Sebastian del Amo, W, W, C, M
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 7.5 2014 DMcColor Like Sunday, Like Rain Frank Whaley, W, C
7.5 2014 HoColor New Blood Rising Chad Zuver, W, C
7.5 2013 CHoRColor Pee Mak Phrakanong Banjong Pisanthanakun, W, W, ++
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 7.5 2011 CrDColor Few Options George A. Pappy Jr., W, C, M
7.5 2007 DColor Estomago: A Gastronomic Story Marcos Jorge, W, W, ++, C, M «Estômago»
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 7.5 2006 CDMlColor Colma: The Musical Richard Wong, W, W, ++, C, M
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 7.5 2006 CDColor Naming Number Two Toa Fraser, W, C, M «No. 2»
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 7.5 2006 DRColor The Elephant King Seth Grossman, W, C, M
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 7.5 2005 AdDWBlack and White, Color Iluminados por el fuego Tristán Bauer, W, W, ++, C, M, M
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 7.5 2002 CrDColor After the Life Lucas Belvaux, W, C, M «Après la vie»
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 7.5 2002 CRColor Casomai Alessandro D'Alatri, W, W, C, M, M
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 7.5 2001 DMlCrRColor Lajja Rajkumar Santoshi, W, W, ++, C, M, M
7.5 2001 DAColor Nayak: The Real Hero S. Shankar, W, W, C, M
7.5 2001 CSpColor Waterboys Shinobu Yaguchi, W, W, C, C, M, M
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 7.5 2000 DMlRColor Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega... Raj Kanwar, W, C, M, M
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 7.5 2000 Color Road Dogz Alfredo Ramos, W, C, M
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 7.5 1998 DRColor Late August, Early September Olivier Assayas, W, C «Fin août, début septembre»
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 7.5 1997 DRColor The Only Thrill Peter Masterson, W, C, M
7.5 1996 ADRColor Ghatak: Lethal Rajkumar Santoshi, W, W, ++, C, M, M, M
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 7.5 1996 CDColor The Other Side of Sunday Berit Nesheim, W, W, ++, C, M, M «Søndagsengler»
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 7.5 1995 DRWColor (Eastmancolor) Frankie Starlight Michael Lindsay-Hogg, W, W, ++, C, M
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 7.5 1993 RWDColor For the Moment Aaron Kim Johnston, W, C, M
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 7.5 1993 AAdRColor Zhan shen chuan shuo Sammo Hung Kam-Bo, W, C, M
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 7.5 1992 CrDColor South Central Stephen Milburn Anderson, W, W, C, M
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 7.5 1990 DTColor Naked Obsession Dan Golden, W, W, M
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 7.5 1990 CColor The Shrimp on the Barbie Michael Gottlieb, Alan Smithee, W, W, ++, C, M
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 7.5 1990 CRColor (Technicolor) Tune in Tomorrow... Jon Amiel, W, W, C, M
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 7.5 1989 CHoSfColor Lobster Man from Mars Stanley Sheff, W, W, ++, C, M
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 7.5 1989 FanHoBlack and White Tales from the Gimli Hospital Guy Maddin, W, C
7.5 1986 DColor The Terrorizers Edward Yang, W, W, C, M «Kong bu fen zi»
7.5 1983 DACRFColor Coolie Manmohan Desai, Prayag Raj, W, W, ++, C, M, M
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 7.5 1981 CDColor (Fujicolor) Lola Cr Cr-Ess Cr-Ess Rainer Werner Fassbinder, W, W, ++, C, M, M
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 7.5 1979 DColor Iskanderija... lih? Youssef Chahine, W, W, C, M
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 7.5 1976 DBlack and White The Middleman Satyajit Ray, W, W, C, M «Jana Aranya»
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 7.5 1975 HoColor (Eastmancolor) She sha shou Chih-Hung Kuei, W, C, M
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 7.5 1974 DColor (Technicolor) Conversation Piece Luchino Visconti, W, W, ++, C, M «Gruppo di famiglia in un interno»
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 7.5 1974 ADFanHColor Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell Yoshiyuki Kuroda, W, W, ++, C, M «Kozure ôkami: Jigoku e ikuzo! Daigorô»
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 7.5 1973 CrCColor Cops and Robbers Aram Avakian, W, C, M
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 7.5 1973 CDColor (Technicolor) Oklahoma Crude Stanley Kramer, W, C, M
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 7.5 1973 DWBlack and White (archive footage), Black and White, Color (Eastmancolor) The Train Pierre Granier-Deferre, W, W, ++, C, M «Le train»
7.5 1969 DBlack and White (tinted), Color (Eastmancolor) Boy Nagisa Ôshima, W, C, C, M «Shônen»
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 7.5 1969 DBlack and White The Cow Dariush Mehrjui, W, W, C, M «Gaav»
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 7.5 1968 ACDBlack and White Kill! Cr Cr-Video Cr-Ess Cr-Ess Kihachi Okamoto, W, W, ++, C, M «Kiru»
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 7.5 1965 CColor (Technicolor) The Art of Love Norman Jewison, W, W, ++, C, M
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 7.5 1964 CSfColor Kiss Me Quick! Peter Perry Jr., ++, C
7.5 1962 CrDBlack and White Fog for a Killer Montgomery Tully, W, C, M «Out of the Fog»
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 7.5 1959 MlColor (Technicolor) For the First Time Rudolph Maté, W, C, M, M, M
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 7.5 1953 DWBlack and White Raiders in the Sky Philip Leacock, W, W, ++, C, M «Appointment in London»
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 7.5 1949 DRWBlack and White Le silence de la mer Jean-Pierre Melville, W, W, C, M
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 7.5 1949 DMlRColor (Technicolor) Look for the Silver Lining David Butler, W, W, ++, C, M
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 7.5 1948 DBlack and White Nosotros, los pobres Ismael Rodríguez, W, W, ++, C, M
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 7.5 1942 AAdBlack and White Spy Smasher William Witney, W, W, ++, C, M
7.5 1938 CrTBlack and White They Drive by Night Arthur B. Woods, W, ++, C, M
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 7.5 1936 WeBlack and White Three Godfathers Richard Boleslawski, W, W, ++, C, M
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 7.5 1932 DBlack and White Broken Lullaby Ernst Lubitsch, W, W, ++, C, M
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 7.5 1926 CBlack and White; Silent The Strong Man Frank Capra, W, W, ++, C, C, M
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 7.5 1924 DRBlack and White; Silent Wild Oranges King Vidor, W, W, ++, C, M
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 7.5 1921 AAdRBlack and White, Color (Wyckoff-DeMill Color) (some sequences); Silent The Three Musketeers Fred Niblo, W, W, ++, C, M, M, M
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 7.5 1919 DBlack and White; Silent Different from the Others Richard Oswald, W, W, C, M, M «Anders als die Andern»
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 7.5 1919 HoWBlack and White; Silent I Accuse Abel Gance, W, C, C, C, M «J'accuse!»
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 7.4 2014 DColor Girlhood Céline Sciamma, W, C «Bande de filles»
7.4 2014 DColor Return to Zero Sean Hanish, W, C, M
7.4 2013 DTColor In the Name Of Malgorzata Szumowska, W, W, C, M, M «W imie..»
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 7.4 2013 The Missing Picture Rithy Panh, W, W, C, M «L'image manquante»
7.4 2013 DColor Zinda Bhaag Meenu Gaur, Farjad Nabi, W, W, C, M
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 7.4 2012 AAdRColor Code Name Venus Tamer Garip, W, W, ++, C «Kod Adi: Venüs»
7.4 2011 DRColor Incir reçeli Aytaç Agirlar, W, C, C, M
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 7.4 2011 CRColor Love Birds Paul Murphy, W, C, M, M
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 7.4 2010 DColor The Life of Fish Matías Bize, W, ++, C, M «La vida de los peces»
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 7.4 2009 DRColor City of Life Ali F. Mostafa, W, W, ++, C, M, M
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 7.4 2009 Color Frontier Blues Babak Jalali, W, C, M
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 7.4 2006 DTColor Last Train to Freo Jeremy Sims, W, C
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 7.4 2004 CrRTColor Lautlos Mennan Yapo, W, W, C, M, M
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 7.4 2003 DFRColor Armaan Honey Irani, W, ++, C, M, M, M++
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 7.4 2003 DColor Tehzeeb Khalid Mohamed, W, W, C, M
7.4 2002 DColor Dekada '70 Chito S. Roño, W, C, M
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 7.4 2002 CHoFRColor My Left Eye Sees Ghosts Johnnie To, Ka-Fai Wai, W, W, ++, C, M «Ngo joh aan gin diy gwai»
7.4 2002 Color The Keyman Daniel Millican, W, W, C, M
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 7.4 2001 CFFanColor Miss Minoes Vincent Bal, W, W, ++, C, M «Minoes»
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 7.4 2001 CrDTColor One Eyed King Robert Moresco, W, C, M, M
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 7.4 1999 DColor Charisma Kiyoshi Kurosawa, W, C, M «Karisuma»
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 7.4 1997 CDColor Dry Cleaning Anne Fontaine, W, W, C «Nettoyage à sec»
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 7.4 1997 Black and White Mr. Vincent Robert Celestino, W, W, ++, C, M, M
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 7.4 1997 DRColor Touch Me H. Gordon Boos, W, ++, C, M
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 7.4 1995 CrDMTColor Shinjuku kuroshakai: Chaina mafia sensô Takashi Miike, W, C, M
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 7.4 1990 CColor (Eastmancolor) Cold Dog Soup Alan Metter, W, W, C, M
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 7.4 1990 DColor Journey of Hope Xavier Koller, W, W, C «Reise der Hoffnung»
7.4 1989 HoTColor The Forgotten One Phillip Badger, W, C, M
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 7.4 1988 CMRColor Plain Clothes Martha Coolidge, W, ++, C, M
7.4 1988 DColor The Beat Paul Mones, W, C, M
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 7.4 1987 CDRColor Crazy Moon Allan Eastman, W, W, C, M, M
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 7.4 1984 CRColor (Metrocolor) Micki + Maude Blake Edwards, W, C, M
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 7.4 1983 CColor (Metrocolor) The Man Who Loved Women Blake Edwards, W, W, ++, C, M
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 7.4 1980 DColor (Eastmancolor) Every Man for Himself Jean-Luc Godard, W, W, C, C, C, M «Sauve qui peut (la vie)»
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 7.4 1979 ADColor Last Hurrah for Chivalry John Woo, W, C, C «Hao xia»
7.4 1978 CrATDColor Money Movers Bruce Beresford, W, W, C
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 7.4 1977 DFanColor I Never Promised You a Rose Garden Anthony Page, W, W, ++, C, M
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 7.4 1976 DColor (Eastmancolor) I Love You, I Don't Serge Gainsbourg, W, C, M «Je t'aime moi non plus»
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 7.4 1975 DColor The Other Side of the Mountain Larry Peerce, W, W, C, M
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 7.4 1973 CSfMColor Turist Ömer Uzay Yolu'nda Hulki Saner, W, ++, C, C
7.4 1969 CFColor (Technicolor) Angel in My Pocket Alan Rafkin, W, W, C, M, M
7.4 1969 DColor (Eastmancolor) The Mummy Chadi Abdel Salam, W, C, M «Al-mummia»
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 7.4 1968 DAAdColor (Fujicolor) Samaritan Zatoichi Cr Kenji Misumi, W, W, ++, C, M «Zatôichi kenka-daiko»
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 7.4 1966 DBlack and White, Color Black Girl Ousmane Sembene, W, C «La noire de..»
7.4 1966 DBlack and White The Embryo Hunts in Secret Kôji Wakamatsu, W, C «Taiji ga mitsuryô suru toki»
7.4 1962 DColor (Technicolor) Family Portrait Valerio Zurlini, W, W, ++, C, M «Cronaca familiare»
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 7.4 1956 CColor (Technicolor) Hollywood or Bust Frank Tashlin, W, ++, C, M
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 7.4 1953 DBlack and White Do Bigha Zamin Bimal Roy, W, W, ++, C, M
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 7.4 1953 CMlRColor (Technicolor) I Love Melvin Don Weis, W, W, ++, C, M
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 7.4 1952 CBlack and White Dreamboat Claude Binyon, W, W, C, M
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 7.4 1950 MBlack and White Five Angles on Murder Anthony Asquith, W, C, M «The Woman in Question»
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 7.4 1949 DBlack and White Come to the Stable Henry Koster, W, W, ++, C, M
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 7.4 1948 WeColor (Cinecolor) Coroner Creek Ray Enright, W, W, C, M
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 7.4 1947 MlColor (Technicolor) Mother Wore Tights Walter Lang, W, W, C, M, M
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 7.4 1938 AAdSfBlack and White Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars Ford Beebe, Robert F. Hill, ++, W, W, ++, C
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 7.4 1935 CDBlack and White Ah, Wilderness! Clarence Brown, W, W, ++, C, M, M
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 7.4 1935 FMlRBlack and White Curly Top Irving Cummings, W, W, ++, C, M, M, M++
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 7.4 1929 AAdDRBlack and White; Silent White Hell of Pitz Palu Arnold Fanck, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, W, W, C, C, C, M, M, M «Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü»
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 7.4 1925 DRBlack and White; Silent The Merry Widow Erich von Stroheim, W, W, ++, C, C, 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.