Sorted list: Films with "intelligent grades" between 7.4 and 7.7 (robustness between 1.5 and 2.0)

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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”.

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

Colored grades GR are less statistically reliable than non-colored. More color means less reliability.
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GR	Year	Genres	Title	Extra links / Director, etc / «Original title»
7.6	2014	DR	500 Miles	Ashlee Jensen, W, W, C, C, M
7.6	2014	ABCrDM	Jack Strong	Wladyslaw Pasikowski, W, C
7.6	2014	CrMT	Man from Reno	Dave Boyle, W, W, ++, C
7.6	2012	D	Least Among Saints	Martin Papazian, W, C, M
7.6	2011	D	A Simple Life	Ann Hui, W, W, C, M «Tao jie»
7.6	2011	ADH	Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale	Te-Sheng Wei, W, C «Sàidékè balái»
7.6	2010	AT	Jersey Justice	John Charles Hunt, W, C, M
7.6	2010	CCrMcRT	Sound of Noise	Ola Simonsson, Johannes Stjärne Nilsson, W, ++, C, M, M, M
7.6	2009	D	Blessed	Ana Kokkinos, W, W, ++, C, M
7.6	2007	DHo	Head Case	Anthony Spadaccini, W, C, C, C
7.6	2006	ACrT	A Dirty Carnival	Ha Yoo, W, C, M «Biyeolhan geori»
7.6	2006	D	Anche libero va bene	Kim Rossi Stuart, W, W, ++, C, M
7.6	2006	C	The Penalty King	Chris Cook, W, C, C, C++, M
7.6	2004	CDFR	Boats Out of Watermelon Rinds	Ahmet Ulucay, W, C, M, M «Karpuz kabugundan gemiler yapmak»
7.6	2003	DHoR	Rhinoceros Eyes	Aaron Woodley, W, C, M, M
7.6	2003	CCrM	Slim Susie	Ulf Malmros, W, W, C «Smala Sussie»
7.6	2002	D	En la ciudad sin límites	Antonio Hernández, W, W, C, M
7.6	2001	TM	Aks	Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, W, ++, C, M, M
7.6	2001	DCr	My Kingdom	Don Boyd, W, W, ++, C, M, M
7.6	2000	ACrT	Leak	Jean van de Velde, W, W, ++, C, M «Lek»
7.6	2000	CrDT	Under Hellgate Bridge	Michael Sergio, W, C, M, M
7.6	2000	C	We Married Margo	J.D. Shapiro, W, W, C, M, M, M++
7.6	1999	CDRA	Gigantics	Sebastian Schipper, W, C «Absolute Giganten»
7.6	1998	DMR	The School of Flesh	Benoît Jacquot, W, W, C «L'école de la chair»
7.6	1997	DTCr	The Boys Club	John Fawcett, W, W, C, M, M
7.6	1993	CrD	Amongst Friends	Rob Weiss, W, C
7.6	1988	DMc	Madame Sousatzka	John Schlesinger, W, W, ++, C, M
7.6	1987	FFanMlR	Snow White	Michael Berz, W, W, ++, C, M
7.6	1986	CrDM	"The Return of Sherlock Holmes" The Man with the Twisted Lip	Patrick Lau, W, W, ++, C, M
7.6	1979	CCr	Doing Time	Dick Clement, W, W, C «Porridge»
7.6	1978	CMl	Movie Movie	Stanley Donen, W, W, C, C, M
7.6	1972	D	Cisco Pike	Bill L. Norton, W, ++, C
7.6	1972	AD	Hapkido	Feng Huang, W, C, M «He qi dao»
7.6	1970	D	Goin' Down the Road	Donald Shebib, W, ++, C, M
7.6	1970	C	What Do You Say to a Naked Lady?	Allen Funt, W, C, C, C++, M
7.6	1969	D	80 Steps to Jonah	Gerd Oswald, W, ++, C, M
7.6	1969	T	I Start Counting	David Greene, W, W, C, M, M, M
7.6	1963	D	An Actor's Revenge	Kon Ichikawa, W, W, ++, C, M, M «Yukinojô henge»
7.6	1960	D	Let No Man Write My Epitaph	Philip Leacock, W, W, C, M
7.6	1960	CrDHo	The Housemaid	Ki-young Kim, W, C, M «Hanyo»
7.6	1953	ADW	Sailor of the King	Roy Boulting, W, W, C, M «Single-Handed»
7.6	1952	C	Has Anybody Seen My Gal	Douglas Sirk, W, W, C, M
7.6	1952	AAdF	The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men	Ken Annakin, W, C, M
7.6	1949	D	Bitter Rice	Giuseppe De Santis, W, ++, C, M «Riso amaro»
7.6	1941	DR	Hold Back the Dawn	Mitchell Leisen, W, W, ++, C, M
7.6	1938	DR	My Bill	John Farrow, W, W, ++, C, M
7.6	1932	DFanM	The Blue Light	Leni Riefenstahl, ++, W, W, ++, C, C, M «Das blaue Licht»
7.6	1931	CR	Just a Gigolo	Jack Conway, W, W, ++, C
7.6	1930	DRT	The Big House	George W. Hill, ++, W, W, ++, C
7.6	1930	DRW	Westfront 1918	Georg Wilhelm Pabst, W, W, ++, C, C, M
7.6	1929	D	Asphalt	Joe May, W, W, ++, C, M, M
7.6	1928	D	The Cossacks	George W. Hill, ++, W, W, ++, C, M, M
7.6	1925	ACDRW	Lazybones	Frank Borzage, W, W, C, C, M
7.6	1924	DAdFan	Kriemhild's Revenge	Fritz Lang, W, C, C, M «Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache»
7.5	2014	CHo	Yaamirukka Bayamey	Deekay, W, C
7.5	2013	MT	Memories	Jeethu Joseph, W, C, M
7.5	2012	CD	Mighty Fine	Debbie Goodstein, C, M
7.5	2011	D	Chinese Take-Out	Sebastián Borensztein, W, C, M «Un cuento chino»
7.5	2011	D	I Wish	Hirokazu Koreeda, W, C «Kiseki»
7.5	2010	ADT	The Stool Pigeon	Dante Lam, W, W, C, M «Sin yan»
7.5	2009	CF	Le petit Nicolas	Laurent Tirard, W, W, ++, C, M
7.5	2008	DR	Lovely, Still	Nicholas Fackler, W, W, C, M, M
7.5	2006	D	Takva: A Man's Fear of God	Özer Kiziltan, W, C, M «Takva»
7.5	2006	AdDR	Valley of Flowers	Pan Nalin, W, W, ++, C, M, M
7.5	2004	DR	Crying Out Love in the Center of the World	Isao Yukisada, W, W, ++, C, M, M «Sekai no chûshin de, ai o sakebu»
7.5	2004	DR	Or	Keren Yedaya, W, W, C
7.5	2004	CD	University of Laughs	Mamoru Hoshi, W, C, M «Warai no daigaku»
7.5	2003	CDR	Hungama	Priyadarshan, W, ++, C, M, M
7.5	2003	D	The Event	Thom Fitzgerald, W, W, ++, C, M
7.5	2002	CRA	Chinese Odyssey 2002	Jeffrey Lau, W, C, M, M «Tian xia wu shuang»
7.5	2002	CF	Grand Champion	Barry Tubb, W, C
7.5	2002	ACCrR	Love and a Bullet	Kantz, Ben Ramsey, W, W, C, M, M
7.5	2002	CD	The Last Great Wilderness	David Mackenzie, W, W, ++, C, M
7.5	2001	CDR	Brief Crossing	Catherine Breillat, W, C, M, M, M «Brève traversée»
7.5	2001	CDR	Suddenly Naked	Anne Wheeler, W, C, M
7.5	2000	D	Chinese Coffee	Al Pacino, W, C, M
7.5	2000	DR	Fiza	Khalid Mohamed, W, W, C, M, M
7.5	1999	D	Rollercoaster	Scott Smith, W, C, M
7.5	1998	CD	Reach the Rock	Bill Ryan, W, C, M
7.5	1996	DR	Carried Away	Bruno Barreto, W, W, C, M
7.5	1996	DR	Earth	Julio Medem, W, C, M «Tierra»
7.5	1987	AdF	Benji the Hunted	Joe Camp, W, C, M, M
7.5	1987	DR	The Year My Voice Broke	John Duigan, W, C, M
7.5	1980	ADCr	Defiance	John Flynn, W, ++, C, M
7.5	1978	CDR	House Calls	Howard Zieff, W, W, ++, C, M
7.5	1978	AD	She hao ba bu	Chi-Hwa Chen, W, C, M
7.5	1974	DMc	Stardust	Michael Apted, W, C
7.5	1971	DW	Long Live Death	Fernando Arrabal, W, ++, C «Viva la muerte»
7.5	1967	AD	The One-Armed Swordsman	Cheh Chang, W, W, C, M «Dubei dao»
7.5	1966	FFan	The Christmas That Almost Wasn't	Rossano Brazzi, W, W, C, M «Il Natale che quasi non fu»
7.5	1964	AD	Three Outlaw Samurai	Hideo Gosha, W, W, ++, C, M «Sanbiki no samurai»
7.5	1960	CrT	Hell Is a City	Val Guest, W, W, C, M
7.5	1960	D	The Young One	Luis Buñuel, W, W, ++, C
7.5	1959	DR	Letter Never Sent	Mikhail Kalatozov, W, W, ++, C, M «Neotpravlennoye pismo»
7.5	1959	DMT	Night Train	Jerzy Kawalerowicz, W, W, C, M «Pociag»
7.5	1958	MT	Chase a Crooked Shadow	Michael Anderson, W, W, C, M
7.5	1955	D	Dreams	Ingmar Bergman, W, C «Kvinnodröm»
7.5	1951	CFSp	Rhubarb	Arthur Lubin, W, W, ++, C, M
7.5	1947	DMR	So Well Remembered	Edward Dmytryk, W, W, C, M
7.5	1944	DT	The Suspect	Robert Siodmak, W, W, ++, C, M
7.5	1937	AdDFFan	The Prince and the Pauper	William Keighley, ++, W, W, ++, C, C, M
7.5	1932	D	Are You Listening?	Harry Beaumont, W, C, M
7.5	1929	D	Dynamite	Cecil B. DeMille, W, W, ++, C
7.5	1917	CDFFanR	The Poor Little Rich Girl	Maurice Tourneur, W, W, C, C
7.4	2015	MT	Rahasya	Manish Gupta, W, C, M
7.4	2015	AD	Temper	Puri Jagannadh, W, C, M, M
7.4	2014	R	That Thing Called Tadhana	Antoinette Jadaone, W, C, M
7.4	2013	DHT	Wakolda	Lucía Puenzo, W, C, M, M
7.4	2012	CR	Love Failure	Balaji Mohan, W, C, M «Kadhalil Sodhappuvadhu Yeppadi»
7.4	2012	Ho	Murder University	Richard Griffin, W, C, M, M
7.4	2007	RSf	11 Minutes Ago	Bob Gebert, W, C
7.4	2006	D	Holly	Guy Moshe, W, W, C, M
7.4	2006	DR	Tuya's Marriage	Quan'an Wang, W, W, C «Tuya de hun shi»
7.4	2005	C	Funky Forest: The First Contact	Katsuhito Ishii, Hajime Ishimine, ++, W, W, ++, C, C «Naisu no mori: The First Contact»
7.4	2005	CD	Hank Williams First Nation	Aaron James Sorensen, W, C
7.4	2005	CR	Train Man	Shôsuke Murakami, W, W, C, M «Densha otoko»
7.4	2004	D	Dev	Govind Nihalani, W, W, ++, C, M, M
7.4	2004	C	Stella Street	Peter Richardson, W, W, ++, C, M, M
7.4	2002	ACSf	Resurrection of the Little Match Girl	Sun-Woo Jang, W, W, C, M «Sungnyangpali sonyeoui jaerim»
7.4	2002	CrDMT	The Adversary	Nicole Garcia, W, W, ++, C, M «L'adversaire»
7.4	2002	DFanT	The Invisible	Joel Bergvall, Simon Sandquist, W, W, C, C, M, M «Den osynlige»
7.4	1999	CR	Seven Girlfriends	Paul Lazarus, W, W, ++, C, M
7.4	1999	CD	The Florentine	Nick Stagliano, W, W, C, M
7.4	1998	CD	Am I Beautiful?	Doris Dörrie, W, W, ++, C, M «¿Bin ich schön?»
7.4	1996	DRW	Carla's Song	Ken Loach, W, C, M
7.4	1996	DT	Caught	Robert M. Young, W, C, M
7.4	1996	D	Small Faces	Gillies MacKinnon, W, W, C, M
7.4	1995	CrD	New Jersey Drive	Nick Gomez, W, ++, C, M
7.4	1994	AdCF	Monkey Trouble	Franco Amurri, W, W, C, M
7.4	1993	D	The Blue Kite	Zhuangzhuang Tian, W, C, M «Lan feng zheng»
7.4	1988	CD	Mr. North	Danny Huston, W, W, ++, C, M
7.4	1988	D	Story of Women	Claude Chabrol, W, W, ++, C, M «Une affaire de femmes»
7.4	1988	AD	War Party	Franc Roddam, W, C, M
7.4	1986	CD	Ginger and Fred	Federico Fellini, W, W, ++, C, C, M «Ginger e Fred»
7.4	1985	CrDM	"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" The Greek Interpreter	Alan Grint, W, W, ++, C, M
7.4	1982	AC	Long zhi ren zhe	Corey Yuen
7.4	1982	HoTM	Next of Kin	Tony Williams, W, W, C, M
7.4	1981	D	Beau Pere	Bertrand Blier, W, C, M «Beau-père»
7.4	1980	AD	Clan of the White Lotus	Lieh Lo, W, C, M «Hong Wending san po bai lian jiao»
7.4	1980	BD	Tajna Nikole Tesle	Krsto Papic, W, W, ++, C, M
7.4	1977	AD	The Invincible Armour	See-Yuen Ng, W, C, M «Ying zhao tie bu shan»
7.4	1976	Ho	Assault! Jack the Ripper	Yasuharu Hasebe, W «Bôkô Kirisaki Jakku»
7.4	1973	CrD	Battles Without Honour and Humanity	Kinji Fukasaku, W, W, C, M «Jingi naki tatakai»
7.4	1973	ACrT	The Boss	Fernando Di Leo, W, W, C, M «Il boss»
7.4	1973	ACrDT	Zanjeer	Prakash Mehra, W, ++, C, M, M
7.4	1972	ACrT	Caliber 9	Fernando Di Leo, W, W, C, M, M «Milano calibro 9»
7.4	1972	ACrDT	Fear Is the Key	Michael Tuchner, W, W, C, M
7.4	1968	ADM	P.J.	John Guillermin, W, ++, C, M
7.4	1968	D	The Subject Was Roses	Ulu Grosbard, W, C, M
7.4	1966	D	Mademoiselle	Tony Richardson, W, W, C, M
7.4	1966	CD	The Pornographers	Shôhei Imamura, W, W, ++, C, M, M «Erogotoshi-tachi yori: Jinruigaku nyûmon»
7.4	1963	HoMT	La maldición de la Llorona	Rafael Baledón, W, ++, C, M
7.4	1960	DMl	The Cloud-Capped Star	Ritwik Ghatak, W, W, ++, C, M «Meghe Dhaka Tara»
7.4	1958	DW	Orders to Kill	Anthony Asquith, W, W, ++, C, M
7.4	1957	C	All at Sea	Charles Frend, W, C, M «Barnacle Bill»
7.4	1957	D	Il grido	Michelangelo Antonioni, W, W, ++, C, M
7.4	1956	D	Come Next Spring	R.G. Springsteen, W, C, M
7.4	1951	BCMl	I'll See You in My Dreams	Michael Curtiz, W, W, ++, C, M
7.4	1950	We	Two Flags West	Robert Wise, W, W, ++, C, M
7.4	1948	Sf	Superman	Spencer Gordon Bennet, Thomas Carr, W, W, ++, C
7.4	1946	D	The Green Years	Victor Saville, W, W, ++, C, M
7.4	1943	DW	Millions Like Us	Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder, W, W, C, C
7.4	1940	CCrMT	Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise	Eugene Forde, W, W, ++, C
7.4	1935	CDR	Steamboat Round the Bend	John Ford, W, W, ++, C, M
7.4	1934	CRD	Here Comes the Navy	Lloyd Bacon, W, W, ++, C
7.4	1931	RD	An American Tragedy	Josef von Sternberg, W, W, ++, C, M, M
7.4	1929	BDH	Disraeli	Alfred E. Green, W, ++, C, M
7.4	1929	DWe	Hell's Heroes	William Wyler, W, W, ++, C, M, M
7.4	1916	D	Where Are My Children?	[ Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber ], W, W, ++, 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.