Sorted list: Films with "intelligent grades" 8.7 or higher (robustness between 2.0 and 3.5)

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»
10.0	2011	DSp	Milltown Pride	Tim Rogers, W, C, M
9.7	1985	AdC	Crime Wave	John Paizs, W, C, M
9.7	1961	CDR	Loss of Innocence	Lewis Gilbert, W, ++, C, M «The Greengage Summer»
9.6	2014	ABDH	Queen of the Mountains	Sadyk Sher-Niyaz, W, W, ++, C, M, M «Kurmanjan datka»
9.6	2007	C	The Rat Thing	Kevin Keresey, W, C, M
9.6	1976	CH	Tosun Pasa	Kartal Tibet, W, W, C
9.5	1999	D	Funny Valentines	Julie Dash, W, W, ++, C, M
9.5	1983	DFMl	Masoom	Shekhar Kapur, W, C, M
9.5	1977	FMlFan	Ma-ma	Elisabeta Bostan, W, W, C, C, M, M
9.5	1927	CR	My Best Girl	Sam Taylor, W, W, ++, C, C
9.4	2015	BDH	Muhammad	Majid Majidi, W, C, M
9.4	1980	AdCD	Who's Singin' Over There?	Slobodan Sijan, W, C, M «Ko to tamo peva»
9.4	1969	AdCCrT	The Diamond Arm	Leonid Gayday, W, W, ++, C, M «Brilliantovaya ruka»
9.3	2004	TCr	Charlie the Ox	Scott Smith, W, C, M
9.3	1999	C	The Woman Chaser	Robinson Devor, W, W, C, M
9.3	1992	CD	The Oak	Lucian Pintilie, W, W, C «Balanta»
9.2	2009	DT	Moonlight Sonata	Celik Kayalar, W, C, M
9.2	2000	D	A Rumor of Angels	Peter O'Fallon, W, W, ++, C, M
9.2	1998	CCrDW	The Wounds	Srdjan Dragojevic, W, C, M «Rane»
9.2	1984	FAdDFan	Ronja Robbersdaughter	Tage Danielsson, W, C, C, C, M «Ronja Rövardotter»
9.2	1982	CF	Savannah Smiles	Pierre De Moro, W, C, M
9.2	1981	DMc	Bolero	Claude Lelouch, W, C, M, M «Les uns et les autres»
9.2	1978	BD	Molière	Ariane Mnouchkine, W, C, M
9.2	1961	D	Il posto	Ermanno Olmi, W, W, C, C, M
9.1	2014	CDF	Bey Yaar	Abhishek Jain, W, W, C, M, M
9.1	2000	D	Monarch	John Walsh, W, C, M, M
9.1	1982	BD	If You Could See What I Hear	Eric Till, W, W, ++, C, M
9.1	1982	C	Le père Noël est une ordure	Jean-Marie Poiré, W, W, ++, C, M
9.1	1943	Ml	The Desert Song	Robert Florey, W, W, ++, C, M
9.0	2015	Ml	Katyar Kaljat Ghusali	Subodh Bhave, W, W, M
9.0	2007	DFR	The Indian	James R. Gorrie, W, C, M
9.0	1997	AAdCFMc	The Wiggles Movie	Dean Covell, W, C
9.0	1996	DR	Comrades: Almost a Love Story	Peter Chan, W, C, M, M «Tian mi mi»
9.0	1990	AdBCDR	My Mother's Castle	Yves Robert, W, W, ++, C, M «Le château de ma mère»
9.0	1985	CD	Bliss	Ray Lawrence, W, W, ++, C, M
9.0	1977	CSf	Zítra vstanu a oparím se cajem	Jindrich Polák, W, W, ++, C, M
9.0	1965	AdCDR	The Truth About Spring	Richard Thorpe, W, W, C, M
9.0	1964	DR	Charulata	Satyajit Ray, W, W, ++, C, M
9.0	1960	DRW	Mughal-E-Azam	K. Asif, W, W, ++, C, M
8.9	2011	D	Emulsion	Suki Singh, W, C, M
8.9	2007	D	Along the Way	Andrew Bowen, W, W, C, M, M
8.9	2005	CD	In Memory of My Father	Chris Jaymes, W, C, M
8.9	1999	AAdD	Sarfarosh	John Mathew Matthan, W, ++, C, M, M, M++
8.9	1997	DR	Love Jones	Theodore Witcher, W, C, M, M
8.9	1997	BDMc	The Harmonists	Joseph Vilsmaier, W, W, ++, C, M, M «Comedian Harmonists»
8.9	1975	ACrDT	Deewaar	Yash Chopra, W, ++, C, M
8.8	2014	ADT	Ugramm	Prashanth Neel, W, C, M
8.8	2010	AAdCCrD	Bold Native	Denis Hennelly, W, C, M, M
8.8	2002	D	Edi	Piotr Trzaskalski, W, W, C, M
8.8	2001	F	Her Majesty	Mark J. Gordon, W, C, M
8.8	1988	DR	A Summer Story	Piers Haggard, W, W, C, M
8.8	1979	CD	Going in Style	Martin Brest, W, W, C, M
8.8	1979	C	Gol Maal	Hrishikesh Mukherjee, W, W, ++, C, M
8.8	1976	CD	Kenny & Company	Don Coscarelli, W, C, M
8.8	1949	D	The Hasty Heart	Vincent Sherman, W, W, C, M
8.8	1926	D	The Scarlet Letter	Victor Sjöström, W, W, ++, C, M, M, M++
8.7	2014	CR	Muffin Top: A Love Story	Cathryn Michon, W, W, C, M
8.7	2007	DSp	Road to Victory	Mike Reilly, W, C, C, M
8.7	2006	We	The Devil Wears Spurs	Charlton Thorp, W, C, M
8.7	2003	D	Pinjar	Chandra Prakash Dwivedi, W, ++, C, M «Pinjar: Beyond Boundaries..»
8.7	1993	CHoMlMT	Manichithrathazhu	Fazil, W, C, M
8.7	1988	ADMlR	Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak	Mansoor Khan, W, ++, C, M, 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.