Sorted list: Films with "intelligent grades" between 7.2 and 7.4 (robustness between 2.0 and 3.5)

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GR Year Genres Title Extra links / Director, etc / «Original title»
7.3 2014 DRColor Bangalore Days Anjali Menon, W, ++, P, M
7.3 2014 DTColor Munnariyippu Venu, W, W, P, M
7.3 2014 AAdDColor Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno Keishi Ohtomo, W, W, ++, P «Rurôni Kenshin: Kyôto taika-hen»
7.3 2013 ACrDTColor Metro Manila Sean Ellis, W, ++, P, M
7.3 2013 CDColor Miracle in Cell No.7 Lee Hwan-Kyung, W, W, ++, P
7.3 2012 CrColor 1,000 Times More Brutal Kamal Ahmed, W, P, M «Brutal»
7.3 2012 CrDHoMColor The Black Dahlia Haunting Brandon Slagle, W, P, M
7.3 2011 CRColor Take Me Home Sam Jaeger, W, P, M
7.3 2007 CRSpColor The Hammer Charles Herman-Wurmfeld, W, W, P, M, M
7.3 2005 DColor Iqbal Nagesh Kukunoor, W, P, M, M, M
7.3 2005 DColor Lovelorn Yavuz Turgul, W «Gönül yarasi»
7.3 2005 CrDColor The Magician Scott Ryan, W, P
7.3 2004 CFanRColor Citizen Dog Wisit Sasanatieng, W, W, P «Mah nakorn»
7.3 2004 DAColor Khakee Rajkumar Santoshi, W, ++, P, M
7.3 2004 DRColor The Hidden Blade Yôji Yamada, W, W, ++, P, M «Kakushi ken oni no tsume»
7.3 2004 CDColor The Syrian Bride Eran Riklis, W, W, P, M
7.3 2003 CDRColor A Foreign Affair Helmut Schleppi, W, P, M
7.3 2003 RDColor Zelary Ondrej Trojan, W, W, P, M
7.3 2002 CDColor (Cinecolor) Intimate Stories Carlos Sorin, W, P, M «Historias mínimas»
7.3 2002 DRColor Open Hearts Susanne Bier, W, P, M «Elsker dig for evigt»
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7.3 2002 DColor Ten Abbas Kiarostami, W, P
7.3 2001 CrDColor Blue Hill Avenue Craig Ross Jr., W, P, M, M
7.3 2000 DColor El Bola Achero Mañas, W, W, P, M
7.3 1999 DColor After the Rain Takashi Koizumi, W, W, P, M «Ame agaru»
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7.3 1998 CDMcRColor That's the Way I Like It Glen Goei, W, P, M «Forever Fever»
7.3 1997 DRColor (Technicolor) Bliss Lance Young, W, P, M
7.3 1997 CrD Rainy Dog Takashi Miike, W, M «Gokudô kuroshakai»
7.3 1996 DMcColor (Eastmancolor) Beyond Silence Caroline Link, W, W, P, M «Jenseits der Stille»
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7.3 1996 DColor The War at Home Emilio Estevez, W, P, M
7.3 1996 CRColor When the Cat's Away Cédric Klapisch, W, P «Chacun cherche son chat»
7.3 1995 DColor My Family Gregory Nava, W, W, P, M
7.3 1994 CrDSpColor Above the Rim Jeff Pollack, W, W, ++, P, M
7.3 1992 DColor (Technicolor) Breaking the Rules Neal Israel, W, P, M
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7.3 1992 DColor (DuArt) Passion Fish John Sayles, W, P, M
7.3 1990 DColor Strangers in Good Company Cynthia Scott, W, W, ++, P, M
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7.3 1989 CDHoColor Baxter Jérôme Boivin, W, W, ++, P, M, M
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7.3 1989 CFanColor (Technicolor) How to Get Ahead in Advertising Cr Cr-Ess Bruce Robinson, W, P, M, M
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7.3 1986 CRBlack and White, Color She's Gotta Have It Spike Lee, W, P, M
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7.3 1985 DColor When Father Was Away on Business Emir Kusturica, W, P, M «Otac na sluzbenom putu»
7.3 1984 DColor Mass Appeal Glenn Jordan, W, P, M
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7.3 1983 CDColor Max Dugan Returns Herbert Ross, W, P, M
7.3 1982 SfCMcColor (Metrocolor) Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again Jerry Belson, W, W, ++, P, M
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7.3 1981 DColor (Metrocolor) Whose Life Is It Anyway? John Badham, W, ++, P, M
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7.3 1979 CCrColor (Eastmancolor) Buffet Froid Bertrand Blier, W, P, M «Buffet froid»
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7.3 1978 DHColor (Gevacolor) The Tree of Wooden Clogs Ermanno Olmi, W, P «L'albero degli zoccoli»
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7.3 1975 DCrRColor (Eastmancolor) Fox and His Friends Rainer Werner Fassbinder, W, W, P, M «Faustrecht der Freiheit»
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7.3 1975 DRBlack and White Hester Street Joan Micklin Silver, W, W, P, M
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7.3 1972 DColor The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant Rainer Werner Fassbinder, W, P «Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant»
7.3 1970 CDColor (Technicolor) Diary of a Mad Housewife Frank Perry, W, W, P
7.3 1970 DColor (Technicolor) I Never Sang for My Father Gilbert Cates, W, P, P, M, M
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7.3 1970 CColor (Metrocolor) Lovers and Other Strangers Cy Howard, W, W, ++, P, M
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7.3 1967 DHMcColor Marat/Sade Peter Brook, W, W, ++, P, M
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7.3 1966 CDWBlack and White Closely Watched Trains Cr Cr-Ess Jirí Menzel, W, ++, P, M «Ostre sledované vlaky»
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7.3 1966 DSfBlack and White The Face of Another Cr Cr-Ess Cr-Ess Hiroshi Teshigahara, W, P, M «Tanin no kao»
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7.3 1962 DBlack and White Mamma Roma Cr Cr-Photo Cr-Ess Cr-News Cr-Clip Pier Paolo Pasolini, W, P
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7.3 1961 CBlack and White Divorce Italian Style Cr Cr-Ess Pietro Germi, W, W, ++, P, P, M «Divorzio all'italiana»
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7.3 1961 CrDTBlack and White Underworld U.S.A. Samuel Fuller, W, ++, P, M
7.3 1960 DHWBlack and White Kapò Gillo Pontecorvo, W, W, P, M
7.3 1960 BDWBlack and White The Gallant Hours Robert Montgomery, W, W, P, M
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7.3 1957 DBlack and White A Hatful of Rain Fred Zinnemann, W, ++, P, M
7.3 1956 DBlack and White Early Spring Yasujirô Ozu, W, W, P, M «Sôshun»
7.3 1954 CBlack and White The Belles of St. Trinian's Frank Launder, W, W, ++, P, M
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7.3 1953 DFBlack and White Little Fugitive Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, ++, W, W, ++, P, M
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7.3 1952 ADWeBlack and White The Lusty Men Nicholas Ray, ++, W, W, ++, P, M
7.3 1951 DFanRBlack and White, Color (Technicolor) I'll Never Forget You Roy Ward Baker, W, W, ++, P, M «The House in the Square»
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7.3 1951 DRBlack and White Summer Interlude Cr Cr-Photo Cr-Ess Ingmar Bergman, W, W, P, M, M «Sommarlek»
7.3 1951 CBlack and White The Mating Season Mitchell Leisen, W, W, ++, P, M
7.3 1948 CrDMRColor (Technicolor) Blanche Fury Marc Allégret, W, W, ++, P, P, M
7.3 1948 WDBlack and White (archive footage), Black and White Command Decision Sam Wood, W, W, ++, P, M
7.3 1948 DFanNTBlack and White Night Has a Thousand Eyes John Farrow, W, W, ++, P, M
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7.3 1945 DBlack and White The Corn Is Green Irving Rapper, W, W, ++, P, M
7.3 1941 CMlRBlack and White It Started with Eve Henry Koster, W, W, ++, P, M
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7.3 1939 CrDRTBlack and White Daybreak Marcel Carné, W, W, P, P, P++, M «Le jour se lève»
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7.3 1936 DRBlack and White These Three William Wyler, W, ++, P, M
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7.3 1935 CRBlack and White The Good Fairy William Wyler, W, W, ++, P, M
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7.3 1934 DHRBlack and White The Scarlet Empress Cr Cr-Photo Cr-Ess Cr-Clip Josef von Sternberg, W, W, ++, P
7.3 1933 AdDBlack and White Wild Boys of the Road William A. Wellman, W, W, P, M
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7.3 1927 DHoBlack and White; Silent London After Midnight Tod Browning, W, W, ++, P
7.3 1923 CDRBlack and White; Silent Souls for Sale Rupert Hughes, W, P, M
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7.3 1919 AdDBlack and White; Silent Male and Female Cecil B. DeMille, W, W, P, M
7.2 2014 CTColor Na Maloom Afraad Nabeel Qureshi, P, M
7.2 2013 CRColor Raja Rani Atlee Kumar, W, P, P, M
7.2 2013 CFColor Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu Srikanth Addala, W, W, ++, P, M, M
7.2 2013 BColor The Dance of Reality Alejandro Jodorowsky, W, P, M «La danza de la realidad»
7.2 2013 HoColor The House of the End Times Alejandro Hidalgo, W, P, M «La casa del fin de los tiempos»
7.2 2012 DSpColor 9-Ball Anthony Palma, W, P, P, P, M
7.2 2011 CDColor Footnote Joseph Cedar, W, P, M «Hearat Shulayim»
7.2 2011 DRColor Mayakkam Enna K. Selvaraghavan, W, P, M
7.2 2011 DColor Pariah Dee Rees, W, P
7.2 2011 CDFColor Stanley's Tiffin Box Amole Gupte, W, W, P, M «Stanley Ka Dabba»
7.2 2010 ACDWeColor Gunless William Phillips, W, P, M
7.2 2010 TColor Legacy Thomas Ikimi, W, P, M
7.2 2010 CrDTColor The Yellow Sea Hong-jin Na, W, P, M, M «Hwanghae»
7.2 2009 DColor Welcome Philippe Lioret, W, W, ++, P, M
7.2 2008 AdCFanMlRColor Were the World Mine Tom Gustafson, W, W, ++, P, M, M
7.2 2007 DFanHoMColor Hansel & Gretel Pil-Sung Yim, W, W, P, M «Henjel gwa Geuretel»
7.2 2007 DColor Save Me Robert Cary, W, W, ++, P, M
7.2 2007 DColor The Banishment Andrey Zvyagintsev, W, W, ++, P, M, M «Izgnanie»
7.2 2006 BDRColor Woh Lamhe Mohit Suri, W, W, P, M
7.2 2005 DColor Hell Danis Tanovic, W, W, P, M, M «L'enfer»
7.2 2005 CDWColor (Eastmancolor) Welcome to Dongmakgol Kwang-Hyun Park, W, W, ++, P, M «Welkkeom tu Dongmakgol»
7.2 2004 DColor Everyday People Jim McKay, W, P, M
7.2 2004 AAdCCrTColor Matando Cabos Alejandro Lozano, W, W, ++, P, M
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7.2 2004 DColor Moolaadé Ousmane Sembene, W, P, M
7.2 2004 CDColor (Cinecolor) Whisky Juan Pablo Rebella, Pablo Stoll, W, W, ++, P, M
7.2 2003 CCrDRColor The Man Who Copied Jorge Furtado, W, P «O Homem Que Copiava»
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7.2 2002 CrMDColor Hukkle György Pálfi, W, P, M, M
7.2 2002 DCColor I Not Stupid Jack Neo, W, P, M «Xiaohai bu ben»
7.2 2002 CDMlRColor The Other Side of the Bed Emilio Martínez Lázaro, W, P, M, M, M «El otro lado de la cama»
7.2 2001 ADCColor Guns & Talks Jin Jang, W, P, M «Killerdeului suda»
7.2 2000 CDRColor The Adventures of Felix Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau, W, W, P «Drôle de Félix»
7.2 2000 CDColor The Iron Ladies Yongyoot Thongkongtoon, W, W, ++, P «Satree lek»
7.2 1999 CrTDColor Dead End Iren Koster, W, P, M
7.2 1999 TColor Kaun? Ram Gopal Varma, W, P, M
7.2 1998 DColor At Sachem Farm John Huddles, W, P, M
7.2 1998 DColor Down in the Delta Maya Angelou, W, P, M
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7.2 1997 BDHWColor Behind the Lines Gillies MacKinnon, W, W, P, M «Regeneration»
7.2 1996 CColor Family Resemblances Cédric Klapisch, W, W, ++, P, M «Un air de famille»
7.2 1996 ADFanHoSfTColor Gamera 2: Attack of the Legion Shûsuke Kaneko, W, P, M «Gamera 2: Region shurai»
7.2 1996 DHColor Some Mother's Son Terry George, W, W, P
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7.2 1995 ACTColor Coldblooded Wallace Wolodarsky, W, P, M
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7.2 1995 DRColor The Star Maker Giuseppe Tornatore, W, W, ++, P, M «L'uomo delle stelle»
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7.2 1995 ADTBlack and White (inserts only), Color Tokyo Fist Shin'ya Tsukamoto, W, W, ++, P, M
7.2 1994 HoTColor Nightwatch Ole Bornedal, W, P, M, M, M++ «Nattevagten»
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7.2 1994 ACDColor Wing Chun Woo-ping Yuen, W, W, P, M, M, M
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7.2 1993 BCDColor (Technicolor) Caro diario Nanni Moretti, W, P, M
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7.2 1993 DColor The Cement Garden Andrew Birkin, W, W, P, M
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7.2 1986 DMcColor (Eastmancolor) 'Round Midnight Bertrand Tavernier, W, W, ++, P, M
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7.2 1986 ADAdColor (Metrocolor) Never Too Young to Die Gil Bettman, W, W, ++, P, M
7.2 1985 CCrColor (Technicolor) Restless Natives Michael Hoffman, W, P, M
7.2 1984 CDRColor Racing with the Moon Richard Benjamin, W, P, M
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7.2 1983 DWColor Under Fire Roger Spottiswoode, W, W, ++, P, M
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7.2 1982 CDMcColor Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains Lou Adler, W, P
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7.2 1981 CCrDColor Coup de torchon Cr Cr-Ess Bertrand Tavernier, W, W, ++, P, M
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7.2 1981 CDColor (Technicolor) Four Friends Arthur Penn, W, P, M
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7.2 1979 CDRColor Osenniy marafon Georgiy Daneliya, W, P, M
7.2 1976 ACColor The Human Tornado Cliff Roquemore, W, W, ++, P, P, M
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7.2 1974 DAColor (Technicolor) Macon County Line Richard Compton, W, ++, P, M
7.2 1974 DTColor School of the Holy Beast Noribumi Suzuki, W, W, M «Seijû gakuen»
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7.2 1972 CMColor (Eastmancolor) The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe Yves Robert, W, W, P, M «Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire»
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7.2 1969 TColor (Eastmancolor) This Man Must Die Claude Chabrol, W, ++, P, M «Que la bête meure»
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7.2 1963 DBlack and White America, America Elia Kazan, W, P, M
7.2 1962 ADHColor (Eastmancolor) Chushingura Hiroshi Inagaki, W, P, M «Chûshingura»
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7.2 1961 DRBlack and White Lola Jacques Demy, W, P, M
7.2 1961 DBlack and White Town Without Pity Gottfried Reinhardt, W, W, ++, P, M
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7.2 1959 BDMcColor (Technicolor) The Five Pennies Melville Shavelson, W, W, ++, P, M
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7.2 1957 DWBlack and White Kanal Cr Cr-Ess Cr-Web Andrzej Wajda, W, P, M
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7.2 1953 DBlack and White Sawdust and Tinsel Cr Cr-Video Cr-Ess Cr-Ess Cr-News Ingmar Bergman, ++, P, P, M «Gycklarnas afton»
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7.2 1952 CrDRBlack and White Casque d'Or Cr Cr-Photo Cr-Ess Cr-Clip Jacques Becker, W, W, ++, P, M «Casque d'or»
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7.2 1951 DBlack and White Payment on Demand Curtis Bernhardt, W, W, P, M
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7.2 1951 AdCrDTBlack and White The Tall Target Anthony Mann, W, W, ++, P
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7.2 1950 DRColor (Technicolor) Gone to Earth Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, W, W, ++, P, M
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7.2 1950 DNBlack and White No Man of Her Own Mitchell Leisen, W, W, ++, P, M
7.2 1949 DBlack and White The Passionate Friends David Lean, W, W, ++, P, M
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7.2 1946 AdCFMlBlack and White Road to Utopia Hal Walker, W, W, P, M
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7.2 1943 CAdFanColor (Agfacolor) The Adventures of Baron Munchausen Josef von Báky, W, ++, P, P, M «Münchhausen»
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7.2 1943 DMlRBlack and White The Hard Way Vincent Sherman, W, W, ++, P, M
7.2 1942 DWBlack and White Journey for Margaret W.S. Van Dyke, ++, W, W, ++, P, M, M, M++
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7.2 1939 AdHRBlack and White The Man in the Iron Mask James Whale, W, W, P, M
7.2 1937 CBlack and White It's Love I'm After Archie Mayo, W, W, P, M
7.2 1937 CDRBlack and White The Bride Wore Red Dorothy Arzner, W, W, ++, P, M
7.2 1936 CCrMSpTBlack and White Charlie Chan at the Race Track H. Bruce Humberstone, W, W, ++, P
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7.2 1936 AAdSfBlack and White Flash Gordon Frederick Stephani, ++, W, W, ++, P, P, M
7.2 1936 DFBlack and White Little Lord Fauntleroy John Cromwell, W, W, P, M
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7.2 1936 MlRAdDWeBlack and White Rose-Marie W.S. Van Dyke, W, W, ++, P, M
7.2 1936 DBlack and White Sisters of the Gion Kenji Mizoguchi, W, W, ++, P «Gion no shimai»
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7.2 1936 BDHBlack and White The Prisoner of Shark Island John Ford, W, P, M, M
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7.2 1935 DHRBlack and White Les Misérables Richard Boleslawski, W, W, P, M
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7.2 1934 MlCRBlack and White The Merry Widow Ernst Lubitsch, W, W, ++, P
7.2 1933 CFanMlRBlack and White Roman Scandals Frank Tuttle, W, W, ++, P, P, M
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7.2 1932 DBlack and White What Price Hollywood? George Cukor, W, W, ++, P, M
7.2 1931 CDBlack and White Private Lives Sidney Franklin, W, W, ++, P, M
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7.2 1928 DWBlack and White Noah's Ark Michael Curtiz, ++, W, W, ++, P, P, M, M, M++
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7.2 1928 TBlack and White; Silent Spies Fritz Lang, W, W, ++, P, M «Spione»
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7.2 1928 HoBlack and White; Silent The Fall of the House of Usher Jean Epstein, W, W, ++, P, P «La chute de la maison Usher»
7.2 1928 DRBlack and White; Silent The Mysterious Lady Fred Niblo, W, W, ++, P, M, M
7.2 1926 AdAColor (2-strip Technicolor); Silent The Black Pirate Albert Parker, W, W, P, M
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7.2 1924 WeBlack and White (tinted); Silent The Iron Horse John Ford, W, W, ++, P, M, M, M
7.2 1922 DFFanMRColor (2-strip Technicolor) (Process Number Two); Silent The Toll of the Sea Chester M. Franklin, W, ++, P
7.2 1918 CWBlack and White; Silent Shoulder Arms Charles Chaplin, W, P, 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. The release year is color-coded to denote TV films, TV mini-series, and TV series. The director’s name is bluish-tinted if its popup has additional info about other films by this director.