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

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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 quality”.

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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	2013	T	Mumbai Police	Roshan Andrews, W, W, M
7.6	2011	AdH	17 Miracles	T.C. Christensen, W, W, P
7.6	2009	DT	Absolute Evil - Final Exit	Ulli Lommel, W, P, M «Absolute Evil»
7.6	2005	DMc	The Violin	Francisco Vargas, W, P, P, M, M «El violin»
7.6	2003	CD	James' Journey to Jerusalem	Ra'anan Alexandrowicz, W, W, P, M, M, M «Massa'ot James Be'eretz Hakodesh»
7.6	2002	DR	Swingers	Stephan Brenninkmeijer, W, P, M
7.6	2001	T	Tempted	Bill Bennett, W, P, M
7.6	2001	C	Wooly Boys	Leszek Burzynski, W, W, ++, P, M
7.6	1998	DR	Dance Me to My Song	Rolf de Heer, W, W, ++, P, M
7.6	1997	RWe	Gunfighter's Moon	Larry Ferguson, W, P, M
7.6	1997	ACCr	Kiler	Juliusz Machulski, W, P, M, M
7.6	1994	DRT	Killer	Mark Malone, W, W, P, M
7.6	1990	CHo	I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle	Dirk Campbell, W, W, P, M
7.6	1988	CFSf	Purple People Eater	Linda Shayne, W, P, M
7.6	1986	DR	Violets Are Blue...	Jack Fisk, W, P, M
7.6	1985	CR	Breaking All the Rules	James Orr, W, W, ++, P, M
7.6	1984	CrDM	"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" The Naval Treaty	Alan Grint, W, W, ++, P, M
7.6	1984	D	The Stone Boy	Christopher Cain, W, P, M
7.6	1977	DFan	I Never Promised You a Rose Garden	Anthony Page, W, W, ++, P, M
7.6	1974	DR	A Very Natural Thing	Christopher Larkin, W, ++, P, M, M, M
7.6	1973	CWe	Kid Blue	James Frawley, W, P, M, M
7.6	1972	DR	César and Rosalie	Claude Sautet, W, W, ++, P, M «César et Rosalie»
7.6	1970	CrT	The Crook	Claude Lelouch, W, ++, P, M «Le voyou»
7.6	1968	We	The Ruthless Four	Giorgio Capitani, W, W, P, M «Ognuno per sé»
7.6	1966	AdWe	The Night of the Grizzly	Joseph Pevney, W, P, P, M
7.6	1965	DMRF	Waqt	Yash Chopra, W, W, P, M
7.6	1964	DA	The Lively Set	Jack Arnold, W, W, ++, P, M
7.6	1960	BDH	The Trials of Oscar Wilde	Ken Hughes, W, W, ++, P, M
7.6	1960	FD	Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks with a Circus	Charles Barton, W, W, ++, P, M, M
7.6	1959	D	Career	Joseph Anthony, W, W, ++, P, M
7.6	1959	Ml	For the First Time	Rudolph Maté, W, P, M, M, M
7.6	1958	DRW	A Time to Love and a Time to Die	Douglas Sirk, W, W, P, M
7.6	1949	C	Everybody Does It	Edmund Goulding, W, W, ++, P
7.6	1948	CMlR	Luxury Liner	Richard Whorf, W, W, ++, P, M
7.6	1944	C	Our Hearts Were Young and Gay	Lewis Allen, W, W, ++, P, M
7.6	1936	DR	Mayerling	Anatole Litvak, W, W, ++, P, P, M, M
7.6	1933	CCrR	The Little Giant	Roy Del Ruth, W, W, P
7.6	1931	D	Anna Christie	Jacques Feyder, W, W, ++, P
7.6	1931	DM	The Phantom of Paris	John S. Robertson, W, W, ++, P
7.6	1930	CD	Min and Bill	George W. Hill, W, W, ++, P
7.6	1928	DR	White Shadows in the South Seas	W.S. Van Dyke, ++, W, W, ++, P, P, P, M
7.6	1927	DR	Captain Salvation	John S. Robertson, W, W, ++, P, M
7.6	1927	AdDHR	The Beloved Rogue	Alan Crosland, W, W, ++, P
7.5	2014	BCDR	Cantinflas	Sebastian del Amo, W, W, P, M
7.5	2014	Ho	New Blood Rising	Chad Zuver, W, P
7.5	2014	T	Who Am I	Baran bo Odar, W, W, P, M «Who Am I - Kein System ist sicher»
7.5	2012	CrDT	Wasteland	Rowan Athale, W, P, M
7.5	2011	CrD	Few Options	George A. Pappy Jr., W, P, M
7.5	2009	CF	Le petit Nicolas	Laurent Tirard, W, W, ++, P, M
7.5	2007	D	Estomago: A Gastronomic Story	Marcos Jorge, W, W, ++, P, M «Estômago»
7.5	2006	CDMl	Colma: The Musical	Richard Wong, W, W, ++, P, M
7.5	2006	AdD	Ghosts	Nick Broomfield, W, W, ++, P, M, M
7.5	2006	CD	Naming Number Two	Toa Fraser, W, P, M «No. 2»
7.5	2006	DR	The Elephant King	Seth Grossman, W, P, M
7.5	2005	AdDW	Iluminados por el fuego	Tristán Bauer, W, W, ++, P, M, M
7.5	2002	CR	Casomai	Alessandro D'Alatri, W, W, P, M, M
7.5	2001	DMlCrR	Lajja	Rajkumar Santoshi, W, W, ++, P, M, M
7.5	2001	CSp	Waterboys	Shinobu Yaguchi, W, W, P, P, M, M
7.5	2000		Road Dogz	Alfredo Ramos, W, P, M
7.5	1998	DR	Late August, Early September	Olivier Assayas, W, P «Fin août, début septembre»
7.5	1997	DR	The Only Thrill	Peter Masterson, W, P, M
7.5	1996	ADR	Ghatak: Lethal	Rajkumar Santoshi, W, W, ++, P, M, M, M
7.5	1996	CD	The Other Side of Sunday	Berit Nesheim, W, W, ++, P, M, M «Søndagsengler»
7.5	1995	DRW	Frankie Starlight	Michael Lindsay-Hogg, W, W, ++, P, M
7.5	1994	CD	Whale Music	Richard J. Lewis, W, W, ++, P, M
7.5	1993	RWD	For the Moment	Aaron Kim Johnston, W, P, M
7.5	1993	AAdR	Zhan shen chuan shuo	Sammo Hung Kam-Bo, W, P, M
7.5	1992	CrD	South Central	Stephen Milburn Anderson, W, W, P, M
7.5	1990	DT	Naked Obsession	Dan Golden, W, W, M
7.5	1990	C	The Shrimp on the Barbie	Michael Gottlieb, Alan Smithee, W, W, ++, P, M
7.5	1990	CR	Tune in Tomorrow...	Jon Amiel, W, W, P, M
7.5	1989	CHoSf	Lobster Man from Mars	Stanley Sheff, W, W, ++, P, M
7.5	1989	FanHo	Tales from the Gimli Hospital	Guy Maddin, W, P
7.5	1986	D	The Terrorizers	Edward Yang, W, W, P, M «Kong bu fen zi»
7.5	1985	CFFan	The Dirt Bike Kid	Hoite C. Caston, W, W, ++, P, M, M
7.5	1983	DACRF	Coolie	Manmohan Desai, Prayag Raj, W, W, ++, P, M, M
7.5	1981	CD	Lola	Rainer Werner Fassbinder, W, W, ++, P, M, M
7.5	1979	D	Iskanderija... lih?	Youssef Chahine, W, W, P, M
7.5	1976	D	The Middleman	Satyajit Ray, W, W, P, M «Jana Aranya»
7.5	1975	Ho	She sha shou	Chih-Hung Kuei, W, P, M
7.5	1973	CrC	Cops and Robbers	Aram Avakian, W, P, M
7.5	1973	CD	Oklahoma Crude	Stanley Kramer, W, P, M
7.5	1973	ACrT	The Boss	Fernando Di Leo, W, W, P, M «Il boss»
7.5	1973	DW	The Train	Pierre Granier-Deferre, W, W, ++, P, M «Le train»
7.5	1971	AAdD	The Horsemen	John Frankenheimer, W, W, P, P, P, M
7.5	1969	D	Boy	Nagisa Ôshima, W, P, P, M «Shônen»
7.5	1969	D	The Cow	Dariush Mehrjui, W, W, P, M «Gaav»
7.5	1968	ACD	Kill!	Kihachi Okamoto, W, W, ++, P, M «Kiru»
7.5	1965	C	The Art of Love	Norman Jewison, W, W, ++, P, M
7.5	1965	CM	The Intelligence Men	Robert Asher, W, W, ++, P, M
7.5	1964	CSf	Kiss Me Quick!	Peter Perry Jr., ++, P
7.5	1963	CrDR	Any Number Can Win	Henri Verneuil, W, W, ++, P, M «Mélodie en sous-sol»
7.5	1953	DW	Raiders in the Sky	Philip Leacock, W, W, ++, P, M «Appointment in London»
7.5	1950	M	Five Angles on Murder	Anthony Asquith, W, P, M «The Woman in Question»
7.5	1948	D	Nosotros, los pobres	Ismael Rodríguez, W, W, ++, P, M
7.5	1942	AAd	Spy Smasher	William Witney, W, W, ++, P, M
7.5	1938	AD	The Crowd Roars	Richard Thorpe, W, W, ++, P, P, M
7.5	1938	CrT	They Drive by Night	Arthur B. Woods, W, ++, P, M
7.5	1936	CDMl	Pennies from Heaven	Norman Z. McLeod, W, W, ++, P, M
7.5	1936	We	Three Godfathers	Richard Boleslawski, W, W, ++, P, M
7.5	1932	D	Broken Lullaby	Ernst Lubitsch, W, W, ++, P, M
7.5	1932	D	The Mouthpiece	James Flood, Elliott Nugent, W, W, ++, P
7.5	1926	C	The Strong Man	Frank Capra, W, W, ++, P, P, M
7.5	1924	DR	Wild Oranges	King Vidor, W, W, ++, P, M
7.5	1921	AAdR	The Three Musketeers	Fred Niblo, W, W, ++, P, M, M, M
7.5	1919	HoW	I Accuse	Abel Gance, W, P, P, P, M «J'accuse!»
7.4	2013	DT	In the Name Of	Malgorzata Szumowska, W, W, P, M, M «W imie..»
7.4	2013	DHT	Wakolda	Lucía Puenzo, W, P, M, M
7.4	2013	D	Zinda Bhaag	Meenu Gaur, Farjad Nabi, W, W, P, M
7.4	2012	DR	Architecture 101	Yong-Joo Lee, W, P, M «Geon-chook-hak-gae-ron»
7.4	2012	AAdR	Code Name Venus	Tamer Garip, W, W, ++, P «Kod Adi: Venüs»
7.4	2011	CHo	Game of Werewolves	Juan Martínez Moreno, W, P, M «Lobos de Arga»
7.4	2011	DR	Incir reçeli	Aytaç Agirlar, W, P, P, M
7.4	2011	CR	Love Birds	Paul Murphy, W, P, M, M
7.4	2010	D	The Life of Fish	Matías Bize, W, ++, P, M «La vida de los peces»
7.4	2009	DR	City of Life	Ali F. Mostafa, W, W, ++, P, M, M
7.4	2009		Frontier Blues	Babak Jalali, W, P, M
7.4	2009	DMSfT	The Door	Anno Saul, W, W, P, M «Die Tür»
7.4	2006	DT	Last Train to Freo	Jeremy Sims, W, P
7.4	2005	CD	The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros	Auraeus Solito, W, P, M «Ang pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros»
7.4	2004	CrRT	Lautlos	Mennan Yapo, W, W, P, M, M
7.4	2003	DFR	Armaan	Honey Irani, W, ++, P, M, M, M++
7.4	2003	D	Tehzeeb	Khalid Mohamed, W, W, P, M
7.4	2002	D	Dekada '70	Chito S. Roño, W, P, M
7.4	2002	CHoFR	My Left Eye Sees Ghosts	Johnnie To, Ka-Fai Wai, W, W, ++, P, M «Ngo joh aan gin diy gwai»
7.4	2002		The Keyman	Daniel Millican, W, W, P, M
7.4	2001	CFFan	Miss Minoes	Vincent Bal, W, W, ++, P, M «Minoes»
7.4	2001	DA	Nayak: The Real Hero	S. Shankar, W, W, P, M
7.4	2001	CrDT	One Eyed King	Robert Moresco, W, P, M, M
7.4	2000	BCrD	Murderous Maids	Jean-Pierre Denis, W, W, ++, P «Les blessures assassines»
7.4	1999	D	Charisma	Kiyoshi Kurosawa, W, P, M «Karisuma»
7.4	1997	CD	Dry Cleaning	Anne Fontaine, W, W, P «Nettoyage à sec»
7.4	1997		Mr. Vincent	Robert Celestino, W, W, ++, P, M, M
7.4	1997	DR	Touch Me	H. Gordon Boos, W, ++, P, M
7.4	1995	CrDMT	Shinjuku kuroshakai: Chaina mafia sensô	Takashi Miike, W, P, M
7.4	1990	C	Cold Dog Soup	Alan Metter, W, W, P, M
7.4	1990	D	Journey of Hope	Xavier Koller, W, W, P «Reise der Hoffnung»
7.4	1989	HoT	The Forgotten One	Phillip Badger, W, P, M
7.4	1988	CMR	Plain Clothes	Martha Coolidge, W, ++, P, M
7.4	1988	D	The Beat	Paul Mones, W, P, M
7.4	1979	AD	Last Hurrah for Chivalry	John Woo, W, P, P «Hao xia»
7.4	1978	CrATD	Money Movers	Bruce Beresford, W, W, P
7.4	1976	D	I Love You, I Don't	Serge Gainsbourg, W, P, M «Je t'aime moi non plus»
7.4	1976	ACrT	Violent Naples	Umberto Lenzi, W, P, P, M «Napoli violenta»
7.4	1975	D	The Other Side of the Mountain	Larry Peerce, W, W, P, M
7.4	1974	D	Conversation Piece	Luchino Visconti, W, W, ++, P, M «Gruppo di famiglia in un interno»
7.4	1973	CSfM	Turist Ömer Uzay Yolu'nda	Hulki Saner, W, ++, P, P
7.4	1973	DRAMlF	Yaadon Ki Baaraat	Nasir Hussain, W, ++, P, M
7.4	1969	CF	Angel in My Pocket	Alan Rafkin, W, W, P, M, M
7.4	1969	D	The Mummy	Chadi Abdel Salam, W, P, M «Al-mummia»
7.4	1967	CR	Enter Laughing	Carl Reiner, W, W, ++, P, M
7.4	1966	D	Black Girl	Ousmane Sembene, W, P «La noire de..»
7.4	1964	D	The Girl-Getters	Michael Winner, W, P, M «The System»
7.4	1959	WD	Yesterday's Enemy	Val Guest, W, P
7.4	1956	C	Hollywood or Bust	Frank Tashlin, W, ++, P, M
7.4	1953	D	Do Bigha Zamin	Bimal Roy, W, W, ++, P, M
7.4	1953	CMlR	I Love Melvin	Don Weis, W, W, ++, P, M
7.4	1949	D	Come to the Stable	Henry Koster, W, W, ++, P, M
7.4	1949	DMlR	Look for the Silver Lining	David Butler, W, W, ++, P, M
7.4	1948	We	Coroner Creek	Ray Enright, W, W, P, M
7.4	1947	Ml	Mother Wore Tights	Walter Lang, W, W, P, M, M
7.4	1946	HMl	Centennial Summer	Otto Preminger, W, W, P, M
7.4	1938	AAdSf	Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars	Ford Beebe, Robert F. Hill, ++, W, W, ++, P
7.4	1935	CD	Ah, Wilderness!	Clarence Brown, W, W, ++, P, M, M
7.4	1935	FMlR	Curly Top	Irving Cummings, W, W, ++, P, M, M, M++
7.4	1931	D	Five and Ten	[ Robert Z. Leonard ], W, W, ++, P
7.4	1929	AAdDR	White Hell of Pitz Palu	Arnold Fanck, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, W, W, P, P, P, M, M, M «Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü»
7.4	1925	DR	The Merry Widow	Erich von Stroheim, W, W, ++, P, P, P++
7.4	1916	RWe	Hell's Hinges	Charles Swickard, ++, 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.