Sorted list: Films with "intelligent grades" between 7.4 and 7.7 (robustness between 2.0 and 3.5)

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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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• 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	DW	Tangerines	Zaza Urushadze, W, P «Mandariinid»
	7.6	2010	CCrD	El Narco	Luis Estrada, W, ++, P, M «El infierno»
	7.6	2010	DA	King of Devil's Island	Marius Holst, W, W, ++, P, M «Kongen av Bastøy»
	7.6	2009	ADR	Magadheera	S.S. Rajamouli, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.6	2009	DMRT	One Hour Fantasy Girl	Edgar Michael Bravo, W, P, M
	7.6	2008	BD	Everlasting Moments	Jan Troell, W, W, ++, P, P, M «Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick»
	7.6	2007	C	Confusions of an Unmarried Couple	Brett M. Butler, Jason G. Butler, W, M
	7.6	2005	DR	Aurora Borealis	James C.E. Burke, W, P, M
	7.6	2005	BDSp	The Rocket: The Legend of Rocket Richard	Charles Binamé, W, P, M «Maurice Richard»
	7.6	2004	CD	Mickybo and Me	Terry Loane, W, W, P, M
	7.6	2003	CrD	Blind Shaft	Yang Li, W, P, M «Mang jing»
	7.6	2003	ADF	The Road Home	Drew Johnson, W, W, P, M
	7.6	2003	CR	Why We Had to Kill Bitch	John-Paul Nickel, W, P, M, M, M
	7.6	2001	AAdC	Let's Get Skase	Matthew George, W, W, P, M
	7.6	2000	DMT	Auggie Rose	Matthew Tabak, W, P, M, M
	7.6	2000	C	Hera Pheri	Priyadarshan, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.6	2000	D	The Circle	Jafar Panahi, W, W, P «Dayereh»
	7.6	1999	HoRW	Nang-Nak	Nonzee Nimibutr, W, P, M, M «Nang nak»
	7.6	1998	D	Eternity and a Day	Theodoros Angelopoulos, W, W, ++, P, P, M «Mia aioniotita kai mia mera»
	7.6	1998	CD	God Said, 'Ha!'	Julia Sweeney, W, P, M
	7.6	1998	AdCDFan	The Bird People in China	Takashi Miike, W, W, P, M «Chûgoku no chôjin»
	7.6	1997	CrD	Eye of God	Tim Blake Nelson, W, P, M
	7.6	1997	D	Men with Guns	John Sayles, W, P, M
	7.6	1997	DMR	Swept from the Sea	Beeban Kidron, W, W, P, M
	7.6	1996	CD	A Family Thing	Richard Pearce, W, W, P, M
	7.6	1996	CDMcR	Cosi	Mark Joffe, W, P, M
	7.6	1996	CD	The Eighth Day	Jaco Van Dormael, W, P, M «Le huitième jour»
	7.6	1993	CDMcMR	The Red Squirrel	Julio Medem, W, P, M, M «La ardilla roja»
	7.6	1992	CDR	Careful	Guy Maddin, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.6	1992	D	Laws of Gravity	Nick Gomez, W, P
	7.6	1992	CrDRT	The Public Eye	Howard Franklin, W, P, M
	7.6	1991	D	Where the Day Takes You	Marc Rocco, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.6	1989	BD	Romero	John Duigan, W, P, M
	7.6	1988	D	Dominick and Eugene	Robert M. Young, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.6	1987	DF	Where is the Friend's Home?	Abbas Kiarostami, W, P, M «Khane-ye doust kodjast?»
	7.6	1983	CMc	Get Crazy	Allan Arkush, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.6	1980	CDR	Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears	Vladimir Menshov, W, W, P, M «Moskva slezam ne verit»
	7.6	1977	D	A Special Day	Ettore Scola, W, W, ++, P, M «Una giornata particolare»
	7.6	1977	D	Providence	Alain Resnais, W, P, M
	7.6	1974	D	Alice in the Cities	Wim Wenders, W, W, P, M «Alice in den Städten»
	7.6	1974	ACrT	Almost Human	Umberto Lenzi, W, P, M «Milano odia: la polizia non può sparare»
	7.6	1970	DR	The Strawberry Statement	Stuart Hagmann, W, W, P, M
	7.6	1969	AdDT	Dirkie	Jamie Uys, W, P, P, M, M, M++
	7.6	1966	DRW	Red Angel	Yasuzô Masumura, W, W, P, M «Akai tenshi»
	7.6	1965	DW	It Happened Here	Kevin Brownlow, Andrew Mollo, W, W, ++, P, P
	7.6	1964	C	Bedtime Story	Ralph Levy, W, W, P, M
	7.6	1961	DRW	Bridge to the Sun	Etienne Périer, W, W, P, P, P, M
	7.6	1959	CD	Good Morning	Yasujirô Ozu, W, W, P, M «Ohayô»
	7.6	1955	D	I Live in Fear	Akira Kurosawa, W, W, ++, P, M «Ikimono no kiroku»
	7.6	1954	CMlDR	French Cancan	Jean Renoir, W, W, P, M
	7.6	1954	AAdBDH	Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto	Hiroshi Inagaki, W, W, ++, P, M «Miyamoto Musashi»
	7.6	1954	D	Twenty-Four Eyes	Keisuke Kinoshita, W, W, P, M «Nijûshi no hitomi»
	7.6	1952	DR	Othello	Orson Welles, W, ++, P, P, P++, M, M «The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice»
	7.6	1946	DR	To Each His Own	Mitchell Leisen, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.6	1943	CrDR	Ossessione	Luchino Visconti, W, W, ++, P, P, M
	7.6	1941	ADH	The 47 Ronin	Kenji Mizoguchi, W, W, ++, P, M «Genroku Chûshingura»
	7.6	1934	C	The Old Fashioned Way	William Beaudine, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.6	1929	CMlR	The Love Parade	Ernst Lubitsch, W, W, ++, P, M, M, M++
	7.6	1925	D	Strike	Sergei M. Eisenstein, W, W, ++, P, P, P «Stachka»
	7.6	1920	CrDHo	The Penalty	Wallace Worsley, W, ++, P
	7.5	2014	R	That Thing Called Tadhana	Antoinette Jadaone, W, P, M
	7.5	2013	T	New World	Hoon-jung Park, W, P
	7.5	2013	BDH	Paradesi	Bala, W, W, P, M
	7.5	2012	D	Fill the Void	Rama Burshtein, W, P, M «Lemale et ha'halal»
	7.5	2012	CrMT	Last Hours in Suburbia	John Stimpson, W, P, M
	7.5	2010	CD	My Afternoons with Margueritte	Jean Becker, W, W, ++, P, M «La tête en friche»
	7.5	2009	CrDH	Polytechnique	Denis Villeneuve, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.5	2009	D	Teenage Dirtbag	Regina Crosby, W, P, M
	7.5	2008	D	Lorna's Silence	Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, W, W, P «Le silence de Lorna»
	7.5	2008	AAdCFFan	The Gamers: Dorkness Rising	Matt Vancil, W, P, M, M
	7.5	2007	DHW	Shake Hands with the Devil	Roger Spottiswoode, W, W, P, M
	7.5	2007	DMR	The Love of Siam	Chookiat Sakveerakul, W, P, M «Rak haeng Siam»
	7.5	2006	D	Canvas	Joseph Greco, W, P, M
	7.5	2006	D	Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams	Jasmila Zbanic, W, P, M «Grbavica»
	7.5	2005	C	Checking Out	Jeff Hare, W, W, P, M
	7.5	2005	CrD	Le petit lieutenant	Xavier Beauvois, W, W, ++, P
	7.5	2005	CDR	Main, Meri Patni... Aur Woh!	Chandan Arora, W, W, ++, P, M, M, M
	7.5	2005	DW	Mother of Mine	Klaus Härö, W, W, ++, P, M «Äideistä parhain»
	7.5	2005	DR	Neo Ned	Van Fischer, W, P, M, M
	7.5	2005	CD	One Last Thing...	Alex Steyermark, W, P, M
	7.5	2005	RC	Socha Na Tha	Imtiaz Ali, W, P, M
	7.5	2004	FanMRT	Survive Style 5+	Gen Sekiguchi, W, P, M
	7.5	2004	DCMc	Swing Girls	Shinobu Yaguchi, W, W, P, M, M «Suwingu gâruzu»
	7.5	2002	D	EvenHand	Joseph Pierson, W, P, M
	7.5	2002	DF	Manito	Eric Eason, W, P, M
	7.5	2002	CDR	Valentin	Alejandro Agresti, W, P, M, M «Valentín»
	7.5	2001	CD	Lawless Heart	Tom Hunsinger, Neil Hunter, W, W, P, M
	7.5	1998	D	The Grandfather	José Luis Garci, W, W, ++, P, M «El abuelo»
	7.5	1998	CCr	Torrente, el brazo tonto de la ley	Santiago Segura, W, P, M
	7.5	1997	CCrD?	Six Ways to Sunday	Adam Bernstein, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.5	1997	AAdC	Wild America	William Dear, W, P, M
	7.5	1996	D	Kids Return	Takeshi Kitano, W, P, M «Kizzu ritân»
	7.5	1994	D	Second Best	Chris Menges, W, P, M
	7.5	1993	BD	A Home of Our Own	Tony Bill, W, P, M
	7.5	1992	CDR	Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar	Mansoor Khan, W, W, ++, P, M, M
	7.5	1992	C	Schtonk!	Helmut Dietl, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.5	1991	CCrR	Johnny Stecchino	Roberto Benigni, W, W, P, M
	7.5	1989	DFFan	Prancer	John D. Hancock, W, P, M
	7.5	1988	BDHR	Camille Claudel	Bruno Nuytten, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.5	1984	CD	Love Streams	John Cassavetes, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.5	1983	BDH	Danton	Andrzej Wajda, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.5	1982	BCrDHMR	The Return of Martin Guerre	Daniel Vigne, W, W, ++, P, M «Le retour de Martin Guerre»
	7.5	1980	AdD	The Earthling	Peter Collinson, W, P, M, M
	7.5	1979	D	Camera Buff	Krzysztof Kieslowski, W, ++, P, P, P++, M «Amator»
	7.5	1978	AC	Snake in the Eagle's Shadow	Woo-ping Yuen, W, W, ++, P, M «Se ying diu sau»
	7.5	1977	D	"Play for Today" Abigail's Party	Mike Leigh, W
	7.5	1975	C	Smile	Michael Ritchie, W, P
	7.5	1973	D	The Iceman Cometh	John Frankenheimer, W, W, P
	7.5	1972	DTCr	Female Convict Scorpion Jailhouse 41	Shunya Ito, W, M «Joshuu sasori: Dai-41 zakkyo-bô»
	7.5	1972	CD	Play It As It Lays	Frank Perry, W, ++, P
	7.5	1969	CSf	Hello Down There	Jack Arnold, Ricou Browning, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.5	1964	AAdCR	That Man from Rio	Philippe de Broca, W, W, ++, P, M «L'homme de Rio»
	7.5	1962	AAdD	The Tale of Zatoichi	Kenji Misumi, W, W, P, M «Zatôichi monogatari»
	7.5	1960	D	The Naked Island	Kaneto Shindô, W, P, M «Hadaka no shima»
	7.5	1957	DMlF	Mother India	Mehboob Khan, W, W, P, M
	7.5	1953	D	El	Luis Buñuel, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.5	1953	D	Man on a Tightrope	Elia Kazan, W, W, P, M
	7.5	1952	DT	5 Fingers	Joseph L. Mankiewicz, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.5	1952	MRD	My Cousin Rachel	Henry Koster, W, W, P, M
	7.5	1950	BH	The Flowers of St. Francis	Roberto Rossellini, W, W, ++, P, M «Francesco, giullare di Dio»
	7.5	1946	D	Shoeshine	Vittorio De Sica, W, W, ++, P, M «Sciuscià (Ragazzi)»
	7.5	1934	AAdDHRT	The Count of Monte Cristo	Rowland V. Lee, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.5	1932	CMlR	The Kid from Spain	Leo McCarey, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.5	1930	D	Beauty Prize	Augusto Genina, W, W, P, P, M «Prix de beauté (Miss Europe)»
	7.5	1930	DR	City Girl	F.W. Murnau, W, W, ++, P, M, M
	7.5	1930	WDA	The Dawn Patrol	Howard Hawks, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.5	1928	D	Sadie Thompson	Raoul Walsh, W, W, ++, P, P, P
	7.5	1926	CDRW	Tell It to the Marines	George W. Hill, W, W, P, M
	7.5	1926	AdD	The Son of the Sheik	George Fitzmaurice, W, W, ++, P, M, M
	7.5	1921	FanT	Destiny	Fritz Lang, W, W, P, P, P++, M, M, M «Der müde Tod»
	7.4	2015	D	Do You Believe?	Jon Gunn, W, W, P, M
	7.4	2015	BDH	Selam: Bahara Yolculuk	Hamdi Alkan, W, P, P, M
	7.4	2014	ATW	O21	Jamshed Mahmood Raza, ++, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.4	2013	D	Phantom	Jonathan Soler, W, P
	7.4	2013	D	The Caribbean Heist	Max Sainvil, W
	7.4	2011	DHTW	Return to the Hiding Place	Peter C. Spencer, Josiah Spencer, W, W, P, M
	7.4	2011	ADR	The Bodyguard	Siddique, W, P, M «Kaavalan»
	7.4	2009	D	Entre nos	Gloria La Morte, Paola Mendoza, W, W, P, M
	7.4	2005	AdCDF	Lassie	Charles Sturridge, W, W, P, M
	7.4	2005	DHT	The King and the Clown	Joon-ik Lee, W, W, P, M «Wang-ui namja»
	7.4	2003	D	Blind Flight	John Furse, W, P, M
	7.4	2003	DR	Take My Eyes	Icíar Bollaín, W, W, P, M «Te doy mis ojos»
	7.4	2003	D	The Mudge Boy	Michael Burke, W, P, M
	7.4	2002	RD	The Sea Is Watching	Kei Kumai, W, W, ++, P, M «Umi wa miteita»
	7.4	2002	DRW	Twin Sisters	Ben Sombogaart, W, W, P, M «De tweeling»
	7.4	2000	D	Aberdeen	Hans Petter Moland, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.4	2000	CRD	Bossa Nova	Bruno Barreto, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.4	2000	D	Innocence	Paul Cox, W, P, M
	7.4	2000	CR	Luminarias	José Luis Valenzuela, W, P, M, M
	7.4	1999	C	The Big Tease	Kevin Allen, W, W, P, M
	7.4	1998	C	Relax... It's Just Sex	P.J. Castellaneta, W, P, M
	7.4	1998	AAdC	Samurai Fiction	Hiroyuki Nakano, W, W, P, M «SF: Episode One»
	7.4	1998	DR	Under the Sun	Colin Nutley, W, W, ++, P «Under solen»
	7.4	1997	CD	Dream with the Fishes	Finn Taylor, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.4	1996	D	La promesse	Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, W, W, P, M, M
	7.4	1994	CFSp	Little Big League	Andrew Scheinman, W, ++, P, M
	7.4	1994	C	Maybe... Maybe Not	Sönke Wortmann, W, W, P, M «Der bewegte Mann»
	7.4	1994	CDHMR	Princess Caraboo	Michael Austin, W, W, P, M
	7.4	1993	DRWe	The Ballad of Little Jo	Maggie Greenwald, W, P, M
	7.4	1993	C	The Making of '...And God Spoke'	Arthur Borman, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.4	1993	BDMc	Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould	François Girard, W, W, ++, P
	7.4	1992	CD	Just Like a Woman	Christopher Monger, W, W, P, M
	7.4	1991	CHoSf	There's Nothing Out There	Rolfe Kanefsky, W, P, M
	7.4	1990	AAdCCrD	Flashback	Franco Amurri, W, P, M
	7.4	1990	DC	The Match Factory Girl	Aki Kaurismäki, W, P «Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö»
	7.4	1989	DHW	Black Rain	Shôhei Imamura, W, W, ++, P, M «Kuroi ame»
	7.4	1989	CMc	Leningrad Cowboys Go America	Aki Kaurismäki, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.4	1987	D	Blind Chance	Krzysztof Kieslowski, W, P, M «Przypadek»
	7.4	1977	D	Opening Night	John Cassavetes, W, P, M
	7.4	1977	CrMCD	The Late Show	Robert Benton, W, P, M
	7.4	1975	AdD	The Great Waldo Pepper	George Roy Hill, W, W, P, M
	7.4	1974	CD	California Split	Robert Altman, W, P
	7.4	1974	D	Conrack	Martin Ritt, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.4	1974	AC	Watch Out, We're Mad	Marcello Fondato, W, W, ++, P, M, M «...altrimenti ci arrabbiamo!»
	7.4	1973	DR	The Mother and the Whore	Jean Eustache, W, P «La maman et la putain»
	7.4	1972	CDWe	Greaser's Palace	Robert Downey Sr., W, P, M
	7.4	1969	CDW	The Secret of Santa Vittoria	Stanley Kramer, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.4	1969	CD	The Sterile Cuckoo	Alan J. Pakula, W, W, P, M
	7.4	1967	DHR	Marketa Lazarová	Frantisek Vlácil, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.4	1965	AdD	A High Wind in Jamaica	Alexander Mackendrick, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.4	1965	TD	Moment to Moment	Mervyn LeRoy, W, W, P, M
	7.4	1964	DR	The Soft Skin	François Truffaut, W, W, P, M «La peau douce»
	7.4	1961	AdFan	The Thief of Baghdad	Arthur Lubin, Bruno Vailati, W, W, ++, P, M «Il ladro di Bagdad»
	7.4	1956	AAdBDH	Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island	Hiroshi Inagaki, W, W, ++, P, M «Miyamoto Musashi kanketsuhen: kettô Ganryûjima»
	7.4	1955	D	Death of a Cyclist	Juan Antonio Bardem, W, W, P, M «Muerte de un ciclista»
	7.4	1954	DHRW	Senso	Luchino Visconti, W, W, ++, P, P
	7.4	1953	DHR	Gate of Hell	Teinosuke Kinugasa, W, W, ++, P, M «Jigokumon»
	7.4	1952	CrD	Deadline - U.S.A.	Richard Brooks, W, P, M, M
	7.4	1950	CR	Champagne for Caesar	Richard Whorf, W, W, P, M
	7.4	1950	D	Scandal	Akira Kurosawa, W, W, P, M «Shûbun»
	7.4	1947	CrDMc	Quai des Orfèvres	Henri-Georges Clouzot, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.4	1947	C	The Farmer's Daughter	H.C. Potter, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.4	1944	D	The Keys of the Kingdom	John M. Stahl, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.4	1943	AdDF	Lassie Come Home	Fred M. Wilcox, W, W, P, P, M
	7.4	1941	BDR	Blossoms in the Dust	Mervyn LeRoy, W, W, ++, P, P, M
	7.4	1937	DM	They Won't Forget	[ Mervyn LeRoy ], W, W, ++, P, M
	7.4	1936	D	The Green Pastures	Marc Connelly, William Keighley, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.4	1933	DR	Employees' Entrance	Roy Del Ruth, W, W, P
	7.4	1932	D	Downstairs	[ Monta Bell ], W, W, ++, P
	7.4	1932	DR	Skyscraper Souls	Edgar Selwyn, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.4	1930	CMl	Whoopee!	Thornton Freeland, W, W, ++, P, P, P
	7.4	1929	CDRSf	By Rocket to the Moon	Fritz Lang, W, W, ++, P, P, P++, M, M «Frau im Mond»
	7.4	1925	ACDHR	The Eagle	Clarence Brown, W, W, ++, P, P, M, M, M
	7.4	1922	AdRF	Robin Hood	Allan Dwan, W, ++, P, P, M

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What is the grade GR?

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).

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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.)

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