Sorted list: Films with "intelligent grades" between 7.7 and 8.1 (robustness between 1.2 and 1.5)

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• 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»
	8.0	2014	CrT	Thegidi	P. Ramesh, W, P, M
	8.0	2013	BDHR	The Dream of a Butterfly	Yilmaz Erdogan, W, P, M «Kelebegin Ruyasi»
	8.0	2013	CR	Twenty Million People	Michael Ferrell, W, P
	8.0	2012	Ho	Murder University	Richard Griffin, W, P, M, M
	8.0	2011	DT	Strings	Mark Dennis, Ben Foster, W, P, M
	8.0	2005	ADHRW?	"Rome" The Stolen Eagle	Michael Apted, W, W, ++, P, P, P, M
	8.0	2004	D	Campfire	Joseph Cedar, W, P, M «Medurat Hashevet»
	8.0	2003	CD	November	Achero Mañas, W, W, P, M «Noviembre»
	8.0	2003	CHo	The Janitor	TJ Nordaker, Andy Signore, W, ++, P, M
	8.0	2002	D	Common Ground	Adolfo Aristarain, W, W, ++, P «Lugares comunes»
	8.0	2002	CD	The Butterfly	Philippe Muyl, W, P, M «Le papillon»
	8.0	2002		The Good Thief	R.T. Herwig, W, W, P, P, M, M
	8.0	2000	CD	Captain Pantoja and the Special Services	Francisco J. Lombardi, W, W, ++, P, M «Pantaleón y las visitadoras»
	8.0	1999	D	Lola and Billy the Kid	Kutlug Ataman, W, P, M «Lola + Bilidikid»
	8.0	1998	D	Radiance	Rachel Perkins, W, P, M
	8.0	1998		Such a Long Journey	Sturla Gunnarsson, W, W, P, M
	8.0	1997	CD	Sparkler	Darren Stein, W, W, P, M
	8.0	1997	C	Tre uomini e una gamba	Aldo, Giacomo, ++, W, W, ++, P, M, M
	8.0	1996	CTCrR	A Thin Line Between Love and Hate	Martin Lawrence, W, ++, P, M
	8.0	1995	CDMlR	Bollywood Dreams	Ram Gopal Varma, W, W, ++, P, M «Rangeela»
	8.0	1995	CDM	Little Sister	Robert Jan Westdijk, W, W, P «Zusje»
	8.0	1995	D	The Stars Fell on Henrietta	James Keach, W, P, M
	8.0	1994	CrDM	"The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" The Dying Detective	Sarah Hellings, W, W, ++, P, M
	8.0	1994	CDR	I Like It Like That	Darnell Martin, W, P, M
	8.0	1994	CR	La teta y la luna	Bigas Luna, W, W, ++, P, M
	8.0	1992	AT	Khiladi	Abbas Alibhai Burmawalla, Mastan Alibhai Burmawalla, W, ++, P, M, M
	8.0	1992	AdD	Life, and Nothing More...	Abbas Kiarostami, W, P «Zendegi va digar hich»
	8.0	1991	CD	Mon père, ce héros.	Gérard Lauzier, W, P, M
	8.0	1991	AAdCSf	Zeiramu	Keita Amemiya, W, W, ++, P, M
	8.0	1989	CFan	The Icicle Thief	Maurizio Nichetti, W, W, ++, P, M «Ladri di saponette»
	8.0	1987	DHoMRT	Sister, Sister	Bill Condon, W, W, ++, P, M
	8.0	1986	DHRW	The Assault	Fons Rademakers, W, W, P, M «De aanslag»
	8.0	1984	CR	Micki + Maude	Blake Edwards, W, P, M
	8.0	1982	D	The Escape Artist	Caleb Deschanel, W, W, ++, P, M
	8.0	1980	DSf	Death Watch	Bertrand Tavernier, W, W, ++, P, M «La mort en direct»
	8.0	1979	DHW	Siberiade	Andrey Konchalovskiy, W, W, P, M «Sibiriada»
	8.0	1978	ADMl	Trishul	Yash Chopra, W, ++, P, M
	8.0	1977	DM	Summerfield	Ken Hannam, W, P, M
	8.0	1975	C	My Friends	Mario Monicelli, W, W, ++, P, M «Amici miei»
	8.0	1975	DTW	The Old Gun	Robert Enrico, W, W, ++, P, M «Le vieux fusil»
	8.0	1974	Ad	The Story of Juliane Koepcke	Giuseppe Maria Scotese, W, W, P, M «I miracoli accadono ancora»
	8.0	1971	DHoSf	The Legend of Doom House	Harry Kümel, W, W, P, M «Malpertuis»
	8.0	1970	DR	The Things of Life	Claude Sautet, W, W, ++, P, M «Les choses de la vie»
	8.0	1969	DR	Camille 2000	Radley Metzger, W, W, P, M
	8.0	1967	CrDMlMT	Jewel Thief	Vijay Anand, W, W, P, M
	8.0	1966	SfHo	The Diabolical Dr. Z	Jesús Franco, W, W, ++, P, M «Miss Muerte»
	8.0	1965	CMc	Having a Wild Weekend	John Boorman, W, P, M, M «Catch Us If You Can»
	8.0	1964	MlR	Sangam	Raj Kapoor, W, P, M, M
	8.0	1959	D	Face of Fire	Albert Band, W, W, ++, P, M
	8.0	1959	BDW	Fate of a Man	Sergey Bondarchuk, W, W, ++, P, M «Sudba cheloveka»
	8.0	1936	D	Osaka Elegy	Kenji Mizoguchi, W, W, ++, P, M «Naniwa erejî»
	8.0	1935	CHR	Carnival in Flanders	Jacques Feyder, W, W, ++, P, M «La kermesse héroïque»
	8.0	1934	D	The Goddess	Yonggang Wu, W, P, M «Shen nu»
	7.9	2014	D	Return to Zero	Sean Hanish, W, P, M
	7.9	2013	T	Montage	Jeong Geun-Seop, W «Mong-ta-joo»
	7.9	2013		The Missing Picture	Rithy Panh, W, W, P, M «L'image manquante»
	7.9	2013	AD	Why Don't You Play in Hell?	Shion Sono, W, P, M «Jigoku de naze warui»
	7.9	2011	ACrHoSfT	Adam Chaplin	Emanuele De Santi, W
	7.9	2010	CHo	All About Evil	Joshua Grannell, W, P, M
	7.9	2010	DR	Night Catches Us	Tanya Hamilton, W, P, M
	7.9	2010	D	Paradise Recovered	Storme Wood, W, P, M, M
	7.9	2009	CrDMT	The Stoneman Murders	Manish Gupta, W, P, M, M
	7.9	2008	AdFan	Kingdoms of Grace	Nastasha Baron, Tom Raycove, W, P, M, M
	7.9	2007	DFanSf	La antena	Esteban Sapir, W, P, M
	7.9	2007	DT	PVC-1	Spiros Stathoulopoulos, W, W, P
	7.9	2006	CrDHoT	Chores	Sonnie Hamner, W, W, ++, P, M, M, M++ «Something in the Clearing»
	7.9	2006	DM	Fireworks Wednesday	Asghar Farhadi, W, W, P, M «Chaharshanbe-soori»
	7.9	2006	CD	Hula Girls	Sang-il Lee, W, W, P, M «Hura gâru»
	7.9	2006	C	The Boys & Girls Guide to Getting Down	Paul Sapiano, W, W, P, M, M
	7.9	2003	D	A Relative Thing	Garrett Bennett, W, P, P, M
	7.9	2003	C	The Honourable Wally Norman	Ted Emery, W, W, P, M, M, M
	7.9	2003	C	Upswing	Johanna Vuoksenmaa, W, P, M «Nousukausi»
	7.9	2001	ACD	Road to Redemption	Robert Vernon, W, P, M
	7.9	2000	D	Canone inverso	Ricky Tognazzi, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.9	1998	CrD	Expect the Unexpected	Tat-Chi Yau, W, W, ++, P, M «Fai seung dat yin»
	7.9	1998	TCr	Random Encounter	Douglas Jackson, W, P, M
	7.9	1988	BDHMc	Testimony	Tony Palmer, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.9	1984	D	Heartbreakers	Bobby Roth, W, P, M
	7.9	1982	ADSp	Running on Empty	John Clark, W, P, M
	7.9	1982	D	That Championship Season	Jason Miller, W, P, M
	7.9	1981	C	Shortcuts	Jirí Menzel, W, W, P, M «Postriziny»
	7.9	1981	BMc	This Is Elvis	Malcolm Leo, Andrew Solt, W, W, M
	7.9	1977	ACDF	Amar Akbar Anthony	Manmohan Desai, W, W, ++, P, M, M
	7.9	1977	AdFan	Giant of the 20th Century	Gianfranco Parolini, W, W, ++, P, M «Yeti - Il gigante del 20° secolo»
	7.9	1975	CCrDW	Jacob the Liar	Frank Beyer, W, ++, P, M «Jakob, der Lügner»
	7.9	1972	D	Henry VIII and His Six Wives	Waris Hussein, W, P, M
	7.9	1971	D	The Touch	Ingmar Bergman, ++, P, M, M, M «Beröringen»
	7.9	1970	D	Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?	Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Michael Fengler, W, W, P «Warum läuft Herr R. Amok»
	7.9	1969	CCr	The Brain	Gérard Oury, W, W, ++, P, M «Le cerveau»
	7.9	1966	AdF	Maya	John Berry, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.9	1966	DT	The Hunt	Carlos Saura, W, W, P, M «La caza»
	7.9	1966	AdCR	They're a Weird Mob	Michael Powell, W, W, P, M, M
	7.9	1965	DR	Othello	Stuart Burge, W, P, M
	7.9	1964	CD	Seduced and Abandoned	Pietro Germi, W, W, ++, P, M «Sedotta e abbandonata»
	7.9	1961	FD	Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog	Don Chaffey, W, W, P, M
	7.9	1960	AAd	Tarzan the Magnificent	Robert Day, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.9	1959	DR	Letter Never Sent	Mikhail Kalatozov, W, W, ++, P, M «Neotpravlennoye pismo»
	7.9	1957	BD	Beau James	Melville Shavelson, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.9	1952	BCrD	Carbine Williams	Richard Thorpe, W, P, M
	7.9	1951	DMlR	Awaara	Raj Kapoor, W, ++, P, M, M
	7.9	1950	DRT	The Great Manhunt	Sidney Gilliat, W, W, P, M «State Secret»
	7.9	1944	C	On Approval	Clive Brook, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.9	1939	CMl	First Love	Henry Koster, W, W, ++, P, M, M, M
	7.9	1936	CMl	The Gay Desperado	Rouben Mamoulian, W, W, P, M
	7.9	1934	CFD	Little Miss Marker	Alexander Hall, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.9	1927	CCrD	Chicago	Frank Urson, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.9	1919	D	The Dragon Painter	William Worthington, W, W, P, M
	7.9	1919	DR	Victory	Maurice Tourneur, W, W, P
	7.9	1918	CD	Mickey	F. Richard Jones, James Young, W, P, P, P++
	7.9	1917	CDFFanR	The Poor Little Rich Girl	Maurice Tourneur, W, W, P, P
	7.8	2014	D	Before I Disappear	Shawn Christensen, W, P, M
	7.8	2014	CD	Believe Me	Will Bakke, W, W, P, M
	7.8	2010	DT	Road to Sangam	Amit Rai, W, P, M, M, M
	7.8	2007	D	Crashing	Gary Walkow, W, ++, P, M
	7.8	2007	D	The Pope's Toilet	César Charlone, Enrique Fernández, W, W, P, M, M «El baño del Papa»
	7.8	2007	ADR	The Rebel	Charlie Nguyen, W, W, ++, P, M «Dong Mau Anh Hung»
	7.8	2006	CD	Crossing Borders	Carlos Iglesias, W, P, M «Un franco, 14 pesetas»
	7.8	2006	CrD	Heavens Fall	Terry Green, W, P, M
	7.8	2003	CMl	Jhankaar Beats	Sujoy Ghosh, W, W, ++, P, M, M
	7.8	2002	D	Grill Point	Andreas Dresen, W, W, P, M «Halbe Treppe»
	7.8	2001	D	Brainstorm	Laís Bodanzky, W, W, P, M, M «Bicho de Sete Cabeças»
	7.8	2001	DR	One Fine Spring Day	Jin-ho Hur, P, M «Bomnaleun ganda»
	7.8	2000	D	Looking for an Echo	Martin Davidson, W, W, ++, P, M, M
	7.8	2000	BCrD	One Hundred Steps	Marco Tullio Giordana, W, W, ++, P, P «I cento passi»
	7.8	1998	CrT	Boogie Boy	Craig Hamann, W, P, M
	7.8	1998	CDR	Finding North	Tanya Wexler, W, P, M
	7.8	1998	CMT	Where's Marlowe?	Daniel Pyne, W, W, P, M
	7.8	1995	RD	Das Versprechen	Margarethe von Trotta, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.8	1994	ADT	Mohra	Rajiv Rai, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.8	1992	C	The Bikini Carwash Company	Ed Hansen, W, W, P, M
	7.8	1987	BCDFan	Fellini's Intervista	Federico Fellini, W, W, P, M «Intervista»
	7.8	1986	CrDM	"The Return of Sherlock Holmes" The Priory School	John Madden, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.8	1984	CCr	My New Partner	Claude Zidi, W, W, ++, P, M «Les ripoux»
	7.8	1983	CD	Buddies	Arch Nicholson, W, P, M
	7.8	1983	BDSp	Heart Like a Wheel	Jonathan Kaplan, W, ++, P, M
	7.8	1981	D	The Chosen	Jeremy Kagan, W, W, P, M
	7.8	1980	AD	Clan of the White Lotus	Lieh Lo, W, P, M «Hong Wending san po bai lian jiao»
	7.8	1977	D	The F.J. Holden	Michael Thornhill, W, P, M
	7.8	1974	T	The Centerfold Girls	John Peyser, W, W, P, M
	7.8	1974	We	The Spikes Gang	Richard Fleischer, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.8	1973	CrD	Battles Without Honour and Humanity	Kinji Fukasaku, W, W, P, M «Jingi naki tatakai»
	7.8	1972	DWe	The New Land	Jan Troell, W, W, ++, P, M, M «Nybyggarna»
	7.8	1968	D	The Subject Was Roses	Ulu Grosbard, W, P, M
	7.8	1964	Sf	Unearthly Stranger	John Krish, W, W, P, M
	7.8	1961	AdDWe	The Hellions	Irving Allen, Ken Annakin, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.8	1948	CrNT	To the Ends of the Earth	Robert Stevenson, W, ++, P, M
	7.8	1937	C	Drole de Drame	Marcel Carné, W, W, P, M «Drôle de drame ou L'étrange aventure du Docteur Molyneux»
	7.8	1936	CrDR	The Lower Depths	Jean Renoir, W, W, ++, P, P, M «Les bas-fonds»
	7.8	1934	CM	Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back	Roy Del Ruth, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.7	2012	DT	Two Lives	Georg Maas, W, W, ++, P «Zwei Leben»
	7.7	2009	ACCrDHoT	The Confessional	James Anthony Cotton, W, P, M
	7.7	2008	D	The First Day of the Rest of Your Life	Rémi Bezançon, W, P, M «Le premier jour du reste de ta vie»
	7.7	2007	DR	A West Texas Children's Story	Brad Isaacs, W, P, M «Have Dreams, Will Travel»
	7.7	2006	DSp	Believe in Me	Robert Collector, W, W, P, M
	7.7	2006	BCD	Sixty Six	Paul Weiland, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.7	2005	DTCr	Among Brothers	John Schwert, W, W, P, M
	7.7	2005	AMlRT	Athadu	Trivikram Srinivas, W, P, M
	7.7	2005	T	Cheap	Brad Jones, W
	7.7	2005	DR	Sunflower	Yang Zhang, W, W, ++, P, M «Xiang ri kui»
	7.7	2005	MlDR	U-Carmen eKhayelitsha	Mark Dornford-May, W, W, ++, P
	7.7	2005	CR	Zerophilia	Martin Curland, W, P, M
	7.7	2004	D	Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog	Yôichi Sai, W, W, ++, P, M «Quill»
	7.7	2001	AAdCD	Net Worth	Kenny Griswold, W, W, P, M
	7.7	2000	D	Our Song	Jim McKay, W, P
	7.7	1999	CDR	Juha	Aki Kaurismäki, W, W, P, M
	7.7	1995	CrD	Bang	Ash Baron-Cohen, W, P, M
	7.7	1995	D	Margaret's Museum	Mort Ransen, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.7	1994	RCD	Sleep with Me	Rory Kelly, W, W, ++, P, M
	7.7	1993	DT	I Love a Man in Uniform	David Wellington, W, P, M, M
	7.7	1993	CDR	Totally F***ed Up	Gregg Araki, W, P
	7.7	1992	DR	Zebrahead	Anthony Drazan, W, P, M
	7.7	1990	D	Daddy Nostalgia	Bertrand Tavernier, W, ++, P, M «Daddy Nostalgie»
	7.7	1990	AdDHRW	The King's Whore	Axel Corti, W, W, ++, P, M «La putain du roi»
	7.7	1985	ACrD	Mafia vs. Ninja	Robert Tai, W, M «Hong men jue e zhe»
	7.7	1983	CD	Katha	Sai Paranjape, M
	7.7	1981	CDR	The Aviator's Wife	Eric Rohmer, W, P «La femme de l'aviateur»
	7.7	1979	AD	Kaala Patthar	Yash Chopra, W, W, P, M
	7.7	1973	CrDT	La polizia incrimina la legge assolve	Enzo G. Castellari, W, W, ++, P, M, M
	7.7	1973	CCr	Steelyard Blues	Alan Myerson, W, P, P, M, M, M
	7.7	1972	Ho	Deathmaster	Ray Danton, W, P, M
	7.7	1971	CrDR	Max and the Junkmen	Claude Sautet, W, W, ++, P, M «Max et les ferrailleurs»
	7.7	1971	CDR	There's Always Vanilla	George A. Romero, W, P, M, M, M
	7.7	1970	DSp	The Games	Michael Winner, W, W, P, M
	7.7	1962	CrDFan	Pitfall	Hiroshi Teshigahara, W, P, M, M, M «Otoshiana»
	7.7	1960	CDFan	The Devil's Eye	Ingmar Bergman, W, ++, P, M «Djävulens öga»
	7.7	1947	CrDT	Ivy	Sam Wood, W, W, P, M
	7.7	1936	DR	The Trail of the Lonesome Pine	Henry Hathaway, W, W, ++, P, P, M, M
	7.7	1935	CrDMlR	Go Into Your Dance	Archie Mayo, ++, W, W, ++, P, P, M
	7.7	1934	D	A Story of Floating Weeds	Yasujirô Ozu, W, W, P «Ukikusa monogatari»
	7.7	1928	D	A Woman of Affairs	Clarence Brown, W, W, ++, P, M, M
	7.7	1926	DR	Brown of Harvard	Jack Conway, W, W, ++, P
	7.7	1919	D	Different from the Others	Richard Oswald, W, W, P, M, M «Anders als die Andern»

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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).

How to use this list?

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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