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.

GR Year Genres Title Extra links / Director, etc / «Original title»
7.3 2012 ACrTColor Chorabali Redoan Rony, W, P, M
7.3 2012 DColor Everybody in Our Family Radu Jude, W, W, P «Toata lumea din familia noastra»
7.3 2011 CDColor Sidewalls Gustavo Taretto, W, P, M «Medianeras»
7.3 2010 DRColor The River Why Matthew Leutwyler, W, W, ++, P, M
7.3 2009 DRColor Little Black Dress Bramwell Noah, Dan Noah, W, P, M
7.3 2008 TVTVTV DoColor "Carrier" P, M TV series 2008-
7.3 2008 SHoTColor Clown Tate Steinsiek, P, M
7.3 2008 TV BCDColor Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story Andy De Emmony, W, W, P, M TV
7.3 2008 DoBSpWColor (HDCAM), Color Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 Kevin Rafferty, P
7.3 2008 TV BDColor Miss Austen Regrets Jeremy Lovering, W, ++, P, M TV
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 7.3 2008 DColor Ramchand Pakistani Mehreen Jabbar, W, W, P, M
7.3 2007 DMTColor Into the Arms of Strangers Chris Harris, W, W, P, M
7.3 2006 DRColor Love and Honor Yôji Yamada, W, W, ++, M «Bushi no ichibun»
7.3 2006 DoSpColor, Black and White Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos Paul Crowder, John Dower, W, W, ++, P, M
7.3 2005 TV CDColor Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of 'Mork & Mindy' Neill Fearnley, W, W, P, M TV
7.3 2005 DFColor Heidi Paul Marcus, W, W, P, M
7.3 2005 CDColor Tapas José Corbacho, Juan Cruz, W, W, P, M
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 7.3 2004 TVTVTV AnDSfColor "The Count of Monte Cristo" Mahiro Maeda, W, W, ++, M «"Gankutsu-ô"» TV series 2004-
7.3 2004 AdCCrColor Balas & Bolinhos - O Regresso Luis Ismael, W, P, M
7.3 2003 TVTV AColor "The Tai Chi Master" Kin-Wu Lee, Chiu-Yee Yip, ++, W «"Tai chi zong shi"» TV mini-series 2003-
7.3 2003 TV D Pleasureland Brian Percival, W, P, M TV
7.3 2003 DBlack and White The Commission Mark Sobel, W, P, M
7.3 2003 TV DHTBlack and White, Color The Pentagon Papers Rod Holcomb, W, P, M TV
7.3 2002 CDRColor Leaving Metropolis Brad Fraser, W, P, M
7.3 2002 TV DoMcColor Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S. Mark Haefeli, Amy Tinkham TV
7.3 2002 CDBlack and White Suddenly Diego Lerman, W, W, ++, P, M «Tan de repente»
7.3 2002 AAdCDRColor (Technicolor) The Abduction Club Stefan Schwartz, W, W, P, M
7.3 2002 RColor The Guy in the Grave Next Door Kjell Sundvall, W, W, P, M «Grabben i graven bredvid»
7.3 2001 DBlack and White Don's Plum R.D. Robb, W, W, ++, P, M
7.3 2001 TV DoMcColor U2: Elevation 2001 Live from Boston Hamish Hamilton, P, M TV
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 7.3 2000 TVTVTV FanHoMSfTColor "Night Visions" P, M TV series 2000-
7.3 2000 DColor The Amati Girls Anne De Salvo, W, P, M
7.3 1999 TVTVTV SfAnAAdColor "Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles" W, P, M TV series 1999-
7.3 1999 BDRColor A Love Divided Syd Macartney, W, W, ++, P, M
7.3 1998 CRColor Bu jian bu san Xiaogang Feng, W, W, P, M
7.3 1998 DColor Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa Govind Nihalani, W, W, ++, P, M
7.3 1997 TVTVTV CrDColor "Brooklyn South" W, P, M TV series 1997-1998
7.3 1996 DColor Der Unhold Volker Schlöndorff, W, W, ++, P, M
7.3 1996 TV DRColor Mr. and Mrs. Loving Richard Friedenberg, W, P, M TV
7.3 1996 TV CrMTColor Prime Suspect 5: Errors of Judgement Philip Davis, W, P, M TV
7.3 1996 DMColor The Disappearance of Finbar Sue Clayton, W, W, ++, P, M
7.3 1995 DFanRBlack and White, Color Don't Die Without Telling Me Where You're Going Eliseo Subiela, W, P, M «No te mueras sin decirme adónde vas»
7.3 1994 CCrColor Holy Matrimony Leonard Nimoy, W, W, P, M
7.3 1994 TV DColor Sin & Redemption Neema Barnette, W, P, M TV
7.3 1993 TV DColor Mercy Mission: The Rescue of Flight 771 Roger Young, W, W, P, M TV
7.3 1992 TVTVTV CColor "The Golden Palace" M TV series 1992-1993
7.3 1992 CDColor Crossing the Bridge Mike Binder, W, P, M
7.3 1991 TV DRColor Wildflower Diane Keaton, W, P, M TV
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 7.3 1987 CDRColor Boyfriends and Girlfriends Eric Rohmer, W, P, M «L'ami de mon amie»
7.3 1987 CDRColor Crazy Moon Allan Eastman, W, W, P, M
7.3 1987 DColor (Eastmancolor) Peter Kenna's The Good Wife Ken Cameron, W, P, M «The Umbrella Woman»
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 7.3 1984 BDRSpColor Champions John Irvin, W, W, ++, P, M
7.3 1984 TV SColor The Pilot Michael Ray Rhodes, W TV
7.3 1982 TVTVTV ACrDColor "T.J. Hooker" P, M TV series 1982-1986
7.3 1979 BDColor (Eastmancolor) Meetings with Remarkable Men Peter Brook, W, W, ++, P, M
7.3 1979 HoTColor Star of David: Beauty Hunting Noribumi Suzuki, W, W «Dabide no hoshi: Bishôjo-gari»
7.3 1979 TV HoColor Vampire E.W. Swackhamer, W, W, P, M TV
7.3 1975 TV HoTColor The Dead Don't Die Curtis Harrington, W, P, M TV
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 7.3 1974 DoBWColor General Idi Amin Dada Cr Cr-Ess Barbet Schroeder, W, P, M «Général Idi Amin Dada: Autoportrait»
7.3 1974 ADFanHColor Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell Yoshiyuki Kuroda, W, W, ++, P, M «Kozure ôkami: Jigoku e ikuzo! Daigorô»
7.3 1973 ADColor Razor 2: The Snare Yasuzô Masumura, W, W, P, M «Goyôkiba: Kamisori Hanzô jigoku zeme»
7.3 1973 DFanColor (Eastmancolor) The Hour-Glass Sanatorium Wojciech Has, W, W, P, M «Sanatorium pod klepsydra»
7.3 1973 DColor (Eastmancolor) The Optimists of Nine Elms Anthony Simmons, W, W, P, M
7.3 1972 TV DColor (Technicolor) Short Walk to Daylight Barry Shear, W, W, ++, P, M TV
7.3 1970 CDRColor (Technicolor) Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon Otto Preminger, W, P, M
7.3 1969 DFanHoMColor (Eastmancolor) El libro de piedra Carlos Enrique Taboada, W, P, M
7.3 1969 DColor (Eastmancolor) Pigpen Pier Paolo Pasolini, W, P, M «Porcile»
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 7.3 1967 CDBlack and White David Holzman's Diary Jim McBride, ++, P
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 7.3 1966 DBlack and White, Color Chelsea Girls Paul Morrissey, Andy Warhol, W, W, P, M
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 7.3 1964 DColor Gate of Flesh Cr Cr-Ess Cr-Disp Seijun Suzuki, W, W, P, M «Nikutai no mon»
7.3 1961 DBlack and White The Young Doctors Phil Karlson, W, W, P, M
7.3 1960 AAdWeColor (Eastmancolor) Seven Ways from Sundown Harry Keller, W, P, M
7.3 1953 AnFSCColor (Technicolor) Zipping Along Chuck Jones, W, M
7.3 1952 CDMlBlack and White The Stooge Norman Taurog, W, W, ++, P, M
7.3 1952 AdWeColor (Anscocolor) The Wild North Andrew Marton, W, P, M
7.3 1946 DBlack and White The Green Years Victor Saville, W, W, ++, P, M
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 7.3 1945 DoSWBlack and White San Pietro ++, P, M
7.3 1945 BDSpBlack and White The Great John L. Frank Tuttle, W, P, M
7.3 1945 FAnSCColor (Technicolor) The Mouse Comes to Dinner Joseph Barbera, William Hanna
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 7.3 1944 CMlColor (Technicolor) Up in Arms Elliott Nugent, W, W, ++, P, M
7.3 1942 CTBlack and White Lady Luck William Beaudine, W, W, P «Lucky Ghost»
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 7.3 1941 DoDWBlack and White Target for Tonight ++, P, M
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 7.3 1939 DBlack and White The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum Kenji Mizoguchi, W, W, ++, P, M «Zangiku monogatari»
7.3 1939 WeBlack and White Zorro's Fighting Legion John English, William Witney, W, W, ++, P, M
7.3 1938 MlRWeBlack and White (Sepiatone) The Girl of the Golden West Robert Z. Leonard, W, W, ++, P, M
7.3 1933 DBlack and White Blood Money Rowland Brown, W, W, ++, P, M
7.3 1927 DRBlack and White; Silent Love Edmund Goulding, ++, W, W, ++, P, M
7.3 1927 CRBlack and White; Silent The Red Mill Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, W, W, ++, P, M
7.3 1923 DRBlack and White; Silent Scaramouche Rex Ingram, W, W, ++, P, M
7.3 1922 SCBlack and White; Silent The Electric House Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton, W, W, ++, P, M
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 7.3 1921 SCFBlack and White, Color (tinted); Silent The Boat Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton, W, W, P, M
7.3 1920 CSBlack and White; Silent High and Dizzy Hal Roach, W, P, M
7.3 1919 CSBlack and White; Silent Bumping Into Broadway W, P, M
7.3 1914 AnSCFBlack and White; Silent Gertie the Dinosaur Winsor McCay, W
7.2 2014 TVTV TColor "The Assets" P, M TV mini-series 2014-
7.2 2013 ACDFanColor (HD) Slug Street Scrappers: Beat Em Up Micah Brock, W, P, M
7.2 2012 DoColor Everything or Nothing Stevan Riley, W, W, P
7.2 2012 DColor I Do Glenn Gaylord, W, P, M
7.2 2012 TV CColor The Cinema Snob Movie Ryan Mitchelle, W, M TV
7.2 2012 DWColor The Patience Stone Atiq Rahimi, W, W, P
7.2 2011 DColor Breathing Karl Markovics, W, P, M «Atmen»
7.2 2011 CrDColor Snow on Tha Bluff Damon Russell, W, W, P
7.2 2009 TVTV DoHColor "The National Parks: America's Best Idea" P TV mini-series 2009-
7.2 2009 CMBlack and White Dark and Stormy Night Larry Blamire, W, P, M
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 7.2 2009 CFColor Le petit Nicolas Laurent Tirard, W, W, ++, P, M
7.2 2009 DMcColor No One Knows About Persian Cats Bahman Ghobadi, W, W, ++, P, M «Kasi az gorbehaye irani khabar nadareh»
7.2 2009 CHColor Tales from the Golden Age Hanno Höfer, Razvan Marculescu, ++, W, P, M «Amintiri din epoca de aur»
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 7.2 2009 AnAdFFanColor Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure Klay Hall, W, W, M
7.2 2008 CDMcColor Berlin Calling Hannes Stöhr, W, P, M
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 7.2 2008 CrDColor Lake City Hunter Hill, Perry Moore, W, W, P, M
7.2 2007 TVTVTV CMRColor "Samantha Who?" P, M TV series 2007-2009
7.2 2007 CDColor Conversations with My Gardener Jean Becker, W, W, ++, P «Dialogue avec mon jardinier»
7.2 2007 CDBlack and White, Color Glory to the Filmmaker! Takeshi Kitano, W, P, M «Kantoku · Banzai!»
7.2 2006 TColor Slip Brian Maris, W, P, M
7.2 2006 DColor The Hawk Is Dying Julian Goldberger, W, W, P, M
7.2 2005 DoCColor Ringers: Lord of the Fans Carlene Cordova, W, W, P, M
7.2 2005 DColor Shanghai Dreams Xiaoshuai Wang, W, P, M «Qing hong»
7.2 2005 TV DRColor Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas Richard Friedenberg, W, W, P, M TV
7.2 2004 DColor Roma Adolfo Aristarain, W, W, ++, P
7.2 2004 DoNeColor WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception Danny Schechter
7.2 2004 CColor You I Love Olga Stolpovskaja, Dmitriy Troitskiy, W, W, ++, P, M «Ya lyublyu tebya»
7.2 2003 ADTColor The Gun (From 6 to 7:30 p.m.) Vladimir Alenikov, W, P, M
7.2 2001 DoColor Ayurveda: Art of Being Pan Nalin, W, P, M
7.2 2001 HoDColor Fausto 5.0 Àlex Ollé, Isidro Ortiz, ++, W, P, M
7.2 2001 DWeColor (Technicolor) How Harry Became a Tree Goran Paskaljevic, W, W, ++, P, M
7.2 2001 BDMcColor Quitting Yang Zhang, W, W, P «Zuotian»
7.2 2001 DColor Riders Doug Sadler, W, P, M
7.2 2000 CColor Magicians James Merendino, W, M
7.2 1999 TV DAColor Family of Cops III: Under Suspicion Sheldon Larry, W, P, M TV
7.2 1999 TV DoBBlack and White, Color Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius Ted Haimes, W, P, M TV
7.2 1999 CDRColor I'll Take You There Adrienne Shelly, W, P, M
7.2 1999 CDRColor The Secret Laughter of Women Peter Schwabach, W, W, P, M
7.2 1998 CColor Cuisine américaine Jean-Yves Pitoun, W, P, M
7.2 1997 BDWColor Lucie Aubrac Claude Berri, W, W, P, M
7.2 1997 DColor The Mirror Jafar Panahi, W, P «Ayneh»
7.2 1997 TV CDCrColor Weapons of Mass Distraction Stephen Surjik, W, P, M TV
7.2 1996 CDColor Good Luck Richard LaBrie, W, P, M
7.2 1995 CDColor Guantanamera Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Juan Carlos Tabío, W, W, ++, P, M
7.2 1994 TV CRColor The Counterfeit Contessa Ron Lagomarsino, W, W, ++, P, M TV
7.2 1992 TV CrDMColor The Mirror Crack'd Norman Stone, W, W, P TV
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 7.2 1991 CFRColor (Technicolor) All I Want for Christmas Robert Lieberman, W, W, P, M
7.2 1990 AAdColor Catman in Lethal Track Godfrey Ho «U.S. Catman: Lethal Track»
7.2 1990 DCColor (Metrocolor) I Hired a Contract Killer Aki Kaurismäki, W, ++, P
7.2 1990 ACrColor Tiger Cage 2 Woo-ping Yuen, W, W, ++, P, M «Sai hak chin»
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 7.2 1989 CHoSfColor Meet the Hollowheads Thomas R. Burman, W, W, ++, P, M
7.2 1988 CDColor (Technicolor) The Prince of Pennsylvania Ron Nyswaner, W, P, M
7.2 1987 AnSFColor Red's Dream John Lasseter, W, M
7.2 1986 TV SfColor Annihilator Michael Chapman, W, W, P, M TV
7.2 1986 CColor Modern Girls Jerry Kramer, W, ++, P, M
7.2 1985 DMlColor (Metrocolor) Fast Forward Sidney Poitier, W, W, P, M
7.2 1985 DRColor Hey Babu Riba Jovan Acin, W, P, M
7.2 1982 TV CColor P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang. Michael Apted, W, P, M TV
7.2 1981 TV DMTColor No Place to Hide John Llewellyn Moxey, W, W, P, M TV
7.2 1980 CRColor (Metrocolor) Hero at Large Martin Davidson, W, P, M
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 7.2 1980 DoSColor Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe Cr Cr-Video Cr-Bscr Cr-Video Cr-Ess Cr-Clip Cr-News Cr-Clip Les Blank, W, P
7.2 1977 TV MSfColor Alternative 3 Christopher Miles, W, ++, P, M TV
7.2 1976 CDRColor (Sovcolor), Black and White (archive footage) (one scene) A Slave of Love Nikita Mikhalkov, W, W, P, M «Raba lyubvi»
7.2 1975 ACColor Moonrunners Gy Waldron, W, P
7.2 1975 ATDColor (Eastmancolor) Peur sur la ville Henri Verneuil, W, W, ++, P, M
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 7.2 1975 CrDColor Report to the Commissioner Milton Katselas, W, W, ++, P, M
7.2 1974 TV HoMSfColor The Stranger Within Lee Philips, W, P, M TV
7.2 1972 ACDColor The Unholy Rollers Vernon Zimmerman, W, W, ++, P, M
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 7.2 1971 CDColor (Eastmancolor) Bleak Moments Mike Leigh, W, P
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 7.2 1970 CDColor (Eastmancolor) Bed & Board Cr Cr-Ess François Truffaut, W, W, ++, P, M «Domicile conjugal»
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 7.2 1964 AdCrDWeBlack and White Black God, White Devil Glauber Rocha, W, ++, P, M «Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol»
7.2 1960 DHWColor (Eastmancolor) Hawai Middowei daikaikûsen: Taiheiyô no arashi Shûe Matsubayashi, Hugo Grimaldi, W, W, P, M
7.2 1960 CDFanBlack and White The Devil's Eye Ingmar Bergman, W, ++, P, M «Djävulens öga»
7.2 1959 DColor The Blue Angel Edward Dmytryk, W, W, ++, P, M
7.2 1958 CMlColor (Technicolor) The Girl Most Likely Mitchell Leisen, W, ++, P, M
7.2 1957 CDMlColor April Love Henry Levin, W, W, P
7.2 1955 ACDRWeColor (Technicolor) Foxfire Joseph Pevney, W, W, P, M
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 7.2 1954 FCAnSColor (Technicolor) Grand Canyonscope Charles A. Nichols, W, W, M
7.2 1954 DWColor (Anscocolor) Men of the Fighting Lady Andrew Marton, W, W, ++, P, M
7.2 1950 CBlack and White The Fuller Brush Girl Lloyd Bacon, W, P, M
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 7.2 1949 DBlack and White Any Number Can Play Mervyn LeRoy, W, W, P, M
7.2 1948 CrDBlack and White Open Secret John Reinhardt, W, W, ++, P, M
7.2 1947 FAnSCColor (Technicolor) A Mouse in the House Joseph Barbera, William Hanna, M
7.2 1945 CBlack and White The Affairs of Susan William A. Seiter, W, W, ++, P, M
7.2 1944 CDMcBlack and White The Merry Monahans Charles Lamont, W, W, P, M
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 7.2 1942 CrDMRBlack and White A Date with the Falcon Irving Reis, W, W, ++, P, M
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 7.2 1942 DRWBlack and White Joan of Paris Robert Stevenson, W, W, ++, P, M
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 7.2 1940 DBlack and White The Stars Look Down Carol Reed, W, W, ++, P, M
7.2 1939 DMlBlack and White Rose of Washington Square Gregory Ratoff, W, W, ++, P, M
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 7.2 1937 DBlack and White La Habanera Douglas Sirk, W, P, M
7.2 1933 DRBlack and White Zoo in Budapest Rowland V. Lee, W, W, ++, P
7.2 1932 DBlack and White Life Begins James Flood, Elliott Nugent, W, W, P
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 7.2 1928 DHWBlack and White; Silent Storm Over Asia Vsevolod Pudovkin, W, W, P, M «Potomok Chingis-Khana»
7.2 1927 AdRBlack and White, Color (2-strip Technicolor); Silent The Gaucho F. Richard Jones, W, P, M
7.2 1926 CBlack and White; Silent Mantrap Victor Fleming, W, W, ++, P
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 7.2 1924 DHRBlack and White; Silent Beau Brummel Harry Beaumont, W, W, P, M
7.2 1920 DoAdBlack and White; Silent South P