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 CrColor 1,000 Times More Brutal Kamal Ahmed, W, P, M «Brutal»
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
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 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»
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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
7.3 2000 DColor El Bola Achero Mañas, W, W, P, M
7.3 1999 CrTDColor Dead End Iren Koster, W, P, M
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 7.3 1998 DColor Eternity and a Day Theodoros Angelopoulos, W, W, ++, P, M «Mia aioniotita kai mia mera»
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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 ADFanHoSfTColor Gamera 2: Attack of the Legion Shûsuke Kaneko, W, P, M «Gamera 2: Region shurai»
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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 1992 DColor (Technicolor) Breaking the Rules Neal Israel, W, P, M
7.3 1992 DColor City of Joy Roland Joffé, W, 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
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 7.3 1989 CRColor (Alphacine) Cousins Joel Schumacher, W, W, P, M
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 7.3 1989 CFanColor (Technicolor) How to Get Ahead in Advertising Cr Cr-Ess Bruce Robinson, W, P, M
7.3 1989 CMcColor (Eastmancolor) Leningrad Cowboys Go America Aki Kaurismäki, W, W, ++, P, M
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 7.3 1987 DColor Blind Chance Krzysztof Kieslowski, W, P, M «Przypadek»
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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 1978 DHColor (Gevacolor) The Tree of Wooden Clogs Ermanno Olmi, W, P «L'albero degli zoccoli»
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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 1975 DHWBlack and White Overlord Cr Cr-Ess Stuart Cooper, W, W, P, M
7.3 1974 CrTColor (Technicolor) Rabid Dogs Mario Bava, ++, W, ++, P, M «Cani arrabbiati»
7.3 1973 CrTColor The Candy Snatchers Guerdon Trueblood, W, P, M
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, 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 1961 CBlack and White Divorce Italian Style Cr Cr-Ess Pietro Germi, W, W, ++, 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»
7.3 1951 CBlack and White The Mating Season Mitchell Leisen, 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
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 7.3 1943 MlBlack and White Stormy Weather Andrew L. Stone, W, 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
7.3 1928 CrDBlack and White Lights of New York Bryan Foy, 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 2013 Color Ilo Ilo Anthony Chen, W, P
7.2 2013 CRColor Raja Rani Atlee Kumar, W, P, M
7.2 2013 CFColor Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu Srikanth Addala, W, W, ++, P, M
7.2 2012 DSpColor 9-Ball Anthony Palma, W, P, M
7.2 2012 CDColor Best Man Down Ted Koland, W, P, M
7.2 2011 CDColor Footnote Joseph Cedar, W, P, M «Hearat Shulayim»
7.2 2011 CDFColor Stanley's Tiffin Box Amole Gupte, W, W, P, M «Stanley Ka Dabba»
7.2 2010 TColor Legacy Thomas Ikimi, W, P, M
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
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 2006 BDRColor Woh Lamhe Mohit Suri, W, W, P, M
7.2 2005 DColor Hell Danis Tanovic, W, W, P, 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 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
7.2 2002 DRColor Open Hearts Susanne Bier, W, P, M «Elsker dig for evigt»
7.2 2002 CDMlRColor The Other Side of the Bed Emilio Martínez Lázaro, W, P, 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 DColor After the Rain Takashi Koizumi, W, W, P, M «Ame agaru»
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 DHColor Some Mother's Son Terry George, W, W, P
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 7.2 1995 ACTColor Coldblooded Wallace Wolodarsky, W, P, M
7.2 1995 DColor My Family Gregory Nava, W, W, P, M
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 7.2 1995 DRColor The Star Maker Giuseppe Tornatore, W, W, ++, P, M «L'uomo delle stelle»
7.2 1994 CrDSpColor Above the Rim Jeff Pollack, W, W, ++, P, M
7.2 1994 HoTColor Nightwatch Ole Bornedal, W, P, M «Nattevagten»
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 7.2 1994 ACDColor Wing Chun Woo-ping Yuen, W, W, P, 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 1988 CrDRBlack and White Damnation Béla Tarr, W, W, P, M «Kárhozat»
7.2 1987 DTColor Rampage William Friedkin, 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 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
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 7.2 1977 DColor (Metrocolor) Opening Night Cr Cr-Photo Cr-Ess Cr-Clip John Cassavetes, W, P, M
7.2 1976 ACColor The Human Tornado Cliff Roquemore, W, W, ++, P, M
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 7.2 1975 AdDColor (Technicolor) The Great Waldo Pepper George Roy Hill, W, W, 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
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 7.2 1961 DRBlack and White Lola Jacques Demy, W, P, M
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 7.2 1959 WeBlack and White Day of the Outlaw André De Toth, W, W, P, M
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 7.2 1959 DWBlack and White Fires on the Plain Cr Cr-Ess Cr-Ess Kon Ichikawa, W, W, P, M «Nobi»
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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 DRBlack and White Le notti bianche Cr Cr-Ess Cr-Disp Luchino Visconti, W, W, ++, P, M
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 7.2 1956 DBlack and White Crazed Fruit Cr Cr-Ess Cr-Ess Kô Nakahira, W, P, M «Kurutta kajitsu»
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 7.2 1953 CrDTColor (Technicolor) Inferno Roy Ward Baker, 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, 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»
7.2 1952 DBlack and White Full House Henry Hathaway, Howard Hawks, ++, W, W, ++, P, M
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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 1950 DBlack and White Scandal Akira Kurosawa, W, W, P, M «Shûbun»
7.2 1949 DBlack and White The Passionate Friends David Lean, W, W, ++, P, M
7.2 1948 WDBlack and White (archive footage), Black and White Command Decision Sam Wood, 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, 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
7.2 1940 AdCCrDMTBlack and White Charlie Chan in Panama Norman Foster, W, W, ++, P, 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 1936 CCrMSpTBlack and White Charlie Chan at the Race Track H. Bruce Humberstone, W, W, ++, P
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
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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, 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, 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 «La chute de la maison Usher»
7.2 1928 DRBlack and White; Silent The Mysterious Lady Fred Niblo, W, W, ++, P, 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
7.2 1922 DFFanMRColor (2-strip Technicolor) (Process Number Two); Silent The Toll of the Sea Chester M. Franklin, W, ++, P