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»
7.6 2013 DColor The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete George Tillman Jr., W, P, M
7.6 2011 DColor A Simple Life Ann Hui, W, W, P, M «Tao jie»
7.6 2010 DAColor King of Devil's Island Marius Holst, W, W, ++, P, M «Kongen av Bastøy»
7.6 2009 DColor Blessed Ana Kokkinos, W, W, ++, P, M
7.6 2007 DHoColor, Black and White Head Case Anthony Spadaccini, W, P
7.6 2006 ACrTColor A Dirty Carnival Ha Yoo, W, P, M «Biyeolhan geori»
7.6 2006 DColor Anche libero va bene Kim Rossi Stuart, W, W, ++, P, M
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 7.6 2006 DRColor Eternal Summer Leste Chen, W, W, P, M «Sheng xia guang nian»
7.6 2006 CColor The Penalty King Chris Cook, W, P, M
7.6 2003 DHoRColor Rhinoceros Eyes Aaron Woodley, W, P, M
7.6 2003 CCrMColor Slim Susie Ulf Malmros, W, W, P «Smala Sussie»
7.6 2002 DColor En la ciudad sin límites Antonio Hernández, W, W, P, M
7.6 2001 DCrColor My Kingdom Don Boyd, W, W, ++, P, M
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 7.6 2000 ACrTColor Leak Jean van de Velde, W, W, ++, P, M «Lek»
7.6 2000 CrDTColor Under Hellgate Bridge Michael Sergio, W, P, M
7.6 2000 CColor We Married Margo J.D. Shapiro, W, W, P, M
7.6 1998 DMRColor The School of Flesh Benoît Jacquot, W, W, P «L'école de la chair»
7.6 1998 CCrColor Torrente, el brazo tonto de la ley Santiago Segura, W, P, M
7.6 1997 DTCrColor The Boys Club John Fawcett, W, W, P, M
7.6 1996 DRWColor (Metrocolor) Carla's Song Ken Loach, W, P, M
7.6 1995 DRColor Angel Baby Michael Rymer, W, P, M
7.6 1994 AAdCFanRColor A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box Jeffrey Lau, W, W, P «Sai yau gei: Dai yat baak ling yat wui ji - Yut gwong bou haap»
7.6 1993 CrDColor (Technicolor) Amongst Friends Rob Weiss, W, P
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 7.6 1991 R? A Scene at the Sea Takeshi Kitano, W, P, M «Ano natsu, ichiban shizukana umi»
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 7.6 1990 DCColor (Technicolor) Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael Jim Abrahams, W, P, M
7.6 1988 DMcColor Madame Sousatzka John Schlesinger, W, W, ++, P, M
7.6 1979 CCrColor (Eastmancolor) (uncredited) Doing Time Dick Clement, W, W, P «Porridge»
7.6 1978 CMlBlack and White, Color Movie Movie Stanley Donen, W, W, P, M
7.6 1972 ACrTColor Caliber 9 Fernando Di Leo, W, W, P, M «Milano calibro 9»
7.6 1972 ADColor Hapkido Feng Huang, W, P, M «He qi dao»
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 7.6 1970 DColor Goin' Down the Road Donald Shebib, W, ++, P, M
7.6 1970 CBlack and White, Color What Do You Say to a Naked Lady? Allen Funt, W, P, M
7.6 1969 DColor (Technicolor) 80 Steps to Jonah Gerd Oswald, W, ++, P, M
7.6 1968 CDColor (Technicolor) Bye Bye Braverman Sidney Lumet, W, W, P, M
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 7.6 1967 DHRBlack and White Marketa Lazarová Cr Cr-Ess Cr-Video Cr-Ess Cr-Photo Cr-Bscr Frantisek Vlácil, W, W, ++, P, M
7.6 1965 DWBlack and White It Happened Here Kevin Brownlow, Andrew Mollo, W, W, ++, P
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 7.6 1963 DColor (Eastmancolor) An Actor's Revenge Kon Ichikawa, W, W, ++, P, M «Yukinojô henge»
7.6 1962 SfColor Planeta Bur Pavel Klushantsev, W, W, P, M
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 7.6 1962 AAdDBlack and White The Tale of Zatoichi Cr Kenji Misumi, W, W, P, M «Zatôichi monogatari»
7.6 1960 DBlack and White Let No Man Write My Epitaph Philip Leacock, W, W, P, M
7.6 1953 ADWBlack and White Sailor of the King Roy Boulting, W, W, P, M «Single-Handed»
7.6 1952 CColor (Technicolor) Has Anybody Seen My Gal Douglas Sirk, W, W, P, M
7.6 1952 AAdFColor (Technicolor) The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men Ken Annakin, W, P, M
7.6 1951 WeBlack and White Little Big Horn Charles Marquis Warren, W, W, P, M
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 7.6 1941 DRBlack and White Hold Back the Dawn Mitchell Leisen, W, W, ++, P, M
7.6 1940 CCrMTBlack and White Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise Eugene Forde, W, W, ++, P
7.6 1932 DRBlack and White Smilin' Through Sidney Franklin, W, W, ++, P
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 7.6 1932 DFanMBlack and White The Blue Light Leni Riefenstahl, ++, W, W, ++, P, M «Das blaue Licht»
7.6 1930 DRWBlack and White Westfront 1918 Georg Wilhelm Pabst, W, W, ++, P, M
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 7.6 1929 DBlack and White; Silent Asphalt Joe May, W, W, ++, P, M
7.6 1925 ACDRWBlack and White; Silent Lazybones Frank Borzage, W, W, P, M
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 7.6 1924 DAdFanBlack and White; Silent Kriemhild's Revenge Fritz Lang, W, P, M «Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache»
7.5 2014 CHoColor Yaamirukka Bayamey Deekay, W, P
7.5 2013 MTColor Memories Jeethu Joseph, W, P, M
7.5 2012 DColor Back to 1942 Xiaogang Feng, W, P, M «Yi jiu si er»
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 7.5 2012 CDColor Mighty Fine Debbie Goodstein, P, M
7.5 2011 DColor Chinese Take-Out Sebastián Borensztein, W, P, M «Un cuento chino»
7.5 2011 DColor I Wish Hirokazu Koreeda, W, P «Kiseki»
7.5 2008 DRColor Lovely, Still Nicholas Fackler, W, W, P, M
7.5 2006 DColor Takva: A Man's Fear of God Özer Kiziltan, W, P, M «Takva»
7.5 2006 AdDRColor Valley of Flowers Pan Nalin, W, W, ++, P, M
7.5 2005 CRColor Train Man Shôsuke Murakami, W, W, P, M «Densha otoko»
7.5 2004 DRColor Crying Out Love in the Center of the World Isao Yukisada, W, W, ++, P, M «Sekai no chûshin de, ai o sakebu»
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 7.5 2004 DRColor Or Keren Yedaya, W, W, P
7.5 2004 CDColor University of Laughs Mamoru Hoshi, W, P, M «Warai no daigaku»
7.5 2003 CDRColor Hungama Priyadarshan, W, ++, P, M
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 7.5 2002 CRAColor Chinese Odyssey 2002 Jeffrey Lau, W, P, M «Tian xia wu shuang»
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 7.5 2002 CFColor Grand Champion Barry Tubb, W, P
7.5 2002 ACCrRColor Love and a Bullet Kantz, Ben Ramsey, W, W, P, M
7.5 2001 CDRColor Brief Crossing Catherine Breillat, W, P, M «Brève traversée»
7.5 2001 CDRColor Suddenly Naked Anne Wheeler, W, P, M
7.5 2000 DColor (Technicolor) Chinese Coffee Al Pacino, W, P, M
7.5 1999 DColor Rollercoaster Scott Smith, W, P, M
7.5 1998 CDColor Reach the Rock Bill Ryan, W, P, M
7.5 1996 DRColor (Alphacine) Carried Away Bruno Barreto, W, W, P, M
7.5 1995 CrDColor New Jersey Drive Nick Gomez, W, ++, P, M
7.5 1991 DTWeColor Clearcut Ryszard Bugajski, W, W, P, M
7.5 1987 AdFColor Benji the Hunted Joe Camp, W, P, M
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 7.5 1987 DRColor The Year My Voice Broke John Duigan, W, P, M
7.5 1983 HoColor Mo Chih-Hung Kuei, W, W, P, M
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 7.5 1980 ADCrColor Defiance John Flynn, W, ++, P, M
7.5 1978 CDRColor (Technicolor) House Calls Howard Zieff, W, W, ++, P, M
7.5 1978 ADColor She hao ba bu Chi-Hwa Chen, W, P, M
7.5 1977 ADColor Executioners from Shaolin Chia-Liang Liu, W, P, M «Hong Xi Guan»
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 7.5 1972 FMFanColor (Eastmancolor) The Amazing Mr. Blunden Lionel Jeffries, W, W, P, M
7.5 1970 DAColor (Metrocolor) ...tick... tick... tick... Ralph Nelson, W, P, M
7.5 1970 CColor (Technicolor) Hoffman Alvin Rakoff, W, P, M
7.5 1970 CColor (Technicolor) The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer Kevin Billington, W, W, ++, P, M
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 7.5 1967 ADColor The One-Armed Swordsman Cheh Chang, W, W, P, M «Dubei dao»
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 7.5 1960 CrDRTBlack and White The Big Risk Cr Cr-Ess Cr-Ess Claude Sautet, W, W, ++, P, M «Classe tous risques»
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 7.5 1960 DBlack and White The Young One Luis Buñuel, W, W, ++, P
7.5 1958 MTBlack and White Chase a Crooked Shadow Michael Anderson, W, W, P, M
7.5 1955 DBlack and White Dreams Ingmar Bergman, W, P «Kvinnodröm»
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 7.5 1954 DHRWColor (Technicolor) Senso Cr Cr-Video Cr-Ess Cr-Press Cr-Press Cr-Posters Luchino Visconti, W, W, ++, P
7.5 1951 CFSpBlack and White Rhubarb Arthur Lubin, W, W, ++, P, M
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 7.5 1950 NDBlack and White The Sound of Fury Cy Endfield, W, ++, P, M
7.5 1947 DMRBlack and White So Well Remembered Edward Dmytryk, W, W, P, M
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 7.5 1946 CMBlack and White Home, Sweet Homicide Lloyd Bacon, W, W, P, M
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 7.5 1946 DRTWBlack and White Murderers Among Us Wolfgang Staudte, W, ++, P, M «Die Mörder sind unter uns»
7.5 1944 DTBlack and White The Suspect Robert Siodmak, W, W, ++, P, M
7.5 1943 DWBlack and White Millions Like Us Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder, W, W, P
7.5 1932 DBlack and White Are You Listening? Harry Beaumont, W, P, M
7.5 1930 DRTBlack and White The Big House George W. Hill, ++, W, W, ++, P
7.5 1929 DBlack and White Dynamite Cecil B. DeMille, W, W, ++, P
7.4 2013 ACrColor Cold Eyes Ui-seok Jo, Byung-seo Kim, W, W, ++ «Gam-si-ja-deul»
7.4 2012 CRColor Love Failure Balaji Mohan, W, P, M «Kadhalil Sodhappuvadhu Yeppadi»
7.4 2011 ACrTColor The Prey Eric Valette, W, W, P, M «La proie»
7.4 2010 ACCrTColor Anima and Persona Thiagarajan Kumararaja, W, P, M «Aaranya Kaandam»
7.4 2007 RSfColor 11 Minutes Ago Bob Gebert, W, P
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 7.4 2006 DColor Holly Guy Moshe, W, W, P, M
7.4 2006 DRColor Tuya's Marriage Quan'an Wang, W, W, P «Tuya de hun shi»
7.4 2005 CColor Funky Forest: The First Contact Katsuhito Ishii, Hajime Ishimine, ++, W, W, ++, P «Naisu no mori: The First Contact»
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 7.4 2004 CColor Stella Street Peter Richardson, W, W, ++, P, M
7.4 2002 CrDMTColor The Adversary Nicole Garcia, W, W, ++, P, M «L'adversaire»
7.4 2002 DFanTColor The Invisible Joel Bergvall, Simon Sandquist, W, W, P, M «Den osynlige»
7.4 2002 CDColor The Last Great Wilderness David Mackenzie, W, W, ++, P, M
7.4 2001 TMColor Aks Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, W, ++, P, M
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 7.4 2000 CDColor The Day I Became a Woman Marzieh Makhmalbaf, W, W, P, M «Roozi ke zan shodam»
7.4 2000 DHRTColor The Legend of Rita Volker Schlöndorff, W, W, P «Die Stille nach dem Schuß»
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 7.4 1999 CRColor Seven Girlfriends Paul Lazarus, W, W, ++, P, M
7.4 1999 CDColor The Florentine Nick Stagliano, W, W, P, M
7.4 1998 CDColor Am I Beautiful? Doris Dörrie, W, W, ++, P, M «¿Bin ich schön?»
7.4 1996 DTColor Caught Robert M. Young, W, P, M
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 7.4 1996 DColor Small Faces Gillies MacKinnon, W, W, P, M
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 7.4 1993 DRColor Germinal Claude Berri, W, W, ++, P, M
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 7.4 1993 DColor The Blue Kite Zhuangzhuang Tian, W, P, M «Lan feng zheng»
7.4 1988 CDColor (Metrocolor) Mr. North Danny Huston, W, W, ++, P, M
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 7.4 1988 DColor (Eastmancolor) Story of Women Claude Chabrol, W, W, ++, P, M «Une affaire de femmes»
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 7.4 1988 ADColor War Party Franc Roddam, W, P, M
7.4 1987 DRColor The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne Jack Clayton, W, W, P, M
7.4 1986 AColor Above the Law Corey Yuen, W, W, P, M «Zhi fa xian feng»
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 7.4 1986 CDColor Ginger and Fred Federico Fellini, W, W, ++, P, M «Ginger e Fred»
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 7.4 1986 CAColor Peking Opera Blues Hark Tsui, W, P, M «Do ma daan»
7.4 1985 CrDM "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" The Greek Interpreter Alan Grint, W, W, ++, P, M
7.4 1982 ACColor Long zhi ren zhe Corey Yuen
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 7.4 1981 DColor (Eastmancolor) Beau Pere Bertrand Blier, W, P, M «Beau-père»
7.4 1976 HoColor Assault! Jack the Ripper Yasuharu Hasebe, W «Bôkô Kirisaki Jakku»
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 7.4 1976 CrDMTWColor (Eastmancolor) Mr. Klein Joseph Losey, W, W, ++, P, M
7.4 1973 SfTColor (Technicolor) The Last Days of Man on Earth Robert Fuest, W, W, P, M «The Final Programme»
7.4 1973 ACrDTColor Zanjeer Prakash Mehra, W, ++, P, M
7.4 1971 CrDColor (Eastmancolor) Confessions of a Police Captain Damiano Damiani, W, W, ++, P, M «Confessione di un commissario di polizia al procuratore della repubblica»
7.4 1968 ADMColor (Technicolor) P.J. John Guillermin, W, ++, P, M
7.4 1966 DBlack and White Mademoiselle Tony Richardson, W, W, P, M
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 7.4 1966 CDBlack and White The Pornographers Cr Cr-Ess Shôhei Imamura, W, W, ++, P, M «Erogotoshi-tachi yori: Jinruigaku nyûmon»
7.4 1958 DWBlack and White Orders to Kill Anthony Asquith, W, W, ++, P, M
7.4 1957 CBlack and White All at Sea Charles Frend, W, P, M «Barnacle Bill»
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 7.4 1957 DBlack and White Il grido Michelangelo Antonioni, W, W, ++, P, M
7.4 1956 DColor (Trucolor) Come Next Spring R.G. Springsteen, W, P, M
7.4 1954 DRBlack and White About Mrs. Leslie Daniel Mann, W, W, ++, P, M
7.4 1951 BCMlBlack and White I'll See You in My Dreams Michael Curtiz, W, W, ++, P, M
7.4 1949 BDRSpBlack and White The Stratton Story Sam Wood, W, W, ++, P, M
7.4 1948 SfBlack and White Superman Spencer Gordon Bennet, Thomas Carr, W, W, ++, P
7.4 1947 AdCCrBlack and White Hue and Cry Charles Crichton, W, P, M
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 7.4 1944 DColor (Technicolor) An American Romance King Vidor, W, W, ++, P, M
7.4 1942 CMTBlack and White The Murderer Lives at Number 21 Henri-Georges Clouzot, W, W, ++, P, M «L'assassin habite... au 21»
7.4 1937 AdDFFanBlack and White The Prince and the Pauper William Keighley, ++, W, W, ++, P, M
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 7.4 1935 CDRBlack and White Steamboat Round the Bend John Ford, W, W, ++, P, M
7.4 1934 CRDBlack and White Here Comes the Navy Lloyd Bacon, W, W, ++, P
7.4 1932 CWBlack and White Pack Up Your Troubles George Marshall, Ray McCarey, ++, W, ++, P, M
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 7.4 1931 RDBlack and White An American Tragedy Josef von Sternberg, W, W, ++, P, M
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 7.4 1929 DMlBlack and White Applause Rouben Mamoulian, W, W, P
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 7.4 1929 BDHBlack and White Disraeli Alfred E. Green, W, ++, P, M
7.4 1929 CrDBlack and White; Silent Escape from Dartmoor Anthony Asquith, W, W, P, M «A Cottage on Dartmoor»
7.4 1929 DWeBlack and White Hell's Heroes William Wyler, W, W, ++, P, M
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 7.4 1924 DRBlack and White; Silent Michael Carl Theodor Dreyer, W, W, ++, P, M «Mikaël»