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»
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 9.6 1961 DFBlack and White Hand in Hand Philip Leacock, W, W, P, M
9.5 2013 AAdCrDColor Dead in 5 Heartbeats Jeff Santo, W, P
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 9.5 2011 Color Nefarious: Merchant of Souls Benjamin Nolot, Matt Dickey, W, P, M
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 9.5 1997 DColor Eve's Bayou Kasi Lemmons, W, P, M
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 9.4 2003 CDFColor Uncle Nino Robert Shallcross, W, P, M
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 9.4 2000 DColor Train Ride Rel Dowdell, W, P
9.2 1998 ACColor Gunda Kanti Shah, W, M
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 9.0 1991 CDColor "American Playhouse" Into the Woods James Lapine, W
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 9.0 1981 CrDColor Pixote Hector Babenco, W, W, ++, P, M «Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco»
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 9.0 1973 DFanFAdRColor Three Wishes for Cinderella Václav Vorlícek, W, W, P, M «Tri orísky pro Popelku»
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 8.9 2005 BDColor Self Medicated Monty Lapica, W, P, M
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 8.9 1995 DHColor Les Misérables Claude Lelouch, W, W, P, M «Les misérables»
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 8.9 1971 DColor Anand Hrishikesh Mukherjee, W, W, ++, P, M
8.8 2013 RColor Moondru Per Moondru Kaadhal Vasanth, W, P, M
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 8.8 1997 CColor Fakin' Da Funk Timothy A. Chey, W, P, M
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 8.8 1983 CDColor Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro Kundan Shah, W, W, ++, P, M
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 8.8 1978 AAdDColor The 36th Chamber of Shaolin Chia-Liang Liu, W, P, M «Shao Lin san shi liu fang»
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 8.7 2006 DRColor Tomorrow Is Today Frederic Lumiere, W, P, M
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 8.7 1968 DColor (Technicolor) Interlude Kevin Billington, W, W, ++, P, M
8.7 1958 FWeColor (Eastmancolor) Snowfire Dorrell McGowan, Stuart E. McGowan, W, W, P, M
8.6 2014 DTWeColor (HD), Color Wichita Nicholas Barton, W, P
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 8.6 2009 DFMRWeColor The Taste of Relation Mukesh Asopa, W, W, P, M
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 8.6 2002 DWBlack and White, Color Kannathil Muthamittal Mani Ratnam, W, ++, P, M
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 8.6 1928 DRBlack and White; Silent The Crowd King Vidor, W, W, ++, P, M
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 8.6 1927 BDHWBlack and White, Black and White (tinted) (some sequences); Silent Napoleon Abel Gance, W, P, M «Napoléon»
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 8.5 2003 BDHColor The Visual Bible: The Gospel of John Philip Saville, W, P, M
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 8.5 2000 DHBlack and White, Color Hey Ram Kamal Hassan, W, W, P, M
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 8.5 1995 DColor The Cure Peter Horton, W, P, M
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 8.5 1967 DWColor (Metrocolor) The 25th Hour Henri Verneuil, W, W, ++, P, M «La vingt-cinquième heure»
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 8.5 1932 CCrRBlack and White Trouble in Paradise Cr Cr-Photo Cr-Ess Cr-Ess Cr-Clip Ernst Lubitsch, W, W, ++, P, M
8.4 2013 DFTColor Drishyam Jeethu Joseph, W, P, M
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 8.4 2002 DTColor Looking Through Lillian Jake Torem, W, W, P, M
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 8.4 1997 DFColor The King of Masks Tian-Ming Wu, W, W, P, M «Bian Lian»
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 8.4 1965 CDWBlack and White Chimes at Midnight Orson Welles, W, W, ++, P, M «Campanadas a medianoche»
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 8.4 1936 CDMlRBlack and White Show Boat James Whale, W, W, ++, P
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 8.3 2008 AAdColor The Flyboys Rocco DeVilliers, W, W, ++, P, M
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 8.3 2002 ACrTDColor Company Ram Gopal Varma, W, P, M
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 8.3 2002 ATColor Day of the Sirens Ray Brady, W, P, M
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 8.3 2002 CDRColor The Trip Miles Swain, W, P, M
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 8.3 1998 CDRColor Get Real Simon Shore, W, P, M
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 8.3 1994 CColor Andaz Apna Apna Rajkumar Santoshi, W, ++, P, M
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 8.3 1991 CDColor 29th Street George Gallo, W, W, ++, P, M
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 8.3 1989 CDRColor Shag Zelda Barron, W, W, ++, P
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 8.3 1989 DHWColor (Eastmancolor) The Winter War Pekka Parikka, W, W, ++, P, M «Talvisota»
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 8.3 1988 CDRColor Torch Song Trilogy Paul Bogart, W, P
8.3 1987 CrDColor Nayakan Mani Ratnam, W, W, ++, P, M
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 8.3 1986 DMcColor (Eastmancolor) Man Facing Southeast Eliseo Subiela, W, P, M «Hombre mirando al sudeste»
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 8.3 1984 CCrRTColor (Technicolor) American Dreamer Rick Rosenthal, W, W, ++, P, M
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 8.3 1975 AdBDColor (Sovcolor) Dersu Uzala Akira Kurosawa, W, W, ++, P, M
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 8.3 1975 CDWColor (Technicolor) Seven Beauties Lina Wertmüller, W, P, M «Pasqualino Settebellezze»
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 8.3 1966 AdDRWeColor (Eastmancolor) The Trap Sidney Hayers, W, P, M
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 8.3 1961 DBlack and White A Raisin in the Sun Daniel Petrie, W, P, M
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 8.3 1946 DRWBlack and White The Best Years of Our Lives William Wyler, W, W, P, M
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 8.3 1928 CRFDBlack and White; Silent The Cameraman Edward Sedgwick, ++, W, W, ++, P
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 8.2 2010 CDColor Do Dooni Chaar Habib Faisal, W, W, P, M
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 8.2 1996 DWColor Pretty Village, Pretty Flame Srdjan Dragojevic, W, W, ++, P, M «Lepa sela lepo gore»
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 8.2 1993 CMcBlack and White, Color Fear of a Black Hat Rusty Cundieff, W, P
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 8.2 1993 DHColor King of the Hill Cr Steven Soderbergh, W, W, P, M
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 8.2 1993 DRColor (Technicolor) Wrestling Ernest Hemingway Randa Haines, W, P, M
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 8.2 1985 AdCSfColor (Technicolor) Back to the Future Robert Zemeckis, W, W, P, M
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 8.2 1951 DFanBlack and White A Christmas Carol Brian Desmond Hurst, W, W, P, M «Scrooge»
8.1 2012 BDColor Shahid Hansal Mehta, W, W, ++, P, M
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 8.1 2010 ABCrSpTColor Paan Singh Tomar Tigmanshu Dhulia, P, M
8.1 2009 DRColor, Color (Super 16mm) Undertow Javier Fuentes-León, W, P, M «Contracorriente»
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 8.1 2001 CDRColor My Sassy Girl Jae-young Kwak, W, W, P, M «Yeopgijeogin geunyeo»
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 8.1 1999 DColor Spring Forward Tom Gilroy, W, P, M
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 8.1 1996 CDRColor Beautiful Thing Hettie Macdonald, W, P, M
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 8.1 1994 BDSpColor 8 Seconds John G. Avildsen, W, P, M
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 8.1 1990 BCDHRColor Cyrano de Bergerac Jean-Paul Rappeneau, W, W, ++, P, M
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 8.1 1986 DColor 'night, Mother Tom Moore, W, P, M
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 8.1 1985 CColor Tampopo Jûzô Itami, W, P, M
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 8.1 1983 DMcColor Tender Mercies Bruce Beresford, W, P, M
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 8.1 1980 AAdSfColor Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back Irvin Kershner, W, W, ++, P, M
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 8.1 1972 DFHMlColor (Eastmancolor) 1776 Peter H. Hunt, W, W, ++, P, M
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 8.1 1971 DRColor (Eastmancolor) Melody Waris Hussein, W, P
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 8.1 1962 BDBlack and White The Miracle Worker Arthur Penn, W, ++, P, M
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 8.1 1955 DBlack and White Pather Panchali Satyajit Ray, W, W, P, M
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 8.1 1951 WeDBlack and White Westward the Women William A. Wellman, W, W, P, M
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 8.1 1946 CColor (Technicolor) Margie Henry King, W, W, ++, P, M
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 8.1 1945 DRBlack and White Children of Paradise Cr Cr-Ess Cr-Ess Cr-Photo Cr-Video Cr-Photo Cr-Video Cr-Video Cr-Photo Cr-Ess Cr-Ess Cr-News Cr-Clip Marcel Carné, W, P, M «Les enfants du paradis»
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 8.1 1935 DHRBlack and White A Tale of Two Cities Jack Conway, ++, W, W, ++, P, M
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 8.1 1923 CRTBlack and White; Silent Safety Last! Cr Cr-Video Cr-Ess Cr-Web Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor, W, W, ++, P, M