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»
9.7 1985 AdCColor Crime Wave John Paizs, W, P, M
9.7 1961 CDRColor (Technicolor) Loss of Innocence Lewis Gilbert, W, ++, P, M «The Greengage Summer»
9.6 2007 CColor The Rat Thing Kevin Keresey, W, P, M
9.6 1976 CHColor Tosun Pasa Kartal Tibet, W, W, P
9.5 1999 DColor Funny Valentines Julie Dash, W, W, ++, P, M
9.5 1983 DFMlColor Masoom Shekhar Kapur, W, P, M
9.5 1980 AdCDColor (Eastmancolor) Who's Singin' Over There? Slobodan Sijan, W, P, M «Ko to tamo peva»
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 9.5 1927 CRBlack and White; Silent My Best Girl Sam Taylor, W, W, ++, P
9.4 1977 FMlFanColor, Color (Eastmancolor) Ma-ma Elisabeta Bostan, W, W, P, M
9.3 2004 TCrColor Charlie the Ox Scott Smith, W, P, M
9.2 2013 DMColor Awakened Joycelyn Engle, Arno Malarone, W, W, P, M
9.2 2009 DTColor Moonlight Sonata Celik Kayalar, W, P, M
9.2 2005 CDColor In Memory of My Father Chris Jaymes, W, P, M
9.2 2002 BDHColor The Legend of Bhagat Singh Rajkumar Santoshi, W, W, ++, P, M
9.2 2000 DColor A Rumor of Angels Peter O'Fallon, W, W, ++, P, M
9.2 1998 CCrDWColor The Wounds Srdjan Dragojevic, W, P, M «Rane»
9.2 1984 FAdDFanColor Ronja Robbersdaughter Tage Danielsson, W, P, M «Ronja Rövardotter»
9.2 1982 CFColor Savannah Smiles Pierre De Moro, W, P, M
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 9.2 1981 DMcColor Bolero Claude Lelouch, W, P, M «Les uns et les autres»
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 9.2 1979 CDColor (Technicolor) Going in Style Martin Brest, W, W, P, M
9.2 1978 BDColor (Eastmancolor) Molière Ariane Mnouchkine, W, P, M
9.1 2014 ADTColor Ugramm Prashanth Neel, W, P, M
9.1 1988 DRColor A Summer Story Piers Haggard, W, W, P, M
9.1 1982 BDColor If You Could See What I Hear Eric Till, W, W, ++, P, M
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 9.1 1966 CWColor (Eastmancolor) La Grande Vadrouille Gérard Oury, W, W, ++, P, M «La grande vadrouille»
9.1 1943 MlColor (Technicolor) The Desert Song Robert Florey, W, W, ++, P, M
9.0 2000 DColor Monarch John Walsh, W, P, M
9.0 1997 AAdCFMcColor The Wiggles Movie Dean Covell, W, P
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 9.0 1996 DRColor Comrades: Almost a Love Story Peter Chan, W, P, M «Tian mi mi»
9.0 1988 CDRColor Some Girls Michael Hoffman, W, P, M
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 9.0 1985 CDColor Bliss Ray Lawrence, W, W, ++, P, M
9.0 1977 CSfColor Zítra vstanu a oparím se cajem Jindrich Polák, W, W, ++, P, M
9.0 1965 AdCDRColor (Technicolor) The Truth About Spring Richard Thorpe, W, W, P, M
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 9.0 1964 DRBlack and White Charulata Cr Cr-Photo Cr-Ess Satyajit Ray, W, W, ++, P, M
8.9 2014 DColor 50 to 1 Jim Wilson, W, W, ++, P, M
8.9 2007 DColor Along the Way Andrew Bowen, W, W, P, M
8.9 2003 AdCDColor Love is God Sundar C., W, W, P, M «Anbe Sivam»
8.9 1997 DRColor Love Jones Theodore Witcher, W, P, M
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 8.9 1997 BDMcColor The Harmonists Joseph Vilsmaier, W, W, ++, P, M «Comedian Harmonists»
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 8.9 1975 ACrDTColor (Eastmancolor) Deewaar Yash Chopra, W, ++, P, M
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 8.9 1960 DRWBlack and White, Color (Technicolor) Mughal-E-Azam K. Asif, W, W, ++, P, M
8.9 1934 DHBlack and White Les Misérables Raymond Bernard, W, W, ++, P, M «Les misérables»
8.8 2013 DColor Decoding Annie Parker Steven Bernstein, W, W, ++, P, M
8.8 2010 AAdCCrDColor Bold Native Denis Hennelly, W, P, M
8.8 2002 DColor Edi Piotr Trzaskalski, W, W, P, M
8.8 2001 FColor Her Majesty Mark J. Gordon, W, P, M
8.8 1988 ADMlRColor Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak Mansoor Khan, W, ++, P, M
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 8.8 1979 CColor Gol Maal Hrishikesh Mukherjee, W, W, ++, P, M
8.8 1976 CDColor Kenny & Company Don Coscarelli, W, P, M
8.8 1970 FDColor (Technicolor) The Railway Children Lionel Jeffries, W, W, P, M
8.8 1964 DBlack and White One Potato, Two Potato Larry Peerce, W, W, P, M
8.8 1949 DBlack and White The Hasty Heart Vincent Sherman, W, W, P, M
8.8 1926 DBlack and White; Silent The Scarlet Letter Victor Sjöström, W, W, ++, P, M
8.7 2007 DSpColor Road to Victory Mike Reilly, W, P, M
8.7 2006 WeColor The Devil Wears Spurs Charlton Thorp, W, P, M
8.7 2003 DColor Pinjar Chandra Prakash Dwivedi, W, ++, P, M «Pinjar: Beyond Boundaries..»
8.7 1999 AAdDColor Sarfarosh John Mathew Matthan, W, ++, P, M
8.7 1987 DMlRColor Ijaazat Gulzar, W, W, P, M
8.7 1972 MlRDColor (Eastmancolor) Pakeezah Kamal Amrohi, W, P, M