The Ratings Project: Communal Watchlist

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A continually updated list of the top 250 films (by average) that aren't already represented on the Top Ten Percent but have an average rating of at least 7.50 from fewer than 15 votes.



4 Little Girls
Spike Lee, 1997

Votes	Average
4	8.05

Aag
Raj Kapoor, 1948

Votes	Average
1	9.00

Abigail's Party
Mike Leigh, 1977

Votes	Average
8	8.08

After Life
Koreeda Hirokazu, 1998

Votes	Average
9	8.33

After the Wedding
Susanne Bier, 2006

Votes	Average
14	7.86

Arabian Nights
Steve Barron, 2000

Votes	Average
2	8.50

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
Jonas Mekas, 2000

Votes	Average
2	8.30

Au hasard Balthazar
Robert Bresson, 1966

Votes	Average
13	7.98

An Autumn Afternoon
Yasujiro Ozu, 1962

Votes	Average
8	8.13

The Aviator's Wife
Eric Rohmer, 1981

Votes	Average
6	8.28

The Bad and the Beautiful
Vincente Minnelli, 1952

Votes	Average
12	7.93

Ballad of a Soldier
Grigoriy Chukhray, 1959

Votes	Average
6	8.28

Band Baaja Baaraat
Maneesh Sharma, 2010

Votes	Average
1	8.00

The Beautiful Washing Machine
James Lee, 2004

Votes	Average
1	9.30

The Big Heat
Fritz Lang, 1953

Votes	Average
13	8.08

The Big Parade
King Vidor, 1925

Votes	Average
8	7.99

Birthday
Stefan Jäger, 2001

Votes	Average
1	9.00

Black Cat, White Cat
Emir Kusturica, 1998

Votes	Average
4	8.30

Black Rain
Shohei Imamura, 1989

Votes	Average
7	8.07

The Blue Angel
Josef von Sternberg, 1930

Votes	Average
11	7.88

Body and Soul
Robert Rossen, 1947

Votes	Average
9	7.91

Boyfriends and Girlfriends
Eric Rohmer, 1987

Votes	Average
5	7.98

The Boys from Fengkuei
Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1983

Votes	Average
2	8.50

The Boys of St. Vincent
John N. Smith, 1992

Votes	Average
2	8.50

Brewster McCloud
Robert Altman, 1970

Votes	Average
3	8.33

Broken Lullaby
Ernst Lubitsch, 1932

Votes	Average
1	8.00

The Burmese Harp
Kon Ichikawa, 1956

Votes	Average
7	8.01

Cairo Station
Youssef Chahine, 1958

Votes	Average
3	8.87

The Cameraman
Edward Sedgwick, 1928

Votes	Average
10	8.25

Canyon Passage
Jacques Tourneur, 1946

Votes	Average
5	8.10

Captains Courageous
Victor Fleming, 1937

Votes	Average
9	8.03

Ceddo
Ousmane Sembene, 1977

Votes	Average
4	8.18

César's Bark Canoe
Bernard Gosselin, 1971

Votes	Average
1	8.00

Charulata
Satyajit Ray, 1964

Votes	Average
10	8.43

Children of Paradise
Marcel Carné, 1945

Votes	Average
13	8.18

Children Underground
Edet Belzberg, 2001

Votes	Average
7	7.99

A City of Sadness
Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1989

Votes	Average
9	8.07

The Clock
Vincente Minnelli, 1945

Votes	Average
2	8.00

The Cloud-Capped Star
Ritwik Ghatak, 1960

Votes	Average
3	8.07

Cocksucker Blues
Robert Frank, 1972

Votes	Average
1	9.00

The Complaint of an Empress
Pina Bausch, 1990

Votes	Average
1	9.00

Comrades
Bill Douglas, 1986

Votes	Average
2	9.50

Conversations with Other Women
Hans Canosa, 2005

Votes	Average
2	8.10

Cops
Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton, 1922

Votes	Average
10	7.86

The Crazy-Quilt
John Korty, 1966

Votes	Average
1	8.00

The Crime of Monsieur Lange
Jean Renoir, 1936

Votes	Average
5	8.34

Cross of Iron
Sam Peckinpah, 1977

Votes	Average
2	8.90

The Crowd
King Vidor, 1928

Votes	Average
12	7.98

The Dawn Patrol
Howard Hawks, 1930

Votes	Average
4	8.03

Day for Night
François Truffaut, 1973

Votes	Average
12	7.99

The Day of the Jackal
Fred Zinnemann, 1973

Votes	Average
13	8.05

Day of Wrath
Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1943

Votes	Average
9	7.97

Days and Nights in the Forest
Satyajit Ray, 1970

Votes	Average
3	8.77

The Days Between
Maria Speth, 2001

Votes	Average
2	10.00

Dead Ringers
David Cronenberg, 1988

Votes	Average
14	8.06

Dear Frankie
Shona Auerbach, 2004

Votes	Average
5	8.12

The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
Cristi Puiu, 2005

Votes	Average
10	8.46

Departures
Takita Yojiro, 2008

Votes	Average
8	8.00

Devils on the Doorstep
Jiang Wen, 2000

Votes	Average
7	8.43

Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge
Fritz Lang, 1924

Votes	Average
4	8.20

Die Nibelungen: Siegfried
Fritz Lang, 1924

Votes	Average
6	8.97

Die Zeit mit Kathrin
Urs Graf, 1999

Votes	Average
1	10.00

Distant Thunder
Satyajit Ray, 1973

Votes	Average
2	8.10

Dodes’ka-den
Akira Kurosawa, 1970

Votes	Average
10	7.90

Dodsworth
William Wyler, 1936

Votes	Average
10	8.04

Domestic Violence
Frederick Wiseman, 2001

Votes	Average
3	8.33

Don't Go Breaking My Heart
Johnnie To, 2011

Votes	Average
2	8.00

Dont Look Back
D.A. Pennebaker, 1967

Votes	Average
11	7.86

Dragon Inn
King Hu, 1967

Votes	Average
2	9.00

Dream of Light
Victor Erice, 1992

Votes	Average
5	7.92

Dust in the Wind
Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1987

Votes	Average
7	7.86

Duvidha
Mani Kaul, 1975

Votes	Average
1	8.20

Early Summer
Yasujiro Ozu, 1951

Votes	Average
9	8.27

Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
Ken Burns, 1991

Votes	Average
3	8.50

The Endless Summer 2
Bruce Brown, 1994

Votes	Average
3	8.33

Eureka
Shinji Aoyama, 2000

Votes	Average
9	8.22

The External World
David O'Reilly, 2010

Votes	Average
4	8.75

Face
Tsai Ming-liang, 2009

Votes	Average
3	7.87

Flesh and the Devil
Clarence Brown, 1927

Votes	Average
4	8.03

Floating Clouds
Mikio Naruse, 1955

Votes	Average
6	8.12

Floating Weeds
Yasujiro Ozu, 1959

Votes	Average
7	7.91

Flowing
Mikio Naruse, 1956

Votes	Average
3	9.00

Four Nights of a Dreamer
Robert Bresson, 1971

Votes	Average
3	8.20

The Free Will
Matthias Glasner, 2006

Votes	Average
1	9.00

Gaea Girls
Kim Longinotto, Jano Williams, 2000

Votes	Average
1	10.00

Games of Love and Chance
Abdellatif Kechiche, 2003

Votes	Average
2	8.50

The Gleaners and I
Agnčs Varda, 2000

Votes	Average
11	7.85

Go, Go Second Time Virgin
Koji Wakamatsu, 1969

Votes	Average
1	8.00

Goin' Down the Road
Donald Shebib, 1970

Votes	Average
4	8.25

Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Sam Wood, 1939

Votes	Average
11	8.35

The Gospel According to St. Matthew
Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1964

Votes	Average
7	8.46

Greed
Erich von Stroheim, 1924

Votes	Average
7	7.86

Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
Robert Stone, 2004

Votes	Average
1	8.10

The Gunfighter
Henry King, 1950

Votes	Average
7	7.96

Hail the Conquering Hero
Preston Sturges, 1944

Votes	Average
8	7.86

Happiness
Todd Solondz, 1998

Votes	Average
12	7.84

He Who Gets Slapped
Victor Sjostrom, 1924

Votes	Average
4	8.38

Head-On
Fatih Akin, 2004

Votes	Average
8	7.88

The Heart of the World
Guy Maddin, 2000

Votes	Average
11	7.85

The Heiress
William Wyler, 1949

Votes	Average
8	8.45

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Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go
Kim Longinotto, 2007

Votes	Average
3	8.33

Holy Girl
Lucrecia Martel, 2004

Votes	Average
1	9.00

The Hunt
Thomas Vinterberg, 2012

Votes	Average
7	8.23

The Hustler
Robert Rossen, 1961

Votes	Average
14	7.97

I Am Cuba
Mikhail Kalatozov, 1964

Votes	Average
10	8.09

If....
Lindsay Anderson, 1968

Votes	Average
14	7.89

Il posto
Ermanno Olmi, 1961

Votes	Average
10	7.95

Imitation of Life
Douglas Sirk, 1959

Votes	Average
10	8.40

Ink
Jamin Winans, 2009

Votes	Average
3	8.17

Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream That One Calls Human Life
Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay, 1995

Votes	Average
3	8.80

Intimate Lighting
Ivan Passer, 1965

Votes	Average
3	8.00

Isle of Flowers
Jorge Furtado, 1990

Votes	Average
4	8.48

It All Starts Today
Bertrand Tavernier, 1999

Votes	Average
2	8.50

Jacquot de Nantes
Agnčs Varda, 1991

Votes	Average
2	9.05

Jane Eyre
Franco Zeffirelli, 1996

Votes	Average
2	8.25

Johanna
Kornél Mundruczó, 2005

Votes	Average
1	9.00

Johnny Got His Gun
Dalton Trumbo, 1971

Votes	Average
5	8.18

Johnny Guitar
Nicholas Ray, 1954

Votes	Average
14	7.81

Journey to Italy
Roberto Rossellini, 1954

Votes	Average
5	7.90

The Killers
Robert Siodmak, 1946

Votes	Average
8	8.08

Kings of the Road
Wim Wenders, 1976

Votes	Average
4	8.43

Knife in the Water
Roman Polanski, 1962

Votes	Average
9	8.13

Kosmos
Reha Erdem, 2010

Votes	Average
1	10.00

La belle noiseuse
Jacques Rivette, 1991

Votes	Average
6	8.32

La chienne
Jean Renoir, 1931

Votes	Average
5	8.28

La danse
Frederick Wiseman, 2009

Votes	Average
7	8.00

Landscape in the Mist
Theodoros Angelopoulos, 1988

Votes	Average
4	8.18

The Last Command
Josef von Sternberg, 1928

Votes	Average
8	8.10

The Last Laugh
F.W. Murnau, 1924

Votes	Average
13	7.85

Le bonheur
Agnčs Varda, 1965

Votes	Average
3	8.40

Le monde vivant
Eugčne Green, 2003

Votes	Average
3	8.67

Le pont des Arts
Eugčne Green, 2004

Votes	Average
2	9.50

Letter from an Unknown Woman
Max Ophüls, 1948

Votes	Average
10	8.49

A Letter to Three Wives
Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1949

Votes	Average
12	8.34

The Life of Oharu
Kenji Mizoguchi, 1952

Votes	Average
6	8.23

The Life of Reilly
Frank L. Anderson, Barry Poltermann, 2006

Votes	Average
1	9.50

Life, and Nothing More...
Abbas Kiarostami, 1992

Votes	Average
3	8.83

The Lineup
Don Siegel, 1958

Votes	Average
9	8.41

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
Henry Hathaway, 1935

Votes	Average
2	8.00

Los Olvidados
Luis Buńuel, 1950

Votes	Average
11	7.92

Louisiana Story
Robert J. Flaherty, 1948

Votes	Average
5	8.02

Love Streams
John Cassavetes, 1984

Votes	Average
5	8.02

Lovers and Lollipops
Moris Engel, Ruth Orkin, 1956

Votes	Average
1	9.00

Mahanagar
Satyajit Ray, 1963

Votes	Average
6	8.15

Make Way for Tomorrow
Leo McCarey, 1937

Votes	Average
8	8.31

A Man and a Woman
Claude Lelouch, 1966

Votes	Average
5	8.04

A Man Escaped
Robert Bresson, 1956

Votes	Average
13	8.06

Man Push Cart
Ramin Bahrani, 2005

Votes	Average
7	8.04

Man's Castle
Frank Borzage, 1933

Votes	Average
6	8.37

Marius
Alexander Korda, 1931

Votes	Average
4	8.88

A Married Couple
Allan King, 1969

Votes	Average
5	9.06

Marseille
Angela Schanelec, 2004

Votes	Average
2	9.50

Mauvais sang
Leos Carax, 1986

Votes	Average
9	7.87

Mine
Geralyn Pezanoski, 2009

Votes	Average
4	7.90

A Moment of Innocence
Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1996

Votes	Average
8	8.53

Mon oncle d'Amérique
Alain Resnais, 1980

Votes	Average
6	7.92

Murder by Contract
Irving Lerner, 1958

Votes	Average
9	8.37

Music Room
Satyajit Ray, 1958

Votes	Average
6	8.77

My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days
Andrzej Zulawski, 1989

Votes	Average
2	10.00

My Only Sunshine
Reha Erdem, 2008

Votes	Average
2	8.00

My Winnipeg
Guy Maddin, 2007

Votes	Average
12	7.94

Nenette and Boni
Claire Denis, 1996

Votes	Average
4	8.00

The Neon Bible
Terence Davies, 1995

Votes	Average
1	9.00

Night Train to Munich
Carol Reed, 1940

Votes	Average
6	7.90

No One Knows About Persian Cats
Bahman Ghobadi, 2009

Votes	Average
3	8.33

NY Export: Opus Jazz
Henry Joost, Jody Lee Lipes, 2010

Votes	Average
1	10.00

Oh, Moon!
Reha Erdem, 1988

Votes	Average
1	10.00

Pandora's Box
G.W. Pabst, 1929

Votes	Average
9	8.47

Paper Moon
Peter Bogdanovich, 1973

Votes	Average
13	7.82

The Passenger
Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975

Votes	Average
8	8.33

Passing Summer
Angela Schanelec, 2001

Votes	Average
3	8.33

Pauline at the Beach
Eric Rohmer, 1983

Votes	Average
9	8.13

Perceval le Gallois
Eric Rohmer, 1978

Votes	Average
4	8.78

The Phantom Carriage
Victor Sjöström, 1921

Votes	Average
11	7.99

The Pinochet Case
Patricio Guzmán, 2001

Votes	Average
1	8.50

Pixote
Hector Babenco, 1981

Votes	Average
6	8.83

Places in Cities
Angela Schanelec, 1998

Votes	Average
1	10.00

Pratidwandi
Satyajit Ray, 1970

Votes	Average
2	7.85

PTU
Johnnie To, 2003

Votes	Average
6	8.02

Public Housing
Frederick Wiseman, 1997

Votes	Average
2	9.00

A Raisin in the Sun
Daniel Petrie, 1961

Votes	Average
4	8.38

Record of a Tenement Gentleman
Yasujiro Ozu, 1947

Votes	Average
3	8.23

The Red and the White
Miklós Jancsó, 1967

Votes	Average
5	8.14

Red Psalm
Miklós Jancsó, 1972

Votes	Average
2	9.50

Regular Lovers
Philippe Garel, 2005

Votes	Average
3	9.00

The Return
Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2003

Votes	Average
13	7.95

Robinson in Ruins
Patrick Keiller, 2010

Votes	Average
1	10.00

Safety Last!
Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor, 1923

Votes	Average
12	7.93

Sanjuro
Akira Kurosawa, 1962

Votes	Average
13	7.94

Sarah, Plain and Tall
Glenn Jordan, 1991

Votes	Average
3	7.83

School's Out
Kit Hood, 1992

Votes	Average
2	9.00

Scratch
Doug Pray, 2001

Votes	Average
5	8.04

The Search
Fred Zinnemann, 1948

Votes	Average
2	8.15

Seventh Heaven
Frank Borzage, 1927

Votes	Average
13	7.82

Shoeshine
Vittorio De Sica, 1946

Votes	Average
7	7.89

The Shop on Main Street
Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos, 1965

Votes	Average
8	8.11

Simon of the Desert
Luis Buńuel, 1965

Votes	Average
7	7.94

Simple Men
Hal Hartley, 1992

Votes	Average
6	8.00

Sissi
Ernst Marischka, 1955

Votes	Average
1	10.00

Skallamann
Maria Bock, 2011

Votes	Average
3	9.00

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Sleuth
Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1972

Votes	Average
14	8.10

Socha Na Tha
Imtiaz Ali, 2005

Votes	Average
1	8.00

The Son
Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, 2002

Votes	Average
14	7.99

The Southerner
Jean Renoir, 1945

Votes	Average
1	8.00

Sparrow
Johnnie To, 2008

Votes	Average
6	8.30

Spring in My Hometown
Lee Kwangmo, 1998

Votes	Average
2	9.00

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Martin Ritt, 1965

Votes	Average
8	7.85

Steamboat Bill, Jr.
Charles Reisner, 1928

Votes	Average
9	8.23

The Steel Helmet
Samuel Fuller, 1951

Votes	Average
4	7.88

Story of G.I. Joe
William A. Wellman, 1945

Votes	Average
4	8.25

The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums
Kenji Mizoguchi, 1939

Votes	Average
7	8.29

Streetwise
Martin Bell, 1984

Votes	Average
9	8.16

Sudden Fear
David Miller, 1952

Votes	Average
6	7.95

Summer
Eric Rohmer, 1986

Votes	Average
9	8.18

A Summer's Tale
Eric Rohmer, 1996

Votes	Average
6	8.32

Sundays and Cybele
Serge Bourguignon, 1962

Votes	Average
6	8.17

Swing Time
George Stevens, 1936

Votes	Average
14	7.86

Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
F.W. Murnau, 1931

Votes	Average
8	8.46

Taipei Story
Edward Yang, 1985

Votes	Average
2	7.85

Tea and Sympathy
Vincente Minnelli, 1956

Votes	Average
3	9.33

The Tenant
Roman Polanski, 1976

Votes	Average
5	8.08

The Thirst for Love
Kurahara Koreyoshi, 1967

Votes	Average
1	9.60

Thomas Mao
Wen Zhu, 2010

Votes	Average
1	8.00

Through the Olive Trees
Abbas Kiarostami, 1994

Votes	Average
5	8.22

A Touch of Zen
King Hu, 1971

Votes	Average
4	8.65

The Trial of Joan of Arc
Robert Bresson, 1962

Votes	Average
7	8.21

Two Drifters
Joăo Pedro Rodrigues, 2005

Votes	Average
1	9.00

Two Women
Vittorio De Sica, 1960

Votes	Average
3	8.27

Un homme qui dort
Bernard Queysanne, 1974

Votes	Average
9	8.07

Under the Greenwood Tree
Nicholas Laughland, 2005

Votes	Average
1	8.00

Village of Dreams
Higashi Yoichi, 1996

Votes	Average
2	8.00

The Virgin Spring
Ingmar Bergman, 1960

Votes	Average
14	7.91

Water Lilies
Céline Sciamma, 2007

Votes	Average
4	8.00

The Way to the Stars
Anthony Asquith, 1945

Votes	Average
3	8.57

We Won't Grow Old Together
Maurice Pialat, 1972

Votes	Average
3	8.33

What's Up, Doc?
Peter Bogdanovich, 1972

Votes	Average
10	8.22

Where Are My Children?
Lois Weber, 1916

Votes	Average
2	8.50

Who's Camus Anyways
Yanagimachi Mitsuo, 2005

Votes	Average
5	8.32

The Wicker Man
Robin Hardy, 1973

Votes	Average
14	8.04

Wild Tigers I Have Known
Cam Archer, 2006

Votes	Average
1	9.00

Winchester '73
Anthony Mann, 1950

Votes	Average
13	7.85

The Wind
Victor Sjöström, 1928

Votes	Average
9	7.98

The Wind Will Carry Us
Abbas Kiarostami, 1999

Votes	Average
8	7.94

Wit
Mike Nichols, 2001

Votes	Average
3	8.33

The World of Apu
Satyajit Ray, 1959

Votes	Average
8	8.30

World on a Wire
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1973

Votes	Average
7	7.87

Written By
Wai Ka-Fai, 2009

Votes	Average
2	8.00

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Vittorio De Sica, 1963

Votes	Average
2	8.00

You, the Living
Roy Andersson, 2007

Votes	Average
10	7.86

Young Mr. Lincoln
John Ford, 1939

Votes	Average
14	7.87