Recorded answers
1,391 recorded answers
How to approach it
Build the list from the calendar rather than from memory of headlines. Work month by month through the year and, for each month, sweep across markets: wide studio slates first, then limited openings, then titles that only ever appeared in one country's cinemas. For every candidate, verify that its first public screening was a paid theatrical booking rather than a festival slot, a streaming launch or a reissue. Keep a long shortlist of small, plausible titles and resist the urge to settle on the biggest release you can recall, because the obvious picks are exactly the ones everyone else will also write down. Finally, choose the entry you can defend with an actual release date.
Get a hint
Start with the year's release calendars rather than with awards chatter, and sweep every territory, including small national industries whose films barely travel.
A little more
Then filter by format: independent dramas, genre pieces, sequels, animation and documentaries all count the moment a cinema sold the first ticket for them.
One step further
Finally hunt for the thin end of the list: titles that ran one week in one market or were announced only months before opening, since those rarely get named by anyone else.
Reveal answers 1,391
- Mon Maaney NaDeep Cut85points
- Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the SerpentDeep Cut85points
- Monster MiaDeep Cut85points
- Monster Pabrik RambutDeep Cut85points
- Montreal, My BeautifulDeep Cut85points
- Mor Wali Alag HeDeep Cut85points
- Moromor DeutaDeep Cut85points
- Moses the BlackDeep Cut85points
- MosquitoesDeep Cut85points
- Moss & FreudDeep Cut85points
- Mother's PrideDeep Cut85points
- Mothers of ChibokDeep Cut85points
- Motor CityDeep Cut85points
- Mr. XDeep Cut85points
- MrutyuchakraDeep Cut85points
- Mùi phởDeep Cut85points
- Mum, I'm Alien PregnantDeep Cut85points
- MurabiDeep Cut85points
- MuskDeep Cut85points
- My Amazing GrandmaDeep Cut85points
- My Father's ScentDeep Cut85points
- My Wife CriesDeep Cut85points
- Na Jaane Kaun Aa GayaDeep Cut85points
- Na WillaDeep Cut85points
- NarcisoDeep Cut85points
- Nari Choritro Bejay JotilDeep Cut85points
- Nayyi NavelliDeep Cut85points
- NazaDeep Cut85points
- NeeliraDeep Cut85points
- Někdo to rád v PlzniDeep Cut85points
- Never After DarkDeep Cut85points
- Nhà ba tôi một phòngDeep Cut85points
- Night Before Finals 3.0Deep Cut85points
- Night NurseDeep Cut85points
- Night PatrolDeep Cut85points
- NightbornDeep Cut85points
- NimrodsDeep Cut85points
- Nina RozaDeep Cut85points
- Nne MgbaforDeep Cut85points
- No Good MenDeep Cut85points
- No Ordinary HeistDeep Cut85points
- No PainDeep Cut85points
- No Rest for the WickedDeep Cut85points
- No Tears on the FieldDeep Cut85points
- No Way DownDeep Cut85points
- NogaDeep Cut85points
- NøjsomhedenDeep Cut85points
- Non è la fine del mondoDeep Cut85points
- Non VegDeep Cut85points
- NRI DulhanDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The reveal split almost perfectly along familiarity lines. Only one answer reached 100 points, and it was Chronovisor, a title so obscure that nearly the whole field missed it. The 220 answers sitting at 85 points read like a tour of the international release calendar: 9 Moons, Aadu 3, Aida: The Movie, Bethlehem Kudumba Unit, Bhooth Bangla, Bonolota Express, Cheburashka 2. None of those is a household name in English-language markets, which is precisely why naming one paid so well. The 177 answers at 60 points form the crowded band: titles many players could reach, so the scoring formula divided the credit among more people. The pattern holds throughout: the wider a film opened and the more press it drew, the more people wrote it down, and the less each mention was worth. Rarity, not prestige, set the payout here.