Recorded answers
1,301 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 1,301
- AbujaaDeep Cut85points
- AcharyaDeep Cut85points
- Adam's EightDeep Cut85points
- AdamyaDeep Cut85points
- Adaraneeya TharuwakDeep Cut85points
- AdditionDeep Cut85points
- AdrenalDeep Cut85points
- Adult SupervisionDeep Cut85points
- AffectionDeep Cut85points
- AgadhaDeep Cut85points
- Agata Christian: Delitto sulle neviDeep Cut85points
- Agbara Nla: The ReturnDeep Cut85points
- Aghru Che YaarDeep Cut85points
- AgnibaanDeep Cut85points
- Ah Beng vs Liang Po PoDeep Cut85points
- Ahasa TharamDeep Cut85points
- Aida: The MovieDeep Cut85points
- Ajosepo 2: The GatheringDeep Cut85points
- Aks SirDeep Cut85points
- AksharaDeep Cut85points
- Alahun: The WeaverDeep Cut85points
- Alive Till DawnDeep Cut85points
- All My Friends Are Back in BrisbaneDeep Cut85points
- All of a SuddenDeep Cut85points
- All That We Never WereDeep Cut85points
- All You Need Is KillDeep Cut85points
- Allegro PastellDeep Cut85points
- Alphabet LaneDeep Cut85points
- Always LalisaDeep Cut85points
- Always Yours, Never MineDeep Cut85points
- America America 2Deep Cut85points
- American DoctorDeep Cut85points
- American SummerDeep Cut85points
- An Autumn SummerDeep Cut85points
- An Island Away from YouDeep Cut85points
- Anaganaga Oka RajuDeep Cut85points
- Anam’s WakeDeep Cut85points
- Ananthan KaaduDeep Cut85points
- Anbil AvanDeep Cut85points
- André Rieu’s 2026 Summer Concert: Viva Maastricht!Deep Cut85points
- Angel and the BadmanDeep Cut85points
- Angelus TenebrarumDeep Cut85points
- AnomieDeep Cut85points
- Another DayDeep Cut85points
- Another LeagueDeep Cut85points
- Another ManDeep Cut85points
- Antartica - Quasi una fiabaDeep Cut85points
- AntoraalDeep Cut85points
- Apaara: The OutcastDeep Cut85points
- ApekhyaDeep 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.