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
- DwidhaDeep Cut85points
- East West LoveDeep Cut85points
- Eda RaaDeep Cut85points
- Effi o BlaenauDeep Cut85points
- Efunroye: The UnicornDeep Cut85points
- EgybestDeep Cut85points
- Eh Din Roz Ni AuneDeep Cut85points
- Ehrenamt - The Metal StoryDeep Cut85points
- Eine Krankheit wie ein GedichtDeep Cut85points
- Ek DinDeep Cut85points
- Ek Hota MalinDeep Cut85points
- Ekhane Rajnoitik Alaap JoruriDeep Cut85points
- El GawahergyDeep Cut85points
- El Kalam Ala Eh (Awel Leila)Deep Cut85points
- El MalDeep Cut85points
- El Set LammaDeep Cut85points
- Election DayDeep Cut85points
- Eleko: Oba EsugbayiDeep Cut85points
- Elena del ghettoDeep Cut85points
- Elephants in the FogDeep Cut85points
- Emperor vs Sarat ChandraDeep Cut85points
- En nasjon i sjakkDeep Cut85points
- Ensemble Modern - Why We PlayDeep Cut85points
- EraDeep Cut85points
- ErupcjaDeep Cut85points
- Escape Room 2Deep Cut85points
- Everybody Digs Bill EvansDeep Cut85points
- Everybody to Kenmure StreetDeep Cut85points
- Everyone’s Sorry NowadaysDeep Cut85points
- Everything As It Should BeDeep Cut85points
- Everything Is New AgainDeep Cut85points
- EverytimeDeep Cut85points
- EviDeep Cut85points
- Extra GeographyDeep Cut85points
- ExtraordinaryDeep Cut85points
- EzmaDeep Cut85points
- Faces of DeathDeep Cut85points
- Family BusinessDeep Cut85points
- Family Sunday LunchDeep Cut85points
- FatherlandDeep Cut85points
- Feels Like HomeDeep Cut85points
- FilipiñanaDeep Cut85points
- Finale: allegroDeep Cut85points
- Finch & MidlandDeep Cut85points
- Finding ConnectionDeep Cut85points
- Finding EmilyDeep Cut85points
- First LadyDeep Cut85points
- First LightDeep Cut85points
- FjordDeep Cut85points
- FlaviaDeep 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.