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
- FliesDeep Cut85points
- FloodlandDeep Cut85points
- FlussDeep Cut85points
- Föhr - 5 Meter über NullDeep Cut85points
- For a WhileDeep Cut85points
- Forbidden FruitsDeep Cut85points
- Forever Is NowDeep Cut85points
- ForgeDeep Cut85points
- ForsakenDeep Cut85points
- Four Minus ThreeDeep Cut85points
- Four Seasons in JavaDeep Cut85points
- Frank & LouisDeep Cut85points
- Friends IndeedDeep Cut85points
- FuzeDeep Cut85points
- G.D.N.Deep Cut85points
- Gaayapadda SimhamDeep Cut85points
- Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex PassDeep Cut85points
- Gajanana CricketersDeep Cut85points
- Gale: Yellow Brick RoadDeep Cut85points
- Game StartDeep Cut85points
- Ganda BhairavDeep Cut85points
- Gandhi TalksDeep Cut85points
- Garuda: Dare to DreamDeep Cut85points
- Gatta Kusthi 2Deep Cut85points
- GauthaliDeep Cut85points
- Gawaza Wala GanazaDeep Cut85points
- Gentle MonsterDeep Cut85points
- Get Set GoDeep Cut85points
- GhabadkundDeep Cut85points
- Ghost in the CellDeep Cut85points
- GiantDeep Cut85points
- GilanDeep Cut85points
- Ginny Wedss Sunny 2Deep Cut85points
- Gintama: Yoshiwara in FlamesDeep Cut85points
- Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 5Deep Cut85points
- Go for Broke 2Deep Cut85points
- God Forgives EveryoneDeep Cut85points
- GohanDeep Cut85points
- Going for TwoDeep Cut85points
- Golden Kamuy: Assault on Abashiri PrisonDeep Cut85points
- Good Vibes OnlyDeep Cut85points
- Gorky ResortDeep Cut85points
- GourouDeep Cut85points
- GrandmastersDeep Cut85points
- GrannfejdenDeep Cut85points
- Green FamilyDeep Cut85points
- Greta e le favole vereDeep Cut85points
- Grizzly NightDeep Cut85points
- GuestDeep Cut85points
- GuggiDeep 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.