Recorded answers
2,059 recorded answers
How to approach it
Treat this as a breadth exercise rather than a test of memory. Build a long candidate list by walking through decades and regions in turn — silent era, mid-century art cinema, national new waves, contemporary documentary, animation, concert recordings — and jot down one or two titles at each stop. Then verify each one individually: open the title page, read the rating, and check the vote total against the threshold before writing it down. Rank the survivors by how unlikely they are to appear on anyone else's list. A celebrated title that a hundred other players will also submit is worth very little; a genuinely well-regarded but seldom-mentioned one is worth a lot. Submit the strangest entry that still clears both bars.
Get a hint
Begin with the widest possible spread rather than one favourite era: festival winners, national cinemas, animation studios, documentary makers and live concert releases all sit somewhere in the qualifying band.
A little more
Once the obvious canon runs dry, turn to the margins — long-form documentaries, animation from small studios, older one-off specials and regional dramas — where far fewer players think to look.
One step further
Before committing, open the title's own page and read two numbers side by side: the rating and the vote total. A dazzling mark resting on a few hundred votes fails, while a solid mid-eight carried by several thousand passes comfortably.
Reveal answers 2,059
- The Making of 'Thriller'Deep Cut85points
- The Man Who Shot Liberty ValanceDeep Cut85points
- The Marathon FamilyDeep Cut85points
- The Meeting PointDeep Cut85points
- The MessageDeep Cut85points
- The Message (1976)Deep Cut85points
- The MiddlemanDeep Cut85points
- The Mighty Boosh LiveDeep Cut85points
- The Miracle WorkerDeep Cut85points
- The Miscellaneous Brigade on the WatchDeep Cut85points
- The Missiles of OctoberDeep Cut85points
- The Mole: Undercover in North KoreaDeep Cut85points
- The Moromete FamilyDeep Cut85points
- The Mountain IIDeep Cut85points
- The Naked IslandDeep Cut85points
- The New ClassmateDeep Cut85points
- The New LandDeep Cut85points
- The New Year That Never CameDeep Cut85points
- The Nightingale's PrayerDeep Cut85points
- The OrganizerDeep Cut85points
- The Other Dream TeamDeep Cut85points
- The Other Side of EverythingDeep Cut85points
- The Ox-Bow IncidentDeep Cut85points
- The Passion of Joan of ArcDeep Cut85points
- The Pee-Wee Herman ShowDeep Cut85points
- The Perfect CircleDeep Cut85points
- The Phantom CarriageDeep Cut85points
- The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert HallDeep Cut85points
- The Pinchcliffe Grand PrixDeep Cut85points
- The Policeman of the 16th PrecinctDeep Cut85points
- The Professional (2003)Deep Cut85points
- The Red BagDeep Cut85points
- The Red LanternsDeep Cut85points
- The Red ShoesDeep Cut85points
- The ReincarnateDeep Cut85points
- The Remarkable Life of IbelinDeep Cut85points
- The RescueDeep Cut85points
- The Rest is SilenceDeep Cut85points
- The Revolution Will Not Be TelevisedDeep Cut85points
- The Rise & Fall of ECWDeep Cut85points
- The Russian FiveDeep Cut85points
- The Salt of the EarthDeep Cut85points
- The School of MischiefDeep Cut85points
- The SeasonDeep Cut85points
- The Secret in Their EyesDeep Cut85points
- The Secrets of RadhaDeep Cut85points
- The Seventh SealDeep Cut85points
- The Shame (1982)Deep Cut85points
- The ShiftDeep Cut85points
- The Shop Around the CornerDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The reveal has an unmistakable shape: nearly the whole slate sits at 85 points, with one entry at 100 and a shorter tail at 60. That tells you the qualifying set is enormous — thousands of titles clear both bars — so crowding, not obscurity, decides your score. The 60-point band caught the household names, the first titles anybody reaches for. The 85-point mass was made of films that exist, rate highly and are still hardly ever volunteered: regional dramas, old festive specials, long documentaries, concert films. A lone entry took the 100, which is what a genuinely singular submission looks like, and the rest of the top band reads like a tour of the world's neglected corners — A Separation, 42 Up, 8½ and 20 Days in Mariupol all landed at 85 beside far more obscure picks. Fame alone did not guarantee a weak score, but being well liked mattered far less than being half forgotten.