Poll Suggestion: Best Movies With A Lower Count of Ratings (Part1/Part2)

And you are missing some titles, as seen in TheMovieSmith's list:

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls540884706/

@Jessica​ 

Corrected.

@Jessica​ 

Thank you for mentioning the missing files. I will fix that, soon. Just watching a movie with Mrs. Breumaster and then will sleep.

@Jessica​ 

Thank you for reporting.

@Pencho15​ 

Thank you, but rule is rule. How strong should I bend it? 42? 100? 1000? 50000?

I think 100.000 still is a very high number which allows to put in movies, that are already known to

wide range of people. I formerly even thought about making the limitation more strict.

@Pencho15​ 

Sorry, just realized that the movie is on the list. I could doom Co vid for the memory loss. Sorry for that. I skipped The Grapes of Wraith from the list. Just remembered that I've put it on the list, hoping it wouldn't exceed the 100.000 votes. My short time memory is really bad after Cor ona.

@Pencho15​ 

Thank you for reporting.

@Pencho15​ 

Thank you, Pencho. I'll take them into consideration tomorrow. :D

@Pencho15​ I would agree those are all worthy of consideration. I feel strongly about these two, Festen and Night of the Hunter from Pencho's list.

I also will point out 'The Legend of 1900' as deserving to be listed. I was blown away by how good this movie is and that it took me twenty years to even here about it. I was shocked it didn't get an initial warm welcome in the USA, but everyone who sees it loves it, and it has a following.

@urbanemovies​ Also, a side comment. While, it wouldn't qualify, it is a crime that the Searchers (1956) has only an IMDb rating of 7.8. and 96,000 votes. I gave it a 10 and its critic's MetaScore is 94.

@Pencho15​ 

5 added. Thank you, Pencho. :)

It's a good idea! I'll split it up into two polls. I've changed the title and the intro, so far.

@urbanemovies​ 

I just saw that many good movies fall of the list, if I doo ... and are not presented on the other list. I'll redo that decision, but will do another part on your inspiration. Thank you.

Ready to go!

@Breumaster​ 

Originally, the poll would have had 674 unlisted options out 709 possibilities, when you can only list 35 answers. I don't think all of those unlisted movies either deserve to have more than 100,000 votes and 8.0+ IMDb rating or both. But, still that is far too many unlisted options, IMHO. I think you can raise the bar too in some way for inclusion.

For instance, I have personally seen 261 out of the 709 movies that were both 8.0+ IMDb-rated and had 99,999 or less votes. I rated 160 movies with an 8 or higher IMDb rating: 8 ratings by me (135 movies), 9 ratings by me (22 movies) and 10 ratings (3 movies). So, splitting the list and raising the bar seem to be logical steps to makes your answer pool and the pool of possibilities closer in size to each other.

@Breumaster​ , Your call.

I think a lot fell off the list because there so many possiblities. I don't think you are accounting for all the movies that belong, that were unlisted. You might not feel the same if you saw the ones that were not included. Granted, a lot of the unlisted films from the 709 movies are foreign (non-American) and/or from countries that either mass produce a lot of movies every year and/or were more generous with their ratings because of how the populace grade in general, so an apples vs oranges situation applies.

@urbanemovies​ 

I searched hard to not make it an indian-only-movie-list. Avove 8.5 there are mostly indian movies witch such low count.

@Breumaster​ I am not surprised. I agree with however you choose to handle it. India makes more movies than any other country, plus their moviegoer are far more generous in their IMDb ratings, IMHO.

@urbanemovies​ 

"... India makes more movies than any other country, ..."

... and has potetially more people to rate it high. So it becomes a matter of ... maybe ... cultural motivated votes.