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Poll Suggestion: The Criterion Collection — IMDb Rating 8/10 or Higher

The Criterion Collection is an American home video distribution company that focuses on licensing "important classic and contemporary films".

Criterion serves film and media scholars, cinephiles, as well as public and academic libraries.

Criterion has helped to standardize characteristics of home video such as film restoration, using the Letterboxing format for widescreen films, and adding bonus features as well as scholarly essays and commentary tracks.

Which is your favorite The Criterion Collection title?

[IMDb rating 8/10 or higher]

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls505553973/

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I love the Criterion Collection and this is a great idea for a poll with a good intro. The list is also an excellent list of excellent films (the results would be really interesting). My guess, though, is that the list is far from complete.

I found the films below** that fit your inclusion guidelines but the collection has so many movies that I'd think that it'd be very difficult to get a complete list using almost any guidelines. I don't think that a complete list is necessary, though, as long as that's clear in the intro. Perhaps including something like, "The below is just a sampling of the great films that the collection offers. Which of these is your favorite The Criterion Collection title?" would work. 

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FYC**

Secrets & Lies (1996)

Memories of Murder (2003)

8 1/2 (1963)

The 400 blows (1959)

Diabolique (1955)

The Wages of Fear (1953)

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thank you, the text has been edited.

Indeed, this situation (too many options) is a good example of a possible Part 2... (split the list of candidates)

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@mariojacobs The amazing thing, too, is that there are so many good options. You did a really good job of choosing ones that people will know, though. Btw, I love the intro. It's concise but still gives a lot of good information about Criterion. 

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Thank you, I try to give the maximum amount of information with the minimum amount of text.