What are you in the mood for?
Say the night you’re having. We answer with films that fit it, and why each one does.
Sightlines · ask & recommendations
Ask for a film
Four ways to ask for recommendations
Tap a question to ask it, or write your own above. Every answer comes with the reason for each film. More tips on searching and exploring →
Films like ones you know
Name a film you loved. We answer with its kin, what influenced it, or the less obvious next picks.
Films that go together
Two films with “vs” or “alongside”, or two films and the craft you love in them. We answer with what sits between them, and what to watch in their company.
Horror: Sliced & Diced
Say how scared you want to be and who is watching. We answer from the classics, the cult shelf, the Japanese and Korean waves, and this year’s films, and say why each one fits.
Explore for more
Classics you should know, films that went under the radar, a kind of cinematography, a place and a decade.
Tips
- Add “and use my taste”to any question and the grid keeps to the films in your taste reading. Works once you have a taste reading on this device.
- “What influenced X” or “what led up to X”answers with the film’s lineage.
- “Films a lot like X”answers with its kindred films, the ones that share its sensibility.
- “Like X but not the obvious picks”answers sideways: the interesting next film, not the expected one.
- “What would you watch alongside X”answers with the viewing thread it belongs to.
- “Between X and Y” or “the same tension as X or Y”compares two films and shows what sits between them.
- “Not by” a directorleaves that director out of the answer.
- Say more under the answerto narrow it: “less horror, more of the 90s”. Each refinement is a link you can share.