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Every film in Sightlines comes with its influences, the films it shaped, its nearest neighbors, and its viewing threads. Ask for one of these and we group the results by it.

• 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.