Welcome
You already know what you’re looking for.
You just don’t have a word for it. That specific thing a film does to you — the exact shade of the mood — genre and star ratings were never built to find that. So we built something that could.
Cinnamon DB doesn’t ask what a film is. It asks what it does to you, and goes looking for that feeling wherever it’s hiding, genre be damned. Everywhere else, the answer comes back sorted the way a filing cabinet sorts: by decade, by label, by what other people happened to click next. Useful for finding something you already know the name of. Useless for the actual moment — the one where you’re standing in front of everything ever made, knowing precisely how you want the next two hours to feel, with no way to ask for it.
That’s the moment this was built for. Not a smarter shelf. A way to ask the question you were already asking.
The algorithm
Every film and every show gets its own fingerprint, built from twenty distinct emotions instead of a single genre label. That’s what makes the picks here actually feel right. It also means a recommendation can land somewhere a genre-based system would never have looked — a different era, a different country, a different shelf entirely — and still be exactly the thing you were after. And because everything in the catalogue is read the same way, a small film nobody’s heard of gets weighed on the same terms as one everybody has.
Film and television
Two full catalogues, and they are deliberately not pooled. A series is scored against other series and a film against other films, each with its own baseline, because the same twenty dimensions sit at different averages in the two forms — measure a six-season drama against a distribution built from feature films and you quietly flatten one into the other. So recommendations stay inside their own catalogue. What crosses over is everything else: your lists, your notes, and the question of what you can actually watch tonight.
Two ways in
Some evenings you want to be asked, and some you want the controls. Answer three questions — a genre, the mood closest to what you’re after, an optional flavour on top — and get a list. Or shape it yourself: eight sliders for what the genre you picked is really made of, with the results reordering as you drag them. Same catalogue underneath; two different ways of pointing at it.
Navigation
Almost everything doubles as a way to find your next watch: studios, actors, genres, keywords, and mood clusters all lead somewhere new. Clusters are the good part — they group titles by what they actually feel like rather than the label they were sold under, so wandering into one is closer to browsing a shelf someone thoughtful put together than filtering a spreadsheet. Nothing here is a dead end; every page opens into three more.
Where to watch
Every title tells you where it streams in your country, worked out from your browser rather than asked for. On your own lists it goes a step further: it counts what a subscription would really cover and names the single one that covers the most of what you’ve saved — then marks the titles it covers, so the claim is something you can check rather than a number you have to take on trust. Rentals and ad-supported tiers are left out of that count on purpose; paying per film is not an argument for a subscription, and the ad tier of one you already have is not a second service.
Profile
Collect likes, build watchlists, or start your own lists, then get recommendations built around exactly those. Not one title at a time — the whole shape of what you’ve saved, read together, so the suggestions get sharper the more you put in. Lists are yours to cut however you like: a mood, a season, a marathon, a running note of everything you keep meaning to get to. You can leave yourself a private note on anything you save, and hand any list to somebody as a secret link — switch that link off and the next one is new, so off really is off.
Search
Best in class, from a specific title or actor all the way to a feeling, a theme, or a single keyword. Come in knowing exactly what you want and you’ll land on it immediately. Come in with nothing but a vague sense of the evening ahead of you, and the questions or the sliders will walk you the rest of the way there.
Title pages
Every film and show comes with its own mood breakdown, cast, genre, keyword and cluster tags, where you can watch it, and five different kinds of recommendation built just for it — the closest thing there is, the same feeling from another angle, the same territory pushed darker or gentler, and something excellent almost nobody’s found yet. Five real answers, because “find me something like this” was never really one question.
Enjoy!
Film and television data, posters, and cast information are provided by The Movie Database (TMDB). This product uses TMDB and the TMDB APIs but is not endorsed, certified, or otherwise approved by TMDB. Streaming availability is provided by JustWatch, via TMDB.