Browse by mood

Genre tells you what a film is about. It does not tell you what it feels like, which is usually the thing you actually want to know. Every title here carries twenty emotional readings, and these are the pages those readings sort it into.

Films

Sad movies
Films that sit with grief rather than rushing you past it. Ranked by how deep the melancholy runs, not by how famous they are.
Feel-good movies
Warm, hopeful and playful at once -- all three, not two out of three. The combination is rarer than it sounds.
Funny movies
The most playful films in the catalogue, whatever their genre says.
Scary movies
High tension and real darkness, ranked by dread rather than by body count.
Tense movies
Films that will not let you settle. The top of the tension axis, across every genre.
Romantic movies
Films where the love story is the film, not a subplot.
Mind-bending movies
Films that need you awake: cerebral, strange and deliberately unresolved.
Beautiful movies
The best-looking films in the catalogue. Beauty is also the single strongest predictor of whether audiences love a film.
Dark movies
Films with no comfort in them. The far end of the darkness axis.
Uplifting movies
Films that leave you better than they found you. The serious kind of uplift, not the cheerful kind.
Weird movies
Films that do not behave. The top of the strangeness axis.
Tender movies
Quiet, close and kind. Films that stay near their people.
Thoughtful movies
Slow, serious and worth the attention. High on thinking, low on noise.

Television