Pick between movies you know to tell us your mood, then we'll check how deep your watchlist goes in that zone — and find something great you haven't seen yet.
This tool uses a Bayesian adaptive search across six taste dimensions derived from Rentfrow et al.'s entertainment preference research (2011). The original study identified five stable factors that predict what people enjoy — we adapted these for film and added a sixth. Our axes are: Communal (warm ensemble vs. detached loner), Aesthetic (visually ambitious vs. conventional), Dark (intense and heavy vs. light and playful), Thrilling (high-energy kinetic vs. meditative slow-burn), Cerebral (the-pleasure-is-the-thinking vs. straightforward narrative), and Accessible (easy mainstream entry vs. foreign/slow/niche). Each movie pair you choose between updates all six axes simultaneously — like a GRE that narrows in on what you want right now in about five questions.
Once we know your taste zone, we run a second search to find your knowledge frontier — the point where familiar movies become ones you haven't heard of. Then we recommend from just past that line: things that match your mood, that you haven't seen, sorted by how good they are. No account needed, no tracking, everything runs in your browser.