MovieAxes

Six sliders. No stars.

No film here is good or bad. It is only like something.

Nothing on this site is recommended because people liked it. Films are described by what they are (how heavy, how fast, how far from the real world), and you get the ones closest to what you asked for.

Brokeback MountainAvengers: Infinity War
  • LightHeavy
    Brokeback Mountain is Clearly heavy; Avengers: Infinity War is Slightly heavy.
  • SimpleComplicated
    Brokeback Mountain is Slightly simple; Avengers: Infinity War is Clearly complicated.
  • SlowFast
    Brokeback Mountain is Clearly slow; Avengers: Infinity War is Clearly fast.
  • RealisticFantastic
    Brokeback Mountain is Strongly realistic; Avengers: Infinity War is Strongly fantastic.
  • IntimateEpic
    Brokeback Mountain is Slightly intimate; Avengers: Infinity War is Strongly epic.
  • PlotCharacter
    Brokeback Mountain is Strongly character-driven; Avengers: Infinity War is Strongly plot-driven.

Neither of these is the better film. They are just at opposite ends.

32 films tagged animals

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  • 2017 · Family

    A small bear with very good manners takes odd jobs around London to buy his aunt a birthday present, then loses it to a thief nobody believes exists. He keeps his temper and his marmalade habit throughout.

    • Strongly light
    • Clearly simple

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Paddington 2

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2007 · Animation

    A rat with an exceptional nose and a taste for cooking ends up steering a hopeless kitchen boy around a famous Paris restaurant. Nobody can be allowed to know.

    • Clearly light

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Ratatouille

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2014 · Action

    A retired hitman is pulled back in after some young men break into his house and take the one thing he had left. It runs on a strict underworld etiquette that the film never stops to justify.

    • Strongly plot-driven
    • Strongly fast
    • Clearly heavy

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: John Wick

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Paterson

    Little-known

    2016 · Drama

    A bus driver in Paterson, New Jersey writes poems in a notebook, walks his dog, and has one beer in the same bar each night. The film is a week of that, with small variations.

    • Strongly slow
    • Strongly intimate
    • Strongly realistic
    • Strongly character-driven
    • Strongly light

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Paterson

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 1993 · Adventure

    A billionaire invites two palaeontologists to inspect his island park before it opens, where the attractions are live dinosaurs. The power goes out during the tour.

    • Clearly plot-driven
    • Clearly fantastic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Jurassic Park

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2004 · Comedy

    The most confident newsreader in 1970s San Diego finds a woman hired onto his all-male team and going for his chair. Built from jokes rather than plot, and it stops for any gag it likes.

    • Strongly simple
    • Clearly light

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2022 · Science fiction

    Jake Sully's family leaves the forest and asks the reef clans for shelter, learning to live on and under the water. It runs well over three hours and is built to be looked at.

    • Strongly epic
    • Strongly fantastic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Avatar: The Way of Water

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2000 · Animation

    The hens on a Yorkshire chicken farm keep trying to get over the fence, and then a rooster who says he can fly drops in. Stop-motion, quick, and built exactly like a prison break film.

    • Strongly light
    • Clearly simple

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Chicken Run

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • EO

    Little-known

    2022 · Drama

    A grey donkey is taken from the circus where he worked and passes from one owner to the next across Poland and Italy. There is barely any dialogue and no plot to speak of; you watch what happens to him.

    • Clearly heavy
    • Clearly slow

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: EO

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2009 · Animation

    A fox who promised his wife he would stop stealing chickens takes one more run at the three meanest farmers in the valley, who come after his whole neighbourhood. Stop-motion, dry jokes, everyone talking fast.

    • Clearly light
    • Clearly fantastic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Fantastic Mr. Fox

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2003 · Animation

    A clownfish whose son is scooped up by a diver swims the length of the ocean to get him back, with a fish who forgets everything for company. Bright and quick, and funny most of the way.

    • Clearly fantastic
    • Clearly simple

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Finding Nemo

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2024 · Animation

    A cat wakes to a rising flood and ends up sharing a boat with a dog, a lemur, a bird and a capybara. There is no dialogue at all, just animals, water and sound.

    Sits near the middle on every axis.

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Flow

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2017 · Romance

    A young man running his family's sheep farm in Yorkshire drinks himself stupid every night until a Romanian worker arrives for lambing season. Quiet, muddy, and very short on dialogue.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Strongly intimate
    • Strongly character-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: God's Own Country

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2010 · Animation

    A Viking teenager who is no good at killing dragons brings one down, finds it hurt, and starts working out what dragons actually want. Flying scenes, and a father who is hard to talk to.

    • Strongly fantastic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: How to Train Your Dragon

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2013 · Drama

    A folk singer in 1961 Greenwich Village sleeps on other people's sofas, plays a set most nights, and cannot get a record to sell. A week of his life, mostly cold streets and a cat he cannot shake off.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Strongly character-driven
    • Clearly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Inside Llewyn Davis

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2018 · Animation

    A Japanese city banishes every dog to a rubbish island, and a boy flies out there alone to find his. The dogs talk in flat deadpan, and the whole thing is stop-motion built like a doll's house.

    Sits near the middle on every axis.

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Isle of Dogs

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2008 · Animation

    A noodle shop panda who knows every kung fu legend by heart is picked, by accident, to train with masters who did not ask for him. Bright and quick, with fights built like slapstick.

    • Clearly simple
    • Clearly light

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Kung Fu Panda

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2012 · Adventure

    A boy from a zoo-owning family in India ends up adrift in a lifeboat in the Pacific with a Bengal tiger, telling the story years later to a writer. Long stretches of just the boat, the boy and the animal.

    Sits near the middle on every axis.

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Life of Pi

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2022 · Horror

    A brother and sister running their late father's horse ranch notice something in the sky above the valley and decide that filming it is the way out of their money troubles. Wide open country, long quiet stretches, then bursts of chaos.

    Sits near the middle on every axis.

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Nope

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2017 · Adventure

    A girl in the Korean mountains has raised a hippo-sized pig for ten years, and the company that made the animal wants it back in New York. It swings between sweet and rough, sometimes in the same scene.

    Sits near the middle on every axis.

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Okja

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2014 · Family

    A talking bear from Peru arrives at a London station with a suitcase and a label asking someone to look after him, and one family takes him in for a night. It is warm and fast, built for children with jokes aimed over their heads.

    • Strongly light
    • Clearly simple

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Paddington

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Pig

    Little-known

    2021 · Drama

    A man who lives alone in the Oregon woods with his truffle pig goes back into Portland when somebody takes her. Quiet and slow, and much of it is people talking about food.

    • Strongly character-driven
    • Strongly intimate
    • Clearly slow
    • Clearly heavy
    • Clearly realistic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Pig

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2022 · Animation

    Puss in Boots learns he is down to his last life and sets off after a wishing star, with several other parties chasing the same map. Bright, fast and funny, with fights that stop and hold still.

    • Strongly fantastic
    • Clearly fast

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Robot Dreams

    Little-known

    2023 · Animation

    A lonely dog in 1980s New York orders a robot for company, and the two of them spend a summer together. Nobody speaks a single word in the whole film.

    • Clearly simple
    • Clearly intimate
    • Clearly character-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Robot Dreams

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2022 · Animation

    A teenage girl in a seaside town finds a door standing on its own in some ruins, and ends up crossing Japan closing others like it. Big weather, big feelings, and a talking three-legged chair.

    • Strongly fantastic
    • Clearly epic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Suzume

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2022 · Comedy

    On a small Irish island in 1923, a man is told by his only friend, with no warning and no reason given, that they are not friends any more. Two men, a pub and a lot of talking, and it gets darker as it goes.

    • Strongly character-driven
    • Strongly intimate
    • Clearly realistic
    • Clearly heavy
    • Clearly slow

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Banshees of Inisherin

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • The Rider

    Little-known

    2018 · Drama

    A young rodeo rider on the South Dakota plains is told he cannot ride again after a head injury, and has to work out what else he is for. Played by the real people involved, quiet and slow.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Strongly character-driven
    • Strongly slow
    • Clearly intimate
    • Clearly heavy

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Rider

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2024 · Animation

    A shipping robot washes up on an island with no people on it and ends up raising an orphaned gosling, with a fox helping. Lovely to look at, made for kids, and it does not pretend nature is gentle.

    • Clearly fantastic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Wild Robot

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2009 · Animation

    A widowed balloon seller ties thousands of balloons to his house and floats it towards South America, with an eight-year-old scout on the porch by accident. Bright and funny, with one very sad stretch early on.

    • Strongly fantastic
    • Clearly simple

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Up

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2005 · Animation

    A cheese-loving inventor and his silent dog run a humane pest control business in an English village getting ready for its giant vegetable show, and something is eating the crops at night. Clay animation, stuffed with puns and jokes hidden in the background.

    • Strongly light
    • Clearly fantastic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Wolfwalkers

    Little-known

    2020 · Animation

    In 1650s Ireland, the daughter of an English wolf hunter sneaks out to the forest and meets a girl who runs with the pack at night. Hand-drawn, and the woods look nothing like the town.

    • Strongly fantastic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Wolfwalkers

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2016 · Animation

    A rabbit becomes the first of her kind on the police force in a city run by animals, and gets forty-eight hours to crack a missing-mammal case with a con-artist fox as her only lead. Bright, quick, and built like a detective story.

    • Clearly fantastic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Zootopia

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.