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.

12 films tagged art

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  • 2019 · Romance

    A painter is sent to a remote island to paint a reluctant bride's wedding portrait without her sitting for it, so she has to watch her closely and work from memory. Almost no men appear.

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

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Portrait of a Lady on Fire

    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.

  • 2013 · Romance

    A French teenager drifting through school meets an older art student with blue hair, and her whole life reorganises around her. It runs three hours and stays very close to her face.

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

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Blue Is the Warmest Colour

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2018 · Drama

    The rise of Queen from a pub band to Live Aid, following Freddie Mercury from his first audition to the stadiums. Built around the songs, with the concerts staged at full length.

    • Clearly realistic
    • Clearly simple

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Bohemian Rhapsody

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2019 · Drama

    Four sisters grow up in Massachusetts during and after the Civil War, one of them trying to make a living writing. It cuts back and forth between their childhood and seven years on, so you have to keep track of where you are.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Strongly character-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Little Women

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2016 · Thriller

    A Los Angeles gallery owner is sent the manuscript of a novel by her ex-husband, and the film cuts between her reading it and the story on the page. Two stories at once, and the one in the book is nasty.

    • Strongly heavy

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Nocturnal Animals

    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 celebrated London dressmaker in the 1950s runs his house to a strict routine, then brings home a waitress from the coast and fits her into it. Quiet, mannered, and largely inside one townhouse.

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

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Phantom Thread

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2024 · Drama

    A Hungarian architect who survived the war arrives in Pennsylvania with nothing, and a rich man hires him to build something enormous on a hill. Three and a half hours, with an interval in the middle.

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

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Brutalist

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2021 · Comedy

    The staff of an American magazine based in a French town put together one last issue, and three of its articles play out as separate stories. Dozens of actors, packed frames, and it never sits still.

    • Strongly complicated

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The French Dispatch

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2024 · Drama

    Three chapters, told back to front, about an ordinary accountant named Chuck: the first opens with billboards thanking him for 39 great years while the world falls apart. Each part is a completely different mood.

    • Clearly character-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Life of Chuck

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2019 · Comedy

    A young man tells the story of his own life, from a bottle factory in London to a boat house on the coast and a run of people he cannot get out of his head. It jumps between times and places quickly, with a huge cast and a lot of jokes.

    • Clearly character-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Personal History of David Copperfield

    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 boy in a walled Irish monastery is meant to be helping build the wall against Viking raids, and instead helps a visiting monk work on an illuminated book. Short, flat and patterned like the drawings in the book itself.

    • Clearly fantastic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Secret of Kells

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.