2025 · Thriller
A US marshal charters a small plane to fly a mob accountant out of the Alaskan wilderness to testify. Almost all of it happens in the cockpit of that plane, with three people in it.
- Strongly intimate
AI estimate, not yet described
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- LightHeavyShrek is Strongly light; The Godfather Part II is Strongly heavy.
- SimpleComplicatedShrek is Strongly simple; The Godfather Part II is Clearly complicated.
- SlowFastShrek is Clearly fast; The Godfather Part II is Slightly slow.
- RealisticFantasticShrek is Strongly fantastic; The Godfather Part II is Strongly realistic.
- IntimateEpicShrek is Slightly intimate; The Godfather Part II is Clearly epic.
- PlotCharacterShrek is Slightly plot-driven; The Godfather Part II is Clearly character-driven.
Neither of these is the better film. They are just at opposite ends.
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Den of Thieves 2: Pantera
Little-known
2025 · Crime
A Los Angeles sheriff follows the thief who got away from him to Europe, and talks his way into the crew planning a diamond vault job in Nice. Long and loose, as much hanging around with the crew as it is the heist.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
AI estimate, not yet described
Dead of Winter
Little-known
2025 · Thriller
A woman drives into northern Minnesota in a snowstorm to scatter her husband's ashes, stops at a cabin for directions, and sees blood on the snow. From there it is her, the couple who live there, and the girl in their basement.
- Clearly realistic
- Clearly intimate
AI estimate, not yet described
2008 · Action
Batman, a new district attorney and a straight-arrow cop try to break organised crime in Gotham, and a criminal with no name and no plan starts pulling the city apart. Much of it is about what each of them will agree to do.
- Clearly heavy
- Clearly epic
AI estimate, not yet described
Ground Zero
Little-known
2025 · Thriller
A border force officer in Kashmir in the early 2000s works the intercepted radio traffic of a local killing squad, and follows it toward the man behind the attack on parliament. Slow patient work, then raids.
- Strongly realistic
AI estimate, not yet described
Crazxy
Little-known
2025 · Thriller
A surgeon facing a medical negligence charge gets a call telling him his daughter has been taken, and spends the film racing to get her back. There are only three people on screen in the whole thing.
- Strongly intimate
- Strongly realistic
- Clearly fast
AI estimate, not yet described
Day of Reckoning
Little-known
2025 · Action
A U.S. Marshal arrests a wanted outlaw at her farmhouse and leans on the local sheriff, still shaken by a hostage standoff six months back, for men to help hold her. Most of it is the waiting, and what she does to the deputies while they wait.
- Clearly realistic
AI estimate, not yet described
The Shadow's Edge
Little-known
2025 · Action
A crew led by a long-hidden fugitive empties a bank vault and then a Macau tower without leaving a trace, so the police pull a retired surveillance expert back in to find them. Heist first, chase after.
- Clearly plot-driven
- Clearly fast
AI estimate, not yet described
Locked
Little-known
2025 · Thriller
A broke ex-thief climbs into an unlocked luxury SUV to strip it and the doors shut on him: the owner has rebuilt the car as a trap and is watching him through its cameras. Almost all of it happens inside the car.
- Strongly intimate
AI estimate, not yet described
The Dutchman
Little-known
2025 · Thriller
A young Black man on the subway is drawn into conversation by a white stranger who seems to know things about him. It comes from Amiri Baraka's 1964 play, and it is largely the two of them talking.
- Clearly intimate
- Clearly heavy
AI estimate, not yet described
The Old Woman with the Knife
Little-known
2025 · Action
A contract killer in her sixties, still the best the agency has, is slowing down, and a younger assassin has become fixated on her. The film keeps going back to how she was trained as a girl.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
AI estimate, not yet described
2026 · Horror
Sidney Prescott has a husband, a coffeehouse and children in small-town Indiana until Ghostface calls again, this time going after her teenage daughter. Phone calls, chases and knife fights, as before.
- Clearly fast
- Clearly plot-driven
AI estimate, not yet described
2026 · Crime
A careful Los Angeles jewel thief plans his robberies to avoid violence, and a detective who thinks one man is behind them all cannot get anyone to listen. It cuts between the two of them.
- Clearly realistic
AI estimate, not yet described
2026 · Thriller
Months after her partner died on a climb, a woman drives alone into an Australian national park to scatter his ashes, and the local who helps her turns out to be hunting her. Mostly one long chase outdoors.
- Clearly fast
AI estimate, not yet described
2026 · Horror
Straight after surviving one rich family's deadly game, Grace and her estranged sister are taken to a house where four more families have until dawn to kill her. It is a chase through a big building, as funny as it is nasty.
- Clearly fast
- Clearly plot-driven
AI estimate, not yet described
Drishyam 3
Little-known
2026 · Crime
Five years on, Georgekutty has turned his own past into a hit film, and two journalists start digging into what actually happened. Meanwhile someone is wrecking every marriage proposal for his daughter.
- Strongly realistic
AI estimate, not yet described
2002 · Crime
A teenager passes himself off as an airline pilot, a doctor and a lawyer while cashing millions in forged cheques, with one FBI agent slowly closing in. Light and quick, and always moving to another city.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
AI estimate, not yet described
Humint
Little-known
2026 · Action
A South Korean agent tracking a crime ring in Vladivostok runs into a North Korean officer working the same case, and both want the same restaurant worker as their source. The two sides circle each other, with her caught in between.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
AI estimate, not yet described
2004 · Thriller
A Los Angeles cab driver picks up a smooth passenger who offers good money for a night of stops around the city, and the first stop goes badly. It is one night, mostly the two of them in the car.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
AI estimate, not yet described
Scare Out
Little-known
2026 · Thriller
A Chinese state security team loses most of the evidence in a botched intercept, then learns a foreign agency is recruiting a mole inside their own unit. Lots of names, lots of double-dealing.
- Clearly complicated
- Clearly plot-driven
AI estimate, not yet described
2016 · Horror
Three young burglars pick a house on an emptied-out Detroit street belonging to a blind veteran who is supposed to keep cash at home. Almost all of it is one dark house and very little talking.
- Clearly simple
- Clearly intimate
- Clearly plot-driven
- Clearly heavy
AI estimate, not yet described
2016 · Crime
Two brothers rob small branches of one particular Texas bank, with a Ranger weeks from retirement working out where they will hit next. Wide empty roads, dry jokes, and a lot of waiting.
- Strongly realistic
AI estimate, not yet described
2024 · Horror
Two young missionaries knock on the door of a polite man who says he is interested in their church, and he keeps them talking. Almost all of it is three people in one house, arguing about belief.
- Strongly intimate
- Strongly heavy
AI estimate, not yet described
Hush
Little-known
2016 · Horror
A deaf writer living alone in the woods sees a masked man at her window, and he works out that she cannot hear him. Almost no dialogue, one house, eighty minutes.
- Strongly intimate
- Strongly simple
- Clearly realistic
AI estimate, not yet described
2002 · Crime
A policeman has spent ten years undercover in a Hong Kong triad while one of the triad's men has spent the same ten years rising inside the police. Both sides find out there is a mole, and it moves fast.
- Clearly realistic
AI estimate, not yet described
2003 · Adventure
During the Napoleonic wars a British captain is ordered to chase a faster French warship around the tip of South America, with the ship's doctor as his closest friend. Life aboard one ship, in detail.
- Clearly realistic
AI estimate, not yet described
2003 · Thriller
A man is locked in one room for fifteen years without being told why, then let out with a few days to find whoever did it. Violent and strange, and it moves like something is chasing it.
- Strongly heavy
AI estimate, not yet described
2014 · Science fiction
A time-travelling agent working his last case sits down in a 1970s bar and listens to a stranger tell the story of their life. Small, talky, and it asks you to keep track.
- Strongly complicated
- Clearly fantastic
AI estimate, not yet described
2006 · Crime
A young cop goes undercover inside a Boston crime boss's crew while one of the boss's own men rises through the state police, and each side works out there is a rat. It is long, loud and full of swearing.
- Clearly heavy
- Clearly realistic
AI estimate, not yet described
2020 · Horror
A woman escapes a controlling partner and starts over at a friend's house, then begins to feel that someone else is in the room with her. Long held shots of empty corners, tense most of the way.
- Strongly heavy
AI estimate, not yet described
2010 · Crime
A Boston bank robber starts seeing the woman his crew took hostage on their last job, while the FBI closes in. Straight ahead, with big robberies at either end and a part of town nobody leaves.
- Clearly realistic
AI estimate, not yet described
2018 · Crime
A hard-drinking Los Angeles sheriff's unit works a crew planning to rob the Federal Reserve branch downtown. Long and grubby, built around two shootouts.
- Clearly realistic
AI estimate, not yet described
Elle
Little-known
2016 · Thriller
The head of a video game company is attacked in her own house and, instead of calling the police, sets about working out who it was. Cold, funny and hard to place.
- Strongly realistic
- Strongly character-driven
- Strongly heavy
AI estimate, not yet described
2010 · Thriller
An intelligence agent finds the man who killed his fiancee and, rather than turn him in, lets him go and catches him again. Extremely violent, and it goes well past where you expect.
- Strongly heavy
AI estimate, not yet described
2006 · Crime
A crew takes a Manhattan bank and everybody in it hostage, and the detective outside cannot work out what they actually want. Almost all of it is the branch and the street.
- Strongly realistic
AI estimate, not yet described
2002 · Thriller
A mother and daughter shut themselves in the reinforced room of a Manhattan brownstone on their first night, and the burglars need what is inside it. One house, one night.
- Strongly intimate
- Strongly realistic
AI estimate, not yet described
2009 · Crime
John Dillinger robs banks across the Midwest while a new federal bureau builds itself around catching him. Shot on video, and the gunfights are very loud.
- Strongly realistic
AI estimate, not yet described
1971 · Crime
Two New York narcotics detectives spend a winter tailing a French heroin shipment through Brooklyn. Cold, grubby, and it contains one famous car chase.
- Strongly realistic
- Clearly heavy
AI estimate, not yet described
1997 · Mystery
A cold San Francisco banker is given a birthday present by his brother: enrolment with a company that arranges something nobody will describe. Nothing stays stable.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
AI estimate, not yet described
1995 · Crime
A career thief planning one last big score and the detective chasing him circle each other across Los Angeles. It gives both men full lives outside the job, and the two sit down together only once.
- Clearly realistic
AI estimate, not yet described
2024 · Crime
An FBI agent in the Pacific Northwest in 1983 works a run of bank robberies back to a white supremacist cell. Cold, procedural and very tense.
- Strongly realistic
- Clearly heavy
AI estimate, not yet described
1991 · Thriller
A trainee FBI agent is sent to interview an imprisoned psychiatrist for help catching a killer who is still working. The interviews are the film.
- Strongly heavy
- Strongly realistic
AI estimate, not yet described