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.

23 films tagged chases

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  • 2015 · Action

    A driver hauling a stolen war rig runs for the desert with five women escaping a warlord, and picks up a drifter on the way. Nearly the whole film is one chase, out across a stretch of desert and back again.

    • Strongly fast
    • Strongly plot-driven
    • Strongly heavy
    • Clearly epic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Mad Max: Fury Road

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2006 · Action

    A young man from a forest village is taken captive in a raid and marched to a Mayan city, and then he runs. Most of the film is a chase through the jungle, very violent, in Mayan with subtitles.

    • Strongly heavy
    • Strongly plot-driven
    • Clearly fast
    • Clearly simple

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Apocalypto

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2017 · Action

    An MI6 agent is sent into Berlin days before the Wall comes down to recover a stolen list of undercover officers. Neon, eighties pop, and long bruising fights shot to look like one take.

    Sits near the middle on every axis.

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Atomic Blonde

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2017 · Action

    A getaway driver who keeps music playing at all times to drown out the ringing in his ears is working off a debt to the man who hires him. Every chase and shootout is cut to whatever song he has on.

    • Strongly fast

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Baby Driver

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2006 · Action

    A newly promoted British agent is sent to out-play a banker to terrorists at a very expensive poker table in Montenegro. The card game runs long, and the chases around it are done with real bodies and real buildings.

    Sits near the middle on every axis.

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Casino Royale

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2006 · Science fiction

    Nobody has been born anywhere on earth for eighteen years, and Britain has become a locked-down state rounding up refugees. A tired civil servant is asked to get one woman to the coast.

    • Strongly heavy

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Children of Men

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 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

    Describe: Collateral

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2011 · Crime

    A Hollywood stunt driver takes getaway jobs at night and keeps himself to himself, until his neighbour's husband comes home from prison. Long quiet stretches, then sudden and very hard violence.

    • Clearly heavy

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Drive

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2024 · Action

    A girl is stolen from a green, hidden place and grows up among the warlords of the wasteland, working her way back toward home. Told in chapters over many years, with long stretches of vehicles chasing each other.

    • Strongly epic
    • Clearly heavy

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Haywire

    Little-known

    2011 · Action

    A contractor who does the jobs governments will not admit to is set up on an assignment in Dublin and starts working back through the people who hired her. The fights are long, quiet and have no music.

    • Clearly plot-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Haywire

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2016 · Comedy

    A city kid placed with a foster family in the New Zealand bush ends up out in the wild with his grumpy uncle while the whole country hunts for them. Jokes every minute, and a lot of scenery.

    • Clearly simple

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Hunt for the Wilderpeople

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2023 · Action

    John Wick goes looking for a way out from under the crime syndicate that has put a price on his head, which means Osaka, Berlin and Paris. Nearly three hours long, and most of it is fighting.

    • Strongly plot-driven
    • Clearly fast
    • Clearly epic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: John Wick: Chapter 4

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Minority Report

    Little-known

    2002 · Science fiction

    In a Washington where murders are stopped before they happen, the cop who runs the unit is named by the system as a future killer and has to run from his own team. It is a chase with a mystery underneath it.

    • Clearly plot-driven
    • Clearly fantastic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Minority Report

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2018 · Action

    A spy team chases stolen plutonium across Paris, London and the mountains of Kashmir, with a rival agency shadowing every move. The plot is there to get you from one stunt to the next, and the stunts are the real thing.

    • Strongly fast
    • Strongly plot-driven
    • Clearly epic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Mission: Impossible – Fallout

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2025 · Thriller

    Sixteen years after his group of revolutionaries fell apart, a paranoid burnout has to move fast when his teenage daughter goes missing and an army colonel comes looking. Long, loud and often very funny.

    Sits near the middle on every axis.

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: One Battle After Another

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 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

    Describe: Predestination

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2012 · Action

    A stolen list of undercover agents sends James Bond after a man with a grudge against the woman who runs MI6. Big set pieces in Istanbul, Shanghai and Scotland, with the gadgets kept light.

    Sits near the middle on every axis.

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Skyfall

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2011 · Science fiction

    A soldier wakes in a stranger's body on a commuter train with eight minutes to find the bomber, and when the train blows up he starts again. The same carriage over and over, a little more known each time.

    • Clearly fast
    • Clearly plot-driven
    • Clearly fantastic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Source Code

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2023 · Animation

    A teenage Spider-Man from Brooklyn is pulled into a society of hundreds of Spider-people from other worlds, who have rules about how these stories are supposed to go. Loud, fast, packed with detail, and it stops mid-story.

    • Strongly fantastic
    • Strongly fast
    • Clearly epic
    • Clearly complicated

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2020 · Science fiction

    An agent is recruited into an operation involving objects and people moving backwards through time, and told not to try to understand it. Loud and fast, and it explains itself while running.

    • Strongly complicated
    • Strongly plot-driven
    • Clearly fast
    • Clearly epic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Tenet

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2002 · Action

    A man is fished out of the Mediterranean with two bullets in his back, no memory, and a bank account number under his skin. He finds out what he can do at the same time you do, and it keeps moving.

    Sits near the middle on every axis.

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Bourne Identity

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 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

    Describe: The Town

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2019 · Horror

    A family on holiday at their beach house find four people standing in the driveway at night who look exactly like them. It runs on chases and a house under siege, with jokes throughout and plenty to argue about after.

    • Clearly heavy

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Us

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.