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.

34 films tagged class divide

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  • 2005 · Drama

    Over two days in Los Angeles a dozen strangers collide in traffic, at gunpoint and in each other's houses, and race is in every exchange. The stories run in parallel and keep crossing.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Clearly heavy

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Crash

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2019 · Thriller

    A family with no money talk their way one by one into jobs with a rich household on the other side of the city. The first half plays as a con, and they are good at it.

    • Strongly heavy
    • Clearly complicated

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Parasite

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2011 · Drama

    A Tehran wife wants to leave the country and her husband will not leave his father, and the woman they hire to mind him ends up taking them to court. Almost all of it is people arguing, and everyone has a point.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Clearly intimate
    • Clearly heavy

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: A Separation

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2024 · Comedy

    A Brooklyn sex worker meets the young son of a Russian oligarch, and a week of spending turns into a marriage his family has no plan to allow. Loud and fast, and the back half is mostly people arguing in cars and hallways.

    • Strongly realistic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Anora

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2007 · Romance

    On a hot day in 1935 at an English country house, a thirteen-year-old girl tells a lie about her older sister. It then follows the people that lie touched, across years and into the war.

    • Clearly realistic
    • Clearly heavy

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Atonement

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2019 · Mystery

    A wealthy crime novelist is found dead the morning after his birthday party, and a private detective with an odd accent turns up uninvited to work through a house full of relatives who all needed money. Everyone is lying about something small.

    Sits near the middle on every axis.

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Knives Out

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Blindspotting

    Little-known

    2018 · Drama

    A man in Oakland has three days left on probation and a best friend who cannot leave trouble alone, in a neighbourhood changing block by block. Funny and tense in the same scene, and it sometimes breaks into verse.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Clearly character-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Blindspotting

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Burning

    Little-known

    2018 · Thriller

    A young man getting by on delivery work runs into a girl from his old neighbourhood, and when she comes back from a trip abroad she has a rich, easy-going friend with her. Very slow, and it holds a lot back.

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

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Burning

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2018 · Comedy

    A New York economics professor flies to a wedding in Singapore with her boyfriend and finds out on the way that his family owns half the city. A romantic comedy with a very hostile mother-in-law at the centre.

    Sits near the middle on every axis.

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Crazy Rich Asians

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Emily the Criminal

    Little-known

    2022 · Crime

    A woman buried in student debt takes a cash job that turns out to be buying goods with stolen credit cards. It moves fast, stays right beside her, and keeps raising what she has to risk.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Clearly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Emily the Criminal

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2020 · Comedy

    A rich young woman in a Regency village amuses herself arranging matches for everyone around her, whether or not they want the help. Bright and mannered, and mostly about who is talking to whom.

    • Clearly light
    • Clearly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Emma

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2018 · Drama

    A Bronx bouncer takes a job driving a Black concert pianist through the American South in 1962, guided by a book listing where he is allowed to stop. Two men in a car, talking, for most of it.

    • Clearly realistic
    • Clearly character-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Green Book

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2017 · Comedy

    An American figure skater comes up poor and hard in a sport that wants her sweet, told through interviews with everyone who was there. Funny and mean, and the people telling it keep contradicting each other.

    • Clearly realistic
    • Clearly character-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: I, Tonya

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2019 · Drama

    A clown-for-hire in a filthy 1980s city looks after his mother, takes seven kinds of pills and wants to do stand-up. The camera never leaves him, and it turns grim very early.

    • Strongly heavy
    • Strongly character-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Joker

    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 London teenager with a police record is recruited into a very old and very well dressed secret spy service, while a tech billionaire hands out free SIM cards to the world. Loud, rude and full of fights.

    • Clearly fast

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Kingsman: The Secret Service

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2017 · Comedy

    A high school senior in Sacramento calls herself Lady Bird, wants to go to college on the other coast, and fights with her mother about all of it. Short scenes, one school year, funny and quick.

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

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Lady Bird

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2025 · Romance

    A New York matchmaker who treats dating as a numbers game ends up choosing between a rich client and the broke ex she never got over. Mostly conversation, about money as much as love.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Clearly character-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Materialists

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2005 · Romance

    Five sisters in a country house are expected to marry well, and the second eldest takes an instant dislike to a rich, silent visitor. Talk, dances and long walks across fields, over two hours.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Clearly character-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Pride & Prejudice

    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 bride marries into a very rich family and learns that tradition calls for a game on the wedding night, with everyone in the house playing. One house, one night, fast and bloody and funny.

    • Clearly simple
    • Clearly fast
    • Clearly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Ready or Not

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2018 · Drama

    A live-in housekeeper for a middle-class family in Mexico City goes about her days in 1970 while the household around her comes apart. Black and white, slow, with long shots that pan across a room and back.

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

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Roma

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2023 · Thriller

    An Oxford scholarship student is invited to spend the summer at the enormous country estate of his rich, easy-going classmate. Long lunches in the heat, and it gets uncomfortable early.

    • Clearly heavy

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Saltburn

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2013 · Science fiction

    The last people alive circle a frozen Earth on a train that never stops, and the ones at the back decide to fight their way to the front. Each carriage is its own set piece and it only goes one way.

    Sits near the middle on every axis.

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Snowpiercer

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2018 · Comedy

    A broke telemarketer in Oakland finds that putting on a white voice on the phone gets him promoted, and the promotion takes him somewhere odd. It starts as an office comedy and keeps getting stranger.

    • Clearly fantastic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Sorry to Bother You

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2023 · Comedy

    A disliked teacher at a New England boarding school is stuck minding the boy nobody collected for Christmas 1970, along with the cook who has just lost her son. Slow, snowy, and mostly the three of them.

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

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Holdovers

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2012 · Science fiction

    In a country where every district must send two teenagers to a televised fight to the death, a girl volunteers in her younger sister's place. The first half is preparation and television, the second is the arena.

    Sits near the middle on every axis.

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Hunger Games

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2011 · Comedy

    A rich Paris man paralysed from the neck down hires a young man from the estates who has no interest in the job and no bedside manner. Mostly the two of them winding each other up, and played for laughs.

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

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Intouchables

    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 couple pay a great deal of money for dinner at an island restaurant, where a famous chef serves a tasting menu he has planned very carefully. One building, one evening, course by course.

    • Clearly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Menu

    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.

  • 2019 · Horror

    In a tower prison where a table of food is lowered floor by floor, the people at the top eat first and the people below get what is left. One cell, two men at a time, and it is not shy about the point.

    • Strongly heavy
    • Clearly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Platform

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Thoroughbreds

    Little-known

    2017 · Thriller

    Two girls who were friends as children are pushed back together for tutoring at a huge house in Connecticut, and one of them says she feels nothing at all. Cool, funny, and nearly all in a few rooms.

    • Strongly intimate
    • Clearly realistic
    • Clearly character-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Thoroughbreds

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2022 · Comedy

    A model couple who argue over who pays for dinner are given free places on a cruise full of very rich passengers. Long, in three parts, and most of the comedy is about who has to be pleasant to whom.

    Sits near the middle on every axis.

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Triangle of Sadness

    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.

  • 2014 · Comedy

    Six separate stories from Argentina about people who reach the end of their patience and act on it. Each runs about twenty minutes, and each one escalates further than you expect.

    Sits near the middle on every axis.

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Wild Tales

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2001 · Drama

    Two teenage boys in Mexico City talk an older woman into driving to a beach that may not exist, and the three of them set off. A road trip with a lot of sex talk and a narrator who cuts in.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Clearly character-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Y tu mamá también

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.