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.

19 films tagged disability

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  • 2018 · Horror

    A family lives on a farm in total silence, because anything that hears them comes for them. Most of it is signed or whispered, with long stretches where nobody makes a sound at all.

    Sits near the middle on every axis.

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: A Quiet Place

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2020 · Horror

    A mother and her children leave the farm and go looking for other survivors, in a world where anything that hears you comes for you. Long stretches with no talking, and it keeps moving.

    Sits near the middle on every axis.

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: A Quiet Place: Part II

    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 boy who led the bullying of a deaf classmate in primary school tracks her down years later to try to say something to her. Most of it is quiet, awkward conversation between teenagers who do not know how to start.

    • Strongly character-driven
    • Clearly intimate
    • Clearly heavy

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: A Silent Voice

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2023 · Drama

    A man falls from the top floor of a chalet in the Alps and his wife goes on trial, with their partly sighted son the only other person in the house. Most of it is courtroom argument about a marriage.

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

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Anatomy of a Fall

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2009 · Science fiction

    A paralysed marine ships out to a moon on the far side of the galaxy, where a lab-grown body lets him walk among the people whose forest sits on what his employers want. Long, and built to be looked at.

    • Strongly epic
    • Strongly fantastic
    • Clearly plot-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Avatar

    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.

  • 2021 · Drama

    The only hearing member of a deaf fishing family joins the school choir and finds she can sing, just as the family business needs her on the boat. Warm and straightforward, moving between sign and speech.

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

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: CODA

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 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

    Describe: Don't Breathe

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2017 · Crime

    After a bank job goes wrong, a man spends one night crossing Queens trying to get his brother out of custody, and every fix he tries makes it worse. It never stops moving and the music sits right on top of you.

    • Strongly fast
    • Clearly heavy
    • Clearly realistic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Good Time

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 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

    Describe: Hush

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Mother

    Little-known

    2009 · Mystery

    When her son is arrested for a girl's murder and nobody will look any further, his mother starts working the town herself. It moves slowly, and the funny bits arrive at strange moments.

    • Clearly heavy
    • Clearly realistic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Mother

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Rust and Bone

    Little-known

    2012 · Drama

    A broke father turns up in the south of France with a five-year-old he barely knows, takes work as a bouncer, and meets a killer whale trainer. Rough and physical, and the love story is not a soft one.

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

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Rust and Bone

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2019 · Drama

    The drummer in a two-person metal band starts losing his hearing on tour and is sent to a sober house for deaf people while he works out what to do. The sound puts you inside his ears for much of it.

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

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Sound of Metal

    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.

  • 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.

  • The Sea Inside

    Little-known

    2004 · Drama

    A Spanish man who has been paralysed from the neck down for nearly thirty years fights in court for the right to end his life, from a bed in his brother's farmhouse. Slow, true, and mostly people talking in one room.

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

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Sea Inside

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2017 · Fantasy

    A mute cleaner at a secret government lab in 1962 Baltimore starts leaving boiled eggs for the creature they are keeping in a tank. A fairy tale for grown-ups, with a Cold War thriller running underneath.

    • Strongly fantastic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Shape 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 · Thriller

    A security guard walks away from a train crash without a scratch, and a man who collects comic books tells him what he thinks that means. Slow, grey, and much closer to a drama than to a cape.

    Sits near the middle on every axis.

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Unbreakable

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Upgrade

    Little-known

    2018 · Science fiction

    A man left paralysed after an attack is offered an experimental chip that gets him walking again, and the chip turns out to have opinions of its own. It is short, fast and very violent.

    • Clearly fast
    • Clearly fantastic
    • Clearly plot-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Upgrade

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.