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.

30 films tagged lgbt

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  • 2016 · Drama

    Three chapters in the life of a quiet boy growing up in Miami: as a child, as a teenager, and as a grown man. Each one turns on who he is willing to be seen as.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Strongly intimate
    • Strongly character-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Moonlight

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 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.

  • 2017 · Comedy

    In 1973 the top woman in tennis agrees to a televised match against a loud former champion who says no woman can beat him. Half of it is the circus, half is her private life.

    • Strongly realistic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Battle of the Sexes

    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.

  • 2022 · Horror

    A group of rich twenty-somethings ride out a hurricane at a family mansion and start a party game where one of them is secretly the killer. Mostly one house, in the dark, with a lot of bickering.

    • Strongly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Bodies Bodies Bodies

    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 · Comedy

    Two straight-A students find out the night before graduation that the classmates they looked down on got into the same colleges, so they cram four years of fun into one evening. It is one long night, mostly the two of them talking.

    • Clearly simple
    • Clearly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Booksmart

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Bottoms

    Little-known

    2023 · Comedy

    Two unpopular high school seniors start a self-defense club, mostly as a way to get near the cheerleaders they like. Broad, rude, and set in a version of high school where nothing has consequences.

    • Clearly simple
    • Clearly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Bottoms

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2005 · Romance

    Two young ranch hands spend a summer minding sheep on a Wyoming mountain in 1963, and carry what happens there quietly through the next twenty years of jobs and marriages. Slow, mostly quiet, and covering a long stretch of time.

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

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Brokeback Mountain

    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 seventeen-year-old spends the summer at his family's house in northern Italy, where his father's new research assistant comes to stay for six weeks. Long hot days, and nothing happens quickly.

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

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Call Me by Your Name

    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 and prickly New York biographer works out that she can pay the rent by writing letters in dead authors' voices and selling them. Dry, funny, and largely two people drinking in bars.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Strongly intimate
    • Strongly character-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Can You Ever Forgive Me?

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2015 · Romance

    A young shop assistant in 1950s New York sells a train set to an elegant woman in the middle of a divorce, and the two start seeing each other. It moves slowly and much of it is glances across rooms.

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

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Carol

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Close

    Little-known

    2022 · Drama

    Two thirteen-year-old boys who have been inseparable their whole lives start a new school, where the other children ask what exactly they are to each other. Quiet, slow, and close to their faces.

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

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Close

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2024 · Musical

    A Mexico City lawyer with no prospects is hired by a cartel boss who wants help disappearing from his own life and becoming someone else. It is sung, and it swings between crime story and dance number.

    Sits near the middle on every axis.

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Emilia Pérez

    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 young man running his family's sheep farm in Yorkshire drinks himself stupid every night until a Romanian worker arrives for lambing season. Quiet, muddy, and very short on dialogue.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Strongly intimate
    • Strongly character-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: God's Own Country

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2024 · Horror

    Two lonely teenagers in the suburbs bond over a late-night TV show about girls fighting monsters, and one of them cannot let it go. It is slow and dreamlike, and more sad than scary.

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

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: I Saw the TV Glow

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2024 · Crime

    A gym manager in a dusty New Mexico town falls hard for a bodybuilder passing through on her way to a contest, and her own father's business gets in the way. Grimy, violent, and it gets stranger.

    • Clearly heavy
    • Clearly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Love Lies Bleeding

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2023 · Drama

    The conductor Leonard Bernstein and the actress Felicia Montealegre meet at a party and stay married for decades while he keeps a separate life going. Long scenes of the two of them talking, with whole years skipped between.

    • Strongly character-driven
    • Strongly realistic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Maestro

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2001 · Mystery

    A woman with no memory after a crash on a Los Angeles road, and a bright new arrival in town who decides to help her find out who she is. It does not run on normal rules and does not explain itself.

    • Strongly complicated
    • Clearly fantastic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Mulholland Drive

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Pain and Glory

    Little-known

    2019 · Drama

    An ageing Spanish director in constant pain stops working and goes back through the people he left behind: his mother, a first love, an actor he fell out with. Slow and warm, and built out of memories.

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

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Pain and Glory

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2019 · Musical

    Elton John walks into a rehab meeting in a stage costume and tells the room his life from a Pinner childhood onwards, with the songs staged as fantasy numbers. People sing, and nothing is played straight.

    • Strongly character-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Rocketman

    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.

  • Shiva Baby

    Little-known

    2020 · Comedy

    A student turns up at a family shiva and finds her ex-girlfriend and the older man she has been seeing in the same crowded house. Seventy-eight minutes in one home, and it tightens the whole way.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Strongly intimate
    • Clearly character-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Shiva Baby

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2022 · Drama

    A famous conductor at the very top of the classical world prepares a live recording in Berlin while things from her past start pressing in. Long, talky, and she is in almost every scene.

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

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Tár

    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 sick and unpredictable Queen Anne is managed by her closest friend, until a ruined cousin turns up at court as a scullery maid and starts climbing. Filthy jokes, wide lenses, three women circling each other.

    • Clearly character-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Favourite

    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 pickpocket takes work as maid to a Japanese heiress in 1930s Korea, planted there by a con man who wants the heiress's fortune. Told in parts that go back over the same days, and very adult.

    • Clearly complicated
    • Clearly heavy

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Handmaiden

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2021 · Drama

    In 1925 Montana two brothers run a cattle ranch until one marries a widow and brings her and her grown son home, which the other takes badly. Very slow, and most of the threat is in what nobody says.

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

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Power of the Dog

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2022 · Drama

    A housebound English teacher who weighs 600 pounds spends one week trying to reach the daughter he left years ago, while teaching his online classes with the camera off. It never leaves his flat and is nearly all conversation.

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

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Whale

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Thelma

    Little-known

    2017 · Thriller

    A girl raised by strict religious parents leaves for university in Oslo, falls for a classmate, and starts having seizures that things happen around. Quiet and cold, closer to a drama than a scare.

    • Clearly character-driven
    • Clearly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Thelma

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Weekend

    Little-known

    2011 · Romance

    Two men meet in a Nottingham club on a Friday night and spend the next two days together, mostly talking in a flat. One of them leaves the country on Sunday.

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

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Weekend

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.