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.

14 films tagged time travel

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  • 1993 · Comedy

    A sour television weatherman covering a small-town festival wakes up to find it is the same day again, and again. He works through boredom, then mischief, then something else.

    Sits near the middle on every axis.

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Groundhog Day

    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

    With the crops failing on Earth, a former pilot leaves his daughter behind and flies through a wormhole looking for somewhere else to live. Long stretches of orbital mechanics, and a clock that runs at different speeds for different people.

    • Strongly epic
    • Clearly complicated

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Interstellar

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Timecrimes

    Little-known

    2007 · Science fiction

    A man spots something through binoculars behind his new house, walks into the woods to look, and ends up somewhere he cannot easily explain. Almost all of it happens on one hillside over a single afternoon.

    • Strongly complicated
    • Strongly plot-driven
    • Clearly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Timecrimes

    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 young man learns from his father that the men in the family can travel back to moments in their own lives, and starts by using it to get a girlfriend. Gentle and mostly about family, with the time travel kept small.

    • Clearly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: About Time

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2019 · Action

    What is left of the Avengers regroups after losing, and goes looking for a way to undo it. Three hours long, with a huge cast, and it assumes you have seen a good many of the films before it.

    • Strongly epic
    • Strongly fantastic
    • Clearly plot-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Avengers: Endgame

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2001 · Science fiction

    A teenager in 1988 sleepwalks out of his bedroom, and a jet engine falls through the roof into it. A figure in a rabbit suit tells him the world ends in 28 days, and the film is in no hurry to explain.

    • Clearly complicated

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Donnie Darko

    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

    An officer with no combat experience is dropped into a losing war against aliens and wakes up at the start of the same day every time he is killed. Most of it is him getting better at it, and it is funnier than it sounds.

    • Clearly fast
    • Clearly fantastic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Edge of Tomorrow

    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 near future where the mob sends people back thirty years to be shot on arrival, a young hitman is sent a target he recognises. Fast to begin with, then it stops somewhere quiet for a long while.

    Sits near the middle on every axis.

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Looper

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2020 · Comedy

    Two guests at a wedding in the desert find themselves living the same day over and over, with no way out and no reason to behave. Fast, silly, and it explains itself early.

    Sits near the middle on every axis.

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Palm Springs

    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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 1985 · Science fiction

    A teenager is thrown thirty years into the past by his friend's homemade time machine, and gets in the way of his own parents meeting. He has a week to fix it and a lightning strike to catch.

    • Clearly fantastic
    • Clearly fast

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Back to the Future

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2014 · Action

    With mutants hunted to near extinction in the future, one of them is sent back to 1973 to stop the thing that started it. Two time periods running at once, and a lot of faces from the earlier films.

    • Strongly fantastic
    • Clearly epic
    • Clearly plot-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: X-Men: Days of Future Past

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.