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.

10 films tagged western

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  • 2007 · Thriller

    A welder out hunting finds a case of cash beside several dead men and takes it, which brings a very patient killer after him. An ageing sheriff follows behind, always arriving late.

    • Strongly heavy

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: No Country for Old Men

    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.

  • 2012 · Action

    A slave is bought by a German bounty hunter in 1858 and taught to shoot, on the way to a Mississippi plantation where his wife is being held. Long talky stretches broken by short bursts of extreme violence.

    Sits near the middle on every axis.

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Django Unchained

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2016 · Crime

    Two brothers rob small branches of one particular Texas bank, with a Ranger weeks from retirement working out where they will hit next. Wide empty roads, dry jokes, and a lot of waiting.

    • Strongly realistic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Hell or High Water

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2023 · Crime

    In 1920s Oklahoma the Osage are rich from the oil under their land, and one by one they start dying. Three and a half hours, told mostly from the side of the white men who married into the tribe.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Strongly heavy

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Killers of the Flower Moon

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2007 · Drama

    In 1881 the last of the James gang is coming apart, and a nineteen-year-old who has read every dime novel about Jesse talks his way into the crew. Very slow, narrated throughout, more waiting than shooting.

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

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

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

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2015 · Mystery

    A bounty hunter and his prisoner are forced by a blizzard into a stagecoach stop in Wyoming with six strangers, at least one of whom is lying. It is three hours long, nearly all of it in one room and nearly all of it talk.

    • Strongly heavy

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Hateful Eight

    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.

  • 2015 · Adventure

    A fur trapper in the American wilderness of the 1820s is mauled by a bear and left behind by his party, and starts crawling back. Long, cold, nearly wordless, and shot in daylight and snow.

    • Strongly heavy
    • Clearly simple
    • Clearly realistic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Revenant

    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.