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Find the film that fits tonight.

Cinema.org is a curated collection of 5,000 films, from 1895 to 2026, made for browsing by mood. Pick a tag, add a second and a third, and every film that fits appears, newest first.

The collection at a glance

What makes it different

Cinema.org is built for one decision: what to watch next, and why. Most services recommend what they own, and review sites tell you what is popular. Here every film comes with a plain-English reason to watch it, so you are never handed a title and left to guess.

How it works

  1. Pick a tag.Choose one of 60 popular tags, such as Slow Burn, Subtitled or Film Noir. Each tag shows how many films carry it. Before you pick anything, the page shows the newest films, 48 at a time.
  2. Narrow it down.Add a second and a third tag to see only the films that fit all of them. A fourth tag replaces the first.
  3. Tap any film.You get a reason to watch it, a note on why it matters, content notes where they apply, where to watch, a trailer search and five related films.
  4. Keep track.Add films to your watchlist, or mark them watched or loved. Your marks are saved in this browser.
  5. Go deeper.All films pairs two of 120 more specific tags, like Spy Thriller + Cold War, with search, filters and sorting.

Two ways to browse

Explore is built for moods. Its 60 tags are broad, like Comfort Watch, Slow Burn or Subtitled, and stack up to three, so you can start from a feeling and narrow it to one screen of films.

All films is the deeper way in. It adds 60 more specific tags, such as Spy Thriller, Cold War, Heist or Silent, grouped by kind, and takes two at a time, because two precise tags say more than three broad ones. It also has a search box, filters for theme, region and decade, and columns you can sort by title, year or director. Both pages list the newest films first.

On either page, tap a director’s name to see every film of theirs in the collection, newest first.

What each film page gives you

Each film page starts with a short description and a spoiler-free note on why the film matters: its awards, its craft and its influence. Content notes appear where they apply. Where to watch lists the services that carry the film when that is known, and every film links to JustWatch for a live check. There is a trailer search, buttons to add the film to your watchlist or mark it watched or loved, and five related films, chosen by shared director, shared tags, the same theme and a nearby year.

How a pick is made

In the member app, the ranking is plain arithmetic you can check, not a black box. A film earns points for matching your moods, genres, favorite directors and actors, eras and countries, and loses points for what you avoid. A content note that matches one of your dealbreakers costs eight points, usually enough to move a film out of your top picks without hiding it. Films like the ones you loved get a boost.

Every pick shows its top reasons, like “Like Heat, which you loved”, so if a film ranks higher than you expect, the card tells you why.

How the collection is organized

Every film has one theme, a region where it was mainly made, a decade and a set of tags. These are the 16 themes:

And these are the 8 regions:

The Analysis page shows how the collection breaks down by decade, region, theme, director and language.

World cinema

49.7% of the collection was made outside the United States, and 1,414 films are subtitled. The most common languages are French (313), Japanese (158) and Spanish (121). Subtitles are one click away: the Subtitled tag filters to them.

Documentaries

Documentaries make up 1,462 films, 29.2% of the collection, from 1895 to 2026. They are chosen for awards, for their place on canon lists such as Sight and Sound and Letterboxd, and for festival records from Sundance, Cannes, Venice, Berlin and Amsterdam.

Your data

Your watchlist and your watched and loved marks are saved in your browser, on your own device. Nothing on the site tracks you. There are no accounts yet, and the numbers shown as watched, loved and liked on film pages are demo numbers.

Who made it

Cinema.org was made by G, developed with Claude, Anthropic’s AI model, working in Cowork. The Story page tells how it grew from a 956-option taste survey into a collection of 5,000 films, and how every film was researched.

Nominate a film

The green + in the header, on every page, opens a short form: the film, the year if you know it, and a sentence on why it belongs. It opens your email app with the nomination addressed to suggestions@cinema.org. Nominations are reviewed weekly against the same rules as the rest of the collection: critical standing, fit, and whether the film fills a gap. South Asia and Oceania, the smallest regions, need nominations most.

Still being finished

A 20% PGO

Cinema.org is a 20% PGO, a Public Good Organization (see PGO.org). A PGO is a company that commits to a specific, bounded impact mission from the start, with governance designed to keep that commitment enforceable as it grows. Cinema.org’s mission is set at 20% of profits, which fund educational documentaries for underserved communities. Documentaries are the films that teach most directly, and the communities that could gain the most from them are often the ones with the least access to them. The 20% is there to help close that gap.

The purpose shapes how the site works. Rankings can’t be bought, so a film’s place on the list comes from the film and never from a payment. Documentaries have a shelf of their own, 1,462 films today, from Oscar winners to festival discoveries. And every film comes with a reason to watch it, because the point is to help you find something worth your evening, and to put part of what the site earns behind the films that educate.

As a PGO, Cinema.org is meant to be judged on two things: whether it helps you choose a film tonight, and whether the 20% reaches the documentaries it is meant to fund. The pledge is public so that anyone can hold the site to it.

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