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Each title says who it's good for, and who it isn't. Tap what you want tonight, or say no to one and why.

Closest to Lost in Translation first

  1. Takao, who is training to become a shoemaker, skipped school and is sketching shoes in a Japanese-style garden. He meets a mysterious woman, Yukino, who is older than him. Then, without arranging the times, the two start to see each other again and again, but only on rainy days. They deepen their relationship and open up to each other. But the end of the rainy season soon approaches.

    The sides of The Garden of Words

    • A teenage boy sketching shoes in a park
    • An older woman drinking beer at dawn
    • Meetings only on rainy mornings

    Good for you if

    • you want rain on leaves drawn drop by drop.
    • you like a story told in quiet mornings under a shelter.
    • you like a bond between two lonely people that has no name.

    Bad for you if

    • you don't watch anime.
    • you want a full evening's film. This one lasts forty-six minutes.

    About: loneliness · age difference · rain

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  2. Her 2013

    Film

    In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer, purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every need. To Theodore's surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his operating system. This unconventional love story blends science fiction and romance in a sweet tale that explores the nature of love and the ways that technology isolates and connects us all.

    The sides of Her

    • A lonely man in love with his computer
    • A voice that grows beyond him
    • A soft, warm future

    Good for you if

    • you like a quiet film about loneliness that hits home.
    • you like love stories that ask what love is.
    • you like gentle scenes and long conversations.

    Bad for you if

    • a man dating his operating system sounds too strange to you.
    • you want something to happen. It's mostly talking.

    About: loneliness · love · technology

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  3. A fading actor best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night approaches, his attempts to become more altruistic, rebuild his career, and reconnect with friends and family prove more difficult than expected.

    The sides of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

    • A has-been superhero actor on Broadway
    • A film that seems to be one shot
    • A voice in his head

    Good for you if

    • you like actors going all in, on stage and off.
    • you like a camera that floats through a theatre without stopping.
    • you like a bitter, funny look at fame and ego.

    Bad for you if

    • magical realism and floating actors aren't for you.
    • you need a clear ending. The last shot leaves you guessing what became of Riggan.

    About: ego · relevance · art

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  4. Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.

    The sides of American Beauty

    • A suburban father having a midlife crisis
    • Roses everywhere
    • A plastic bag dancing in the wind

    Good for you if

    • you like satire about the perfect suburban family.
    • you like a whole street of people hiding who they are.
    • you like red roses in every corner of the frame.

    Bad for you if

    • you roll your eyes at a speech about the beauty of a plastic bag in the wind.
    • a father next door who beats his son is too much for you tonight.

    About: beauty · desire · freedom

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  5. Los Angeles, 1969. TV star Rick Dalton, a struggling actor specializing in westerns, and stuntman Cliff Booth, his best friend, try to survive in a constantly changing movie industry. Dalton is the neighbor of the young and promising actress and model Sharon Tate, who has just married the prestigious Polish director Roman Polanski…

    The sides of Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

    • A fading TV actor and his stunt double
    • Los Angeles in 1969
    • A day in the life, and a night that changes

    Good for you if

    • you like hanging out with characters more than following a plot.
    • you like actors talking in cars and on sets.
    • you love the music, cars and cinemas of 1969.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't laugh when people get hurt, and Tarantino plays Cliff's fights for comedy.
    • a very violent last scene would spoil it for you.

    About: fame · friendship · nostalgia

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  6. Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family vacation turns violent.

    The sides of Nocturnal Animals

    • A gallery owner reading her ex-husband's novel
    • A story inside the story
    • A night on a Texas highway

    Good for you if

    • you like cold, elegant images.
    • you like a roadside scene that's hard to breathe through.
    • you like a story within a story, where the novel Susan reads keeps echoing her own past.

    Bad for you if

    • brutal scenes in the novel Susan reads are too much for you.
    • cruelty told without comfort is too heavy for you.

    About: revenge · regret · art

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  7. In his quest for a bride to break his immortal curse, a 939-year-old guardian of souls meets a grim reaper and a sprightly student with a tragic past.

    The sides of Guardian: The Lonely and Great God

    • A 939-year-old immortal looking for his bride
    • A grim reaper for a housemate
    • A high school student who can see ghosts

    Good for you if

    • you like a love story that spans centuries and lifetimes.
    • you like a K-drama that makes you cry over fate and goodbyes.
    • you like the goblin and the grim reaper bickering under the same roof.

    Bad for you if

    • you won't read subtitles for a Korean series.
    • you can't watch child abuse or suicide on screen.

    About: fate · immortality · grief · love

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  8. In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they get married and start families of their own.

    The sides of Brokeback Mountain

    • Two cowboys on a mountain one summer
    • A love they hide for twenty years
    • Two shirts in a closet

    Good for you if

    • you like a love story that breaks you.
    • you like a forbidden, lifelong love.
    • you like quiet landscapes and few words.

    Bad for you if

    • sex scenes aren't for you, or you're watching with family.
    • you want things to happen. It's slow and quiet.

    About: love · shame · time

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  9. The Sopranos 1999

    Series

    The story of New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the conflicting requirements of his home life and the criminal organization he heads. Those difficulties are often highlighted through his ongoing professional relationship with psychiatrist Jennifer Melfi. The show features Tony's family members and Mafia associates in prominent roles and story arcs, most notably his wife Carmela and his cousin and protégé Christopher Moltisanti.

    The sides of The Sopranos

    • A New Jersey mob boss in therapy
    • A wife who knows more than she says
    • A crew of wiseguys and a nephew who wants more

    Good for you if

    • you like rooting for Tony Soprano while knowing exactly what he is.
    • you like the hours Tony spends on Dr. Melfi's couch as much as the hits.
    • you laugh at mobsters arguing about ducks, food and respect.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't stand sudden, brutal killings between family dinners.
    • you need clear answers. The show leaves much of Tony for you to figure out.

    About: family · guilt · the American dream · therapy

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  10. Three moments in Takaki's life: his relationship with Akari and their forced separation; his friendship with Kanae, who is secretly in love with him; the demands and disappointments of adulthood, an unhappy life in a cold city.

    The sides of 5 Centimeters per Second

    • A train delayed by snow on the way to a first love
    • A surfer girl in love with a boy who looks elsewhere
    • An adult life in a cold city

    Good for you if

    • you want falling cherry blossoms and snow drawn in detail.
    • you like an hour of trains, letters and silences.
    • you can take a love story about distance and time pulling people apart.

    Bad for you if

    • you don't watch anime.
    • you need a happy ending. This one is about letting go.

    About: distance · first love · growing apart

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  11. The Irishman 2019

    Film

    Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.

    The sides of The Irishman

    • A hitman looking back from a nursing home
    • Jimmy Hoffa
    • Decades of the mob

    Good for you if

    • you like a slow, reflective gangster story.
    • you like legends acting together one last time.
    • you like an ending about loneliness and regret.

    Bad for you if

    • three and a half hours is far too long for you.
    • you want a fast gangster film.

    About: loyalty · ageing · regret

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  12. BoJack Horseman 2014

    Series

    Meet the most beloved sitcom horse of the '90s , 20 years later. He's a curmudgeon with a heart of...not quite gold...but something like gold. Copper?

    The sides of BoJack Horseman

    • A washed-up 90s sitcom horse
    • Hollywoo, where humans and animals live side by side
    • Friends he keeps letting down

    Good for you if

    • you like animal puns next to jokes about addiction and death.
    • you want a show that looks hard at why BoJack keeps hurting the people who love him.
    • you can take a comedy that doesn't promise anyone gets better.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch addiction, depression and an overdose on screen.
    • you don't watch animated series.

    About: fame · addiction · depression · regret

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  13. Into the Wild 2007

    Film

    After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity, and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness.

    The sides of Into the Wild

    • A graduate who gives everything away
    • A road trip across America
    • An abandoned bus in Alaska

    Good for you if

    • you like wide landscapes and life in the wild.
    • you like a young man searching for meaning.
    • you like the true story of a graduate who gave away his savings and hitchhiked to Alaska.

    Bad for you if

    • two and a half hours is too long for your evening.
    • you can't watch parents suffering. His family waits two years with no word from him.

    About: freedom · family · nature

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  14. At the turn of the century, the Angels returned to Earth, seeking to wipe out humanity in an apocalyptic fury. Devastated, mankind's last remnants moved underground to wait for the day when the Angels would come back to finish the job. Fifteen years later, that day has come... but this time, humanity is ready to fight back with terrifying bio-mechanical weapons known as the Evangelions. Watch as Shinji, Rei, Asuka and the rest of the mysterious shadow agency Nerv battle to save earth from total annihilation.

    The sides of Neon Genesis Evangelion

    • A boy ordered by his father to pilot a giant robot
    • Angels attacking Tokyo-3
    • A final two episodes inside his head

    Good for you if

    • you like a series that leaves you with more questions than answers.
    • you care more about the pilots' minds than the robot fights.
    • you like an ending that goes somewhere no one expected.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take depression and self-loathing on screen.
    • you don't watch anime.

    About: depression · fathers and sons · loneliness

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  15. In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-Roman culture. Soon, Elio and Oliver discover a summer that will alter their lives forever.

    The sides of Call Me by Your Name

    • A summer in Italy in 1983
    • A student staying with the family
    • A father's speech at the end

    Good for you if

    • you like a first love told with patience and sun.
    • you like long lazy days by the pool.
    • you like a heartbreak that feels true.

    Bad for you if

    • sensual scenes aren't for you, or you're watching with family.
    • you want something to happen. Not much does.

    About: first love · desire · memory

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  16. Moonlight 2016

    Film

    The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.

    The sides of Moonlight

    • One life in three chapters
    • A boy taught to swim
    • A diner, years later

    Good for you if

    • you like a quiet film that hurts and heals.
    • you like blue, gold and pink light.
    • you like silences that say everything.

    Bad for you if

    • you want things to happen. It's quiet.
    • a mother lost to crack and a boy bullied at school are too much for you.

    About: identity · masculinity · love

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  17. A timid magazine photo manager who lives life vicariously through daydreams embarks on a true-life adventure when a negative goes missing.

    The sides of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

    • A daydreamer who works with photos
    • A missing negative
    • Iceland, Greenland and the Himalayas

    Good for you if

    • you want a gentle film that makes you want to travel.
    • you like daydreams that turn a dull office day into a superhero fight.
    • you like wide landscapes and a skateboard down a mountain road.

    Bad for you if

    • you want real action. It's gentle.
    • an uplifting message about seizing your life feels too sweet to you.

    About: courage · living · dreams

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  18. The Wind Rises 2013

    Anime

    A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II fighter plane.

    The sides of The Wind Rises

    • An engineer who dreams of airplanes
    • The great Tokyo earthquake of 1923
    • A love story shadowed by tuberculosis

    Good for you if

    • you like a quiet film about a life of work and dreams.
    • you like a gentle love story that knows time is short.
    • you want the life of the real man who designed Japan's Zero fighter.

    Bad for you if

    • you don't watch anime.
    • you want air battles, and this is about drawing planes, not flying them in war.

    About: creation · love · war

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  19. The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if taking its cue from his life. After many days of solitude, he finally finds work as a freelance writer for a mysterious occult magazine. Then, one day, Hodaka meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strong-willed girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky.

    The sides of Weathering with You

    • A runaway boy in rainy Tokyo
    • A girl who can clear the sky
    • A city slowly going under water

    Good for you if

    • you like a first love between two kids on their own in Tokyo.
    • you want rain and sunlight drawn so they almost shine.
    • you like a prayer that opens a patch of blue sky.

    Bad for you if

    • you don't watch anime.
    • you roll your eyes at big teenage declarations in the rain.

    About: first love · sacrifice · the weather

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  20. Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years after his birth, he meets Daisy, a child who flits in and out of his life as she grows up to be a dancer. Though he has all sorts of unusual adventures over the course of his life, it is his relationship with Daisy, and the hope that they will come together at the right time, that drives Benjamin forward.

    The sides of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

    • A man born old who grows young
    • A love that meets in the middle
    • A century of America

    Good for you if

    • you like a long, melancholy love story.
    • you like two people who keep missing each other.
    • you like a life that crosses the 20th century, from New Orleans in 1918 to the Second World War.

    Bad for you if

    • nearly three hours is too much for one evening.
    • you want something to happen. It's slow and gentle.

    About: time · love · mortality

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