What do you want to watch tonight?
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 Outlander first
Pride & Prejudice 2005
Film
A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.
The sides of Pride & Prejudice
- A clever daughter and a proud man
- Five sisters and one mother desperate to marry them off
- A proposal in the rain
Good for you if
- you like a slow-burning romance between two stubborn people.
- you like sharp, witty exchanges.
- you like misty English fields at dawn.
Bad for you if
- you want something to happen. It's dances and conversations.
- you roll your eyes at grand declarations. Darcy says he's bewitched, body and soul.
About: pride · prejudice · love
Bridgerton 2020
Series
Wealth, lust, and betrayal set in the backdrop of Regency era England, seen through the eyes of the powerful Bridgerton family.
The sides of Bridgerton
- A London marriage season in Regency England
- Eight Bridgerton siblings looking for love
- An anonymous gossip writer called Lady Whistledown
Good for you if
- you like a slow courtship, with a different Bridgerton sibling at the heart of each season.
- you like ballrooms, gowns and Regency manners.
- you like pop songs played by a string quartet at a ball.
Bad for you if
- you get uncomfortable with steamy sex scenes, especially with others in the room.
- you lose track of big families. Eight Bridgerton siblings, the Featheringtons and the whole ton share the screen.
About: marriage · family · reputation · love
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 2008
Film
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
Titanic 1997
Film
101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets aboard the ship. Rose tells the whole story from Titanic's departure through to its death—on its first and last voyage—on April 15, 1912.
The sides of Titanic
- A love story across classes
- A ship going down in real time
- An old woman remembering
Good for you if
- you like a love story that ends with you in pieces.
- you like 1912 rebuilt in detail, from first-class dining rooms to dances in steerage.
- you like big, sincere romance with no irony.
Bad for you if
- over three hours is too much for one evening.
- you need a happy ending.
About: love · class · memory · loss
Band of Brothers 2001
Series
Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as their journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men from paratrooper training in Georgia through the end of the war. As an elite rifle company parachuting into Normandy early on D-Day morning, participants in the Battle of the Bulge, and witness to the horrors of war, the men of Easy knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear - and became the stuff of legend. Based on Stephen E. Ambrose's acclaimed book of the same name.
The sides of Band of Brothers
- The paratroopers of Easy Company
- A night jump over Normandy on D-Day
- The Battle of the Bulge in winter
Good for you if
- you want a war story built from the real men's interviews and letters.
- you like soldiers who become brothers, from training in Georgia to the end.
- you want to follow one company from Normandy to Bastogne and the end of the war.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch men wounded and killed in combat.
- you need some lightness, and the cold of Bastogne and the camps are too much for you.
About: brotherhood · courage · war
The Shape of Water 2017
Film
An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an amphibious man being held captive there and devises a plan to help him escape.
The sides of The Shape of Water
- A mute cleaner in a secret lab
- A creature kept in a tank
- A fairy tale in the Cold War
Good for you if
- you like an unusual love story told like a fairy tale.
- you like a world drenched in green and teal.
- you like magical realism with a strange edge.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand gore. Strickland's rotting fingers and a bloody torture scene are shown up close.
- nudity and sex scenes aren't for you tonight.
About: outsiders · love · cruelty
The Notebook 2004
Film
An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately reunited, seven years later, after they have taken different paths.
The sides of The Notebook
- A summer romance across classes
- Letters never received
- An old man reading to his wife
Good for you if
- you're ready to cry from beginning to end.
- you like a big love story that lasts a lifetime.
- you like a kiss in the rain, played completely straight.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a woman losing her memory to dementia.
- you want a love story that leaves you wondering. This one answers every question.
About: love · memory · class
The Last Samurai 2003
Film
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.
The sides of The Last Samurai
- An American officer captured by samurai
- A winter in a mountain village
- A last charge
Good for you if
- you like sword battles and cherry blossoms.
- you like a broken soldier finding honour.
- you like a story about duty and dignity.
Bad for you if
- two and a half hours is too long for your evening.
- battlefield deaths are too much for you.
About: honour · change · redemption
Shōgun 2024
Series
In Japan in the year 1600, at the dawn of a century-defining civil war, Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents unite against him, when a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village.
The sides of Shōgun
- An English sailor shipwrecked in Japan in 1600
- A lord outplayed by his regents
- A noblewoman translating between two worlds
Good for you if
- you like feudal Japan seen through a stranded English pilot.
- you like Toranaga quietly playing a council that wants him dead.
- you like a patient story where one look says more than a battle.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch beheadings and ritual suicide on screen.
About: honor · duty · culture clash · ambition
True Blood 2008
Series
Thanks to a Japanese scientist's invention of synthetic blood, vampires have progressed overnight from legendary monsters to fellow citizens. And while humans have been safely removed from the menu, many remain apprehensive about these creatures "coming out of the coffin." Religious leaders, government officials, and vampire fundamentalists around the world have chosen their sides. But in the small Louisiana town of Bon Temps, the jury is still out.
The sides of True Blood
- Vampires living openly thanks to synthetic blood
- A waitress who can read minds
- A small town in Louisiana
Good for you if
- you like Sookie torn between the vampires Bill and Eric.
- you like a town where shifters, fairies and witches keep showing up.
- you like Southern gothic with a twisted sense of humor.
Bad for you if
- you'd rather avoid the frequent, graphic sex scenes.
- you can't take the bloody, gory deaths.
About: desire · prejudice · belonging
Schindler's List 1993
Film
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
The sides of Schindler's List
- A businessman who saves his workers
- Black and white, and a red coat
- A list that means life
Good for you if
- you like striking black and white images, and a little girl in a red coat you won't forget.
- you like a villain who's frighteningly human.
- you want to understand a true story from the inside.
Bad for you if
- the Holocaust on screen is too much for you tonight.
- over three hours is too long for one evening.
- black and white puts you off.
About: humanity · courage · evil
Braveheart 1995
Film
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.
The sides of Braveheart
- A Scottish farmer leading a revolt
- Battles in muddy fields
- Freedom
Good for you if
- you like huge medieval battles.
- you like a hero shouting about freedom.
- you like brutal sword fights.
Bad for you if
- bloody battles and a torture scene ruin it for you.
- three hours is too long for one evening.
About: freedom · revenge · sacrifice
Apocalypse Now 1979
Film
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.
The sides of Apocalypse Now
- A captain sent upriver to kill a colonel
- Helicopters and Wagner
- A jungle that drives men mad
Good for you if
- you like images of war that look like a fever dream.
- you like a journey into darkness.
- you like The Doors and Wagner over burning jungle.
Bad for you if
- two and a half hours of slow descent is too much for you.
- you can't take much madness tonight. Soldiers on acid and men losing their minds fill the trip upriver.
- brutal war scenes are too much for you.
About: madness · war · morality
Vikings 2013
Series
The adventures of Ragnar Lothbrok, the greatest hero of his age. The series tells the sagas of Ragnar's band of Viking brothers and his family, as he rises to become King of the Viking tribes. As well as being a fearless warrior, Ragnar embodies the Norse traditions of devotion to the gods. Legend has it that he was a direct descendant of Odin, the god of war and warriors.
The sides of Vikings
- A farmer who dreams of the West
- Raids on England and France
- Gods, kings and sons
Good for you if
- you like shield walls and raids.
- you like Travis Fimmel's Ragnar, a farmer with a strange smile who wants to sail west.
- you like a farmer's rise to the throne, and the earls and Saxon kings he has to outwit.
Bad for you if
- brutal, bloody battles ruin a show for you.
- six seasons is more than you want to start.
About: ambition · faith · family
House of the Dragon 2022
Series
The Targaryen dynasty is at the absolute apex of its power, with more than 15 dragons under their yoke. Most empires crumble from such heights. In the case of the Targaryens, their slow fall begins when King Viserys breaks with a century of tradition by naming his daughter Rhaenyra heir to the Iron Throne. But when Viserys later fathers a son, the court is shocked when Rhaenyra retains her status as his heir, and seeds of division sow friction across the realm.
The sides of House of the Dragon
- A king who names his daughter heir
- Two former friends on opposite sides of a civil war
- Dragons ridden into battle
Good for you if
- you like court politics where every marriage and heir is a move.
- you like a family tearing itself apart over one throne.
- you want dragons fighting in the sky over Westeros.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand brutal births, beheadings and burned armies.
- you need momentum, and the first season spends years on whispers at court.
- you lose track of a family where half the names sound alike.
About: succession · rivalry · family · power
The Last Kingdom 2015
Series
A show of heroic deeds and epic battles with a thematic depth that embraces politics, religion, warfare, courage, love, loyalty and our universal search for identity. Combining real historical figures and events with fictional characters, it is the story of how a people combined their strength under one of the most iconic kings of history in order to reclaim their land for themselves and build a place they call home.
The sides of The Last Kingdom
- A Saxon boy raised by Danes
- King Alfred's fight for England
- Shield walls and Viking raids
Good for you if
- you like ninth-century England, its kings and its churches.
- you like sword fights and battles in the mud.
- you like King Alfred scheming to unite England, with Uhtred a warrior he never fully trusts.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand blood and hacked limbs.
- five seasons is too much for you.
About: identity · loyalty · faith · home
Oppenheimer 2023
Film
The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
The sides of Oppenheimer
- The man who built the bomb
- A secret town in the desert
- A hearing that decides his fate
Good for you if
- you like a lead performance carried by the eyes.
- you like rooms full of brilliant people arguing.
- you want to feel the first test in your chest.
Bad for you if
- three hours of talking is too much for one evening.
- you want action. It's mostly meetings and hearings.
- you want a story told in order. It jumps between periods.
About: guilt · power · science
The Pacific 2010
Series
Track the intertwined real-life stories of three U.S. Marines – Robert Leckie, John Basilone, and Eugene Sledge – across the vast canvas of the Pacific Theater during World War II. A companion piece to the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers.
The sides of The Pacific
- Three real Marines in the Pacific war
- Guadalcanal, Peleliu, Iwo Jima and Okinawa
- Coming home after the fighting
Good for you if
- you want the true stories of Leckie, Basilone and Sledge.
- you want to understand the war against Japan island by island.
- you like battle scenes on the scale of a film.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch combat deaths filmed up close.
- the toll of war on real men's minds is too much for you.
About: war · brotherhood · trauma
The Great Gatsby 2013
Film
Nick Carraway arrives in New York in 1922, an era of loose morals, glittering jazz and bootleg kings. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick encounters the mysterious millionaire Gatsby and his bewitching cousin Daisy. Soon, Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the super-rich, their illusions, loves and deceits. Bearing witness to this new world, Nick pens a tale of impossible love, incorruptible dreams and unforgettable tragedy -- mirroring our own times and struggles.
The sides of The Great Gatsby
- A mysterious millionaire's parties
- A green light across the bay
- A love from the past
Good for you if
- you like glitter, champagne and 1920s excess.
- you like jazz-age parties with modern songs.
- you like a hopeless, obsessive love story.
Bad for you if
- over two hours of parties and longing is too much.
- you roll your eyes at a man reaching for a green light across the bay.
About: obsession · wealth · the past
Game of Thrones 2011
Series
Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night's Watch, is all that stands between the realms of men and icy horrors beyond.
The sides of Game of Thrones
- Power games and scheming
- Nobody is safe
- Dragons, battles and a huge world
- Families at war
- Characters you change your mind about
Good for you if
- you like following a dozen families and their schemes at once.
- you like a show where loyalties shift and no one is ever safe.
- you like schemers fighting over the Iron Throne, where a whisper can matter more than an army.
Bad for you if
- brutal deaths and battle wounds ruin a show for you.
- you'd rather skip sex scenes, or you're watching with others.
- eight seasons is more than you want to start.
About: power · loyalty · family · war