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 There Will Be Blood first
The Godfather Part II 1974
Film
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
The sides of The Godfather Part II
- A son ruling the family business
- A young father building it in old New York
- A brother's betrayal
Good for you if
- you like a long, patient tragedy.
- you like two great performances in two eras.
- you like a dark family saga that offers no comfort.
Bad for you if
- over three hours is too long for one evening.
About: family · power · loneliness
Peaky Blinders 2013
Series
A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.
The sides of Peaky Blinders
- A gang family in 1920s Birmingham
- Razor blades in caps
- A war hero who wants power
Good for you if
- you like a cold, brilliant gang leader.
- you like smoke, coats and slow walks.
- you like modern rock over period scenes.
Bad for you if
- brutal gang violence ruins a show for you.
- six seasons is more than you want to start.
About: ambition · family · trauma
The Godfather 1972
Film
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.
The sides of The Godfather
- A family business that is a mafia
- A son who said he'd stay out
- A wedding, a horse, an offer
Good for you if
- you like a story that takes its time and lands like a verdict.
- you like quiet actors saying a lot with one look.
- you like watching a decent man become someone else.
Bad for you if
- nearly three hours is too much for one evening.
- films from the 1970s feel slow and dated to you.
- sudden, cold killings ruin a film for you.
About: family · power · loyalty · America
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
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
Joker 2019
Film
During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
The sides of Joker
- A man the world keeps ignoring
- A city about to explode
- A dance down the stairs
Good for you if
- you like one performance that carries the whole film.
- you can take a story that only goes down.
- you like watching, step by step, how someone breaks.
Bad for you if
- sudden, brutal violence ruins a film for you.
- mental illness and cruelty hit too close tonight.
About: loneliness · madness · society
Breaking Bad 2008
Series
A high school chemistry teacher diagnosed with lung cancer starts making meth with a former student to pay for his family's future.
The sides of Breaking Bad
- An ordinary man's slow corruption
- Crime as a business
- One bad choice that spirals
- Desert, tension, long silences
Good for you if
- you like rooting for someone you know you shouldn't.
- you like tension that builds for a whole episode before it breaks.
- you watch for how people change more than for what happens.
Bad for you if
- graphic violence ruins a show for you. Some scenes are hard to unsee.
- TV is how you unwind. This one keeps you tense.
- five seasons is more than you want to start.
About: pride · family · power · consequences
The Pianist 2002
Film
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
The sides of The Pianist
- A pianist hiding in Warsaw
- Years alone in empty flats
- Music for an enemy officer
Good for you if
- you like a quiet performance of pure survival.
- you like a true story that stays with you.
- you like watching someone hold on through everything.
Bad for you if
- the Holocaust shown in detail is too much tonight.
- two and a half hours is too long for your evening.
About: survival · art · humanity
Prisoners 2013
Film
When his young daughter and her friend disappear on Thanksgiving, a father takes the law into his own hands while a detective works the case.
The sides of Prisoners
- A detective who won't let go
- How far a father will go
- A case built like a maze
- Rain, cold, and grey light
Good for you if
- you like being tense for two and a half hours straight.
- you like collecting clues and trying to get ahead of the detective.
- you like watching an actor go somewhere raw. Hugh Jackman does.
Bad for you if
- a child in danger is too much for you.
- two and a half hours is too long for your evening.
About: faith · revenge · guilt · fatherhood
Succession 2018
Series
Follow the lives of the Roy family as they contemplate their future once their aging father begins to step back from the media and entertainment conglomerate they control.
The sides of Succession
- Four siblings fighting over their father's empire
- Logan Roy refusing to step down
- Tom and Greg at the edges of the family
Good for you if
- you like insults sharp enough to cut, from Roman most of all.
- you like boardroom coups, takeover bids and family votes.
- you like laughing at very rich people being awful to each other.
Bad for you if
- you need at least one Roy to root for.
- you need action, and here the battles are fought in boardrooms and over the phone.
About: inheritance · fathers and sons · money · loyalty
The Shining 1980
Film
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
The sides of The Shining
- An empty hotel in winter
- A father going mad
- A boy riding his tricycle down the halls
Good for you if
- you like dread that builds slowly in empty corridors.
- you like long gliding shots behind a boy on his tricycle.
- you like a performance that becomes truly frightening.
Bad for you if
- you scare easily. Some images stay for years.
- you can't watch a family threatened by the father. Jack's drinking and rage turn on his wife and son.
About: isolation · madness · family
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
The Handmaid's Tale 2017
Series
Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.
The sides of The Handmaid's Tale
- A woman forced to bear children for a ruling family
- A religious dictatorship in America
- A resistance in whispers
Good for you if
- you like Elisabeth Moss saying everything with a stare into the camera.
- you like every conversation in Gilead feeling like it could be a trap.
- you like seeing how a regime controls women's bodies and words.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch rape and torture on screen.
- you can't stand hangings and mutilations.
- you need some hope, and here the hope comes slowly over six seasons.
About: freedom · motherhood · resistance · faith
The Crown 2016
Series
The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.
The sides of The Crown
- Elizabeth II from her young reign to old age
- Weekly meetings with her Prime Ministers
- A royal family torn between duty and love
Good for you if
- you like the second half of the 20th century seen from inside Buckingham Palace.
- you like a family drama where a sister, a husband and children all come second to the Crown.
- you like who really decides things between the palace and Downing Street.
Bad for you if
- you need momentum, and many episodes are quiet conversations in palace rooms.
- six seasons of royal life is too much for you.
About: duty · family · the monarchy
Better Call Saul 2015
Series
Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, and, often, against Jimmy, is “fixer” Mike Ehrmantraut. The series tracks Jimmy’s transformation into Saul Goodman, the man who puts “criminal” in “criminal lawyer".
The sides of Better Call Saul
- A small-time lawyer becoming Saul Goodman
- A brother who never believed in him
- A fixer named Mike Ehrmantraut
Good for you if
- you like a story that takes its time over one man's choices.
- you like watching Jimmy and Kim from up close, scene after scene.
- you like following a likable man you know will go bad.
Bad for you if
- you'd rather avoid cartel killings and Tuco's beatings.
- six seasons of slow change is too much for you.
About: ambition · brotherhood · morality · 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
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
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
Adolescence 2025
Series
When a 13-year-old is accused of the murder of a classmate, his family, the psychological expert and the detective in charge are all left asking: what really happened?
The sides of Adolescence
- A 13-year-old boy arrested for murder
- Episodes filmed in one continuous take
- A father asking what he missed
Good for you if
- you like a young actor holding his own against Stephen Graham.
- you like each episode filmed in one unbroken take, from the first second to the last.
- you can take a story that leaves you with no easy answer.
Bad for you if
- a child accused of killing a classmate is too much for you.
- you want a classic whodunit with clues to follow, and this is the portrait of a family and a school.
About: masculinity · social media · parenthood · bullying
A Clockwork Orange 1971
Film
In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure that'll rob him of all personal agency. In a time when conscience is a commodity, can Alex change his tune?
The sides of A Clockwork Orange
- A young thug who loves Beethoven
- A cure that takes away choice
- Milk bars and strange slang
Good for you if
- you like a film with a look you'll never forget.
- you like disturbing, provocative cinema.
- you like satire that makes you uncomfortable.
Bad for you if
- violence played as entertainment is too much for you.
- sexual violence on screen is too much for you.
- films from 1971 feel strange and dated to you.
About: free will · violence · society