Fingerprint
Parasite (2019)
High density. Cold warmth. Strong auteur. Epic stakes.
Mood
33
Pacing
55
Intensity
70
Weirdness
35
Hope
20
Stakes
50
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Vol. 1 · Issue 01 · 2026
Films that fit who you actually are — not what's trending.
We hand-score every film across 12 axes of its actual character — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, density, warmth, auteur signature, and more. Then we match you to a film, a night, a person. No stars. No averages. No algorithm guessing your demographic.
5,042
Hand-scored films
12
Taste axes
0
Star ratings
2019 · thriller · drama
Parasite
2000 · romance · drama
In the Mood for Love
2015 · action · sci-fi
Mad Max: Fury Road
Fingerprint · Parasite
Palette
The catalog · A living barcode
Thirty films, twelve axes, one fingerprint each.
Read it like a music EQ: each column is a film, each band is a taste axis, colored by its signature hue. The catalog reveals itself as colour.
MoodPacingIntensityWeirdnessHopeStakesHumourRealityDensityWarmthEraAuteur
Parasite
2001: A Space Odyssey
In the Mood for Love
Pulp Fiction
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Godfather
Past Lives
Mulholland Drive
Her
Stalker
La La Land
Amélie
No Country for Old Men
A Clockwork Orange
The Shining
Taxi Driver
Lost in Translation
Fight Club
Arrival
Do the Right Thing
Apocalypse Now
Whiplash
Persona
Eternal Sunshine of …
Tokyo Story
Moonlight
1,848 of these in the catalog · Each scored by a human · Last updated
A small ritual
Pick a mood.
We give you the film and the palette to match.
One headline, one film, one palette. Refresh for a different night. No login, no account, no spoiling.
Right now
Two hours, almost no talking
The method · 02
Every film has a fingerprint.
Stars collapse a film into one number. We refuse to. Each title is read against twelve independent axes by a human who has actually seen it — the same scale used for Stalker as for Mission: Impossible. That's how a 1962 French art film and a 2024 blockbuster can sit next to each other in the same recommendation.
No taste-profile cookies · No demographic guesses · No collaborative filtering
Mood
Heavy↔Cosy
Pacing
Slow-burn↔Kinetic
Intensity
Gentle↔Extreme
Weirdness
Conventional↔Surreal
Hope
Nihilistic↔Redemptive
Stakes
Intimate↔Epic
Humour
None↔Broad
Reality
Grounded↔Fantastical
Density
Sparse↔Twisty
Warmth
Cold↔Tender
Era
1920↔2026
Auteur
Transparent↔Strong signature
Fingerprint
In the Mood for Love (2000)
Slow-burn pacing. Tender warmth. Quiet stakes. Heavy mood.
Mood
38
Pacing
18
Intensity
35
Weirdness
30
Hope
25
Stakes
20
Fingerprint
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Kinetic. Extreme intensity. Spare density. Loud era.
Mood
30
Pacing
98
Intensity
85
Weirdness
50
Hope
55
Stakes
85
The method · 03
Three steps. Built so that the answer is the film, not the funnel.
01
Calibrate
Tell us how a handful of well-known films land for you. Loved? Liked? Bored? Walked out? In about three minutes we have your vector — twelve numbers that describe your taste, not your demographic.
Start calibration →02
Match
We compute the closest film in our hand-scored catalog to where you are right now — not where the trends are. Three zones: comfort, adjacent, expansion. Pick the brave one or the cosy one. Either is honest.
How matching works →03
Watch together
Invite a partner, a friend, or a quiet couch on Friday night. Two DNAs overlap, the system finds the films you both lean into. No one compromises their personal score. No averaging.
See a match →The numbers · 04
A catalog built like a library, not scraped like a feed.
5,042
Hand-scored films
And growing every week — no scraping, no LLM guesses
12
Independent taste axes
Each one mapped against an anchor film, by a human
1920—2026
Years in the catalog
From silent-era essentials to last week's premiere
120+
Countries of origin
Iranian new wave, Hong Kong action, Latin neorealism, all sitting next to Marvel
0
Star ratings
Stars collapse a film into a number. We collapse nothing.
0
Demographic guesses
Your age, gender and zip code do not pick your film.
Questions · 05
The short answers.
- What is OurMovieNights?
- OurMovieNights is a film-discovery and movie-night planning tool that matches you to films based on a 12-axis Movie DNA model. Instead of star ratings or genre buckets, every film in the catalog is hand-scored against twelve independent characteristics — pacing, weirdness, hope, density, warmth, auteur signature, and more — and you are matched to the films that fit your fingerprint.
- How is this different from Letterboxd, IMDb, or Netflix recommendations?
- Those systems collapse a film into one number (a star average) or guess your taste from your demographic and what other people clicked. We do neither. Every film is hand-read against twelve axes, your taste is calibrated against the same axes, and the match is geometric — the closest film in 12-dimensional space, not the most popular one for people like you.
- How many films are in the catalog?
- Currently over 1,500 hand-scored films, growing every week, spanning 1920 through 2026 and covering 120+ countries of origin. Tier 1 (the canon — Citizen Kane, Parasite, Mad Max: Fury Road) is essentially complete. Tier 2 (cinephile standard) is past 60% and counting. There is no scraping and no LLM guessing — every score is a deliberate read by a person who has actually seen the film.
- What are the 12 axes of Movie DNA?
- Mood (heavy ↔ cosy), Pacing (slow ↔ kinetic), Era (year), Intensity (gentle ↔ extreme), Weirdness (conventional ↔ surreal), Hope (nihilistic ↔ redemptive), Stakes (intimate ↔ epic), Humour (none ↔ broad), Reality (grounded ↔ fantastical), Density (sparse ↔ twisty), Warmth (cold ↔ tender), Auteur (transparent ↔ strong signature). Each axis is independent — a film can be cosy and surreal and intimate all at once.
- Can two people use it together?
- Yes — couple mode is the founding use case. Two people each calibrate their own taste; the system finds the films that sit in the overlap of both DNAs. No averaging, no compromising, no one giving up their honest score. The recommendation is the film where both partners independently lean in.
- Is it free?
- A free tier covers calibration, your own taste profile, watch tracking, and basic recommendations. A paid tier adds couple mode, expanded matching zones, advanced filters, and faster access to newly-scored releases. No ads, ever — the model is built for the films, not for the feed.
- Do you sell my watch data?
- No. Watch history, ratings, and DNA profiles are not sold, not shared with advertisers, and not used to retarget you anywhere. Our model does not need them to be — the catalog is what does the work, and the catalog is built by us.
- How is the catalog grown?
- A queued backlog of films sourced from critic lists, festival circuit, regional canons (Iranian new wave, Hong Kong action, Indian art cinema, etc.), and reader requests. Each week a session pulls the next batch and scores it. Every score is reviewable on the film's own page.
Begin · 06
Three minutes from now
you have a film you actually want to watch tonight.
Free to calibrate. No card. No demographic questions. No newsletter pop-up. Just twelve quiet questions and a film at the end.