Find what to watch as a family.
Click any title you've already loved on the map — scroll down for picks that feel the same. Search a name or franchise (try "james bond" or "agatha christie") to jump straight to it.
Embeddings: each title's one-line blurb, followed by its year, format and mood/genre tags, is run through Xenova/all-MiniLM-L6-v2, producing a 384-dimensional vector. The name is deliberately left out: including it pulled titles together on shared words rather than shared feel, putting The Princess Bride next to Bridesmaids. The embeddings tile lets you type your own words into that same model and see what it does with them. Era and format-echo tags are stripped from the embedding text so clusters form around genre/feel rather than decade.
Layout: classical multidimensional scaling on the N×N cosine-distance matrix. The two coordinates you see are the top two eigenvectors of the double-centered squared-distance matrix.
Clusters: k-means with k=14 in the full 384-d space (not the 2D projection). Cluster names come from a curated template matched to the dominant tags of each cluster — so 'Sci-fi & space' isn't an arbitrary label, it's whatever fits the cluster's tag fingerprint best.
Neighbors vs visual distance: the list of neighbors is computed by cosine similarity in the original 384-d space. The 2D map is a projection — a lossy one — so two titles that are very close in 384-d space can still land far apart on screen, in different cluster colors. Clusters are a separate hard-assignment, so a title near a cluster boundary will have neighbors spread across colors. Trust the percentage in the list more than the visual distance on the map.
Why baked-in: N points × 384 dims is a lot for the browser to chew through. MDS, k-means, naming, and neighbor lists are pre-computed by scripts/build-layout.mjs and shipped as a static JSON file. The browser just renders.
Data sources: The catalog is hand-curated. Cast, director, official synopses, ratings, and runtime supplemented from TMDb. Streaming availability data, when shown, from Watchmode. Ratings, awards, box-office, and additional cast and plot detail from the OMDb API, whose content is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0. This product uses TMDB and the TMDB APIs but is not endorsed, certified, or otherwise approved by TMDB. 