Still up for better alternatives.
But for now I've been using TheMovieDb.

https://themoviedb.org/movie

Then use the Filters section:

• Select Genres you want to watch
• Set User Score between 7 - 10
• Set Minimum User Votes to 50
• Alter the Filters more if you desire
• Click Search

For power users, I recommend to use a plugin like NoScript though, to block Google/CookieLaw's hidden JS spyware on the site (they're on 2/3th of the web tho).

https://noscript.net

Beware, NoScript will break some sites,
and will require you to manually enable/whitelist JS (JavaScript) sources for sites + CDNs to fix this again.

Hey, what kind of movies do you like? Who worked on those movies and what other stuff did they make?

Also it helps to find a critic you like. For example I liked Roger Ebert and when he recommended something I knew would most likely enjoy it.

It also helps a lot to simply talk to people about movies. There might already be someone in your life who has a similar taste!

I second the opinion on finding a critic or reviewer you agree with. I follow a few on YouTube. Search for reviews on stuff you've seen, both for good and bad shows, so that you get an idea of how they think and what they value

Every movie recommendation website sucks in their own way ..... which is why one way of dealing with it is to average them all out.

When my wife and I do a search we'll first find a film that was recommended by a friend, site, forum, wherever .... then do a quick search in rotten tomatoes, IMDb, Google and Letterboxd ... we do a quick round up of all the sites reviews based on how many reviews and by who (audience and critics) ... then we do some quick mental math and come up with an average rating ourselves. It works most of the time but at a better rate than anyone one recommendation site.

Then if we get frustrated, we watch a classic old film. If you rewatch an old film from 30 years ago, it's like watching it again for the first time. Well not exactly but do you remember all the details of a movie you watched 20, or 30 years ago.

Mostly Letterboxd

I just grab whatever gets a scene release on my preferred piracy site, provided that it does not involve superheroes or something else that has saturated screens for the past 15 years. And when I find myself on an airplane I look through what I have on my portable USB drive and pick something, mostly at random, because I like knowing as little as possible about a movie before watching it, to the point where I consider trailers to be spoilers.

I have a very special 6-sided die that I roll, to tell me if I'd enjoy it ...

... it says "No" on all 6 sides.

: P

I'm an old autistic.

Having someone else's pre-digested meaning forcing itself into me is .. emotionally-violent abuse.

PS: if you want to REALLY UNDERSTAND Story, WAAAY more awesomely than the shit-quality "education" we all had, pushed...

Please, Please, PLEASE invest in John Truby's "Anatomy of Genres" & "Anatomy of Story" books.

Nothing else in all the writing literature comes even close to the psychology & writing-competence he offers in those 2 books.

I've some minor disagreements with him ( his concept of "village" is a Wild West village, mine is a Tribal Village of the 0.5-2 millions of years before our recent agriculture invention ), but there is simply sooo much wealth of understanding in his books, you can't imagine...

Not only that, but your understanding of how movies work skyrockets, having read 'em, too!

Just as, in movies, there was Before Star Wars, and After Star Wars,

and in gaming, there was Before Alyx, and After Alyx,

in Story, there is Before Truby's Books, and After Truby's Books.

( for presentations, hit Weissman's "Presenting to Win",

for editing, Coyne's "The Story Grid",

for building muscle in writing, Josip Novakovich has books of exercises to do.. )

Beauty, eh?

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Trakt.tv with its mobile client Showly

YouTube is where I get my movie recommendations. I follow a lot of film channels

Trakt (Website)
NZB360 (Android App)
Anything I find along the way on Lemmy/Internet/Reddit

Have you tried https://movielens.org/? I've found some great recommendations there

Have you tried Chat GPT?

JustWatch does a good enough job for me.

I've never really used it for movies and it can recommend more than just movies but I've used TasteDive before, if you haven't already tried that one.

I don’t. I download everything and watch trailers. With glances of critic/audience scores.

there's no lemmy alternative yet but /r/movie suggestions had been real great for me so far. I've watched so many good films that I wouldn't had if I didn't saw it there.

Particularly Coherence, The Man from Earth, Brick, etc.

Refresh my Tumblr dashboard and watch the first thing I see giffed.