Cinetrii analyses reviews to infer possible inspirations behind a film. Enter a title to find other works that may have inspired (or been inspired by) it, along with the quotes that determine the connection. About
Examples:
Raven Jackson's All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt evokes Tarkovsky's Mirror and Malick's The Tree of Life, exploring memory and emotion through sensory storytelling.
Wim Wenders' Perfect Days draws connections to films like Jeanne Dielman, Nomadland and his own Wings of Desire, exploring the beauty of mundane existence through a poetic lens.
Rian Johnsons' ambitious and inventive The Last Jedi owes a debt to the films of Akira Kurosawa, just like the original Star Wars films helmed by George Lucas.
May December by Todd Haynes explores identity and manipulation, echoing themes from Persona, Mulholland Drive, and The Go-Between.
Chang-dong Lee's Burning is a confident slow-burn mystery. It recalls Hitchcock, Antonioni's Blow-Up and, according to one critic, Jack Nicholson in The Pledge.
Longlegs channels the dark, eerie aesthetics of films like Zodiac and The Silence of the Lambs.
If you like Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom, you might enjoy some films out of the eclectic mix it draws inspiration from - like Harold and Maude or Small Change.
Jennifer Kent's The Babadook rekindled our interest in contemporary horror after years of remakes and retreads. Its motifs have been used in films such as Lights out, His House and Under the Shadow.
Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest lenses evil through the mundane, drawing parallels to Shoah and The Act of Killing.
