Watch better. Know more. Build your canon.
1200+ hand-picked films, 110+ lessons that teach you how to see, and a weekly screening the whole membership watches together — with everyone’s notes sealed until you have written your own.
FILM OF THE DAY
Curated canons, not algorithms.
Every list is hand-built by people who love cinema — definitive collections of the films that shaped the medium’s grammar and soul. No endless scrolling, no disposable recommendations. Just the works that matter.
Six shown here. The app holds 50+ collections and 1200+ hand-picked films — every one with a trailer you can play on the spot.
Definitive
Greatest Films of All Time
Foundational
Silent Cinema Masterpieces
Modern
Best Films of the 21st Century
Movement
French New Wave Essentials
National Cinema
Japanese Cinema Classics
Movement
New Hollywood Revolution
One essential film, every day.
Open Film Canon each evening for a Film of the Day, a cinematic Quote of the Day and a fresh set of curated picks — a small, deliberate ritual that grows your taste one film at a time.
- ✓A handpicked film, with the context on why it matters
- ✓A line of dialogue worth carrying around, as the Quote of the Day
- ✓Save it to your watchlist, or watch the trailer without leaving the app
A pop singer kills two hours in Paris waiting on a biopsy result, and the city she has spent her life being looked at by slowly becomes something she can look back at.
Everyone watches the same film. Nobody’s notes open until you’ve written yours.
The Screening Room programmes one film a week for the entire membership. Write your own note on it and the room unseals — every other member’s reading of the same film, waiting for you. A film club with no scheduling, no group chat, and no hot takes from people who skipped it.
- ✓A new film for the whole membership every week
- ✓Your note first — everyone else’s stays sealed until you’ve written yours
- ✓Structurally spoiler-proof, so the thread is always safe to open
“Their notes stay sealed until you have written yours.”
Your taste, on the record.
Ranking films is the oldest cinephile argument there is. Film Canon finally gives it somewhere to go — a members’ poll you actually move, and a personal canon you earn one judgement at a time.
Ten films that make the case for cinema.
Rank your ten, say why each one earned its place, and your ballot goes straight into the community’s greatest-of-all-time poll. Every member’s list moves the standings — a canon argued over, not handed down.
Two films. One tap. No score, no timer.
Just your judgement, over and over, on films you already have an opinion about. Enough duels and My Canon assembles itself — a personal ranking you earned by choosing rather than declaring. Share it as a card when it’s ready.
Which is the better film?
See the shape of your taste — and its blind spots.
The Cinema Passport charts every country and decade you’ve watched from, so your range stops being a feeling and becomes a map. Then the gap finder does the uncomfortable part: it names the films you haven’t seen.
- ✓Countries and decades you’ve covered, in a single glance
- ✓A gap finder that names the specific films missing from your map
- ✓Taste compatibility with any member: your match score, your shared loves, and the one film you’ll never agree on
Six ranks. Everything you watch, rate, review, solve and programme moves you up one.
Programme your own evening.
The best part of loving cinema is arguing for it. Film Canon turns that instinct into something you can build, publish and be held to.
Two films that belong on the same evening.
Put them together, write the argument for why they rhyme, and publish it to your profile. Other members can read your programme and take it for their own Friday night — and there’s a share card built for exactly that.
“Both are about a coat, a car, and a man who says almost nothing.”
Nine films a month you would not have picked.
A fresh card of nine prompts every month — a country you have never seen, a decade you avoid, a director you keep meaning to start. Only films you mark watched during the cycle tick a square. What you have already seen is the starting line, not the score.
4 of 9 · last day of the cycle
A daily habit for people who know their films.
Six puzzles refresh every day, each keeping its own streak. Miss a day and you start again — which is, of course, the entire point.
Cinedle
One secret film per day. Clues reveal vaguest first, and every wrong guess costs you. Name it on clue one for the full fifty.
Four of a Kind
Sixteen films hide four groups of four — director, decade, country, genre. Four mistakes and the board reveals itself.
Timeline
Arrange five films from oldest to newest. Each round the years close in, until a decade comes down to a guess.
Poster Reveal
Legendary posters uncovered one tile at a time. The longer you hold out before guessing, the more it is worth.
Cinema Quotes
Identify iconic films from unforgettable lines. Easy, until it very suddenly is not.
Cinema Crossword
Decode cinema history one clue at a time — directors, movements, cinematographers, the lot.
Every puzzle keeps a streak and a personal best, and every solve moves you up the ranks. Past puzzles stay playable in the archive.
Don’t just watch films. Understand them.
110+ structured lessons across six groups — film history, movements, national cinemas, technique and the great directors — with a quiz behind almost every one. Work the path in order, or dive straight at whatever you’re curious about tonight.
- ✓A complete film-history path, with your progress tracked
- ✓110+ quizzes covering every module, movement and auteur
- ✓Search every lesson, or jump from a film to the movement that made it
Which Steven Spielberg film is often credited with inventing the modern “blockbuster” release model?
Your personal cinema, beautifully kept.
Turn your taste into something worth sharing — elegant share cards and curated PDF exports made for the way cinephiles actually think.
- ✓Share cards for a film, a review, your canon, your passport or a programme
- ✓Watchlists, favourites, ratings and written reviews with mood tags
- ✓Export any collection as a beautifully designed PDF
- ✓Everything syncs across iPhone and Android
Not a streaming app. The opposite of one.
Built for people who still believe cinema matters — and who would rather know why a film is great than be told that it is trending.
Curated by humans
Every film is chosen for historical and cultural weight by people who watched it. Never trends, never an algorithm.
Built to be a habit
A film each evening, six puzzles each day, a screening each week, a challenge card each month. Cinema on a rhythm.
A real education
110+ lessons and quizzes covering movements, national cinemas, technique and the auteurs who defined them.
Other people, finally
Weekly screenings, a community poll, taste-match scores and members’ reviews. Cinephilia is a conversation.
Your record, mapped
The Cinema Passport, six cinephile ranks, and a gap finder that keeps naming what you have not seen yet.
Share & export
Share cards for films, reviews, your canon, your passport and your programmes. PDF exports of any of your lists.
Start reading, then start watching.
A selection of the collections and lessons from inside the app, free to read here.
Before you start.
Is Film Canon free to download?
What is the Screening Room?
What’s inside the app?
What is the Cinema Passport?
Is it available on iPhone and Android?
How is it different from streaming apps?
Can I track and review what I watch?
What is the Film of the Day?
Start building your film canon.
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