A new kind of movie companion
Discover by mood.
Remember every watch.
Lumen is built around the three things every recommender gets wrong: it asks how you feel, explains why each film fits, and grows a living journal of who you become as a viewer.
Free · No ads · Free-tier AI
Pillar 1 · Discovery
What do you want to feel tonight?
Drag a 2D affect dial. Results stream live as you move. Calm, joyful, bleak, intense — every quadrant maps to a different shelf of films.
Mood, not metadata
Forget genres and year filters. Lumen tags every film on 64 emotional dimensions, so 'restless but hopeful' is a real query.
Live as you drag
Results refresh every 220ms as the orb moves. The films closest to your chosen mood surface first.
TV-friendly
Arrow-key navigation works end to end. Designed to feel as good on a remote as a trackpad.
Pillar 2 · Taste
Every recommendation, explained.
No black-box scores. Open any title and Lumen shows you the three dimensions of your taste it tapped — in warm prose, like a friend who knows what you've watched.
Why this, for you
PersonalizedQuiet, observational, and emotionally precise — the kind of film you described after watching After Yang. It sits in the same tradition: little dialogue, lots of looking.
- Quiet endings
Like the films you marked highest.
- Naturalistic dialogue
Strong overlap with your top ratings.
- Restrained color
Shows up across your Wong Kar-wai picks.
For: Past Lives · 2023
Pillar 3 · Journal
A living record of who you become as a viewer.
Write a sentence after each film. Lumen replies with a question worth sitting with — never therapist-y, always specific. Weeks later, your entries become a story.
Journal entry
TodayAfter Yang · 2022
The way memory was rendered as a small private museum — not nostalgic, just careful. I keep thinking about the tea ceremony.
Lumen asks
“What does it mean to leave behind something that remembered you, instead of someone?”
An entry — the moment the credits roll.
Plus a daily Cinema Weather forecast — a personal mood map built from your recent journal trajectory.
Quick start
Three minutes to a taste model.
No questionnaires. No genres to tick off. Just rate a handful of films and Lumen takes it from there.
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Sign in
Google or email. Multiple profiles per account so each member of a household has their own taste model.
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Rate ten films
A 90-second onboarding deck. Skip what you haven't seen — you can come back later. Or skip entirely; Lumen learns slowly from use.
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Lumen learns
Your ratings + journal + dial-drags shape a private taste centroid that personalizes everything.
Cinema, but it knows you.
Free to use, free-tier AI under the hood, no tracking beyond what you ask Lumen to remember.