Sources & method

Where the facts come from.

What’s verified, what’s editorial, and what we deliberately leave out — with live numbers from the catalog itself.
1,888films
92original languages
118avg. minutes

Three tiers of trust

85 films

Hand-checked

Facts verified by us, plus editorial moods, pace, “good for” contexts and 0–3 content notes (violence, sexual content, scares, emotional weight). The only films that can satisfy a content limit.

1,803 films

Catalog

Feature films from 1980–2026 chosen by genre and era from Wikidata (CC0): title, year, runtime, director, original language, genres. One-line descriptions from the English Wikipedia lead (CC BY-SA 4.0). Moods and pace are derived from genre and labelled as such. Content is not assessed.

When configured

Ratings & images

When an API key is configured, Flick pulls real IMDb ratings, certificates (PG, R…), keywords, posters and banners from TV-API (the IMDb-API service); TMDB can supply images too. Without them, Flick draws a typographic poster with the illustration that means the film’s genre. IMDb data via TV-API; this product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.

“Most notable” means how many Wikipedia language editions have an article — a verifiable signal, not a rating. Left out on purpose: star ratings, box-office figures, “% match” scores and streaming availability. We don’t have a verified source for them yet.

What’s in the catalog

By decade
1940s1
1950s3
1960s1
1970s3
1980s333
1990s374
2000s399
2010s424
2020s350
By original language
English1104
Mandarin49
Japanese47
Danish47
Korean46
Russian42
Cantonese41
Arabic41
Portuguese38
Hindi37
Tamil35
Persian34
Turkish32
Polish32
Swedish32
French25
Thai24
Spanish20
German16
Italian12
Hebrew9
Norwegian9
Hungarian6
Telugu6
Greek6
Ukrainian5
Vietnamese4
American Sign4
Kurdish3
Serbo-Croatian3
Dari3
Romanian3
Georgian2
Faroese2
Cape Verdean Creole2
Serbian2
Bosnian2
Czech2
Catalan2
Na'vi2
Isan2
Bangla2
Urdu2
Neapolitan2
Dutch2
Juǀʼhoansi1
Moroccan Arabic1
Asháninka1
Iranian Persian1
Belarusian1
Kinyarwanda1
Irish1
Bulgarian1
Mohawk1
Romani1
Tok Pisin1
Egyptian1
Atlantean1
Azerbaijani1
Pashto1
Armenian1
Hawaiian1
Māori1
Scottish Gaelic1
Galician1
Zulu1
Punjabi1
Swahili1
Tibetan1
Corsican1
Tagalog1
parseltongue1
Slovak1
Estonian1
Bhojpuri1
Songhay1
Arikara1
Haryanvi1
Singaporean Hokkien1
Latvian1
Interslavic1
Filipino1
Putonghua1
Wakandan1
Comanche1
Malay1
Finnish1
Shanghainese1
Wolof1
Osage1
Malayalam1
Burmese1
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