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:
Days of Heaven from 1978 is Terrence Malick's pastoral masterpiece. Which films are trying to recapture its magic? Critics infer a lineage to 2020's Nomadland and many others.
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.
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.
May December by Todd Haynes explores identity and manipulation, echoing themes from Persona, Mulholland Drive, and The Go-Between.
Joseph Kosinski's Only The Brave tells the real-life story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a tight-knit Arizona firefighting squad. What films have similar themes?
Ti West's MaXXXine blends influences from Body Double, Hardcore, and The New York Ripper into a vibrant 1980s Hollywood slasher.
Bacurau by Brazilian directors Juliano Dornelles and Kleber Mendonça Filho had critics referencing films like Wake in Fright, Mad Max and Seven Samurai.
Edgar Wright's Last Night in Soho fuses the conceit of Midnight in Paris with Repulsion, Don't Look Now and the giallo aesthetic of Argento and Bava.
Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon is part end-of-the-west western (think Giant) and part marital melodrama like Gaslight and Notorious.
