Discover your film personality
Different films. Brighter perspectives.
Connect your viewing library and uncover the patterns, perspectives, and stories that make your taste uniquely yours.
Works with Plex. Free, and nothing is stored on our side.
01 — How it works
Your shelf, read closely
Three steps. About a minute.
01 · Connect
Sign in with Plex
You approve access on Plex's own page. We never see your password.
02 · Read
Your library is read in your browser
Genres, decades, countries, directors, what you've played and the stars you've given.
03 · Reveal
See your film personality
A profile of your taste, the numbers behind it, and a card you can share.
02 — A programme note
What a profile looks like
A deeper look at what makes you, you.
Top genres
03 — Insights
Three ways into your taste
Genres & eras
What you collect, how the mix shifts decade by decade, and which moods dominate the shelf.
Places & people
The countries your films come from, the directors you return to, the faces that keep reappearing.
You vs the crowd
Where your own star ratings agree with audiences, and where you go your own way.
04 — Privacy
Personal, never invasive
- Everything happens in your browser.Your library goes straight from your Plex server to this page. There is no The Reel Me database.
- Sign-in happens on Plex.You approve access on plex.tv; we never see your password. The sign-in is kept only in this browser.
- Read-only.We read film details and your plays and ratings. Nothing in your library is changed, and no media is streamed.
- Leave any time.Sign out clears the sign-in from this browser. You can also revoke The Reel Me in your Plex account's authorized devices.
Different films.
Brighter perspectives.
See what your shelf says about you.
Your film personality is
Your viewing profile
A deeper look at what makes you, you.
Top genres
Global perspective
Hands on the shelf
You tend to watch
01 — The read
02 — Era
Where the shelf sits in time
Show data
03 — Register
Films carry several tags, so these overlap
Genre frequency
Show data
How the mix shifts by decade
Share of each decade's films carrying the tag. Darker is a larger share; the number is the film count.
Show data
04 — Origin
Show data
05 — Hands
The directors who repeat
Show data
Faces that recur
Counted across the top six billed roles.
06 — Viewing time
When the lights go down
Show data
Not enough plays yet
Viewing times come from films played through Plex. Once a few more have been played, this fills in.
07 — Judgement
Where you part company with the crowd
Show data
Rated far above the crowd
Rated far below the crowd
Average personal score by genre
Genres with at least four rated films.
Show data
No star ratings yet
Rate a few films in Plex (the stars on any film's page), then reload. This section compares your scores with the audience's.
08 — The core
Everything scored nine or ten
No top scores yet
Films you give 4½ or 5 stars in Plex will gather here.
09 — Form
Length, certificate and the physical shelf
Runtime
Show data
Certificate
Show data
Stars given
Show data
Disk used by decade
Gigabytes of film per decade of release.
Show data
Provenance
How this was measured
Not matched in Plex