A discovery tool for the next film.
Perfery is a film discovery platform built for people who love cinema. Our mission is to help you find films that match how you feel.
The apps cinephiles already use are built for the record: what you watched, when you watched it, what you rated it. They are good at that, and Perfery doesn’t try to replace them. There are no reviews here, no comments, no feed. But a watchlist of four hundred films is no help at nine on a Tuesday night, because the question that decides an evening is rarely a genre. It’s a mood.
The question that decides an evening is rarely a genre. It’s a mood.
Perfery was built to close three gaps.
The first is lists. Everywhere else, a list only grows when you already know what to add. A Program is a list that builds with you. Start one with two films, and Perfery reads what they share and suggests what belongs next, so the set fills out as you go.
The second is vibes. Every film in Perfery has been rated on 75 vibes, registers like melancholy beauty, neon nights, and anxious dread. When you describe what you want to feel, the search runs against those ratings, so “rain-soaked noir” returns films that actually carry that atmosphere.
The third is physical media. Collectors have mostly kept their shelves in spreadsheets. Collection gives Blu-ray, 4K, and DVD a shelf with real edition art, arranged the way you’d arrange it yourself, with imports from blu-ray.com, CLZ, or Libib.
However you start, describing a mood, picking two favorites, starting from a list you’ve already made, or opening a Program, the result is yours to work: reorder it, swap titles, hide what you’ve seen, export it as a CSV. A niche slider sets how deep the recommendations go, from crowd favorites to films almost nobody has seen.
The name comes from the perforations along the edge of a film strip, the small holes the projector uses to pull each frame through the gate. Film people call them perfs. Ryan Coogler has called them the heartbeat of cinema. Perfery is named for them.