A field guide to film
Kinora is a catalogue of 399 films indexed by where and when their story takes place — real-world setting, environment, era, and season. It’s built for the question the other databases can’t answer: not “what’s popular” or “what’s new”, but “put me somewhere.”
The gap
Film catalogues are organised by genre, rating, and release date. None of that helps when what you want is a world — a film set in 1970s New York, or at sea, or in the near future. That information exists inside every film, but it’s never been tagged as a first-class way to browse. Kinora makes the setting the index.
What it does
Filter films by real-world place, environment type, story era, and season — then open any one to see its full tagged world and credits. Each filter value also has its own page (by place, by era, by setting & season, by premise), and every film has a detail page of its own.
How it’s built
Every film is tagged against a controlled vocabulary by a language model and then verified by hand — we tag where a story is set, not where it was shot. The full process, coverage, and data sources are on the methodology page.
Honest about scope
Kinora is young and the catalogue is curated, not exhaustive — it grows as we tag more films. We’d rather ship 399 films tagged carefully than a million tagged badly. Find a wrong tag? Open the film and flag it; it’s queued for review.