CineBrawl is a free web app that helps you decide what to watch. It runs movies and TV shows through a knockout bracket: you pick the winner of each head-to-head duel until one champion is left. Play ready-made community tournaments, build your own bracket, or browse by your own criteria and streaming platforms. No account needed.

How do I decide what movie or show to watch?

Pick a tournament (a ready-made one or your own), then vote the winner of each duel between two titles. CineBrawl narrows the field round by round until a single winner remains — that is your pick for tonight. It takes under a minute.

Is CineBrawl free? Do I need an account?

Yes, CineBrawl is completely free and works with no account. Signing in is optional and only syncs your watchlist, seen list and preferences across devices.

What tournaments can I play?

50+ ready-made community tournaments: by genre (best action, comedy, horror, thriller, sci-fi, animation, drama, romance…), by studio and universe (Pixar, Studio Ghibli, Marvel MCU, DC, A24, Star Wars…), by director (Spielberg, Scorsese, Nolan…), by actor (DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington…), by decade, by theme, by awards (Oscars, Golden Globes, Cannes) and for TV series.

Can I create my own movie tournament?

Yes. Search any movies or shows, add them to a bracket of your chosen size, and play. You can publish your tournament so the community can play it too.

Can I filter by streaming platform and country?

Yes. Browse and filter titles by genre, mood, decade, rating and by the streaming platform they are available on in your country (Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Max and more), including availability in other countries for VPN users.

What languages does CineBrawl support?

CineBrawl works in 9 languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Japanese and Portuguese.

How can a group of friends decide what to watch together?

Use a Brawl Room. One person creates the room and shares a link, a QR code or a short room code; everyone joins from their own phone, with no account and no app to install. All players vote the same duels at the same time, and the winner is the group's collective choice. It works whether you are in the same room or far apart.

What is a Brawl Room?

A Brawl Room is CineBrawl's real-time multiplayer mode. The host picks the films (by filters or by hand), sets a timer per duel, and everyone votes the same bracket round by round. You can see the votes filling up live on each poster, or keep them hidden until the end of each round. Ties are broken fairly and everyone sees the same result. At the end you get the champion plus full statistics for every round and duel.

Can I see the other players' votes in real time?

Yes, it is the host's choice. With live votes on, a gauge fills each poster in the bracket as people vote. With live votes off, the results of each round are revealed together at the end of that round, which keeps the suspense.

How do I find good films that are not just blockbusters?

CineBrawl ranks titles with a Hidden gems score by default: it combines a rating weighted by the number of votes, a sweet spot of popularity (known but not mainstream), and a bonus for acclaimed directors and actors. The result is highly rated films worth discovering rather than only the biggest box-office hits. You can still sort by popularity, rating, release date or at random.

Which filters can I use to find a film or a series?

Type (films or series), genre, streaming platform, an exact year range, a minimum rating, runtime, plus advanced filters for audience, age rating, country of production, and a specific director or actor. Filters update the results live and also build the pool for a tournament or a Brawl Room.

CineBrawl — the movie tournament

Le tournoi qui décide de ta soirée.

Les tournois de la semaine

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Browse every CineBrawl tournament

CineBrawl decides what to watch by running films and shows through a knockout bracket: two titles at a time, you pick the one you would rather watch, the winner moves on. 53 ready-made tournaments are listed below, covering 796 hand-picked titles — open any of them to see its full line-up with years, directors, runtimes and ratings before you play.

Rankings and reading

Ordered views of the same corpus, and practical writing on how to actually reach a decision:

The highest-rated titles, using a weighted average rather than a raw one
Hidden gems — well-rated films almost nobody voted for
The directors who appear most across the brackets
Every decade compared, and the longest films
How to decide what to watch in under two minutes
Picking a film everyone actually accepts
What makes a good bracket, and which size to pick
Why the highest-rated film is rarely the right pick
Why catalogues differ between countries

Tournoi

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Les tournois de la semaine

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Acteurs

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Awards

By genre

Studios & universes

Directors

Actors & actresses

Decades

By theme

Shows

Rankings and reading