{"title":"Best Detective Movies","theme":"detective","url":"https://framethrower.ai/list/detective","source":"FrameThrower","license":{"name":"CC BY 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","scope":"Covers these measurements only — the ratios, counts and rankings computed by FrameThrower. The film frames they are derived from are not licensed and no rights to them are granted.","attribution":"FrameThrower — https://framethrower.ai"},"method":"Per-frame tags (shot size, lighting key, time of day, camera angle, colour, visible objects) aggregated across the films carrying this theme, expressed as a ratio against the same measurement over the whole catalogue. Films ranked by how closely they match the theme's over-indexed elements, weighted by how distinctive each element is; one film per series.","sample":{"films":87,"listedFilms":61,"frames":6998,"baselineFrames":404689},"signature":[{"element":"handgun","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.92,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00388,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00133,"observedInFrames":156},{"element":"telephone","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.46,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00316,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00129,"observedInFrames":127},{"element":"fedora","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.39,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00525,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.0022,"observedInFrames":211},{"element":"trench coat","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.29,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00376,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00164,"observedInFrames":151},{"element":"suit jacket","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.25,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.01358,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00604,"observedInFrames":546},{"element":"tie","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.24,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00836,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00374,"observedInFrames":336},{"element":"necktie","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.21,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.0061,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00275,"observedInFrames":245},{"element":"suit","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.99,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00346,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00174,"observedInFrames":139}],"cinematography":{"note":"Weakly differentiating: most dramatic genres skew dark and night-heavy. Use `signature` to tell genres apart.","values":[{"axis":"v4_lighting_key","value":"natural","shareOfThemeFrames":0.3434,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.436,"ratio":0.79},{"axis":"v4_lighting_key","value":"low_key","shareOfThemeFrames":0.4954,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.3929,"ratio":1.26},{"axis":"camera_angle","value":"eye_level","shareOfThemeFrames":0.8366,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.6903,"ratio":1.21},{"axis":"time_of_day","value":"night","shareOfThemeFrames":0.5073,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.4219,"ratio":1.2}]},"palette":{"note":"Hue shares are dominated by skin tones across all genres; treat as descriptive, not distinguishing.","dominantHues":[{"hue":"orange","share":0.432,"ratio":0.95},{"hue":"blue","share":0.189,"ratio":1.09},{"hue":"red","share":0.161,"ratio":1.07},{"hue":"yellow","share":0.072,"ratio":0.94}],"meanSaturation":0.212,"baselineSaturation":0.234,"meanLuminance":0.415,"baselineLuminance":0.434},"films":[{"rank":1,"title":"The Maltese Falcon","year":1941,"director":"John Huston","cinematographer":"Arthur Edeson","exemplarScore":1.899,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-maltese-falcon-1941"},{"rank":2,"title":"Se7en","year":1995,"director":"David Fincher","cinematographer":"Darius Khondji","exemplarScore":1.694,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/se7en-1995"},{"rank":3,"title":"No Sudden Move","year":2021,"director":"Steven Soderbergh","cinematographer":"Steven Soderbergh","exemplarScore":1.594,"framesIndexed":64,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/no-sudden-move-2021"},{"rank":4,"title":"Strangers on a Train","year":1951,"director":"Alfred Hitchcock","cinematographer":"Robert Burks","exemplarScore":1.491,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/strangers-on-a-train-1951"},{"rank":5,"title":"L.A. Confidential","year":1997,"director":"Curtis Hanson","cinematographer":"Dante Spinotti","exemplarScore":1.472,"framesIndexed":66,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/l-a-confidential-1997"},{"rank":6,"title":"Shadow of a Doubt","year":1943,"director":"Alfred Hitchcock","cinematographer":"Joseph A. Valentine","exemplarScore":1.393,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/shadow-of-a-doubt-1943"},{"rank":7,"title":"Heat","year":1995,"director":"Michael Mann","cinematographer":"Dante Spinotti","exemplarScore":1.35,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/heat-1995"},{"rank":8,"title":"The Thin Man","year":1934,"director":"W.S. Van Dyke","cinematographer":"James Wong Howe","exemplarScore":1.39,"framesIndexed":64,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-thin-man-1934"},{"rank":9,"title":"Out of the Past","year":1947,"director":"Jacques Tourneur","cinematographer":"Nicholas Musuraca","exemplarScore":1.222,"framesIndexed":49,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/out-of-the-past-1947"},{"rank":10,"title":"Sin City: A Dame to Kill For","year":2014,"director":"Frank Miller","cinematographer":"Robert Rodriguez","exemplarScore":1.131,"framesIndexed":64,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/sin-city-a-dame-to-kill-for-2014"}],"outlier":{"title":"Crimes of the Future","year":2022,"exemplarScore":0,"note":"Carries the least of what the rest of the list is made of."}}