{"title":"Best Surrealism Movies","theme":"surrealism","url":"https://framethrower.ai/list/surrealism","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":119,"listedFilms":69,"frames":7622,"baselineFrames":404689},"signature":[{"element":"floor","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.34,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00301,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00128,"observedInFrames":129},{"element":"eyes","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.1,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00436,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00208,"observedInFrames":187},{"element":"skin","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.08,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00625,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00301,"observedInFrames":268},{"element":"hair","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.65,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00993,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00603,"observedInFrames":426},{"element":"mirror","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.61,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00371,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.0023,"observedInFrames":159},{"element":"shadow","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.56,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.0065,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00417,"observedInFrames":279},{"element":"wall","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.55,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00811,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00524,"observedInFrames":348},{"element":"blood","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.53,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00487,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00318,"observedInFrames":209}],"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":0.314,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.436,"ratio":0.72},{"axis":"time_of_day","value":"day","shareOfThemeFrames":0.3241,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.4253,"ratio":0.76},{"axis":"shot_size","value":"medium","shareOfThemeFrames":0.3744,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.4818,"ratio":0.78},{"axis":"shot_size","value":"closeup","shareOfThemeFrames":0.2652,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.2073,"ratio":1.28}]},"palette":{"note":"Hue shares are dominated by skin tones across all genres; treat as descriptive, not distinguishing.","dominantHues":[{"hue":"orange","share":0.401,"ratio":0.88},{"hue":"red","share":0.208,"ratio":1.37},{"hue":"blue","share":0.156,"ratio":0.9},{"hue":"yellow","share":0.068,"ratio":0.89}],"meanSaturation":0.273,"baselineSaturation":0.234,"meanLuminance":0.42,"baselineLuminance":0.434},"films":[{"rank":1,"title":"Inland Empire","year":2006,"director":"David Lynch","cinematographer":"David Lynch","exemplarScore":1.618,"framesIndexed":60,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/inland-empire-2006"},{"rank":2,"title":"Lost Highway","year":1997,"director":"David Lynch","cinematographer":"Peter Deming","exemplarScore":1.598,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/lost-highway-1997"},{"rank":3,"title":"The Beyond","year":1981,"director":"Lucio Fulci","cinematographer":"Sergio Salvati","exemplarScore":1.587,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-beyond-1981"},{"rank":4,"title":"Angel Heart","year":1987,"director":"Alan Parker","cinematographer":"Michael Seresin","exemplarScore":1.568,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/angel-heart-1987"},{"rank":5,"title":"mother!","year":2017,"director":"Darren Aronofsky","cinematographer":"Matthew Libatique","exemplarScore":1.529,"framesIndexed":188,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/mother-2017"},{"rank":6,"title":"Aeon Flux","year":2005,"director":"Karyn Kusama","cinematographer":"Stuart Dryburgh","exemplarScore":1.46,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/aeon-flux-2005"},{"rank":7,"title":"Hour of the Wolf","year":1968,"director":"Ingmar Bergman","cinematographer":"Sven Nykvist","exemplarScore":1.451,"framesIndexed":64,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/hour-of-the-wolf-1968"},{"rank":8,"title":"Mandy","year":2018,"director":"Panos Cosmatos","cinematographer":"Benjamin Loeb","exemplarScore":1.334,"framesIndexed":66,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/mandy-2018"},{"rank":9,"title":"Pi","year":1998,"director":"Darren Aronofsky","cinematographer":"Matthew Libatique","exemplarScore":1.328,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/pi-1998"},{"rank":10,"title":"Eraserhead","year":1977,"director":"David Lynch","cinematographer":"Herbert Cardwell","exemplarScore":1.264,"framesIndexed":59,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/eraserhead-1977"}],"outlier":{"title":"A Minecraft Movie","year":2025,"exemplarScore":0,"note":"Carries the least of what the rest of the list is made of."}}