Random Movie
Can't decide what to watch? Get a movie picked at random.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
A lonely boy befriends a stranded alien and hides him from grown-ups while helping him find a way home.
More about this movie
- Director
- Steven Spielberg
- Country
- United States
About Random Movie
Random Movie picks one film at random from a hand-curated list of well-regarded movies spanning silent classics to recent favourites, across every major genre. Each pick shows the year, genre, director and a one-line premise so you can decide in seconds.
Use the filters to narrow the pool to a genre or decade. Every film in the list was chosen because it is widely considered worth watching — this is a shortcut past endless scrolling, not a random dump of every film ever made.
Ideas
- Movie night stalemate? Let everyone veto once, then accept the next pick.
- Working through a decade? Filter by decade and treat it as a film course.
- Pair it with Random Food for a themed dinner-and-a-movie.
How it works
The pool holds 536 movies. Each press picks one uniformly at random with your browser's cryptographic random number generator (the Web Crypto API), so every movie is equally likely, and the same one is never shown twice in a row.
Picks are served in small batches from the network edge, so your browser never downloads the whole list.
Without JavaScript the button still works: it asks our server for a pick instead.
Source: Random Wonder editorial compilation from general reference knowledge (well-regarded feature films from around the world, 1920s to 2020s). Last reviewed 2026-09-28.
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