Help
How each part of Mesmero works, and answers to common questions.
Start here
- Rate titles you have seen on Rate, or import your ratings from Letterboxd or IMDb. You do not need an account.
- Open For you. Each suggestion names the title of yours it comes from, and usually what the two share.
- Save what you want to watch to your watch list. Its page shows where to watch each title in the UK.
On this page
Rating titles
Most titles have these buttons, on their page and on their tickets.
- Loved and Liked: you have seen it and enjoyed it. Your suggestions start from these titles, and Loved counts for more than Liked.
- Not for me: you have seen it and did not enjoy it. Titles that feel like it move down your suggestions.
- Watch list: save it to watch later.
- Hide: you have not seen it and do not want to. It leaves your suggestions and the Rate list. To show it again, press Undo. Later, a title you hid without a rating is under Hidden on Your ratings.
Press a rating again to remove it. To change a rating, press another one. One loved or liked title starts your suggestions, and three make them good. Each new rating sharpens them.
Your suggestions
- For you lists titles that feel like the ones you loved or liked: the same tone, pace, themes, setting and form, not only the same genre. Movies and TV are ranked together; the tabs show only one of them.
- Each suggestion names the title of yours that it comes from, and the qualities the two share, when they share any.
- Titles you rated, saved or hid do not show in For you.
- Based on starts your suggestions from one of your lists. Made in and Genre filter them. A narrow filter can leave only a few.
- More like this, on each title's page, lists titles that feel like that one.
- Surprise me opens one of your top suggestions at random.
Watch list and lists
- Your watch list holds the titles you saved, newest first. When you have seen one, rate it there, and press Remove to take it off.
- Your ratings groups the titles you rated by verdict, newest first in each group (the latest 300 show), then the titles you hid.
- Lists are your own groups of titles, such as "Korean dramas" or "Sunday films". Only you can see them. Add a title from its page with Add to a list, from a list's own page, or with Rate into on the Rate page, which puts each title you rate into the list you choose.
- A list can be left out of All ratings on For you, for example a list of films for the children. A title that is only in that list then counts only when you choose the list under Based on. Titles you rated Not for me count from every list.
Seasons
Mesmero has pages for Christmas, Halloween and Easter, with tabs for each mood. They open all year. In each season, the menu links to its page. Once you have loved or liked a title, For you also shows a row of the season's titles (not with a Based on list or a filter), and Mix them into your suggestions gives them more weight there.
If you loved or liked titles, your taste ranks each season's page. Titles you have seen stay on it, lower down, because people watch them again each year. Titles you hid or rated Not for me leave it.
Importing ratings
Bring your history from Letterboxd or IMDb on the import page, which shows how to get the export and how each star rating counts. An import never changes a rating you made on Mesmero. We read the files, then discard them.
Guests and accounts
- You can rate, save and get suggestions without an account. This browser keeps them. After 90 days without use, we delete a guest's ratings, watch list and lists.
- Sign up to keep them on every device. When you sign up or log in, what you did as a guest in this browser moves into your account. Where both have the same title, your account's rating, watch list and Hide stay. Your guest lists join your account's lists, up to the limits.
- Download or delete everything on your account page. The privacy page says what we keep.
Offline
Most pages you opened in the last 30 days, up to 100, open without a connection, as saved copies with the date they were saved. Account, sign-in and import pages are never saved. Ratings, the watch list and lists need a connection: a change that fails goes back, and a note says so.
Questions
Why has a title no “More like this”?
We describe about 210,000 of the best-known titles. Others have a page and show in search, but no description yet. Rate it or save it, and we describe it, usually within an hour.
Why do I get few suggestions, or none?
Suggestions start from titles you loved or liked, so rate a few more. Filters and the Based on list can leave few titles. A title that nobody rated before is described first, which can take up to an hour.
A description or suggestion looks wrong. What can I do?
An AI model writes the descriptions from each title's plot summary and other facts about it, so they can be wrong. Please tell us; a person reads every message.
Why is “where to watch” empty or out of date?
It covers UK services only. The data comes from JustWatch, through TMDB, and can lag behind the services.
Why does search not find a title?
Type at least three letters. Search looks at each title's main name only, usually its English name, not other names it has.
Is Mesmero free? Do you track me?
It is free, with no advertising, no tracking and nothing sold. The only cookie keeps your session. See the privacy page.
Another question? Use the feedback form, or read about Mesmero.