British cinema · curated by hand
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A small, hand-built home for British cinema. No infinite wall, no “because you watched” — just films a person would actually put in front of you, and a curator that answers when you ask.
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N°01The library
Eighty years of British cinema, every one put there on purpose
72 titles·0 infinite scroll·0 ads, ever
N°02The Curator
Tell it the mood.
It does the deciding
“something quiet and rain-soaked, set up north”
Start with Kes — a Barnsley boy and a kestrel, tenderness with the grain left in. Keep Ratcatcher for the canal-side beauty in a bin-strike summer, and save Aftersun for when you can take the ache. All three reward a grey afternoon.
— The NUX Curator, an AI that only knows this catalogue
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Reason
Kes
Ken Loach · 1969
a Barnsley boy and a kestrel — tenderness with the grain left in.
Reason
Ratcatcher
Lynne Ramsay · 1999
a Glasgow canal in a bin-strike summer; beauty where you least expect it.
Reason
Aftersun
Charlotte Wells · 2022
for when you can take the ache, slow and from a distance.
N°03The collection
Real films from the catalogue, not a teaser
This week’s picks
N°04The editors’ room
We’d rather show you one film properly than fifty in a hurry
Kes
A Barnsley boy written off by everyone trains a kestrel from the nest — and finds the one thing that’s his alone. Loach leaves the grain in: the cold playground, the brother who’s all fist, the one teacher who finally looks up. Watch it when you want tenderness that hasn’t been sanded smooth.
Watch itN°05Collections
Every rail has a point of view
The Angry Young Men
When British film clocked off, got working-class, and stayed furious.
6 films →
Ealing, with Teeth
The comedies that were never really that nice about anyone.
3 films →
Powell & Pressburger
The lush, the strange and the impossibly romantic — Technicolor and all.
5 films →
The Essential Ten
The ten we’d start anyone with.
10 films →
N°06How it works
From a mood to a film, in three moves
Tell us what moves you
Ten seconds, once: pick the genres you love and Home gives each one its own row. No quiz, no cold start.
Get a programme, not a grid
Themed rails and collections, put together by hand and changed most weeks — like a season at a rep cinema.
Ask the Curator anything
Stuck for the evening? Describe a mood in plain English and get three films, with reasons — not two hundred results.
N°07Membership
Anyone can browse.
Members get the editors
Browse
Free
Browse the whole catalogue, read every film page and ask the Curator — free.
Browse the catalogue →NUX Membership
£4.99 a month
Billed annually at £59.88. Everything in Browse, plus:
- Your list, history and taste, synced across devices
- Editors’ Collections — a new programme most weeks
- Every film, no ads, ever
- Download in HD for the train · two screens at once
Payments are simulated in this demo. The account itself is free.
NUX is a design portfolio project by Elena Uvarova. The catalogue is real British cinema; the streaming, accounts and payments are simulated. The library is deliberately small — that’s the point.
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