Set your filters, hit the button, and we'll pick something for you — with UK streaming availability built in.
Pick a Movie is a random film and TV show generator that actually tells you where to watch the result. That second part is what most similar tools miss entirely.
Set your filters and choose between film or TV, pick a genre, select a decade, and optionally tick whichever UK streaming services you subscribe to. Hit the button and the tool selects something at random from thousands of titles, then shows you the poster, rating, description, and exactly which platforms carry it in the UK.
Most random movie pickers online were built for American audiences. They’ll suggest a title and leave you to figure out whether it’s available on anything you actually pay for. Pick a Movie checks UK streaming data from Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, BBC iPlayer, ITVX, NOW, Paramount+, HBO Max, and more. Every suggestion is something you can realistically watch tonight.
It works well for solo evenings when you’ve been scrolling for fifteen minutes and nothing has landed. It’s equally handy for group decisions — set the filters to something everyone agrees on, let the tool pick, and the argument is settled.
The genre and decade filters narrow things down without removing the element of surprise. Setting it to horror films from the 1980s, for example, gives you a focused but unpredictable result.