Boxd Club

Boxd Club is a private movie club for a small group of friends. Each round, it puts a few films on a ballot, everyone ranks them, and once the last person votes, the club has its next film.

The choices come from films people in the club already want to see, using their public Letterboxd watchlists. That means nobody has to come up with suggestions from scratch, and the ballot isn't filled with films no one asked for.

Clubs are invite-only. There's no public signup, no passwords, and no way to browse other people's clubs.

How a round works

A ballot arrives by email. It has a few films the club could watch, chosen from everyone's watchlists.
You rank them. Put the film you most want to watch at the top and the one you least want at the bottom. You can change your vote any time before the round closes.
The last vote closes the round. There's no deadline. The round stays open until everyone has voted. As soon as the last ballot comes in, the rankings are tallied and a winner is chosen.
Everyone watches the winner. Members with a Letterboxd account are counted when they log or rate it; anyone else says so on the club page. Once everyone has seen it, the next round opens automatically.

Nothing is tied to a schedule. If a club goes quiet for a couple of weeks, it simply carries on from where it left off.

Where the films come from

When someone creates a club, they choose how films should be added to the ballot. The current mode is always shown on the club page so everyone knows how it works.

Everyone's own watchlist — Films at least two of you already want, most-shared first — then single-picks to fill the ballot, so nobody's odd choices vanish.
Only films on every member's watchlist — Strict overlap: a film has to be on every single watchlist — though members without one sit it out rather than emptying the overlap for everyone. Past a handful of people the overlap is usually empty, and then no ballot goes out.
Every film on anyone's watchlist — Anything on anyone's watchlist, drawn at random. Overlap counts for nothing, so expect films only one of you has heard of.
One fixed Letterboxd list — Ignores watchlists entirely and draws at random from one public Letterboxd list, skipping anything a member has already watched. We can only see what everyone has logged lately, so import your watched.csv from Settings and it'll skip a great deal more.

Whichever mode you use, the club won't pick the same film twice. Once a film has been chosen, it's done. If a film appeared on a ballot but didn't win, it can come back later, after the other available films have had a chance.

If you use Letterboxd

This is the simplest way to use Boxd Club. All you need to add is your Letterboxd username in Settings.

Your watchlist helps make the ballot. We check it every few days, so adding something to your Letterboxd watchlist is also a way of suggesting it to the club.
Logging the winner tells the club you're done. Watch the film and log or rate it on Letterboxd as usual. We'll usually notice within a few hours, and once everyone has watched it, the next round opens.
Your profile picture comes with you. It gives the club page a little more of the people who are actually in it.

Boxd Club only reads information that's already public: your watchlist, recent diary activity, ratings, and profile picture. It never posts, follows, rates, or adds anything on your behalf.

You give us a Letterboxd username, not your password, and you don't authorize an app. Members of your club can also see the copy of this data we're using, along with when it was last updated, on the cache page.

If you don't use Letterboxd

You don't need a Letterboxd account to join a club. You still get the same emails, use the same ballot, and your vote counts exactly the same. You can also vote to skip a film like anyone else.

There are just two differences:

You don't have a watchlist for us to read, so you won't add films of your own to the ballot. You'll vote on films coming from the other members instead.
We can't tell automatically when you've watched the winning film, so you tell us. The club page has an I've watched it button, and pressing it is how the round hears from you.

The club won't wait on that button forever. Once everyone with a Letterboxd account has been seen watching the film, anyone left has 4 days to say they've watched it too. The club page shows the date. After that the round closes and the next one opens without them, so one person who never presses the button can't hold the club up indefinitely.

If nobody in the club uses Letterboxd, fixed list mode is usually the best fit. The ballot comes from a single public Letterboxd list: a Top 250, one director's films, someone's best-of list, or anything similar. Nobody in the club needs a Letterboxd account to use it.

From there, everything happens through email and the club page: you vote, you watch, and each of you presses I've watched it. In a club like that the 4-day countdown starts when the vote picks the film, since there's nothing else for it to wait on. Whoever created the club can also close a round by hand at any point.

If something gets stuck

You watched the film, but Boxd Club didn't notice. Maybe you didn't log it, or the entry is old enough that we missed it. There's an I've watched it button on the club page you can use instead. We'll show that as something you told us directly, rather than something we saw on Letterboxd.
The film isn't available. Anyone can vote to skip it. If half the club votes to skip — with at least two people required — the round ends and a new one opens. The skipped film won't be offered again.
Someone hasn't voted yet. They'll get a reminder, and the club page will show who the round is still waiting for.

Signing in

There are no passwords. Enter your email address and we'll send you a link that signs you in. The same kind of sign-in link is included in ballot emails too.

Sessions don't expire, so on a personal phone or computer you generally only need to sign in once.

Every email includes an unsubscribe link. If you unsubscribe, we'll remove you from the clubs you're participating in rather than leave you attached to ballots you no longer receive.

Joining a club

Someone who's already in the club needs to add you. Ask the person who sent you here and an invitation will arrive by email.

If you're already a member, sign in here.