Serena fingerprintHigh energy, strong craft, light on feelings.
Tense
Builds slowly, so the intensity comes in waves.
Melancholic and romantic
Some sharp wit
Not a comedy at heart.
History, the mind, and class and money
Standout characters
Functional look and sound
Tense
Builds slowly, so the intensity comes in waves.
Serena is tense. The story builds slowly, so the intensity comes in waves.
Melancholic and romantic
Emotionally, it's melancholic, romantic, and moving.
Some sharp wit
Not a comedy at heart.
Expect some sharp wit.
History, the mind, and class and money
Its world is built around history, the mind, and class and money.
Standout characters
The characters stand out.
Functional look and sound
The look and sound stay functional.
Based on the GoodWatch fingerprint: our scores for 70+ attributes of every movie. Select a row to see all of them.
Some loves can never let go.
You are here: SerenaTap a poster to move
You are herePreview
vscompared with Serena
Serena2014
Point at a poster to compare itHold a poster to compare it
A chip fills to its level. Tap a full one for titles without that trait, a low one for titles with it.
Open a page:A Place in the Sun (1951)Lady Macbeth (2016)Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)Fury (1936)Ashes and Diamonds (1958)Last Train from Gun Hill (1959)Scarlet Street (1945)The Vanishing (2019)Drunken Angel (1948)Shanghai Express (1932)The Sicilian Clan (1969)The Panic in Needle Park (1971)My Cousin Rachel (2017)One-Eyed Jacks (1961)Suspicion (1941)Ash Is Purest White (2018)Straight Time (1978)The Lady from Shanghai (1947)Grand Hotel (1932)The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)High Sierra (1941)The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)Omkara (2006)Double Indemnity (1944)The Sisters Brothers (2018)The Nile Hilton Incident (2017)The Earrings of Madame de... (1953)The Deep Blue Sea (2011)Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974 (2009)The English (2022)The Salvation (2014)Othello (1995)Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai (2010)Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (2011)Grand Hotel (2011)From Hell (2001)The Mastermind (2025)Greed (1924)Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)The Big Combo (1955)The Man from Laramie (1955)Othello (1951)The Wings of the Dove (1997)The Servant (1963)RIPLEY (2024)The Butcher (1970)Wuthering Heights (2011)Heaven's Gate (1980)Cold War (2018)Beirut (2018)McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)Blackthorn (2011)Ride the High Country (1962)The Letter (1940)The Two Faces of January (2014)Deadwood: The Movie (2019)Jezebel (1938)Bonnie and Clyde (1967)CAT (2022)The Roaring Twenties (1939)Leave Her to Heaven (1945)An Inspector Calls (2015)Infernal Affairs II (2003)
Quick answers from GoodWatch data.
Serena is included with a subscription to Netflix, Hulu, and fuboTV in the United States. You can watch it free with ads on Kanopy, Hoopla, and Fandango at Home Free. You can also rent or buy it from Apple TV, Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, and Google Play Movies. All links in Where to Watch go to these licensed services.
Reviews are weak, with a GoodWatch score of 36/100 (IMDb 5.5, Rotten Tomatoes 17%, and Metacritic 36). The GoodWatch score combines critic and audience ratings.
It's rated R in the United States. Content advisories: violence.
1 h 49 min
Serena runs 1 h 49 min.
Not quite. Audiences rate Serena higher (43) than critics (27). It's more of a crowd-pleaser than a critics' pick.
No. It cost about $30 million to make and earned $5 million worldwide, 17% of its budget.
It was made in English. Produced in United States.
+41GoodWatch finds legal streaming, rental, or purchase options for Serena in 55 countries. Pick any of them in Where to Watch to see the local services.
TV Tropes lists 25 storytelling tropes for Serena, including Make It Look Like A, Hero Antagonist, Driven to Suicide.
5.5
