How much of your screen does a film actually fill?

Ultrawyde helps you find films and shows that fill an ultrawide monitor properly. For every title we tell you whether it covers a 21:9 screen edge to edge, leaves thin bars down the sides, or shifts aspect ratio partway through, so you can pick something that looks right before you press play.

Roughly 2.39:1, the format often called Scope, CinemaScope or anamorphic widescreen. A 3440x1440 monitor works out to about 2.39:1, so films shot at 2.35:1, 2.39:1 or 2.40:1 fill it almost perfectly with no black bars.

Because most video is narrower than your screen. Standard TV and a lot of films are 16:9, so on a 21:9 monitor they leave bars down the left and right rather than the top and bottom. Only genuinely wide formats reach the edges, which is exactly what Ultrawyde helps you find.

It is how much of your ultrawide screen a film actually covers, with no cropping. A true 2.39:1 film scores around 100 per cent, a 2:1 film leaves thin side bars and scores lower, and you can set your own resolution so the figure reflects your exact monitor rather than a generic one.

A mixed ratio film changes shape partway through, usually because scenes were shot for IMAX or opened up for home release. Films like Oppenheimer and Interstellar switch between a tall IMAX frame and a wider one, so the bars appear and disappear as you watch. They look stunning but never sit still on an ultrawide, so we flag them clearly.

A few, but honestly not many. Almost all television is made in 16:9, which means side bars on a 21:9 screen. A small number of shows were filmed wider in 2:1, such as House of Cards and Ozark, though even those leave thin bars. We would rather tell you that plainly than pad the site with titles that disappoint.

It can. A film can be true widescreen yet still get boxed into 16:9 depending on the app you watch it in, since some services handle ultrawide playback better than others. Ultrawyde shows you which platforms a title is available on so you can find it easily, and the aspect ratio we list is the film's original format. How any given app displays it is worth checking on your end.

Yes. You can set your screen to 32:9 and every fill percentage recalculates for it. Be warned that almost nothing fills a 32:9 screen completely, since even Scope films are narrower than that, so we focus on showing you what gets closest.

We take aspect ratios seriously, since getting them right is the whole point of the site. Each figure reflects a film's original theatrical format, and where a title is uncertain or exists in several releases with different shapes, we say so rather than guess. If you ever spot something that looks off, you can flag it and we will take a look.

Yes, browsing and filtering the catalogue is free. The aim is simply to be the most reliable place to answer one question: will this look right on my ultrawide screen. If you'd like to support the project, consider buying me a coffee.