Using Tags on Letterboxd

Letterboxd is a powerful tool for organizing your movie watching. And one especially useful feature for staying organized is tags. Tags let you add extra context to every entry, whether it’s to track who you watched with or what format you saw it in. Used well, they make your time on Letterboxd more fun.

What Are Tags?

Tags are custom labels you can attach to diary entries (logs), lists, and reviews. Think of them like keywords that let you categorize and filter your films. Tags are user-generated, meaning you can design a system that works best for you.

How to Add Tags

When logging a film, find the Tags field near the bottom of the form. Type in a word or phrase. Once you save your log, the tag is attached.

Tags aren’t just for diary entries; you can also add them to lists.

To retroactively add tags to older entries, just open a diary entry, click Edit or delete this review, and add your tags there.

Every tag you’ve used will appear on your profile under the Tags tab in your profile.

Best Ways to Use Tags

Format or Location

• Example: theater, blu-ray, netflix

These tags help you remember how or where you watched it. It’s also a useful way to determine if you’re getting your money’s worth with your streaming subscriptions.

Who You Watch With

• Example: with-mom, date-night, with-my-girls

These tags help you keep track of your movie-watching companions.

Challenges or Events

• Example: hooptober, noirvember, new-york-film-festival-2025

These tags connect you to community-wide marathons or film festivals.

Film Details

• Example: beautiful-cinematography, oscar-winner, passes-bechdel-test

These tags capture specific qualities or themes that Letterboxd’s default categories don’t cover.

Ownership

• Example: owned

Anyone can apply this tag, but only Pro or Patron subscribers can use it as a filter to quickly check their library against lists or watchlists.

List Type

• Example: ranking, annual, director-filmography

These tags make it easy to group lists together, so you can quickly find and organize projects by type or theme.

Advanced Ways to Use Tags

Pin Reviews and Lists to Your Profile

• Example: profile

For Pro or Patron subscribers only. Applying this tag to a review or list will pin it to your profile for everyone to see.

Shape Your Stats Pages

Letterboxd has special tags for lists that directly impact your Stats pages. These can influence what shows up in your All-Time Stats and your Year-in-Review.

• topstats builds your “All-Time Favorites” list on the All Stats page.
• allstats adds a featured list to your All Stats page.
• yir2023, yir2024, etc. adds featured lists into your Year in Review stats for that year.
• top2023, top2024, etc. creates a ranked list of that year’s releases, which then displays in your Year Stats.