Show HN: A database for browsing and discovering movies

[artursapek]

Wow, after playing with it for 60 seconds my wife and I found a Humphrey Bogart movie we had never heard of that we are now going to watch. You should work on adding Amazon video links to it with a referral code, could be a good way to capitalize on this!

[oldboyFX]

Amazon and Hulu integration is on our todo list. It's unfortunate that we can't pull Netflix data since they're shutting down their api in 10 days.

[schutzsmith]

Seconded! Love, love, love the way you've setup filters. The wife and I are big movie and tv bingers (hate that word but that's the label I guess).

This is terrific and we've already found 5 movies that look exciting.

Amazon and Hulu links will be awesome! Netflix doesn't realize what the creativity they'll be stifling by shutting off their API.

Great job!!!

[carrotleads]

Had seen an app demo from a Melbourne based company who does most of this and had an Amazon link. Haven't dived deep in as it was a UX testing session. Should I mention the name/link, not sure of the ethics of it when someone does a Show HN.

[manuelflara]

Looks good, but the one feature that I find lacking (in this and other similar apps, like http://omive.com) is the ability to "hide" movies I've already seen. Because otherwise I have to go through pages and pages to find a movie I haven't seen, let alone consider watching.

[oldboyFX]

Multiple people said this, it's a shame how we didn't think of this before! We'll be adding this feature during the next couple of days! Thanks for pointing it out!

[shared4you]

Missing feature: Sort by language. This is especially important for massively multilingual countries like India. Choosing 'India' lists hundreds of movies, but I would like to sort it by language (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, etc.)

[obviouslygreen]

That's an interesting and potentially useful idea, but if you go down that road, I think it'd be immediately relevant to also go into available subtitle languages. It also really depends on where this site gets its data from, as the "from [country x]" filtering can yield some questionable results.

[stevephillips]

Good effort.

Finally I can see and sort by RT rating which I trust way more than imdb.

You could also somehow link it to "popcorn time" then it will complete the loop.

Also a separate section for "available on netflix" will make this indispensable.

You could even add a weekly newsletter that shows... 1. new movies on netflix. 2. must watch classics etc base on my taste 4. new episodes of [walking dead] available

and shoot it out on a friday :-)

[oldboyFX]

We'd love to include torrent links or even stream directly but we're too scurred :<

The netflix is shutting down their api but we'll do our best go get their data.

[djrconcepts]

This is pretty sweet, but wish there was a way to filter to show movies available on netflix.

[oldboyFX]

Netflix will be shutting down their API in 10 days. So unfortunately pulling their data won't be possible. We'll look into other services asap.

[djtriptych]

+1. I can't believe that still doesn't exist on the web. I have Hulu Plus, Netflix, and Amazon Prime accounts, but nothing will answer for me "Can I watch this movie for free somewhere?".

Filtering by streaming service is a killer feature.

[netcan]

Nice one. I'll definitely use this.

If you're looking to do something similar, this exact same app for books would be welcome too. Also podcasts, audio content (recorded letters), music, etc.

Discovery is an interesting problem. Between mobile apps & google's overall approach a lot of discovery seems to be based on giving you the right answer. Sometimes what you need is not the right answer, but a good way of browsing. I like filters and dials as a way of searching for things. It's fun.

[lalwanivikas]

It's good, but I recently found http://omive.com/ and it works great for me. Simple and very neatly built.

[kshatrea]

Just a tip, in case you find your way to adding it - while browsing through the India selection, I find that there are movies from different languages - I found Hindi, Malayalam and Tamil movies. My suggestion is that if you find a way to add a language filter, in addition to a country filter, that might help? This might be useful for others as well - for e.g a lot of Spanish speakers might look for movies from South America etc.

[lvs]

Related movies seem to be based on keyword search primarily, unconstrained by genre. But the keywords seem like sketchy content. Inception's keywords are "loss of lover dream sleep subconsciousness defense mechanism redemption," such that the top related movies are "The Science of Sleep" and "Sex and Lucia." Hmm... That doesn't seem quite right to me.

[oldboyFX]

Similar movies are pulled from TMDB API. We have nothing to do with it. But you are right, in some situations similar movies don't make much sense. We have to dig deeper into this and find a good solution.

[obviouslygreen]

I love the UI and the results! I'd just say that I have two concerns; while the click-to-add nature of the genre list is great, I don't think it's immediately intuitive. Perhaps I'm just part of the old "if you click a link it takes you to a page" demographic, but clicking to add or subtract -- while in my opinion the right mechanic here -- isn't immediately obvious. Making it more clear how this works could save you some traffic by avoiding requests from people who don't immediately understand how the UI works.

The second thing is that, on browsing movies "from Japan," I immediately get Band of Brothers, Kill Bill, Lost in Translation, The Last Samurai, and the latest American reboot of Godzilla. If it's intended to show movies set in a particular country, that's potentially a really cool gimmick, but as it is it seems inaccurate.

Love the site, though! Great work!

[rahilsondhi]

Login with Twitter doesn't work. After authorizing on Twitter.com, the "Please sign in" modal just stays there.

[oldboyFX]

Thanks for reporting this sneaky bug (logins working fine for most people).

We're looking into this. If you could provide any additional info about the error, it would be very helpful for us! Thanks

[davewasthere]

Also won't work with facebook/twitter/google. I authorise the app okay, but the modal doesn't close, and I don't get logged in. OAuth callback not working?

[PublicEnemy111]

None work for me either :/ really bummed because my girlfriend and I were just looking for movies to watch

[mhb]

Google+ login doesn't work for me either. Same symptoms.

[kolev]

No login works for me - Facebook, Twitter, Google+.

[ORioN63]

Login with Google doesn't work either.

[bgaluszka]

Doesn't load main content for me in FF. Console says "SecurityError: The operation is insecure." line 2 in http://www.movieo.me/assets/after_load/application-f2fa75b0d....

[ripb]

It's working fine for me in FF 32.0.3 and Chrome 37.0.2062.120 (64-bit)

[simonmales]

Very performant on the front end. Impressive.

[oldboyFX]

Thank you sir. It might have been slower for some people since we weren't really prepared for this amount of traffic.

HN rules.

[icebraining]

Great job. I like that you can combine genres, e.g. Science Fiction + Musical: http://www.movieo.me/?grid=grid_movie&file=movies%2F_movies&...

[leetrout]

Potentially related- Vunify is a service for discovering and following streaming content across multiple providers.

http://www.vunify.com/

[stevoo]

One issue is that i am not able to actually login with Twitter or Google+. Facebook seems to be working Google http://movieo.me/auth/failure?message=csrf_detected&strategy... Dont recall twitters.

WHAT i would love to have is a way to mark the movies i have seen and perhaps filter them out from the list ! That would make my life easier in picking up movies !

Other than that, this looks amazing. Great work

[oldboyFX]

Hello! Could you please try loging in now and tell us if it works.

[adi0x90]

Great interface. How about adding a small trailer button on each movie preview as well. Would save people time of clicking for a movie and then going for the trailer. Just my thoughts.

[djtriptych]

Already there. It's the play button in the lower left when you're in grid view, or the giant trailer button in list view :)

[pd0wm]

Looks good!

I think you have a small issue with the Rotten Tomatoes API, for example with the movie Lucy (http://www.movieo.me/240832-lucy). The page shows a 96% audience score, while the Rotten Tomatoes website says 48% (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/lucy_2014/).

[oldboyFX]

I noticed this aswell, it happens with audience score of some fresh movies (less than 1 month old). We pull this data from OMDB, so we can't really control it. We'll try to fix most of these cases manually.

[alexbilbie]

Just out of interest which data sources are you using?

[oldboyFX]

We use both TMDB and OMDB api's

[Lichine]

Really love the site and bookmarked. For an anime movie fan it's tough to find a nice place that does all the things you guys do in a user-friendly way, so this is epic.

Highest audience rated animation from Japan between 2000 and 2014? Bam, there you go. That's how you help people. :)

So thank you for making this. If you need any extra help / feedback in return, lemme know.

[ethebubbeth]

Checkout http://hummingbird.me/ for anime reccomendations. It's a similar idea.

[dublinben]

That exact kind of search (and more!) has been supported on the major private bittorrent trackers for years. They also have the benefit of offering all the movies with a single click.

[oldboyFX]

We're glad you like it! Thanks for the support ;)