Alternatives and competitors
Sites like IMDb
The 20 closest online film database alternatives to IMDb, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 7 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to IMDb? The closest matches are themoviedb.org, Filmweb and MyDramaList. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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- k = 20
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01 · Entity
About IMDb
IMDb imdb.com
Wikidata: online database of information related to films, television series, and video games
Summary by Claude
An online database of films, TV series, video games and podcasts with cast and crew credits, biographies, plot summaries, trivia, user ratings and reviews, plus trailers and showtimes.
- Who it’s for
- Movie and TV viewers, entertainment fans and industry professionals
- Business model
- Advertising and subscriptions (IMDbPro)
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to IMDb’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to IMDb
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to IMDb, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read imdb.com’s homepage (robots.txt disallows our crawler), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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free, collaborative database about films
Very close cos 0.950 - 02
Filmweb - filmy takie jak Ty!
Filmweb.pl - Filmy takie jak Ty Filmweb to największy i najczęściej odwiedzany polski serwis filmowy. Największa baza filmów, seriali i aktorów, repertuar kin i tv, premiery, nowości...
Very close cos 0.927 - 03
Asian film and drama database
Very close cos 0.922 - 04
Кинопоиск. Онлайн кинотеатр. Фильмы сериалы мультфильмы и энциклопедия
Поиск фильмов, новости кино, отзывы пользователей, афиша кинотеатров, фотографии, постеры, трейлеры, кассовые сборы и многое другое.
Very close cos 0.923 - 05 Very close cos 0.913
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AlloCiné : Cinéma, Séries TV, BO de films et séries, Vidéos, DVD et VOD
AlloCiné, le site de référence du cinéma et des séries tv ! Découvrez notre recherche d'horaires de films, le programme tv de vos séries préférées, l'actualité ciné et séries, les émissions AlloCiné, les dernières bandes-annonces, et plus encore.
Very close cos 0.912 - 07
online database of board games, game designers and game publishers worldwide
Very close cos 0.909 - 08
New Movie News, Movie Trailers & Upcoming Movie Reviews | Collider
Stay up to date with new movie news, watch the latest movie trailers & get trusted reviews of upcoming movies & more from the team at Collider.
Very close cos 0.912 - 09
movie recommendation website
Very close cos 0.906 - 10
CBR - The World's Top Destination For Comic, Movie & TV news
Covering comics, movies, TV like no other in the world. CBR.com is all you need!
Very close cos 0.910 - 11
Home - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives
website on heavy metal bands
Very close cos 0.906 - 12
JustWatch - The Streaming Guide
All your streaming services in one app.
Very close cos 0.904 - 13
Statista - The Statistics Portal for Market Data, Market Research and Market Studies
Find statistics, consumer survey results and industry studies from over 22,500 sources on over 60,000 topics on the internet's leading statistics database
Very close cos 0.903 - 14
MovieWeb - Movie News, Trailers, Reviews, and Exclusives.
The latest movie news, trailers, reviews, and more.
Very close cos 0.906 - 15
ScreenRant: Movie News, Movie Reviews, Movie Trailers, TV News
ScreenRant debuted in 2003 and has grown into the largest source of breaking entertainment news & original features for movies, TV, comics, + more!
Very close cos 0.904 - 16
Deadline – Hollywood Entertainment Breaking News
Deadline.com is always the first to break up-to-the-minute entertainment, Hollywood and media news, with an unfiltered, no-holds-barred analysis of events.
Very close cos 0.903 - 17 Very close cos 0.900
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Polygon: Gaming and Entertainment News, Culture, Reviews, and More
Your source for the latest in video games, sci-fi, fantasy, tabletop games, anime, horror, books, and comics.
Very close cos 0.901 - 19
Internet Meme Database | Know Your Meme
Know Your Meme is a website dedicated to documenting Internet phenomena: viral videos, image macros, catchphrases, web celebs and more.
Very close cos 0.897 - 20
Prime Video | Watch movies, TV shows, Live TV, and sports
Watch now on Prime Video for a wide selection of movies, TV shows, live TV, and sports.
Very close cos 0.899
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to imdb.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones IMDb uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What IMDb is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms74462343
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-590.awsdns-09.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=b6bcd3e5aaffc63607c8bf75744d9a0d1febc50dd…
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=0jFtlxygq-YPBzUgTNd2qDiTxb6TpG8Hf1qJcLlFb_w
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=ZT4AapXgobCpXIWoNcd7gtMjZyOUdr4EDFMnFUW…
- Canva TXT canva-site-verification=knObS_jT07ww5BsgiACF8g
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=f3PqOeHGPuPaaRAkAPJ4bSO-O8bDQOohrmdwxtJAIIM
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what IMDb adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace · not on imdb.com 10/20
- Amazon SES · not on imdb.com 9/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on imdb.com 8/20
- Google Analytics · not on imdb.com 8/20
- Cloudflare · not on imdb.com 7/20
- PHP · not on imdb.com 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on imdb.com 6/20
- nginx · not on imdb.com 6/20
- WordPress · not on imdb.com 6/20
- Microsoft 365 5/20
- Amazon Route 53 5/20
- jsDelivr · not on imdb.com 5/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on imdb.com 3/20
- GlobalSign · not on imdb.com 3/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on imdb.com 3/20