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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01 · Entity

About IMDb

IMDb imdb.com

Wikidata: online database of information related to films, television series, and video games

Top 1K · #263 7 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026

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

DeadlineMovieWebStatistaBoardGameGeekAlloCinékinoafisha.infoKinopoiskMyDramaListFilmwebthemoviedb.org

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.

  1. 01
    themoviedb.org Top 10K English

    free, collaborative database about films

  2. 02
    Filmweb filmweb.pl Top 10K Polish

    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...

  3. 03
    MyDramaList mydramalist.com Top 10K English

    Asian film and drama database

  4. 04
    Kinopoisk kinopoisk.ru Top 10K

    Кинопоиск. Онлайн кинотеатр. Фильмы сериалы мультфильмы и энциклопедия

    Поиск фильмов, новости кино, отзывы пользователей, афиша кинотеатров, фотографии, постеры, трейлеры, кассовые сборы и многое другое.

  5. 05

    DDoS-Guard

  6. 06
    AlloCiné allocine.fr Top 10K French

    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.

  7. 07
    BoardGameGeek boardgamegeek.com Top 10K English

    online database of board games, game designers and game publishers worldwide

  8. 08
    Collider collider.com Top 10K English

    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.

  9. 09
    FilmAffinity filmaffinity.com Top 10K English

    movie recommendation website

  10. 10
    CBR cbr.com Top 10K English

    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!

  11. 11
    Metal Archives metal-archives.com Top 10K

    Home - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives

    website on heavy metal bands

  12. 12
    JustWatch justwatch.com Top 10K German

    JustWatch - The Streaming Guide

    All your streaming services in one app.

  13. 13
    Statista statista.com Top 1K English

    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

  14. 14
    MovieWeb movieweb.com Top 10K English

    MovieWeb - Movie News, Trailers, Reviews, and Exclusives.

    The latest movie news, trailers, reviews, and more.

  15. 15
    ScreenRant screenrant.com Top 10K English

    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!

  16. 16
    Deadline deadline.com Top 10K English

    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.

  17. 17
    goojara.to Top 10K

    Watch movies, series, animes online - Goojara.ch

  18. 18
    Polygon polygon.com Top 10K English

    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.

  19. 19
    Know Your Meme knowyourmeme.com Top 10K English

    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.

  20. 20
    Prime Video primevideo.com Top 1K English

    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.

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
DNS hosting
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

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