Alternatives and competitors

Sites like themoviedb.org

The 20 closest online film database alternatives to themoviedb.org, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 7 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to themoviedb.org? The closest matches are IMDb, MyDramaList and Filmweb. 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 themoviedb.org

themoviedb.org

Wikidata: free, collaborative database about films

Top 10K · #1,020 English 7 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit themoviedb.org

Summary by Claude

A community-edited online database of movies and TV shows with cast, crew, release, poster and rating information, plus a widely used free API for developers.

Who it’s for
Movie and TV fans, developers building media apps
Business model
API licensing and advertising

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to themoviedb.org’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

Pluto TVVarietyMasterClassStatistaDeadlineMovieWebCBRFilmAffinityColliderMyDramaList

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to themoviedb.org

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to themoviedb.org, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English

We can’t read themoviedb.org’s homepage (bot protection page), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.

  1. 01
    MyDramaList mydramalist.com Top 10K English

    Asian film and drama database

  2. 02
    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.

  3. 03
    FilmAffinity filmaffinity.com Top 10K English

    movie recommendation website

  4. 04
    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!

  5. 05
    MovieWeb movieweb.com Top 10K English

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

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

  6. 06
    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.

  7. 07
    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

  8. 08
    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!

  9. 09
    MyAnimeList myanimelist.net Top 10K English

    MyAnimeList.net - Anime and Manga Database and Community

    Welcome to MyAnimeList, the world's most active online anime and manga community and database. Join the online community, create your anime and manga list, read reviews, explore the forums, follow news, and so much more!

  10. 10
    Tubi tubitv.com Top 10K English

    Tubi is the largest free movie and TV streaming service in the US. We are not available in Europe due to changes in EU laws.

    American streaming video service

  11. 11
    MasterClass masterclass.com English

    online education platform

  12. 12
    Variety variety.com Top 10K English

    Variety - Entertainment news, film reviews, awards, film festivals, box office, entertainment industry conferences

    Entertainment news, film reviews, awards, film festivals, box office, entertainment industry conferences

  13. 13
    Pluto TV pluto.tv Top 10K English

    Pluto TV: Watch Free Movies, TV Shows & Live TV Online

    Watch your choice of free hit movies, free binge-worthy TV shows & live TV online, anytime. Stream Now. Pay Never.

  14. 14
    SteamDB steamdb.info Top 10K English

    SteamDB

    online video game database

  15. 15
    Bored Panda boredpanda.com Top 10K English

    Bored Panda - The Only Magazine For Pandas

    Bored Panda is a leading art, pop culture and lifestyle magazine that is viewed nearly 100 million times every month.

  16. 16
    Baseball Reference baseball-reference.com Top 10K English

    Baseball statistics website

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    Liquipedia liquipedia.net Top 10K English

    Liquipedia

    esports encyclopedia

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    Canva canva.com Top 1K English

    Canva

    online graphic design platform

  19. 19
    BoardGameGeek boardgamegeek.com Top 10K English

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

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    MakeUseOf makeuseof.com Top 10K English

    MUO - Technology, Simplified.

    MUO is your guide to modern tech. Learn how to make use of the tech and gadgets around you, and discover cool stuff on the internet.

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to themoviedb.org’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones themoviedb.org uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What themoviedb.org is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

Built with

CDN
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Web servers
Email hosting
Email delivery
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DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)

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