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WhatIsTheMovie

Find movies from descriptions

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WhatIsThisMovie is a movie discovery tool that helps users identify films from screenshots, scene clues, or simple keywords. In seconds, users can find the title, release year, cast, genre, and related recommendations.

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Features

- Find any movie from any description.

- One screenshot. One title. Instant answer.

- From a scene to the full story.

- Don’t remember the title? Start with the image.

- Every memorable movie moment deserves a name.

Use Cases

WhatIsThisMovie is built for a common problem: you remember a scene, but you can’t remember the movie title.

Our platform makes movie search faster and easier by combining visual clues and rich metadata. Users can start with a screenshot or a short scene description, then quickly discover matching films and complete details, including posters, release dates, genres, ratings, and cast information.

Beyond identification, the website also supports movie exploration. After finding one film, users can continue browsing similar titles by genre, year, popularity, and region, making the experience useful for both quick lookups and long-form discovery.

Whether you are a movie fan, a content creator, or a casual viewer, What Is This Movie helps turn “I’ve seen this before” into “Now I know exactly what it is.”

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Building Loomal.ai

Cool project , way to go !

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I created a Free wellness toolkit for bu...

damn it helped me alot bro

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Tech, Cycling, 3D

helpful for finding a good one to watch!

Super cool. It helps me find the film that I forgot.

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Building products fast and imperfectly

solid premise. screenshot to title is the natural query for most people, way more intuitive than typing half-remembered plot keywords. one suggestion: a 'i remember a scene where X happened' search would slot into the same workflow and probably catch a lot of the queries that fail when there's no still to upload. good luck with the launch

Sounds really useful

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indie hackers

love this idea, like to use it

This actually solves a real pain for me 😅 I’ve had so many moments seeing a random scene and having no idea what movie it’s from. Being able to search by screenshot or vague clues is super useful.

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Senior Software Engineer | 20+ Years Exp...

Strong concept and clear use case, but it feels generic and needs sharper differentiation and a more compelling hook to stand out.

Love this idea — I've spent way too long trying to remember movie titles from vague descriptions. Quick question: does it handle descriptions in languages other than English? That would be a huge differentiator for non-English speakers.

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Founder of GoBurley

This looks cool! Simple and solves a quirky problem that movie mad people will defo have! Good luck :)

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Design/Frontend Engineer 🚀 Building pro...

This is great! Simple, fast, and does exactly what it needs to. Congrats! 🎉 I highly recommend adding support for other languages in the future.

very cool project. wonder how do you have the movie db?

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Former military turned into tech as a we...

Something simple and super useful, and really nice website btw!

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Building Veritads a performance ad platf...

oh I used to always wish for something like this couple years ago

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Founder of BingeBracket

Huh, this is.a cool idea. I am a fellow movie app builder so nice to see someone else that's not just SAAS. Like the website a lot!

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Engineering Leader and IC

Ahaaaa this is pretty cool. Shazam for films

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Growth and operations at RouterBase, an ...

The idea of "Find movies from descriptions" is really compelling, especially for those obscure films where you only remember a specific scene, not the title. I've found that similar fuzzy matching capabilities are invaluable in other domains too, like when trying to recall API calls based on a vague memory of their function; <a href="https://routerbase.com"> RouterBase: One API for GPT </a> has been quite useful for streamlining that kind of recall.

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Cabin bags size-matched to 20 UK airline...

Could defn. turn this into a game for friends

Good way to find movies from your childhood.

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Let's GOOOO

Using sound would be great too, if you can just record the show as its playing and say what movie is this. Another idea would be to link up with the providers that rent or show the movies fro free and get a payment from them. Keep moving forward.

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Software Engineer :)

That's something I always tried to do anyway by myself haha

it's very useful, it helped me a lot!

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Solo founder building small SaaS product...

Very simple, but powerful idea for micro-SaaS! I like it!

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Building Loomal.ai

Cool project , way to go !

custom-img
I created a Free wellness toolkit for bu...

damn it helped me alot bro

custom-img
Tech, Cycling, 3D

helpful for finding a good one to watch!

Super cool. It helps me find the film that I forgot.

custom-img
Building products fast and imperfectly

solid premise. screenshot to title is the natural query for most people, way more intuitive than typing half-remembered plot keywords. one suggestion: a 'i remember a scene where X happened' search would slot into the same workflow and probably catch a lot of the queries that fail when there's no still to upload. good luck with the launch

Sounds really useful

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indie hackers

love this idea, like to use it

This actually solves a real pain for me 😅 I’ve had so many moments seeing a random scene and having no idea what movie it’s from. Being able to search by screenshot or vague clues is super useful.

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Senior Software Engineer | 20+ Years Exp...

Strong concept and clear use case, but it feels generic and needs sharper differentiation and a more compelling hook to stand out.

Love this idea — I've spent way too long trying to remember movie titles from vague descriptions. Quick question: does it handle descriptions in languages other than English? That would be a huge differentiator for non-English speakers.

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Founder of GoBurley

This looks cool! Simple and solves a quirky problem that movie mad people will defo have! Good luck :)

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Design/Frontend Engineer 🚀 Building pro...

This is great! Simple, fast, and does exactly what it needs to. Congrats! 🎉 I highly recommend adding support for other languages in the future.

very cool project. wonder how do you have the movie db?

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Former military turned into tech as a we...

Something simple and super useful, and really nice website btw!

custom-img
Building Veritads a performance ad platf...

oh I used to always wish for something like this couple years ago

custom-img
Founder of BingeBracket

Huh, this is.a cool idea. I am a fellow movie app builder so nice to see someone else that's not just SAAS. Like the website a lot!

custom-img
Engineering Leader and IC

Ahaaaa this is pretty cool. Shazam for films

custom-img
Growth and operations at RouterBase, an ...

The idea of "Find movies from descriptions" is really compelling, especially for those obscure films where you only remember a specific scene, not the title. I've found that similar fuzzy matching capabilities are invaluable in other domains too, like when trying to recall API calls based on a vague memory of their function; <a href="https://routerbase.com"> RouterBase: One API for GPT </a> has been quite useful for streamlining that kind of recall.

custom-img
Cabin bags size-matched to 20 UK airline...

Could defn. turn this into a game for friends

Good way to find movies from your childhood.

custom-img
Let's GOOOO

Using sound would be great too, if you can just record the show as its playing and say what movie is this. Another idea would be to link up with the providers that rent or show the movies fro free and get a payment from them. Keep moving forward.

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Software Engineer :)

That's something I always tried to do anyway by myself haha

it's very useful, it helped me a lot!

custom-img
Solo founder building small SaaS product...

Very simple, but powerful idea for micro-SaaS! I like it!