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.
- 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.
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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damn it helped me alot bro
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
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.
Senior Software Engineer | 20+ Years Experience
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.
Founder of GoBurley
This looks cool! Simple and solves a quirky problem that movie mad people will defo have! Good luck :)
Design/Frontend Engineer 🚀 Building products
This is great! Simple, fast, and does exactly what it needs to. Congrats! 🎉 I highly recommend adding support for other languages in the future.
Former military turned into tech as a web developer, I build SaaS and web directories.
Something simple and super useful, and really nice website btw!
Building Veritads a performance ad platform where brands pay real people to post short clips on TikTok and Instagram. Only pay for verified views.
oh I used to always wish for something like this couple years ago
Sounds really useful
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!
Building Loomal.ai
Cool project , way to go !
Super cool. It helps me find the film that I forgot.
very cool project. wonder how do you have the movie db?
Tech, Cycling, 3D
helpful for finding a good one to watch!
Growth and operations at RouterBase, an AI API gateway giving developers unified access to 200+ models through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint.
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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Could defn. turn this into a game for friends
Good way to find movies from your childhood.
Engineering Leader and IC
Ahaaaa this is pretty cool. Shazam for films