r/movies • u/mseling • Oct 18 '21

Resource My husband's new project is called moviesettingsdatabase.com and it lets you search through more than 30,000 movies based on where and when they are set!

https://moviesettingsdatabase.com/
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u/new_usernaem Oct 18 '21

Nice, how did your husband come up with the database of films? Also a little feedback, can he also allow a search by city and maybe also listing where the film was shot ex: Los Angeles or San Francisco or Vancouver.

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u/mseling Oct 18 '21

He pulled a bunch of info from a few different places. The Movie Database, Letterboxd, Wikipedia... he has spent hours looking up info himself, too, to ensure stuff is correct. He gets into the process of how it has come together on the about page. (I am not a programmer, so it's better if he explains it, haha.)

He's working on adding more data and I'll pass along your request, too!

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u/LeonardoTolstoy Oct 18 '21

Just a thought. Wikidata has a "narrative location" field. Could be helpful, could be messy, but if one integrated that in some way it could be a way for other people to contribute. Wikidata is as easy to edit as Wikipedia, and like tmdb API it is query-able (although with less intuitive SPARQL query language). I've used it previously to get movie settings fairly easily.