Ask HN: What's the best movie recommendation system?

6 points by smectos 13 years ago | 11 comments

I was getting tired of searching imdb top lists and checking review sites for movie titles.I wanted something with a good intuitive recommendation system .

The first site I came upon was http://www.icheckmovies.com/ I checked about 300 movies + likes and dislikes and got 2 recommendations I was dissatisfied with.Deleted the account.

Right now I'm rating movies on movielens. What are you using ? Any recommendations ? Thank You.

staunch 13 years ago |

I find IMDB's "People who liked this also liked..." recommendation feature to work fairly well. You can hop from movie to movie until you find one that looks interesting.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113277/

It's not a personalization system, but it probably works better than most of those in my experience.

pgrote 13 years ago |

I've rated movies at Amazon, Netflix, Hulu and YouTube. It's a shame I cannot transfer that info into other sites.

evanwolf 13 years ago | |

Yes, movie rating/behavior personal data portability should be common. Just need a data structure and a protocol...

eterps 13 years ago |

Haven't seen anything better than Movielens (rated 1020 movies).

VikingCoder 13 years ago | |

http://movielens.umn.edu/login

Looks like I can't get into my account... Probably last used it 5 years ago...

majorapps 13 years ago |

http://www.majorapps.com/movies.html

nreece 13 years ago |

Also have a look at Goodfilms - http://goodfil.ms

debacle 13 years ago |

http://reddit.com/r/netflix/

smectos 13 years ago |

Thank you for all the suggestions.I guess I'll keep using movielens and imdb.

ippisl 13 years ago |

jinni.com . not for it's movie recommendations but for it's movie search which i find amazing.

dschmidt11 13 years ago |

foundd.com just discoverd this