My Personal Movie Database \ stacker news ~movies

960 sats \ 23 comments \ @Jon_Hodl 10 Oct movies

A while ago I was looking for a movie and getting frustrated at endless sea of options on all of the streaming platforms. I end up scrolling through a sea of junk in hopes of discovering something new and worth watching but to no avail on most nights. That's when I decided that I just need a massive list of all of the movies and TV series that I already like and I can search for some of them and maybe find some related or similar movie types.

Rather than individually sharing each one of my favorite movies, I am just going to share my movie database with everyone and anyone can recommend movies to be added to my list as well as watch any of the movies and shows that I have archived.

My Personal Movie Database

This is definitely an incomplete list. I have a lot more movies and shows I would like to add as well as some of my own notes and commentary.

Some of these movies are my favorite and others are just some movies that looked good to me so I watched them. Some are cult classics and others are rubbish. For example, I hate the movie American Psycho but it's a cult classic and on the list.

I have yet to add any series like Star Wars, the MCU, Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, etc because it will just take a lot of time to type up and organize.

Let me know what you think. Enjoy.

0 sats \ 5 replies \ @mwaters 11 Oct

I use Movary.

https://github.com/leepeuker/movary

Hosted on Tor here.

http://movary7rvjpz746nn65wwm6ow3wfigp7tsanpfjnkldxaxzjfufns5id.onion/users/mark/dashboard

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @Jon_Hodl OP 11 Oct

That looks fresh. I like the Tor accessibility. I will have to look into something like that in the future.

Where does that media live? On your own server? Do you run JellyFin or Plex?

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @mwaters 11 Oct

Yes, our media is hosted on a local NAS. I have a local jellyfin server that indexes the media library, this can also post to Movary automatically.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Jon_Hodl OP 11 Oct

That sounds like a fresh setup.

Is there any way for you to filter out actors or look for a movie with specific or multiple actors that you like?

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @mwaters 12 Oct

When you click on an actor Movary and Jellyfin show you what other films they have acted in or directed , is this what you mean ?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Jon_Hodl OP 13 Oct

Kind of but that sounds very useful. I will have to look into this further.

21 sats \ 3 replies \ @037447d9ca 11 Oct

Did you know about ShowCase and CineLog apps?

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Jon_Hodl OP 11 Oct

I haven't heard of these until this comment. Thanks for sharing. They seem like media manager tools to actually watch the movie or something.

I plan on setting up my own JellyFin instance when I have the bandwidth but it's lower priority than just managing this list and watching on streaming services when they're available.

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @037447d9ca 11 Oct

No, they're not for watching; not a replacement for Jellyfin/Kodi. They're just for managing your own list of movies/series and reviews about them (just like your airtable), augmented with information from TMDB.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Jon_Hodl OP 11 Oct

I like that. I will have to take a closer look. Thanks for sharing.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve 11 Oct

Using air table! Nice!

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Jon_Hodl OP 11 Oct

Yeah, I like the sorting and filtering options so if I want to watch a movie with Brad Pitt and Chris Pratt, I can just filter out all of the movies without those actors and I am left with no other movies except Moneyball.

Or maybe I want a movie with Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman. I just set the filter and the only movie on my list with both of them is The Prestige so maybe I will watch that.

Airtable is a really powerful tool. I really like it but wish I had an open source alternative that worked just as well.

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @SatsMate 11 Oct

Give Casino Royale a movie if you haven't watched it yet! I love that movie. Nice list.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Jon_Hodl OP 11 Oct

I have seen Casino Royale but it's been a long time. I just added it to the list but I need a better way to organize specific series like 007, Harry Potter, Star Wars, etc.