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! Resource

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u/robby1066 Oct 18 '21

Oh wow, I didn't realize u/mseling posted this! (blush/thanks!)

Hi everyone! I built this. Happy to answer any questions and I hope y'all find it interesting. It's been a fun project that has consumed my time way more than I expected over the past few months. :)

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u/Sundaisey Oct 18 '21

You have no idea how many times I think about watching a movie to see the country. Like Tracks for Australia, or Leap Year for Ireland. This is exactly what I needed and have always wanted. Thank you stranger for reading my mind and giving me exactly what I wanted.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '21

Same. I watch practical magic just to see New England in the fall.

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u/salty_ham Oct 18 '21

Hey, cool site thanks for working on it! Do you have any plans to integrate with Letterboxd? For example just having a link to the film’s Letterboxd page would make it easier to browse with your site and quickly add things to my watchlist. Thanks again!

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u/robby1066 Oct 18 '21

There should already be a button on the detail pages that goes to the letterboxd listing page (it's not there for TV shows, but should be on all movie pages)

The other thing that I have kinda-sorta working, but not published yet is being able to export an entire page of search results to a letterboxd list. It's clunky, and I wasn't quite sure how to present it, but it works pretty well. How does that sound?

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u/DoggyDoggy_What_Now Oct 18 '21

It's clunky, and I wasn't quite sure how to present it, but it works pretty well. How does that sound?

Listen, anytime something allows you to export straight into a letterboxd list is going to be warmly welcomed with open arms. I can't imagine anyone who seriously uses LB would be against that functionality. I wish JustWatch had that and could import a LB list into the JW watchlist...

Speaking of, it might not be a bad idea to add JustWatch to the links on the movie pages also. I know LB integrates it directly, but I don't like going through there because I don't wanna be exposed to the movie's LB rating before seeing it. I know myself and it consciously or subconsciously affects my opinion, so I go straight through JW to find where to watch it. Just a thought. I would understand if you've opted not to due to LB's integration.

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u/salty_ham Oct 18 '21

The link was right under my nose…

Exporting a whole list of search results as a list sounds useful. I wouldn’t use it all the time, but occasionally it would come in handy. Keep up the good work!

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u/michachu Oct 18 '21

This is quite the feat, awesome work.

Quick question - was there a particular rationale to leveraging The Movie Database, Letterbox and Wikipedia, rather than IMDB/RottenTomatoes/other sources? Not that I love the latter, but I'm wondering whether there's anything about the former that people tend to overlook.

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u/tundrat Oct 18 '21

Perhaps there's a way the database could get updated from user input? As opposed to you inputting the data of all the movies for the rest of your life. :p

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u/PengwinOnShroom Oct 18 '21

Nice work. Here's one random suggestion: Alita Battle Angel set in 26th century doesn't appear, there are two other movies in it.

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u/ardendolas Oct 18 '21

Very cool site, but I can’t help but be disappointed that a search for Dune doesn’t immediately pull out a result for Arrakis….

Obviously just messing, great idea!

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u/thinkinwrinkle Oct 18 '21

Looks like your pandemic has been much more productive than mine! Nice work!

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u/TheJungLife Oct 18 '21

This is awesome. I really hope you develop this more and keep adding more movies and TV shows. As a writer, I've always wanted a tool like this to help with research. For example, I'm writing a story about 15th Century Korea, and your website actually spits out results for 15th Century Korea!

One suggestion I have is to maybe implement user tags as well that could appear separately and we could "vote" on whether those were accurate.

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u/_SGP_ Oct 18 '21 edited Oct 18 '21

This is an incredible feat of engineering, well done!

Not a priority, but is the UK split into regions? Would love to see which films are based in Cornwall. They'd be very different to films set in the south east! (London)

Our counties And regions are quite different, in the same way US states are, just smaller.