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Letterboxd VS TMDB

Compare Letterboxd VS TMDB and see what are their differences

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Letterboxd is a social site for sharing your taste in film, now in public beta.

TMDB logo TMDB

free movie database
  • Letterboxd Landing page
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    2022-10-19
  • TMDB Landing page
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    2022-01-17

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  • Review - Uwe Boll's CRAZY Letterboxd Reviews
  • Review - My 2019 Year in Review on Letterboxd

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Letterboxd and TMDB)
Movie Reviews
71 71%
29% 29
Movie Ratings
69 69%
31% 31
Movies
68 68%
32% 32
Entertainment
87 87%
13% 13

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Reviews

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Letterboxd Reviews

Best Sites For Rating Movies: 6 Top Movie Review Websites
Letterboxd: Letterboxd is a social media platform for movie lovers that allows users to rate and review films, create watchlists, and follow other users with similar tastes. Its recommendation algorithm is known for being particularly effective.

TMDB Reviews

Best Sites For Rating Movies: 6 Top Movie Review Websites
The Movie Database (TMDb) is a popular choice for movie enthusiasts looking for an extensive and community-driven film database.

Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Letterboxd should be more popular than TMDB. It has been mentiond 149 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Letterboxd mentions (149)

  • What is the Best Film You Watched Last Week? (11/15/23-11/22/23)
    5. Best Submissions can display their [Letterboxd Accts] the following week. Source: 5 months ago
  • I made a tool to embed your most recently-watched movies (as logged on Letterboxd.com) on your personal site
    Letterboxd is a site/app for logging movies that you've watched. I had always wanted a way to show my most recently-watched movies on my personal website. Source: 5 months ago
  • For your Consideration: HoopTober X
    On the social media site for film geeks that is Letterboxd, a sizeable amount of the community has an official, unofficial horrorthon each year called HoopTober, helmed by the benevolent Cinemonster. Source: 8 months ago
  • What is the Best Film You Watched Last Week? (06/28/23-07/05/23)
    5. Best Submissions can display their [Letterboxd Accts] the following week. Source: 10 months ago
  • Bridging the Gap Between YouTube / Television
    Favoree looks interesting. Maybe the connection between Favoree and Letterboxd is more apt than Rotten Tomatoes as the latter doesn't have as much of a social lens. Source: 10 months ago
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TMDB mentions (81)

  • My Dragons Den journey
    So I like watching Dragon's Den Canada but it's never easy. I've added the meta data from the CBC website to themoviedb.org for each episode and will continue to do so. I can't be bothered adding thumbnails but I do enter descriptions of the episodes. The problem is the sources keep pulling Dragons' Den UK. Took me a bit a playing around but I finally figured out if I use a Rescrape menu (any fork of Venom will... Source: 7 months ago
  • You like to follow filmmakers and don't want to miss their releases? So do I. That's why I built movienerd.tv (its free!)
    Movienerd features over 3 Mio. International filmmakers you may browse through and follow. As other services like letterboxd and trakt do, I access the database of themoviedb.org, hence the pool of available actors, directors, editors, composers, screenwriters, make-up artists and more is huge! As soon as you follow at least one filmmaker, your radar feed displays you automatically past and upcoming releases, that... Source: 10 months ago
  • Website or Tracker to get untouched/uncompressed movie posters?
    Fanart.tv, themoviedb.org, thetvdb.com will have artwork for TV shows and movies at pretty good quality. Source: 10 months ago
  • How to name single episodes, specifically natgeo
    First, read through the naming guidelines to see how Plex expects shows/episodes to be named and organized. Then, you can look at TVDB/TMDB to see what episodes your files can actually be matched against:. Source: 10 months ago
  • Infuse remote
    For Infuse you need to use the naming convention it expects. I believe it uses themoviedb.org so if you search the filename on there and it’s not coming back as the first search result, Infuse will get confused. Source: 11 months ago
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What are some alternatives?

When comparing Letterboxd and TMDB, you can also consider the following products

IMDb - Internet Movie Database

Simkl - Simkl is a TV, anime, and movie tracker that keeps a history of all the shows and movies you watch in one, central location. It’s a mobile app, a website, Google Chrome extension to keep track of everything you watch and integrates with many TV apps

TheTVDB.com - An open TV series database that can be modified by anybody, and accessed vi an XML API.

Trakt.tv - Automatically track TV shows & movies you're watching.

TasteDive - TasteDive recommends similar music (musicians, bands), movies, TV shows, books, authors and games, based on what you like.

Criticker - The independent movie, TV and board game recommendation engine and community.