Movie-recommender

Now with richer Watch Now links and a larger iPad trailer player, so it is easier to preview and find where to watch a title legally.

Discover your next favorite movie with CineSearch — an AI-powered search that understands how you actually talk about films. Search by mood, theme, decade, role, or any combination of them. Talk to it. Tap a poster. Find the next thing to watch in seconds.

WHAT'S DIFFERENT

• Natural-language search. Type or speak a phrase the way you'd describe a film to a friend — "feel-good comedies from the nineties," "slow-burn psychological thrillers," "musicals with ensemble casts." CineSearch parses your intent and turns it into a structured query, with no boolean operators or filter checkboxes.

• Voice search, built in. Tap the mic and speak. Punctuation is added automatically. Great for hands-free browsing on the couch.

• A real AI pipeline. Behind every query, a stack of optional models — query expansion, hypothetical document embeddings (HyDE), reciprocal-rank fusion across lexical and semantic indexes, and a cross-encoder reranker — collaborate to surface the right results. You can toggle each step on or off and see exactly what changes.

• Search explainability. Every result page tells you what the parser extracted, which AI features ran, and how long each step took. No black box.

• Live typeahead suggestions. As you type, real-time title and theme matches appear in a clean dropdown so you can jump straight to what you had in mind.

• Similar films, by category. Tap any result to open a detail screen with rich metadata and related titles grouped by director, leading cast, writer, and overall vibe.

Built for cinephiles, watchlist obsessives, and anyone tired of generic recommendation feeds. Free, no account, no ads, no in-app purchases.

ABOUT THE DATA

CineSearch is an independent search and discovery tool. It does not stream, download, play, or otherwise distribute any film, and is not affiliated with any film studio, distributor, or streaming service. Movie titles, plot summaries, cast lists, and poster thumbnails shown in the app are sourced via the OMDb API (omdbapi.com), a public movie database service that aggregates IMDb data. All trademarks and rights in the films referenced remain with their respective owners.