A public movie database like IMDb is a treasure chest. But the real value isn’t the data—it’s the questions you can answer by linking that data to the real world of production, taste, and discovery.
Mara’s side project became a subscription service called . It didn’t replace IMDb—it sat on top of it, answering questions IMDb never knew to ask. movie database imdb
One day, a producer asked her: “Find me a movie that flopped in theaters but has a cult following among people who loved Moon (2009).” Mara ran her tool. It returned The Quiet Earth (1985) and Prospect (2018). The producer loved both—and greenlit a similar project. A public movie database like IMDb is a treasure chest
In 2019, a small indie film editor named Mara was struggling to find reference movies for a low-budget sci-fi she was cutting. She needed films with very specific traits: “shot in the desert on less than $2M, has a scene of someone alone in a diner at night, and a synth score but no explosions.” It didn’t replace IMDb—it sat on top of