How to find a movie without knowing the title

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

One of these methods should work, even if the details of the film have faded from your head.

If you remember what the film is about

1. Use search engines or special services

• The more famous the movie, the more chances that Google, Yandex or any other search engine will find what you need. For example, Google's search for "murder in a motel bathroom" unmistakably finds the movie "Psycho", and "a Korean woman kills a crowd of thugs" - "Villainess." The main thing is to try different keywords when describing memorable scenes from the movie.
• Domestic "KinoPoisk" and foreign ones have special pages for advanced movie search by keywords. This way, you can search for suitable films, even if you remember very little about them.
• is an extremely cool English-language service using artificial intelligence and machine learning. Enter a short description of the movie or at least one scene from it in the line, and What Is My Movie will guess the movie. The service is good at looking for even little-known films.

2. Ask on forums or social media

And yet, artificial intelligence cannot match human memory. If the search engine fails, ask around from living people. Write a description of the plot or at least a memorable moment from the film, post it on a forum dedicated to cinema, or in a thematic group on social networks, and they will help you. True, it may take a long time to wait for an answer.

• The largest concentration of moviegoers lives on the KinoPoisk forum. Look in the section "", write a post and wait for an answer.
• Another option is to ask the regulars of the popular site "". To do this, create a post with the tag "looking for a movie".
• There are a lot of groups on VKontakte dedicated to movie search. For example,.
• Fans of foreign cinema will find a film by its content on a specialized website. True, for this you have to write in English.

3. Check the film stamp

The films are overflowing with clichés, no matter how hard the writers try to make them original. Stamps are always striking, and sometimes it is they that remain in our memory after watching films. You do not remember the name, but do you remember exactly that the hero survives and takes cruel revenge on the offenders? Or do you remember a charismatic villain with his own code of rules?

If you want to find a movie, but remember only one clichéd plot in it, open the site or its foreign progenitor. These resources specialize in collecting common plot moves. Find the stamp you need, and on the page with its description you will see a list of films where it was used.

If you remember where and when you watched the movie

1. Check the program guide

Finding a movie shown on TV is very easy if you remember the time and channel. Open the TV guide and take a look at what was being played back then. You can find it on the channel website or in "".

2. Look into your search history

If you watched a movie online on a random internet site or on some streaming service, this information may have been stored in several places.

• Browser history. Remember approximately in what year or even month you watched the desired movie? Open your browsing history in your browser and rewind by this time. You may see the page you are looking for.
• Web search history. Google and some other search engines remember what you searched for and when. You can view the history by following these links:, and. Find the estimated date you watched the movie online and see which pages you've searched for.
• History of streaming services. Are you a subscriber of any popular service that provides access to films and TV series? Open your stats and browsing history. There you will see all the films that you have ever watched on this service - you can search for a forgotten tape in their list.

If you remember the dialogue from the movie

You have a cool phrase in your head that some movie hero gave out, but you can't remember where it came from? Google it. Famous films on the Internet are literally torn apart by quotes, and there are always chances to find the desired tape by one phrase.

Type a quote into a search engine and view the search results. The largest bases of cinematic phrases are on "" and.

If you remember the actors or the director of the film

If you remember at least one actor who played in the film or you know the name of the director, finding a film becomes a snap. Open the page of the filmmaker in "", on "",,, or, and go through the list of his films.

If you have a still from a movie

If you accidentally saw a frame from a movie or a meme with it on the Internet and want to know what kind of movie it is, you can search for a picture using, "" or. Just upload an image, and if the movie is in any way famous, it will be found.

Have you come across any video with a cut of frames on the Internet, and you want to know which movie they are from? Try to cut a frame from the video and start a search on it, as described in the previous paragraph.

To quickly capture a frame from a video, just pause the video and take a screenshot (here are the instructions for Windows and macOS).

If the quality of the screenshot is not enough and the search does not give anything, open the video in some player (the video from the Internet must be downloaded beforehand), for example, VLC. Then, from the menu, click Video → Take Snapshot. Or right-click on the screen.

Upload the resulting snapshot to the search engine.

If you can't find a movie one frame at a time, try filling several frames one by one.