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Ask HN: What's the best movie recommendation system?

6 points by smectos ↗ HN
I was getting tired of searching imdb top lists and checking review sites for movie titles.I wanted something with a good intuitive recommendation system .

The first site I came upon was http://www.icheckmovies.com/ I checked about 300 movies + likes and dislikes and got 2 recommendations I was dissatisfied with.Deleted the account.

Right now I'm rating movies on movielens. What are you using ? Any recommendations ? Thank You.

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ippisl
jinni.com . not for it's movie recommendations but for it's movie search which i find amazing.
pgrote
I've rated movies at Amazon, Netflix, Hulu and YouTube. It's a shame I cannot transfer that info into other sites.
evanwolf
Yes, movie rating/behavior personal data portability should be common. Just need a data structure and a protocol...
staunch
I find IMDB's "People who liked this also liked..." recommendation feature to work fairly well. You can hop from movie to movie until you find one that looks interesting.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113277/

It's not a personalization system, but it probably works better than most of those in my experience.

smectos
Thank you for all the suggestions.I guess I'll keep using movielens and imdb.