Cinephile License
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Your Movie Taste Has a Name
Convert your movie ratings into a one-of-a-kind Cinephile License: get a MOVIE score out of 100, discover your true favorites and generate your personal cinephile avatar.
This project is archived. Thanks to everyone who got their License. If you have one, your card still opens by its link, but you can’t make a new license anymore. And check out IMDb vs. Letterboxd research!
1The license, explained
You already rated hundreds of films. This is what they say about you.
The real license holds far, far more.
Try it for yourself: it’s completely free!
2FAQ
Where do the avatar and the title come from?
Both are made by AI based on your ratings — your favorite films, genres and more. Each one is unique to your card — no two people get the same pair.
How is the MOVIE score calculated?
Five attributes — Masterpieces, Oscars, Volume, International, Eras. On each one your position is a percentile: the share of cinephiles you’re ahead of on that scale. And the tiers actually separate people: Gold is quite rare, Platinum extremely so.
Do you store my ratings file?
No. It’s read once and never written to disk. The only thing kept is the finished card, so the link you share keeps working. If you’d like your card deleted, DM me on X and I’ll take it down.
Do I need an account?
No, it works without one. You only need to sign in on IMDb or Letterboxd and export your ratings.
Who can see my card?
Only whoever has the link. The address is a random ID, there’s no list of cards to browse through, and card pages are kept out of search results.
How is this free?
It’s my pet project. I build it in my spare time because I love personal stats and nothing out there gave me what I wanted to dig into, so I built my own.
How many films do I need to have rated?
Around 50 gives you a card worth sharing. Below that, some blocks will tell you they don’t have enough to go on. There’s no upper limit — a few thousand ratings just take a little longer.
What about TV shows?
Films only for now. Series are dropped from your export before anything is counted, so they don’t add to your score or show up anywhere on the card.
What about films that just came out?
Recent releases can be missing. The card is built on a reference library of films and their ratings, and it doesn’t contain the latest films. The rest of your history counts as normal.
Some of my films are missing.
If you upload IMDb ratings, almost nothing should be missing: the export carries each film’s ID, so it’s matched exactly. Letterboxd doesn’t include IDs, so matching is done by title and year — and a handful of entries, like shorts, re-releases and films known under a different international title, can go missing or end up matched to the wrong film. If you catch one, DM me on X.