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There's also the Internet Movie Cars Database which I'm a huge fan of: https://www.imcdb.org/

edit: especially for a show like Archer where they feature a ton of very obscure cars... https://www.imcdb.org/movie_1486217-Archer.html

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Some more specialized movie databases:

the defunct Internet Movie Radio Database: https://web.archive.org/web/20181201121627/https://www.imrdb...

https://www.moviemistakes.com/

and the Bechdel Test Movie List: https://bechdeltest.com/

Now this is a rabbit hole! There are far more of these than I'd thought, ranging in structure from blog-like to database-like, with some updated by the host and some allowing user contributions (with some of the latter using wiki software). Many also include television, games, comics, or other media; and databases for those forms of media in particular also exist. More mundane subjects, like locations and songs used, are each covered by several sites. To keep the scope narrow, here are some more interesting ones that include films:

Camera equipment used: https://shotonwhat.com/

Instances of censorship: https://www.movie-censorship.com/ and in Australia in particular: https://refused-classification.com/default.html

Keeping with the theme of transportation from the other comments:

- The Boat Database is small and Fandom-hosted: https://imbd.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Movies

- There's one for trains, but only for the UK: http://railwaymoviedatabase.com/

Ultimately, it seems that we are devoid of an Internet Internet Database Database. Wikipedia comes close with some of its lists and categories, but only includes those it considers notable. Some of the databases do link to each other; e.g., the Cars Database has a directory page featuring smaller databases such as those for busses; LEGO and similar brick systems; and Microsoft and Nokia: https://www.imcdb.org/links.php

There's also Starring the Computer ( http://www.starringthecomputer.com/ ): A list dedicated to naming the computers used in movies and TV shows, including perennial favorites like Hackers and Jurassic Park.

Or if you’re into aviation: https://www.impdb.org/

We really need an "internet movie meta- attribute database" with a way to represent all this stuff. Cuz as far as I know, nobody's set up a whole website for the Internet Movie Household Appliance Database, it's not THAT big an interest.

But if I could just log onto the IMMADB and open the Household Appliance tab, it'd be cool to find out what that cool-looking vacuum cleaner was...

Isn’t that just a subset of IMPPDB? The Internet Movie Product Placement Database, with company.type=‘hoover’ enabled? Which would be very convenient to know who paid what for advertising.

Taking this a step further, we could have an everything (including movies) meta-attribute database that allows you to query that one radio interview where the actor co-starring Kevin Bacon in 3 movies talked about a brand of lawn mover that they really liked. (It had the color blue in its logo.)

Ah, this is so cool! I was wondering about the Toyota SUV that Bond drives in No Time To Die. Found it easily with this site!

https://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_1326115-Toyota-Land-Cruiser-J9...

These days you can also feed an image of a car to Google's image search, or to Yandex image search—the latter is more head-on about recognizing stuff in general, while Google still tends to suggest handwavy and useless descriptions like ‘sports utility vehicle’.

The car database seems to have some egregious accuracy problems:

https://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_579212-Volkswagen-Rabbit-Typ-1...

There's a VW Rabbit crossing the street in the background.

Yup, there's also the mark that it's a ‘background vehicle’ under the image. The site's UI could use some work, though—I'm saying that as an occasional user.

Haha, da wabbit totawwy did not wegister on my bwain.

Glad to see that IMDB hasn't tried to hit every IM*DB with a Trademark claim?

They might be worried a court will find that 'Internet Movie Database' is a generic name, which would lead to losing their trademark.

Great resource, but I wish it'd let you filter by movie/song and movie rating.

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