MovieFilterr — every scene, timestamped

Search any movie or show. MovieFilterr detects parental-guidance content (nudity, violence, profanity, substances, frightening, mature themes), lays out a scrubbable timeline of timestamped notices, and — when nudity is present — recommends same-genre titles with no nudity flagged.

Live: https://moviefilterr.vercel.app

A single-page front-end (no framework) backed by lightweight Vercel serverless functions that proxy TMDB for live search and nudity detection.

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What it does

1. Search any title — live via TMDB (any film/show ever made), with fuzzy fallback over a curated library when TMDB isn't configured.
2. Nudity verdict — three honest states, best-source-wins:
   • Contains nudity — confirmed via DoesTheDogDie crowd votes, a TMDB nudity tag, or our verified log.
   • No nudity — confirmed (DoesTheDogDie crowd votes "no", or our verified log).
   • Unconfirmed — no reliable signal yet; not a guarantee of none. The UI links the IMDb Parents Guide.
3. Timeline — for titles in our verified log, every advisory is pinned to its timecode across colour-coded, scrubbable lanes (drag the playhead, hover a marker, arrow-key it).
4. Cue list — a second-by-second list of every notice: category, severity, description, filterable.
5. Clean picks — same-genre recommendations filtered to exclude flagged nudity, ranked by genre overlap.
6. Source deep-links — every result one-clicks out to IMDb Parents Guide, Reddit, Unconsented, DoesTheDogDie, pre-searched for that exact title.

The honest data story

No public API returns frame-accurate nudity timestamps for arbitrary titles — not TMDB, IMDb, Reddit, or any social platform (those have no such structured data, and scraping them is against ToS and technically blocked). So MovieFilterr is built from what is real and legitimate:

Source	What it actually gives	Used for
TMDB API	search, genres, posters, certifications, keyword tags, recommendations	live search, weak nudity tag, clean recs
DoesTheDogDie API	crowd yes/no votes per content topic (incl. nude scenes, sexual content)	the primary nudity verdict — reliable yes and no
Curated log (data.js)	hand-authored, timestamped advisories (~22 titles)	the scrubbable timeline + cue list
IMDb / Unconsented / Reddit	crowd scene info (no usable API)	one-click deep-link searches per title

TMDB keyword coverage for nudity is high-precision, low-recall — a positive tag is trustworthy, its absence is not. So DoesTheDogDie crowd votes are the primary signal (they can confirm presence and absence); TMDB tags are a fallback that can only confirm presence. When neither is conclusive, MovieFilterr says unconfirmed rather than a false "no nudity", and links the authoritative IMDb Parents Guide. (DTDD scene timecodes exist but are paywalled on the free API tier, so timestamps still come from the curated log.)

Architecture

index.html · styles.css · data.js · app.js      # static front-end (no build)
api/
  _lib/tmdb.js     # shared TMDB client + keyword nudity signal (key stays server-side)
  _lib/dtdd.js     # DoesTheDogDie client -> crowd-voted nudity verdict (yes/no)
  config.js        # GET /api/config -> { live } (is TMDB configured?)
  search.js        # GET /api/search?q= -> simplified multi-search
  title.js         # GET /api/title?type=&id= -> detail + combined nudity verdict + clean recs
vercel.json · package.json

The TMDB key is never exposed to the client — the browser only ever calls our own /api/*. With no key set, the site runs in demo mode on the curated library.

Run locally

# static-only (demo mode, curated library):
python -m http.server 5173          # -> http://localhost:5173

# full live mode (serverless + TMDB):
npm i -g vercel
vercel dev                          # reads TMDB_TOKEN/TMDB_API_KEY from project env

Configure live TMDB search

Set one of these as an env var on the Vercel project (Settings → Environment Variables), then redeploy:

Var	Value
TMDB_TOKEN	TMDB v4 Read Access Token (long JWT) — sent as Bearer
TMDB_API_KEY	TMDB v3 API key (32 chars) — sent as query param
DTDD_API_KEY	DoesTheDogDie API key — enables the reliable crowd-voted nudity verdict (optional)

Get one free at themoviedb.org. The app auto-detects via /api/config and switches to live search automatically.

Deploy

vercel --prod        # already linked to the "moviefilterr" project

Design

• Type — Clash Display + Cabinet Grotesk (Fontshare), JetBrains Mono for timecodes.
• Feel — cinematic near-black, film-grain + vignette, drifting aurora, six-category colour system.
• Signature UI — a multi-lane scrubbable scene timeline with animated markers and a live timecode readout.
• Accessible — keyboard-scrubbable slider, ARIA roles, focus states, full prefers-reduced-motion support.
• Fast — zero front-end dependencies; CSS transforms, IntersectionObserver, requestAnimationFrame.

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Made for safer, calmer viewing so you don't have to keep worrying.