How To Find A Movie You Can T Remember The Name Of

Sometimes you pick a movie out randomly, without paying much attention to the title. Maybe you just decided to go to a movie theater out of the blue and watched whatever was next available, or maybe you were watching cable TV and a movie came on, or you scrolled through a streaming service until you found something good.

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Whatever happened, you may have found your favorite movie, but don’t know or can’t remember the title and don’t remember enough of the plot for a search to be helpful.

Thankfully, when that happens, there are a few options for you.

Write Down As Much of the Plot as You Can

The first step to finding a movie that you’ve forgotten the name of is to remember as much of the plot as you can. We recommend writing down everything you can remember as a note and adding to it as the memories come back.

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For any actors, scenes, details, genre, or plot you remember, it is best to write it down right away. You can also write down who you watched it with, where, and when, to see if this helps you.

If you can remember the theater and the general date you went, for example, you can see what they were playing at the time.

Writing down and remembering alone may help you remember the name of the movie, but if it doesn’t, you can use that information along with some other tools mentioned below to help.

Think About Which Actors Are In the Movie

If you remember any of the actors in the movie, you can use that information to look at their works. While it may be hard with some popular actors that have played hundreds of roles, smaller or new actors may only have a few options.

Either way, it does help to narrow down your search and gives you a good idea of where to start. If you remember more than one actor, you can cross-compare their works until you find some they did together.

If you know the director or writer, you can also search by their works, instead of by an actor, or combine it with the actor you know was in the movie to narrow down the search results.

Look at Your History

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If you watched the movie on a streaming service, you can always look back at your history. Big streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, and Prime all show you shows and movies you recently watched, or have a history tab you can use to explore movies you’ve finished.

Scroll Through IMDb

If you know some of the information, like the genre or the year it was released, you can start scrolling through Internet Movie Database (IMDb). This database has every movie you could imagine and information about them including clips, photos, plot, genre, length, director, actors, and more. These are all easily searchable and can make it a lot easier to find the information you are looking for.

IMDb has categories of top-rated movies of all time and by genre as well, to help you narrow down your search. IMDb editors and users can also make lists, such as their favorite movies of the month, or movies that are about a certain plot, so scrolling through those can be helpful.

Search On Movie Search Sites

There are some sites dedicated to helping people find movies they’ve forgotten the title of as well. These can be helpful, depending on how much information you remember.

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The first is called What Is My Movie. It is considered to be crazy accurate and run by AI technology. Even people searching movies or categories for fun have yet to stump the website.

You can search for partial titles, actors, directors, general matches, and traditional search, so you can try a couple of different ways to find that pesky movie.

If you have an Alexa device, you can also ask questions to find your movie. They have the option to enable Valossa Movie Finder during searches. This is the parent company of the What Is My Movie website and will allow you to let Alexa do all the searching for you.

Another option is Wild About Movies. This site isn’t as good as the first for finding movies that you know only a little bit of information about. Specifically, it works best if you know a film’s release date.

This one really only works for those that are good at remembering dates, at least years, when movies were released, but it is still worth a shot if you are starting to feel desperate.

Ask on Social Media Sites

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Of course, the last option is to ask people for help. There are plenty of movie lovers out there, and many of them can pick out a movie title from the smallest of details.

There are all sorts of websites to ask people for help. There are Facebook pages dedicated to identifying movies, as well as Subreddits on Reddit. Quora may be worth checking out as well, though it isn’t always as helpful.

Another great option is a website called FilmFind. It is dedicated to figuring out movies and there are a lot of cinephiles that scroll through the site to help people.

With these methods, you will likely have to wait a couple of days to get a response back, since it is based on people and not AI tech, but it can save you a lot of time searching, and you can update your post with more information as you get it. People may also be able to ask you pointed questions that help you remember more.