World Cinema Atlas
Films and series, mapped to where their stories happen
Details
- External ID
- 1249007
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- World Cinema Atlas
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7405388069275176
- Tags
- Movies, Maps, Data Visualization
- Fetched at
- Sept. 15, 2026, 1:02 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 15, 2026, 1:02 a.m.
Description
169,861 films, series, variety shows and documentaries, each placed where its story is set — not where it was filmed. Zoom in and the city lights become posters. Two more skies for stories off Earth. Ten languages, free, no ads.
Enrichment
- Theme
- interactive maps and geospatial visualizations
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- interactive map of filming locations for movie fans
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Rendering an interactive globe with geospatial markers is straightforward, but assembling a verified dataset of 170,000 fictional story settings across 10 languages is a major data problem.
What it would actually take: The front end can be built using Mapbox GL or CesiumJS. The hard part is the data engineering pipeline: pulling movie metadata from sources like IMDb, TMDB, and Wikidata, followed by fine-tuned NLP/LLM extraction to identify narrative locations (as opposed to filming locations), manually validating edge cases, and geocoding thousands of real and fictional places.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #34 of 141 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 316 days after the earliest competitor.
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