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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

Other products that read as similar to this one — 140 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

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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