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Mara’s side project became a subscription service called . It didn’t replace IMDb—it sat on top of it, answering questions IMDb never knew to ask.

Word spread. Soon, a film school used her system to teach students how to research genre hybrids. A screenwriter used it to avoid clichés by seeing which plot twists had been overused in mid-budget thrillers. A festival programmer used it to discover that 72% of low-budget horror films with female directors and a runtime under 85 minutes scored above 6.5 on IMDb. movie database imdb

In 2019, a small indie film editor named Mara was struggling to find reference movies for a low-budget sci-fi she was cutting. She needed films with very specific traits: “shot in the desert on less than $2M, has a scene of someone alone in a diner at night, and a synth score but no explosions.” Mara’s side project became a subscription service called