On-line film data base
on-line film data base (OFDb) is a German-language data base over national and international films. One receives free of charge fundamental information about motion picture films, television films and TV serials. In addition belong German title, original and/or. Alternative title, feature year, director, actor, category, continuations, versions and a short description of contents.
Registered users cooperate substantially in the actualization and extension of the volume of data. In addition, they can register the films already seized evaluate and commentate, can new films and supplement versions. E.g. become apart from the original cinema versions. also documents DVD and television versions as well as shortening.
In the comparison to the Movie DATA cousin (IMDb) the OFDb e.g. offers clearly more extensive Internet. no biographic information about the participating persons (directors, actor), but only a listing of the films, in which they cooperated. On the other hand however statistics can be queried over various topics like e.g. Most popular films, best TV-series, directors with the best films.
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history
of the OFDb a web page for the information from film censorship in Germany preceded. From this a film data base, on-line film data base OFDb, developed at the beginning of the yearly 2000 in the WWW was finally placed. Originally the web page was in particular put on, in order to document the different versions from films to. In the meantime evaluation and discussion became by users likewise emphasis.
extent
in the following table is to be seen the range of the data base.
| Conditions | of films | versions | Reviews | Inhaltsangaben | of members |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2005 | 83,500 | 125,000 | - | - | - |
| January 2006 | 90,000 | 136,000 | 47,000 | 16,100 | 31,900 |
see also
Web on the left of
- OFDb.de - homepage of the film data base
- SB.com - cut reports
- IMDb.com - English film data base
- Filmorama.de & MovieManiaxx.de - German, unkommerzielle film data base
- cinefacts.de - very good film data base with forum and Shop, and it is supported also the data base Ant Movie Catalog.
