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A Huge Database of Movies The Movie Database ( TMDb ) is a collaborative database about movies . The project was founded by Travis Bell in 2008 to collect movie posters . The initial database was a donation from the free Open Media Database (omdb) project. TMDb is a competitor project to the commercial Internet Movie Database and can e.g. B. be used by the media center software Kodi . In 2010, TMDb was sold to the Fan TV company, however, the site is still managed by its founder. In mid-2020, the database contained 568,729 films and 1,752,577 people.