IMPDB — the Internet Movie Podcast Database — answers one narrow question: which podcast episodes are actually about a given movie? Not the ones where someone drops a Godfather reference between ad reads. The ones where the movie is the subject of the conversation, for a whole episode or a real segment.
Because the existing tools are bad at this. Search a movie in your podcast app and you get keyword soup: every show that uttered the title once, ranked by nothing in particular. Apple and Spotify index shows, not topics, and they certainly don't know the difference between a two-hour deep dive and a passing mention. So if you just watched a film and want to hear smart people argue about it for an hour, you're out of luck.
IMPDB is the unglamorous fix for that. You search a movie; we hand you the episodes that treat it as the main event. That's the entire pitch. There is no feed, no algorithm learning your soul, no autoplaying video. It's a database. The name was right there.
Behind the search box is a staged pipeline that discovers podcasts, fetches their feeds, and tries to match episodes to real movies. The easy cases — an episode titled exactly after a film, year and all — are matched outright. Everything ambiguous (and most of it is ambiguous; movie titles are short, common words) gets handed to a language model that reads the episode and labels it: is this the primary topic, a major segment, or just a mention?
Mentions are thrown away on sight — never stored, never shown. The whole point is to be the thing that doesn't waste your time with them. We would rather show you nothing than show you a show that name-checked the movie in passing and called it coverage.
The catalog is only as complete as the feeds we've found and the episodes we've gotten around to classifying, which is to say: incomplete, and biased toward podcasts that bother to describe their own episodes. A machine is making judgment calls about what an episode is "about," and machines are confidently wrong sometimes. If your favorite deep dive isn't here, it's not a snub — it's a backlog.
Movie data comes from TMDB (this product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB). Podcast directory data comes from Podcast Index and plain public RSS feeds — the open, unfashionable plumbing the whole medium still quietly runs on. Want the numbers instead of the prose? They're on the stats page.