IMPDB by the numbers

1,072,535
hours of people talking about movies — tap to reframe
1,047,689
episodes about movies
79,565
movies covered
48,471
podcasts indexed
35,314
directors discussed
3,795
film franchises covered
23
years old — the average movie under discussion
63m
average episode length
9,446
movie episodes aired in the last 30 days
4,247
podcasts active in the last 30 days
100
registered accounts

Episodes by movie release year

peak: the 2020s · 275,601 eps — scrub the chart
Episodes by movie release decade
DecadeEpisodes
1900s139
1910s402
1920s2,759
1930s8,729
1940s12,564
1950s18,552
1960s27,810
1970s56,011
1980s135,177
1990s153,148
2000s147,353
2010s248,256
2020s275,601
19002026

Bookends: Joan of Arc (1900) → Motor City (2026)

Most-covered movies

  1. Spider-Man: No Way Home — 2609 episodes
  2. The Batman — 2265 episodes
  3. Thor: Love and Thunder — 1740 episodes
  4. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness — 1622 episodes
  5. Dune — 1601 episodes
  6. Top Gun: Maverick — 1571 episodes
  7. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever — 1407 episodes
  8. Barbie — 1280 episodes
  9. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania — 1265 episodes
  10. Everything Everywhere All at Once — 1261 episodes

The nostalgia gap

How old is a movie when a podcast covers it? Episode air date minus release year.

32% within a year · 42% are 20+ years old — scrub the chart
Episodes by movie age at time of episode
Movie ageEpisodes
0–9 years482,590
10–19 years137,393
20–29 years156,932
30–39 years140,356
40–49 years75,009
50–59 years33,867
60–69 years21,149
70–79 years13,270
80–89 years1,352
new release80 yrs

How long is a movie episode?

under 30m
190,680
30m – 1h
312,391
1 – 2h
446,041
over 2h
67,528

Most podcast-loved movies

  1. Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) — 2200 different podcasts
  2. The Batman (2022) — 2101 different podcasts
  3. Avengers: Endgame (2019) — 1746 different podcasts
  4. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) — 1598 different podcasts
  5. Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) — 1596 different podcasts
  6. Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) — 1580 different podcasts
  7. Halloween (1978) — 1565 different podcasts
  8. Alien (1979) — 1548 different podcasts
  9. Joker (2019) — 1517 different podcasts
  10. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) — 1508 different podcasts

Most-covered directors

  1. Steven Spielberg — 12,189 episodes across 40 films
  2. Christopher Nolan — 7,352 episodes across 13 films
  3. Ridley Scott — 6,978 episodes across 30 films
  4. John Carpenter — 6,704 episodes across 23 films
  5. James Cameron — 6,293 episodes across 13 films
  6. Joe Russo — 5,661 episodes across 10 films
  7. Anthony Russo — 5,661 episodes across 10 films
  8. Sam Raimi — 5,461 episodes across 16 films
  9. James Gunn — 5,200 episodes across 9 films
  10. Martin Scorsese — 5,082 episodes across 34 films

Most-covered franchises

  1. Star Wars Collection — 9,889 episodes across 9 films
  2. James Bond Collection — 6,069 episodes across 26 films
  3. Halloween Collection — 5,716 episodes across 11 films
  4. Spider-Man (MCU) Collection — 4,556 episodes across 3 films
  5. The Avengers Collection — 4,547 episodes across 4 films
  6. Jurassic Park Collection — 4,069 episodes across 7 films
  7. Friday the 13th Collection — 3,825 episodes across 11 films
  8. Thor Collection — 3,714 episodes across 4 films
  9. Scream Collection — 3,707 episodes across 7 films
  10. Mission: Impossible Collection — 3,480 episodes across 8 films

Famous, yet undiscussed

Big movies the database knows about that no podcast has covered yet.

No Place to Be Single
No Place to Be Single
2026
X-Rated 2: The Greatest Adult Stars of All-Time
X-Rated 2: The Greatest Adult Stars of All-Time
2016
Anjo Loiro
Anjo Loiro
1973
Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty
2011
Red Bikini
Red Bikini
2017
Thick as Thieves
Thick as Thieves
2009
Ayla: The Daughter of War
Ayla: The Daughter of War
2017
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012

Trending in the last 90 days

What podcasts have been talking about most recently.

Disclosure Day514 eps
Disclosure Day
2026
The Mandalorian and Grogu488 eps
The Mandalorian and Grogu
2026
The Odyssey443 eps
The Odyssey
2026
Backrooms366 eps
Backrooms
2026
Obsession336 eps
Obsession
2026
Supergirl291 eps
Supergirl
2026
Toy Story 5287 eps
Toy Story 5
2026
The Devil Wears Prada 2249 eps
The Devil Wears Prada 2
2026
Masters of the Universe227 eps
Masters of the Universe
2026
Mortal Kombat II183 eps
Mortal Kombat II
2026
Evil Dead Burn177 eps
Evil Dead Burn
2026
The Punisher: One Last Kill159 eps
The Punisher: One Last Kill
2026