How Do
People Search
for Movies?

We analyzed over 500,000 searches across four years to find out how people search for movies, and the results are surprising, often funny, and revealing.

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Who, Where, What?

What are the most popular characters, actions, and objects, and
which movie names do they result in? Find out!

CHARACTER

ACTION

OBJECT

CHARACTER
kid
guy
girl
aliens
everyone
monster
friends
cop
people
family
actor
man
woman
ACTION
has
uses
becomes
gets kidnapped
OBJECT
leg
ring
trash
police officer

movie where girl has a machine gun leg

National Movies

Сompare countries, and see how people search for national movies
they can’t name but can describe.

England
Japan
France
India
China
US
Spain
Italy

  • english movie where a character is the devil
  • english movie where a girl lives in a shed
  • english movie where eagles dare free download
  • english movie where everyone dies
  • english movie where one boy survives in ocean with tiger
  • english movie where one person sees the future death
  • english movie where pensioner attacks thugs

  • japanese movie where songwriter meets a girl
  • japanese movie where monster comes from with sea
  • japanese movie where man turns nails into throwing darts
  • japanese movie where the character fight big muscle man
  • japanese movie where the cherry blossoms grow
  • japanese movie where unemployed man becomes a caretaker
  • japanese movie where they're on a scooter in a tunnel

  • french movie where main character fakes parent teacher conferences
  • french movie where men and women's roles are reversed
  • french movie where nothing happens
  • french movie where they climbing buildings
  • french movie where a man goes into an alternate dimensions
  • french movie where dinner guests read text messages
  • french movie where a character travels to a mirror

  • indian movie where kids gets blinded
  • indian movie where ladies neuder men
  • indian movie where man fights with banana
  • indian movie where man hears women's thoughts
  • indian movie where people use pearls and have clear skin
  • indian movie where son becomes arcitecht
  • indian movie where the guy comes in dancing

  • chinese movie where the boy grows up
  • chinese movie where parents turn into pigs
  • chinese movie where princess wears iron shoes
  • chinese movie where world freezes over
  • chinese movie where main character turns into ginger root
  • chinese movie where they're on a scooter in a tunnel
  • chinese movie where the boy grows up too fast

  • american movie where guy is government test subject
  • american movie where the character is driven insane by mirrors
  • american movie about a super human high school
  • american movie about family in circus
  • american movie where wired residents live in one apartment
  • american movie about green card
  • american movie about a cook diver

  • spanish movie where guy crashes plane
  • spanish movie where rich people cant leave room
  • spanish movie where two kids run away together
  • spanish movie where guy has powers to attract women
  • spanish movie where child goes missing in big house
  • spanish movie where boy gets locked in the cellar
  • spanish movie where a techer is rude

  • italian movie about nicole and sasha
  • italian movie about gangster who becomes folk hero
  • italian movie about a little boy and a theater owner
  • italian movie about a blind soundmaster
  • italian movie about dinner with friends
  • italian movie where they hide the wine from the germans
  • italian movie where everybody's stuck in one room

Top Genres

Want to know which subgenres feature the most?
We’ve got you covered. Pick a genre to start exploring.

(According to top 50 subgenre searches)

Horror movies
Drama movie
Comedy movie
Historical movie
Thriller movies
Western movie
Fantasy movies
Science fiction movie
Adventure movies
Animated movies
Actions movies
Horror movies

  • zombie movie
  • vampire movie
  • werewolf movie
  • slasher movie
  • vampire film
  • slasher film
  • found footage
  • found footage movie

Drama movie

  • melodrama
  • medical drama
  • docudrama

Comedy movie

  • romantic comedy
  • black comedy
  • slapstick
  • action comedy movie
  • mockumentary
  • parody movie
  • spoof movie
  • dark comedy

Historical movie

  • biopic
  • historical fiction
  • alternate history
  • historical event
  • period piece

Thriller movies

  • mystery movie
  • psychological thriller

Western movie

  • spaghetti western

Fantasy movies

  • dark fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • urban fantasy

Science fiction movie

  • dystopian movie
  • post apocalyptic movie
  • space opera
  • utopian movie
  • steampunk movie
  • dystopian film
  • tech noir

Adventure movies

  • pirate film

Animated movies

  • claymation
  • cgi animation
  • stop motion movie
  • stop motion film
  • traditional animation
  • cutout animation

Actions movies

  • martial arts movie
  • disaster film

Top actors and actresses

Who tops the charts in acting? And how many searches do
they get? The results might surprise you!

(Average Aug 2017–Jul 2021)

Actors
Actresses
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    Johnny Depp
    4,477,292
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    Brad Pitt
    4,302,083
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    Leonardo DiCaprio
    3,681,458
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    Tom Cruise
    3,377,500
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    Chris Evans
    3,229,792
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    Keanu Reeves
    3,210,417
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    Chris Hemsworth
    3,155,688
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    Will Smith
    3,123,333
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    Bradley Cooper
    2,719,688
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    Ryan Reynolds
    2,653,958
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    Selena Gomez
    6,477,292
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    Scarlett Johansson
    5,344,792
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    Jennifer Aniston
    4,726,458
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    Emma Watson
    4,043,750
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    Angelina Jolie
    3,931,875
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    Jennifer Lopez
    3,629,583
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    Margot Robbie
    3,572,500
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    Beyoncé
    3,466,042
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    Amber Heard
    3,006,500
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    Jennifer Lawrence
    2,979,583

What actors do people
not remember?

Even more surprising, which actors have people forgotten, and
how do they use Google to remind themselves?

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vikings main actor

Travis Fimmel
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black panther main actor

Chadwick Boseman
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harry potter main actor

Daniel Radcliffe
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lucifer main actor

Tom Ellis
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prison break main actor

Wentworth Miller
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transformers main actor

Shia LaBeouf
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breaking bad main actor

Bryan Cranston
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home alone main actor

Macaulay Culkin
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deadpool main actor

Ryan Reynolds
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mandalorian main actor

Pedro Pascal
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taken main actor

Liam Neeson
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hunger games main actress

Jennifer Lawrence
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split main actor

James McAvoy
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avatar main actor

Sam Worthington

What is the Movie About?

Here’s the name of films people struggle to understand
what they’re about! Do you know all of them? Check it out!

the movie parasite about

imdb: 8.6/10

the movie roma about

imdb: 7.7/10

the movie mother about

imdb: 6.6/10

the movie glass about

imdb: 6.6/10

the movie us about

imdb: 6.8/10

the movie wonder about

imdb: 8.0/10

the movie bombshell about

imdb: 6.8/10

the movie after about

imdb: 5.3/10

the movie it about

imdb: 7.3/10

the movie 1917 about

imdb: 8.3/10

the movie get out about

imdb: 7.7/10

the movie black panther about

imdb: 7.3/10

the movie bird box about

imdb: 6.6/10

the movie a star is born about

imdb: 7.6/10

Just Funny Searches

Last but not least, here are some of the funniest, quirkiest, and
most outrageous searches we discovered during the study.

movie where they fight giant insect with cocktail sword

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movie where guy gives girl m&ms to identity

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movie where guy eats an onion like an apple

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movie where they talk about humuhumunukunukuapua'a

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movie where little boy asks for more porridge please

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movie where wife receives perfume husband was allergic to

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movie where people sing cincinatti to turn back to human

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movie where scientist freezes children and wife is on respirator

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movie where woman leaves husband after he turns ugly

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vin diesel movie where someone says gobble gobble guppies

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