Film Arşivim

Problem

Jotting down watched movies is easy; archiving them with rich metadata, combining that with a watchlist and importing hundreds of titles in one go is not. Manual data entry doesn't scale: looking up the poster, director, runtime and rating for every single film kills the archiving habit.

Solution

Film Arşivim is a personal movie management system with TMDB integration. Type a title and the poster, director, overview and runtime arrive automatically; personal ratings, a watchlist and statistics live on one platform. The most critical piece is queue-based bulk import — hundreds of titles pasted at once, processed item by item in the background, with live progress and an error report.

Approach

• Asynchronous batch import: every title is its own queue job (tries: 3, timeout: 45); batches are cancellable and status transitions are idempotent — running a job twice can't corrupt data.
• Smart matching: free-text queries resolve to the best TMDB hit via smart search; not-found and duplicate entries land in the report instead of disappearing silently.
• Relational design: users, movies, batches, collections and activity are separate models; statistics (total watch time, top movie) are derived from queries.
• Server rendering + light interactivity: Blade + Alpine.js; real-time search and progress tracking without a heavy SPA framework.