joeseesun/aha-imdb-top250

Qiaomu Movie List is a self hosted website that presents the IMDb Top 250 movie list in Chinese, aimed at Chinese speaking readers who want more than a bare rating and one line summary. Visitors can browse the full list without creating an account, search for specific films, and mark movies as watched or want to watch. Each movie gets its own detail page with a literary Chinese language plot summary written to avoid spoiling major turns, along with highlights about awards and box office performance, notes on what makes the film worth watching, and tips for a second viewing. From the detail page, users can jump straight to Douban for reviews, JustWatch for legitimate streaming options, or a general resource search. Every film also comes with six related recommendations, each one given a specific, non generic reason for the connection rather than a repeated boilerplate line. The site includes an AI chat feature powered by DeepSeek, which streams its replies. On the home page you can ask it what to watch tonight, and on a movie's detail page you can discuss that specific film. Guests who are not logged in are limited to ten messages per hour. The site also generates its own sitemap and search engine friendly metadata for each movie page, and it compresses posters into the WebP image format on the server before caching them. The project is built with Node.js on the server and plain JavaScript on the frontend, storing data as JSON files rather than a database, which the README describes as fine for a small personal site but not ideal for high traffic production use. Getting started locally involves installing dependencies with pnpm, copying an example environment file, and running the dev server, though an OMDb API key and a session secret are required for production use. The project is released under the MIT license, though the README notes that the movie data and poster images themselves remain the property of their original rights holders.