What Movie Is This? How to Identify a Movie You Don’t Know
Have you ever come across a scene from a movie that caught your attention but you didn’t know what movie it was? How can you identify movies from short clips? The truth is you can’t find an app for identifying movies like the Shazam app for music. With movies, it’s usually not so easy.
However, it’s not a hopeless mission. There are a few ways you can identify movies using your phone.
4 Ways You Can Identify Movies Using Your Phone
Do a Web Search of Actor Names from the Scenes
This method is only useful if you can recognize actors from the scene or scenes that you saw. If you’re able to remember the names of some of the actors, you can conduct a web search for these names and add some keywords specific to the movie to make your search clearer.
You can include the genre of the movie, the movie settings, or possibly lines from the movie if you have a retentive memory. When you search like this, you’re likely to get an accurate match.
Use Google Assistant to Identify Movies
Google Assistant may also be able to help you identify movies. You just need to ask the question, while providing Google Assistant with the little information you gathered from the movie scene.
With even the smallest information, Google Assistant may be able to provide you with the title of the movie. Siri may not be as efficient with answering these sorts of questions, so you might want to stick to Google Assistant or use Google app.
Do a Web Search through Google Images
Another option is to take a picture of the movie scene and run it through Google Images. This method is not exactly promising but it can help you discover actors’ names or at least give you something useful relating to the movie.
Search Movie Scenes on YouTube
You can search for movies on YouTube based on what you saw on the scene. For you to get what you’re looking for, your keywords have to be as specific as possible, so that YouTube can give you a good match for your search.
Finally
Identifying movie titles is not as easy as identifying song titles. This is because there are no specific apps for this purpose. Regardless, there are other ways to identify movies as discussed above.
Although these methods may not be as quick and seamless or even as reliable as Shazam which identifies songs, they are, however, worth giving a shot at.