I want a website to find movies and actors by shared connections, like who appeared in both Blade Runner and Cowboys and Aliens
The author wants to search film data by relationships rather than by title. Examples are finding the actor shared by two named movies, or identifying a movie from clues like one actor plus the costar of another actor's cowboy film. The site should chain these connections to answer half-remembered movie questions.
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CastLink (iOS/iPad app) apps.apple.com
Finds the actors two titles share, the movies two actors share, and has a Six Degrees mode, with no account and no ads; the catch is that it is an iOS-only app, not a website, and it does not chain clues the way the want describes.
The Oracle of Bacon oracleofbacon.org
A browser site that shows how actors connect through movies, but it is built around actor-to-actor degrees of separation (its two-actor lookup is in the iOS app), so it does not directly list actors shared by two movies.
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