No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is themoviedb.org legit or a scam?
Official movie and TV database with clean scans, 17-year domain history, and no malicious indicators.
Analysis Summary
AI Security Analysis
The page is the real The Movie Database (TMDB), a long-running community site for movies and TV shows. Our antivirus network and browser blocklists returned completely clean results with zero flags. The domain is over 17 years old, hosted on a clean IP with valid SSL, which strongly supports legitimacy. Evidence shows one forum post warning that scammers misuse TMDB links on TikTok and WhatsApp for investment fraud, plus 22 low-scoring reviews on a review site, but these do not indicate the site itself is malicious. No clone indicators or scam-family matches were found.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for themoviedb.org, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain themoviedb.org is the official site of The Movie Database (TMDB), community-built since 2008 with founder Travis Bell.
- Trustpilot lists address Gold Street 2160, 95054, Santa Clara, United States and has 22 reviews with 2.3 score.
- Scamadviser states it is legit and safe to use and not a scam website.
- User post on site itself notes scammers using TMDB links on TikTok/WhatsApp for investment scams.
- Multiple Reddit threads discuss data changes, deletions, and moderation issues on TMDB.
- Widely used by developers, Kodi, apps, and services for movie/TV metadata via API.
- No evidence of typosquatting or cloning of brands like Amazon, PayPal, etc.
- themoviedb.org/talkopen
"Just wanted to let the Population know That this site is being used as a scam site for people on TikTok and WhatsApp. Do not fall for it they will show you how you make lots and lots of money and once you get it all in there, they stop you "
- scamadviser.comopen
"In summary, It seems that themoviedb.org is legit and safe to use and not a scam website."
Our research found one user post on the site warning about scammers using TMDB links in TikTok and WhatsApp investment schemes. A third-party review site states the domain is legit and safe. independent review aggregator shows 22 reviews averaging 2.3 stars, mostly about site moderation and data handling rather than outright fraud. The domain is confirmed as the official TMDB site founded in 2008 and used widely for metadata.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Page impersonates Amazon on a non-official domain.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://themoviedb.org/
- 2301https://themoviedb.org/
- 3200https://www.themoviedb.org/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 scam-type patterns detected
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Page mentions Amazon (non-official domain).
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Page mentions Amazon (non-official domain).
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on themoviedb.org and not a lookalike like t-hemoviedb.org.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on themoviedb.org. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- themoviedb.org passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 79/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. themoviedb.org presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M04, expiring in 183 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- themoviedb.org is 17.7 years old, registered on 9/15/2008 through MarkMonitor Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report themoviedb.org as clean.
- No. themoviedb.org is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- themoviedb.org resolves to an IP operated by Amazon.com, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
User reviews & comments(0)
Share your experience — "Lost $200 on a fake checkout" is more useful than "Scam". Your review helps others avoid traps.