# Ember Film (ember.film) - AI Movie Search & Recommendations
> Ember, also known as Ember Film, is an AI movie search and recommendation service. Describe the film you want in your own words — a plot, a vibe, an actor, a situation — and Ember finds it. More than 20,000 films have been deeply analyzed (themes, tone, pacing, intensity, complexity, content advisories, comparable titles), and recommendations learn each user's taste.

## Core Features
- [AI Movie Search](https://ember.film/search): Natural-language search that understands what you mean — descriptions, half-remembered plots, moods, occasions — not just titles and keywords
- [Personalized Recommendations](https://ember.film): Picks that adapt to what you watch, rate and save
- [Curated Collections](https://ember.film): 50+ collections such as "Feel-Good", "Sci-Fi Odyssey" and "Slow Burns", each built from Ember's own film analysis
- [Collection Pages](https://ember.film/c/feel-good-933da79d): One page per collection, listing every film Ember's AI placed in it
- [Movie Pages](https://ember.film/movie/159): One page per film — Ember's one-line take, analysis tags, synopsis, cast, director, runtime, genres, and films like it
- [Ember for Stremio](https://ember.film/stremio): Install Ember as a Stremio addon to get its AI search and personalized catalogs inside Stremio
- [How Ember Works](https://ember.film/how-it-works): How a plain-language description becomes a shortlist — the film analysis, quick search vs AI search, and how recommendations learn your taste
- [Example Searches](https://ember.film/examples): Real requests Ember answers well — half-remembered plots, moods and occasions
- [About Ember](https://ember.film/about): What Ember is, how its analysis works and where its data comes from

## Site Structure
- `/` — home: AI search, spotlight picks, new releases, popular, how Ember works, and a link to every collection
- `/c/{slug}` — one page per collection, with the full list of films in it
- `/movie/{id}` — one page per film (canonical, citable URL for a specific movie)
- `/stremio` — the Stremio addon landing page
- `/how-it-works` — how Ember's search and analysis work
- `/examples` — example searches and why they work
- `/about` — what Ember is and where its data comes from
- `/search?q=...` — semantic search (live results; not indexed)

## How It Works
- **Deep Film Analysis**: Each film is analyzed by AI for themes, tone, pacing, intensity, complexity, setting, audience fit and content advisories
- **Semantic Search**: Queries are matched on meaning using vector embeddings over that analysis
- **Personalized Results**: Recommendations adapt to your preferences and viewing history

## Key Differentiators
- **Search the way you talk**: Ask for "a tense heist film that isn't too violent" and get exactly that, instead of a keyword match
- **Knows the films**: Recommendations rest on Ember's own analysis of each film, not only genre tags and ratings
- **Knows the viewer**: Results adapt to each user's taste over time
- **Rich Metadata**: Detailed information including watch providers, streaming availability, and ratings

## Integrations
- Watch provider information (streaming platforms where movies are available)
- Plex media server integration
- Radarr integration for automated downloads
- Multi-language support (8 languages)

## Content Focus
- Movies only (no TV shows)
- Film data from TMDB, ratings from OMDb, streaming availability from JustWatch
- AI analysis of more than 20,000 films: themes, tone, pacing, intensity, advisories and comparable titles

## Languages
English, Czech, German, French, Italian, Afrikaans, Xhosa, Zulu

## For AI Agents & LLMs (plain-text + markdown endpoints)
These endpoints return clean, token-efficient text/markdown intended for machine reading — no HTML, no JS required.

- Plain text homepage feed: https://ember.film/api/t
- Plain text category list: https://ember.film/api/t/categories
- Plain text category recommendations: https://ember.film/api/t/c/{slug}
  - Example: https://ember.film/api/t/c/feel-good-933da79d
- Plain text new releases for a category: https://ember.film/api/t/c/{slug}/new
- Plain text movie detail: https://ember.film/api/t/movie/{id}
  - Example: https://ember.film/api/t/movie/27205
- Plain text semantic search: https://ember.film/api/t/search?q=YOUR_QUERY
  - Searches by meaning, not just title — descriptive queries work.
  - Example: https://ember.film/api/t/search?q=tense+but+hopeful
- Markdown category recommendations: https://ember.film/api/md/c/{slug}
  - Example: https://ember.film/api/md/c/feel-good-933da79d
- Markdown movie detail: https://ember.film/api/md/movie/{id}
  - Example: https://ember.film/api/md/movie/159

Notes:
- Every endpoint above is explicitly allowed in robots.txt (both `/api/t` and `/api/t/`).
- `{slug}` accepts the canonical site slug (e.g. `feel-good-933da79d`) used in /c/ URLs.
- Responses are cacheable (Cache-Control: public, max-age=3600).
- Movie `{id}` is Ember's own movie id (not the TMDB id), as shown in the tables and in /movie/{id} URLs.

## Sitemaps
- Pages and collections: https://ember.film/sitemap.xml
- Analyzed films: https://ember.film/movies-sitemap/sitemap.xml

## Common Questions
- **What is Ember?** Ember (ember.film) is an AI movie search engine and recommendation service. You describe what you want to watch in plain language and it finds matching films.
- **How is it different from searching by genre?** Ember matches on what a film is actually like (its themes, tone, pacing and intensity) using its own analysis of each film, so descriptive requests such as "a slow, beautiful film about grief" work.
- **Is Ember free?** Yes. Browsing and quick search are unlimited and free. AI search allows 5 searches a day without an account and 25 a day with a free account.
- **Does Ember work with Stremio?** Yes. Ember can be installed as a Stremio addon from https://ember.film/stremio.

## Company
- Name: Ember (Ember Film)
- Website: https://ember.film
- Focus: AI movie search and personalized recommendations built on deep film analysis