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Movie Recommendation System

Content-based and collaborative filtering on MovieLens with TMDB posters

1-2 weeks build

Overview

Two recommenders built on the MovieLens dataset: a content-based model that matches genres, cast and overview text with cosine similarity, and a collaborative model using matrix factorisation on user ratings. The official TMDB API supplies posters and metadata, and a Streamlit app lets you pick a film or a user and compare both sets of suggestions.

What makes it stand up

  • 01Content-based similarity over genres, cast, crew and plot text
  • 02SVD matrix factorisation for collaborative filtering
  • 03RMSE and precision@k evaluation on held-out ratings
  • 04Posters and details fetched through the official TMDB API
  • 05Side-by-side view of both recommenders for the same input

Module breakdown

  1. 01

    Data merge

    Joins MovieLens ratings with TMDB metadata.

  2. 02

    Content model

    Tag soup vectorisation and cosine similarity.

  3. 03

    Collaborative model

    SVD trained with the Surprise library.

  4. 04

    Evaluation

    Rating error and top-k ranking metrics.

  5. 05

    App

    Streamlit interface with poster grids.

After this, you will be able to

  • Explain content-based versus collaborative filtering
  • Defend how you handle the cold-start problem
  • Demo recommendations for a film the examiner picks

Technology stack

  • Python
  • Pandas
  • scikit-learn
  • Surprise
  • Streamlit

Complete kit

₹5,699₹9,699
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Delivered in under 48 hours

Level
Mini Project
Domain
Machine Learning
Build time
1-2 weeks
Difficulty

You receive

  • Complete, commented source code
  • 60-90 page project report (IEEE format)
  • Editable presentation deck
  • Architecture, ER and UML diagrams
  • Local setup and deployment guide
  • Sample dataset or seed data
  • Viva question bank with answers
  • One 45-minute walkthrough call
  • 30 days of doubt-clearing support
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