Movie Rate Checker (formerly IMDB Checker)

Most info you need is easily found all over the web. There are specialized services which organize entire collections of songs and movies, provide descriptions, ratings, and more. In case you need additional help managing your collection of movies, then Movie Rate Checker can help you set ratings according to a specialized service.

The application skips you the whole effort of going through a setup process, which makes it pretty flexible and allows you to easily carry it around on a thumb drive. However, it does not work unless .NET Framework is installed, so you need to perform this check first. Moreover, an active Internet connection is required since results are grabbed online.

With the main window up you can start to create your own database of movies. These are inserted through a browse dialog which lets you pick an entire folder for processing. On the other hand, you can take the time and manually write down names of movies, without any file dependencies.

All items are shown in a detailed table with info fields for filename, IMDb name, rating, and average. However, the list is not automatically updated so you need to manually initiate the session. It doesn’t take a lot of time for results to be gathered, but this mostly depends on your Internet connection type.

Movies inside the database can be filtered according to any of the file headers. Unfortunately, all changes are discarded on exit, and there’s no built-in option to load an existing database of movies. However, there is an option to export the entire database under the XLS format for more processing.

In conclusion, organizing your movie collection offline can mean a lot of things. Movie Rate Checker helps you grab ratings from popular online sources and save them inside an organized database. Sadly, you can’t save the database for later processing here, and there’s a high chance ratings fail to be retrieved.