Movie Gatherer. A movie collectors site

Those actors, who have extended information about them available, are green. This information is downloaded automatically by a single press of the button similar to the way of adding movies -- the program finds information about the person on the Internet and stores it into the local database.

The actor card is displayed in a following window:

Using the button to the left of the person’s name, you can have the program find and download information about the person from the Internet. There is also a button to change the currently used on-line database.

All My Movies stores all data in a database in a special format, but allows the movie collection to be exported into many formats, such as MS Excel, plain text files, CHM, or HTML format using templates. You can export the collection into the HTML format in the following way. Select the "Tools -- Export to HTML" menu item for this window:

Select the preferred template from the list of available templates, click the "Next" button, specify the location where the file will be stored, and you will get a full-featured web page ready for uploading onto the Internet. If you know HTML, it will be easy for you to create your own template. Next to this flexible exporting functionality, All My Movies also can import an existing movie collection, but this is a topic for another article.

As of version 4.5, All My Movies has an extended database of friends to whom you loan your movies. The program keeps an account of all movies given out, reminds you about the persons who haven't returned the movie on time and keeps a history of loaned movies for each of your friends. It is very easy to use this functionality. When you give a movie to your friend, find this movie in the database and select the "Movie -- Loan/Return" menu item, or press the F12 key. The program will display the following window:

In this window, type the name of your friend or select it from the list, and specify the number of days after which the program will start to remind you about the movie not having been returned. Click the "OK" button to mark the movie as given out -- a corresponding note appears in the movie card and the movie is highlighted in pink in the list. When the movie is returned, use the same menu item or the F12 key to mark the movie as returned. You can see the history of loans/returns for each friend in the corresponding database (the "Directories - Friends" menu item).

If the currently present fields for storing movie information are not enough for you, you can configure your own fields in Preferences, which will then be available for searching and grouping. For example, you may want to add the "Translation quality" or "Picture quality" fields. Custom field can be text or boolean (flags). In case of boolean fields, you can specify the color which will be used to highlight movies with the corresponding flag set. This is very useful to mark, say, favorite movies.

This article describes only a portion of All My Movies features. All My Movies is a very flexible and configurable tool for anyone who has at least a dozen movies in the collection. By spending a few moments to configure the collection and add your movies, you can get a nice and flexible digital collection, which helps you not to get lost in your own movies.

The demo version of the program can be downloaded from the official website. Here you can also purchase a license for $44.95.