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Live demo: where2watch.meilisearch.com
Where to Watch is a movie discovery application powered by Meilisearch’s hybrid search. Use the search slider to blend full-text and semantic search, explore movie recommendations, and see how custom ranking promotes the most relevant results. Movies demo showing search results

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Key features

  • Hybrid search slider: Move from 0 (full-text search) to 100 (semantic search) to find the perfect balance. The middle ground combines both approaches for optimal relevancy.
  • Recommendation API: Select a movie to see similar titles powered by the similar documents endpoint. Recommendations surface movies in the same category or with similar themes.
  • Multi-lingual semantic search: Semantic search works across languages. Searching “Le seigneur des anneaux” finds “The Lord of the Rings” without manual translation.
  • Automatic synonym handling: Queries like “last tldr movie” find “The Lord of the Rings” movies, with the semantic engine understanding intent beyond exact keywords.
  • Custom ranking rules: Recent movies and highly rated titles are promoted in results, blending relevancy with freshness and popularity.
  • Performance: Sub-50ms response times, even with hybrid search combining full-text and vector retrieval.

Try the demo

Search movies and explore hybrid search

Source code

View implementation on GitHub