I'm guessing that you have way too much time on your hands.

I'm also guessing that those sites have relatively little traffic, and serve mostly those who understand the languages of their respective countries. Why would I want to have to translate (probably clumsily) each page I visit there? Most of the developed world now uses English as a second language, and I can just go to the gold standard of film/TV websites and get everything I want. Or maybe this website in a few years once it's fleshed out a bit more.

Some or all of those other sites probably lifted their info from IMDb, and they may have done a really crappy job of it. Have you at least spot-checked the quality/accuracy and completeness of their data? Just because a site is "similar" in some way, that doesn't mean that it matters.

of course everyone was inspired by imdb, and he remains the flagship. but some of them were able to put much better design, more possibilities, etc.

And sometimes it's interesting to compare people's opinions from racial countries and cultures about the film. Sometimes it differs drastically. Often one can find a beautiful Korean or Russian film with less than 100 voices on imdb and tyby never paid attention to it.

Are they safe to visit?

Will I get creepy crawly bugs in my computer by clicking on those links?

@bratface said:

Are they safe to visit?

Will I get creepy crawly bugs in my computer by clicking on those links?

Fwiw, I don't tend to go to any Russian, Chinese or N Korean sites. Better safe than sorry.

And there's so much more stuff that's in English and that can be found on IMDb than I can ever possibly have time to watch. I just don't want to bother w/foreign knock-off sites, foreign languages, etc. I don't even want to bother w/English-subtitled films anymore. Having to read the subtitles distracts from the visuals.

@mercuriy_v said:

of course everyone was inspired by imdb, and he remains the flagship. but some of them were able to put much better design, more possibilities, etc.

And sometimes it's interesting to compare people's opinions from racial countries and cultures about the film. Sometimes it differs drastically. Often one can find a beautiful Korean or Russian film with less than 100 voices on imdb and tyby never paid attention to it.

Agree on the point on different cultural perspectives. For instance if you read douban you can get an idea of why Black Panther didn't perform that well in that market while Dangal did so well. I watch quite a fair bit of non-English shows (Japanese, Korean, German, Spanish, Swedish) so these sites are terribly useful when IMDb fails. Sometimes I add IMDb and Wikipedia entries on non-English shows with the help some of the foreign international sites you've listed too. Also keep a list of bookmarks of all the various national film institutes' databases for European and Asian countries. Native search engines like Naver and Yandex can be pretty useful, as well as all the film market databases I could get my hands on, as sources for upcoming shows.