How I Turned an Old Movie Recommendation Project Into a Cinematic AI Platform

This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge

What I Built

I built CineMatch, an AI-powered movie recommendation platform designed with a cinematic Netflix-inspired interface.

The project started as a small recommendation engine, but during this challenge I focused on transforming it into a much more polished and immersive experience. I redesigned the UI, improved the recommendation logic, added responsive layouts, integrated TMDB live metadata, and reorganized the project architecture into modular components.

The platform uses TF-IDF vectorization and cosine similarity to recommend movies based on storyline similarity instead of only genres.