I've just watched a movie from every country in the world

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After seeing the limited colouring on my 2023 and 2024 Year in Review maps, I decided to watch a movie from every country in the world this year. Factoring in that Trakt also includes several territories in the list of countries, that gave me 233 countries. I finally watched the last one tonight, with a day to spare!

I’ve kept track of it all in a list World Tour, a list by Shaun வலிமையா - Trakt as well as a spreadsheet because Trakt kept changing its idea of which countries some of the movies came from.

I’ve also had to use my All Time map because the 2025 map has gone

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Very impressive. And some really interesting movies on that list!

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Some great films I’d have never watched otherwise. Also some absolute dross, but you can’t win everything!

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This is very impressive. And really every country has a film industry? so Fiji islands have a movie?

You must have seen some very crappy movies :rofl:

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I love that you picked Funky Forest for Japan haha. Very weird movie but I love it. I really need to give this a try, love this idea

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Thanks for the list - a perfect excuse to try mapping my world again :sweat_smile:
I did this around a year ago, and today about 25 countries marked as 0 again.

To be fair, this isn’t about Trakt changing its opinion. Trakt simply doesn’t care about supporting more than one country for statistics and we’re completely dependent on how countries are ranked by TMDB. That’s why the stats are so heavily skewed toward the US - they produce a lot, they also sponsor a lot.

Take “The Excursionist” as an example. Lithuanian? Nope, US.

“Mars, Oman”? Belgium.

I watched Ukrainian film “Pamfir” last year - and it turned out to be listed as made in Chile, because someone from TMDB sorted the countries alphabetically. It looks like they’ve rolled that back now, but who knows for how long.

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There’s been a little bit of artistic licence taken, but I’ve tried to be as rigid as possible. I mostly avoided documentaries and shorts at the beginning but had to add them in later

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Here’s the list by country (well, sorted by date)

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I’m curious how you picked your movies to watch. What was the process? Were they movies you knew about? Did you google movies from the countries? Any other criteria you used?

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Some were movies I knew about, but many were just a case setting up a filter on the movies tab, of all the countries I needed, and all the streaming services I have, then watching the most popular/most interesting looking options.

I did throw in a couple of random bonus challenges - at the end of April, I just watched movies from the 7 countries ending in “stan” for no particular reason

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