🌌 Ozilly – A Curated Cinematic Companion

Ozilly is not just a movie recommendation engine — it's a refined, curated, and personalized cinematic discovery experience. Built with precision, served with elegance.

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✨ Why Ozilly?

• 🎞️ Curated Recommendations — Discover films that match your cinematic fingerprint.
• 🧠 Smart Matching — Suggests movies using cosine similarity, not generic trends.
• 🔍 Fuzzy Title Search — Handles typos and partial entries with intelligence.
• 🗂️ Genre Filtering — Browse by theme, mood, or aesthetic.
• 🕒 Recent History Tracking — Pick up where you left off, effortlessly.
• 💖 Favorites Manager — Save what you love in a click.

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🔧 Tech Stack

Layer	Tech Used
Backend	Python, Pandas, Pickle
Recommender	Scikit-Learn (cosine sim)
UI Engine	Streamlit (custom styled)
Assets	TMDB Posters API (optional)

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🧠 How It Works

1. Loads movies from movie_dict.pkl (preprocessed metadata)
2. Uses a similarity.pkl matrix built on cosine similarity
3. Based on selected movie, returns top 5 related titles
4. Displays clean poster cards with refined layout

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🚀 Run Ozilly Locally

git clone https://github.com/yaadhuu/ozilly.git
cd ozilly
pip install -r requirements.txt
streamlit run app.py