Finding several familiar names in a comparison often raises another question: where else have these people worked together? Crosscredit could make recurring collaborations discoverable without making users leave the app and compare filmographies manually.
Proposal #
Let users select two people from the shared results and choose "Where else together?" Show other movies and shows credited to both, with each person's roles/jobs beside the title.
For example, after recognizing the same actor and director in two films, users could explore their other collaborations and use any result in a new title comparison.
Initial scope #
- Compare two people's filmographies and show shared titles, excluding or clearly marking the titles already being compared.
- Include acting and crew collaborations, merge multiple roles/jobs, and identify titles by media type and ID.
- Show posters, release years, and each person's contribution. Offer an action to compare a result with one of the original titles.
- Include loading, empty, and retry states; describe results as based on TMDB's available credits.
- Fetch and validate filmographies on the server, reuse caching, and use TanStack Query for frontend reads. No accounts or persistent storage needed.
This complements the person drawer: the drawer explores one person's work, while this feature explores a partnership. They can share filmography data without requiring a larger graph explorer.