[sfaruque]

There used to be a site call ClerkDogs.com that probably had the best movie recommendation system I've used. You started off naming a few movies you liked, and it would provide a list of movies you'd also probably like, and it was very accurate.

From what I remember, the database was cataloged and maintained by actual humans, and not some algorithm following behavior patterns.

[fastball]

Yep, jinni.com did the exact same thing, and I loved it. Unfortunately, it seems like B2C just didn't work financially so they switched to an entirely B2B model to help providers with their recommendation engines and no longer have their data accessible to end-users.

[cpach]

It’s a shame that the economics of recommendation engines doesn’t seem to work very well in the B2C space. Good rec. engines can be very useful.

[hanklazard]

https://www.criticker.com/

This does almost exactly what you describe. I really like it. Not human curated but matches your preferences with other humans with similar preferences to give you recs.