What movie isthis clip from?
Film and TV scenes are some of the most indexed images on the web: stills sites, reviews, wikis and uploaded clips. Drop the clip and we find the pages that carry its frames — their titles usually name the film. Free to scan, $0.90 to see the pages.
- Works with the clip, a screen recording or a single screenshot.
- Edits, captions and TikTok crops still match the original frames.
- Scenes with faces or locations match better than black or blurred shots.
A link checks the first ~5 seconds. To check the whole video, upload the file.
the free scan reads the first seconds of a link
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From an edited clip to the pages that name the scene.
Give us the clip
The edit from TikTok or Reels, a screen recording, or a screenshot of the scene. Captions and zoom are fine.
We search the frames
Distinct moments of the clip are searched in Google's web image index, where film stills are everywhere.
Read the titles
Matches come from stills galleries, reviews, wikis and uploaded scenes. Their page titles almost always carry the film's name.
Naming one film is not a subscription.
You saw a scene and want the film. That is a single question, and it should cost a single price.
$0.90 a search, paid from a balance that never expires. Nothing renews.
- Retrace
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- $7.00
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never cancelled) - $84.00
Straight answers.
Scan first: if the scene is indexed, the free match count tells you before you pay.
Find a film free →Does Retrace recognise the film automatically?
Not as a title lookup. It finds the pages on the web that show the same frames — stills sites, reviews, wikis, uploaded scenes — and those pages' titles and URLs are where the film's name almost always is.
Can it identify a film from the soundtrack?
No. Retrace searches images only; there is no audio matching.
The clip is a TikTok edit with captions and zoom. Will it still work?
Usually. The matching tolerates re-encoding, rescaling and moderate crops, and the scan samples moments across the whole clip, so a few clean frames are enough.
What if it is from a series, an ad or a music video?
Same process. Anything widely shared on the web — TV, trailers, music videos, ads — tends to be well indexed.
Why no matches for some scenes?
Very dark shots, fast motion blur and obscure productions have little to match against. Try a screenshot of a clear, well-lit moment.