An app for travelers and language learners who like to talk about their favorite films. Check out the homepage for a little blurb about the project.
The most reliable way to look up a movie’s title in a different languages is to find it on Wikipedia, then follow the links to translations of the article. This is a frustrating workflow on a smartphone, though, especially when the signal is weak. This (multi-)weekend project transforms a Wikipedia dump into a tiny SQLite file, and the MovieDict app for iOS then searches the database using Unicode-enabled full-text search.
IMDb does not support Chinese or Japanese characters (among others), and is not available offline.
Take a look at the Rakefile. There is a task that will run the full process, but manually running things step-by-step while reading the Ruby scripts is the recommended workflow.
This is a free app with no business model, and the source code is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for details.