Med’s Movie Manager is a free utility that lets you catalog your movie collection easily. This is a new version that has been released over the last couple of days. 

Once you add a film, you can see the DVD cover, cast, plot, rating and much more. You are only limited by the data available at IMDB. If you don’t like the data, you are able to edit any aspect of it.

MeD’s Movie Manager also lets you add movies that are on your computer. You can set it to scan a selected folder for films, and then you can proceed through the usual IMDB hookup.

It took me around 2 hours to input 380 disks movies into the catalog. I listed all my DVD’s as plain text (imported from Ant’s Movie Catalog) and then MeD’s Movie Manager scanned IMDB to fill out all the available information for each film. It was a little repetitive, but that is the way it has to be to get good results.

While it doesn’t look as flash as some of the commercial options, you can change the “Look and Feel” of the program in so many ways. There are more themes and appearance options than I cared to count.

There is also great import and export functionality, allowing you to easily transfer the list to a mobile phone, so that you know what you own while you are shopping.

MeD’s Movie Manager runs on any system that is supported by Java Standard Edition. This includes Windows, Mac and Linux. I had it running in Vista without any problems at all.

There are many movie catalog programs available, but there are not many which are free. I have also had a go at using Ant’s Movie Catalog and found that to be quite good. There is not much between them as they both have their strong points.

MeD’s Movie Manager is available for free from SourceForge.