diff --git a/modules/imdb/__init__.py b/modules/imdb/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d20b6ee1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/imdb/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+# Copyright(C) 2013 Julien Veyssier
+#
+# This file is part of weboob.
+#
+# weboob is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# weboob is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+# along with weboob. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+from .backend import ImdbBackend
+
+__all__ = ['ImdbBackend']
diff --git a/modules/imdb/backend.py b/modules/imdb/backend.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f358727c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/imdb/backend.py
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+# Copyright(C) 2013 Julien Veyssier
+#
+# This file is part of weboob.
+#
+# weboob is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# weboob is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+# along with weboob. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+from weboob.capabilities.cinema import ICapCinema
+from weboob.tools.backend import BaseBackend
+
+from .browser import ImdbBrowser
+
+from urllib import quote_plus
+
+__all__ = ['ImdbBackend']
+
+
+class ImdbBackend(BaseBackend, ICapCinema):
+    NAME = 'imdb'
+    MAINTAINER = u'Julien Veyssier'
+    EMAIL = 'julien.veyssier@aiur.fr'
+    VERSION = '0.f'
+    DESCRIPTION = 'Internet Movie Database service'
+    LICENSE = 'AGPLv3+'
+    BROWSER = ImdbBrowser
+
+    def create_default_browser(self):
+        return self.create_browser()
+
+    def get_movie(self, id):
+        return self.browser.get_movie(id)
+
+    def get_person(self, id):
+        return self.browser.get_person(id)
+
+    def iter_movies(self, pattern):
+        return self.browser.iter_movies(quote_plus(pattern.encode('utf-8')))
+
+    def iter_persons(self, pattern):
+        return self.browser.iter_persons(quote_plus(pattern.encode('utf-8')))
+
+    def iter_movie_persons(self, id):
+        return self.browser.iter_movie_persons(id)
+
+    def iter_person_movies(self, id):
+        return self.browser.iter_person_movies(id)
diff --git a/modules/imdb/browser.py b/modules/imdb/browser.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2bfec383
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/imdb/browser.py
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+# Copyright(C) 2013 Julien Veyssier
+#
+# This file is part of weboob.
+#
+# weboob is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# weboob is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+# along with weboob. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+
+from weboob.tools.browser import BaseBrowser
+from weboob.tools.json import json
+
+from .pages import MoviePage, PersonPage, MovieCrewPage
+
+
+__all__ = ['ImdbBrowser']
+
+
+class ImdbBrowser(BaseBrowser):
+    DOMAIN = 'www.imdb.com'
+    PROTOCOL = 'http'
+    ENCODING = 'utf-8'
+    USER_AGENT = BaseBrowser.USER_AGENTS['wget']
+    PAGES = {
+        'http://www.imdb.com/title/tt[0-9]*/*': MoviePage,
+        'http://www.imdb.com/title/tt[0-9]*/fullcredits.*': MovieCrewPage,
+        'http://www.imdb.com/name/nm.*': PersonPage,
+        }
+
+    def iter_movies(self, pattern):
+        # the api leads to a json result or the html movie page if there is only one result
+        self.location('http://www.imdb.com/xml/find?json=1&tt=on&q=%s' % pattern.encode('utf-8'))
+        if self.is_on_page(MoviePage):
+            yield self.page.get_movie()
+        else:
+            res = self.readurl('http://www.imdb.com/xml/find?json=1&tt=on&q=%s' % pattern.encode('utf-8'))
+            jres = json.loads(res)
+            for restype,mlist in jres.items():
+                for m in mlist:
+                    yield self.get_movie(m['id'])
+
+    def iter_persons(self, pattern):
+        # the api leads to a json result or the html movie page if there is only one result
+        self.location('http://www.imdb.com/xml/find?json=1&nm=on&q=%s' % pattern.encode('utf-8'))
+        if self.is_on_page(PersonPage):
+            yield self.page.get_person()
+        else:
+            res = self.readurl('http://www.imdb.com/xml/find?json=1&nm=on&q=%s' % pattern.encode('utf-8'))
+            jres = json.loads(res)
+            for restype,plist in jres.items():
+                for p in plist:
+                    yield self.get_person(p['id'])
+
+    def get_movie(self, id):
+        self.location('http://www.imdb.com/title/%s' % id)
+        assert self.is_on_page(MoviePage)
+        return self.page.get_movie(id)
+
+    def get_person(self, id):
+        self.location('http://www.imdb.com/name/%s' % id)
+        assert self.is_on_page(PersonPage)
+        return self.page.get_person(id)
+
+    def iter_movie_persons(self, movie_id):
+        self.location('http://www.imdb.com/title/%s' % movie_id)
+        assert self.is_on_page(MoviePage)
+        return self.page.iter_persons(movie_id)
+
+    def iter_person_movies(self, person_id):
+        self.location('http://www.imdb.com/name/%s' % person_id)
+        assert self.is_on_page(PersonPage)
+        return self.page.iter_movies(person_id)
diff --git a/modules/imdb/pages.py b/modules/imdb/pages.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ae23bf9a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/imdb/pages.py
@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+# Copyright(C) 2013 Julien Veyssier
+#
+# This file is part of weboob.
+#
+# weboob is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# weboob is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+# along with weboob. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+
+from weboob.capabilities.cinema import Movie, Person
+from weboob.capabilities.base import NotAvailable
+from weboob.tools.browser import BasePage
+
+import string
+from datetime import datetime
+
+
+__all__ = ['MoviePage','PersonPage','MovieCrewPage']
+
+
+class MoviePage(BasePage):
+    def get_movie(self,id):
+        title = NotAvailable
+        duration = NotAvailable
+        description = NotAvailable.__unicode__()
+        td_overview = self.parser.select(self.document.getroot(),'td#overview-top',1)
+        for span in self.parser.select(td_overview,'h1.header span[itemprop=name]'):
+            if span.attrib.get('class','') == 'itemprop':
+                other_titles = span.text
+                if title == NotAvailable:
+                    title = other_titles
+            elif span.attrib.get('class','') == 'title-extra':
+                title = span.text
+        meta = self.parser.select(td_overview,'meta[itemprop=datePublished]',1)
+        datestrings = meta.attrib.get('content','').split('-')
+        if len(datestrings) == 2:
+            datestrings.append('1')
+        time = self.parser.select(td_overview,'time[itemprop=duration]')
+        if len(time) > 0:
+            duration = int(time[0].attrib.get('datetime','').strip(string.letters))
+        desc = self.parser.select(td_overview,'p[itemprop=description]')
+        if len(desc) > 0:
+            description = desc[0].text
+        movie = Movie(id,title.strip())
+        movie.other_titles    = other_titles.strip()
+        movie.release_date    = datetime(int(datestrings[0]),int(datestrings[1]),int(datestrings[2]))
+        movie.duration        = duration
+        movie.description     = description
+        movie.note            = "10/10"
+        movie.awards          = ["aw1","aw2"]
+        movie.roles           = {}
+        return movie
+
+    def iter_persons(self,id):
+        self.browser.location('http://www.imdb.com/title/%s/fullcredits'%id)
+        assert self.browser.is_on_page(MovieCrewPage)
+        for p in self.browser.page.iter_persons():
+            yield p
+
+class MovieCrewPage(BasePage):
+    def iter_persons(self):
+        tables = self.parser.select(self.document.getroot(),'table.cast')
+        if len(tables) > 0:
+            table = tables[0]
+            tds = self.parser.select(table,'td.nm')
+            for td in tds:
+                name = td.text_content()
+                id = td.find('a').attrib.get('href','').strip('/').split('/')[-1]
+                person = Person(id,name)
+                person.real_name = NotAvailable
+                person.birth_date = NotAvailable
+                person.nationality = NotAvailable
+                person.gender = NotAvailable
+                yield person
+
+
+class PersonPage(BasePage):
+    def get_person(self,id):
+        person = Person(id,'nameplop')
+        person.real_name       = 'rn'
+        person.birth_date      = datetime.now()
+        person.birth_place     = "place"
+        person.gender          = "M"
+        person.nationality     = "nn"
+        person.biography       = 'bio'
+        person.awards          = ["aw1","aw2"]
+        person.roles           = {}
+        return person
+
+    def iter_movies(self,person_id):
+        pass
diff --git a/modules/imdb/test.py b/modules/imdb/test.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e12ed63e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/imdb/test.py
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+# Copyright(C) 2013 Julien Veyssier
+#
+# This file is part of weboob.
+#
+# weboob is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# weboob is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+# along with weboob. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+from weboob.tools.test import BackendTest
+
+#from random import choice
+
+class ImdbTest(BackendTest):
+    BACKEND = 'imdb'
+
+    def test_movie(self):
+        movies = list(self.backend.iter_movies('spiderman'))
+        for movie in movies:
+            assert movie.id
+            assert movie.original_title
+            assert movie.release_date
+    
+    def test_persons(self):
+        persons = list(self.backend.iter_persons('robert'))
+        for person in persons:
+            assert person.id
+            assert person.name
+            assert person.birth_date
diff --git a/weboob/applications/cineoob/cineoob.py b/weboob/applications/cineoob/cineoob.py
index 98c6f1b4..0b8632c4 100644
--- a/weboob/applications/cineoob/cineoob.py
+++ b/weboob/applications/cineoob/cineoob.py
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import sys
 from datetime import datetime
 
 from weboob.capabilities.cinema import ICapCinema
+from weboob.capabilities.base import NotAvailable
 from weboob.tools.application.repl import ReplApplication
 from weboob.tools.application.formatters.iformatter import IFormatter, PrettyFormatter
 
@@ -38,7 +39,7 @@ class MovieInfoFormatter(IFormatter):
         result += 'ID: %s\n' % obj.fullid
         result += 'Other titles: %s\n' % obj.other_titles
         result += 'Released: %s\n' % obj.release_date
-        result += 'Duration: %d\n' % obj.duration
+        result += 'Duration: %s\n' % obj.duration
         result += 'Note: %s\n' % obj.note
         if obj.roles:
             result += '\n%sRelated persons%s\n' % (self.BOLD, self.NC)
@@ -62,7 +63,7 @@ class MovieListFormatter(PrettyFormatter):
         return obj.original_title
 
     def get_description(self, obj):
-        return 'Released: %s   (note: %d, duration: %d)' % (obj.release_date, obj.note, obj.duration)
+        return 'Released: %s   (note: %s, duration: %s)' % (obj.release_date, obj.note, obj.duration)
 
 def yearsago(years, from_date=None):
     if from_date is None:
@@ -94,7 +95,7 @@ class PersonInfoFormatter(IFormatter):
         result += 'Birth date: %s\n' % obj.birth_date
         age = num_years(obj.birth_date)
         result += 'Age: %s\n' % age
-        result += 'Birth place: %d\n' % obj.birth_place
+        result += 'Birth place: %s\n' % obj.birth_place
         result += 'Gender: %s\n' % obj.gender
         result += 'Nationality: %s\n' % obj.nationality
         if obj.roles:
@@ -107,7 +108,7 @@ class PersonInfoFormatter(IFormatter):
             result += '\n%sAwards%s\n' % (self.BOLD, self.NC)
             for a in obj.awards:
                 result += ' * %s\n' % a
-        result += '\n%Biography%s\n' % (self.BOLD, self.NC)
+        result += '\n%sBiography%s\n' % (self.BOLD, self.NC)
         result += obj.biography
         return result
 
@@ -119,8 +120,11 @@ class PersonListFormatter(PrettyFormatter):
         return obj.name
 
     def get_description(self, obj):
-        age = num_years(obj.birth_date)
-        return 'Real name: %s   (age: %d, nationality: %s, gender: %s)' % (obj.real_name, age, obj.nationality, obj.gender)
+        if obj.birth_date != NotAvailable:
+            age = num_years(obj.birth_date)
+        else:
+            age = NotAvailable
+        return 'Real name: %s   (age: %s, nationality: %s, gender: %s)' % (obj.real_name, age, obj.nationality, obj.gender)
 
 
 class Cineoob(ReplApplication):
@@ -155,7 +159,7 @@ class Cineoob(ReplApplication):
 
         Get information about a movie.
         """
-
+        # TODO verify if path = search movie or filmo
         movie = self.get_object(id, 'get_movie')
         if not movie:
             print >>sys.stderr, 'Movie not found: %s' % id
@@ -171,7 +175,7 @@ class Cineoob(ReplApplication):
 
         Get information about a person.
         """
-
+        # TODO verify if path = search person or casting
         person = self.get_object(id, 'get_person')
         if not person:
             print >>sys.stderr, 'Person not found: %s' % id
@@ -217,8 +221,13 @@ class Cineoob(ReplApplication):
 
         List persons related to a movie.
         """
+        movie = self.get_object(movie_id, 'get_movie')
+        if not movie:
+            print >>sys.stderr, 'Movie not found: %s' % id
+            return 3
+
         self.change_path([u'casting'])
-        for backend, person in self.do('iter_movie_persons', movie_id):
+        for backend, person in self.do('iter_movie_persons', movie.id):
             self.cached_format(person)
         self.flush()
 
@@ -228,7 +237,12 @@ class Cineoob(ReplApplication):
 
         List movies of a person.
         """
+        person = self.get_object(person_id, 'get_person')
+        if not person:
+            print >>sys.stderr, 'Person not found: %s' % id
+            return 3
+
         self.change_path([u'filmography'])
-        for backend, movie in self.do('iter_person_movies', person_id):
+        for backend, movie in self.do('iter_person_movies', person.id):
             self.cached_format(movie)
         self.flush()
diff --git a/weboob/capabilities/base.py b/weboob/capabilities/base.py
index cd3a7657..d05a4661 100644
--- a/weboob/capabilities/base.py
+++ b/weboob/capabilities/base.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ from weboob.tools.ordereddict import OrderedDict
 __all__ = ['UserError', 'FieldNotFound', 'NotAvailable',
            'NotLoaded', 'IBaseCap', 'Field', 'IntField', 'DecimalField',
            'FloatField', 'StringField', 'BytesField', 'DateField',
-           'DeltaField', 'HashTableField', 'empty', 'CapBaseObject']
+           'DeltaField', 'empty', 'CapBaseObject']
 
 
 def empty(value):
diff --git a/weboob/capabilities/cinema.py b/weboob/capabilities/cinema.py
index 702a3954..659ca82a 100644
--- a/weboob/capabilities/cinema.py
+++ b/weboob/capabilities/cinema.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 # along with weboob. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
 
-from .base import IBaseCap, CapBaseObject, DateField, StringField, IntField, HashTableField
+from .base import IBaseCap, CapBaseObject, DateField, StringField, IntField, Field
 
 
 __all__ = ['Movie', 'Person', 'ICapCinema']
@@ -34,8 +34,8 @@ class Movie(CapBaseObject):
     duration        = IntField('Duration of the movie in minutes')
     description     = StringField('Short description of the movie')
     note            = StringField('Notation of the movie')
-    awards          = StringField('Awards won by the movie')
-    roles           = HashTableField('Lists of Persons related to the movie indexed by roles')
+    awards          = Field('Awards won by the movie',list)
+    roles           = Field('Lists of Persons related to the movie indexed by roles',dict)
 
     def __init__(self, id, original_title):
         CapBaseObject.__init__(self, id)
@@ -53,8 +53,8 @@ class Person(CapBaseObject):
     gender          = StringField('Gender of a person')
     nationality     = StringField('Nationality of a person')
     biography       = StringField('Short biography of a person')
-    awards          = StringField('Awards won by the person')
-    roles           = HashTableField('Lists of movies related to the person indexed by roles')
+    awards          = Field('Awards won by the person',list)
+    roles           = Field('Lists of movies related to the person indexed by roles',dict)
 
     def __init__(self, id, name):
         CapBaseObject.__init__(self, id)