The world's biggest movie website is run by a ''self-confessed technology geek'' from a house in Britain.

Colin Needham, 43, began the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) in 1990 as a hobby, and despite selling to Amazon he still works as Chief Executive, and runs the website from his former family home in Stoke Gifford, Bristol.

The website, which is the 42nd most popular on the planet, attracts some 57 million unique users every month, and it has so much power and influence that it has the ability to launch and crush Hollywood careers.