How to Get Your Movie Poster on Letterboxd

You don't upload a poster to Letterboxd. You upload it to TMDB, and Letterboxd picks it up from there. Make it a 2:3 crop at 2000 × 3000 px.

Letterboxd gets its film data, posters included, from The Movie Database (TMDB), a free, community-edited film database. There's no option to upload posters on Letterboxd itself. If your poster is missing or wrong there, TMDB is where you fix it.

This is where the shape matters. TMDB's poster guidelines prefer an exact 2:3 ratio and require it for a film's main poster, with a minimum of 1000 × 1500 px. A 27 × 40 one-sheet is a touch wider than that, so crop it rather than stretching it. From a 2025 × 3000 export, that means trimming about 12 px off each side to get 2000 × 3000. Check your title and billing block still clear the edges after the crop, though there's so little to lose that they usually will.

Uploading to TMDB

You'll need a free TMDB account. Find your film, open its posters section, and upload from there. If your film doesn't have a TMDB page yet, you can add it, and that's also how it shows up on Letterboxd in the first place. Letterboxd users can't log a film that isn't in TMDB.

The step that trips people up is the language. Every poster on TMDB is tagged with the language of its text, and new uploads default to "No Language," which is meant for textless art. If your poster has an English title and billing block, set it to English. TMDB takes this seriously: deliberately mis-tagging languages to push your own poster to the top counts as sabotage there and can get you warned or banned.

A few other things TMDB won't take: fan art, back covers, photos of DVD cases, and posters with "Blu-ray" or "Widescreen" banners when a clean version of the same art exists. Borders are fine if they're part of the original design. If you're thinking of uploading a few versions (a teaser, a festival poster with laurels, the final one-sheet), that's allowed, and it gives people something to choose from.

How it shows up on Letterboxd

Once your poster is on TMDB, Letterboxd uses TMDB's default poster for the film. It doesn't update the moment you upload, so give it some time before assuming something went wrong.

Letterboxd's paying members can also pick their own poster for any film from everything TMDB has, so the extra versions you upload there can turn up on people's profiles and lists. That's a small reason to upload your alternate posters, not just the main one.

IMDb and FilmFreeway

IMDb is the opposite of Letterboxd: you upload the poster yourself, and it actually wants the full 27 × 40 proportions rather than a 2:3 crop. FilmFreeway wants a much smaller file again.

• How to add your movie poster to IMDb
• What size should your poster be for FilmFreeway?
• What is the standard movie poster size?

Still finishing the poster itself? BillingBlox builds the billing block for you, free. Upload your credits from a spreadsheet or type them in, then export a PNG or an outlined SVG ready to drop onto the art.