A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Aida Kurmangaliyeva is a Kazakh actress and model known for her work in cinema and social media. She has been involved in dance since childhood and performed at various events. From the eighth grade, she started working in theater, earning fees for her performances. At the age of 14, she also worked as a waitress in a café. In 2020, Aida joined the Kazakh creative TikTok collective **BIP House**, performing under the pseudonym **@monalemi**. Her TikTok account has around **5 million followers**. In 2025, Aida represented Kazakhstan at the **75th Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale)** alongside **Aizhuldyz Adaibekova** and later attended an **Armani Beauty event**, the official partner of the festival. She continues to actively develop her career in film and modeling, representing Kazakhstan on the international stage.
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.