longtake

What longtake does

LongTake is an Italian-language online cinema platform operated by Lachi S.r.l., an Italian private limited company headquartered in Italy and founded in 2015. The platform functions as a comprehensive film database and editorial cinema dictionary, offering catalog browsing by genre, country, year, director, actor, festival awards, and curated thematic collections (e.g., Marvel, Studio Ghibli, New Hollywood, Palme d'Or winners). Registered users can rate films, write reviews, maintain personal viewing diaries, build watchlists, and subscribe to a weekly newsletter.

On top of the database, LongTake runs a layered education and events business. The company offers online and in-person cinema courses and thematic webinars covering topics such as rhetorical figures in cinema, special effects, semiotics, and director retrospectives (Christopher Nolan, Luchino Visconti). It operates an annual film festival and a recurring film criticism competition for young critics (the Marco Valerio prize). A separate B2B portal at business.longtake.it sells professional training and consulting to companies, museums, and schools under multi-year engagement terms, while consumer courses are sold on a pay-as-you-go basis.

The business model combines consumer course sales (one-time/perpetual license) with enterprise training services (custom, multi-year contracts). GTM is primarily product-led via longtake.it, supplemented by direct enterprise sales through the business portal, multi-channel social media marketing, SEO-driven editorial content, and a banner-advertising partnership with Movie.it. The company's geographic footprint is limited to Italy and its market has no disclosed funding, no patents, no certifications, and no public revenue figures.

Name

longtake

Legal name

Lachi S.r.l.

Website

https://longtake.it

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online cinema education and film database platform

NAICS

Broadcasting and Content Providers (516)

akta.pro primary industry

Long-Form Writing & Article Platforms (MPACAIAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

Alternative Content Exhibition (Live Broadcasts, Concert Films, Sports, Opera) (MPADAKAG)

Keywords

• Film database platform
• Cinema education courses
• Film criticism portal
• Movie catalog online
• Corporate film training

Headquarters

HQ city

Milan

HQ country

Italy

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Operations

Revenue model

1. Course Sales: Revenue from online and in-person cinema courses targeting film enthusiasts and professionals
2. Business Training Services: Corporate training and consulting services for companies, museums, schools, and institutions through dedicated business portal

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

longtake operates an Italian-language online cinema platform that combines a comprehensive film database and catalog (with browsing by genre, country, year, awards, directors, actors, and curated collections) with structured cinema education through online and in-person courses, thematic pathways, webinars, and director retrospectives. It also delivers customized corporate film training and consulting to enterprises, museums, and schools via a dedicated business portal. Registered users can rate films, build personalized watchlists, write reviews, and subscribe to a weekly newsletter covering editorial content and events.

Product overview

Longtake is an Italian cinema platform built around a comprehensive film database offering detailed film information, reviews, and curated collections. The platform operates as a multi-product ecosystem comprising the core film database with browsing and filtering capabilities, educational offerings through online and in-person cinema courses and webinars, professional training services for businesses and institutions, user engagement features including voting, reviews and watchlists, an annual film festival, and a criticism competition for young writers. The various products share the common theme of film appreciation and education, with the film database serving as the central hub around which community features and educational services are organized.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Longtake Film Database Core searchable catalog of films available across cinema, streaming, and TV, organized through filters and curated thematic collections, serving film enthusiasts seeking discovery and contextual information.
• Corsi e Webinar (Cinema Courses and Webinars) Paid online and in-person educational courses and webinars on cinema history, criticism, theory, and director-focused studies, sold to individual film enthusiasts for personal enrichment and skill development.
• Formazione Business (Business Training Services) Customized corporate and institutional training programs in cinema education, film criticism, and cultural development delivered to companies, museums, and schools through consultation-based engagement.
• Longtake Festival Annual curated film festival event organized and branded by longtake, producing a distinctive viewing program for cinephile audiences.
• Concorso di Critica Cinematografica (Marco Valerio Criticism Competition) Annual competition program supporting aspiring young film critics through recognition and engagement with longtake's film criticism ecosystem.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Movie.itminorGTM or Marketing PartnerBanner advertising partnership with Movie.it for cross-platform promotion. Movie.it catalog is featured on LongTake with banner advertisements driving traffic between the platforms.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Regional players

• Movie.it: Italian film catalog and editorial site that already runs a cross-promotion partnership with LongTake — a regional peer with the same Italian audience focus and similar catalog/discovery product.

Direct peers

• JustWatch: Streaming-availability search engine with editorial recommendations and curated collections — competes for the film-discovery moment and overlaps with LongTake's "Scelti per te" / "Streaming" catalog sections.
• TMDB (The Movie Database): Open/community-driven film database with detailed metadata, ratings, and lists — comparable as an alternative free film-catalog platform with strong catalog taxonomy similar to LongTake's.
• FilmAffinity: Spain-based film database with ratings, lists, and editorial content — most direct peer for an Italian-language market because it pairs a regional-language catalog with community reviews in the same way LongTake does.
• MUBI: Curated film streaming and editorial platform with deep long-form criticism and director retrospectives — overlaps with LongTake's editorial/course content and themed collections, but pairs it with a viewing subscription.
• Letterboxd: Social film-tracking platform with ratings, reviews, watchlists, and lists — directly overlaps with LongTake's diary, voting, and watchlist features, and is the most cited consumer-film-listening behavior reference.

Broad incumbents

• Rotten Tomatoes: Major film review-aggregation and editorial site — adjacent on editorial coverage and audience overlap, but focused on Tomatometer-style aggregation rather than LongTake's long-form criticism and education model.
• Coursera: Large online education platform — relevant as a broad incumbent in the B2B/university training channel that LongTake's Formazione Business (museums, schools) competes for with multi-year contracts.
• IMDb: Broad incumbent film database and ratings destination owned by Amazon — competes for top-of-funnel film-discovery traffic and adjacent editorial attention; serves similar discovery needs but at much larger scale and without LongTake's education layer.
• MasterClass: Premium online video course platform — broad incumbent on the education/monetization side of LongTake's business model, especially relevant for the consumer courses/webinars stream.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/longtake_it
• Facebookfacebook.com/longtake.it
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/longtake
• Instagraminstagram.com/longtakeit
• TikToktiktok.com/@longtakeit

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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