IMDBQuery is a project mainly written in PHP, it's free.
Querying IMDB for fun facts
The point of this tool is query IMDB to gather some fun facts like "what's the average rating of movies that Pierce Brosnan appeared in?" and "which Stallone movie scored best and which one worst?"
A normal PHP 5+ install with curl, DOM* and tidy modules installed should do the trick.
Check the check.php script - it shows how to run the scripts
There are unit tests supplied for most of the classes - check the /tests/ folder. You'll need PHPUnit to run them.
If you want to get in contact with the author, write to: [email protected]