This is the original version of the compressed code snippet which I just accidentially posted under 'Code Obfuscation'. It accepts one argument, searches the Internet Movie DataBase for this string, and returns the full title + rating of this movie.
my $string = shift;
getIMDB($string);
sub getIMDB($){
        use LWP;
        use LWP::Simple;
        sub LWP::UserAgent::redirect_ok { 1 };
        # LWP::Debug::level('+') ;
        $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
        $ua->agent("Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows NT; Dig
+Ext)");
        $req = new HTTP::Request POST => 'http://www.imdb.com/Find';
        $req->content_type('application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
        $req->content('for='. $string . '&select=All');
        my $res = $ua->request($req);

        if ($res->is_success) {
                my $c = $res->content;
                my ($nr,$title,$rating);

                #</P><OL><LI><A HREF="/Title?0138704">Pi (1998)</A>
                if($c =~ /<\/P><OL><LI><A HREF="\/Title\?(\d+)">.+?<\/
+A>/i){
                        $nr = $1;
                        print "Found '$string': $nr, retrieving page.\
+n";
                        $c = get("http://www.imdb.com/Title?$nr");
                }

                # <TITLE>Virgin Suicides, The (1999)</TITLE>
                # <BASE HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0159097">
                if($c =~ /<BASE HREF="http:\/\/.+?\/Title\?(\d+)\">/i)
+{
                        $nr = $1;
                        ($title,$rating) = getstuff($c);
                }elsif($c =~ /We\'re Sorry/){
                        $nr = '0';
                        $title = 'Unknown movie';
                        $rating = 0;
                }else{
                        print "Unhandled:\n$c\n";
                        exit;
                }
                print "$title ($nr) -> $rating\n";

        } else {
                print "Bad luck this time\n";
        }
}
sub getstuff
{
        my($contents) = shift;
        my($title,$rating);
        $_ = $contents;
        if(/<TITLE>(.+?)<\/TITLE>/i){
                $title = $1;
        }
        if(/<B>([\d\.]+)<\/B>\/\d+/i){
                $rating = $1;
        }else{
                $rating = "(no rating available)";
        }
        return($title,$rating);
}

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In reply to IMDB Title/Rating fetcher by Pitr

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