NEW YORK—A film director sued Amazon.com Inc. for $2.15 million, claiming that its movie database web site Imdb.com falsely credits her as the director of two hard-core pornography movies.

Imdb.com credits Nesya Shapiro Blue as the director of Dreams of Candace Heart and Fantasy in Blue, both from 1991, Blue claimed in a complaint filed in New York state court. Blue said she lost contracts and business opportunities worth more than $250,000 as a result and is suing for defamation and libel.

“Blue’s personal reputation has been severely tarnished,’’ according to the complaint.

Blue worked on documentaries, feature films, commercials and music videos for the British Broadcasting Corp., Viacom Inc.’s Paramount Pictures, National Geographic, the Smithsonian Institution and the Public Broadcasting Service, according to the complaint. She worked on the documentary Against Pornography with late antipornography activist Andrea Dworkin, according to the complaint.

“We typically don’t comment on active litigation,’’ said Amazon.com spokesman Patty Smith.

The porn films listed on Imdb.com, or Internet Movie Database, were directed by a Nancy Blue, Shapiro Blue said in her complaint. Imdb.com combined the credits of both women “without making any indication that they are two different people in two very different genres of the motion picture industry, despite plaintiff’s repeated e-mails and letters seeking to correct the listing,’’ the complaint said.

The web site ignored Shapiro Blue’s requests to change the credit listing, according to the complaint.

“The harm is that she has been affiliated with someone who is involved in pornography when she isn’t,’’ said Blue’s attorney, Michael Korsinsky. “Many people out there don’t want to be associated with that industry.’’

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NEW YORK—A film director sued Amazon.com Inc. for $2.15 million, claiming that its movie database web site Imdb.com falsely credits her as the director of two hard-core pornography movies.