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How to conveniently list all films/series from A to Z, at best filter for "all films beginning with A"?

Hey. I want to "move" from another film database to IMDb but I can't find a convenient way to list all films and series from A to Z in order to rate them as in my former database. I only found https://www.imdb.com/de/search/title/?title_type=feature&sort=alpha,asc but I have to scroll manually to the bottom (and the end key doesn't even work) and click "50 more" again and again. How can I just filter for "all films beginning with A"?

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@Julika8 This is not possible using IMDb advanced title search, sorry. However, you can access a full list of titles in IMDb via the non-commercial data at https://developer.imdb.com/non-commercial-datasets/ — you will want the title.basics file. Hope this helps.

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Thank you, but I don't understand what that means. How do I use this? Can I rate the films via this?

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The IMDb dataset referenced above is a compressed text file containing all the titles on IMDb which you could load into a spreadsheet (such as Excel or similar) to sort and filter as you requested. Since you mentioned you were moving from another database, we (incorrectly, sorry) assumed that you might be familiar with databases and software development. Loading the data into a spreadsheet would give you the list of titles you required, but you could not vote directly via the spreadsheet. To go back to your original request, you cannot use advanced title search to filter by the starting letter, however, if you are overwhelmed by the number of titles in the results, one way to reduce the volume is to set a minimum vote threshold instead — you can work your way through the titles with the largest number of votes first and then adjust the threshold over time. For example, here’s a more manageable set of movies with over 1,000,000 votes: https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&num_votes=1000000,&sort=alpha,asc You can also remove titles for which you have already voted from the search results using: https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&num_votes=1000000,&my_ratings=exclude&sort=alpha,asc Once you have checked the titles at 1MM+ votes, you could lower the threshold, as in: https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&num_votes=750000,1000000&my_ratings=exclude&sort=alpha,asc and so on down. You control the vote threshold via the “Number of votes” filter on the left of the advanced title search page. You could also apply other filters, for example, if most of the movies you have seen have been made in the last 50 years, use the “Release dates” filter to restrict the results that way too: https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&release_date=1975-01-01,&num_votes=750000,&my_ratings=exclude&sort=alpha,asc Of the 23 million titles in IMDb, over 700,000 of them are movies, so it is not really practical to generate a full list of all movies on a single search results page anyway and you would have to apply some of the filtering above anyway. Hope this helps.