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Wednesday, November 1st, 2023

IMDb Advanced Search Redesign

We are excited to announce IMDb’s Advanced Search redesign! Customers are now able to leverage all three sub-searches (Name, Title, Collaborations) on a single search page, making it easier to update search queries and navigate to desired results. The refreshed search is meant to enhance the IMDb experience for all customers worldwide, improving the discovery and navigation with easier access to celebrity, movie, and TV content on any device. The updated experience reflects feedback and suggestions from customers as well as in-depth research. For more information about the redesign you can review our FAQ, and for more information on how to use the new Advanced Search feature you can find details on our Help Guide. We hope you enjoy this latest improvement, and thank you for continuing to make IMDb the world's most trusted source for movie, TV, and entertainment content. - The IMDb team

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Will there be any more changes or is this the final version? 1. Do you plan to put information about the director, actors and genre so that we don't have to click on "i in a circle" every time? 2. What about pagination? 3. One of the major disadvantages is that we have to open the links in a new tab or window every time, because otherwise it returns us to the first 50 results. What about that? I think these are the key features that are missing in the new version. Without the rest, I guess, most users could live. 🙂

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Why was Filming location removed as a Search item? Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Why was Filming location removed as a Search item?

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Why isn't this advanced search giving no results? https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature,tv_movie,video&genres=documentary&release_date=2023-01-01,2023-12-31&sort=num_votes,desc&adult=include&runtime=45,9999999&my_ratings=restrict I had spend a lot of time saving advanced search links in a blog to find useful information for Me, and now they are all useless. I wanted to find all movies, TV movies, Video movies and documentaries I saw in a given year, marking a minimum runtime. However it is not possible to see Movies, TV movies, Video movies and documentaries in a single list anymore, and now I can only find lists if I limit myself to a single title type. Can this be fixed?

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@Col_Needham​ Thanks.

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Does anyone know how to search all feature films without a plot outline? This link used to work on old Advanced search, but not anymore https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&has=%21plot

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I mentioned this flaw on the first page of this thread and Col said they would look into it, though admittedly that is now seven weeks ago. (A difference I noticed is that the title search gives me a 404 error while the name search just ignores the search phrase.)

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When I search for titles with fewer than 1000 votes (ratings), the results don't appear to include titles with no votes (or fewer than 5) such as unreleased titles. I was a little surprised by this, but I don't know if it is different from before.

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Advanced title search https://www.imdb.com/search/title/ Can not search "Soundtracks" for a song title?? 😳 . Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled song title?

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It's under Page Topics. https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?has=soundtracks&soundtracks=my%20ship

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@bderoes​ 😀 Thank you !!

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I know it also wasn't possible in the old advanced search, but can you make it possible to have a search filter for causes of death?

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Hi. I try (for example) to search for the German title ("Friedhof ohne Kreuze") of this movie: tt0063740. If I use the "normal" search (https://www.imdb.com/find/?s=tt&q=Friedhof%20ohne%20Kreuze) I get a result. If I use the advanced search (https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title=Friedhof%20ohne%20Kreuze) not. Is it a bug or a feature? Thanks and Cheers Matze PS: The site language is set to German. Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Search vs. Advanced Search

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Topic searches such as Quotes use fuzzy search so for example my search for "corporation" seems to include matches for "corporal". This was not really a problem when the matching quotes were displayed in the search results, but now it's a hassle. Perhaps there could be a way to restrict to exact matches.

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I love the added feature of only inputing the year in a search instead of mm/dd/yyyy. However, the "latest" side of the search should go through Dec 31, not Dec 1. Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Advanced Search - Date Error

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Hello, I used the IMDb advanced search to exclude countries from the results, now it is not working anymore. How can I exclude a country from the search results?

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The filter !countries (exclamation mark countries) is no longer excluding countries from the search. Example: https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?num_votes=5000,&release_date=2010,&sort=user_rating,desc,&title_type=feature&my_ratings=exclude&!countries=in

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@Col_Needham​ So there's no further support for placing the ! (not) operator on the parameter name? Only on the parameter value(s)? The prior version allowed either placement.

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this url: https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&release_date=2018-01-01,2018-12-31&adult=include&sort=num_votes,desc&count=250&!countries=in used to work in excluding movies from India (via the "!countries=in" part in the URL) but now it no longer works. any suggestions in how i can now filter/exclude a specific country? Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled how to exclude search results from a specific country?

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@Col_Needham In your case, the URL would be -> https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&release_date=2018-01-01,2018-12-31&sort=num_votes,desc&adult=include&countries=!IN&count=250 Hope this helps. omg, thank you so much! all i had to do was move the exclamation mark! i even asked chatgpt about this and the suggestions it gave me were "&countries=NOTIN" and "&countries=~IN" etc but none worked. again, many thanks!

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Hi, in the advanced title search, I want to display titles that two specific companies worked on. This works great for names (using the "," in the URL) - displaying only titles, where name 1 AND name 2 are listed. The same unfortunately doesn't work for companies. Here, it seems to be an OR-operator, displaying titles where either company 1 OR company 2 is listed: https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?companies=co0747059,co0306771 Is there something I'm missing or is it simply not possible.. yet? Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Advanced title search - AND not working for companies

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After removing all the filters in the Your Ratings page years ago, now the filter by My Rating in the Advanced Search has also been removed. Please, bring at least one of these things back. Now there isn't a place where I can have a list of, for example, all the TV shows I rated 8 stars. I loved the option of filtering by title type in the Your Ratings page, but I need at least the option in the Advanced Search page. Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Advanced Search - My Rating

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Hello! I'm logged in. I can filter for titles I've rated but not by my rating. That was possible before the update, now that option has been removed. Also, I'm talking about filtering by my rating, not sorting.

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@Col_Needham​ Wow! I feel like I'm in an alternate reality. I've been sorting and scrolling through the lists to get what I need. But today I was sure that option existed and I just couldn't find it with the new design. I guess I was just remembering the very old My Ratings page. That option was available there: filtering by Title type and My rating at the same time. You should add this option, anyway. Thank you for your answer.

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After that latest update of IMDb Advanced Search US-UNRATED Certificate Movies List got disappeared Here is the URL showing no results https://www.imdb.com/search/title?certificates=US:Unrated Please get back this if possible 🙏 Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled US-UNRATED Certificate Movies List Missing after lastest Advanced Search Update

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Please bring back proper pagination. The advanced search feature is useless to me without it, you can't skip to a certain point, and you can't bookmark a certain point for later.