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Saturday, August 22nd, 2026

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Ok this is a very interesting technical bug

Searching IMDb for the exact movie title “What?” does not return the titles What? (1972) or What? (2021) in the search results. Both titles exist on IMDb and can be accessed directly through their individual title pages. The issue appears to be with IMDb's search handling of a title consisting of a common word followed by a question mark.

When you enter that with the question mark, it returns the titles "What if..."

Thoughts?

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For me, the regular search does find them. There is a link to go straight to exact matches.

The advanced search seems to have trouble, though.

And the app doesn't have a link to exact matches.

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Ok good to know about exact matches, I see that works. Thanks for the tip but yes the regular search doesn’t work with the ?

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Since the initial search lists popular matches, it doesn't list the exact matches first.