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Interests - Interests Suggestions & Feedback
Following on from the launch of Interests, we are pleased to announce that Interests can be added to, or removed from titles, where appropriate via subgenre keywords data.
For more information on how to add or remove Interests, please see our new Help guide.
IMDb is powered by the fans and we want to hear from you! What Interest should we add next? For all new Interests suggestions, please add one suggestion per comment on this thread. IMDb staff will review this thread throughout the year when determining which new Interests to add next.
Agree with someone else's suggestion? Please "Like" their comment on this thread to help our staff review popular suggestions.
Interests are single hub dedicated to a genre or subgenre to explore popular and highly rated series and movies. Using Interests you can discover the most anticipated releases, popular favorites, and watch new trailers, interviews and IMDb Original Videos.
Interests for each title are listed alphabetically on the title page header first by subgenre and then by genre, and on the Popular interests widget that appears on the IMDb homepage.
To see a full list of all available Interests, visit http://www.imdb.com/interest/all in your web browser. For customers in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, you can also search for any Interest using the Search box at the top of IMDb.com. We are working to add search capabilities to more regions soon.
Adding to your Interests is currently only available on the IMDb iOS App and the IMDb Android App. The ability to follow Interests will be coming to IMDb.com at a later date.
For more information about Interests, please review our Help guide.
Thanks as always for all your feedback.
- The IMDb Team
plur62
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Experimental film (first subgenre with "film" in it).
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plur62
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Softcore, some titles are neither comedy nor drama nor thriller, but just - softcore.
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Peter_pbn
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8 hours ago
Thanks for the table of interests in the help page, but there are still things I don't understand.
The Holiday interest requires the holiday-season keyword. So what explains the difference between these two searches, for example?
https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=tv_movie&interests=in0000192
https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=tv_movie&keywords=holiday-season
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Coyote444
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7 hours ago
Formulaic: As in you've seen one, you've seen them all! (per my previous post on this topic)
Formulaic be when EVERY SINGLE EPISODE is the EXACT same with very little variation.
Ex:
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Coyote444
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6 hours ago
Prestidigitation: a cool, 1-word way to say "Features stage magic as opposed to sorcery magic(k)"
Ex:
The Magician (TV Series 1973–1974) - IMDb
The Prestige (2006) - IMDb
The Illusionist (2006) - IMDb
Now You See Me (2013) - IMDb
I forgot the other film that is just like The Prestige came out around the same time with some other big shot, not sure which script spy copied which, and dont' think it was The Illusionist, never heard of that one before.
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Coyote444
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Sorcery (real magick, not to be confused with magic. Sci-fi vs Stage Magic, and to avoid adding a K to "magic" because many get flustered when they see "magick".)
Ex:
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jay_spirit
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Suggestion:
ASMR
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jay_spirit
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Suggestion:
Political Commentary
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jay_spirit
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Suggestion:
Vlog
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Pencho15
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Some already available interests should appear under more than one genre.
For example, Period Film and Sword and Sandal both belong to history, which has not any available interest, but they only appear under action and drama.
Experimental needs to be added as a genre, those films cannot be categorized under anything else.
Some other suggestions:
Exploitation
Revenge
Luchadores films
Biblical
Shakesperian
Old age films
Alternate History
Outlaw Western
Marshall Western
Video-game films
Puppet animation
Prank movies
Anthropological drama
Philosophical Drama
I guess you could also have a big list of interest in adult films and somehow hide them from the general public as it happens with all adult films in the database, but there is a lot of different interests there.
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gromit82
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I'm not sure we can consider that page a "list":
Note that we can only view four interests under each genre at a time and have to scroll left and right to view the interests under each genre, as well as having to scroll up and down.
For purposes of this particular discussion where IMDb is looking for suggestions for new interests, it would be much more helpful if there were a text-based list of all existing interests, so we could read it just by scrolling up and down the list. I realize that most IMDb users may not care about that; my suggestion is for a list to be put into the Contributors Zone. Otherwise, it will be hard for us to keep track of what topics already exist as interests and don't need to be re-proposed.
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gromit82
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3 hours ago
I'm re-proposing what could have been the new Genres chosen a few years ago, to be Interests instead:
Awards Show: "Predominantly, but not exclusively, TV shows whose primary focus is on announcing and/or presenting awards for work that occurred before the show and that happened independent of the existence of that show. Non-fiction, generally live or taped live with minimal editing."
Erotica: "Should have a major portion of its running time emphasizing depictions of nudity, simulated sexual activity, or scenes otherwise designed to stimulate sexual arousal. This cannot co-exist with the Adult genre except in cases where the title has a hardcore alternate version. Subjective." (Similar to the Softcore interest proposed above by plur62.)
Experimental: "A title that explores the possibilities of film and video as art by "experimenting" with non-mainstream form and content. It often discards conventional techniques in favor of a non-linear, non-narrative structure; utilizes abstract, non-representational imagery and photographic techniques as opposed to the generally accepted production practices; and explores content from an unexpected, non-traditional, alternative point-of-view. Almost always an independent or low-budget film or video, it includes, but is not limited to, those titles also categorized as an underground-film or as avant-garde. Subjective." (Also suggested above by plur62 and Pencho15.)
Lifestyle: "Applies predominately to non-fiction titles which are primarily focused on describing and/or demonstrating life skills, hobbies and leisure activities. Examples of topics covered include: cooking, fashion, home decoration/improvement, travel, health/beauty, antiques, auctions, wedding and party planning, consumer awareness, parenting, and other topics along these lines."
Soap Opera: "Soap Operas are serial melodramas that run more than once a week. Exceptions will be made for certain weekly, prime-time shows, but only if they are similar to the typical serial in style and content. TV series only."
(See discussion at https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/data-issues-policy-discussions/implementation-of-new-genres/5f4a7a638815453dbaa6da98.)
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