Exclude filter on the lists

This is very simple.

I'm trying to use again IMDb to manage my watchlists and backlogs, but the inability to exclude some categories on lists, specially on the standard watchlist makes everything so confusing and messed up, far from the organization I hoped.

For example, I can put movies and TV shows on my watchlist, and then filter only movies or only TV shows, but I can't exclude animations when I choose movies (and TV shows too). So, everytime I choose to see my Watchlist filtered by TV shows there will be a mix between live actions and animation shows that I can't avoid. However I can see only animated TV shows if I choose two filters (TV shows + animations). This doesn't make sense only because I can't filter out things, like we can on the advanced search.

Please, making infinite number of lists it's not the appropriate solution for this when just exclude filters would solve the problem.

Thank you.

(Oh yeah, there's a bug on the lists: we can choose "TV series + TV miniseries" and then it shows both things, but if bookmark this URL and try to reach it later (or press F5), the filter doesn't work. I just see it happening with the "TV miniseries" filters.)

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Col_Needham

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1 month ago

@dinizcaio You can do this with advanced title search (ATS) at https://www.imdb.com/search/title/ and there’s help available at https://help.imdb.com/article/imdb/discover-watch/using-the-advanced-search-feature/GLUEUYWPQNPTEVPU

For example, here’s your watchlist, filtered to movies, and excluding animated movies -> https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&genres=!animation&lists=watchlist

It requires a little bit of manual URL editing to achieve this: inserting a “!” before an item in an ATS URL will exclude titles which match the filter. Let us know if you need any help with any of your other searches. We do have a pending item to document this feature in the ATS help.

Hope this helps.

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Hello, thanks for the reply.

I see, so if I want to use my watchlist or any list with exclusions (or other filters) I need to use the ATS and not the lists page? I've used the "exclude" on ATS for a long time, but I think managing things on lists is more handy, because the site encourages you to do it and its just a click away everytime.

For example, here's my TV Shows filtered on my Watchlist: https://www.imdb.com/user/ur47279598/watchlist/?ref_=uspf_wl_sm&title_type=tv_series&sort=user_rating%2Cdesc&genres=!animation

I can't filter out the animations, even using "!" on the URL. I thought it would work like the ATS, but it just doesn't.

I can use ATS by narrowing by watchlist and then filtering things out, but like I said, I don't see why this option isn't on lists by default, especially because we can create parallel lists and filter titles that were on our default watchlist, or narrow by ratings or score.

Anyway, I'll bookmark the ATS lists, but I hope someday it can be simpler.

Thanks again!

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Col_Needham

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@dinizcaio Yes, agreed on things being more consistent between lists and ATS in an ideal world (and also supporting the “not” option directly in the forms vs. needing to manually edit the URL).

We will convert this to an Idea thread so other people can comment and vote upon it.

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