IMDb Advanced Search Redesign Beta

I'd love for the languages to either function as an "or" rather than "and" or to let us exclude languages.  

I think more people might be interested to rank all films in 2 languages for comparison.  

Please provide a toggle for numbered pages in the results list. When my search returns 1000 or more results and I want to keep looking through them for a couple of days, I can easily go back to the page I finished last time. With this new continuous design, this becomes impossible or very inconvenient.

I really don't understand this continuous results page fetish among web designers. I'm yet to see/hear a reasonable explanation as to how it is better than paged results in a desktop environment. It is less user friendly, more resource heavy and I can't see any advantages. Please explain.

Please bring back the "Feature Film" title type. I noticed it's one of the most frequently repeated request. Having to filter out Documentaries & Shorts is a woefully inferior solution, especially when you have to do it every time you go back to an already generated results list.

As usual with new designs, the information density has been reduced. While it is good for new users, it is usually not good for existing users.
Since the old design was not very appealing, especially on mobile devices, feel free to set the new design as default, which is especially beneficial for new users. But please build in a switch to change to the old design. The old design may seem cluttered at first glance, but after a short time you can set as many filters as possible as quickly as possible, which will never be possible with the new design (more scrolling and clicking due to the low information density). In this way, new users benefit and existing users are not disadvantaged.
Since it seems that the same search variables are used, the additional administration effort should be negligible.

I see no improvement here. Now, to get the same search results, I have to click or type more than I did before because of poor design choices.

1. Having to opt-out of shorts or documentaries. Why is this needed? Either auto opt-out like you do for adult titles or put them back as an option above.

2. The year thing. Now I have to enter full dates? Why? If you want to allow this functionality, sure, go ahead, but make it optional like it currently is on name pages.

3. No option for 250 items. Why? Results can be tens of thousands of items long, but woe be to me if I want to go through a long list. A simple search of crime films with more than 100 votes from 1970 to 1979 gave me 1,278 results. A further irritant is now my space bar, instead of moving to the bottom of the page, opens the most recent result.

A simple search of crime films with more than 100 votes from 2010 to 2020.

New design: Click show all, select movie, type in two 8 digit dates, type in 100, click crime, click exclude short, click exclude documentary, slide back to the top and click search. 3,945 results from 6 clicks and 19 keystrokes.

Old design: Select feature film, type in two 4 digit years, type in 100, click crime, click search. 3,945 results from 3 clicks and 11 keystrokes.

So your new, 'cleaner', design requires more interaction for the same results. That sounds like a net loss to me.

So, I have to click more options and I get fewer results at a time. In what way is that better? Oh, I can adjust my search on the fly? My browser has a back button that allowed me to do that already.

Suggestions for stuff that would actually be useful:

If you insist on having the search interface remain on the page, make it so it can be minimized or squeezed to the left.

Set up the ability to jump to numbers of results.

Allow searches to include and, or, not options. If I want to find all movies that are action and adventure, that's no problem, but if I want to find films that are action or adventure (or action but not adventure) I can't do that.

Any of those would be welcome changes for those who use advanced search often and would justify the overhaul. Otherwise it's metaphorically like painting a room and accidentally painting the windows shut and getting paint all over the carpet; that is, a lot of work for a minor benefit (it's purtier! {goofy laugh]) and a mess that will never really be cleaned up along with reduced functionality.

I just saw this page today. I don't know if this has been mentioned or not but the new collaboration feature does not quite work. For example: Enter collaborations between Eddie Albert and Joan Leslie. The first entry that came up was "Murder She Wrote". While they both appeared on this series, they  never appeared in the same episode. It's the same with the other 5 series that come up. The old page shows, correctly, three collaborations while the new page shows, incorrectly, nine.

Regarding the keyword search in the advanced title search, I guess it would be helpful if the form could check whether the keyword you enter actually exists. Some years ago, there was a search feature built into the keyword field.

Also, apparently you have to include hyphens to search multiple-word keywords. The existing advanced title search allows them to be entered without hyphens. You usually display keywords without hyphens on the site.

Hate it.  The new, circular photos are so small that they are hard to see.  Why can’t designers just make improvements rather than completely redesigning a page.  This new design is NOT “for the better." 

Photos definitely need to be larger.

Would be great to have language and subtitles filters for Streaming services (for instance, I have to jump back and forth with Amazon Prime to check what options are available).
At least for your default Amazon Prime :)

It should show genres, director and stars in detailed view

I am very disappointed in the new advanced search feature. The current version is perfect the way it is, and I prefer it to the new version in many ways. Some of the ways I like it better are the cleaner look, the fact that you can see more on the page at one time, and the way you can view results on multiple different pages. One of my favorite ways to use IMDb is by viewing advanced search results in browser, and this new change greatly decreases my enjoyment of using IMDb.

I have been a big fan and advocate of IMDb for many years, but recently there have been changes that have disappointed me and lowered my opinion of IMDb, especially when it comes to changing pages to mobile versions. These mobile versions have been a significant downgrade, as they are lower quality and ugly. I’m tired of seeing changes just for the sake of change, especially when it was perfect the way it was. 
I hope you will please keep the current version, or at least give us the option of using it. If this continues, there is a serious chance I will use IMDb less and recommend IMDb less in the future. You should listen to your most dedicated fans if you want to continue being successful. I love IMDb for many reasons, but I wish you would stop taking those reasons away.

Excluding Titles

It's the one feature I wanted to see. Unfortunately, we can't do that, there's only 2 arbitrary options to exclude Documentary and Short. For me personally there's barely any point in using search If I can't make sure the titles are not appearing in multiple separate genre searches. E.g:

• Animation appears in any genre search, but I want to see them only when I search for it specifically. I need the ability to exclude Animation in all other searches for this.
• Same with comedy titles - I want to view them separately and exclude them in all other searches.
• Multi-genre titles (e.g. Fantasy + Sci-fi ) will appear in all the individual genre searches,  fantasy and sci-fi titles. I'd like to make 1 search for Fantasy (including fant + Sci-Fi), and another for the leftover Sci-Fi titles (incl Sci-fi, excl Fantasy).
  
  
  I actually made a chrome extension that does the exclude-filtering of the titles on browser-side, and was really excited I won't need to use it as workaround because you guys will finally make the search usable. But it's only a UI change (that will also break my extension haha).

I have stored many ATS links on various lists.

This link

https://www.imdb.com/search/title?role=nm0556099&lists=ls022193935&sort=release_date,asc&count=250&title=

in the beta version resolves to 

https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?role=nm0556099&lists=ls022193935&sort=release_date,asc&count=250

namely without the "&title=".

I had built that in so I could add a word/phrase on the URL. I even moved it to the end of the url so it would be easier to place the cursor for the addition.

I realize that I can "just" open the Title Name box to modify the search as intended (which was NOT possible before, so the beta IS a major improvement on this aspect.)

But does the new ATS really need to wipe out "unused" parameters? I can imagine that I've created other such links, perhaps with "&series=" or other items not on the menu.

Do the IMDb staff know that on the new advanced title search there is no longer an option to see director, actors and genre of the title?

This means that contributors can no longer see if certain titles have a genre added, currently there are about 10,000 feature films, rating count at least 5,  that do not have genre, and often the titles from some minor countries lack both the director and the actors. With the new advanced search this can only be seen if you click on the "i" icon next to each title, and before it was visible immediately.

The only easy way to see which titles are missing a genre (I have the link saved) is this (feature films with at least 5 votes)

https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&genres=!action,!adventure,!animation,!biography,!comedy,!crime,!documentary,!drama,!family,!fantasy,!film-noir,!game-show,!history,!horror,!music,!musical,!mystery,!news,!reality-tv,!romance,!sci-fi,!sport,!talk-show,!thriller,!war,!western&num_votes=5,

You guys didn't do this right.

Since you're redoing the search page, you should include a filter for sequels and spinoffs.
There's already a filter for "Alternate Versions". There should be another filter under "Page Topics" that would only retrieve titles that have something under one of these connections: Follows/ Followed by/ Spin off/ Spin off from. Call it whatever you prefer.
Right now, IMDb doesn't offer a way to keep up with all the sequels being released and this would be one of the simplest ways to provide that.