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Introducing: Interests on Web

Introducing: Interests on Web

 

We are excited to announce the global launch of “Interests” on the IMDb website, providing entertainment fans a new way to explore their passions and personalize their IMDb experience.

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 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 – please feel free to post your questions and comments to this thread.

- The IMDb Team

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Hi all, 

For information on how to add or remove Interests to/from titles, please see our new Idea thread, where you can also suggest new Interests for IMDb staff to review and determine what Interests to add next.

Please only add one suggestion per comment on the new thread.

Thanks! 

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4 months ago

the new Related interests widget that appears on every title page on IMDb

I don't see this yet.

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Hi @Peter_pbn​ -

Currently the related interests widget is only available on the mobile apps.  Apologies for the confusion, I have now corrected this in the announcement text.

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4 months ago

I really don't like that the genre and the subgenre are sticked together, I hope that in the next update you will separate the subgenre from the genre, i.e. put the subgenre in a different place because this doesn't look good at all. Also, subgenre can be a spoiler. Truly unnecessary.

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"Tragedy" is problematic.

Not all the subgenres listed in the keyword section have been promoted to interests, so I guess the selection could be adjusted.

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Tragedy is a massive potential spoiler in almost every possible use case.

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The tragedy subgenre is hardly a spoiler, it refers to one of the oldest genres of all time. It's Greek, it's Shakespearean, and doesn't reveal much more than it connoting suffering or despair etc., "spoilers" are far more contemporary by comparison, and the term tragedy alone doesn't exactly spell out what will happen in any given title.

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@HighWater​ 

That is a fair point. 

It should stay, but needs to be used with concerted discretion.

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4 months ago

WARNING: bit of humor (not rudeness) ahead. Warning since it may not transpire as intended, so read more "tongue in cheek" and not insulting, ok? Ok!)

This is a first for me! When were they added? I did a search here and I see questions dating to 2022.

Never came across a movie with so many as I did now in:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021884/

Also how many sub/genres total can a movie have? When is it too many? 
IDK about anyone else, but I like things simple. I like ONE genre but I (finally) got used to 3 and now there's a bazillion genres?

Btw, I find the "drama" is overused and abused.
Maybe a pop up to block users before allowed to post, saying "this is what a drama is.... are you sure?" 

Every movie has some kind of boy-girl-meets-dates but is NOT romance genre. Isn't that CONFUSING and going a bit overboard??

Shouldn't there be a limit on genre-ing?

I find a LOT of contributors are MISGENRING films!

(Who agrees?)
The abuse on the "drama" when it's "thriller" or "horror" is out of control.
Considering the genres are in alphabeitcal order, when they ought to be (IMHO) by PRIORITY, and only 3 are displayed (or were, until I found the above) it's all...so...very.... first world problems, no? (But still! Important!)

Back to the new subgenres: 
Can normal people (me) simply not add them? Are they reserved to IMDb staff or superpowered users? 
I find that they give away the surprise plot, for instance "Body Horror" (!) Really? 

(I was perusing an old show (don't ask, K?!) , if anyone were to add that, series be completely SPOILED!)

I mean my favorite subgenre (and IDK if you have it) has always been Time-Travel. Ok I see you have that in *some* films. You have it in 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0452694

but you don't have it in:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035423

and I cannot add it (I'm normal, not super-powered!) <G>
And "Feel-Good Romance" I think is insulting: it tells people how they're supposed to feel when viewing it.

Scratch that: it's a SPOILER: we'll then know the movie ends well, "aww" and might be borderline meaning "cheese"!

Also by "Tragedy" ...am I the only one who reads "Melodrama"? (As in "let me go get my violin!"

Is Melodrama a subgenre? Surely it has to be! This cheesy melodrama comes to mind:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031381/

(Sorry if you like it, but hey it won Oscars so it's fair game for those of us who can't stand the film!)

Will "cheesy" be a genre and "CHEESY MELODRAMA" a subgenre?

<G> as in: Warning: cheese ahead! 

I propose it be! Who will second me? ;-D (I kid, I kid!!) (No, I don't!) 
Actually, it's prob best it won't be: imagine the overuse worse than "Drama".

And today I find when I go grab the URL at imdb, there's a lot more of long stuff that I need to delete (like on eBay past the item number!) past the "?", stuff I always ignore. Why is it a mile long now?? It wasn't like that yesterday, as I was working with stuff and routinely delete the "extra".

Sorry for so many questions. Feel free to tackle as many as you can. 
Thanks for reading and (hopefully/mabye?) answering.

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PS: WHAAA...??
https://www.imdb.com/interest/in0000037/

^High Concept comedy??

Look I may be overstepping things here, but to me a GENRE is a SIMPLE WORD to state WHAT you're in the mood for! That's it! "let's go see a comedy!" As opposed to horror or action, or drama.  I don't know about you , but I don't know anyone who has friends who say "Yeah, but let's make it a High Concept comedy!" cos we all be like 'huh?" and they be booted off the friendship club for being pedantic! 

What is the meaning behind all this? Considering that SPECTRUM appears to grab IMDb's info (for on-screen TV guide. and genres for its OnDemand classifications) and so does Google, are they now going to repeat this nonsense ah, uh..I mean... upgraded genre stuff??

I'm sorry but, if I may put it plainly without (too many) people getting offended, it's just plain: (modern)
CRAZY MAKING!!!
There, I said it.

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Since when are subgenres a thing and why aren't they available to add in the drop box? When is "Melodrama" added?

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@Coyote444​ Interests launched on the IMDb apps last November, please see ->  https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdbcom/introducing-interests/656628e9da48614665c037db 

You can add them as plot keywords via the "subgenre" type, please see -> https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/titles/keywords/GXQ22G5Y72TH8MJ5 

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Ah! Thank you for that, Col! I can't use apps cos my phone is not "smart" and doesn't have the memory capacity to DL anything more. (bloatware that I can't delete) but I see that keywords can be added on PC desktop.

However, Kate & Leopold does have "time-travel" as keyword, but it doesn't appear in the front page, under "genre bubbles", like (the silly) "feel-good romance" does: 

Kate & Leopold (2001) - Plot keywords - IMDb

Do you know why? 

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@Coyote444​ 

It would need the keyword time-travel-sci-fi – however, I see that the film doesn't have the sci-fi genre.

The official subgenre keywords are listed in the guide at

https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/titles/keywords/GXQ22G5Y72TH8MJ5#subgenres

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Thanks, Peter. Yes, it's not sci-fi, so that is a problem. I see that Frequency has sci-fi which it isn't (IIRC, haven't seen the film since back when, wow 24 yrs already!) but it doesn't have time-travel which it is one of the best in that genre:

Frequency (2000) - IMDb

The same I couldn't find Goth Romance as a subgenre. That is certainly more (important? prevalent?) than "Feel Good Romance" because...what if my feel good romance makes another vomit!? (More like vice-versa, LOL!)  Here, I'll put one in that fall into that "vice-versa" category:

Twilight (2008) - IMDb
What, no Goth Romance?  Well IDK if it is, cos I've only channel surfed into a scene here and there, nuff said, but I've found others that qualify as Goth Romance and...nothing! 

So for TPTB consideration... 

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Frequency IS a Sci Fi film & should be classified as such. It's about TIME, but it technically doesn't have time TRAVEL -- it has communication across a period of time, like 20 years or something.

Similar, in Paycheck the main character creates a machine to VIEW the future, but no one actual TRAVELS in time.

It's interesting because both of these films will be loved by fans of Time Travel SF because of similar tropes, but don't meet the technical definition of the subgenre.

(Does sending information back in time qualify as time travel?)

What about Interstellar? That one is really one the fence. And a massive spoiler...

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More: now we have another inconsistency. Next (https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0597373/?ref_=tt_mv) is also a film in which a character can see the future, but there is no Time Travel, but it IS tagged as such on IMDb.

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Twilight belongs to a pretty huge multigenre "thingum" that is Urban-Fantasy-Romance-Thriller that has emerged over the past 15+ years.

This thingum has its own unique flavour and should have a name of its own like "Superhero"

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Since you asked: YES, Frequency *IS* Time-Travel and one of the very best in the genre. The voice does the traveling. Can I talk to Errol Flynn right now, with or without a magic CB radio? No, I can't. Therefore this is FANTASY genre and, if I may politely disagree with you, NOT Sci-Fi. (If you refer to the descriptions given by IMDb, that is.)  There is nothing 'science' that they use. CB is a device which really exists, they're not delving in any sci-fi IMHO. 


As for Twilight, I name that feature as example in Goth-Romance because I simply didn't want to name the one I actually had in mind. So I found another (than "mine") which I believe could qualify as Goth-Romance, since mine definitely is. I just added bold so hopefully someone scrolling down fast will stop for the bold. I think it's a unique sub-genre like Time-Travel and, although most teeny bopper stuff in that category will be cheesy to the max, the one in mind is super-stellar, and I thought it'd be cool to have that sub-genre or sub-mention or "interest".

Insofar as Twilight, you will pardon me that I mentioned it without having any interest in it or its subgenres, I was just going "Whoa!" at how many it had and used it for illustration only.  

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@Coyote444 

Fictional technology is not a requirement for a book/film to be Sci-Fi.

Many books/films that are considered Sci-Fi fall in the category of "Social Science Fiction" which are set in dystopian alternate or future realities but have none of the tech or bio etc. tropes of mainstream science fiction. I think the first Hunger Games film is a good example of this.

Some have suggested SF be rebranded as "Speculative Fiction" rather than Science Fiction.

As far as "Frequency" is concerned... the film has, for lack of a better way of phrasing it, the "flavour" of a Science Fiction film. (You are welcome to criticise this comment for lack of rigour!)

In any case, welcome to the boards.

I think we shall have fun.

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"dystopian alternate or future realities" - Ooh, like 1984, the book? (I'm sure they musta made movies out of it.) It has to be moved from sci-fi to documentary, due the recent events, which I shall not name. 🤪


Ah! Well to me it requires fictional tech or a mad scientist. Either or! To give it my science-fiction stamp of nutty approval, that is. We can switch to "sci-fi" (sy-fy?), that way it encompasses the...uh...ah, whatever you speculatively typed ^up there, and everybody is happy. <G> Plus, soon, kids will ooh and aah (like, in 2 years) when they learn that "sci/sy" once stood for "science". The same that the DailyMail this weekend announced to the world that people had no idea "O'clock" meant "Of the clock". (Admittedly, I knew this as a kid, but I'd have called a lifeline to make sure my "on the clock" deal or no deal wasn't wrong now, ...and it was!) 

You might be right, I probably need to truck on over to a Russian site, and see if they don't have Frequency and re-watch it, like for the very first time, cos I forgot most of it. Then I will be able to see if you are indeed right. But, in the interim, don't nobody 😁 mess with my Frequency: although not a fan per se of any actors, I was big into "Time-Travel" way before anyone could even fathom it was a thing genre sub-genre, and I remember it fondly, for it also encompasses another subgenre i happen to probably, most likely be into: cool father-son relationships.

(Is that a thing?) I have no idea why, but for a while, in the 90s, a LOT of the shows (KFTLC, FK etc.) I watched had father/son relationships. No Xena for me! I don't go out of my way to be anti-feminist, really; I just don't get the movement, and always had that glazed-over look when female classmates were deep into it and try to get me to agree: "but he is soo cuteee!" "But I love to cook and make sammiches!" "No, I think I'm gonna stay right here but you enjoy the protest." Plus, I can never (very rarely) relate to women in shows or films, except Angelina Jolie as Mrs. Smith when she goes: "Why do I have to get the girl gun?" 


Anyway, will try to re-watch Frequency, for the very first time since it came out, soon and report back with rebuttals or agreements. And thank you for the welcome, much appreicated: it is fun, here! 🤗

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Yes, 1984 is an excellent example of "Social Science Fiction".

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4 months ago

The subgenre is usually listed before the genre, but not in the case of "Holiday", which is placed between genres or at the end of a line. it looks messy.

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Holiday is called a genre in the interest page; maybe it has deliberately been placed with the main genres.

https://www.imdb.com/interest/in0000192/

I noticed that there are titles with the holiday-season keyword that are not in the Holiday interest, for example Krampus and Christmas with Holly. I wonder how exactly the interest is set up.

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3 months ago

If I may, I'd like to propose a couple new sub-genres, for your consideration:

formulaic and extreme-formulaic.

(A polite way to say: "You've seen one, you've seen them all!") Examples:


Formulaic: 

Bewitched

Columbo


Extreme Formulaic:

Dead Files

Ghost Adventures

Possibly all reality shows (most likely Housewives shows etc. I've only seen the promos.)

Why:

Darrin bickers with and is taunted by Endora, made an animal, loses his job, Sam intervenes, gets his job back at the end, but is never promoted. Darrin gets mad at Sam for using magic but she does anyway; confusion between Sam & Serena, Larry says "You son of a gun!" Aunt Clara does cute stuff etc. But with some cool music effects and visual effects in between.


Bad guy commits crime in huge spoiler within first 5. Columbo arrives on the scene. Instantly knows who the killer is (he musta watched the intro along with all of us!); zeroes in on bad guy; bad guy/gal has smug, smug attitude; is annoyed by Columbo, who does his awkward shtick and solves murder at the end.

The 2 reality ones above are word-for-word the same exact thing, episode after episode.

So, what do you guys think? 

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I never saw the appeal of Columbo.

"Huge spoiler in first 5 mins." is right. Pointless.

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Thank you! Same here.  (At least Bewitched has all the cool magic happening, which was way fun to watch as a kid, and still can be.) 


IDK if there's any interest in the "FORMULAIC" category, but it's not for a put-down as my previous tongue-in-cheek "cheesy" suggestion was. I think for people who like repetitive things, it can be important to find. (Typically, my 'group' falls into that category of people, but I really don't.) However, tagging it as formulaic can also help others avoid such shows, past, perhaps the one (episode we find it with).

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@Coyote444​ 

I have not been to a public library in years, but I remember the Mills and Boone's books (North Americans - think Harlequin Romances) used to have their own section separate from the rest of the Fiction.

IMDb should do the same for Lifetime and Hallmark movies 😂

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LIFETIME: 🤮Films for women who like to watch women get beat up👿by abusive men, played by actors whose acting is so stilted and contrived, you feel like giving Madonna an Oscar for Swept Away. - 

How do we bottle ^^^that up in 1 word?🤫 Must also encompass the "cheesy" factor and "formulaic" category.  


HALLMARK: used to have some cute films, some mostly bad. All extremely formulaic too. I remember watching a cringe one with a very miscast Miyiaim Biailik (how many i's does her name have total?) 🤪 She played it angry till the end. It was unintentionally hilarious, as most of these are.

Avoid anything with Kellie Picker in it: her stop-start character acting makes you feel like apologizing to the aforementioned Lifetime performers, for they could actually be much, much worse! 😊

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3 months ago

@Michelle , et al,

FYI: You may be interested in this IMDb Poll:

Best Interest

https://www.imdb.com/poll/6wIZENknXIQ/

A poll by pbn / @Peter_pbn 
From IMDb's list of popular interests, which style or subgenre are you most interested in?

The listed titles are only examples.

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3 months ago

This feature is clearly a work in process and needs some straightening out around the edges, but it is a good feature.

We have been crying for subgenres for 10+ years, so let's be grateful. 

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3 months ago

@Michelle , @Col_Needham 

Neo-Noir appears to be glaringly absent.

Please consider its inclusion.

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3 months ago

What criteria are used to determine the order in which the genres of a drama are listed? There are cases where multiple genres are listed for a single drama. What is the basis for the order in which these genres appear? For example, the drama "Sunjae Eobgo Tweeeo" is categorized under six genres: Feel-good romance, Romantic comedy, Comedy, Fantasy, Music, and Romance.

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled What criteria are used to determine the order in which the genres of a drama are listed?

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@KIMHYESOO​ 

Generally, the subgenres are listed first followed by the main genres. Within each group, they appear to be in alphabetical order.

I think I would prefer the main genres to be listed first.

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2 months ago

It is odd that even this expanded field still only displays three of the main genres when the title has more than three genres.

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@Peter_pbn​ it looks like this on web version, 1 subgenre, 9 genres (thriller at the end).

It can go up to 15 genres and subgenres. Not a good idea, in my opinion.

You are using reference view?

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OK, I jumped to conclusions. But for example Mad Max: Fury Road has thriller as a genre, but it isn't included. Perhaps the limit is 10 items.

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@Peter_pbn​ yup, that's it, subgenres take precedence over genres. 🤐

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This title for example has 15 genres and subgenres, 8 subgenres and 2 genres (Animation and Biography) are at the top of the page, but there are also 5 genres in section at the middle of page. So, if you want to find that this is a documentary, you need to scroll down.

Documentary as a genre should be placed at the top, as first genre (before any subgenre), not alphabetically. This concept makes things very confusing

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2 months ago

Please add Screenlife as an available subgenre. The closest is Found Footage Horror, but Screenlife films are in a category of their own. Thanks! 

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled "Screenlife" missing from subgenre list

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How do you search for subgenres like 'Dark Fantasy' in Advanced Title Search (https://www.imdb.com/search/title)?

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Search for subgenres?

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@Flyingrat​ Most (but not all) Interests are actually implemented via plot keywords which can be searched on the advanced title search (ATS) page.  We have not yet added a separate field for Interests, however, there is an easy workaround in the meantime ... 

Start at the "All Interests" page at https://www.imdb.com/interest/all/ and navigate to the specific interest you wish to use in an advanced title search.  In your example, Dark Fantasy is at https://www.imdb.com/interest/in0000095/ and on this page click the "All" button under the description of the interest to reach: https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature,tv_movie,tv_special,video,tv_series,tv_miniseries&interests=in0000095 -- you can now add other parameters into this interest search via the filters in the left-hand side of the page (click "Expand all" near the top to see the full list of filters).  You can bookmark/favourite any specific queries you expect to use regularly in your browser. 

For example, Dark Fantasy movies which you have not seen, sorted by vote volume would be -> https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&my_ratings=exclude&interests=in0000095&sort=num_votes,desc 

You can also click an Interest on a title page to go directly to its landing page and therefore skip the "All Interests" page in the instructions above. 

Hope this helps. 

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27 days ago

Maybe interests that are displayed on a series page based on the keywords on the series level should also be displayed on the episode pages? 

Or do you wish for subgenre keywords to be added to each episode?

Genres can only be added to the series, but are displayed on all episode pages.