Is it possible to compare lists?

@ Col_Needham and bderoes Thanks, but I'm afraid I didn't quite understand it. Basically, I want to compare two lists (see links) and I want to know which movies are present in both of the lists. The reason why, is because there are still a couple of titles that I need to add to the ''Still Need To Watch 2025-2027'' list. So how to achieve this goal? As you can see, there are 1022 items in the ''Favorite Movies 1968-2024'' list and the ''Still Need To Watch 2025-2027'' list has got 456 items. I have already watched 520 movies, which means I still need to watch 502 movies. In other words, I still need to add 46 movies (502 - 456) to the ''Still Need To Watch 2025-2027'' list, but how to know which ones, know what I mean? That's why I want to compare them. https://www.imdb.com/list/ls046424878/?sort=list_order%2Casc&view=grid https://www.imdb.com/list/ls597730119/?ref_=uspf_ttl_1&view=grid

@Navin2000 please see the second paragraph above: "You can also compare two lists and see which titles are in both lists by entering the titles of both lists in the "Include" section -- enter one list name and select it and then pick the next list from the menu and select that." Specifically for your two example lists: https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?lists=ls046424878,ls597730119 Hope this helps.

@Col_Needham Thanks, but either I don't understand you, or you don't understand me. When I clicked on that link, I simply get to see the 456 titles from the ''Still Need To Watch 2025-2027'' list. I mean, I already know that the 456 titles are in BOTH lists. I don't think that this current comparison system is capable of solving my problem. I guess what I need is an easy ''one click'' system that allows me to select movies that I still need to watch, which means I would have to make the list all over again. Now that I think of it, I guess I could use the ''edit list'' function and then copy all of the selected movies to a new list.

@Navin2000 The instructions in our first reply contain all the information you need here. There are 1,022 titles in “Favourite Movies 1968-2024” — https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?lists=ls046424878 There are 456 titles in “Still Need to Watch 2025-2027” — https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?lists=ls597730119 All 456 titles in “Still Need to Watch 2025-2027” are in “Favourite Movies 1968-2024” — https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?lists=ls046424878,ls597730119 There are 566 titles in “Favourite movies 1968-2024”which are not in “Still Need to Watch 2025-2027” — https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?lists=ls046424878,!ls597730119 There are 0 titles in “Still Need to Watch 2025-2027” which are not in “Favourite movies 1968-2024” — https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?lists=ls597730119,!ls046424878 These are all the comparisons you can do with two lists — the titles in both lists / the titles in the first list but not the second / the titles in the second list but not the first Hope this helps.

@Col_Needham Yes, I see what you mean. Thanks for the help, but I guess what I want to achieve is not possible with this comparison system, I was probably not thinking logically, my bad. The thing is, I have also made a list of movies that I have already seen (in my text editor, so not a list on IMDB) and I'm trying to figure out which movies I still need to add to the “Still Need to Watch 2025-2027” list. But that simply isn't possible by comparing these two lists that I made on IMDB. So I have no choice but the manually scan my ''Favorite Movies 1968-2024'' list again. But I now see what you mean, instead of scanning all 1022 titles, I can simply scan the 566 titles. And I can put the missing titles in in my watchlist, and then export them to the “Still Need to Watch 2025-2027” list. Thanks a lot for the help, and sorry for being a bit slow. Perhaps I can blame it on the heat of the last few days LOL.

@Col_Needham I spoke a bit too soon, I now remember my problem again. About the 566 titles, can I compare them with the 456 titles? Because this would mean that I wouldn't need to manually scan the 566 titles again.

Please see above … of the 566 titles in https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?lists=ls046424878,!ls597730119 none of them are in your “Still Need to Watch 2025-2027” list. If you want to know how many of those 566 are also not in your IMDb watchlist, you need to add that to the “Exclude” section of the form via https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?lists=ls046424878,!ls597730119,!watchlist — you did not mention this previously. Hope this helps.

@Col_Needham Thanks, I can understand it was a bit confusing to figure out what I meant. But for the moment I think I'm on the right track. So basically I will manually scan the 566 movies, and if all goes well, I should select 46 (1022 minus 520 minus 456) movies (will add them to my watchlist) and those will be the 46 movies that I need to export to the “Still Need to Watch 2025-2027” list. Like I said, I already watched 520 movies. So what I gained with this comparison system, is that instead of having to scan 1022 titles, I only have to scan 566 titles, and the 46 movies that I select should NOT already be in the “Still Need to Watch 2025-2027” list. So this comparison was helpful after all, thanks again for all of the help.

@Col_Needham By the way, these are the 8 movies that I have already identified, so 39 movies to go, I will continue tomorrow. I have temporarily made my watchlist public. https://www.imdb.com/user/ur100619431/watchlist/?sort=list_order%2Casc&view=grid

@Col_Needham Just to give a quick update: I was able to identify 39 movies (instead of 47 movies) that needed to be added to the “Still Need to Watch 2025-2027” list. Which means that the list now has 495 titles, and that apparantly I already watched 527 movies of my favorite movies list, instead of 520 titles, that I mentioned. And by the way, I always wondered if by mistake I added the same movies to multiple of my lists, but I saw with the comparison system, that it couldn't find any duplicate entries, pretty cool!

@Col_Needham By the way, I now see a ''watched'' button with a picture of an eye, what is this all about? It would be nice if you clicked on this, that the movie (or tv show/series) would be added to an ''already watched'' list, it would have saved me a lot of time.

Hi Navin2000, Clicking the "Watched" button does save the title to a list, called "Your watch history". Please see our FAQ for more details: https://help.imdb.com/article/imdb/new-features-updates/mark-as-watched-faq/GR2SD7Y4LZVNHUVH# Cheers!

@Ozzy I'm sorry but I don't get it, I get to see a huge list of all movies that I have not actually watched, but simply visited on IMDB? And I have also never clicked on this ''watched'' button, so these movies are automatically added to this list AFAIK.

Hi Navin2000, I'm not sure I understand what you mean by a list of titles you've not watched, but visited. Please could you elaborate further? As for never having clicked on the "Watched" button, this is explained in the FAQ: - What counts as a Watched action? -- Anytime you mark a movie or TV show as Watched, add a Rating, Review, or Check-in. So any title you've added a rating to, reviewed, or checked-in will have been automatically marked as "Watched". I hope this helps!

@Ozzy I think you have already explained it. So basically even when you don't mark the movie as watched, it still ends up on this list. I would rather only see movies on this list, when you actually mark the movie/serie/tv show as watched. The titles that I see on the list are all rated by me, so it's the exact same as my ratings list. But I haven't actually watched all of these movies. At least not fully or recently.