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List of Watched Movies (Not Watchlist) like letterboxd.com

I have managed to create a custom list of all movies I have ever watched. I find it incredible that imdb would not enable users to create such a list by default! I personally believe it is a very useful feature. I don't want an entire concept like letterboxd.com where you can talk about it, discuss it on social media etc. Just basic list of watched movies for me to personally have. And I would prefer to have this on imdb rather than a third party website.

The custom list I managed to create is not very useful, because you cannot sort it by name, neither does it have a "date watched" field. It is very limited.

I would be REALLY grateful for this movie database website to have a list where it's users can make their own documentation about the movies they have completed watching. 

This would empower users as all they need is to visit your website to get a detailed list, rather than creating excel spreadsheets of their own.

Could someone let me know if it is possible to create such a list and if so how, because I have totally missed it!

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bderoes

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6 years ago

I'm not familiar with the Letterboxed feature, but very familiar with IMDb lists.

I don't understand your comment that you can't sort by Name. That is certainly supported:

I agree that displaying Date Added would be good, but you can sort by that, and you can add your own comments to each title by Editing the list. That comment can include the date watched, which may be different than the date added.

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sandesh_d_souza

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Letterboxd is not a feature it is a website. Check it out! I found it a lot more "featureful" and sits right in my style of having a movie database for my personal use.
You are right about the sort by. However, I kid you not, for some bizarre reason when I clicked the Sort by: I could only see List Order and Date Added and thought having only 2 fields to sort by was very limited. I can now see all the other fields you have listed above too. So the sorting is not a problem anymore.
Adding comments to the title by editing the list is tedious. Having a date watched field makes it a lot easier to sort by the date.
On the whole I find imbdb seems to only be catching up on personal database lists and the pages look dated and lacking in features, whereas letterboxd is a lot more current in terms of what a user's expectation might be in today's media rich world.

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tiago_reis_hyjfboytvtere

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6 years ago

When you rate the movies you watched, it automatically stores them in "Your Ratings" tab. Besides having the possibility to export them to Excel, you can also sort them by rating. In fact, the rating date is only visible in the Excel file. Idk if you wanted more options directly available on the website.

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No, on the Ratings page, it DOES display the date rated:

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sandesh_d_souza

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The date you rated the movie can be different to the date you watched a movie. You could rate a movie six months after you originally watched it.

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