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Saturday, October 3rd, 2026

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What happened to the more like this section under movie titles?

In the past, I'd type in the title of a Lifetime thriller for example and down the page it would show links to similar Lifetime thrillers in the more like this section.

Now as of a couple of days ago that section is either completely gone on most titles or is full of Christmas movies usually of the Hallmark variety.

What's going on?  This happens on both the app on my phone and the website on my computer and even in incognito mode.

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Thanks for the feedback. We have recently changed the way that "More Like This" is calculated.  Please provide specific example titles where the recommendations need to be improved and we can pass this along to the team to check.  

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High School Lover (2017).  There is no more like this section at all.  

https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature,tv_miniseries,tv_movie&release_date=2017-01-01,2026-12-12&companies=co0006395&sort=release_date,asc

Almost every movie on this list is missing a more like this section or else it's all Hallmark Christmas movies or titles that are totally irrelevant to the movie title in question.

Just a few days everything was good and normal.  And now it's a disaster and it's considered an improvement?

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@tvwriter​ Thanks; so looking at the first title in the ATS results, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6130742/ we see:

(there are some Christmas movies towards the end of the list, but the first ones look relevant)

The second one at https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5840030/ has only one relevant recommendation before falling off the Christmas cliff though.

The third one at https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5283754/ has more of an intermingled Christmas vs. relevant set.  

This looks like a good set of issues overall to forward to the team so we will do this now. Thanks again. 

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Thank you.  I was compiling a list of Lifetime thrillers to my watch list or watch history or whatever and accidentally deleted the list so went to compile the list again and suddenly the more like this sections were missing or completely different.  Before, they were almost all Lifetime thrillers from the same year or more recent.  Now the thrillers that do show up are pre-2017.

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I'm relieved to see that others are having the same issue which rules out me having done something wrong on my end.

It's very frustrating.  I'm trying to compile a list of Lifetime movies from between 2017 to today and not all of them appear on the four Lifetime lists when you look them up by company so the more like this section was really useful to be able to add those missing titles.  But now that section is either gone or irrelevant to what i'm looking for.  Ugh.

It's so frustrating when websites do updates and "improvements" that only make things worse.