
Data Issues & Policy Discussions
This category is managed by our IMDb Content team. IMDb Content is the team that collects and manages the content that makes IMDb authoritative & accurate. We depend upon our users to supply the majority of our content, and will use this space to both answer questions and collect ideas for how to make IMDb more authoritative, accurate, and easy to add to.
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Director´s credit
This might be a nit pick but it´s something that has bothered me. Whenever I look up a director on the app or on the web I´m looking for his/her list of directed movies. The first thing that pops up however is that person´s credit list as a producer. I then have to click the word director twice to s
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Drak sa vracia (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0175581/)
local sources list the release as 1967, not 68
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Reviews flooded by spammers
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13088688/reviews/?sort=submission_date%2Cdeschttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt4654844/reviews/?sort=submission_date%2CdescThey also created spam user list with random title like this:https://www.imdb.com/list/ls542745570/
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One film listed twice
Italian TV horror flick La casa dell'orco, AKA The Ogre, has been on IMDb for 20+ years as part of an Italian horror anthology TV show called Brivido giallo: imdb.com/title/tt0095775 Now, someone didn’t think that was good enough, so they submitted the film on its own, and somehow it got accepted! i
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HOW TO MERGE 2 LISTINGS
Hi there, somehow there's 2 different listings for me on IMDB, I'd like to merge them. How do I do this? I'm not a pro user FYI, just free user. Thanks
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Actor listed twice in database
I personally knew an actor and knew two movies he was in. I looked up those movies and found the same person, but listed under seperate names https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2750953/?ref_=tt_cl_i_4 https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1467284/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t23 The first one gives more information. It also giv
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Listing on imdb
Hi. I have received some awards from the LA film awards. 2 honourable mentions for Drama and Costume and a Best Actor for an Indie Film. Can I use these to get my first listing on IMDb.
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Issues With Episode Listings
Ok, so I have an interesting question, I am adding another video episode that I am in. It's somewhat listed on IMDb, and I will have to suggest some modifications to it. Now, here is the interesting issue I have found. The episode that I am in is Season 1, Episode 6, but even HBO MAX even listed the
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Fake Listing
I've been keeping an eye on what appears to be some kind of botfarm posting weird AI content on a variety of platforms and it's led me to find a fake listing on IMDB, a movie called D is for Detroit. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2241481/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_1_act The synopsis is clearly AI-written in ter
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Wrong character name listed
In the listing for the newly released movie, Freaky (2020), there is a character listed as “Maggie” (Dana Drori). This character’s name is incorrect. In the film, her name is Charlene “Char” Kessler and she goes by that name. The name Maggie is never even mentioned. Not sure where else to post this
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