Feature Request: Quick Filtering (at least Actor / Director / Tags)

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There is a recurring question at my end. When I selected a movie I want to quickly know what other movies I have with the same Actor or from the same Director. An actor/actrice suddenly stands out in a movie, so I want to see if I have more movies with the same actor. The Mobile already has a function for this to click on the actors name (but the whole feature doesn’t work properly on my device, I will report an issue about this separately). The Web is lacking this feature (If I am not mistaken).

Yes, I could go to the Actor filter and fill in the Actors name. But this is slow and manual.

For now I added this feature to the Web application myself to see if the solution I had in mind actually is workable. My suggestion:

When I click on the actor:

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don’t go to IMDb (I still can, because I did not remove the IMDb URL) but filter by this actor:

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Now I can quickly go from one movie to another just by clicking on the Actor / Director (did not build it for Director yet).

Similarly I think it is useful to have a similar solution for other fields like in the Edition Details.

Another case I have: I would like to link one or more movies to each other. For example I want to link all ‘Alex Cross‘ movies, or link movies to each other that occur in the same period like ‘the events or period around Martin Luther King‘ or ‘World War I‘. I think Tags are the best solution for this. But there is no way to quickly filter on the tags. So I did a similar thing:

Click on the Tag:

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and quickly filter on the tag:

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Yes, indeed, this is planned for CLZ Movies Web as well. Not sure where we’re going to put the IMDb link, but we’ll figure that out.

For both Directors and Actors right now.

For other fields: maybe.
Linking to other movies: currently not planned - you could work around it using box sets I suppose.

Good to see you built it yourself!

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@CLZ_AJ , Nice to see it is on your list :slight_smile: , so I won’t improve my solution yet and wait for something from you guys.

Yes Box Sets is also something that I use. But it doesn’t feel right in many cases. Where I do use it: if the movies belong to each other, like the 3 movies from the Three Flavours Cornetto**-trilogie** where the movies have 3 different titles that cannot be alphabetically ordered.

But this fails when a movie is already part of a box set, I cannot assign it to a second box set.

It doesn’t feel right when the movies are only held together by a Theme or Time period but are otherwise unrelated. What makes sense:

The 2 movies All Quite on the Western Front and 1917 are all adaptations of the same novel.

But the movie Atonement is not. So Tagging them sounds more correct then putting the in a box set.

With Tags you could link it to other movies as well, multi dimensional.

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It could be a while, feel free to keep tinkering :slight_smile: