What advanced search options are supported?

The table below contains several text triggers that can be included in your search (separately, or in combination with other triggers or additional search terms) to produce more accurate results. See this Journal article for more details and examples. 

* The c: trigger returns results for any cast or crew role on a film, thus c:greta‑gerwig will return more results than actor:greta‑gerwig or director:greta‑gerwig, as Greta sometimes performs other roles.

† Crew roles (director, producer, writer, etc.) follow the same format as in our website URLs for crew members.

Tips and tricks: You may combine multiple search terms to find specific results. For example:

• Include multiple films to find cast/crew common to those films, or to find lists containing all the mentioned films.
• Include multiple cast or crew members to find films they worked on in common.
• Include multiple favorites to find members with that combination in their profile favorites.
• Include a member and a film to find that member’s review of the film (or their lists containing the film).
• Include a member, a tag, and a year range to find a member’s tagged content published within the given period.
• Exclude results from a specific trigger by prefixing that trigger with a minus sign (-). For example, actor:greta‑gerwig ‑director:greta‑gerwig returns films in which Greta acted but didn’t direct.
• Combine triggers using a logical OR to broaden results. For example, actor:greta‑gerwig (director:greta‑gerwig OR writer:greta‑gerwig) returns films in which Greta acted as well as either wrote or directed.
• To search for nested tags by their base tag, search for the base followed by a colon. For example, searching tag:with will return all reviews or lists tagged with:someone. (Such a tag search is best paired with m:username to limit results to a single member.)