Recording movies by country and year

[DonWidmore]

I am interested in watching all the Japanese detective/crime/police movies from the 1950s and 1960s that show up on cable.

An obscure request, right? Did you know it's virtually impossible to submit that request to netflix? I never got it to work. Trust me the movies I've seen so far were all great, gritty dramas ala film noir.

I set up my new tivo yesterday, S2, and looked through genres, etc. I noticed the odd movie genre "French" in the Tivo guide last night. I didn't notice Japanese.

I did a search on 1966 and movies, but didn't get any films back yet there were some.

How would one write this kind of query in a wish list with any accuracy or does it not work with the software?

thanks,

Don

[Mike Farrington]

The year isn't searchable, which is a shame.

I used to like searching for "Oscar for", which would return films that have won Academy Awards, but somewhere along the way they stripped that from the searchable info. :(

[Demandred]

I have keyword wishlists for "2006 AND Movies" and they work fine. I don't think you can really narrow it down from there though - I'd try just setting up a wishlist with the years you want and see how many you get. You might also try 196* and 197* as keywords, see if they get you the whole decade.

[DonWidmore]

ok yeah, well as someone who uses databases all day this IS frustrating, but also it was my experience.

thanks

Don

[Jonathan_S]

The year isn't searchable, which is a shame.
They are for movies, but not for episodes.

(For whatever reason for movies the year is stored in the guide data in a Movie Year field which is searched by keyword wishlists, while for episodes the year is part of the Original Air Date field which is not searched by keyword wishlists)