Nice collection but see, I want this list to be simple.
All I need for searching is the title and year and whether or not I have the bluray and whether or not it has subtitles.
I surf IMdb for movies to complete sets or obscure movies I want to see and maybe get.
I simply open the notepad, select find and paste the title and year from IMdb in and hit enter.
I had a spreadsheet but it got too detailed.
For my needs, less is more.
The only other info I might want is file size and type but I can get that by clicking the file.
All my movies are zipped for archive.
The zip file remains pristine and when I unzip and watch a movie I just delete the unzipped file.
Recently I have been rewatching some movie series.
I unzipped the movies to my main computer (leaving the zipped files on the external drive) watch the films and delete them.
Right now, I am in the middle of the Terminator movie series.
I recently just finished the Lethal Weapon series and I have the Die Hard series and the Bourne series unzipped and ready.
Okay, so if you felt like watching a horror movie directed by Ridley Scott, or an action movie produced by the old team of the late Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, how would you find it?
Search Ridley Scott on the IMdb and copy the title of the film I want to see and paste it into windows search (with my external drives online).
I don't really track directors or prodfucers or film studios tho.
I track actors and movie sets.
Lets say I wanted to watch an old Jerry Lewis or Shirley Temple movie.
I plug in the hard drive containing my actor sets, scroll to the actor and select a movie from that list.
For actors still making films, I check IMdb often to see if I can find movies I might be missiong from their listings. I pay attention to in production and filming statuses plus I have a few websites that list coming films in a few genres like Science Fiction and Horror.
Upcoming Horror Movies (UHM)
http://www.upcominghorrormovies.com/
and
Sci-Fi Movies
http://www.scifi-movies.com/en/
are just two examples.
I also belong to a few movie forums and admin a couple Movie News Sub-forums. I scour the internet looking for movie news.
Places like CHUD, Fearnet and BMovie Review.
I also frequent production company homepages, special effects companies and even matte painting companies.
For dead actors, If I have every film they have done, I denote that fact with a period after their title folder.
Brandon Lee. means I have all Brandon Lee's films.
I also keep a note pad copy and paste of an actors movies in my conversion folder for that actors name. When I get a film I don't have, I add an * at the beginning of that film title in that notepad.
Example:
*Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
*London Has Fallen (2016)
Angel Has Fallen (2019)
This tells me right away which ones I have and which ones I don't.
Since I keep my conversion folder on my main computer, I always have this information. I update it on a regular basis from IMdb listings or upcoming movie listings.
I also have running watchlists on multiple movie sites.