I focus very much on directory and artists in my library. instead of film titles I would like to display my library by directors. It would be great if this could be further customized to see all films group by actors, etc.

@mynona , I hope this helps. See pic for the section where you can adjust your library based on directors, actors, and several other options instead of All. [image]

I know this and it is tedious to use. What I suggest is to have the database presented by directors same as for films. not having a search field to pick one editor but see all movies visually presented by directors. Thank you for your response and effort

@mynona See this thread - let’s add our votes to that one: [image] Filtering movie titles by director Feature Suggestions Plex should have the ability to filter movie titles by directors, similar to how it can sort titles by cast. This is a ‘must have’ for all movie buffs…

There are dozens of us! Dozens!!! Seriously though, for cinephiles, this feature would be amazing. TMDb already has pages for directors and actors , with headshots and bios. At the very least, Plex could add another rubric to the sorting options, so that when I search for a name, instead of just sh…

This is not the same feature & they even closed it. The intention would be to see all movies organised by directors same as you have them displayed by year etc.

Why not create smart collections for these?

I made a similar request today and didn’t find your post. So closed my thread and added a vote to yours :wink: here was my post: I as wondering if there could be a way to browse by movie directors with name and picture (we click on a director and get the list of all his movies that are inside a …

[image] drzoidberg33: Why not create smart collections for these? I just tried doing that for example I created a collection for all Hitchcock films. I found 2 limitations doing this You have to create the collections for every director, so grouping automatically and browsing by actor or d…

I came here to request this feature. The ability to filter is nice, but the thing that I’m really looking for is to be able to browse by director or actor. To my mind, the easiest way to make this work is to mimic the “folder” grouping option (currently, the only two options are “Movies” and “Folder…

Group Library by directors

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mitsaoua January 6, 2021, 4:52pm 4

@mynona See this thread - let’s add our votes to that one:

I am shocked to see so few requests for this feature, to be honest… Maybe we are a minority…

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