I currently use separate folders for dividing my films into genres on the left pane such as New Releases, New TV Shows, Dramas, Comedies, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, etc. It would be great if there was a flag for each movie that could then put them in a category such as this and make that category available as an option to display every film or tv show in that genre somewhere in the menu or pane. A sort by genre. If this is possible now, I don’t know how it is being done.
Ugh… that’s looking… complicated 
No need to create separate libraries for all that. You can easily place all that content in one (or a few) libraries and use Plex to filter/categorize/… using a variety of different available features.
Edit: e.g. the basic library navigation to filters and sort your library
https://support.plex.tv/articles/200392126-using-the-library-view/
You can already create smart collections based on different criteria (e.g. Genres). You can even publish those to the home screen or your library’s Recommended tabs.
Plex also supports a dedicated tab to navigate movies by genres at the top of each library. Although if I remember correctly this might currently only be available for Plex Pass members.
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After searching some more… there’s even an existing suggestion discussing an option to pin certain filtered views as sub libraries to the sidebar.
With that in mind… please check out the existing functionality and/or comment/vote in these threads. Unless I’m missing some unique aspect of your suggestion I’ll close this thread as a duplicate.
2023 clean-up: duplicate
