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by pen2l 3955 days ago
Despite there being so many of these sites, most of them kind of fail for me.

For instance... last night I was wanting to watch a movie, but the kids needed to watch it too (as they can't be left unattended with me watching a movie in the other room :)).

So I went off on a search for a movie to watch... with a rating filter -- it needed to be either G or PG.

Nothing. No recommendation site, Netflix, or anything let me filter movies/shows this way. Yes, you have the 'Kids' section on Netflix, but most of the stuff there is deathly boring for adults, I was hoping for something good for both kids and adults.

I ended up not watching anything.

5 comments

Although not a personal recommendation site, instantwatcher.com allows you to filter Netflix titles by rating and sort by a lot of other useful criteria such as production year, rotten tomato rating etc.
This site has a mpaa rating filter. Have you found it yet?
Jinni let you do this. However, it looks like theyve pivoted and their movie reco engine is not available anymore.
KerrM: alright, thanks, I'll check it out. p.s.: your account is shadowbanned
If you have an iPad I made an app called Dejavu that might be able to help, you can filter by genre and year of release, and if you think it would be good I could potentially add filtering by rating. Check it out :) I'd love to get some feedback https://itunes.apple.com/app/id914369680