Advanced Title Search 'Genre' - significant bug

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Advanced Title Search could be an extremely valuable IMDB tool.  But significant bugs seem to still exist.

For example, search with these terms:  "Most Popular English-Language, Action-Adventure-Crime-Thriller Titles Released 2016-01-01 Or Later With At Least 10000 Votes and User Rating Between 8.0 and 10.0" (all other fields are the defaults).

That brings up only one title - "The Punisher". (How can only one title meet these criteria?)

Then if we add "Mystery" to the genre list, there are suddenly NO hits !!

--> Expanding the search should bring more hits, not fewer!

I really hope this tool can get some love.

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The content of the search results is not a glitch. The Punisher is the only cataloged title that is configured as being in the English language, and being in all four of the genres "action" and "adventure" and "crime" and "thriller", and being released after the start of year 2016, and having at least 10,000 IMDb user votes, and having an IMDb user average rating of at least 8.0.
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Although this search function is working as IMDb intended, it would be preferable if there was some way of indicating to user that in certain data categories, selecting more than one option means "AND", not "OR". I will defer to people more familiar with user experience to recommend the best way of accomplishing that.

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