FAQ: Finding Items for Lists

Instead of a title, name or character name, you can enter the link (or the code / key) into the search for title, people, character and image lists instead of the name. For instance:

Titles (movies, TV shows, TV episodes)
If you enter "The Shawshank Redemption" (without the quotation marks) into the search box, you get multiple choices.
If you enter the link (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111161/) or the title key (tt0111161), you only get one choice, The Shawshank Redemption (1994).

People
If you enter "Morgan Freeman" (without the quotation marks) into the search box, you get multiple choices.
If you enter the link (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000151/) or the name (person) key (nm0000151), you only get one choice, Morgan Freeman.

Characters
If you enter "Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding" (without the quotation marks) into the search box, you get multiple choices.
If you enter the link (http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0001387/) or the character key (ch0001387), you only get one choice, Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding.

Images
Images have to be hosted on IMDb. Thumbnail images will not currently display on image lists. Only links to images (http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3172827136/ch0001387) or the image (media) key (rm3172827136) works for image lists.

This feature has been available since user created lists were made available on IMDb. Other IMDb users and I discovered this feature, but it has remained undocumented. This is not documented in Frequently Asked Questions about Lists or any place else on IMDb. It may be useful if IMDb formally documents this feature.