Combining The characters and codes you'll find below can be combined together to increase the specificity or range of your search. We'll occasionally demonstrate combinations in the sections below, but these are not the only combinations. Feel free to experiment with different combinations when you need to. Anchors An anchor sets where the pattern must occur in the title of a movie or TV show. By combining these anchors, you can create some fairly specific searches.
Anchors are very useful for finding one-word titles.
They're also helpful for finding all titles that start or end with a specific word. Special characters are used for matching specific patterns within words. There are five special characters relevant to the IMDb. This matches zero or more instances of the character right before it. This matches zero or one instances of the letter right before it.