Is there any way to do advanced search but NOT to include Bollywood movies?

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For example i want an Advanced Title Search, for Feature Film, Release Date after to 2000, up to 10k Number of Votes, Exclude Titles I've Seen, sorted by User Rating Descending, BUT NOT include Hindi movies or Turkish movies or a group of countries that i don't want.
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George Gklistis

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MAthePA

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Perhaps IMDb users are happier since the feature you ask for was set aside.
If it may be helpful: https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/exclude-country-in-advanced-search - read till the eeeeend. You need to add "!" sign and country index manually. Or select many countries (using CTRL on your keyboard) and then add the "!"s.

And there are trickier ways, but they are too complicate for every-day use.

PS: the live example for your specific needs:
https://www.imdb.com/search/title?title_type=feature&release_date=2000-01-01,&num_votes=1000...
In other words, in ATS you provide the search options for specific countries (wich you really do not want to be listed), then complete the search, then you edit the URL adding the "!" signs ahead the contry-indices, then complete the search again. At last you may bookmark the URL and use it for your further needs.
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Oh, thank you very much. That was exactly what a need!! It's time for serious searching now!

PS: Where can i find the trickier ways for not every-day use? Is there a topic?
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You are welcome.
I don't know if there is a specific topic where all the inner operators are explained for IMDb. Under the 'trickier ways' I mean any use of the inner operators in the positions where it is not prohibited but also is not intended. E.g. the above provided 'live for your needs' URL may be added with "&keywords=hotel" and you'll have 10 times less results for this specific theme. And so on...

A good start to learn the inner operators is to examine all links on the Genres page. It would be easier to learn this in a manual or user-guide if any exists, so tell me when you know the place )

And as I said, to manually edit the URL is not comfortable for every-day use. But this is not a problem if you know javascript ))
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PS: one more thing forgotten to mention...
When using "countries=!in" combination, you also exclude all the movies created by any contry(ies) in coproduction with India. Not so many comparing to Bollywood spread, but it may be a case for other countries in other situations.
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