You're right, but the "available on Netflix" caveat is a big one. If only there was some sort of database, on the internet for movies. I don't know what you'd call it, but maybe they could have a more complete list of an actor's works, and Netflix could link to them.
It's like Netflix thinks that by pretending video doesn't exist outside of Netflix that it'll just go away.
Flux Plus does IMDB + RottenTomatoes + some other stuff: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/flix-plus/fcjjgdna...
Re:Netflix Pulls Plug on Public API
by waterlesscloud on Sunday November 16, 2014 @10:42PM
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The funny thing is imdb is owned by Amazon, and Amazon Video has the worst browsing and discovery interface ever invented by man. They make no use of the data at all.
It's almost funny, but I often point to Amazon's video choices to be an example that's worse than Netflix... I actually have a Prime and a Netflix account, though generally prefer torrents. :-/
I really wish that Netflix's UI wasn't so attrocious.. when I'm in a browser, there are so much better ways of interacting than what they offer... for a tablet/phone I kind of get it... the problem is the box covers aren't great for navigating quickly... Many of which you can't even tell what the movie is without hovering over.. or the cover doesn't offer insight.
Especially when it comes to discovery. They also offered multiple users for interacting far too late.. too many devices are tied to the default account user.
I'm not sure what the best option is.. but it certainly isn't what's in place, and could be much better..
Netflix does help with this. Just click on the actor's name in the movie description and it will show other movies (available on Netflix) that the actor is in.