How search works
Last updated: 15 August 2026
Search looks across the film and series catalogue first, then tells you where each match is available in your country.
Search and recommendations have different jobs. Search helps you find a known title. Your country, services, genre, language, time and quality preferences shape recommendations, but do not make catalogue matches disappear.
Title search
- A partial search, such as Delhi, shows catalogue matches even when they are not on your services.
- Results appear first; regional streaming availability is checked immediately afterward.
- Each card explains whether the title is on one of your services, streaming elsewhere, available to rent or buy, coming soon, or not currently streaming in your country.
- Use My services only when you only want matches on the services and rent/buy options you selected. All titles is the default.
- Exact matches are placed ahead of looser name matches, while the remaining results keep search relevance order.
Actor search
- Choose Actors in the search field, then enter a name. If several people match, StreamRanker asks which person you mean.
- Actor results begin with acting credits on your services, ranked best first.
- Select Show all credits to browse the person's other acting credits too. Cards identify titles that are on your services, not on them, or whose availability has not yet been checked.
- Availability checks are deliberately paced, so a prolific actor cannot overload the service lookup.
If a title still does not appear
Check the spelling, try the original title, or search fewer words. A very new cinema release may appear with a coming-soon or not-streaming-yet label. Actor search still starts with My services only; use Show all credits to look beyond it.