Lists are great for integrating with your IMDB Watchlist and for following automated lists.
While lists can be filtered on Genre, Year(s) etc, which filters are available depends on the source (ex: IMDB vs TMDB) but is typically rather limited.

Let’s have a look at some projects that can help with populating Sonarr/Radarr in a manual or automated way.

Containers

Seerr

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seerr-team/seerr : Request management and media discovery for Plex, Jellyfin and Emby

Seerr is where things are headed: the Overseerr and Jellyseerr teams merged into one project.

sct/overseerr : Request management and media discovery tool for the Plex ecosystem

Fallenbagel/jellyseerr : Fork of Overseerr for jellyfin support

Seerr Requests

Or Checkout the UI on their home page.

SuggestArr

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giuseppe99barchetta/SuggestArr : Reads your watch history and auto-requests similar titles into Seerr.

This was a serious setup, I mean you’re connecting it to Jellyfin, Seerr, TMDb, OMDb and then Trakt. Unless you want to be adding +/- 40 new movies on it’s first run, make sure you connect it with a Seerr account that has Auto-Approve turned off 😉
Some of the movies it added I was like yeah that was indeed an awesome one, one other I watched the next day. So yes, I approve, SuggestArr is a pretty awesome project!

Aside from the automatic recommendations, you can also define your own jobs: add everything with a certain vote count, a certain minimum score within genres etc.

Titles SuggestArr auto-requested into Seerr 1 / 2 pictures
Titles SuggestArr auto-requested into Seerr
Scheduled jobs scanning your watch history 2 / 2 pictures
Scheduled jobs scanning your watch history

autobrr

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autobrr/autobrr : Modern download automation: monitors IRC announce channels and RSS feeds in real time and grabs releases matching your filters.

The spiritual successor to autodl-irssi and FlexGet for the race-to-download crowd: instead of following lists, autobrr watches tracker announce channels live and instantly grabs anything matching your filters, straight into qBittorrent/Sonarr/Radarr. Also handles cross-seeding.

Other

iongpt/boxarr : Monitor and add the latest theatrical releases to Radarr

activexray/Doplarr : An *arr request bot for Discord

activexray/doplarr_rs : Rust rewrite of Doplarr

Deprecated

JagandeepBrar/LunaSea : Self-hosted software controller built using Flutter

l3uddz/traktarr : Script to add new series & movies to Sonarr/Radarr based on Trakt lists.

petio-team/petio : Petio Request, Discover, Review (for Plex)

Ombi

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Ombi-app/Ombi : Want a Movie or TV Show on Plex/Emby/Jellyfin? Use Ombi!

Ombi was already mentioned in earlier articles as something that you’d give to your spouse so s/he can easily request or directly download stuff without having to know about the complexities of Sonarr/Radarr.

But Ombi can be great for yourself as well, it has an easy-to-use interface for discovering new things which you can then send directly to Radarr/Sonarr.

Checkout the live demo