diff --git a/oxdata/movie/imdbids.py b/oxdata/movie/imdbids.py
index 94b8453..c0966a1 100644
--- a/oxdata/movie/imdbids.py
+++ b/oxdata/movie/imdbids.py
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ TIMEOUT = 90 * DAY
 DATA_ROOT = os.path.join(settings.MEDIA_ROOT, 'imdb')
 
 DEBUG = False
-base_url = 'https://www.imdb.com'
 
 def debug(*args, **kwargs):
     if DEBUG:
@@ -38,6 +37,7 @@ def read_url(url, timeout):
     return data
 
 def get_range(from_, to):
+    base_url = 'https://www.imdb.com'
     url = '%s/search/title?adult=include&release_date=%s,%s&sort=release_date,asc&count=50' % (base_url, from_, to)
     return url
 
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ def get_film_count(year, month=None, day=None):
     data = read_url(url, timeout=TIMEOUT)
     total = re.compile('<span>1-50 of ([\d,]+?) titles.</span>').findall(data)
     if not total:
-        total = re.compile('<span>([\d,]+) titles.</span>', re.DOTALL).findall(data)
+        total = re.compile(' ([\d,]+) titles\n', re.DOTALL).findall(data)
     if total:
         return int(total[0].replace(',', ''))
     print('no movies', url)
@@ -113,6 +113,8 @@ def update_month(year, month, film_counts):
                 if film_count > MAX_PER_RANGE and film_count < 2*MAX_PER_RANGE:
                     r = update_ids(year, month, day, sort='alpha', expected=film_count)
                     save_film_counts(film_counts)
+                elif film_count > MAX_PER_RANGE:
+                    print(key, '!!!to many per day', film_count, key)
                 else:
                     r = update_ids(year, month, day, expected=film_count)
                     save_film_counts(film_counts)
@@ -166,13 +168,9 @@ def update_ids(year, month=None, day=None, sort=None, expexted=None):
         while n:
             start += step
             next_link = 'start=%s&ref_=adv_nxt"' % (start)
-            after_link = 'href="(.*?after=.*?&ref_=adv_nxt)"'
             has_next = re.compile(next_link).findall(data)
-            has_after = re.compile(after_link).findall(data)
             if has_next:
                 n = '%s&start=%s' % (url, start)
-            elif sort != 'alpha' and start > MAX_PER_RANGE and has_after:
-                n = '%s%s' % (base_url, has_after[0])
             else:
                 n = False
             doc = lxml.html.fromstring(data)