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• We currently already have 3 custom off-topic reasons (trivia, detail-lacking ID, current events), which is the maximum a site gets by default. There are ways to ask the SE übermods for additional slots, but I currently don't know how much consensus and "urge" is required for this. Another way might be to drop one of the existing close-reasons. For this I would only reasonably consider the one about "current events", since that seems to be used rather rarely and is on the other hand a bit fuzzily defined and not always clear when to use it (well ok, not that "trivia" would be that much clearer either, though).
• I did a little review of the last 90 days' closed questions using the close reason statistics and individual searches. In summary we had 16 questions closed as recommendations (4.07% of all closes) in the last 90 days. It also shows that they are closed for a wide variety of reasons (off-topic: 9, too broad: 3, primarily opinion-based: 4), although they always amount to the same rather clearly defined type of question. Compared to the other builtin off-topic reasons (trivia: 21 (5.34%), detail-lacking ID: 203 (51.66%), current events: 9 (2.29%)) we also see that it is even more than the least used of them.
• As a little addendum, both Anime & Manga as well as Science Fiction & Fantasy have a custom recommendation close-reason (and the former even has 4 custom off-topic reasons). This doesn't mean we ought to have one, too, or that we have the same likeliness to get such questions, but it might be a hint.

• We currently already have 3 custom off-topic reasons (trivia, detail-lacking ID, current events), which is the maximum a site gets by default. There are ways to ask the SE übermods for additional slots, but I currently don't know how much consensus and "urge" is required for this. Another way might be to drop one of the existing close-reasons. For this I would only reasonably consider the one about "current events", since that seems to be used rather rarely and is on the other hand a bit fuzzily defined and not always clear when to use it (well ok, not that "trivia" would be that much clearer either, though).
• I did a little review of the last 90 days' closed questions using the close reason statistics and individual searches. In summary we had 16 questions closed as recommendations (4.07% of all closes) in the last 90 days. It also shows that they are closed for a wide variety of reasons (off-topic: 9, too broad: 3, primarily opinion-based: 4), although they always amount to the same rather clearly defined type of question. Compared to the other builtin off-topic reasons (trivia: 21 (5.34%), detail-lacking ID: 203 (51.66%), current events: 9 (2.29%)) we also see that it is even more than the least used of them.
• As a little addendum, both Anime & Manga as well as Science Fiction & Fantasy have a custom recommendation close-reason (and the former even has 4 custom off-topic reasons). This doesn't mean we ought to have one, too, or that we have the same likeliness to get such questions, but it might be a hint.

As of recent there were quite a few questions asking for movie recommendations, which are currently off-topic on this site, and those questions arise now and then and are usually closed quite fast and unargued according to our help center:

I'm closing this question as off-topic because the site doesn't entertain questions for recommendation lists. Take a look at the tour and the help center to get a better understanding of how this site works, expecially the on-topic section. You might also want to visit Movies & TV Chat and ask for any recommendations there. And last but not least, you could also take a look at this more general question to get some possible pointers for finding what you're looking for.

• Often those questions could technically also be seen as primarily opinion-based or too broad (depending if you concentrate on the recommendation aspect or the list aspect) rather than off-topic. But there are no custom sub-reasons for those and one would still be advised to write a proper comment explaining the situation in this case.
• Another way of closing those questions could be to mark them as duplicate of this canonical faq question (which was originally created for that purpose actually, I think). And in fact I personally used and advocated that procedure in the past, as it is the most easy way to on the one hand close the question and on the other hand refer the asker to a place for finding the answer he is looking for.

• We currently already have 3 custom off-topic reasons (trivia, detail-lacking ID, current events), which is the maximum a site gets by default. There are ways to ask the SE übermods for additional slots, but I currently don't know how much consensus and "urge" is required for this. Another way might be to drop one of the existing close-reasons. For this I would only reasonably consider the one about "current events", since that seems to be used rather rarely and is on the other hand a bit fuzzily defined and not always clear when to use it (well ok, not that "trivia" would be that much clearer either, though).
• I did a little review of the last 90 days' closed questions using the close reason statistics and individual searches. In summary we had 16 questions closed as recommendations (4.07% of all closes) in the last 90 days. It also shows that they are closed for a wide variety of reasons (off-topic: 9, too broad: 3, primarily opinion-based: 4), although they always amount to the same rather clearly defined type of question. Compared to the other builtin off-topic reasons (trivia: 21 (5.34%), detail-lacking ID: 203 (51.66%), current events: 9 (2.29%)) we also see that it is even more than the least used of them.
• As a little addendum, both Anime & Manga as well as Science Fiction & Fantasy have a custom recommendation close-reason (and the former even has 4 custom off-topic reasons). This doesn't mean we ought to have one, too, or that we have the same likeliness to get such questions, but it might be a hint.

As of recent there were quite a few questions asking for movie recommendations, which are currently off-topic on this site, and those questions arise now and then and are usually closed quite fast and unargued according to our help center:

I'm closing this question as off-topic because the site doesn't entertain questions for recommendation lists. Take a look at the tour and the help center to get a better understanding of how this site works, expecially the on-topic section. You might also want to visit Movies & TV Chat and ask for any recommendations there. And last but not least, you could also take a look at this more general question to get some possible pointers for finding what you're looking for.

• Often those questions could technically also be seen as primarily opinion-based or too broad (depending if you concentrate on the recommendation aspect or the list aspect) rather than off-topic. But there are no custom sub-reasons for those and one would still be advised to write a proper comment explaining the situation in this case.
• Another way of closing those questions could be to mark them as duplicate of this canonical faq question (which was originally created for that purpose actually, I think). And in fact I personally used and advocated that procedure in the past, as it is the most easy way to on the one hand close the question and on the other hand refer the asker to a place for finding the answer he is looking for.

• We currently already have 3 custom off-topic reasons (trivia, detail-lacking ID, current events), which is the maximum a site gets by default. There are ways to ask the SE übermods for additional slots, but I currently don't know how much consensus and "urge" is required for this. Another way might be to drop one of the existing close-reasons. For this I would only reasonably consider the one about "current events", since that seems to be used rather rarely and is on the other hand a bit fuzzily defined and not always clear when to use it (well ok, not that "trivia" would be that much clearer either, though).
• I did a little review of the last 90 days' closed questions using the close reason statistics and individual searches. In summary we had 16 questions closed as recommendations (4.07% of all closes) in the last 90 days. It also shows that they are closed for a wide variety of reasons (off-topic: 9, too broad: 3, primarily opinion-based: 4), although they always amount to the same rather clearly defined type of question. Compared to the other builtin off-topic reasons (trivia: 21 (5.34%), detail-lacking ID: 203 (51.66%), current events: 9 (2.29%)) we also see that it is even more than the least used of them.
• As a little addendum, both Anime & Manga as well as Science Fiction & Fantasy have a custom recommendation close-reason (and the former even has 4 custom off-topic reasons). This doesn't mean we ought to have one, too, or that we have the same likeliness to get such questions, but it might be a hint.

• We currently already have 3 custom off-topic reasons (trivia, detail-lacking ID, current events), which is the maximum a site gets by default. There are ways to ask the SE übermods for additional slots, but I currently don't know how much consensus and "urge" is required for this. Another way might be to drop one of the existing close-reasons. For this I would only reasonably consider the one about "current events", since that seems to be used rather rarely and is on the other hand a bit fuzzily defined and not always clear when to use it (well ok, not that "trivia" would be that much clearer either, though).
• I did a little review of the last 90 days' closed questions using the close reason statistics and individual searches. In summary we had 16 questions closed as recommendations (4.07% of all closes) in the last 90 days. It also shows that they are closed for a wide variety of reasons (off-topic: 9, too broad: 3, primarily opinion-based: 4), although they always amount to the same rather clearly defined type of question. Compared to the other builtin off-topic reasons (trivia: 21 (5.34%), detail-lacking ID: 203 (51.66%), current events: 9 (2.29%)) we also see that it is even more than the least used of them.
• As a little addendum, both Anime & Manga as well as Science Fiction & Fantasy have a custom recommendation close-reason (and the former even has 4 custom off-topic reasons). This doesn't mean we ought to have one, too, or that we have the same likeliness to get such questions, but it might be a hint.

• We currently already have 3 custom off-topic reasons (trivia, detail-lacking ID, current events), which is the maximum a site gets by default. There are ways to ask the SE übermods for additional slots, but I currently don't know how much consensus and "urge" is required for this. Another way might be to drop one of the existing close-reasons. For this I would only reasonably consider the one about "current events", since that seems to be used rather rarely and is on the other hand a bit fuzzily defined and not always clear when to use it (well ok, not that "trivia" would be that much clearer either, though).
• I did a little review of the last 90 days' closed questions using the close reason statistics and individual searches. In summary we had 16 questions closed as recommendations (4.07% of all closes) in the last 90 days. It also shows that they are closed for a wide variety of reasons (off-topic: 9, too broad: 3, primarily opinion-based: 4), although they always amount to the same rather clearly defined type of question. Compared to the other builtin off-topic reasons (trivia: 21 (5.34%), detail-lacking ID: 203 (51.66%), current events: 9 (2.29%)) we also see that it is even more than the least used of them.
• As a little addendum, both Anime & Manga as well as Science Fiction & Fantasy have a custom recommendation close-reason (and the former even has 4 custom off-topic reasons). This doesn't mean we ought to have one, too, or that we have the same likeliness to get such questions, but it might be a hint.