How to hide movies in iTunes from ATV?

We want to be able to select certain movies, photos, TV shows, etc. media, that currently reside in iTunes, from displaying on the Apple TV. This is an obvious parental control path.
We're having a tough time believing that a mature application like iTunes can't hide a file or make something private. Are we missing something?
User can deselect Movies to hide them in iTunes (iTunes Pref's)... but surprise! They show up on the ATV anyway, so what good is that command?
Perhaps there's a terminal command to enable this boneheaded functionality? We've even searched iTunes plug-ins.
Thanks in advance for your kind assistance!

Thanks Mr. Churchill! I appreciate it. It does seem a bit backward, Apple's usually so good at delivering advanced features and functionality. It's surprising that all these hoops need jumping when there really should be a simple and elegant HIDE command in the VIEW or CONTROL menu of iTunes that blocks the selected media from display anywhere. The selected media could simply be placed in a password-protected folder that does not appear on the ATV without the user's permission.
Based on my extensive research over the past few days, I see that the request for such functionality goes back years from many, many people.
There are obviously movies, explicit-lyrics music and TV shows that parents do not want their children to have access to, and the joint partnership of iTunes and Apple TV is not up to the challenge of helping parents completely hide the forbidden fruit.

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