# Allow searching content on different languages **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Suggestions\ **Created:** [September 1, 2021, 2:58pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/allow-searching-content-on-different-languages/740452 "2021-09-01T14:58:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rubasace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a9a28c/32.png) [@rubasace](https://forums.plex.tv/u/rubasace)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2021, 2:58pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/allow-searching-content-on-different-languages/740452/1 "2021-09-01T14:58:57Z")
As a spaniard, I usually know the movies by the translated name that is used in Spain. I think it would be nice if Plex could store the known titles of the identified movies, in different languages. So, for example, if I want to search for “Ana de Dia” I can both search by that (the original title) or by “Ana by day” (the English translated title). This feature would make it easier to find specific movies without having to google the English title. This is something that Radarr does, for instance. ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2021, 3:36pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/allow-searching-content-on-different-languages/740452/2 "2021-09-01T15:36:00Z")
Plex is already considering the movie name (as stored in your library) and the original title when searching. Searching for `Lord of the Rings` will show me all 3 `Der Herr der Ringe` movies (German metadata/translation). ---
**Author:** ![rubasace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a9a28c/32.png) [@rubasace](https://forums.plex.tv/u/rubasace)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2021, 10:49pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/allow-searching-content-on-different-languages/740452/3 "2021-09-01T22:49:31Z")
That’s ok, but still not perfect. My libraries are in English cause I prefer titles and metadata to be displayed like that. But my parents aren’t English speakers. With the current behaviour, they won’t be able to search for `señor de los anillos` and find the movies so they have to know the English name. It’s not something super critical but I think it could improve the overall experience ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2021, 12:35am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/allow-searching-content-on-different-languages/740452/4 "2021-09-02T00:35:36Z")
Thx for clarifying. I believe there’s already a suggestion covering this. If so, I suggest you comment/vote in that thread in order to avoid distracting/dispersing votes. > [@Make "Search" able to query metadata in all languages when available](https://forums.plex.tv/t/make-search-able-to-query-metadata-in-all-languages-when-available/731394): > > Just as the title. I use the “Plex Movie” agent and scanner for a while, everything works smoothly, except one thing, multi languages search. Text data should not take up too much storage resource, so maybe you guys could be able to put metadata in all languages to the local database instead of just original title or library language, allows the users to search it in whatever languages they want. ---
**Author:** ![rubasace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a9a28c/32.png) [@rubasace](https://forums.plex.tv/u/rubasace)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2021, 9:25am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/allow-searching-content-on-different-languages/740452/5 "2021-09-02T09:25:51Z")
Yeah, it’s the same. I couldn’t find it when I searched for it though :S. We can close my ticket then ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2021, 10:17am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/allow-searching-content-on-different-languages/740452/6 "2021-09-02T10:17:41Z")
2021 clean-up: duplicate