How to add films to your watch list that are not listed on the plex database

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I have done a search but can not figure out how to add films/tv that are not listed on the plex database. When I searched I only came up with how to add your own films and change the metadata so that they can be found. However, I am NOT adding a media server, I am just trying to add films to my watch list. How does one do this? Thanks.

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You can only add items that have been matched with the current-generation Plex agents (Plex Movie, Plex TV Series).

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If you find the movie in question when you use the search feature on http://watch.plex.tv/ then you can also add it to the Watchlist.
Anything else cannot be added, unfortunately.

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It is unfortunate the database is not more up-to-date. I often try to add things (the way you mention above) and they are not listed.

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Can you share a few examples?

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Oh boy, I can’t recall them all since I add films/tv as they come up or are recommended. In the future, if I remember, I will add them here.

At the moment, all I can think of are the following:

Pistol (2022)
Le Otto Montagne (The Eight Mountains)
Blue Island (2022)
Aftersun (2022)

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Those all exist in Plex’s database. The discover search just doesn’t seem to find them. I converted the TMDB IDs to the Plex Guids.

Pistol (2022):

  • tmdb://132159 → plex://show/6244890dd4640db32655f36b

https://app.plex.tv/desktop/#!/provider/tv.plex.provider.metadata/details?key=%2Flibrary%2Fmetadata%2F6244890dd4640db32655f36b

The Eight Mountains (2022):

  • tmdb://803700 → plex://movie/60a0da3517d287002c2469ff

https://app.plex.tv/desktop/#!/provider/tv.plex.provider.metadata/details?key=%2Flibrary%2Fmetadata%2F60a0da3517d287002c2469ff

Blue Island (2022):

  • tmdb://924120 → plex://movie/6126056f680157002c78fb31

https://app.plex.tv/desktop/#!/provider/tv.plex.provider.metadata/details?key=%2Flibrary%2Fmetadata%2F6126056f680157002c78fb31

Aftersun (2022): (I don’t know which one of these two is the one you are looking for)

  • tmdb://969829 → plex://movie/62665a4eafa6cfe387fe75fc
  • tmdb://965150 → plex://movie/62665ae2fdcc0b90d63ad3d2

https://app.plex.tv/desktop/#!/provider/tv.plex.provider.metadata/details?key=%2Flibrary%2Fmetadata%2F62665a4eafa6cfe387fe75fc

https://app.plex.tv/desktop/#!/provider/tv.plex.provider.metadata/details?key=%2Flibrary%2Fmetadata%2F62665ae2fdcc0b90d63ad3d2

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I have no idea how you did that but thank you so much!

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