I’m using the Plex Movie scanner and agent. I’ve included {tmdb-21735} in the name of the directory. Plex still shows the title as The Invaders. I see both IMDB and The Movie DB say “The Invaders” is an alternate title. However, nowhere is the movie listed as “The Invaders”. The trailer that play…

I think this is happening due to the combination of three things: The origin country is set to the UK “The Invaders” is set as the alternative title for USA Your library is set to English (which defaults to English (US)). What’s happening is technically correct, since the movie was released in th…

I created a test file in my Movies folder. I was able to recreate this. It’ shows the 49th Parallel poster. I clicked on the move, and then clicked on the pencil icon. “49th Parallel” shows up as the Original Title. Then I went down to Advanced and set “Use Original Title” to Yes. Then …

I only had to change the Use Original Title for that particular movie, not my whole movie library

Just to note you can also change just a single movie to use a different metadata language on the same screen you can set the movie to user Original Title on it’s advacned settings for the movie itself without changing for entire library

I just tested that. Put the library back to the defaults and doing a plex dance , it came back as The Invaders. Went into the Advanced Settings for that movie and selected English (UK) and then refreshed metadata and it changed to 49th Parallel

The difference is that if you change the metadata language it will also change the summary to that language. “use original title” will only change the title.

Thank you for the responses @napolij and @BigWheel . However, they are not really sufficient. I don’t have any issues manually modifying individual movies / shows. However, it means I have to keep track of every manual modification if the database is ever corrupted and have to rebuild the database. …

The metadata source is correct. It was launched in the US as The Invaders. Just like the movie Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain was launched in the US as Amélie and will be named that way based on library language. If your file is an mp4 you can embedded the name in the file and if you have “Pr…

Thanks for the confirmation @BigWheel . That’s what I thought. Great news on NFO support. That would be amazing. Is there any hope of getting a toggle to use the original title unless it’s a foreign language?

[image] tkenn1s: Is there any hope of getting a toggle to use the original title unless it’s a foreign language? I can pass it along. I do suggest making a feature suggestion but I can’t make any promises.

[image] tkenn1s: Great news on NFO support. That would be amazing. [image] Plex NFO Agent Forum Preview Metadata & Adding Files Hi everyone! Official support for NFO files has been a highly requested feature for a long time and we promised it would be c…

Movie "49th Parallel" shows up as "The Invaders"

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files

BigWheel February 6, 2026, 10:01pm 12

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Movie "49th Parallel" shows up as "The Invaders"

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