# Movie naming pattern and agents

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**Created:** [February 1, 2020, 3:40pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/movie-naming-pattern-and-agents/535832 "2020-02-01T15:40:31Z")\
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You cannot define custom naming patterns in Plex.

Plex will always require  
`Movie Title (year) - optional stuff.ext`  
Where ‘Movie Title’ can be either the original or the localized title.

If you want to play it safe, go with  
`Localized Title (year) - [original title_quality].ext`

Or you could resort to placing each movie into its own, individual subfolder.  
That way, you can very likely leave the movie filename as-it-is. But the title of the _folder_ must adhere to the above pattern.  
The basic minimum for a folder name is `Movie Title (year)`.

[Filebot](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-naming-schemes-for-filebot/121538/1 "Filebot") can help you to achieve that almost automatically, if you look into a custom renaming format string.

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