Plex is using a different year than imdb, for example “Titicut Follies (1967)” is showing as “Titicut Follies (1994)”
Plex receives only wide release dates from IMDB, not limited release dates.
Notice the date at watch.plex.tv is 1992, Titticut Follies, which aligns with the Australian release date at IMDB.
If you want the movie to appear with a 1967 release date, manually edit the information in Plex Media Server (pencil icon on movie pre-play page).
That seems a very odd decision, seeing multiple films with the same thing happening.
Any particular thought process behind this? Especially for films showing decades after they were originally released.
Also, “manually edit it” is really not a constructive solution let’s be honest.
Huh? It’s completely constructive. The algorithm used by the server suggests a particular release date. You would prefer a different one be used. The interface provides a means by which you can override the one suggested by the server. You may not like it, but it’s a perfectly workable solution.
(Edit: I’m not suggesting that the method used to derive the release dates provided by the server can’t be improved. Only that the current interface provides you the agency to determine how it’s displayed on your server.)
Plex pulls metadata from multiple sources so usually you’ll get whatever those sources provide and sometimes those sources can be particular about how they rate it (places like TVDB and TMDB).
Essentially it’s not a decision Plex made directly about this film and media software like Emby and Kodi and Infuse and Jellyfin will likely pull the same result since they all use these similar sources for that metadata.
Release dates on esoteric and foreign films can get funny too since many of these sites for metadata are US centric and the aforementioned site rules for IMDB\TVDB\TMDB treat foreign films differently and less known films don’t get as much review or attention.
If the metadata sources don’t really work for you - they don’t always - then the easiest option is to manually edit the info instead; I do this for things I don’t necessarily agree with (like I don’t like “national lampoons” as part of the title - let alone the sort title - for Van Wilder and Christmas Vacation so I edit it). The other alternative is to go plead with those sources to change it which is probably more effort than it’s worth in cases like this.
But sometimes the years are wrong so it’s good to ask about it and get confirmation if something looks off. You said there were multiple films like this… maybe listing them out can help get that sorted for you (lots of the community folks, and the ninjas, are good at tracking that stuff down).
I appreciate more obscure films are more likely to show incorrectly, but have been seeing mainstream movies with this also. There has been a more recent change to the Plex movie agent though it seems, with IMDb being used as the main source rather than using TMDB and the TVDB.
Swingers for example (fairly big movie) is now showing as 1997 instead of 1996 when previously it was correct, and that looks to be using the Brazil release date from IMDb, but that’s fundamentally wrong.
The US had a limited and then full release in 1996 so the Plex movie agent really is a bit of a mess at this point.
I could switch the agent but I don’t want to break Edition support, frustrating to say the least.
If the metadata sources don’t really work for you - they don’t always - then the easiest option is to manually edit the info instead; I do this for things I don’t necessarily agree with (like I don’t like “national lampoons” as part of the title - let alone the sort title - for Van Wilder and Christmas Vacation so I edit it). The other alternative is to go plead with those sources to change it which is probably more effort than it’s worth in cases like this.
The problem is that OpenSubtitles will not provide any subtitles if they don’t detect a
match, ie. if the year is different.
All the bored pedants adding obscure release dates to these sites are breaking the system.
The only real long-term solution will be imdb, moviedb, plex and other sources agreeing to a “Basic Release Year”.
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