The following 25 movies in my library have release years in the Plex metadata database that are wrong by at least five years:
title plex tmdb
1 Chess of the Wind 2021 1976
2 Daguerreotypes 2019 1975
3 A Poem Is a Naked Person 2016 1974
4 La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe 2014 1977
5 Titicut Follies 1992 1967
6 Tale of Tales 2001 1979
7 The Color of Pomegranates 1982 1969
8 Nights and Weekends 2021 2008
9 Fata Morgana 1981 1971
10 Jimmy Page & Robert Plant: No Quarter / Unledded 1994 2004
11 Lessons of Darkness 2002 1992
12 Peter Monaghan - A Portrait 2022 2012
13 Comrade Kim Goes Flying 2021 2012
14 Every Child 1990 1979
15 Land of Silence and Darkness 1980 1971
16 Crac 1988 1980
17 Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father 2015 2008
18 Welfare 1982 1975
19 Italianamerican 1980 1974
20 Tanner Hall 2015 2009
21 e-Life 2022 2017
22 Funny Ha Ha 2007 2002
23 On the Bowery 1962 1957
24 Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama 1997 1992
25 Who Killed Captain Alex? 2015 2010
As with other films with incorrect release dates, these are mostly cases where Plex incorrectly glommed onto some obviously incorrect film festival date instead of the actual date. For example, Chess of the Wind released in 1976, but got a restoration film festival debut in Australia in 2021. With all due respect, who cares about when an Iranian film first screened in Australia?
I have already corrected all of these – as well as over 500 other films that have incorrect release dates – in my library, but I just wanted to report these so everyone is aware of the deficiencies of the metadata Plex is providing and Plex can fix them. This kind of thing is extremely frustrating because I think a lot of your paying users really care about films and really want correct metadata.
I would be happy to supply the 500 films I have with <5 year errors but errors nonetheless, but I think I would want to see action on some of the existing metadata reports I’ve issued.
