What About: Movies with same title AND same release year but completely different movies?

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Searched the forum to see if this question was asked but could not find if it was, so I apologize if it was and I was searching incorrectly.

I’d like to know if there’s a workaround for the issue of two completely different movies having the same title and the same year of release. In particular, the title Delirium.

On my directory structure, I have all the movie content in their own folders, but to distinguish the two, I changed the year to the specific date of release:

Delirium (2018-01-19)
Delirium (2018-05-10)

Unfortunately Plex is only showing one of them (the one with the later release date). It’s not even a case where it’s different versions of the same movie that I could split apart–these are completely different movies.

Has anyone else run into this problem, and if so is there a workaround?

You can use matching ids from imdb or tmdb to get plex to match exactly what you want. Check out Naming and organizing your Movie files | Plex Support and the section with the id matching using curly brackets.

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As a quicker option if you don’t want to add the provider id’s, there should still be an option to split the movies apart and do a fix match on the one that’s been misidentified.

I always include the ttxxxxxx imdb id in all of my movie file names, minimizes these issues.

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Ditto however I use tmdb but it does not really matter as its only used in matching. Major advantage including in the folder name is that if you ever have to rebuild your plex server you never then need to fix match anything.

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You can use matching ids from imdb or tmdb to get plex to match exactly what you want. Check out Naming and organizing your Movie files | Plex Support and the section with the id matching using curly brackets.

Would you believe I went to that section before asking my question and completely missed it? Thank you for the tip! Will definitely be using this for future issues like this!

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