Why can't Plex distinguish between movies that have the same name but are named correctly with the year in the filename?

Go to:
Settings/Agents
Drag Local Media Assets to the bottom of every active Agent list under Movies and Shows Thusly:


(Red is where it is now - Green is where it needs to be - do NOT disable LMA - ur gonna need it, just not where it is)

Plex is reacting to embedded and bogus info in the Title Field of your MP4/M4V file and after 140 years Plex still hasn’t learned the default location of LMA is - WRONG.

You’ll have to hack that mistake by fixing it for them.

You may need to Plex Dance afterwards - if after moving LMA for all Agents under TV and Movies - Refresh Metadata does nothing.

All Steps, In Order, Exactly as described (or it simply won’t work):