# Why does Plex remove "-" in a Movie Title? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Created:** [January 10, 2018, 3:37pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/why-does-plex-remove-in-a-movie-title/221047 "2018-01-10T15:37:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Antonio\_Branco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@Antonio\_Branco](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Antonio_Branco)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2018, 3:37pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/why-does-plex-remove-in-a-movie-title/221047/1 "2018-01-10T15:37:43Z")
For example: If I enter the title “London - Restaurants” to my movie, plex will remove the “-”. After a few days, we verified that Plex removed the “-” and we came to see the title thus “London Restaurants”. Even if you block the Title, Plex removes the “-”. ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2018, 10:14pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/why-does-plex-remove-in-a-movie-title/221047/2 "2018-01-10T22:14:34Z")
see your other question on Plex not showing release dates. You should set your home video library’s media type to `Personal Media`. Plex removes the `-` and some other special characters from the media title when preparing to match the film against the respective online database (e.g. The Movie Database). This doesn’t happen with `Personal Media` and if I remember correctly, Plex will therefore also keep those characters in your media name (even without further editing) – at least I’ve found some of my personal media with `-` or punctuation in the title (and I don’t remember having those titles edited. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2020, 12:26am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/why-does-plex-remove-in-a-movie-title/221047/3 "2020-01-08T00:26:03Z")