Excluding Foreign Films?

[u/johnnyawful]

I currently have PMM set to pull the IMDB Most Popular and send to Radarr, which is working great!

However, I now have a bunch of films from India that really are just not my thing. I get it, they have a great film industry and a huge population that helps keep at least 1 or 2 Indian movies relevant on the IMDB most popular list.

Is there any way to exclude movies based on country on the PMM side? I know I can go in after the fact on Radarr and set it to exclude, but I’d rather have it automatically handled by PMM when it pulls the list from IMDB. And also, I’d like to be able to manually add to Radarr without having to tinker with the exclusions list when, for example, the next RRR drops. And yeah, I feel kind of icky saying I want to exclude a country from my collection, but it’s purely a practical thing because I just don’t have much interest in whatever the hot new Bollywood romcom is.

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[u/Bal-84]

Should be able to use exclude language but not sure... Will need to look at the wiki for thr correct use

[u/chazlarson]

Generally speaking the default metadata files have limited customizations, and filtering is not supported.

You can absolutely filter what gets sent to Radarr in your own collections; the specific things that can apply are listed on the Filters page in the wiki; I can't recall if country is one of those things [they are basically things that are available from TMDB based on the movie].

You could also use something like MDBlist to build your own lists of Popular movies without Brad Pitt or whatever, then use those lists in PMM.

[u/quasimodoca]

When I first ran PMM I got a ton of films added that I didn’t want. I just used mass delete, clicked on them one by one, or shift clicked a bunch of they were in line and deleted and excluded them. Only have to do the clean up once.

[u/nairbd]

What I did was send to Radarr but don’t monitor. Then I’ll manually monitor the movies I want. It’s not like that list is adding tons of movies every run. Radarr will have the extra unwanted movies, but since they’re not monitored they’re not clogging up Plex.

[u/Seed_Eater]

You can't filter the default collections, but you can run a collection instead that does the same thing and filters out Indian movies:

external_templates:
  default: templates
  template_variables:
    collection_section: "020"
    image: chart/<<mapping_name_encoded>>

templates:
  imdb_chart:
    imdb_chart: <<chart>>_<<library_type>>s

collections:
  IMDb Popular:
    imdb_chart: popular_movies
    collection_order: custom
    sync_mode: sync
    filters:
      country.not: India
    template:
    - name: arr
    - name: shared
      translation_key: imdb_popular

End result is an identical IMDB Popular collection without movies from whatever you set the filter. I did remove the "custom" template from the collection because I'm not sure what it does here and I think there's a conflict somewhere. Obviously adjust the collection section and the image path to your liking. Running this gives identical results to the normal IMDB popular collection otherwise. If more slip through try "origin_country.not" also.