diff --git a/examples/structured_data/movielens_recommendations_transformers.py b/examples/structured_data/movielens_recommendations_transformers.py
index bf979d0b31..223d1ecee0 100644
--- a/examples/structured_data/movielens_recommendations_transformers.py
+++ b/examples/structured_data/movielens_recommendations_transformers.py
@@ -92,7 +92,10 @@
 )
 
 movies = pd.read_csv(
-    "ml-1m/movies.dat", sep="::", names=["movie_id", "title", "genres"]
+    "ml-1m/movies.dat",
+    sep="::",
+    names=["movie_id", "title", "genres"],
+    encoding = "ISO-8859-1",
 )
 
 """