The crystallization modification of poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) was investigated for the blend films of PVDF and poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA). The mass crystallinity (χ c ) and further, the β-phase content (F (β) ) of PVDF, were studied for the asprepared blend films with different mass ratios. In addition, the variations of χ c and F (β) were systematically probed once the PMMA component was removed from the related blend systems. DSC, FTIR and XRD measurements all indicated that 1) χ c , F (β) and even the content of α-phase (F (α) ) decreased with the addition of PMMA; 2) with the extraction of PMMA, both χ c and F (β) increased while F (α) decreased. It is worth noting that the increase of χ c and F (β) depended on the relative amount of extracted PMMA (E PMMA ), i.e., the more PMMA was removed, the more χ c and F (β) increased. These results reveal the hindrance effect from the PMMA constituent to the crystallization of PVDF, and consequently, this restriction would be released when the PMMA was extracted.