TMDb MCP. Find movie and TV show data using one conversation.

This MCP Server hooks your AI client up directly to The Movie Database, giving you access to a massive library of movie, TV show, and people metadata. You don't gotta jump between half a dozen sites just to nail down some film facts; your agent handles all that heavy lifting for ya.

When you need to find something fast, your client can run search_multi to search across movies, TV shows, and people using one general query. If you're looking specifically for a title, it runs search_movies for films or search_tv for series, and both of those let you narrow the results by year when needed.

For finding out what's hot right now, you can check what’s trending using the trending tool, which pulls real-time popularity data for movies, TV shows, or people. You also get lists of currently popular films with popular_movies, or a rundown of popular TV series and shows that includes season and episode counts via popular_tv.

If you want to see what's been critically acclaimed over time, call top_rated_movies for the best films ever, or top_rated_tv for the most successful television shows.

If you know a movie or show by an outside ID—like that IMDb code starting with 'tt'—you don't need to search. Just run find_by_external_id, and your agent will grab the corresponding TMDb entry for all other tools. You can also start filtering searches using discover_movies when you know specific criteria, letting you narrow down results by genre, minimum rating, production studio, release year, or keywords.

Need to dig deep into a film? Use get_movie with the TMDb ID to pull all the metadata: the plot overview, budget figures, revenue totals, and total runtime. To map out who played what role, run get_movie_credits, which pulls the full cast list (and specifies their characters) plus every single crew member involved in making the film.

You can also ask for movie recommendations using get_movie_recommendations; it suggests similar films based on a reference title's genre and who starred in it.

To get visual assets, use get_movie_videos to access official trailers, teasers, and clips associated with the film ID, which provides YouTube links. For classification help, you can call get_genres to retrieve the complete list of available genre IDs and names, so you know exactly what filters you're working with.

When you need a broad starting point for filtering, you use discover_movies with advanced controls that let you set minimum ratings, specify studios, or target specific years. These search functions work together to give you tight control over the results. If your query is general and spans multiple types of media—like searching for 'Star Wars' whether it's a movie or a show—you use search_multi to handle the ambiguity in one go.