Latest and Upcoming Movies
Explore how to retrieve movie data using TMDB API endpoints focusing on the latest, upcoming, and now playing films. Learn to query watch providers to see where movies are available in different regions. This lesson helps you fetch dynamic movie information and location-based viewing options.
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In this lesson, we’ll focus on four endpoints—the latest movie, upcoming movies, currently playing movies, and movie watch providers.
Latest movie
If an individual is looking for something new to watch then most probably they will start with the latest movies. TMDB’s latest movie endpoint allows us to fetch the latest movie they have on the platform. This endpoint doesn’t take any path parameters.
The base URL in focus is as follows:
https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/latest?api_key={ourTMDBapikey}
The following query parameters can be used with this endpoint:
Name | Type | Category | Description |
| string | optional | This is an |
The objects in the resulting JSON response are the same as we get for the movie details endpoint.
Let’s run an example of the latest movie endpoint. The widget below shows how to get the most newly created movie. Click ...